UPDATED 23:27 EDT / SEPTEMBER 25 2018

CLOUD

Mesosphere says Kubernetes adoption is driving hybrid cloud shift

One in four companies now relies on multiple cloud providers, up 50 percent from two years ago.

That’s according to Mesosphere Inc.‘s latest survey published Tuesday on the state of the cloud-native and Kubernetes ecosystems.

The company, which sells a data center operating system based on Apache Mesos, said this shift to the cloud is reflected in enterprises’ growing embrace of application container technology, which is used to build apps once that run anywhere, and microservices, which are the components of containerized apps. Companies are increasingly running containers and microservices alongside so-called “monolithic” apps that include analytics workloads and data services, the survey found.

Mesosphere said Microsoft Azure was benefiting most of all from this shift, registering 85 percent growth in the last year as its customers look to take advantage of hybrid cloud benefits. About a quarter of all Mesosphere users are now using Azure, up from 13 percent two years ago. Google LLC’s cloud has also done well, posting 40 percent growth in the last year.

Mesosphere’s survey also confirmed the growing trend toward using containers in production on its platform. It says production workloads have grown 12 percent in the last year to 84 percent of all workloads running on its DC/OS platform. That growth was primarily driven by brisk adoption of microservices.

The company also said Kubernetes is seeing rapid adoption on its platform, driven by a desire to automate daily operations, perform upgrades more easily and colocate data with other services and analytics workloads that need access to it.

“This is especially critical for companies who need to operate multiple Kubernetes clusters,” the company said in a blog post, noting that Kubernetes allows for fine-grained resource sharing between the cluster orchestrator and data services.

Kubernetes is one of the main reasons for the accelerating shift to hybrid cloud infrastructures, which is being led by the e-commerce and retail sectors, Mesosphere said.

Mesosphere’s survey also highlighted the continuing popularity of big data services such as Apache Cassandra, Kafka and Spark, as well as the Google-built machine learning framework TensorFlow. Some 68 percent of survey respondents are now running at least one of these services.

But despite the rapid growth in hybrid cloud in general, some industries are shying away from it because of new data privacy regulations. For example, the survey found that companies in the advertising and marketing sectors are backing away from cloud-only deployments in response to the European Union’s recently introduced General Data Protection Regulation.

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