What’s OpenStack User Survey
A snapshot of OpenStack users’ attitudes and deployments.
Takeaway
- Use Net Promoter Scores (NPS) to generate an accurate comparison. What’s NPS , btw?
- The most dominant category in the user survey remains information technology (68%).
- Most industries have more than half of respondents running OpenStack in production, which is consistent with the overall 65% of deployments recorded in this survey at a production stage.
- Community members were asked to select their top reasons for choosing OpenStack and rank these in terms of priority. The vast majority (66%) still focus first on cost, just one point off last cycle’s response.
- Why do users recommend OpenStack and why don’t they? On the positive side, community support, avoiding vendor lock-in, consistency, stability, and the importance of open source were key drivers. On the negative side, complexity, difficulty in deployment, inconsistency, and lack of stability were cited.
- Which workloads and frameworks are running on OpenStack? Software development and testing remains the top use case.
- What container and PaaS tools are used to manage OpenStack applications? Kubernetes (42%) surged ahead of CloudFoundry (24%) in this cycle, increasing 8 points to be the top Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) tool, while CloudFoundry lost 11 points.