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2024 Cloud Native Research Survey

Welcome!

Welcome to DZone's annual Cloud Native Research Survey! We've broken out our quintessential cloud native questions and considerations of the moment into the four key pillars (as prescribed by Google Cloud): containers, microservices, DevOps, and CI/CD.

The survey should take ~12 minutes. Your participation will inform developers and other IT professionals around the world on the latest innovations, challenges, and emerging cloud native trends across organizations. We'll analyze responses and publish our findings in our upcoming Cloud Native and Kubernetes Trend Reports, scheduled for release in the coming months.

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1. What types of cloud infrastructure does your organization use to run its applications? Select all that apply.
2. What percentage of your organization's applications would you estimate are using serverless technology?
3. Which of the following common cloud security threats are active concerns at your organization? Select all that apply.
4. Does your organization use application containers in either development or production environments?
What tools/platforms does your organization use to manage containers in development and production environments? Select all that apply.
Space Cell DevelopmentProduction
Docker
rkt
Kubernetes
AWS EKS
AWS ECS
Azure AKS
GKE
Docker Compose
OpenShift
Terraform
Ansible
Firecracker
QEMU
5. Does your organization run any Kubernetes clusters?
What use cases does your organization deploy Kubernetes into? Select all that apply.
Where do your organization's Kubernetes clusters run? Select all that apply.
Space Cell In development environmentsIn production environmentsI don't know
Bare metal
Virtual machines
Does your organization run any Kubernetes clusters that orchestrate containers on both bare-metal and virtual machines (in the same Kubernetes cluster)?
What constructs does your organization use to maintain state within a Kubernetes cluster? Select all that apply.
What pain points has your organization encountered while working with Kubernetes? Select all that apply.
What has Kubernetes improved at your organization? Select all that apply.
What has Kubernetes worsened at your organization? Select all that apply.
Which of the following security-related measures does your organization take with regard to Kubernetes? Select all that apply.
Note: See OWASP's Kubernetes Security Cheat Sheet
In the past year, has your organization needed to reassess any planned container and/or Kubernetes deployments to production due to security concerns?
6. Have you personally worked with Kubernetes?
7. Does your organization run any microservices?
Are any of these microservices deployed on Kubernetes clusters?
8. What percent of your organization's overall code is considered legacy vs. non-legacy code?
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9. Overall, the software built at your organization carries:
10. How is your organization's application infrastructure provisioned?
11. Which of the following practices and techniques does your organization use to manage and optimize costs? Select all that apply.
12. Which of the following require manual intervention between dev and production? Select all that apply.
Do you use any tools to monitor Kubernetes?
What types of workloads does your organization run on Kubernetes clusters? Select all that apply.
What autoscalers does your organization use in its Kubernetes clusters? Select all that apply.
13. Has your organization adopted artificial intelligence (AI) for release management?
14. In what ways has your organization adopted AI for monitoring and/or observability? Select all that apply.
15. Which of the following tools does your organization use for monitoring and/or observability of cloud-native or containerized applications? Select all that apply.

Background and Experience

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16. What types of software are you currently developing? Select all that apply.
17. What programming language ecosystems does your company use? Select all that apply.
18. What is your primary programming language at work?
This question requires a valid number format.
20. What best describes your primary role in your company? *This question is required.
21. What is the size of your organization in terms of employees? *This question is required.
22. Do you wish to enter the survey raffle?
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