{"id":269910,"date":"2024-01-08T11:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T16:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webscale.com\/blog\/edge-developers-leading-the-way-on-kubernetes-adoption-but-complex-infrastructure-still-a-challenge-for-many-2\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T13:28:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T18:28:33","slug":"edge-developers-leading-the-way-on-kubernetes-adoption-but-complex-infrastructure-still-a-challenge-for-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webscale.com\/blog\/edge-developers-leading-the-way-on-kubernetes-adoption-but-complex-infrastructure-still-a-challenge-for-many\/","title":{"rendered":"Edge Developers Leading the Way on Kubernetes Adoption, But Complex Infrastructure Still a Challenge for Many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A survey released by SlashData\u2122 for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) recently looked at \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cncf.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Q1-2021-State-of-Cloud-Native-development-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The State of Cloud Native Development<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d based on feedback from more than 19,000 developers. The report found that there are now nearly 7 million cloud native developers around the world, with larger enterprises and more experienced developers in North America and Western Europe driving the rapid adoption of these technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-269908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webscale.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kubernetes-usage-backend-developers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1026\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webscale.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kubernetes-usage-backend-developers.png 1026w, https:\/\/www.webscale.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kubernetes-usage-backend-developers-980x553.png 980w, https:\/\/www.webscale.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kubernetes-usage-backend-developers-480x271.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1026px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CNCF\u2019s first project, Kubernetes, is now the most widely used container orchestration platform, and the study reports that nearly one-third of all backend developers (31%) are using Kubernetes. In a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toolbox.com\/tech\/edge-computing\/guest-article\/future-of-edge-trends-to-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recent Toolbox article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Section\u2019s previous Vice President of Product, Walt Noffsinger, noted that Kubernetes is playing an increasingly critical role in edge computing. In looking ahead to 2022, Walt anticipates the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hosting and edge platforms built to support Kubernetes will have a competitive advantage in being able to flexibly support modern DevOps teams\u2019 requirements. Edge platform providers who can ease integration with Kubernetes-aware environments will attract attention from the growing cloud-native community.\u2013 Walt Noffsinger, VP of Product, Section<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We expect 2022 will be another big year for the edge, and the findings of this latest survey indicate the trend is accelerating. According to the data, adoption of Kubernetes among edge developers has increased by 11% in the past 12 months, which is nearly three times the growth rate among backend developers overall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The report\u2019s findings highlight several other interesting edge computing developments from those participating in the most recent survey. For instance:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Edge application developers have the <\/span><b>highest usage and awareness of containers (76%) and Kubernetes (63%)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when compared with developers in other areas of focus, such as quantum computing, 5G, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, computer vision, robotics, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While container usage among edge developers is basically unchanged over the past year, <\/span><b>Kubernetes usage has increased by 10 percentage points<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to 63%.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While nearly half of all edge developers (48%) use <\/span><b>serverless architecture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> compared with just one-third of all backend developers, it\u2019s seen <\/span><b>a recent drop in usage since peaking at 56%<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Edge developers show a <\/span><b>strong preference for private clouds (64%), public clouds (63%) and on-premise servers (59%)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, compared with multi-cloud (44%) and hybrid cloud (42%) environments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-269909\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webscale.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kubernetes-usage-edge-developers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1026\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webscale.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kubernetes-usage-edge-developers.png 1026w, https:\/\/www.webscale.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kubernetes-usage-edge-developers-980x555.png 980w, https:\/\/www.webscale.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/kubernetes-usage-edge-developers-480x272.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1026px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><b>Complex Cloud Infrastructure Still a Hurdle<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a whole, the report points to the fact that edge application developers \u201cgravitate towards a more secure and less complex infrastructure.\u201d This is not surprising, especially when it comes to the challenges associated with running a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud IT infrastructure. While a multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud approach offers a tremendous amount of flexibility, it\u2019s extremely difficult to orchestrate workloads across hundreds or even thousands of endpoints. We <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webscale.com\/blog\/whats-the-difference-between-multi-cloud-multi-location-cloud-and-supercloud\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">discussed several of these challenges in a blog post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on \u201cThe Move Towards a Multi-Cloud and Hybrid IT Infrastructure\u201d last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Walt noted in his predictions for edge computing in 2022, \u201cas [Kubernetes and containerized applications] usage increases, so too will organizational expectations. Companies will demand more from edge platform providers in terms of support to help ease deployment and ongoing operations.\u201d These edge platform offerings must make the experience of programming at the edge as familiar as possible to developers, while also being flexible enough to adapt to different architectures, frameworks and programming languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Webscale\u2019s EaaS: An Easy Button to Solve for These Challenges<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CloudFlow\u2019s Edge as a Service (EaaS) can solve for these challenges among teams that don\u2019t have the resources or expertise to build and manage such complex systems. What\u2019s more, CloudFlow\u2019s EaaS platform helps organizations overcome security concerns by extending the network layer protections offered by industry-leading public cloud providers while also offering a wide array of additional security solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"complex-cloud-infrastructure-still-a-hurdle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webscale.com\/request-a-demo\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get in touch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> if you\u2019d like to learn more about how CloudFlow can give your customers all the benefits of a distributed deployment model without the headache of building and managing multi-cloud and hybrid systems.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey released by SlashData\u2122 for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) recently looked at \u201cThe State of Cloud Native Development\u201d based on feedback from more than 19,000 developers. 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