LambdaTest announced its partnership with Assembla, a cloud-based platform for version control and project management.
As part of DEVOPSdigest's 2020 predictions, industry experts offer predictions on how containers and related technologies will evolve and impact DevOps and business in 2020.
Start with 2020 DevOps Predictions
CONTAINER-FIRST STRATEGY
A Container-First Strategy Proves Itself — Developers have long been proponents of containers, but there's been a huge shift toward establishing container-first strategies that are foundational to business transformation. 2020 will mark the year that these container-centric initiatives become the go-to-approach and play out on a larger scale, across enterprises and industries, as it proves immediate impact by providing a clear path to the cloud, while reducing cost and risk.
Scott Johnston
CEO, Docker(link is external)
CONTAINERS: DEFACTO SOFTWARE PACKAGING MODEL
Containers will become the defacto software packaging model, with application modernization taking an accelerated path. Containerizing legacy apps plus everything running on Kubernetes will create a unified domain of operations.
Avishai Sharlin
Division President, Amdocs Technology(link is external)
DRIVE FOR KUBERNETES INCREASES
In the future, every data technology will run on Kubernetes. We may not quite get there in 2020, but Kubernetes will continue to see rising adoption as more major vendors base their flagship platforms on it. There are still some kinks to be ironed out, such as issues with persistent storage, but those are currently being addressed with initiatives like BlueK8s. The entire big data community is behind Kubernetes, and its continued domination is assured.
Kunal Agarwal
CEO, Unravel Data(link is external)
Containerization will continue to be a prime influencer to cloud adoption in 2020. But as popular as it already is, I expect we'll see an even stronger push from enterprises' engineering leadership to invest in Kubernetes — as it makes dev in an organization so significantly more productive, agile, and aligned with the DevOps delivery strategy.
Kaushik Mysur
Director of Product Management, Instaclustr(link is external)
I expect to see container adoption, in general, and Kubernetes adoption, in particular, accelerate as companies try to leverage the platform for new architectures and multi-cloud initiatives. I expect to see that adoption trend move beyond first adopters into the mainstream with late adopters, though it will be years yet before enterprises are able to move large portions of their applications to new, containerized architectures.
Ben Newton
Director of Product Marketing, Sumo Logic(link is external)
MORE COMPLEX WORKLOADS RUNNING ON KUBERNETES
The Kubernetes ecosystem is very rich, and as more companies find value in using Kubernetes as a container orchestrator, they will adopt more solutions in the ecosystem. These advances mean we'll see increasingly complex workloads running in Kubernetes.
Ali Golshan
CTO and Co-Founder, StackRox(link is external)
KUBERNETES OPERATORS AND SERVICE BROKERS
Look for more cloud service and SaaS providers to implement and release Kubernetes Operators and Service brokers, in order to seamlessly integrate applications running on Kubernetes environment with their services.
Kaushik Mysur
Director of Product Management, Instaclustr(link is external)
Kubernetes (K8s) Operators will grow in popularity and sophistication. This will cause a lot of teams to attempt to deploy their legacy stateful apps to K8 and increased market pressure will force the K8s community to make stateful services work more seamlessly and reliably.
Brian Kelly
Head of Conjur Engineering, CyberArk(link is external)
FULLY MANAGED KUBERNETES-BASED PLATFORMS
We should see the maturation, and increase adoption, of fully-managed Kubernetes-based platforms that will be very attractive for organizations that don't want the management headache of Kubernetes.
Ben Newton
Director of Product Marketing, Sumo Logic(link is external)
GITOPS GOES MAINSTREAM
The next generation of application deployment platforms and DevOps tooling have been building on a new foundation that is cloud-agnostic: the Kubernetes framework. "GitOps" is a way to manage Kubernetes clusters and application delivery. I see 2020 as being the year GitOps goes mainstream. This practice works by using the Git version control system as a single source of truth for declaratively configured infrastructure and applications. A continuous delivery pipeline constantly watches for change in code repositories, and when detected, makes the target deployment environment match the desired specification. As Git is now at the center of your delivery process, engineers can self-serve for modifying infrastructure, deploying applications, and releasing new features, simply by issuing pull requests.
Richard Li
CEO, Datawire(link is external)
Industry News
Salt Security unveiled Salt Illuminate, a platform that redefines how organizations adopt API security.
Workday announced a new unified, AI developer toolset to bring the power of Workday Illuminate directly into the hands of customer and partner developers, enabling them to easily customize and connect AI apps and agents on the Workday platform.
Pegasystems introduced Pega Agentic Process Fabric™, a service that orchestrates all AI agents and systems across an open agentic network for more reliable and accurate automation.
Fivetran announced that its Connector SDK now supports custom connectors for any data source.
Copado announced that Copado Robotic Testing is available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd.(link is external) announced major advancements to its family of Quantum Force Security Gateways(link is external).
Sauce Labs announced the general availability of iOS 18 testing on its Virtual Device Cloud (VDC).
Infragistics announced the launch of Infragistics Ultimate 25.1, the company's flagship UX and UI product.
CIQ announced the creation of its Open Source Program Office (OSPO).
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd.(link is external) announced the launch of its next generation Quantum(link is external) Smart-1 Management Appliances, delivering 2X increase in managed gateways and up to 70% higher log rate, with AI-powered security tools designed to meet the demands of hybrid enterprises.
Salesforce and Informatica have entered into an agreement for Salesforce to acquire Informatica.
Red Hat and Google Cloud announced an expanded collaboration to advance AI for enterprise applications by uniting Red Hat’s open source technologies with Google Cloud’s purpose-built infrastructure and Google’s family of open models, Gemma.
Mirantis announced Mirantis k0rdent Enterprise and Mirantis k0rdent Virtualization, unifying infrastructure for AI, containerized, and VM-based workloads through a Kubernetes-native model, streamlining operations for high-performance AI pipelines, modern microservices, and legacy applications alike.
Snyk launched the Snyk AI Trust Platform, an AI-native agentic platform specifically built to secure and govern software development in the AI Era.