Last year, Red Hat surveyed their customer base on use of OpenStack. They found that interest in the survey was high, yet, most of the respondents were still learning about OpenStack clouds, or developing proof-of-concepts. This year’s survey, conducted in September 2016, reported that 43 percent of the global respondents stated that they are now using OpenStack in production– that’s up from 16 percent a year ago. Red Hat’s 2016 OpenStack enterprise adoption survey polled more than 150 IT decision makers and professionals from around the world, through the reputable, TechValidate.
The report indicated that:
- OpenStack is critical infrastructure for application development, especially with containers
- Built-in management tools aren’t doing the job by themselves
- Customers want workload portability across OpenStack and other infrastructures
- Organizations are looking for strong technical support
“Not only have production deployments increased, but the use cases are growing as well. The bulk of respondents (66 percent) are now using, or planning to use, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) with their OpenStack deployments. This is a jump over last year’s survey, when just 54 percent of respondents were considering PaaS and OpenStack together, and shows the combined growth in interest of these complementary technologies,” Explained Red Hat about the survey.
The growth of Linux containers, particularly among developers was also a focus of the survey. OpenStack is a prime deployment environment among respondents for the use of container services. Only 4 percent of respondents are not considering containers on OpenStack, while fifty-seven (57) percent of respondents said that they are already using or plan to use containers on OpenStack, with the remainder undecided.
The use of OpenStack’s built-in management tools remains roughly the same as last year (54 percent in 2016 vs. 51 percent in 2015), additional management and monitoring technologies are now being added to the mix, like:
- Open source configuration management (used by 41 percent of respondents)
- Cloud management platforms (used by 39 percent of respondents)
- Monitoring and alerting tools (used by 47 percent of respondents)
View the full report at Red Hat’s website.
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