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We're running significant loads on Azure with Mesos+Docker (Azure Container Service). Mesosphere's stack removed the Docker runtime and only uses Docker for image packaging. Stable and in production for over 8 months now.
Disclaimer: I deploy dc/os for customers on prem alongside our paid product.
I work for an extremely large - £Billions - retail grocery operation in the U.K. We use Docker containers in production, not right across the business, but in many important and up-and-coming areas. What did you want to know?
I was really looking to take an informal poll to see how common containerization is in production, but now that you've asked, I guess my questions revolve around the technology stack: Are you using kubernetes for orchestration? Is there automation managing the orchestration configurations like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack? Can I assume this is being carried out through virtualization, if so, what kind of hypervis…
To give a sense of scale we have over 1000 containers running at any given time and go through ~15k per day since our containers don't live for very long.
I'm not sure what press is mixed but the industry as a whole has certainly embraced containers. I'd be suspect of any press that determines containers are vaporware and not worth the time.