This article was adapted from Rancher
On March 22, 2021, Rancher, the most widely used enterprise Kubernetes management platform in the industry, released the 2020 Kubernetes industry survey report. The research results show that in 2020, more respondents are using Kubernetes to run containers in hybrid cloud environment. At the same time, More enterprises are deploying functions and services to the edge, ultimately driving further enterprise IT modernization.
Rancher surveyed nearly 1,000 professionals in 2019 and 2020. The results indicate that Kubernetes has maintained an adoption rate of more than 90% in different industries for two consecutive years, while the container adoption rate in production environments has increased from 85% in 2019 to 87% in 2020.
“IT is clear from the survey results that users continue to push for container deployment in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, with 92% of respondents seeing containers as a key part of DevOps, IT operations, IT architecture, application development and infrastructure transformation,” said Xiaokao Qin, PRESIDENT of SUSE Greater China.
Kubernetes and the Cloud: Real tools in real environments
Feedback from nearly 1,000 professionals working in the technology, engineering, telecommunications, banking, cybersecurity, and consulting industries focused on implementing DevOps, IT operations, IT architecture, application development, and infrastructure transformation, with 92% of respondents choosing to use containers to achieve these goals.
Further investigation revealed that 76% of respondents use Kubernetes as their cloud Service through Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), or Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). In addition, they use EC2 (AWS Elastic computing) and GCP (Google Cloud Platform) in the same environment 71% of the time.
On the other hand, these respondents were more likely to adopt Rancher’s Kubernetes distribution. 36% of respondents use RKE as their Kubernetes distribution, while 32% use K3s. Respondents cited multiple levels of control and functionality as key reasons for the widespread adoption of RKE in the context of rapid container development.
Modernizing traditional IT architectures
Respondents indicated that containerization is the key path to modernizing traditional IT. 49% of respondents modernize traditional IT applications through containers, while 67% design microservices-based applications using containers.
By using Kubernetes, enterprises can transform decades-old traditional IT systems into microservices-based container applications that are choreographed through Kubernetes. Migrating to Kubernetes also allows development teams to work in parallel, which reduces the possibility of duplication, simplifies development, and speeds deployment.
In a hybrid cloud environment, development teams can also completely replace some local workloads with cloud managed clusters that can be run and managed on a Kubernetes management platform like Rancher, further implementing the strategy of modernizing the IT architecture.
Promote the production of edge environment landing
The adoption rate of containers in the production environment is increasing, and it also extends to the application side. Based on this, many respondents use containers to provide customers with a variety of services, including applications, edge computing, hybrid/multi-cloud applications, internal applications, modernization of legacy applications, and migration of legacy applications to the cloud.
Smaller Kubernetes such as K3s have made it easier for businesses to deploy features and services to the edge, giving organizations the ability to move from pilot projects to production environments and to scale as needed. In 2020, 62% of respondents used K3s on the edge, up from 50% last year.
conclusion
As companies evolve their networks, applications, and processes into a more modern framework, they find that Kubernetes can change regardless of the environment. Organizations around the world are leveraging Kubernetes solutions to create clusters of cloud-native microservices. They are also modernizing individual systems to build robust cloud architectures while seamlessly managing existing clusters. This is a step toward an era of accelerating and securing applications, while empowering DevOps and engineering teams to use the future to “work smarter” rather than “work harder.”
“Container and Kubernetes are the best choice for software-defined infrastructure in the era of hybrid cloud. They not only help enterprises to containerize their traditional IT infrastructure, but also help enterprises to unlock the full value of the hybrid cloud.” “SUSE will combine the reliability and flexibility of containers and Kubernetes to drive unlimited innovation in any scenario with its strong open source capabilities,” concludes Qin.
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Introduction of research implementation by SUSE Rancher
Rancher is an open source enterprise Kubernetes management platform, which implements centralized deployment and management of Kubernetes cluster in hybrid cloud + local data center. Rancher has been praised by customers for its intuitive and minimalist operating experience. Rancher has been named “2020 Multi-cloud Container Development Platform Leader” by Forrester, “2018 Global Container Management Platform Leader” and “2017 Global Coolest Cloud Infrastructure Vendor” by Gartner.
Rancher currently has more than 300 million core image downloads worldwide, It has 40,000 corporate customers including China Unicom, Ping An Of China, China Life Insurance, SAIC, Samsung, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Ubisoft, LINE, WWK Insurance Group, Telefonica, Deutsche Bahn, Xiamen Airlines, New Oriental and other world famous enterprises.
In December 2020, SUSE completed the acquisition of Rancher Labs, which became a key part of SUSE’s “Innovate Everywhere” enterprise vision. Together, SUSE and Rancher provide customers with unmatched freedom and the ability to innovate everywhere through a hybrid cloud IT infrastructure, cloud-native transformation and IT operations solutions that simplify, modernize and accelerate the digital transformation of the enterprise.