I’ve been waiting to see some good ideas for things you might run in a container on a Cisco router or switch. What might you do with that, either home-grown or as a product?
In the WAN monitoring space, ThousandEyes and Netbeez now both offer container-based probes that you can run in a Cisco IOS-XE device. Their probes will do ping, DNS, traceroute, and / or HTTP to a set of centrally defined targets, and provide alerts and graphs based on response time (and maybe other factors).
ThousandEyes has offered its container probe since July 2016.