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#9 Key takeaways from CNCF Survey 2020
Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) performs an annual survey every year to find out where and how cloud-native technologies are being adopted. Here we take look at key takeaways from the report.
Quick Snapshot
- #1. Kubernetes use in production has grown dramatically
- #2. Public cloud option is where most of the workloads run
- #3.Containers have become the norm
- #4.Amazon EKS is the most favorite among organizations in Kubernetes managed service
- #5.Cultural challenges with the development team remain the top challenge in using/deploying containers
- #6.Rise of Service Mesh
- #7. There is a considerable increase in using serverless technologies
- #8.Helm is most favorite tool for managing Kubernetes applications
- #9.Minikube is the most popular Kubernetes dev environment
- Additional Resources
#1. Kubernetes use in production has grown dramatically
About 78% of respondents are using Kubernetes in production, a huge jump from 58% last year.
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Prometheus and CoreDNS also saw considerable jumps in use in production. Prometheus increased 36% over last year to 72%, and CoreDNS had an impressive 92% jump to 69%.
#2. Public cloud option is where most of the workloads run
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#3.Containers have become the norm
84% of respondents are using containers in production, an impressive jump from 73% in 2018.
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#4.Amazon EKS is the most favorite among organizations in Kubernetes managed service
Amazon EKS is the most favorite, check out how other providers differ.
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#5.Cultural challenges with the development team remain the top challenge in using/deploying containers
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Also, note Security (40%) and complexity (38%) remained high on the list.
Take look at various approaches and specifically Google’s gVisor approach for implementing sandboxed environments in production.
#6.Rise of Service Mesh
Istio (69%) and Linkerd (64%) were the top two, suggesting they will see significant increases in use in production in the coming years.
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Learn what is Service Mesh & why do we need it?
#7. There is a considerable increase in using serverless technologies
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Of those using a hosted platform, the top tool is AWS Lambda (53%). Google Cloud Functions (18%) and
Azure Functions (14%) are a distant second and third.
Check out the comparison of Serverless platforms.
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#8.Helm is most favorite tool for managing Kubernetes applications
Since last year, Helm saw the largest increase, growing 41% to reach 69% usage in production. etcd was the most widely used, with 83% use in production.
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#9.Minikube is the most popular Kubernetes dev environment
Minikube (39%) and Docker Kubernetes (32%) are the most popular Kubernetes environments during local container development.
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To learn more, please view the full report.
Additional Resources
- 10 BEST Kubernetes monitoring tools
- Managed Kubernetes Platforms Comparison: GKE vs AKS vs EKS
- Kubernetes Tutorial: Distributed tracing with Jaeger
- IBM Courses Collection
- Google Cloud Courses Collection
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