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66 Containers For Dummies, HPE and Docker Special Edition These materials are © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. A Recipe for Success Customers typically take a multiphase approach to container adoption (see Figure 9-1). HPE has the personnel and offerings required to guide and accelerate the customer's journey through these phases: » Learn and Evaluate • HPE Pointnext and its partners offer various assessment and architecture planning services that help educate customers on container technology, identify projects that are suitable for containerization, and provide a design blueprint. • IT has adopted Docker technology for its DevOps process and gone through a successful containerization transfor- mation using HPE's container solution. Many sidebars throughout this book include excerpts of interviews I conducted with internal HPE IT Docker experts. HPE IT's experience will be published in detailed case studies to assist other customers going through the same journey. » Pilot and POC • HPE Pointnext and its partners offer a series of develop- ment accelerator services that can assist customers with architecture planning all the way to design implementation. • HPE provides various container and DevOps reference architectures and blueprints to help ease and provide best practice guidance for infrastructure planning during the design phase. FIGURE 9-1: A multiphase approach to container adoption.