Results from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) latest survey, conducting in September/October 2019, are worthy of further discussion. Hopefully, our experience digging into previous editions of the study provides a perspective you won’t find anywhere else. The 1,337 respondents from the CNCF community are by their very nature more likely than other IT professionals to have advanced cloud native practices.
Here are few quick takes and their implications
- Despite Increased Container Use, Almost No Increase in Machines Managed
- Container adoption appears to have mitigated the growth of VMs that need to be managed. However, be wary of claims that the raw number of machines being managed will decline.
- Adoption of Serverless Platforms Jumps
- Initially companies evaluated multiple FaaS offerings at the same time. Opportunities to increase the breadth of serverless adoption in multicloud environments may be limited to unique use cases and non-compute related services.
- Wide Consideration of Service Mesh Components
- Many Consul users were likely using it for service discovery even before they had heard of the service mesh term. HashiCorp’s marketing and product development efforts appear to be capitalizing as they pitch it as a multicloud, service-mesh technology. The study’s raw data probably provides rare insights into how and when Istio, Envoy and other tools are being used in the same stack. The New Stack readers should stay tuned for more analysis when that happens.
- Finding About Release Cycle Acceleration Is Open to Interpretation
- Developer and deployment velocity is hard to measure. The latest CNCF report does a better job at capturing the nuance that software releases can often be done on an ad hoc basis. Many CI/CD systems are not 100% automated, so there should not be a binary automated versus not automated category.
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