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Cloud Native Survey 2021 - Part 1

What is your geographic location?


Africa Asia Australia and Oceania Europe
Q1: Africa 100.00% 249 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0
Q1: Asia 0.00% 0 100.00% 579 0.00% 0 0.00% 0
Q1: Australia and Oceania 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 100.00% 230 0.00% 0
Q1: Europe 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 100.00% 654
Q1: North America 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0
Q1: South and Central America 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0
Total 10.82% 249 25.15% 579 9.99% 230 28.41% 654

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0.00% 0 0.00% 0 25.15% 579
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0.00% 0 0.00% 0 28.41% 654
100.00% 522 0.00% 0 22.68% 522
0.00% 0 100.00% 68 2.95% 68
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Are you part of CNCF's End User Community? End users use cloud native technologies internally and do not sell any cloud native
Yes No Not sure Total
Q1: Africa 90.76% 226 8.43% 21 0.80% 2 10.82% 249
Q1: Asia 52.68% 305 31.61% 183 15.72% 91 25.15% 579
Q1: Australia and Oceania 91.74% 211 6.52% 15 1.74% 4 9.99% 230
Q1: Europe 51.68% 338 34.40% 225 13.91% 91 28.41% 654
Q1: North America 71.84% 375 20.50% 107 7.66% 40 22.68% 522
Q1: South and Central America 47.06% 32 47.06% 32 5.88% 4 2.95% 68
Total 64.60% 1487 25.33% 583 10.08% 232 100.00% 2302
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What is the size of your company/organization?
9 or less 10-49 50-99 100-499
Q1: Africa 19.68% 49 49.40% 123 17.67% 44 8.43% 21
Q1: Asia 8.98% 52 15.54% 90 12.09% 70 15.03% 87
Q1: Australia and Oceania 14.35% 33 23.04% 53 30.43% 70 23.48% 54
Q1: Europe 8.10% 53 13.91% 91 9.79% 64 18.96% 124
Q1: North America 13.79% 72 19.35% 101 13.60% 71 22.41% 117
Q1: South and Central America 7.35% 5 13.24% 9 10.29% 7 29.41% 20
Total 11.47% 264 20.29% 467 14.16% 326 18.38% 423
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3.21% 8 0.00% 0 1.61% 4 10.82% 249
7.08% 41 10.71% 62 30.57% 177 25.15% 579
4.78% 11 1.74% 4 2.17% 5 9.99% 230
10.70% 70 14.07% 92 24.46% 160 28.41% 654
4.02% 21 7.09% 37 19.73% 103 22.68% 522
11.76% 8 10.29% 7 17.65% 12 2.95% 68
6.91% 159 8.77% 202 20.03% 461 100.00% 2302
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What industry does your company/organization belong to?
Academic Arts, Entertainment Construction Consumer
Q1: Africa 37.75% 94 12.85% 32 7.63% 19 2.81%
Q1: Asia 2.94% 17 4.15% 24 3.28% 19 3.11%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 2.61% 6 13.91% 32 13.91% 32 10.87%
Q1: Europe 2.75% 18 4.59% 30 2.75% 18 3.67%
Q1: North America 2.11% 11 6.51% 34 9.77% 51 13.79%
Q1: South and Central America 0.00% 0 2.94% 2 5.88% 4 2.94%
Total 6.34% 146 6.69% 154 6.21% 143 6.43%

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0.35 Consumer Consulting Education
0.3 Energy & Utilities Financial Services Government
0.25 Healthcare Hospitality Legal Services
0.2 Manufacturing, transportation, Military Media / Analyst
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1 May 02 2021 Marketing

Q1: Asia
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 20 2021 Retail
2 May 18 2021 Advertisement, Research
3 May 04 2021 Many of above mentioned e.g. research, healthcare, software/ Technology etc.
4 May 04 2021 none
5 May 04 2021 human resources
6 May 04 2021 Shared Services
7 May 04 2021 Location based technology
8 May 03 2021 retail

Q1: Australia and Oceania


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 05 2021 ¬

Q1: Europe
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 25 2021 1Automotive
2 Jun 25 2021 0Automotive
3 Jun 15 2021 0Human Resources
4 May 21 2021 Aviation
5 May 07 2021 Sales engagement
6 May 07 2021 Non-profit Media/News
7 May 07 2021 National Research and Education Network
8 May 07 2021 Advertisement
9 May 06 2021 Automotive
10 May 06 2021 Videogames
11 May 05 2021 Space
12 May 05 2021 Compliance
13 May 05 2021 Automotive
14 May 05 2021 Automotive
15 May 05 2021 Cloud Provider
16 May 05 2021 Online Travel
17 May 05 2021 gaming
18 May 04 2021 Corperate Engineering
19 May 04 2021 fintech
20 May 03 2021 insurances
21 May 03 2021 tenders
22 May 03 2021 Video security
23 May 03 2021 Automotive
24 May 03 2021 statutory health insurance
25 May 03 2021 Chemical
26 May 01 2021 Retail
27 Apr 30 2021 0Insurance

Q1: North America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jul 04 2021 0 Biomedical Engineer
2 Jun 06 2021 0Logistics
3 Jun 06 2021 0School bus driver
4 Jun 05 2021 1Business Services
5 May 21 2021 saas
6 May 06 2021 Aerospace
7 May 05 2021 Leisure Travel
Q1: South and Central America
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 01 2021 retail
Consumer Consulting Education Energy & Utilities Financial Services Government
7 5.22% 13 3.61% 9 4.42% 11 2.41% 6 2.01%
18 4.15% 24 6.04% 35 2.07% 12 9.67% 56 0.86%
25 5.22% 12 6.09% 14 5.65% 13 4.35% 10 5.22%
24 8.10% 53 2.45% 16 1.53% 10 8.10% 53 2.60%
72 4.79% 25 3.45% 18 4.21% 22 12.84% 67 5.36%
2 10.29% 7 2.94% 2 1.47% 1 14.71% 10 7.35%
148 5.82% 134 4.08% 94 3.00% 69 8.77% 202 3.13%
Government Healthcare Hospitality Legal Services Manufacturing, transportation, warehousing
5 0.80% 2 0.80% 2 1.20% 3 3.21% 8
5 2.94% 17 0.86% 5 1.21% 7 2.76% 16
12 2.61% 6 2.61% 6 2.61% 6 10.00% 23
17 1.99% 13 1.22% 8 0.76% 5 3.06% 20
28 2.68% 14 1.15% 6 0.00% 0 1.72% 9
5 2.94% 2 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 1.47% 1
72 2.35% 54 1.17% 27 0.91% 21 3.34% 77
Military Media / Analyst Non-profit Real estate Scientific
1.20% 3 1.20% 3 2.41% 6 1.61% 4 2.01% 5
0.86% 5 0.52% 3 1.21% 7 1.21% 7 0.52% 3
1.74% 4 2.61% 6 2.61% 6 0.87% 2 0.87% 2
0.15% 1 0.92% 6 1.38% 9 0.61% 4 0.92% 6
0.38% 2 0.77% 4 1.53% 8 2.30% 12 0.57% 3
0.00% 0 2.94% 2 2.94% 2 0.00% 0 2.94% 2
0.65% 15 1.04% 24 1.65% 38 1.26% 29 0.91% 21
Software/Technology Telecommunications Other (please specify) Total
6.02% 15 0.40% 1 0.40% 1 10.82% 249
43.52% 252 6.74% 39 1.38% 8 25.15% 579
3.91% 9 1.30% 3 0.43% 1 9.99% 230
40.52% 265 7.80% 51 4.13% 27 28.41% 654
22.61% 118 2.11% 11 1.34% 7 22.68% 522
33.82% 23 2.94% 2 1.47% 1 2.95% 68
29.63% 682 4.65% 107 1.95% 45 100.00% 2302
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What is your job function? Please select all that apply.
Software Architect Mobile Developer Back-end Developer
Q1: Africa 45.38% 113 39.76% 99 24.50% 61
Q1: Asia 20.73% 120 8.81% 51 19.52% 113
Q1: Australia and Oceania 6.96% 16 13.48% 31 35.22% 81
Q1: Europe 27.68% 181 5.20% 34 20.64% 135
Q1: North America 27.01% 141 14.37% 75 23.37% 122
Q1: South and Central America 16.18% 11 7.35% 5 16.18% 11
Total 25.28% 582 12.81% 295 22.72% 523

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Quality Assurance Engineer SRE / DevOps Engineer Engineering Manager
0.3 DevOps Management Release Management Product/Project Management
Machine Learning Specialist Data Scientist Database Administrator
0.2 Training/Certification Developer Relations Sales
Student Marketing Other (please specify)
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Q1: Africa
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 04 2021 Infrastructure Team Lead

Q1: Asia
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jul 01 2021 0 CTO
2 Jun 30 2021 0system administator
3 Jun 25 2021 0Cloud Architect
4 Jun 25 2021 0CTO
5 Jun 25 2021 0Solutions architect
6 Jun 23 2021 0Technical Support Engineer
7 Jun 04 2021 0Teacher
8 Jun 02 2021 0PR and Marketing
9 May 27 2021 Cloud engineer
10 May 24 2021 Community Manager
11 May 07 2021 Cloud Platform Engineer
12 May 07 2021 IT Architect
13 May 05 2021 solution architect
14 May 05 2021 Technical Analyst
15 May 04 2021 R &D
16 May 04 2021 Data Engineer
17 May 04 2021 Administrator
18 May 04 2021 student
19 May 03 2021 Cloud Support
20 May 03 2021 Enterprise Solutions Architect
21 May 01 2021 Enterprise Solutions Architect

Q1: Australia and Oceania


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 05 2021 ¬

Q1: Europe
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jul 14 2021 0 Enterprise Architect
2 Jun 15 2021 0Data developer
3 Jun 15 2021 0Architect
4 May 24 2021 Infra Architect
5 May 21 2021 Aviation
6 May 21 2021 IT Architect
7 May 20 2021 TSE
8 May 19 2021 Integration Engineer
9 May 18 2021 QA Engineer
10 May 07 2021 University professor
11 May 07 2021 Architect
12 May 06 2021 HR
13 May 06 2021 Build Engineer
14 May 05 2021 Infrastructure Architect
15 May 05 2021 system administration
16 May 05 2021 Solutions Architect Manager
17 May 04 2021 OPS Engineer
18 May 04 2021 Lead Software Engineer
19 May 04 2021 Research
20 May 04 2021 Solutions Architect
21 May 04 2021 Launch Engineer
22 May 03 2021 Senior Technical Consultant
23 May 03 2021 Cloud Enterprise Security Architect
24 May 03 2021 infrastructure architect
25 May 03 2021 IT Engineer
26 May 03 2021 Platform Architect
27 May 03 2021 System Administrator
28 May 01 2021 Professor

Q1: North America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jul 04 2021 0 Biomedical Engineer
2 Jul 04 2021 0 Compliance Manager
3 Jun 25 2021 0Security architecture & engineering
4 Jun 09 2021 0Teacher
5 Jun 08 2021 0Infrastructure support
6 Jun 06 2021 0Driver
7 Jun 05 2021 1President
8 Jun 03 2021 0GIS Analyst
9 May 27 2021 Security
10 May 25 2021 Co-Founder
11 May 24 2021 Instructor
12 May 20 2021 Enterprise Architecture
13 May 06 2021 Information Security Architect
14 May 06 2021 CEO
15 May 05 2021 Solution Architect

Q1: South and Central America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 07 2021 System Administrator
Front-End / Applications Developer Full-Stack Developer Security Engineer Quality Assurance Engineer SRE / DevOps Engineer
12.85% 32 11.24% 28 7.23% 18 8.84% 22 11.24%
10.36% 60 14.68% 85 8.64% 50 5.53% 32 33.33%
35.65% 82 25.22% 58 24.35% 56 20.00% 46 15.65%
7.03% 46 15.29% 100 8.72% 57 4.43% 29 46.18%
18.20% 95 16.86% 88 12.64% 66 5.36% 28 21.26%
11.76% 8 2.94% 2 4.41% 3 2.94% 2 48.53%
14.03% 323 15.68% 361 10.86% 250 6.91% 159 30.54%
SRE / DevOps Engineer Engineering Manager DevOps Management Release Management Product/Project Management Machine Learning Specialist
28 6.43% 16 6.43% 16 4.02% 10 5.22% 13 4.42%
193 7.94% 46 15.03% 87 4.15% 24 4.84% 28 5.18%
36 16.09% 37 15.22% 35 14.78% 34 12.17% 28 11.30%
302 7.65% 50 15.60% 102 4.74% 31 8.87% 58 2.29%
111 10.54% 55 8.24% 43 4.41% 23 8.43% 44 3.45%
33 7.35% 5 17.65% 12 7.35% 5 10.29% 7 1.47%
703 9.08% 209 12.81% 295 5.52% 127 7.73% 178 4.39%
achine Learning Specialist Data Scientist Database Administrator Training/Certification Developer Relations Sales
11 3.21% 8 3.61% 9 3.21% 8 3.61% 9 0.40%
30 3.11% 18 2.76% 16 3.97% 23 2.42% 14 2.42%
26 11.30% 26 7.39% 17 7.83% 18 8.26% 19 1.74%
15 1.53% 10 3.98% 26 2.60% 17 2.14% 14 1.68%
18 2.49% 13 3.64% 19 1.72% 9 3.07% 16 5.36%
1 2.94% 2 4.41% 3 2.94% 2 0.00% 0 4.41%
101 3.34% 77 3.91% 90 3.34% 77 3.13% 72 2.65%
Sales Student Marketing Other (please specify) Total
1 1.20% 3 1.61% 4 0.40% 1 10.82% 249
14 3.97% 23 2.59% 15 3.63% 21 25.15% 579
4 2.61% 6 0.00% 0 0.43% 1 9.99% 230
11 0.76% 5 0.46% 3 4.28% 28 28.41% 654
28 0.38% 2 2.11% 11 2.87% 15 22.68% 522
3 2.94% 2 1.47% 1 1.47% 1 2.95% 68
61 1.78% 41 1.48% 34 2.91% 67 100.00% 2302
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What title most accurately describes your role?
Software Developer/Engineer Systems Admin Network Admin Manager/Director
Q1: Africa 42.97% 107 12.05% 30 8.03% 20 8.43%
Q1: Asia 42.31% 245 15.20% 88 3.63% 21 11.92%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 6.52% 15 7.83% 18 16.52% 38 16.96%
Q1: Europe 40.67% 266 18.50% 121 3.06% 20 9.48%
Q1: North America 30.65% 160 8.05% 42 9.58% 50 24.90%
Q1: South and Central America 26.47% 18 27.94% 19 7.35% 5 8.82%
Total 35.23% 811 13.81% 318 6.69% 154 14.21%

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1 May 20 2021 1DevOps Engineer

Q1: Asia
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jul 03 2021 07Sr. DevOps Engineer
2 Jun 25 2021 0 Principle Cloud Architect
3 Jun 23 2021 0 Technical Support Engineer
4 Jun 12 2021 0 Cloud Security Engineer
5 Jun 02 2021 0 Executive
6 May 21 2021 0Devops Technical Support Specialist
7 May 20 2021 1technical sales
8 May 19 2021 0Growth Marketer
9 May 07 2021 0SRE
10 May 07 2021 0Infra Engineer
11 May 07 2021 1Platform Engineer
12 May 06 2021 0DevOps Engineer
13 May 06 2021 1Devops engineer
14 May 05 2021 0MLOps Engineer
15 May 04 2021 0student
16 May 04 2021 0DevOps Engineer
17 May 03 2021 0DevOps Engineer
18 May 03 2021 1Architect
19 May 03 2021 1Devops Engineer
20 May 03 2021 1Lead Consultant
21 May 03 2021 0Engineer
22 May 01 2021 0Engineer
Q1: Australia and Oceania
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
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Q1: Europe
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jul 05 2021 11Infra team
2 Jun 15 2021 0 Azure architect
3 Jun 10 2021 0 Architect
4 Jun 06 2021 1 Devops Architect
5 May 25 2021 0Technology Architect
6 May 21 2021 0Cloud Architect
7 May 21 2021 0Cloud Architect
8 May 20 2021 0TSE
9 May 18 2021 0Systems Architect
10 May 07 2021 0DevOps Engineer
11 May 06 2021 0Technical Sales
12 May 06 2021 0Solution Architect
13 May 06 2021 1Cloud Solution Architect
14 May 05 2021 1Cloud and Devops Specialist
15 May 05 2021 0Software engineer Scrum Master
16 May 05 2021 1Troublemaker
17 May 04 2021 0DevOps Engineer / Architect / Product Owner
18 May 04 2021 0Systemts Engineer
19 May 04 2021 1DevOps Engineer
20 May 04 2021 0DevOps Engineer / Software Developer
21 May 03 2021 0DEVOPS
22 May 03 2021 0DevOps team leader
23 May 03 2021 0DevOps
24 May 01 2021 1Technology Architect
25 Apr 30 2021 0 Architect

Q1: North America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jul 04 2021 06Compliance Manager
2 Jun 25 2021 0 Architect
3 Jun 08 2021 0 Operations
4 Jun 05 2021 0 Owner
5 Jun 03 2021 0 DevOps Engineer III
6 May 27 2021 0ISSO
7 May 20 2021 1Architect
8 May 07 2021 0Architect
9 May 06 2021 0Information Security Architect
10 May 06 2021 0Product Manager
11 May 06 2021 0Technical Marketing
12 May 05 2021 0DevOps engineer
13 May 05 2021 0DevOps
14 May 05 2021 0SRE Engineer
15 May 04 2021 0Program Manager
16 May 03 2021 0Technical Marketing Manager

Q1: South and Central America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 08 2021 0 Private Cloud Architect
Manager/Director Scientist/Researcher/Specialist Assistant Business Developer Executive (CEO, CMO, CFO, COO, CTO, CIO)
21 4.02% 10 2.01% 5 3.21% 8 16.06%
69 5.70% 33 2.76% 16 2.25% 13 3.80%
39 10.43% 24 11.30% 26 6.09% 14 19.57%
62 6.88% 45 1.22% 8 2.14% 14 4.74%
130 4.41% 23 3.45% 18 2.49% 13 6.90%
6 10.29% 7 2.94% 2 5.88% 4 4.41%
327 6.17% 142 3.26% 75 2.87% 66 7.69%
CEO, CMO, CFO, COO, CTO, CIO) Teacher Student Professional Services/Consultant Other (please specify)
40 1.61% 4 0.00% 0 1.20% 3 0.40% 1
22 1.04% 6 0.00% 0 7.60% 44 3.80% 22
45 3.48% 8 0.00% 0 0.87% 2 0.43% 1
31 0.76% 5 0.00% 0 8.72% 57 3.82% 25
36 2.11% 11 0.00% 0 4.41% 23 3.07% 16
3 1.47% 1 0.00% 0 2.94% 2 1.47% 1
177 1.52% 35 0.00% 0 5.69% 131 2.87% 66
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10.82% 249
25.15% 579
9.99% 230
28.41% 654
22.68% 522
2.95% 68
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How often do you check in code?
Multiple times a day Daily A few times a week A few times a month
Q1: Africa 58.06% 144 12.90% 32 18.15% 45 7.66% 19
Q1: Asia 30.20% 170 19.72% 111 28.42% 160 10.66% 60
Q1: Australia and Oceania 5.68% 13 24.89% 57 38.86% 89 25.33% 58
Q1: Europe 38.15% 243 22.29% 142 22.76% 145 9.42% 60
Q1: North America 35.35% 181 16.02% 82 23.83% 122 13.09% 67
Q1: South and Central America 20.00% 13 18.46% 12 32.31% 21 16.92% 11
Total 33.90% 764 19.34% 436 25.82% 582 12.20% 275

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2.82% 7 0.40% 1 11.00% 248
5.15% 29 5.86% 33 24.98% 563
4.37% 10 0.87% 2 10.16% 229
3.61% 23 3.77% 24 28.26% 637
6.25% 32 5.47% 28 22.72% 512
7.69% 5 4.62% 3 2.88% 65
4.70% 106 4.04% 91 100.00% 2254
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How often are your release cycles?
Multiple times a day Daily Weekly Monthly
Q1: Africa 51.61% 128 13.71% 34 16.53% 41 9.68% 24
Q1: Asia 9.41% 53 14.03% 79 33.75% 190 21.31% 120
Q1: Australia and Oceania 6.55% 15 29.69% 68 27.95% 64 25.76% 59
Q1: Europe 15.86% 101 11.30% 72 35.01% 223 18.21% 116
Q1: North America 22.07% 113 12.89% 66 31.64% 162 17.38% 89
Q1: South and Central America 4.62% 3 12.31% 8 35.38% 23 23.08% 15
Total 18.32% 413 14.51% 327 31.19% 703 18.77% 423

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3.23% 8 2.42% 6 2.82% 7 11.00% 248
10.12% 57 4.97% 28 6.39% 36 24.98% 563
7.42% 17 1.31% 3 1.31% 3 10.16% 229
6.12% 39 7.22% 46 6.28% 40 28.26% 637
6.45% 33 4.88% 25 4.69% 24 22.72% 512
10.77% 7 3.08% 2 10.77% 7 2.88% 65
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Are release cycles manual or automated?
Manual Automated Hybrid (both manual and automated) N/A or don't know
Q1: Africa 59.27% 147 23.39% 58 14.92% 37 2.42%
Q1: Asia 18.83% 106 37.12% 209 37.48% 211 6.57%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 37.12% 85 46.29% 106 15.72% 36 0.87%
Q1: Europe 13.19% 84 35.48% 226 47.88% 305 3.45%
Q1: North America 24.80% 127 30.86% 158 40.63% 208 3.71%
Q1: South and Central America 20.00% 13 38.46% 25 36.92% 24 4.62%
Total 24.93% 562 34.69% 782 36.42% 821 3.95%

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37 24.98% 563
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22 28.26% 637
19 22.72% 512
3 2.88% 65
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Which of the following data center types does your company/organization use?
Only Private Cloud / On Premise Only Public Cloud Hybrid Cloud (i.e. both) N/A or don't know
Q1: Africa 61.29% 152 17.74% 44 18.95% 47 1.61%
Q1: Asia 21.96% 123 25.89% 145 47.14% 264 4.82%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 19.65% 45 34.93% 80 40.17% 92 5.24%
Q1: Europe 20.31% 129 23.46% 149 52.76% 335 3.15%
Q1: North America 20.00% 102 25.88% 132 52.16% 266 1.96%
Q1: South and Central America 22.22% 14 25.40% 16 47.62% 30 4.76%
Total 25.17% 565 25.21% 566 46.06% 1034 3.39%

Which of the following data center types


does your company/organization use?
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Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 07 2021 07:MultiCloud

Q1: Europe
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 05 2021 11:On Premise and Public Cloud
2 May 03 2021 08:We provide Data Center services to customers operating our own datacnters
N/A or don't know Other (please specify) Total
4 0.40% 1 11.05% 248
27 0.18% 1 24.94% 560
12 0.00% 0 10.20% 229
20 0.31% 2 28.29% 635
10 0.00% 0 22.72% 510
3 0.00% 0 2.81% 63
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If you use public cloud or a hybrid approach, how many cloud providers does your company use (i.e. Multi-Cloud)?
1 2 3 4+
Q1: Africa 7.78% 7 51.11% 46 32.22% 29 7.78%
Q1: Asia 23.02% 93 40.59% 164 24.26% 98 11.63%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 18.02% 31 25.00% 43 48.26% 83 8.72%
Q1: Europe 25.72% 125 38.07% 185 22.02% 107 13.79%
Q1: North America 16.83% 67 33.17% 132 30.40% 121 19.35%
Q1: South and Central America 21.74% 10 43.48% 20 28.26% 13 6.52%
Total 20.86% 333 36.97% 590 28.26% 451 13.53%

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how many cloud providers does your com-
pany use (i.e. Multi-Cloud)?
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0.5
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Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 10 2021 do not know
2 May 05 2021 Not sure

Q1: Europe
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
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2 May 04 2021 N/A

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1 May 21 2021 IBM & Red Hat are cloud providors. At RH & IBM we develop those.
4+ Other (please specify) Total
7 1.11% 1 5.64% 90
47 0.50% 2 25.31% 404
15 0.00% 0 10.78% 172
67 0.41% 2 30.45% 486
77 0.25% 1 24.94% 398
3 0.00% 0 2.88% 46
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On average, how many machines are in your fleet (incl VM, bare metal, etc)?
1-5 6-20 21-50 51-100
Q1: Africa 6.10% 15 39.84% 98 32.93% 81 9.35% 23
Q1: Asia 9.44% 52 16.52% 91 15.06% 83 13.61% 75
Q1: Australia and Oceania 17.47% 40 11.79% 27 12.66% 29 28.82% 66
Q1: Europe 2.38% 15 11.76% 74 13.99% 88 10.65% 67
Q1: North America 4.00% 20 18.20% 91 18.80% 94 14.00% 70
Q1: South and Central America 3.17% 2 15.87% 10 15.87% 10 15.87% 10
Total 6.49% 144 17.63% 391 17.36% 385 14.02% 311

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fleet (incl VM, bare metal, etc)?
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14.41% 33 7.86% 18 3.93% 9 0.87% 2 0.87% 2
10.33% 65 10.33% 65 7.63% 48 5.09% 32 3.50% 22
8.80% 44 10.40% 52 5.20% 26 2.20% 11 2.20% 11
9.52% 6 9.52% 6 15.87% 10 4.76% 3 1.59% 1
9.96% 221 8.16% 181 5.82% 129 3.02% 67 2.43% 54
5,000+ N/A or don't know Total
0.81% 2 1.22% 3 11.09% 246
7.26% 40 8.71% 48 24.84% 551
0.00% 0 1.31% 3 10.32% 229
8.43% 53 15.90% 100 28.36% 629
6.60% 33 9.60% 48 22.54% 500
1.59% 1 6.35% 4 2.84% 63
5.82% 129 9.29% 206 100.00% 2218
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Please indicate if your company/organization currently uses, or has future plans to use, containers for any of the below options.
Proof of Concept (PoC)
Currently using Future plans Not using or planning to use Total
Q1: Africa 65.04% 160 32.52% 80 2.44% 6 11.30%
Q1: Asia 68.41% 366 26.36% 141 5.23% 28 24.58%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 28.38% 65 49.78% 114 21.83% 50 10.52%
Q1: Europe 84.10% 513 12.95% 79 2.95% 18 28.02%
Q1: North America 70.65% 349 24.70% 122 4.66% 23 22.69%
Q1: South and Central America 63.49% 40 30.16% 19 6.35% 4 2.89%
Total 68.58% 1493 25.49% 555 5.93% 129 100.00%
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Q1: Africa 61.79% 152 35.77% 88 2.44% 6 11.30%
Q1: Asia 70.47% 377 25.61% 137 3.93% 21 24.58%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 37.12% 85 39.74% 91 23.14% 53 10.52%
Q1: Europe 82.13% 501 15.25% 93 2.62% 16 28.02%
Q1: North America 73.48% 363 21.66% 107 4.86% 24 22.69%
Q1: South and Central America 60.32% 38 28.57% 18 11.11% 7 2.89%
Total 69.64% 1516 24.53% 534 5.83% 127 100.00%
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Currently using Future plans Not using or planning to use Total
Q1: Africa 60.57% 149 36.18% 89 3.25% 8 11.30%
Q1: Asia 68.79% 368 25.42% 136 5.79% 31 24.58%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 31.88% 73 41.92% 96 26.20% 60 10.52%
Q1: Europe 80.16% 489 17.05% 104 2.79% 17 28.02%
Q1: North America 70.04% 346 24.70% 122 5.26% 26 22.69%
Q1: South and Central America 53.97% 34 38.10% 24 7.94% 5 2.89%
Total 67.02% 1459 26.23% 571 6.75% 147 100.00%
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Currently using Future plans Not using or planning to use Total
Q1: Africa 62.60% 154 35.37% 87 2.03% 5 11.30%
Q1: Asia 60.00% 321 32.90% 176 7.10% 38 24.58%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 35.37% 81 38.86% 89 25.76% 59 10.52%
Q1: Europe 75.57% 461 20.66% 126 3.77% 23 28.02%
Q1: North America 67.41% 333 28.54% 141 4.05% 20 22.69%
Q1: South and Central America 55.56% 35 33.33% 21 11.11% 7 2.89%
Total 63.62% 1385 29.40% 640 6.98% 152 100.00%
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How many containers does your company/organization typically run?
49 or less 50-249 250-999 1,000-4,999
Q1: Africa 35.37% 87 46.34% 114 11.79% 29 3.66% 9
Q1: Asia 23.55% 126 23.74% 127 22.62% 121 9.91% 53
Q1: Australia and Oceania 22.71% 52 29.69% 68 34.93% 80 9.17% 21
Q1: Europe 13.11% 80 26.23% 160 23.93% 146 12.79% 78
Q1: North America 22.27% 110 25.71% 127 27.13% 134 8.30% 41
Q1: South and Central America 19.05% 12 26.98% 17 19.05% 12 15.87% 10
Total 21.45% 467 28.16% 613 23.98% 522 9.74% 212

How many containers does your


company/organization typically run?
0.5
0.4
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50-249
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0.41% 1 2.44% 6 11.30% 246
9.35% 50 10.84% 58 24.58% 535
1.75% 4 1.75% 4 10.52% 229
12.30% 75 11.64% 71 28.02% 610
9.11% 45 7.49% 37 22.69% 494
6.35% 4 12.70% 8 2.89% 63
8.22% 179 8.45% 184 100.00% 2177
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What are your challenges in using / deploying containers? Please select all that apply.
Complexity Lack of training Difficulty in choosing an orchestration solution
Q1: Africa 49.37% 118 51.05% 122 44.35%
Q1: Asia 28.06% 133 30.17% 143 25.32%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 6.22% 14 19.56% 44 56.44%
Q1: Europe 33.46% 179 32.71% 175 21.68%
Q1: North America 37.44% 170 40.53% 184 34.14%
Q1: South and Central America 27.27% 15 23.64% 13 16.36%
Total 31.74% 629 34.36% 681 31.94%

What are your challenges in using / deploy-


ing containers? Please select all that apply.
0.6
0.5 Complexity Lack of training
0.4 Difficulty in choosing an orches- Finding vendor support
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Logging Monitoring
0.2 Networking Reliability
0.1 Scaling deployments based Security
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1 May 20 2021 nill

Q1: Asia
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 20 2021 1Troubleshooting
2 Jun 12 2021 0Upgrading
3 May 07 2021 NA
4 May 07 2021 Users/Developers onboarding
5 May 07 2021 N/A
6 May 04 2021 Legacy stuff
7 May 04 2021 As of now not facing any issue

Q1: Australia and Oceania


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 24 2021 0Given we're a container-based hosting company, we've got this covered!

Q1: Europe
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 28 2021 0Cultural changes w/some admins
2 May 27 2021 VPNs, segregate access to database by namespaces, etc.
3 May 07 2021 development setup (local)
4 May 06 2021 Automation with CI\CD
5 May 06 2021 interoperability
6 May 06 2021 none
7 May 06 2021 Edge
8 May 05 2021 IaC
9 May 05 2021 Old processes not fit for rapid development
10 May 04 2021 Operational Overhead (=!Complexity), Inspection, Debuggabilty
11 May 04 2021 Debugging
12 May 04 2021 Customer infrastructure and acceptance
13 May 03 2021 Transfer from VM App to Container
14 May 03 2021 Depends on the customer project
15 May 03 2021 yaml, yaml, yaml ... it‘s a hell
16 May 03 2021 CI/CD Pipelines, managing configurations for different environments
17 May 03 2021 SideCars
18 May 03 2021 Architectural/Dev choices at scale
19 May 01 2021 cultural changes w/management & IT organization

Q1: North America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 25 2021 0configuration management tooling in cloud native space
2 Jun 15 2021 0Migration from novel end-points, databases, and hybrid frameworks.
3 Jun 11 2021 0Massive data in Oracle Exadata very difficult to break down and migrate to smaller cloud data sources
4 Jun 02 2021 0CI with private registries
5 May 30 2021 long core loop cycle times
6 May 29 2021 Need developer focused tech
7 May 29 2021 Version management and CU (continuous upgrade) of 3rd party containers
8 May 21 2021 Well we develop, test & release OpenShift Service Mesh for System Z...
9 May 06 2021 none
10 May 04 2021 No challenges that I can think of.
11 May 03 2021 N/A
12 May 03 2021 no challenges
choosing an orchestration solution Finding vendor support Logging Monitoring Networking
106 16.74% 40 9.62% 23 14.64% 35 7.11% 17
120 14.98% 71 24.26% 115 30.38% 144 24.26% 115
127 30.67% 69 26.22% 59 27.11% 61 23.11% 52
116 8.60% 46 26.36% 141 29.72% 159 24.49% 131
155 21.81% 99 24.01% 109 25.55% 116 19.60% 89
9 16.36% 9 30.91% 17 34.55% 19 29.09% 16
633 16.85% 334 23.41% 464 26.94% 534 21.19% 420
migrate to smaller cloud data sources
Reliability Scaling deployments based upon the load Security Storage Service Mesh
5.86% 14 7.53% 18 7.53% 18 4.18% 10 6.69%
16.03% 76 18.99% 90 29.32% 139 14.77% 70 22.78%
17.78% 40 14.67% 33 17.78% 40 14.22% 32 12.00%
13.27% 71 18.32% 98 33.08% 177 23.74% 127 26.73%
11.45% 52 12.78% 58 21.59% 98 11.45% 52 15.20%
14.55% 8 23.64% 13 34.55% 19 12.73% 7 23.64%
13.17% 261 15.64% 310 24.77% 491 15.04% 298 18.97%
Service Mesh Cultural changes w/development team Other (please specify) Total
16 4.18% 10 0.42% 1 12.06% 239
108 17.72% 84 1.48% 7 23.92% 474
27 4.00% 9 0.44% 1 11.35% 225
143 37.20% 199 3.55% 19 26.99% 535
69 16.30% 74 2.64% 12 22.91% 454
13 38.18% 21 0.00% 0 2.77% 55
376 20.03% 397 2.02% 40 100.00% 1982
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Are you using Kubernetes?
Yes, in production Yes, in test or PoC Not yet, but we are evaluating Kubernetes
Q1: Africa 72.65% 178 15.92% 39 9.39% 23
Q1: Asia 54.43% 289 27.12% 144 13.18% 70
Q1: Australia and Oceania 44.54% 102 42.36% 97 11.35% 26
Q1: Europe 68.98% 418 21.45% 130 6.27% 38
Q1: North America 54.58% 268 30.35% 149 11.20% 55
Q1: South and Central America 61.90% 39 28.57% 18 4.76% 3
Total 59.77% 1294 26.65% 577 9.93% 215

Are you using Kubernetes?


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2.04% 5 0.00% 0 11.32% 245
3.39% 18 1.88% 10 24.53% 531
0.87% 2 0.87% 2 10.58% 229
2.81% 17 0.50% 3 27.99% 606
2.44% 12 1.43% 7 22.68% 491
4.76% 3 0.00% 0 2.91% 63
2.63% 57 1.02% 22 100.00% 2165
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If you use Kubernetes, how many production clusters do you have?
1 2-5 6-10 11-20
Q1: Africa 3.67% 8 42.20% 92 37.16% 81 13.30% 29
Q1: Asia 8.68% 38 25.34% 111 25.11% 110 13.01% 57
Q1: Australia and Oceania 1.48% 3 29.56% 60 24.63% 50 34.48% 70
Q1: Europe 13.08% 70 33.64% 180 19.25% 103 13.46% 72
Q1: North America 4.83% 20 19.81% 82 30.68% 127 23.43% 97
Q1: South and Central America 8.93% 5 25.00% 14 28.57% 16 16.07% 9
Total 7.73% 144 28.92% 539 26.13% 487 17.92% 334

If you use Kubernetes, how many production


clusters do you have?
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1.83% 4 1.38% 3 0.46% 1 11.70% 218
6.62% 29 9.13% 40 12.10% 53 23.50% 438
7.39% 15 1.48% 3 0.99% 2 10.89% 203
3.93% 21 7.10% 38 9.53% 51 28.70% 535
7.00% 29 6.28% 26 7.97% 33 22.21% 414
8.93% 5 3.57% 2 8.93% 5 3.00% 56
5.53% 103 6.01% 112 7.78% 145 100.00% 1864
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If you use Kubernetes, how do you separate your applications? Please select all that apply.
Namespaces Only labels Separate clusters
Q1: Africa 70.18% 153 45.41% 99 21.10% 46
Q1: Asia 61.87% 271 28.77% 126 46.80% 205
Q1: Australia and Oceania 18.23% 37 45.32% 92 62.56% 127
Q1: Europe 72.34% 387 18.50% 99 51.03% 273
Q1: North America 55.07% 228 27.05% 112 42.51% 176
Q1: South and Central America 67.86% 38 28.57% 16 42.86% 24
Total 59.76% 1114 29.18% 544 45.65% 851

If you use Kubernetes, how do you separate


your applications? Please select all that ap-
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0.6 Namespaces
0.4 Only labels
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Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 26 2021 1NetworkPolicy
2 Jun 15 2021 0Working for an MSP looking after ISV's so all options
3 May 18 2021 Kiosk
4 May 07 2021 openshift projects
5 May 06 2021 Service-mesh
6 May 06 2021 In house Mutli-tenancy controllers
7 May 05 2021 rancher projects
8 May 04 2021 Tenants
9 May 03 2021 Every Team owns its own namespace on our prod clusters, where they run their applications
10 May 03 2021 It‘s separations ends in pure chaos. Each app is a cluster. Expensive, but this works.
11 May 03 2021 Openshift Projects
12 May 03 2021 Network Policies
13 May 03 2021 Rancher Projects

Q1: North America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jul 13 2021 0 realms
2 Jun 16 2021 0namespace/deployments
3 Jun 11 2021 0Rancher Project Isolation
Not applicable to me or don't know Other (please specify) Total
4.13% 9 0.00% 0 11.70% 218
11.19% 49 0.00% 0 23.50% 438
17.24% 35 0.00% 0 10.89% 203
5.42% 29 2.43% 13 28.70% 535
11.11% 46 0.72% 3 22.21% 414
8.93% 5 0.00% 0 3.00% 56
9.28% 173 0.86% 16 100.00% 1864
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If you use Kubernetes in an organization with multiple teams, how do you separate them? Please select all that apply.
Namespaces Only labels Separate clusters
Q1: Africa 63.30% 138 47.25% 103 24.77% 54
Q1: Asia 52.05% 228 25.34% 111 47.72% 209
Q1: Australia and Oceania 22.66% 46 44.33% 90 56.65% 115
Q1: Europe 54.39% 291 13.83% 74 42.80% 229
Q1: North America 50.72% 210 23.43% 97 41.79% 173
Q1: South and Central America 57.14% 32 26.79% 15 42.86% 24
Total 50.70% 945 26.29% 490 43.13% 804

If you use Kubernetes in an organization with


multiple teams, how do you separate them?
Please select all that apply.
0.7
0.6
0.5 Namespaces
0.4 Only labels
0.3 Separate clusters
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1 Jun 26 2021 0Other
2 Jun 15 2021 0RBAC
3 May 22 2021 AWS Account
4 May 04 2021 LSM
5 May 03 2021 Rancher Projects

Q1: Europe
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 15 2021 0however customer wants
2 May 18 2021 Kiosk
3 May 06 2021 In house Mutli-tenancy controllers
4 May 05 2021 different accounts
5 May 04 2021 Rancher Projects
6 May 04 2021 RBAC
7 May 04 2021 Tenants
8 May 03 2021 Service Accounts
9 May 03 2021 Each team has multiple clusters.
10 May 03 2021 see above
11 May 03 2021 Rancher Projects
12 May 03 2021 Rancher Projects

Q1: North America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jul 13 2021 0 realms
2 Jul 12 2021 0 I
3 Jun 11 2021 0Rancher Project Isolation
4 Jun 08 2021 0We don’t separate by team
5 May 06 2021 Application Services
se select all that apply.
Not applicable to me or don't know Other (please specify) Total
5.05% 11 0.00% 0 11.70% 218
12.79% 56 1.14% 5 23.50% 438
19.21% 39 0.00% 0 10.89% 203
19.81% 106 2.24% 12 28.70% 535
14.01% 58 1.21% 5 22.21% 414
14.29% 8 0.00% 0 3.00% 56
14.91% 278 1.18% 22 100.00% 1864
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What Kubernetes environment(s) do you target during local container development? Please select all that apply.
Minikube Docker Kubernetes kind (Kubernetes in Docker) k3s
Q1: Africa 53.67% 117 48.62% 106 31.19% 68 11.01%
Q1: Asia 30.59% 134 42.01% 184 22.15% 97 19.18%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 9.85% 20 34.98% 71 52.71% 107 24.63%
Q1: Europe 26.54% 142 28.41% 152 22.62% 121 22.06%
Q1: North America 31.64% 131 40.82% 169 38.65% 160 27.54%
Q1: South and Central America 33.93% 19 17.86% 10 28.57% 16 25.00%
Total 30.20% 563 37.12% 692 30.53% 569 21.67%

What Kubernetes environment(s) do you


target during local container development?
Please select all that apply.
0.6
Minikube Docker Kubernetes
0.5
kind (Kubernetes in Docker) k3s
0.4
Cloud Provider Managed On-prem Kubernetes Instal-
0.3 Kubernetes lation
0.2 Don’t use Kubernetes during Don’t run containers during
0.1 local development (e.g. use development
Docker Compose)
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Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 15 2021 0CodeReady container
2 Jun 12 2021 0MediumKube
3 May 29 2021 Openshift
4 May 07 2021 Openshift Code Ready Workspace
5 May 05 2021 Kubernetes setup with kubeadm
6 May 05 2021 Gardener + Hyperscalar
7 May 03 2021 Nutanix Karbon
8 May 03 2021 kubeadm
9 May 01 2021 MediumKube

Q1: Europe
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jul 02 2021 1 OpenStack
2 Jun 26 2021 1k3d
3 Jun 25 2021 0Gardener managed Kubernetes clusters
4 Jun 15 2021 0or Docker for desktop
5 Jun 13 2021 0K3D
6 Jun 06 2021 0K3d
7 May 30 2021 Garden
8 May 27 2021 Self-managed, Cloud-hosted clusters
9 May 19 2021 Compliant Kubernetes in multiple clouds
10 May 19 2021 Cloud hosted non-managed k8s (kubespray)
11 May 07 2021 MicroK8s
12 May 07 2021 openshift
13 May 07 2021 microk8s
14 May 06 2021 Using dev namespaces in prod clusters
15 May 06 2021 Code Ready Containers
16 May 06 2021 Microk8s
17 May 06 2021 microK8s
18 May 06 2021 microk8s in vagrant ubuntu vm
19 May 06 2021 Kubernetes on Cloud IaaS
20 May 06 2021 Our own K8S Distribution
21 May 05 2021 microk8s
22 May 04 2021 molecule in ansible
23 May 04 2021 Also Off-Prem DEV stages
24 May 04 2021 Seperate Namespace
25 May 04 2021 microk8s
26 May 03 2021 Canonical Microk8s, OKD, CRC
27 May 03 2021 Openshift Cluster
28 May 03 2021 micok8s
29 May 01 2021 Telepresence
30 Apr 30 2021 0Kops

Q1: North America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 30 2021 On cloud self-managed
2 May 21 2021 OpenShift 4
3 May 21 2021 Skaffold
4 May 21 2021 development clusters
5 May 21 2021 Tanzu
6 May 20 2021 k0s
7 May 11 2021 microk8s
8 May 06 2021 Red Hat OpenShift
9 May 06 2021 OpenShift
10 May 05 2021 OKE
11 Apr 30 2021 0MicroK8s
12 Apr 30 2021 0kops
k3s Cloud Provider Managed KubernetesOn-prem Kubernetes Installation Don’t use Kubernetes during local development (e.g. use Docker Co
24 13.76% 30 7.34% 16 5.50%
84 26.03% 114 22.60% 99 10.27%
50 25.12% 51 22.66% 46 35.47%
118 27.85% 149 28.79% 154 18.13%
114 31.16% 129 21.98% 91 18.36%
14 25.00% 14 19.64% 11 16.07%
404 26.13% 487 22.37% 417 16.68%
ng local development (e.g. use Docker Compose) Don’t run containers during development Don't know Other (please specify)
12 3.21% 7 0.92% 2 0.00% 0
45 4.57% 20 6.62% 29 2.05% 9
72 11.33% 23 3.45% 7 0.00% 0
97 5.98% 32 3.74% 20 5.61% 30
76 7.97% 33 4.35% 18 2.90% 12
9 10.71% 6 1.79% 1 0.00% 0
311 6.49% 121 4.13% 77 2.74% 51
Total
11.70% 218
23.50% 438
10.89% 203
28.70% 535
22.21% 414
3.00% 56
100.00% 1864
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What is your preferred method for packaging Kubernetes applications?
Helm Kustomize Managed Kubernetes offering Buildpacks
Q1: Africa 44.50% 97 20.64% 45 22.02% 48 8.72%
Q1: Asia 54.57% 239 11.42% 50 12.79% 56 10.50%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 2.96% 6 16.75% 34 37.93% 77 23.65%
Q1: Europe 57.01% 305 16.07% 86 11.96% 64 4.49%
Q1: North America 26.33% 109 15.46% 64 34.78% 144 8.94%
Q1: South and Central America 53.57% 30 7.14% 4 19.64% 11 7.14%
Total 42.17% 786 15.18% 283 21.46% 400 9.55%

What is your preferred method for packaging


Kubernetes applications?
0.6
0.5
Helm
0.4
Kustomize
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Managed Kubernetes offering
0.2 Buildpacks
0.1 Porter
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Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jul 03 2021 1 NA
2 Jun 15 2021 0OpenShift
3 May 29 2021 Openshift
4 May 07 2021 manual
5 May 04 2021 N/A
6 May 04 2021 dont know
7 May 04 2021 only manifest
8 May 03 2021 Ansible
9 May 02 2021 Don't know
10 Apr 30 2021 0N/A

Q1: Australia and Oceania


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 24 2021 0Lagoon
2 May 05 2021 ¬

Q1: Europe
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 19 2021 1CSAR
2 Jun 11 2021 0krane (https://github.com/Shopify/krane)
3 Jun 08 2021 0none
4 Jun 02 2021 0Plain YAML files on a repo
5 May 10 2021 Custom DSL and deployment tooling
6 May 07 2021 Don't know
7 May 07 2021 in house solution
8 May 07 2021 Custom solution
9 May 07 2021 n/a
10 May 07 2021 Manifest per service. Going to use Helm in the future
11 May 06 2021 Kaniko
12 May 06 2021 Operators
13 May 06 2021 In house APP Profiles
14 May 05 2021 helmfile
15 May 04 2021 In house
16 May 04 2021 Ansible Deployments
17 May 04 2021 Self built deployment system
18 May 04 2021 KubeDirector
19 May 04 2021 None
20 May 04 2021 None for now, helm for futur
21 May 04 2021 We wrote our tool
22 May 03 2021 YAML Template Engine: Gomplate, YTT
23 May 03 2021 Various: kustomize/ArgoCD for internal, operator catalog, Helm for public offerings
24 May 03 2021 Pulumi
25 May 03 2021 own package solution e.g. https://gitlab.com/domaindrivenarchitecture/k8s-mastodon-bot
26 May 03 2021 part of custom ci pipeline
27 May 03 2021 Dislike all of the above
28 May 03 2021 Am
29 May 03 2021 basic manifests
30 May 03 2021 Nothing
31 May 03 2021 CSAR
32 May 03 2021 N/A
33 Apr 30 2021 0Operators
34 Apr 30 2021 0Custom deployment tooling
35 Apr 30 2021 0gitops

Q1: North America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jul 13 2021 0 N/A
2 Jul 08 2021 0 None, our workloads are discreetly deployed
3 Jun 26 2021 1Don't know
4 Jun 25 2021 0YAML Overlay Tool
5 Jun 24 2021 0kpt
6 Jun 16 2021 0Jenkins/scripts
7 Jun 11 2021 0N/a
8 Jun 08 2021 0Haven’t found a tech we prefer
9 Jun 04 2021 0still trying to figure that shitshow out
10 Jun 01 2021 0None
11 May 30 2021 Operators
12 May 30 2021 combo of buildpacks and shell w/ kubectl direct
13 May 29 2021 Homegrown
14 May 29 2021 home-rolled build-release system
15 May 27 2021 Hypper
16 May 26 2021 Don’t know
17 May 23 2021 N/a
18 May 21 2021 Operators -- OLM FTW!!
19 May 20 2021 NA
20 May 20 2021 Ko
21 May 06 2021 Custom build
22 May 06 2021 Operators
23 May 06 2021 Operators
24 May 04 2021 OLM
25 May 03 2021 hand-rolled yaml
26 May 03 2021 Have only used Helm, so I can't say if it's preferred or not
27 Apr 30 2021 1Jsonnet / tanka
28 Apr 30 2021 0None
Q1: South and Central America
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 25 2021 pure yaml
2 May 01 2021 plain docker images
Buildpacks Porter Cloud Native Application Bundles (CNAB) Other (please specify) Total
19 1.83% 4 2.29% 5 0.00% 0 11.70% 218
46 4.11% 18 4.34% 19 2.28% 10 23.50% 438
48 13.79% 28 3.94% 8 0.99% 2 10.89% 203
24 2.43% 13 1.50% 8 6.54% 35 28.70% 535
37 4.11% 17 3.62% 15 6.76% 28 22.21% 414
4 1.79% 1 7.14% 4 3.57% 2 3.00% 56
178 4.35% 81 3.17% 59 4.13% 77 100.00% 1864
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Cloud Native Survey 2021 - Part 1
Do you currently or plan to autoscale your Kubernetes workload(s)? Please select all that apply.
Stateless applications – no state or data stored outside of a given deployment Task/Queue processing applicatio
Q1: Africa 68.81% 150 42.20%
Q1: Asia 51.83% 227 29.68%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 36.45% 74 39.90%
Q1: Europe 60.93% 326 33.46%
Q1: North America 52.90% 219 36.96%
Q1: South and Central America 44.64% 25 35.71%
Total 54.77% 1021 35.14%

Do you currently or plan to autoscale your


Kubernetes workload(s)? Please select all
that apply.
0.8
0.7 Stateless applications – no state Task/Queue processing appli-
0.6 or data stored outside of a cations
0.5 given deployment
0.4
Stateful Applications Databases
0.3
0.2 Recurring batch jobs N/A - I do not want to autoscale
0.1 any workloads at this time
0 Other (please specify)
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Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jul 08 2021 09:37 AM I don't know
2 Jun 25 2021 02:37 PM Don't know
3 May 07 2021 03:15 PM There is no specific workload to autoscale.
4 May 04 2021 07:33 PM already in place
5 May 04 2021 12:32 PM Not aware curently
6 Apr 30 2021 05:20 PM Don't know

Q1: Australia and Oceania


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 01 2021 01:13 AM Don’t know

Q1: Europe
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 15 2021 02:11 PM Keda. App insights Azure
2 May 07 2021 02:45 PM Don't know
3 May 03 2021 08:36 PM Not my department
4 May 03 2021 08:09 PM If you implement helloworld then you need a helloworld scale solution
5 May 03 2021 09:45 AM N/A

Q1: North America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 26 2021 11:49 AM Don't know
2 May 04 2021 08:04 AM We, as a company, put a lot of attention on HPA, though I myself have no nee
Queue processing applications Stateful Applications Databases Recurring batch jobs N/A - I do not want to autoscale any workloads at th
92 28.90% 63 12.84% 28 6.42% 14 2.75%
130 39.27% 172 22.60% 99 15.07% 66 12.79%
81 43.84% 89 32.02% 65 25.62% 52 18.23%
179 31.78% 170 18.32% 98 17.01% 91 17.38%
153 30.68% 127 20.29% 84 18.36% 76 11.59%
20 28.57% 16 19.64% 11 28.57% 16 21.43%
655 34.17% 637 20.65% 385 16.90% 315 13.52%
world scale solution

though I myself have no need to use it.


nt to autoscale any workloads at this time Other (please specify) Total
6 0.00% 0 11.70% 218
56 1.37% 6 23.50% 438
37 0.49% 1 10.89% 203
93 0.93% 5 28.70% 535
48 0.48% 2 22.21% 414
12 0.00% 0 3.00% 56
252 0.75% 14 100.00% 1864
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Cloud Native Survey 2021 - Part 1
If you are NOT using K8s autoscaling capabilities, why not? Please select all that apply.
I have built my own solution to autoscale (please provide details) I am using a 3rd party autoscaling solution
Q1: Africa 64.22% 140 40.37%
Q1: Asia 19.18% 84 20.32%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 25.62% 52 41.38%
Q1: Europe 8.79% 47 14.02%
Q1: North America 28.74% 119 24.88%
Q1: South and Central America 12.50% 7 17.86%
Total 24.09% 449 24.09%

If you are NOT using K8s autoscaling capabil-


ities, why not? Please select all that apply.
0.7
0.6
I have built my own solution to I am using a 3rd party autoscal-
0.5 autoscale (please provide de- ing solution
0.4 tails)
0.3 I was not aware of them I would like to use them but
they do not work the way I
0.2 need them to
0.1 I tried to use them but they N/A
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Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 25 2021 03:23 PM I'm using autoscale ( HPA )
2 Jun 16 2021 04:49 AM Since we are using VMware/vsphere as our infrastructure provisioning platform, ther
3 Jun 15 2021 02:13 PM Currently using HPA
4 May 21 2021 07:25 AM AWS EKS
5 May 07 2021 12:38 PM on-prem, scale by design
6 May 05 2021 01:28 PM I have Kubernetes setup on onpremise
7 May 05 2021 09:44 AM Gardener does the autoscalling
8 May 04 2021 08:20 AM We are using autoscaling
9 May 04 2021 07:24 AM Not sure

Q1: Australia and Oceania


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 03 2021 03:38 PM DB layer can only scale vertically for write workloads

Q1: Europe
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 28 2021 04:45 AM using keda
2 Jun 19 2021 11:22 AM not clear how to use with stateful apps
3 Jun 11 2021 09:30 PM Using KEDA
4 Jun 05 2021 09:40 AM Application need to know that will be scaled. In most case this logic is not implemen
5 May 27 2021 12:43 PM Autoscaling is not a priority for us now
6 May 27 2021 05:48 AM HA setup doesnt require scale
7 May 18 2021 04:39 PM KEDA!
8 May 06 2021 01:14 PM The app does not support horizontal scaling
9 May 06 2021 01:06 PM development massively overprovision them at install time
10 May 06 2021 11:51 AM I don't really need them
11 May 06 2021 11:40 AM Running containerized 3rd party apps without HA
12 May 05 2021 05:00 PM App is statefull and not ready to scale horizontaly
13 May 05 2021 11:57 AM Lack of expertise
14 May 04 2021 06:55 PM No priority
15 May 04 2021 04:30 PM Not useful for our use case
16 May 04 2021 04:17 PM lack of knowledge what we need to do
17 May 04 2021 01:37 PM Currently we use a high-enough replica number :-)
18 May 04 2021 01:11 PM Not required.
19 May 04 2021 11:10 AM onprem nodes capability
20 May 03 2021 08:09 PM Autoscale doesn‘t do the job. It‘s more random scale.
21 May 03 2021 07:57 PM no need yet
22 May 03 2021 07:34 PM Not needed at this point
23 May 03 2021 03:39 PM Our workload is very predictable and a fixed number of pods works just fine
24 May 03 2021 02:53 PM we are just getting started with production workloads, exploring autoscaling is in our
25 May 03 2021 02:27 PM This question requires an answer.
26 May 03 2021 01:29 PM Not necessary yet
27 May 03 2021 01:25 PM Application does not properly support it
28 May 03 2021 12:16 PM No time to deal with it
29 May 03 2021 11:16 AM I do run kubernetes on bare-metal. This will simply not autoscale.
30 May 03 2021 09:19 AM At the moment worlload is predictable so theres no need
31 Apr 30 2021 07:15 PM at this moment I dont see to much need for autoscaling in our usecases

Q1: North America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 26 2021 09:56 PM We do not have reliable/meaningful metrics that could be used for autoscaling
2 Jun 11 2021 05:43 AM Todo
3 Jun 08 2021 02:54 PM Autoscaling looks difficult so we’re waiting until we feel pain
4 May 29 2021 03:39 AM lack of time
5 May 20 2021 03:02 PM Some workloads autoscale. Some workloads, heavy disk I/O, have a custom / manu
6 May 20 2021 02:06 AM Knative
7 May 05 2021 05:20 PM Have not yet been given the time to
8 May 04 2021 08:04 AM I personally have no need for autoscaling, though it is an area we, as a company, de
9 Apr 30 2021 10:13 PM Applications need to be re-architected to not be singletons
10 Apr 30 2021 05:11 PM K8S is only used for COTS

Q1: South and Central America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 24 2021 04:21 AM on-prem.
g a 3rd party autoscaling solution I was not aware of them I would like to use them but they do not work the way I need them to
88 31.65% 69 10.55% 23
89 16.67% 73 16.67% 73
84 45.32% 92 43.84% 89
75 9.91% 53 14.77% 79
103 16.91% 70 17.15% 71
10 14.29% 8 23.21% 13
449 19.58% 365 18.67% 348
astructure provisioning platform, there is no no in built feature which which supports autoscalling in current version.

most case this logic is not implementend


mber of pods works just fine
oads, exploring autoscaling is in our backlog

ply not autoscale.

scaling in our usecases

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h it is an area we, as a company, devote a lot of attention to.
I tried to use them but they were too hard to use N/A Other (please specify) Total
6.42% 14 4.59% 10 0.00% 0 11.70% 218
7.53% 33 41.32% 181 2.05% 9 23.50% 438
24.14% 49 3.45% 7 0.49% 1 10.89% 203
6.92% 37 57.57% 308 5.79% 31 28.70% 535
7.00% 29 29.95% 124 2.42% 10 22.21% 414
10.71% 6 44.64% 25 1.79% 1 3.00% 56
9.01% 168 35.14% 655 2.79% 52 100.00% 1864
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If you built your own solution to autoscale, please provide details here:
If you built your own solution to autoscale, please provide details here:
Q1: Africa 100.00% 28
Q1: Asia 100.00% 52
Q1: Australia and Oceania 100.00% 55
Q1: Europe 100.00% 36
Q1: North America 100.00% 66
Q1: South and Central America 100.00% 6
Total 100.00% 243

Q1: Africa
Respondents Response Date If you built your own solution to autoscale, please provide details here:
1 Jul 03 2021 12:12 PM I didn't build That's all I want to say. There's no other medicine that can say it at
2 Jul 03 2021 11:25 AM That's all I want to say. There's no other medicine that can say it at present
3 Jul 03 2021 09:27 AM The auto-scaling solution I built gave me a way to solve some of the more difficu
4 Jul 03 2021 08:53 AM I didn't build an automatic scaling resolution system thank you
5 Jul 03 2021 08:29 AM Not at the moment, thanks
6 Jul 03 2021 07:29 AM Temporarily no
7 Jul 03 2021 07:20 AM Not at the moment, thanks
8 Jul 03 2021 03:37 AM I didn't build an automatic scaling solution, ask for help
9 Jul 03 2021 03:34 AM I don't know yet
10 Jun 29 2021 11:24 AM The above scheme is feasible
11 Jun 29 2021 08:57 AM no
12 Jun 28 2021 09:18 AM Temporarily no
13 Jun 28 2021 09:14 AM Temporarily no
14 Jun 28 2021 09:10 AM Temporarily no
15 Jun 28 2021 09:06 AM Temporarily no
16 Jun 28 2021 08:57 AM Temporarily no
17 Jun 28 2021 08:53 AM Temporarily no
18 Jun 28 2021 08:47 AM Temporarily no
19 Jun 28 2021 08:40 AM Temporarily no
20 Jun 28 2021 08:36 AM Temporarily no
21 Jun 28 2021 04:10 AM NO
22 Jun 28 2021 04:10 AM NO
23 Jun 28 2021 04:10 AM NO
24 Jun 28 2021 04:10 AM NO
25 Jun 28 2021 04:09 AM NO
26 Jun 26 2021 11:40 AM no
27 Jun 26 2021 11:38 AM no
28 Jun 25 2021 07:08 PM fbdfhb

Q1: Asia
Respondents Response Date If you built your own solution to autoscale, please provide details here:
1 Jul 14 2021 06:21 PM We are using customer auto scaling using Prometheus and Istio
2 Jul 03 2021 12:39 PM Temporarily no
3 Jul 03 2021 11:12 AM I don't know yet
4 Jul 03 2021 10:34 AM Temporarily no
5 Jul 03 2021 10:13 AM There is no plan
6 Jul 03 2021 09:10 AM I don't know yet
7 Jul 03 2021 08:11 AM no
8 Jul 03 2021 07:47 AM My plan is not mature
9 Jul 03 2021 03:47 AM Temporarily no
10 Jul 03 2021 02:52 AM no
11 Jun 29 2021 08:57 AM no
12 Jun 28 2021 11:18 AM NA
13 Jun 28 2021 08:02 AM no
14 Jun 28 2021 08:01 AM no
15 Jun 28 2021 07:58 AM no
16 Jun 28 2021 07:57 AM no
17 Jun 28 2021 04:30 AM NO
18 Jun 28 2021 04:29 AM NO
19 Jun 28 2021 04:27 AM NO
20 Jun 28 2021 04:25 AM NO
21 Jun 28 2021 04:24 AM NO
22 Jun 28 2021 04:20 AM No, I'm sorry
23 Jun 28 2021 04:10 AM NO
24 Jun 28 2021 04:10 AM NO
25 Jun 26 2021 11:38 AM no
26 Jun 26 2021 11:26 AM no
27 Jun 26 2021 11:24 AM no
28 Jun 26 2021 10:14 AM Use a lot
29 Jun 26 2021 12:57 AM
30 Jun 25 2021 08:12 PM
31 Jun 25 2021 04:07 PM NA
32 Jun 23 2021 04:37 PM NA
33 Jun 07 2021 10:46 PM na
34 Jun 04 2021 10:11 PM I'd make great use of Kubernetes
35 May 30 2021 05:17 PM Autoscale is a feature exclusive to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service that
36 May 20 2021 09:00 PM No
37 May 20 2021 08:01 PM I am planning to build.
38 May 07 2021 07:24 PM Something with AWS, leveraging EKS etc
39 May 07 2021 03:15 PM The scale is specified manually by a person, the unit of scale is per node, and ad
40 May 07 2021 12:08 PM Provisioning
41 May 06 2021 08:19 AM use event based scaling so have to create crd
42 May 05 2021 07:46 PM ..
43 May 05 2021 01:33 PM N/A
44 May 05 2021 11:50 AM I would consider using AWS ALB along or Serverless step functions integrated w
45 May 04 2021 07:33 PM NA
46 May 04 2021 04:41 PM na
47 May 04 2021 08:20 AM NA
48 May 04 2021 07:10 AM we have built our own solution
49 May 04 2021 04:47 AM Using AWS Auto Scaling, it’s easy to setup application scaling for multiple resou
50 May 03 2021 03:11 PM -
51 May 03 2021 01:39 PM yes
52 May 01 2021 02:23 AM I would write my own scale plan CRD and control it base on loads collected from

Q1: Australia and Oceania


Respondents Response Date If you built your own solution to autoscale, please provide details here:
1 Jul 03 2021 11:38 AM NO
2 Jul 03 2021 10:28 AM NO
3 Jul 03 2021 10:04 AM NO
4 Jul 03 2021 10:03 AM no
5 Jul 03 2021 09:42 AM no
6 Jul 03 2021 09:41 AM NO
7 Jul 03 2021 08:46 AM NO
8 Jul 03 2021 08:18 AM I constructed my own solution
9 Jul 03 2021 08:16 AM NO
10 Jul 03 2021 08:07 AM Don't want to say
11 Jul 03 2021 07:53 AM Temporarily no
12 Jul 03 2021 07:15 AM I used an automatic scaling solution I built myself to solve some technical proble
13 Jul 03 2021 04:47 AM yes
14 Jul 03 2021 04:17 AM yes
15 Jul 03 2021 03:42 AM There is no
16 Jul 03 2021 03:15 AM Not for the time being, but definitely in the future
17 Jun 28 2021 09:04 AM NO
18 Jun 28 2021 09:04 AM NO
19 Jun 28 2021 09:04 AM NO
20 Jun 28 2021 09:04 AM NO
21 Jun 28 2021 09:04 AM NO
22 Jun 28 2021 09:04 AM NO
23 Jun 28 2021 09:04 AM NO
24 Jun 28 2021 09:04 AM NO
25 Jun 28 2021 09:04 AM NO
26 Jun 28 2021 09:04 AM NO
27 Jun 28 2021 08:01 AM no
28 Jun 28 2021 07:59 AM no
29 Jun 28 2021 07:43 AM NO
30 Jun 28 2021 07:43 AM NO
31 Jun 28 2021 07:42 AM NO
32 Jun 28 2021 07:42 AM NO
33 Jun 28 2021 07:42 AM NO
34 Jun 28 2021 07:42 AM NO
35 Jun 28 2021 07:41 AM NO
36 Jun 28 2021 07:41 AM NO
37 Jun 28 2021 07:41 AM NO
38 Jun 28 2021 07:41 AM NO
39 Jun 28 2021 06:15 AM no
40 Jun 28 2021 06:15 AM no
41 Jun 28 2021 06:14 AM no
42 Jun 28 2021 06:14 AM no
43 Jun 28 2021 06:14 AM no
44 Jun 28 2021 06:14 AM no
45 Jun 28 2021 06:13 AM no
46 Jun 28 2021 06:13 AM no
47 Jun 28 2021 06:13 AM no
48 Jun 28 2021 06:12 AM no
49 Jun 28 2021 04:20 AM No, I'm sorry
50 Jun 26 2021 11:38 AM no
51 Jun 26 2021 11:24 AM no
52 Jun 26 2021 10:07 AM Frequently used
53 Jun 26 2021 10:07 AM Frequently used
54 Jun 26 2021 08:09 AM yes
55 Jun 24 2021 05:21 AM Lagoon - github.com/uselagoon/lagoon - coordinates scaling for k8s

Q1: Europe
Respondents Response Date If you built your own solution to autoscale, please provide details here:
1 Jul 03 2021 11:13 AM I don't know
2 Jul 03 2021 03:05 AM Temporarily no
3 Jun 29 2021 08:57 AM no
4 Jun 28 2021 08:01 AM no
5 Jun 28 2021 04:13 AM no
6 Jun 28 2021 04:11 AM no
7 Jun 28 2021 04:11 AM no
8 Jun 28 2021 04:11 AM no
9 Jun 28 2021 04:11 AM no
10 Jun 28 2021 04:11 AM no
11 Jun 28 2021 04:11 AM no
12 Jun 28 2021 04:11 AM no
13 Jun 28 2021 04:11 AM no
14 Jun 28 2021 04:11 AM no
15 Jun 28 2021 04:11 AM No, I'm sorry
16 Jun 28 2021 04:10 AM No, I'm sorry
17 Jun 28 2021 04:10 AM No, I'm sorry
18 Jun 28 2021 04:10 AM No, I'm sorry
19 Jun 28 2021 04:10 AM No, I'm sorry
20 Jun 28 2021 04:09 AM NO
21 Jun 26 2021 11:39 AM no
22 Jun 26 2021 11:26 AM no
23 Jun 26 2021 09:38 AM I don't like to say
24 Jun 26 2021 09:38 AM I don't like to say
25 Jun 26 2021 09:37 AM I don't like to say
26 Jun 26 2021 09:36 AM I don't like to say
27 Jun 26 2021 09:36 AM I don't like to say
28 Jun 26 2021 09:36 AM I don't like to say
29 Jun 26 2021 09:35 AM I don't like to say
30 Jun 26 2021 09:35 AM I don't like to say
31 May 06 2021 02:07 PM n/a
32 May 04 2021 06:55 PM Until now no autoscale needed.
33 May 04 2021 02:03 PM Built a KEDA like solution prior to KEDA.
34 May 04 2021 01:11 PM Lack of integration with cloud provisioned resources
35 May 03 2021 03:11 PM different node templates for workload-types and security procedures needed
36 Apr 30 2021 09:04 PM Preemptive scaling based on expected load using business metrics

Q1: North America


Respondents Response Date If you built your own solution to autoscale, please provide details here:
1 Jul 03 2021 11:09 AM NO
2 Jul 03 2021 10:47 AM no
3 Jul 03 2021 10:37 AM Not yet
4 Jul 03 2021 09:33 AM I haven't built it to be leased to other people so there is no way to provide it
5 Jul 03 2021 09:23 AM there is no
6 Jul 03 2021 08:38 AM There is no
7 Jul 03 2021 08:00 AM I need a professional in my company to provide the answer. I don't know
8 Jul 03 2021 07:43 AM no
9 Jul 03 2021 06:49 AM This requires my company's professional talent to answer, I am not convenient to
10 Jul 03 2021 05:28 AM I thought it would be a good idea to build my own auto-scaling solution, but I'm c
11 Jul 03 2021 04:07 AM no
12 Jul 03 2021 03:36 AM A trade secret
13 Jul 03 2021 02:48 AM
14 Jun 29 2021 08:59 AM no
15 Jun 29 2021 03:18 AM No thanks
16 Jun 29 2021 03:15 AM No thanks
17 Jun 29 2021 03:15 AM No thanks
18 Jun 29 2021 03:15 AM No thanks
19 Jun 29 2021 03:15 AM No thanks
20 Jun 29 2021 03:15 AM No thanks
21 Jun 29 2021 03:15 AM No thanks
22 Jun 29 2021 03:15 AM No thanks
23 Jun 29 2021 03:14 AM No thanks
24 Jun 29 2021 03:14 AM No thanks
25 Jun 28 2021 08:23 AM Temporarily no
26 Jun 28 2021 08:00 AM mo
27 Jun 28 2021 04:20 AM No, I'm sorry
28 Jun 28 2021 04:09 AM NO
29 Jun 28 2021 04:03 AM NO
30 Jun 26 2021 11:25 AM no
31 Jun 26 2021 10:10 AM Use a lot
32 Jun 26 2021 10:02 AM I didn't build an automatic scaling solution
33 Jun 26 2021 10:02 AM I didn't build an automatic scaling solution
34 Jun 26 2021 10:02 AM I didn't build an automatic scaling solution
35 Jun 26 2021 10:02 AM I didn't build an automatic scaling solution
36 Jun 26 2021 10:02 AM I didn't build an automatic scaling solution
37 Jun 26 2021 10:02 AM I didn't build an automatic scaling solution
38 Jun 26 2021 10:02 AM I didn't build an automatic scaling solution
39 Jun 26 2021 10:01 AM I didn't build an automatic scaling solution
40 Jun 26 2021 10:01 AM I didn't build an automatic scaling solution
41 Jun 26 2021 10:01 AM I didn't build an automatic scaling solution
42 Jun 26 2021 09:59 AM The scaling ratio is adjusted by input operation instructions to adjust parameters
43 Jun 26 2021 09:58 AM The scaling ratio is adjusted by input operation instructions to adjust parameters
44 Jun 26 2021 09:58 AM The scaling ratio is adjusted by input operation instructions to adjust parameters
45 Jun 26 2021 09:58 AM The scaling ratio is adjusted by input operation instructions to adjust parameters
46 Jun 26 2021 08:32 AM Not easy to disclose
47 Jun 26 2021 08:32 AM Not easy to disclose
48 Jun 26 2021 08:32 AM Not easy to disclose
49 Jun 26 2021 08:32 AM Not easy to disclose
50 Jun 26 2021 08:32 AM Not easy to disclose
51 Jun 26 2021 08:32 AM Not easy to disclose
52 Jun 26 2021 08:32 AM Not easy to disclose
53 Jun 26 2021 08:32 AM Not easy to disclose
54 Jun 26 2021 08:32 AM Not easy to disclose
55 Jun 26 2021 08:32 AM Not easy to disclose
56 Jun 25 2021 06:19 PM none
57 Jun 25 2021 06:19 PM none
58 Jun 25 2021 06:08 PM none
59 Jun 25 2021 03:35 PM dadad
60 Jun 25 2021 02:49 PM
61 Jun 13 2021 12:32 PM knative
62 Jun 12 2021 02:53 AM SQS/PubSub based autoscaling
63 May 21 2021 01:58 AM Knative
64 May 20 2021 10:30 PM N/A
65 May 05 2021 06:05 PM NA
66 Apr 30 2021 05:11 PM We mostly use ECS Fargate

Q1: South and Central America


Respondents Response Date If you built your own solution to autoscale, please provide details here:
1 Jun 26 2021 10:00 AM The scaling ratio is adjusted by input operation instructions to adjust parameters
2 Jun 26 2021 09:58 AM The scaling ratio is adjusted by input operation instructions to adjust parameters
3 Jun 26 2021 09:58 AM The scaling ratio is adjusted by input operation instructions to adjust parameters
4 Jun 26 2021 09:58 AM The scaling ratio is adjusted by input operation instructions to adjust parameters
5 Jun 26 2021 09:58 AM The scaling ratio is adjusted by input operation instructions to adjust parameters
6 Jun 26 2021 09:58 AM The scaling ratio is adjusted by input operation instructions to adjust parameters
Total
11.52% 28
21.40% 52
22.63% 55
14.81% 36
27.16% 66
2.47% 6
100.00% 243
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Cloud Native Survey 2021 - Part 1
Does your company/organization use any Certified Kubernetes Distributions: Please select all that apply.
Agile Stacks DevOps Automation Platform AgoraKube Airship
Q1: Africa 54.88% 118 37.67% 81 35.35% 76
Q1: Asia 13.40% 56 7.42% 31 8.85% 37
Q1: Australia and Oceania 4.48% 9 13.93% 28 28.86% 58
Q1: Europe 3.26% 17 5.18% 27 4.99% 26
Q1: North America 14.93% 60 18.16% 73 19.65% 79
Q1: South and Central America 3.85% 2 7.69% 4 11.54% 6
Total 14.48% 262 13.49% 244 15.59% 282

Does your company/organization use any


Certified Kubernetes Distributions: Please se-
Agile Stacks DevOps Auto- AgoraKube Airship Alauda Cloud Enterprise (ACE) Alauda Container Platform Amazon Elastic Kubernetes ASUS Cloud Infra Banzai Cloud Pipeline Ku- lCanoni
ect alcallCharmedthatDiapplstributiyon. China Mobile CMIT PaaS
mation Platform (ACP) Service Distro (Amazon EKS-D) bernetes Engine (PKE) of Kubernetes
China-ASEAN Information Chinaunicom Kubernetes Cisco Container Platform Clear Linux Project Cocktail Cloud D2iQ Konvoy DaoCloud Enterprise Diamanti Spektra Docker Desktop EasyStack Kubernetes Service
Harbor Container Cloud Engine (EKS)
Elastisys Compliant Kubernetes Ericsson Cloud Container Dis- FlexKube Fury Distribution Giant Swarm Managed Ku- H3C CloudOS HarmonyCloud Container Plat- HPE Ezmeral Container Platform HyperCloud IBM Cloud Private
tribution bernetes form
JD.com TIG Jingdong Datacenter k0s k3s Kubedee K8splus Kubermatic Kubernetes Plat- Kubesphere Kubic Kublr Lokomotive
OS form
Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine MetalK8s MiaoYun MicroK8s Mirantis Docker Enterprise Netease Qingzhou Microservice Nokia Container Services OpenNESS OpenNESS (IDO) Oracle Linux Cloud Native En-
(MKE) vironment
Platform9 Managed Kubernetes Rancher Kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift RKE Government Robin CNP Roost Desktop Spectro Cloud Teamsun TCMS TenxCloud Container Enterprise Typhoon
VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Volcano Engine Compass Weave Kubernetes Platform Weaveworks wksctl Wind River Cloud Platform Wise2C Technology WiseCloud None of these Other (please specify)
Integrated Edition
Q1: Asia
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jul 08 2021 09:39 A I don't know
2 Jun 25 2021 03:25 P Not yet, but have a plan
3 Jun 24 2021 06:59 P Opensource Kubernetes platform
4 Jun 23 2021 05:25 P DOKS
5 May 26 2021 07:21 Flux
6 May 20 2021 09:49 Google Kubernetes Engine
7 May 07 2021 07:25 N/A
8 May 04 2021 07:34 Not aware
9 May 04 2021 02:43 rancher
10 May 04 2021 10:31 Don't know
11 May 04 2021 08:21 NA
12 May 03 2021 04:31 Nutanix Karbon
13 May 02 2021 04:27 No idea
14 May 01 2021 04:48 AKS

Q1: Europe
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 20 2021 08:25 NCS
2 May 12 2021 01:08 Azure AKS
3 May 07 2021 02:46 Don't know
4 May 05 2021 11:18 Nutanix Karbon
5 May 05 2021 01:35 OKD
6 May 04 2021 06:34 GKE
7 May 04 2021 07:41 I have no idea
8 May 03 2021 08:55 I don't know
9 May 03 2021 03:25 Azure Kubernetes
10 May 03 2021 01:31 don't know
11 May 03 2021 09:49 N/A
12 Apr 30 2021 08:44 P Azure Kubernetes Engin e

Q1: North America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 11 2021 12:45 P GKE
2 May 30 2021 05:59 Upstream
3 May 26 2021 02:11 No idea
4 May 20 2021 08:08 NA
5 May 20 2021 02:37 Anthos
6 May 03 2021 11:22 Microsoft Azure (AKS)
7 Apr 30 2021 04:32 P Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)

Q1: South and Central America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jul 07 2021 01:35 A Oracle kubernetes engine
Alauda Cloud Enterprise (ACE) Alauda Container Platform (ACP)Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Distro (Amazon EKS-D) ASUS Cloud Infra
14.88% 32 10.23% 22 11.16% 24 5.12%
7.42% 31 7.89% 33 21.77% 91 3.59%
37.81% 76 38.81% 78 36.82% 74 22.39%
9.21% 48 5.95% 31 19.00% 99 2.50%
22.64% 91 21.89% 88 27.36% 110 11.44%
5.77% 3 9.62% 5 32.69% 17 9.62%
15.53% 281 14.21% 257 22.94% 415 7.46%
ASUS Cloud Infra Banzai Cloud Pipeline Kubernetes Engine (PKE) Canonical Charmed Distribution of Kubernetes China Mobile CMIT PaaS
11 5.58% 12 6.51% 14 5.58% 12
15 5.02% 21 5.02% 21 5.26% 22
45 19.90% 40 14.93% 30 12.94% 26
13 3.45% 18 3.07% 16 1.34% 7
46 10.95% 44 7.21% 29 6.47% 26
5 7.69% 4 5.77% 3 3.85% 2
135 7.68% 139 6.25% 113 5.25% 95
China-ASEAN Information Harbor Container CloudChinaunicom Kubernetes EngineCisco Container Platform Clear Linux Project
8.37% 18 4.65% 10 2.33% 5 3.72% 8
4.07% 17 2.15% 9 3.35% 14 3.83% 16
17.41% 35 10.45% 21 11.44% 23 14.43% 29
1.34% 7 2.50% 13 1.73% 9 1.92% 10
4.73% 19 4.73% 19 5.47% 22 5.22% 21
5.77% 3 9.62% 5 9.62% 5 1.92% 1
5.47% 99 4.26% 77 4.31% 78 4.70% 85
Cocktail Cloud D2iQ Konvoy DaoCloud Enterprise Diamanti Spektra Docker Desktop
1.40% 3 3.72% 8 2.79% 6 3.72% 8 4.19% 9
1.20% 5 2.15% 9 2.39% 10 1.67% 7 12.92% 54
11.44% 23 8.46% 17 10.95% 22 7.96% 16 9.45% 19
1.54% 8 1.34% 7 0.96% 5 0.96% 5 10.94% 57
3.73% 15 4.23% 17 1.99% 8 3.23% 13 8.96% 36
7.69% 4 5.77% 3 3.85% 2 0.00% 0 9.62% 5
3.21% 58 3.37% 61 2.93% 53 2.71% 49 9.95% 180
EasyStack Kubernetes Service (EKS) Elastisys Compliant Kubernetes Ericsson Cloud Container Distribution FlexKube
1.40% 3 1.40% 3 2.79% 6 1.86% 4
5.02% 21 1.91% 8 2.39% 10 2.15% 9
8.96% 18 9.45% 19 12.44% 25 9.95% 20
2.69% 14 1.73% 9 3.84% 20 1.15% 6
4.48% 18 3.23% 13 3.73% 15 2.74% 11
9.62% 5 9.62% 5 5.77% 3 9.62% 5
4.37% 79 3.15% 57 4.37% 79 3.04% 55
Fury Distribution Giant Swarm Managed Kubernetes H3C CloudOS HarmonyCloud Container PlatformHPE Ezmeral Container Platform
3.72% 8 3.26% 7 1.86% 4 2.33% 5 1.86%
0.96% 4 1.67% 7 2.39% 10 1.67% 7 2.87%
6.47% 13 8.96% 18 6.47% 13 4.98% 10 10.95%
1.15% 6 1.73% 9 0.58% 3 0.38% 2 1.54%
3.23% 13 3.73% 15 3.48% 14 1.74% 7 2.49%
1.92% 1 1.92% 1 7.69% 4 5.77% 3 1.92%
2.49% 45 3.15% 57 2.65% 48 1.88% 34 3.15%
Ezmeral Container Platform HyperCloud IBM Cloud Private JD.com TIG Jingdong Datacenter OS k0s
4 0.93% 2 2.33% 5 0.93% 2 1.40% 3
12 2.15% 9 4.31% 18 0.96% 4 2.15% 9
22 6.97% 14 10.45% 21 5.97% 12 5.47% 11
8 0.96% 5 2.11% 11 1.92% 10 2.11% 11
10 2.99% 12 2.24% 9 1.24% 5 1.99% 8
1 1.92% 1 5.77% 3 5.77% 3 1.92% 1
57 2.38% 43 3.70% 67 1.99% 36 2.38% 43
k3s Kubedee K8splus Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform Kubesphere
2.33% 5 0.93% 2 0.93% 2 0.47% 1 1.40% 3
8.37% 35 3.35% 14 1.20% 5 2.15% 9 1.91% 8
6.47% 13 3.98% 8 3.48% 7 6.47% 13 3.48% 7
14.59% 76 0.19% 1 0.77% 4 1.54% 8 1.15% 6
4.98% 20 1.74% 7 1.99% 8 3.48% 14 2.49% 10
9.62% 5 5.77% 3 0.00% 0 5.77% 3 3.85% 2
8.51% 154 1.93% 35 1.44% 26 2.65% 48 1.99% 36
Kubic Kublr Lokomotive Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine (MKE) MetalK8s
0.47% 1 0.93% 2 1.86% 4 0.93% 2 2.33%
2.15% 9 1.91% 8 0.96% 4 1.20% 5 0.72%
6.47% 13 6.47% 13 5.47% 11 7.96% 16 4.98%
1.54% 8 0.96% 5 1.34% 7 1.54% 8 0.77%
2.24% 9 1.49% 6 2.74% 11 1.99% 8 1.74%
1.92% 1 3.85% 2 5.77% 3 0.00% 0 3.85%
2.27% 41 1.99% 36 2.21% 40 2.16% 39 1.71%
MetalK8s MiaoYun MicroK8s Mirantis Docker Enterprise Netease Qingzhou MicroserviceNokia Container Services
5 1.86% 4 0.00% 0 2.33% 5 0.47% 1 0.47%
3 0.72% 3 3.83% 16 2.63% 11 1.67% 7 3.35%
10 4.48% 9 4.48% 9 5.47% 11 6.97% 14 7.96%
4 1.15% 6 4.80% 25 2.11% 11 0.77% 4 1.34%
7 1.24% 5 2.99% 12 2.49% 10 1.00% 4 1.99%
2 7.69% 4 5.77% 3 7.69% 4 0.00% 0 3.85%
31 1.71% 31 3.59% 65 2.87% 52 1.66% 30 2.65%
okia Container Services OpenNESS OpenNESS (IDO) Oracle Linux Cloud Native EnvironmentPlatform9 Managed Kubernetes
1 0.93% 2 0.00% 0 0.47% 1 2.79% 6
14 1.91% 8 1.44% 6 2.63% 11 1.67% 7
16 6.47% 13 4.98% 10 4.48% 9 6.47% 13
7 0.77% 4 0.77% 4 1.34% 7 0.19% 1
8 3.73% 15 1.99% 8 2.24% 9 1.49% 6
2 1.92% 1 3.85% 2 3.85% 2 3.85% 2
48 2.38% 43 1.66% 30 2.16% 39 1.93% 35
Rancher Kubernetes Red Hat OpenShift RKE Government Robin CNP Roost Desktop
1.86% 4 2.79% 6 2.33% 5 0.93% 2 3.26% 7
9.09% 38 16.03% 67 0.96% 4 1.44% 6 0.72% 3
4.98% 10 9.45% 19 6.47% 13 5.47% 11 5.97% 12
16.31% 85 18.43% 96 1.34% 7 0.96% 5 0.38% 2
7.96% 32 8.71% 35 1.74% 7 1.24% 5 0.50% 2
11.54% 6 13.46% 7 5.77% 3 0.00% 0 3.85% 2
9.67% 175 12.71% 230 2.16% 39 1.60% 29 1.55% 28
Spectro Cloud Teamsun TCMS TenxCloud Container Enterprise Typhoon VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
0.47% 1 0.47% 1 0.47% 1 1.40% 3 2.33%
0.72% 3 0.72% 3 0.72% 3 1.20% 5 7.18%
6.97% 14 6.97% 14 7.46% 15 4.48% 9 5.97%
1.15% 6 0.58% 3 0.77% 4 0.77% 4 3.84%
3.23% 13 1.00% 4 2.74% 11 1.24% 5 4.73%
7.69% 4 3.85% 2 5.77% 3 3.85% 2 3.85%
2.27% 41 1.49% 27 2.05% 37 1.55% 28 4.86%
are Tanzu Kubernetes GridVMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition Volcano Engine CompassWeave Kubernetes Platform Weaveworks wksctl
5 1.86% 4 0.93% 2 2.79% 6 1.86%
30 6.46% 27 0.96% 4 2.39% 10 2.15%
12 9.95% 20 5.47% 11 6.47% 13 7.96%
20 2.30% 12 1.15% 6 0.96% 5 0.38%
19 4.73% 19 1.49% 6 2.24% 9 1.49%
2 7.69% 4 5.77% 3 1.92% 1 0.00%
88 4.75% 86 1.77% 32 2.43% 44 2.05%
Weaveworks wksctl Wind River Cloud PlatformWise2C Technology WiseCloud None of these Other (please specify) Total
4 1.86% 4 0.47% 1 0.93% 2 0.00% 0 11.89%
9 0.72% 3 1.20% 5 20.81% 87 3.35% 14 23.11%
16 6.97% 14 6.97% 14 3.48% 7 0.00% 0 11.11%
2 0.58% 3 0.77% 4 26.49% 138 2.30% 12 28.80%
6 2.74% 11 1.24% 5 10.70% 43 1.74% 7 22.22%
0 1.92% 1 11.54% 6 13.46% 7 1.92% 1 2.87%
37 1.99% 36 1.93% 35 15.70% 284 1.88% 34 100.00%
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Cloud Native Survey 2021 - Part 1
Does your company/organization use any Certified Kubernetes Hosted: Please select all that apply.
AKS Engine for Azure Stack Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes
Q1: Africa 48.4% 104 42.3%
Q1: Asia 13.2% 55 7.7%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 6.5% 13 20.9%
Q1: Europe 6.5% 34 5.6%
Q1: North America 9.7% 39 15.7%
Q1: South and Central America 9.6% 5 11.5%
Total 13.8% 250 14.5%

Does your company/organization use any


Certified Kubernetes Hosted: Please select all
AKS Engine for Azure Stack Alibaba Cloud Container Service Amazon Elastic Container Azure (AKS) Engine Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Baidu Cloud Container Enginethat
Bizmiappl
cro y. BoCloud BeyondContainer
for Kubernetes Service for Kubernetes (EKS)
Catalyst Kubernetes Service Civo Kubernetes DigitalOcean Kubernetes eBaoCloud ELASTX Private Kubernetes German Edge Cloud iMKE Google Kubernetes Engine Huawei Cloud Container Engine
(GKE) (CCE)
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Inspur Cloud Container Engine Inspur ICKS Inspur Open Platform for ARM InsureMO JD Cloud JCS for Kubernetes Kingsoft Container Engine Launcher Tech LStack Container
and Inspur Open Platform Service for Kubernetes
Linaro Developer Cloud Ku- Linode Kubernetes Engine Mail.Ru Cloud Containers MetalK8s Nexastack Managed Kubernetes NIFCLOUD Hatoba Nirmata Managed Kubernetes Nutanix Karbon
bernetes Service
Oracle Container Engine OVH Managed Kubernetes Rafay Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Ridge Kubernetes Service Samsung SDS Kubernetes SAP Certified Gardener
Service Cloud Service
Scaleway Kubernetes Kapsule StarlingX Swisscom Kubernetes Service SysEleven MetaKube Tencent Kubernetes Engine UCloud Kubernetes Service Ventus Cloud Kubernetes VEXXHOST Kubernetes Con-
(TKE) (UK8S) Service tainer Service
WoCloud Container Platform ZTE TECS OpenPalette None of these Other (please specify)
Q1: Asia
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 25 2021 0NA
2 Jun 16 2021 0GKE, EKS
3 May 07 2021 Pivoting
4 May 04 2021 Don't know
5 May 04 2021 NA
6 May 04 2021 Not sure
7 May 02 2021 Don't know

Q1: Australia and Oceania


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 20 2021 OpenShift on AWS (ROSA)
2 May 07 2021 AWS managed OpenShift (ROSA)

Q1: Europe
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 10 2021 T-Systems
2 May 07 2021 Don't know
3 May 05 2021 Dont Know
4 May 04 2021 OTC (Open Telecom Cloud - Cloud Container Engine)
5 May 04 2021 No idea since we dont actively run prod on kubernetes yet
6 May 03 2021 I don't know
7 May 03 2021 N/A

Q1: North America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 May 20 2021 NA
2 May 06 2021 Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA)
 Please select all that apply.
Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) Azure (AKS) Engine
91 44.2% 95 11.6% 25
32 40.4% 169 19.4% 81
42 36.3% 73 21.9% 44
29 37.4% 195 15.2% 79
63 37.8% 152 18.9% 76
6 36.5% 19 21.2% 11
263 38.9% 703 17.5% 316
ontainer Engine)
od on kubernetes yet
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Baidu Cloud Container Engine Bizmicro BoCloud BeyondContainer Catalyst Kubernetes Service
14.9% 32 6.98% 15 9.77% 21 7.44% 16 8.37%
24.2% 101 5.50% 23 5.02% 21 3.59% 15 4.07%
23.4% 47 22.39% 45 23.38% 47 19.90% 40 13.93%
26.1% 136 4.22% 22 4.22% 22 4.22% 22 2.69%
24.6% 99 16.17% 65 10.95% 44 10.95% 44 9.45%
15.4% 8 5.77% 3 11.54% 6 3.85% 2 1.92%
23.4% 423 9.56% 173 8.90% 161 7.68% 139 6.41%
talyst Kubernetes Service Civo Kubernetes DigitalOcean Kubernetes eBaoCloud ELASTX Private KubernetesGerman Edge Cloud iMKE
18 6.05% 13 6.51% 14 3.26% 7 3.72% 8 4.19%
17 5.50% 23 6.22% 26 2.39% 10 3.35% 14 3.11%
28 16.92% 34 12.94% 26 15.92% 32 11.94% 24 16.42%
14 3.07% 16 4.03% 21 0.96% 5 2.69% 14 1.34%
38 8.96% 36 7.46% 30 6.47% 26 5.72% 23 3.98%
1 7.69% 4 9.62% 5 0.00% 0 7.69% 4 5.77%
116 6.97% 126 6.74% 122 4.42% 80 4.81% 87 4.48%
erman Edge Cloud iMKEGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE)Huawei Cloud Container Engine (CCE)IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
9 4.65% 10 2.79% 6 2.79% 6
13 16.75% 70 3.11% 13 5.74% 24
33 15.92% 32 13.43% 27 11.94% 24
7 21.88% 114 2.50% 13 2.88% 15
16 15.67% 63 4.23% 17 5.47% 22
3 28.85% 15 3.85% 2 3.85% 2
81 16.80% 304 4.31% 78 5.14% 93
Inspur Cloud Container Engine and Inspur Open Platform Inspur ICKS Inspur Open Platform for ARM InsureMO
1.86% 4 3.26% 7 0.47% 1 3.72%
3.11% 13 1.67% 7 1.67% 7 2.15%
10.45% 21 11.94% 24 8.96% 18 8.96%
1.92% 10 0.38% 2 1.92% 10 1.34%
4.48% 18 3.98% 16 2.49% 10 2.49%
1.92% 1 0.00% 0 9.62% 5 1.92%
3.70% 67 3.10% 56 2.82% 51 2.93%
InsureMO JD Cloud JCS for Kubernetes Kingsoft Container Engine Launcher Tech LStack Container Service for Kubernetes
8 1.40% 3 1.86% 4 2.33% 5
9 2.39% 10 1.20% 5 2.39% 10
18 9.45% 19 6.47% 13 12.94% 26
7 1.54% 8 1.34% 7 1.34% 7
10 1.99% 8 2.99% 12 1.49% 6
1 1.92% 1 13.46% 7 5.77% 3
53 2.71% 49 2.65% 48 3.15% 57
Linaro Developer Cloud Kubernetes ServiceLinode Kubernetes EngineMail.Ru Cloud Containers MetalK8s Nexastack Managed Kuberne
2.33% 5 1.40% 3 1.40% 3 0.47% 1 1.40%
0.96% 4 1.91% 8 2.63% 11 1.20% 5 1.44%
11.44% 23 4.98% 10 8.46% 17 7.46% 15 8.46%
1.34% 7 0.58% 3 1.34% 7 0.96% 5 1.34%
3.48% 14 4.23% 17 2.24% 9 1.74% 7 1.74%
1.92% 1 7.69% 4 1.92% 1 1.92% 1 0.00%
2.99% 54 2.49% 45 2.65% 48 1.88% 34 2.21%
stack Managed Kubernetes NIFCLOUD Hatoba Nirmata Managed Kubernetes Nutanix Karbon Oracle Container EngineOVH Managed Kubernetes Se
3 0.47% 1 1.40% 3 0.93% 2 1.86% 4 0.47%
6 1.20% 5 1.67% 7 1.67% 7 4.31% 18 1.67%
17 6.97% 14 6.97% 14 6.97% 14 5.97% 12 7.46%
7 1.54% 8 0.96% 5 0.77% 4 2.11% 11 1.15%
7 2.24% 9 2.24% 9 1.99% 8 3.48% 14 1.74%
0 3.85% 2 1.92% 1 7.69% 4 3.85% 2 5.77%
40 2.16% 39 2.16% 39 2.16% 39 3.37% 61 2.16%
Managed Kubernetes Service Rafay Red Hat OpenShift DedicatedRed Hat OpenShift on IBM CloudRidge Kubernetes Service
1 0.93% 2 0.47% 1 1.86% 4 0.93% 2
7 1.20% 5 9.81% 41 5.74% 24 1.20% 5
15 4.98% 10 5.47% 11 7.46% 15 5.97% 12
6 0.77% 4 4.61% 24 3.07% 16 0.77% 4
7 1.49% 6 3.73% 15 4.23% 17 1.49% 6
3 5.77% 3 9.62% 5 9.62% 5 1.92% 1
39 1.66% 30 5.36% 97 4.48% 81 1.66% 30
Samsung SDS Kubernetes ServiceSAP Certified Gardener Scaleway Kubernetes Kapsule StarlingX Swisscom Kubernetes Service
0.93% 2 0.47% 1 0.93% 2 1.40% 3 1.86%
0.48% 2 2.39% 10 0.96% 4 1.20% 5 1.67%
10.45% 21 7.46% 15 5.47% 11 7.96% 16 3.48%
1.15% 6 1.92% 10 1.54% 8 0.77% 4 1.15%
2.74% 11 1.24% 5 1.49% 6 1.49% 6 2.24%
3.85% 2 1.92% 1 1.92% 1 5.77% 3 1.92%
2.43% 44 2.32% 42 1.77% 32 2.05% 37 1.88%
sscom Kubernetes Service SysEleven MetaKube Tencent Kubernetes Engine (TKE)UCloud Kubernetes Service (UK8S)Ventus Cloud Kubernetes Service
4 0.47% 1 1.40% 3 2.33% 5 2.79%
7 1.20% 5 1.67% 7 1.20% 5 0.24%
7 6.47% 13 3.98% 8 6.97% 14 9.45%
6 0.58% 3 0.38% 2 0.38% 2 1.34%
9 1.74% 7 1.99% 8 1.49% 6 1.74%
1 5.77% 3 5.77% 3 3.85% 2 0.00%
34 1.77% 32 1.71% 31 1.88% 34 2.21%
us Cloud Kubernetes Service
VEXXHOST Kubernetes Container Service
WoCloud Container Platform ZTE TECS OpenPalette None of these
6 1.40% 3 0.93% 2 1.86% 4 1.40% 3
1 0.72% 3 1.44% 6 0.72% 3 13.88% 58
19 8.46% 17 8.96% 18 5.97% 12 1.49% 3
7 1.15% 6 2.30% 12 0.77% 4 22.46% 117
7 1.49% 6 2.74% 11 0.75% 3 7.96% 32
0 7.69% 4 1.92% 1 1.92% 1 15.38% 8
40 2.16% 39 2.76% 50 1.49% 27 12.22% 221
Other (please specify) Total
0.00% 0 11.89% 215
1.67% 7 23.11% 418
1.00% 2 11.11% 201
1.34% 7 28.80% 521
0.50% 2 22.22% 402
0.00% 0 2.87% 52
1.00% 18 100.00% 1809
Answered 1809
Skipped 493
Cloud Native Survey 2021 - Part 1
Does your company/organization use any Certified Kubernetes Installers: Please select all that apply.
CableLabs SNAPS-Kubernetes Cybozu Kubernetes Engine Gardener Google Kube-Up
Q1: Africa 46.51% 100 45.12% 97 31.16% 67 16.28%
Q1: Asia 8.37% 35 6.94% 29 7.66% 32 11.72%
Q1: Australia and Oceania 7.96% 16 16.92% 34 24.88% 50 22.89%
Q1: Europe 1.15% 6 4.03% 21 9.98% 52 5.76%
Q1: North America 8.71% 35 15.67% 63 16.67% 67 17.41%
Q1: South and Central America 1.92% 1 13.46% 7 7.69% 4 7.69%
Total 10.67% 193 13.88% 251 15.04% 272 12.94%

Does your company/organization use any


Certified Kubernetes Installers: Please select
all that apply.
CableLabs SNAPS-Kubernetes Cybozu Kubernetes Engine Gardener Google Kube-Up
Harmonycloud PaaS Container kind kops Kubeadm
Platform Install
KubeOne KubeOperator Kubernbetes - The Easier Way Kubespray
Magnum minikube OpenNebula - Kubernetes Rancher Kubernetes Engine
Appliance (RKE)
Symplegma Talos VanillaStack Wise2C Technology Breeze
None of these Other (please specify)
Q1: Asia
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 25 2021 0Not Yet
2 May 18 2021 Do not know
3 May 07 2021 Red Hat openshift installer
4 May 07 2021 bicep
5 May 07 2021 Tilt
6 May 04 2021 Not aware
7 May 04 2021 Don't know
8 May 04 2021 NA
9 May 04 2021 Not sure
10 May 03 2021 Nutanix Karbon
11 May 02 2021 Don't know

Q1: Europe
Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 05 2021 0Custom playbook
2 May 12 2021 Use CRD's
3 May 07 2021 Don't know
4 May 06 2021 In house automation tools
5 May 05 2021 Dont know
6 May 04 2021 Ansible playbook
7 May 04 2021 rke
8 May 04 2021 Terraform
9 May 03 2021 I don't know
10 May 03 2021 N/A
11 May 01 2021 terraform for deploying AKS

Q1: North America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 25 2021 0Cluster API (CAPI)
2 Jun 11 2021 0N/A Not sure
3 May 28 2021 Cluster api
4 May 26 2021 No idea
5 May 21 2021 OperatorHub.io for applications, Ansible for installing clusters.
6 May 20 2021 NA
7 May 06 2021 Red Hat OpenShift Installer
8 May 06 2021 OpenShift with Operators
9 May 03 2021 not sure
10 Apr 30 2021 0Ansible, ARM

Q1: South and Central America


Respondents Response Date Other (please specify) Tags
1 Jun 25 2021 0Terraform
2 May 01 2021 GKE
Google Kube-Up Harmonycloud PaaS Container Platform Install kind kops Kubeadm
35 16.28% 35 9.77% 21 11.63% 25 6.05% 13
49 11.24% 47 10.29% 43 10.53% 44 27.99% 117
46 37.31% 75 18.41% 37 17.91% 36 17.41% 35
30 6.14% 32 12.67% 66 10.75% 56 24.38% 127
70 16.17% 65 15.17% 61 13.93% 56 15.42% 62
4 15.38% 8 7.69% 4 11.54% 6 19.23% 10
234 14.48% 262 12.82% 232 12.33% 223 20.12% 364
KubeOne KubeOperator Kubernbetes - The Easier Way Kubespray Magnum
5.12% 11 6.98% 15 5.12% 11 3.72% 8 6.51% 14
5.98% 25 5.50% 23 11.24% 47 7.42% 31 3.35% 14
16.92% 34 17.41% 35 13.93% 28 14.43% 29 11.94% 24
3.07% 16 4.22% 22 3.07% 16 10.56% 55 2.69% 14
8.96% 36 9.95% 40 6.97% 28 9.20% 37 4.48% 18
5.77% 3 5.77% 3 7.69% 4 15.38% 8 0.00% 0
6.91% 125 7.63% 138 7.41% 134 9.29% 168 4.64% 84
minikube OpenNebula - Kubernetes ApplianceRancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) Symplegma Talos
5.58% 12 2.79% 6 5.12% 11 2.79% 6 4.65%
12.92% 54 4.55% 19 8.37% 35 1.67% 7 3.11%
13.93% 28 12.94% 26 10.45% 21 12.44% 25 11.44%
10.94% 57 1.54% 8 12.86% 67 1.73% 9 2.30%
9.70% 39 5.72% 23 8.21% 33 5.22% 21 2.99%
7.69% 4 5.77% 3 15.38% 8 5.77% 3 3.85%
10.72% 194 4.70% 85 9.67% 175 3.92% 71 3.98%
Talos VanillaStack Wise2C Technology Breeze None of these Other (please specify) Total
10 5.58% 12 1.40% 3 1.40% 3 0.00% 0 11.89%
13 3.83% 16 1.91% 8 22.49% 94 2.63% 11 23.11%
23 13.43% 27 8.96% 18 6.47% 13 0.00% 0 11.11%
12 3.07% 16 1.15% 6 32.63% 170 2.11% 11 28.80%
12 4.23% 17 4.73% 19 18.41% 74 2.49% 10 22.22%
2 7.69% 4 3.85% 2 28.85% 15 3.85% 2 2.87%
72 5.09% 92 3.10% 56 20.40% 369 1.88% 34 100.00%
Answered
Skipped
Total
215
418
201
521
402
52
1809
1809
493

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