{"id":88475,"date":"2023-03-14T19:16:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T19:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/?p=4049202"},"modified":"2023-03-14T19:16:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T19:16:29","slug":"kubernetes-is-the-key-to-cloud-but-cost-containment-is-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/?p=88475","title":{"rendered":"Kubernetes is the key to cloud, but cost containment is critical"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id>\n<p> What\u2019s driving the growth of open source container orchestrator Kubernetes? A study by Pepperdata shows how companies are using K8s and the challenges they face in getting a handle on cloud costs. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4049204\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4049204\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article wp-image-4049204\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kubernetes-is-the-key-to-cloud-but-cost-containment-is-critical.jpg\" alt=\"The Kubernetes wheel.\" width=\"770\" height=\"514\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4049204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: LuckyStep\/Adobe Stock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the rush to cloud enterprise comes increasing use of Kubernetes to get applications up and running on the web. A recent study by big data monitoring firm Pepperdata looked at both the growth of Kubernetes use and how companies are addressing it from cost and revenue fronts.<\/p>\n<p>Pepperdata\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pepperdata.com\/2023-state-of-kubernetes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The state of Kubernetes 2023<\/a> report found that, on average, organizations deploy between three and 10 Kubernetes clusters. It also revealed that the use of the open-source container orchestration system is expanding to data ingestion, cleansing, and analytics, databases, and artificial intelligence and machine learning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/resource-library\/whitepapers\/hiring-kit-cloud-engineer\/\"><strong>Hiring Kit: Cloud Engineer<\/strong><\/a><strong> (TechRepublic Premium)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pepperdata, in its survey of 800 C-level execs and DevOps professionals working in financial services, healthcare, technology and advertising, asked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How many K8s clusters organizations run.<\/li>\n<li>Which workload types do they deploy on K8s containers.<\/li>\n<li>Challenges encountered by enterprises as they adopt Kubernetes.<\/li>\n<li>How enterprises measure the ROI of their K8s deployments.<\/li>\n<li>Where companies stand in their FinOps journey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jump to:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"kubernetes\">Kubernetes: Deployment beyond microservices is driving broader use<\/h2>\n<p>As Kubernetes reaches maturity and becomes an industry standard for container orchestration, its uses are also broadening beyond its core application as a mothership for microservices. The study found that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30% of executives reported having three to five K8s deployments.<\/li>\n<li>38% reported six to 10 clusters.<\/li>\n<li>Almost 15% said they had between 11 and 25 clusters.<\/li>\n<li>4% reported having deployed more than 25 clusters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In terms of how enterprises are deploying Kubernetes for specific workloads, Pepperdata found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>61% of surveyed companies are using Kubernetes to deploy data ingestion, cleansing, and analytics through software like Apache Spark.<\/li>\n<li>59% are using Kubernetes for deploying databases or data cache via platforms like PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis.<\/li>\n<li>58% reported using Kubernetes on web servers like NGINX.<\/li>\n<li>54% said they are deploying AI\/ML software, such as Python, TensorFlow and PyTorch on Kubernetes.<\/li>\n<li>48% said they are using Kubernetes for programming languages like Node.js and Java.<\/li>\n<li>42% reported using Kubernetes for logging and monitoring through programs like Elastic and Splunk.<\/li>\n<li>35% said they are deploying application servers with Kubernetes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Microservices are still a good proxy for Kubernetes deployment<\/h3>\n<aside class=\"pinbox right\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">Cloud: Must-read coverage<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Pepperdata\u2019s study suggests that organizations will be adopting Kubernetes in greater numbers, given their plans to deploy microservices like NGINX. Forty-four percent of respondents said they plan to do so this year, while 36% said they have microservices deployed already and only 20% saying they had no plans to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the majority of those polled said Kubernetes provides them a strong foundational architecture for microservices, and that it enables applications to be deployed more rapidly and supports platform consistency across development, testing, staging and production clusters.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"looking\">Looking at Kubernetes with an eye on ROI<\/h2>\n<p>Pepperdata discovered that among those polled, cost to deploy was the leading metric for measuring Kubernetes\u2019 ROI, with findings suggesting that almost 44% of the organizations are looking at ways to implement cloud cost reduction.<\/p>\n<p>After cost, top-line growth (54%), resource usage (49%), followed by deployment frequency (48%), developer productivity (46%), infrastructure utilization (35%) and IT staff productivity savings (25%) were key ROI metrics. Firms reported they expect Kubernetes to increase ROI by lowering administration and operations burden, accelerating deployment times and making resource management more efficient.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"cost\">Cost surprises are a key challenge for K8s<\/h2>\n<p>When Pepperdata surveyed IT leaders about the challenges they faced in adopting Kubernetes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>57% said significant or unexpected spending on computation, storage networking infrastructures and cloud-based IaaS.<\/li>\n<li>56% cited the learning curve for employees to be able to upskill for operations and security in Kubernetes environments.<\/li>\n<li>52% pointed to limited support for stateful apps (such as applications that save client data).<\/li>\n<li>50% said lack of visibility into Kubernetes\u2019 spending.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"organizations\">Organizations are walking toward cloud cost reduction<\/h2>\n<p>In its FinOps <a href=\"https:\/\/data.finops.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">performance study<\/a>, the FinOps Foundation among other things defines the levels of familiarity with FinOps from crawl to walk to run. In Pepperdata\u2019s study, most respondents self-identified at the walk stage.<\/p>\n<p>The study said that nearly all respondents were familiar with cloud cost optimization, while 32% characterized themselves as \u201ccrawling.\u201d The majority (43%) said they are \u201cwalking,\u201d meaning they have the ability to implement cloud cost reduction recommendations today. Seventeen percent self-reported as \u201crunning,\u201d meaning they are actively reducing costs through autonomous procedures. Six percent said they have not started.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, more than 98% of respondents indicated familiarity with FinOps and saw themselves somewhere on the continuum of implementing best practices for cloud cost remediation. In addition, more than 17% of respondents identified themselves in the run stage, with the ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pepperdata.com\/autonomous-finops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remediate cloud costs autonomously<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <!-- default newsletter at the end --> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s driving the growth of open source container orchestrator Kubernetes? A study by Pepperdata shows how companies are using K8s and the challenges they face in getting a handle on cloud costs. Image: LuckyStep\/Adobe Stock With the rush to cloud enterprise comes increasing use of Kubernetes to get applications up and running on the web. 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