Only in China! Alicloud container service enters the Forrester leader quadrant

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In recent days, , International authoritative advisory body Forrester Release 《 The Forrester WaveTM: Public Cloud Container Platforms, Q1 2022 》 The report , According to the report , Alibaba cloud enters the global public cloud container platform " The leader " quadrant , This is the first time that Chinese cloud computing manufacturers have entered this quadrant .

chart 1 Alibaba cloud enters the world Forrester 2022 Q1 Public cloud container platform " The leader " quadrant （ picture source ：TheForresterWave: PublicCloudContainerPlatforms,Q12022 Check out the full report ：https://reurl.cc/3jYNVl）

Forrester It's the most authoritative in the world IT One of the consulting and evaluation organizations , For the selected 8 It is the most important container platform service provider in the world , From product 、 strategic 、 There are three dimensions of market performance ,14 A standard 29 The evaluation rules have been deeply studied, analyzed and scored , The evaluation criteria are prudent and strict .

Leading ultra large scale container service practices , Accelerate the development of thousands of industries to embrace Yunyuan

The cloud native evolution of Alibaba's technical architecture has gone through 15 year . since 2011 From the year onwards , Alibaba began to promote the implementation of group application containerization , To solve the problems of core business cost and operation and maintenance efficiency . With more than ten years of container technology reserves and practical experience , Alibaba cloud container service has the ability to support very large clusters , And took the lead in realizing single cluster in China 1 Ten thousand nodes 1 One million Pod The scale breakthrough of , It can help enterprises easily cope with the increasing demand for scale .

2020 Years of double 11, Alibaba group realizes 100% Apply cloud primitives , E-commerce micro service 、 Middleware and other applications , And search 、 big data 、 AI All businesses run on a unified container platform ,1 Expand millions of containers in hours , The task scheduling efficiency is up to one second 2 m , Greatly promote cost reduction 50%, The efficiency of large-scale application delivery has been improved 100%. While widely supporting the group's application of cloud Bio Technology , Alibaba cloud container service also provides services for tens of thousands of enterprises on the cloud to realize modern application transformation and upgrading , Help includes Internet to retail 、 Finance 、 manufacture 、 More and more industries including transportation , Use cloud native technology to accelerate innovation .

chart 2 Alibaba cloud's original practice history

Forrester Report evaluation ：

“ Alibaba cloud is a leading public cloud platform in China and the Asia Pacific region , Its container service has been extended to the world . Alibaba Group has widely embraced cloud , exceed 90% Applications in its Kubernetes Running on Container Services . Alibaba cloud effectively translates this experience into a wide range of cloud native services , Build digital business empowerment for customers .”

Comprehensive cloud native open source contributions , Continue to lead China's cloud native innovation and development

at present , Alibaba cloud is in the open source community GitHub At present, the contribution ranking ranks first among Chinese enterprises , Open source projects exceed 2600 individual , Contributor exceed 3 10, , Star And millions of people . Cloud nativity is reshaping the entire software life cycle . To help enterprises and developers be more efficient 、 Make easy use of cloud native technology , Relying on self-research and community ecological cooperation, Alibaba cloud has invested in comprehensive cloud native open source contributions , Cover container 、 Microservices 、Serverless、 Key areas such as application delivery , And give back to the world's top foundations . The cloud native Computing Foundation CNCF Donated cloud native application delivery and management platform KubeVela、 Cloud native application automation engine OpenKruise、 Edge container platform OpenYurt 、 Cloud native data orchestration and acceleration system Fluid、 Multi cluster management platform OCM、 Secret computing scenario open source container runtime Inclavare Containers、 Distributed high availability domain chaos engineering tool ChaosBlade Projects such as , For the cloud 、 Build a better connection between the community and developers , Help cloud native create greater technical and commercial value , Accelerate the development of digital economy .

chart 3 Alibaba cloud container & Cloud native application delivery ecological open source project （ part ）

Forrester Report evaluation ：

“ Alibaba cloud is promoting the native cloud developer ecosystem in China , It has also made significant contributions to the global cloud native open source community （ CNCF Under the existing 9 individual Sandbox/incubation The project comes from Alibaba cloud ）. Built a complete cloud native open source ecosystem , The layout of technological innovation has both breadth and depth .”

Powerful container application lifecycle management platform , The best solution for Enterprise Cloud native digital transformation

Under the future trend of cloud computing brought by cloud Nativity , Containers have become a new interface for users to use the cloud . Alibaba cloud container products have been released recently 7 Since then , Has grown into an enterprise's cloud native operating system , Technology and service capabilities are becoming more and more mature . Alibaba cloud container service ACK It encapsulates down 30 Cloud products , A new interface is formed for the interaction between the whole automatic operation and maintenance and cloud platform , So as to improve the flexibility of the system and the ability of automatic operation and maintenance , And promote the upgrading of software and hardware integration . As early as 2019 year Q3 Forrester The evaluation report on the public cloud enterprise container platform is called “ The public cloud container platform that is most suitable for enterprises to carry out cloud native digital transformation ”.

2021 year , Enterprises embrace containers more actively , Start up efficiency of container core technology 、 Resource overhead 、 Scheduling efficiency has higher requirements , Alibaba cloud container team also supports the new generation of container architecture upgrades , By checking the container 、 Bare metal 、 Operating system and other full stack optimization , Continue to tap the potential of the container . Compared with the open source solution , Alibaba cloud container service ACK Can be realized 40% Performance improvement of , Container network latency is reduced 50%, Improve the utilization of heterogeneous resources 100%, And realize full link observability .

meanwhile , 5G、AR、AIoT And other scenarios continue to promote the evolution of the new generation Cloud Architecture . In Ali cloud “ One cloud has many shapes ” Under the deployment architecture form of , Alibaba cloud container service provides ACK Anywhere Comprehensive upgrading , Released the distributed container management cloud platform ACK One、 Alibaba cloud container service ACK Distribution version 、ACK Agile version and other innovative products , Further expand the boundaries of the cloud , Enable enterprises to experience low cost in their own data centers 、 Low latency 、 Localized public cloud product capabilities , Realize unified cluster management , Unified resource scheduling , Unified data disaster recovery and unified application delivery , Make advanced cloud computing technology within reach .

chart 4 Alibaba cloud container service ACK Product family

Forrester Report evaluation ：

“ Alibaba cloud supports... In the service grid 、 Container and VM Runtime support 、 Container mirroring supports 、 Security features and policies 、 Cost management 、 Hybrid cloud support 、 Edge computing support 、 Strong capabilities in container storage and networking ; Relevant customers also praised their excellent observability in logging and monitoring 、 Efficiently manage the cluster lifecycle , Seamless integration with multiple services ; In microservice development support 、DevOps Deep capabilities in vertical fields such as automation . Alibaba cloud container service is especially suitable for global enterprises targeting China and the Asia Pacific market or local companies with overseas businesses , To gain the comprehensive cloud native digital transformation capability precipitated in advanced practical experience .”

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