CNCF survey: the use of cloud native technologies in production environments has increased by more than 200%

The key selling point

1. Since December 2017, CNCF project applications in production environments have grown by an average of more than 200%, with a 372% increase in the number of projects evaluated.
2. Since December 2017, the majority of respondents have used platform services similar to AWS Lambda (70%). This has led to a 22% increase in the use of serverless technology.
3. The top three advantages of cloud native technology are faster deployment times, improved resilience, and cloud portability.
4. Forty percent of respondents with more than 5,000 employees have Kubernetes deployed in their production environment.

Survey methods and interviewees

1. R&d: 49%
2. Operations staff: 36%
3. IT managers: 11%
4. R&d Manager: 14%

Changes in the application development environment

1. Weekly release: 20%
2. Monthly releases: 18%
3. Published daily: 15%
4. Temporary release: 14%

Cloud applications

Growth in the number of containerized services

Kubernetes

Packaging tools

Application of automatic scaling technology

Inlet provider

Expose services outside the cluster

Isolation between organizational teams within Kubernetes

Isolate applications within Kubernetes

Cloud native projects in production environments

1. Faster deployment times
2. Improve the elastic
3. Cloud portability

The challenges of using and deploying containers

1. Cultural shifts in r&d teams: 41%
2. Complexity: Increased from 35% to 40%
3. Inadequate training: 40%
4. Safety: reduced from 43% to 38%
5. Monitoring: from 38% to 34%
6. Storage: reduced from 41% to 30%
7. Network: down from 38% to 30%

1. Rook: 11% of respondents are in production environments and 89% are under evaluation (29% in the previous survey).
2. Minio: 27% of respondents are in production and 73% are under evaluation (28% in the previous survey).
3. OpenSDS: 16% of respondents are in production environments and 84% are under evaluation (up from 7% and 14% respectively in the previous survey).
4. Rex-ray: 18% of respondents are in production and 82% are under evaluation.
5. Openstorage: 19% of respondents are in production and 81% are under evaluation (31% and 36%, respectively, in the previous survey).

The growth of the Serverless

1. Kubeless: 42%, previous data 2%
2. Apache OpenWhisk: 25%, previous data 12%
3. OpenFaas: 20%, last period data 10%

1. AWS Lambda service: 70%
2. Google Cloud Functions: 25%, previous data 13%
3. Azure Funcitons: 20%, previous data 12%

How to learn more technical knowledge?

The document

Kubernetes detailed documentation

www.cncf.io/projects/