State of Kubernetes 2023 by VMware
This survey included 752 qualified software development and IT professionals in charge of Kubernetes at companies with 1,000 or more employees, covering various roles, industries, regions, and job levels.
Deploying architectures in multiple public cloud vendors or a mix of public and private clouds has become the dominant strategy. More than three-quarters of those surveyed (76%) already use multiple clouds.
The tendency is also to deploy Kubernetes environments in a multi-cloud strategy. More than half (53%) plan to add or increase capacity across multiple cloud vendors compared to (37%) expanding on-premises and (36%) expanding in a single public cloud.
According to the report, this multi-cloud strategy is driven by these main motivations: (53%) reduce vendor dependency; (45%) manage costs; (42%) expand DR and backup capabilities.
When we look at the Kubernetes offerings in use, the results support the numbers regarding the shift to a multi-cloud strategy. While the offerings from Amazon and Microsoft remain widely used, they are no longer gaining ground.
On the other side, popular Kubernetes distributions, capable of running in public clouds, on-premises, and at the edge, are seeing increased usage.
It includes, in order of adoption magnitude: Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu, and Rancher.
The survey also showed that, when choosing a Kubernetes distribution, stakeholders also prioritize ease of use solutions, qualified support and services provided by the vendor, vendor maturity/reputation, and avoiding vendor/cloud lock-in.
I believe these results also align with the company’s tendency to move away from DIY Kubernetes. Companies prefer to let vendors handle assembling and keeping their Kubernetes environments support.
I believe that the Kubernetes market has a lot to evolve. Perhaps, soon, Kubernetes will be just another abstraction within the stack of application development tools.
With the advent of AI, which is already being incorporated into software development processes, many of the integration and operational difficulties that exist today in the K8s will have to be overcome in a user-friendly way.
We are already witnessing the incorporation of AI into solutions aimed at infrastructure automation, such as the Wisdom project, which infuses AI models into Ansible to make playbook development more user-friendly.
It remains for us to follow all these developments!
I hope this post was helpful!
References:
https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/ebooks/stateofkubernetes-2023
https://thenewstack.io/survey-shows-companies-moving-away-from-diy-kubernetes/
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/managed-kubernetes
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/
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