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There has been a large rise in the number of enterprises running container technologies in production environments over the past two years — from 67% to 90% according to the 2019 Container Adoption Survey, which polled over 500 IT professionals across different industries and company size.
The survey was commissioned by Portworx, which offers container and cloud-based data management services; and Aqua Security, which helps enterprises secure cloud and container-based application development and production.
The survey found widespread use of container technologies: 87 percent of IT professionals reported running container based applications, with 90% of those apps in production, and 70% reported at least four out of 10 of their portfolio applications running in containers.
“Container technologies are now used to run mission critical enterprise applications, which means security in cloud native environments must be made absolutely bulletproof,” said Rani Osnat, VP of Product Marketing at Aqua Security.
The survey asked about top concerns in using containers. Security was top of mind for 51%, while data management issues were cited by 40%, and 36% worry about cross-cloud/multiple cloud support.
Nearly one in five organizations reported spending more than $1 million annually on container technologies compared — with just one in 25 in 2016.
The survey uncovered some differences over which IT teams hold the main responsibilities for security, which could point to a larger issue.
About 47% of respondents working on Dev/Ops teams claimed that Dev/Ops shared a joint responsibility with the main security team, while 51% of respondents that work on the enterprise security team claimed their team had the chief responsibility. Everyone else mostly agreed, with 31% saying the enterprise security team was in charge, while 24% said the responsibility was held by a joint Dev/Ops enterprise security team.
For three consecutive years container adoption has been driven by the need for faster app development and deployment. Developer speed and efficiency was cited as the top reason for investments in containers by 37% of respondents.
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