{"id":31250,"date":"2024-01-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/?p=31250"},"modified":"2024-02-14T10:44:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:44:43","slug":"microsoft-named-a-leader-in-the-2023-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-container-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/microsoft-named-a-leader-in-the-2023-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-container-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner\u00ae Magic Quadrant\u2122 for Container Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cloud-native technologies like containers and Kubernetes are the future of application development. That\u2019s why we\u2019re honored to announce that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner\u00ae Magic Quadrant\u2122 for Container Management*. We believe that this recognition validates our end-to-end approach for developing and deploying enterprise-grade, cloud-native apps that run on Azure, in datacenters, or at the edge.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 1. Gartner® Magic Quadrant<\/em>™ for Container Management. Source: Gartner (September 2023).<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gartner recognition of Microsoft as a Leader in this Magic Quadrant, we feel, highlights the broad and deep integration of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with other Azure services. Customers tell us that using AKS for container management helps them modernize existing apps in stages, as time and budget permit, and creates a roadmap for new, cloud-native development that takes advantage of Azure scale, security, performance, and cost optimization. Developers rely on autoscaling AKS clusters to meet the most challenging performance demands, while fully managed Azure services free teams from time-consuming infrastructure management tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Innovate, deploy, and operate Kubernetes seamlessly<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
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Deploy and scale containers on managed Kubernetes<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Customers have diverse environments and they want to run containers anywhere. Our customers run AKS on Azure and in hybrid configurations, using Azure Stack HCI<\/a> on-premises and Azure Arc<\/a> to manage it all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full report<\/a> to learn more about why Microsoft was named a Leader for container management. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scaling up means skilling up <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Recently, we presented at KubeCon North America 2023<\/a> and at Microsoft Ignite<\/a>, where we introduced Microsoft Copilot for Azure<\/a> (in preview). This AI-powered assistant makes it easy for developers to get the answers they need and to work more efficiently, including AKS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many developers at the conferences told us that the integration support in AKS makes adoption easier as their organizations roll out ambitious digital transformation projects. Even though Kubernetes is designed to manage the complexity of many moving parts, that complexity has a learning curve. Container-related expertise is still limited, as the Gartner report points out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAs Kubernetes continues to become pervasive, a lot of teams find themselves at different steps of their adoption, skill set, or learning stage\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

AKS Principal PM Lead Jorge Palma recently posted<\/a>. Gartner even cautions enterprises against deploying container management \u201cwithout deep knowledge of developer requirements.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools like Copilot for Azure help developers do more with Azure and AKS. Microsoft offers many additional resources to help developers\u2014no matter where they are in the adoption cycle. Here are just a few ideas: <\/p>\n\n\n\n