Sixty-five percent of OpenStack® deployments are now in production, 33 percent more than a year ago. And 97 percent of community members said that “standardising on the same open platform and APIs that power a global network of public and private clouds” was one of their top five considerations in choosing OpenStack.
These and other findings are part of the seventh survey of OpenStack users and community members, conducted by the OpenStack Foundation. Survey responses were gathered from more than 1,600 users representing 1,111 organisations over a three-week period. The results provide insights into the community’s technology choices and future requirements.
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The full User Survey report is available here.***
Survey responses demonstrate how OpenStack’s mature and highly flexible platform has become an innovation engine for companies in diverse industries, enabling users to operate both legacy systems and cloud-native apps through a single framework, a benefit that is increasingly important, especially to enterprise users. OpenStack is unique in its ability to support organisations managing legacy IT workloads while also adopting agile IT systems to drive competitive advantage through rapid iteration of software development.
“Being a flexible framework to build on is the most important aspect of the OpenStack platform,” said one user from a global financial institution. “Also, being able to support both traditional and cloud-native workloads is very important because large enterprises don't have the luxury of dropping their legacy applications and forklifting them into the microservices-type designs from day one. The benefits of the cloud are too great to only allow new workloads onto the platform.”
OpenStack has experienced accelerated adoption in the past year with more diverse and larger deployments, particularly as organisations have recognised the flexibility and agility that OpenStack offers.
Other Key Findings:
? Users are aligning around OpenStack as it becomes the de facto open source enterprise Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) API.
? Container technology continues to be a major interest for the OpenStack community, earning the most interest among emerging technologies, with 70 percent of respondents reporting interest in containers as a part of their OpenStack projects.
? Though there were few shakeups in deployment decisions, the use of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and container orchestration tools saw significant changes among the leading technology choices, with Kubernetes leading.
? Deployments are rapidly adopting the two most recent releases of OpenStack at the time of the survey, Kilo and Liberty.
? Organisations of all sizes use OpenStack. Forty three percent of respondents reported working in organisations of fewer than 1,000 people.
