CNCF, SlashData’s survey reveals edge developers’ cloud and infrastructure choices
SlashData’s “State of Cloud-Native Development Report”, sponsored by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), annually surveys tens of thousands of developers, and while it mainly tracks Kubernetes adoption and usage, it also contains some interesting insights when it comes to the preferences of edge developers. The survey recently published for 2022 contains some key insights for developers, namely, that cloud-native developers are likely engaged with edge computing technologies as well.
According to the survey, developers working on edge computing have the highest usage for both containers and Kubernetes. “Containers have been used here in the last 12 months by 76% and Kubernetes by 63% of developers currently working on edge computing applications,” the report said.
While usage and awareness of edge computing is by far the most popular use case for Kubernetes developers, quantum computing comes in second place but likely with an emphasis on awareness more than actual usage. Serverless is also more used at the edge than elsewhere, with nearly half of edge developers using serverless technologies versus a third of all backend developers surveyed.
There is a contrast when it comes to cloud usage at the edge. While the average backend developers who use containers seem less concerned with the choice of the infrastructure that hosts their code, edge developers show a clear preference for private clouds over public clouds (64% versus 63% in the previous survey). The same is the case when it comes to on-premises servers, which are preferred over multi-clouds (59% vs 44%) and hybrid clouds (42%).
Percentage of backend developers who have been involved in the area in the last 12 months
Source: “The State of Cloud Native Development Q1 2021,” CNCF
Most interestingly, developers seem to be moving away from several modish deployment options. Multi-cloud, an option frequently touted by vendors, is seeing usage decline, dropping from 49% to 44%. Serverless also showed a decline in usage.
“The figures suggest that developers working on edge applications relying on Kubernetes gravitate towards a more secure and less complex infrastructure. Vast volumes of sensitive data are handled over much larger distances and achieving reliable and secure connectivity between providers comes with major challenges, while varying functionality and user experience of each cloud platform pose roadblocks on their own,” according to the report.
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cloud native | CNCF | DevOps | edge applications | Kubernetes | open source | SlashData
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