Thanks to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) making its survey data available, we are following-up on several lines of inquiry from a recent article about cloud native tech adoption. Here are a few quick takeaways.
First off:
- Envoy and Istio are deployed together. Although Envoy is far behind the leader for Kubernetes ingress (19% vs. 62% for NGINX), that changes among the 18% of the study that uses Istio in production as a service mesh. Among this group, almost half (47%) use Envoy for Kubernetes ingress. Looked at another way, 39% of those using Envoy for Kubernetes ingress also have production deployment of Istio.
- Knative’s popularity hurts installable software alternatives for serverless. Newly added to the survey, Knative is adopted by 17% of respondents that use a hosted platform or installable software for serverless. Kubeless, Apache OpenWhisk, Oracle’s Fn, and Fission all saw sharp drop-offs in adoption and community activity. Among the installable software players, only OpenFaaS maintained its popularity.
The complete article can be found here.
