Capturing
44 percent more deployments and gaining input from 22 percent more
organizations than one year ago, the OpenStack Foundation User Survey,
published today, reveals growing adoption, increased scale and a more
diverse user base, driven by the desire to accelerate innovation and
avoid vendor lock-in.
OpenStack's
ninth User Survey demonstrates the open infrastructure platform used
for private clouds, public clouds and telecom networks has broad appeal
for organizations of all sizes around the world. Thirty-two percent of
users have 10,000 employees or more, while 25 percent of organizations
have fewer than 100 employees. Sixty-one percent of these users and 74
percent of deployments are physically located outside of the United
States.
The
growing adoption of OpenStack also applies to the amount of an
organization's overall infrastructure running on OpenStack. The typical
(median) OpenStack user runs 61 percent to 80 percent of their
infrastructure on OpenStack; among larger clouds of 1,000 cores or more,
the median user runs 81 to 100 percent of their overall infrastructure
on OpenStack.
Key findings among OpenStack deployments:
- The
typical size of an OpenStack cloud size increased; 37 percent of clouds
have 1,000 or more cores, compared to 29 percent last year, and 3
percent of clouds have more than 100,000 cores. The number of users
using Nova cells also increased 218 percent.
- Swift
object provisioning also saw greater scale. Sixteen percent of
deployments provisioned more than 1 petabyte of object storage, compared
to 4 percent last year, and 33 percent reported storing 100,000 or more
objects, versus 13 percent last year.
- The
business drivers for OpenStack adoption continue to highlight its
competitive advantages, including accelerating the organization's
ability to innovate and avoiding vendor-lock in. Users say these
business drivers are even more important than saving money and
increasing operational efficiency, which ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in past
surveys.
- Containers
remain the top emerging technology of interest to users. Sixty-five
percent of those running OpenStack services inside containers use Docker
runtime, while 47 percent of those using containers to orchestrate apps
on OpenStack use Kubernetes.
- The
share of OpenStack deployments in production remains stable, with
two-thirds of clouds in production. The large proportion of clouds in
production demonstrates the maturity of OpenStack, while the substantial
influx of clouds in proof-of-concept and test stages predicts healthy
growth for the future.
- This
growth in new deployments was demonstrated by the average age of a
deployment-just 1.68 years. Fifty-six percent of deployments surveyed
were launched in 2016 or 2017.
- The
typical deployment runs nine projects, with 16 percent running 12 or
more projects. All of OpenStack's core services are in use by 89-98
percent of clouds, a significant increase over last year for every core
project in production. Heat, Telemetry, Swift, Rally, Kolla and Barbican
also showing significant increases in adoption.
- Among
the projects of greatest interest to users, and likely to see strong
future adoption, Designate, Magnum, Trove, and Manila top the list, with
Kolla and Barbican interest also up significantly.
***The full User Survey report is available here.***