Summary

In this chapter, we looked at some of the requirements driving container adoption on and under OpenStack. We looked at some of the most popular OpenStack projects that are driving further container adoption and interoperability of OpenStack with cloud native container applications. It is very important to remember that container adoption is driven by application availability and that adoption will happen over time. Therefore, just as we see many enterprises ready to take on a cloud first posture, we see the same enterprises still running legacy workloads on bare metal, in virtualized environments, in private clouds as VMs, and as containers in public clouds. Fortunately for these enterprises, bare metal, VMs, and containers can all be orchestrated with one tool, OpenStack. In the coming years, with continued container adoption and management platform development, infrastructure orchestration will continue to grow and develop, just as OpenStack did, and it will be critical as an architect...