I am not really claiming containers are the future, but from someone who is actively working on a network appliance I have people asking me at least twice a mon

I am not really claiming containers are the future, but from someone who is actively working on a network appliance I have people asking me at least twice a month about containers to put my product in (from people who are already managing 10k+ systems and wanting to simplify deployment). I have heard zero buzz about OpenStack except during a SVP drive by about a year ago. Most of the customer sites I interact with on the high end just end up baking their own system images tied to a SSO solution and just manage it with VMWare/Ansible/something homegrown. On the low end people just don't deal with OpenStack at all and just do it the hard way with a VMWare or KVM style solution. For either side of that equation containerization is a faster value-add. From the other side what people ask me about cloud integration is more feature-driven of particular clouds than anything else. I'm just not seeing the momentum in the field.