2018

Cloud Native Ecosystem Survey

Each year we survey Mesosphere users to get insight into statistics and key industry
trends. To find out what is hot and what is not in the Cloud Native Ecosystem, this
year, we asked questions around cloud, Kubernetes, data services, infrastructure,
and more. Read on to find out what we learned.

50%
INCREASE
Trends in Hybrid, On-Prem, 50%
40%
and Cloud Deployment 30%
20%
10%
0%
More users are moving to large
scale production environments:
50% increase in users who are moving
to large scale environments of more
than 1,000 nodes.

33%
INCREASE
Hybrid is gaining traction
Hybrid deployment has grown by
33% since 2016, surpassing cloud-
only deployments.

2016 2018

Where do you deploy Mesosphere? 2016 2018

50%

40%
43%
38%
30% 34%
32%
30%
20% 24%

10%

On-Prem Only Hybrid Cloud Only

Multi-Cloud adoption has

experienced huge growth
1 in every 4 organizations surveyed Since 2016 multi-cloud deployments
now have more than 1 cloud provider. have experienced a 2x growth.
Compared to 2 years ago when 1 in
every 8 had more than 1 cloud provider.

2x
GROWTH

2016 2018

85%
GROWTH

Microsoft Azure is the fastest

40%
GROWTH
growing cloud provider
Microsoft Azure has grown 85% since
2016—the highest of any cloud providers.
Google follows with a 40% growth and
AWS remains flat.

Microsoft Azure Google

2016-2018

Many industries are heading

towards a hybrid-cloud world
Cloud On Prem Hybrid

Retail, E-commerce
18% 18% 64%
Advertising, Marketing, PR
21% 37% 42%
Consulting (IT)
40% 20% 40%
Software (SaaS, Web, Mobile)
44% 22% 33%
Telecommunications
36% 30% 33%
Banking/Finance
29% 38% 33%

Health, Medical, Pharmacy, Biotech

71% 29%

Computer, Hardware
46% 31% 23%

Education
64% 14% 21%
Other
67% 11% 22%

Popular Workloads and

the Growth of Kubernetes
Containers–microservice
architecture 84%
Containers and microservices Monolithic and Legacy Apps 48%

are the most popular workload Data services 45%

Containers and microservices are the Analytics, AI/ML 43%

most popular workload, followed by Jobs/Batch 40%
legacy apps, data services, and analytics.
CI/CD 18%

Kubernetes is the most popular

ecosystem workload
The average user runs three or more services.
The fastest growing and most popular service
run by users is Kubernetes.

3.42

3.11 2016 2018

2.66
2.52
2.40

Users run Kubernetes on Mesosphere

to simplify automation and management
What would attract you to run
Kubernetes on Mesosphere?
1.00 1.07 1.05
Simplify Deployment 97%
0.78
0.68 Ease of Upgrade, Scale Out, Admin 88%
0.48
Kubernetes with Data Services 68%
0.25
0.12
Kubernetes Kafka Jenkins Spark Cassandra Elastic Flink Multiple Kubernetes Clusters 56%

Learn how the industry is leveraging container orchestrators,

hybrid and multi-cloud, data services and more.

Download the Report

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