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For EntErprisE ArchitEcturE proFEssionAls The Forrester New Wave™: Public Cloud Enterprise Container Platforms, Q3 2019 July 29, 2019 © 2019 Forrester research, inc. unauthorized copying or distributing is a violation of copyright law. citations@forrester.com or +1 866-367-7378 3 The Seven Global Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up FIGUrE 1 assessment Criteria Criteria explanation Evaluation criteria What container conguration formats and runtimes does the platform support? What are the three most differentiating orchestration features? What hybrid cloud scenarios does it support? What features differentiate the image registry and image marketplace? Does the platform include a service catalog? What types of deployment models are available? For storage and networking, what container-specic features are available, what value-added features are supported beyond frameworks like Istio, and how is the container service integrated with the cloud vendor's corresponding services? How does the platform monitor container availability, performance, and events? What features are available to right-size, migrate, or optimize performance? What cost optimization tools are available? What are the three most popular and differentiating operations features? What platform-native and third-party-enabled security features does the platform support throughout the container life cycle, from image creation to runtime execution? How does it enable authentication, security, and role-based access control? What are the three most popular and differentiating security features? How simple, intuitive, and customizable is the UI for developers and operators? How are IDEs supported? How much training is required for development and operations teams? How complete and easily accessible are help, support, training, and reporting? What are the three most differentiating UX features? What application life-cycle management features (e.g., workƒow and resource management, app promotion, and testing) does the platform support? What CI/CD tool chains are supported? What application and microservices frameworks (e.g., Spring and Istio) does it support? Does the container platform integrate with other vendor cloud platform services? Does it support any open source tools or add-ons? How does it support machine learning and edge computing scenarios? What are the three to ve most popular solutions that customers build or deploy on the container platform? Runtime, orchestration, and registry Infrastructure and deployment models Operations management Security features User experience Application life-cycle management Service integrations and APIs