Emerging multi-cluster, cloudy deploy become the preferred business strategy, and edge deployment is on the rise
November 5, 2019, the industry's most widely used Kubernetes management platform creator Rancher Labs (hereinafter referred to as Rancher) released its first research report, the research reports collected 1106 technology users from large or small business advice, these users are from the technology, financial services, telecommunications, education, government and healthcare sectors 25, mainly from the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and North America are two regions.
"You can clearly see from the survey results, the container has become a key support modern IT strategy, 85% of respondents have used containers in a production environment." Rancher's chief marketing officer Peter Smails, said: "In addition, there are 91% of respondents are running multiple clusters, combining local and cloud-based deployment to deploy a good combination. all the signs are in the show, multi-cluster, cloudy corporate strategy is becoming the preferred deployment strategy. "
Research Report Highlight
Research results revealed that the container and Kubernetes being quickly adopted enterprise. The main findings are as follows:
85% of respondents in a production environment using a container
Kubernetes management has become a standard container, 90% of respondents by a container arrangement Kubernetes
Architects, developers and DevOps is to promote the main driving force enterprises to adopt (69%), followed by IT operations (30%)
Multiple cluster environment is becoming the norm. 91% of respondents running multiple clusters, respondents were not currently deployed in more than 46% of the cluster has been scheduled to run in multiple clusters within six months
Today, container is the most common use case design micro-services (71%), building customer-facing applications (70%) and modernization of legacy applications (53%)
Hybrid cloud deployment is extremely common, 71% of respondents run local workloads, 67% of respondents cloud-based applications running
Edges are becoming important use cases, 15 percent for the deployment of the edge of the container workload
Many challenges
And all the rapid rise of technologies, research report, challenges remain, including:
Complexity remains the key hinder container and Kubernetes marketing. In the current business did not use containers, 62% of companies said slowly enterprises to adopt container technology process precisely because of the complexity of the container and Kubernetes
Windows uses the container is limited. This is within our expectations, after all until the beginning of this year, K8S was officially container provides support for Windows
Due to the complexity and risk visualization, users of persistent storage to maintain prudent and vigilant attitude
Grid Service (Service Mesh) is a recent buzzword, but is also considered to be due to the "complexity" and limits its been more widely adopted
Rancher Solutions
For many business challenges facing the floor of the container and Kubernetes, Rancher providing policies to deal with the following:
Rancher implementation of a unified security policy, and has a simple and intuitive interface style and operation experience, the user through the UI operation to complete the deployment and management of multiple Kubernetes clusters, greatly improved the ease of use of native Kubernetes poor and steep learning curve issues
Rancher 2.3 for Windows has the container provides support for GA production in line with environmental requirements, the industry's first
Rancher's another open source project Longhorn (now donated to CNCF) provides a simple, lightweight, perfect for persistent storage solution of the container and Kubernetes
Rancher 2.3 officially integrated Istio, greatly simplifying installation and configuration Istio
Research embodiments Rancher Labs introduced
Rancher Labs created by the parent CloudStack Leung wins. Rancher's flagship product is an open source, enterprise-class Kubernetes management platform to achieve Kubernetes cluster in hybrid cloud + centralized deployment and management of local data centers. Rancher has been due to the intuitive operation experience, minimalist user has favored, was named the 2018 global container management platform leader in Forrester, Gartner 2017 Worldwide was named coolest cloud infrastructure providers.
Currently Rancher has more than one hundred million downloads worldwide, and has included China Life Insurance, Huawei, Ping An of China, Industrial Bank, Minsheng Bank, Ping An Securities, Hainan Airlines and Technology, Xiamen Airlines, SAIC, Haier, Michelin, Toyota, Honda, in China Shipbuilding heavy Industries, Zoomlion, Disney, IBM, Cisco, Nvidia, Pfizer, Siemens, CCTV, China Unicom and other world-renowned companies, including a total of 25,000 business customers.