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1 | I am best described as a: | You can only adopt one. *Make your choice.* | My company is in this industry: | What type of Zoomer (zoom-user) are you? | Which goals are most important to you and your team? *Choose 2.* | I’d like to receive the results of this survey when it’s ready. | How do you define a “hybrid cloud”? | We mainly use hybrid or multi-cloud for/to: | Hand on heart – are you wearing pyjamas right now? | On average, how many machines are in your fleet (incl VM, bare metal, etc)? | In the infrastructure space, what does the term “substrate” mean to you? | Where do you run applications in your organisation? *Choose the most accurate statement.* | Reduce Opex and CapEx | Elasticity and agility | Faster time-to-market | Resource optimisation | Developer productivity | Portability | Simpler operations | Open-source software | Cutting-edge technology | Global reach | Has this happened to you? | Which of these cloud-native use cases are you working on now? | What are your biggest challenges when migrating to/using Kubernetes and containers? *Select all that apply.* | In which environments do you run Kubernetes clusters? *Select all that apply.* | If you use Kubernetes, how many production clusters do you have? | What is the oldest version of Kubernetes that you have running on a production cluster? | Is your company contributing code back to open source projects you use? | Which of the following is the best way to make your life easier with YAML? | How many Helm charts has your team used/modified in the last 90 days? | What is your preferred method for operating, upgrading, and maintaining software on Kubernetes? | What is the solution to too many helm charts? | Do you pay for support on your ops tools? | Does your team use community-provided templates/playbooks/scripts/packages? | I believe that I should know every line of every helm chart and yaml file | Who manages your organisation’s cloud infrastructure? | What are the *TWO most important questions* that ops people _should_ care about? | How many ops people does it take to screw in a Kubernetes? | Which cloud-native solution space(s) have you mastered? *Select all that apply.* | Which of the following sentences most accurately describes a Kubernetes operator? | What is your experience with Kubernetes operators? | What is your experience with Charmed Operators? | Which meme? | What things do you wish to be able to do in Kubernetes that you currently can’t? | I would be willing to use a MySQL operator developed by someone who has spent the last 5 years maintaining MySQL in production. | What technology would you most like to see a Charmed operator written for? | Which of the following do you value the most when selecting a base image or a container image?* Choose 3.* | Do you run stateful applications in containers? | How do you separate applications in Kubernetes? *Select all that apply.* | Are you running High Availability Kubernetes clusters? | Are you running Kubernetes in an air-gapped environment? | Are you using Kubernetes in an offline environment? | Bash is the only programming language anyone needs. | What Kubernetes environment(s) do you target during local container development? *Select all that apply.* | What is your edge use case? *Select all that apply.* | What are your requirements when it comes to implementing an edge strategy? *Select all that apply.* | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Other | raccoon | Religious | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Ensure portability, Agility around traffic spikes | No thanks, but I’ll fill it out because i’m awesome. | You put your left foot in, you take your left foot out, you put your left foot in, and you shake it all about | Cloud bursting | Business on top, PJs on the bottom | N/A or don't know | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | Don’t know | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | TRUE | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower | DigitalOcean | Don't know | I say 1.21 because I want to look cool, but it’s really 1.20. | FALSE | _ | 10001-100000 | Operators: KUDO, K8s Operators, Charmed Operators, etc | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | Our Intern | How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations?, What is happening in that YAML file? | Just one | None - I’m still learning | Don’t know | Don’t care for them | Don’t care for them | cluster | I have a monolith the company worships | False | Ummm, I don’t know | Stability - long term supported versions, Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Don't know | Living on the edge | Supported platforms (Linux flavors, Windows hosts…) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Developer Advocate | pterodactyl | Software / Technology | The one doing funny faces | Faster time to market, Global reach | No thanks, but I’ll fill it out because i’m awesome. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Expand cloud backup options to cut costs | 100% Yes | 51-100 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | Don’t know | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | TRUE | None of the above | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower | Don't know | 6-10 | I say 1.21 because I want to look cool, but it’s really 1.20. | TRUE | 🙂 | 101-500 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | More helm charts | Yes, bags of gold | Yes | False | DevOps | How secure is that thing?, How can we optimize resource utilization? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | Application Definition & Image Build, Database, Streaming & Messaging, Chaos Engineering, Cloud Native Storage, Cloud Native Network, None - I’m still learning | Don’t know | Don’t care for them | Don’t care for them | kubeconfig | Make coffee | True | Cloud-native storage | Size - lightweight images, Price - lowest cost for pulling or running the image, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image | Yes, in production | Not applicable to me or don't know | TRUE | FALSE | TRUE | exit | On-prem Kubernetes installation | Living on the edge | GPUs for AI/ML | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Back-end Developer | dog | Retail | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Agility around traffic spikes, Ensure portability | No thanks, but I’ll fill it out because i’m awesome. | A combination of at least two public clouds | Switch between public cloud providers in a flash | Business on top, PJs on the bottom | 101-200 | Abstraction layer | Mostly on VMs, planning a full migration to Kubernetes | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | TRUE | Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Poor or limited support from platform providers or partners, Cloud platforms don’t meet needs/expectations | Azure, Vultr, Talos | 50+ | 1.19 | TRUE | 🙂 | 1001-10000 | Operators: KUDO, K8s Operators, Charmed Operators, etc | Kustomize | Yes, sometimes | No, we build everything ourselves | False | Platform Engineer | What is happening in that YAML file?, Which software components should be included in the workflow? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | Continuous Integration & Delivery, Streaming & Messaging, Serverless/Function-as-a-Service | A helm chart that can be dynamically modified at execution time | Using them for apps in production | We have security concerns | kubeconfig | Integrate legacy/MVC applications running on VMs with my containers | False | Ingress/Service Proxy | Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included, Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | Separate clusters, Not applicable to me or don't know, Labels | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | On-prem Kubernetes installation | Data centers & CDNs, Residential/smart home | Scalability, Observability, Specific communications protocol support | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Quality Assurance Engineer | dog | Consumer | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Faster time to market, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least two public clouds and a private cloud | Expand cloud backup options to cut costs | Nooo | 1-5 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | Don’t know | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | FALSE | None of the above | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower | Don't know | None | exit | I don’t run containers during development | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | dog | Professional Services | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Lower infrastructure TCO | No thanks, but I’ll fill it out because i’m awesome. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Accelerate development, automate DevOps | Nooo | 1001-2000 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | TRUE | Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service, Using best-of breed cloud-native tools, Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Inefficient day to day operations, Networking requirements not addressed adequately, Observability / monitoring requirements not addressed adequately, Velocity of evolution of the k8s platform | OpenStack, Bare metal | 21-50 | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | Operators: KUDO, K8s Operators, Charmed Operators, etc | Operators | Yes, sometimes | No, we build everything ourselves | False | SRE | Which software components should be included in the workflow?, What resources should be allocated to the scenario? | Just one | Continuous Integration & Delivery, Automation & Configuration, Scheduling & Orchestration | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Getting comfortable with them | kubeconfig | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | True | Cloud-native storage | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Stability - long term supported versions, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | Labels, Separate clusters | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | MicroK8s, On-prem Kubernetes installation, I don’t use Kubernetes during local development (e.g. use Docker Compose) | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Back-end Developer | pterodactyl | Software / Technology | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Faster time to market, Lower infrastructure TCO | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | You put your left foot in, you take your left foot out, you put your left foot in, and you shake it all about | Cluster mission-critical databases | Business on top, PJs on the bottom | 5000+ | Earthy material | AKS + ECS + VMs + DC VMs + metal | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | TRUE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Deploying business solutions in different geographies, Moving to an open-source solution | Difficulty training users, Observability / monitoring requirements not addressed adequately, Velocity of evolution of the k8s platform, Storage / Data requirements not addressed adequately, Inefficient day to day operations | AWS, KVM | Don't know | Older than 1.10 (we don’t judge, old timer) | TRUE | 🙂 | 11-100 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | I don’t know | Yes, bags of gold | Yes | True | Our Intern | What is happening in that YAML file?, What is happening in that helm chart? | Just one | None - I’m still learning | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Using them for apps in production | Trying them out is on my to-do list | kubeconfig | I have a monolith the company worships | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | Yes, in production | Namespaces, Labels, Separate clusters | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Minikube, Docker Kubernetes, Cloud provider managed Kubernetes | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | dog | Energy & Utilities | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Modernizing infrastructure, Faster time to market | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Monitor and predict usage costs | Nooo | 201-500 | Earthy material | All our applications run on Kubernetes | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Using best-of breed cloud-native tools | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Company IT culture | Azure | 1 | 1.20 | FALSE | 🙂 | 1-10 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | Operators | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | No, we build everything ourselves | False | Our Intern | How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations?, How secure is that thing? | Just one | Continuous Integration & Delivery, Observability | An IT person with experience in operating Kubernetes | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Don’t care for them | cluster | Make coffee | Ummm, I don’t know | Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | Namespaces, Separate clusters | TRUE | TRUE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | Docker Kubernetes, MicroK8s | I don’t have an edge use case | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Infrastructure Architect | fish | Software / Technology | The one walking around the house | Modernizing infrastructure, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least two clouds | Accelerate development, automate DevOps | Nooo | N/A or don't know | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | TRUE | Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup, Using best-of breed cloud-native tools, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Inefficient day to day operations, Networking requirements not addressed adequately, Velocity of evolution of the k8s platform, Company IT culture | Azure | None | echo ‘true’ | kind (Kubernetes in Docker), k3s | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Academic/Teacher/Student | dog | Software / Technology | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Ensure portability, Lower infrastructure TCO | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | On and off-ramp data | Nooo | 101-200 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal and VMs | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | FALSE | Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup | Cost overruns, Company IT culture | Don't know | None | return 1 | I don’t run containers during development | I don’t have an edge use case | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Back-end Developer | dog | Financial Services | The one who always talks | Removing vendor dependencies, Faster time to market | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Cluster mission-critical databases | Nooo | 2001-5000 | Bare metal | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | TRUE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Incompatibility with legacy systems, Integrating cloud-native applications together, Cost overruns | AWS, Azure, VMware | 50+ | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | FALSE | _ | 101-500 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | More helm charts | Yes, sometimes | Yes | True | DevOps | What resources should be allocated to the scenario?, How secure is that thing? | Just one | Database, Ingress/Service Proxy | A helm chart that can be dynamically modified at execution time | Getting comfortable with them | Trying them out is on my to-do list | kubeconfig | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | True | Service mesh | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | Yes, in production | Separate clusters | TRUE | TRUE | FALSE | return 1 | Minikube | Retail | Scalability, Low latency, Security and compliance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Full-Stack Developer | penguin | Software / Technology | The one who just woke up | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Faster time to market | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | Nooo | 1-5 | Abstraction layer | Don’t know | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | TRUE | None of the above | Difficulty training users | Don't know | None | echo ‘true’ | Don't know, I don’t run containers during development | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Infrastructure Architect | penguin | Professional Services | The one without the camera on | Modernizing infrastructure, Faster time to market | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Accelerate development, automate DevOps | Nooo | 2001-5000 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | TRUE | Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Poor or limited support from platform providers or partners, Company IT culture | Azure, OpenStack | 2-5 | 1.17 | FALSE | 🙂 | 1-10 | Operators: KUDO, K8s Operators, Charmed Operators, etc | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | Yes | False | Our Intern | How secure is that thing?, What resources should be allocated to the scenario? | Just one | None - I’m still learning | An IT person with experience in operating Kubernetes | Getting comfortable with them | Getting comfortable with them | kubeconfig | Automate the integration of cloud services with my on-prem applications | True | Ingress/Service Proxy | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image | No, stateless applications only | Separate clusters | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Minikube, k3s, MicroK8s, On-prem Kubernetes installation | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Other | cat | Education | The one doing funny faces | Global reach, Faster time to market | Yes please. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Expand cloud backup options to cut costs | 100% Yes | 1-5 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | Don’t know | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | FALSE | None of the above | Company IT culture, Cost overruns | AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud | 1 | I say 1.21 because I want to look cool, but it’s really 1.20. | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Kustomize | I don’t know | Yes, often | Yes | False | DevOps | How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations?, How secure is that thing? | Don’t know | Application Definition & Image Build, Database, API Gateway, Security & Compliance, Cloud Native Network | Don’t know | We have security concerns | Don’t need them | cluster | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | False | Database | Stability - long term supported versions, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included, Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc | No, stateless applications only | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Don't know, I don’t run containers during development | Healthcare, Energy, Smart buildings & cities, Agriculture | Observability, Scalability, Low latency | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Executive | dog | Financial Services | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Modernizing infrastructure, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Disaster recovery | Nooo | 1-5 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | Don’t know | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | FALSE | None of the above | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Lack of flexibility when it comes to address workload spikes, Cost overruns | VMware | 2-5 | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | I don’t know | Yes, often | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | How can we optimize resource utilization?, How secure is that thing? | Don’t know | Database, Automation & Configuration | Don’t know | Don’t need them | Trying them out is on my to-do list | kubeconfig | I can do everything I need using Kubernetes | True | Database | Stability - long term supported versions, Size - lightweight images, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard | Yes, in production | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | exit | Don't know | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Academic/Teacher/Student | dog | Transportation and warehousing | The one walking around the house | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Global reach | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least two public clouds | Monitor and predict usage costs | 100% Yes | 1-5 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On a mix of bare metal and VMs | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | FALSE | None of the above | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower | Azure, AWS | Don't know | I say 1.21 because I want to look cool, but it’s really 1.20. | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Helm | More helm charts | Yes, bags of gold | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | Our Intern | What is happening in that helm chart?, How secure is that thing? | Just one | None - I’m still learning, None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | An IT person with experience in operating Kubernetes | Most useful invention since pizza | Most useful invention since pizza | kubeconfig | Make coffee | True | Database | Size - lightweight images, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included, Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc | Yes, evaluating | Labels | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | echo ‘true’ | Docker Kubernetes | Healthcare | Offline mode experience | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Developer Advocate | cat | Healthcare | The one doing funny faces | Modernizing infrastructure, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Monitor and predict usage costs | 100% Yes | 201-500 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal and VMs | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | FALSE | Deploying business solutions in different geographies | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Cost overruns, Company IT culture | Azure | 1 | 1.19 | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | I don’t know | Yes, often | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | Managed service | What resources should be allocated to the scenario?, How secure is that thing? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Trying them out is on my to-do list | cluster | I have a monolith the company worships | False | Service mesh | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | Not applicable to me or don't know | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Docker Kubernetes, k3s, MicroK8s | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Back-end Developer | dog | Scientific or technical services | The one who always talks | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Global reach | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least two private clouds | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | Business on top, PJs on the bottom | N/A or don't know | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | Mostly on VMs, planning a full migration to Kubernetes | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | FALSE | None of the above | Cost overruns | Don't know | Don't know | I say 1.21 because I want to look cool, but it’s really 1.20. | TRUE | _ | 0 | Helm | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | Where should the application run?, What is happening in that YAML file? | Don’t know | Database, API Gateway, Automation & Configuration, Serverless/Function-as-a-Service | Don’t know | Don’t care for them | Don’t care for them | kubeconfig | I have a monolith the company worships | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Stability - long term supported versions, Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Don't know, I don’t run containers during development | Education & workplaces | Ability to create a 1 or 2 node cluster | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Executive | cat | Software / Technology | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Global reach, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | No thanks, but I’ll fill it out because i’m awesome. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Get unique benefits of both public and private | Nooo | 1-5 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | TRUE | Deploying business solutions in different geographies, Using best-of breed cloud-native tools | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Poor or limited support from platform providers or partners, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Cloud platforms don’t meet needs/expectations, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Storage / Data requirements not addressed adequately, Observability / monitoring requirements not addressed adequately, Company IT culture | AWS, Azure, VMware | 2-5 | I say 1.21 because I want to look cool, but it’s really 1.20. | TRUE | _ | 0 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | More helm charts | Yes, bags of gold | Yes | False | Self-serve admin | How should that scenario be integrated into the wider estate?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | Don’t know | None - I’m still learning | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Trying them out is on my to-do list | kubeconfig | Integrate legacy/MVC applications running on VMs with my containers | True | Cloud-native storage | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Stability - long term supported versions | Yes, in production | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | return 1 | k3s, MicroK8s | I don’t have an edge use case | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | cat | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Modernizing infrastructure, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Disaster recovery | 100% Yes | 201-500 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | Mostly on VMs, planning a full migration to Kubernetes | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | FALSE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Incompatibility with legacy systems | AWS, GCP, Private Cloud | 6-10 | 1.17 | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | Operators: KUDO, K8s Operators, Charmed Operators, etc | More helm charts | Yes, bags of gold | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | SRE | What resources should be allocated to the scenario?, How secure is that thing? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | Continuous Integration & Delivery, Observability, API Gateway, Application Definition & Image Build | A Go application that can talk to the Kubernetes API to manage resources | Most useful invention since pizza | How are these different from the others? | kubeconfig | I can do everything I need using Kubernetes | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Size - lightweight images, Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | No, stateless applications only | Namespaces | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | kind (Kubernetes in Docker) | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Infrastructure Architect | cat | Agriculture/Distribution | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | On and off-ramp data | I literally took them off a minute ago | 6-20 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On a mix of bare metal and VMs | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | FALSE | None of the above | Incompatibility with legacy systems, Difficulty training users | DigitalOcean | 2-5 | I say 1.21 because I want to look cool, but it’s really 1.20. | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | More helm charts | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | False | Platform Engineer | How secure is that thing?, What resources should be allocated to the scenario? | A team of at least 9 | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | An IT person with experience in operating Kubernetes | Don’t need them | Don’t need them | cluster | Make coffee | True | Cloud-native storage | Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included, Stability - long term supported versions, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image | Yes, evaluating | Labels | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | Cloud provider managed Kubernetes, Docker Kubernetes | Data centers & CDNs, Agriculture | Scalability, Security and compliance, Supported platforms (Linux flavors, Windows hosts…) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Mobile Developer | dog | Software / Technology | The one who always talks | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Lower infrastructure TCO | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Accelerate development, automate DevOps | Nooo | 21-50 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | TRUE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower | VMware | None | exit | Docker Kubernetes | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Full-Stack Developer | dog | -- | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | 100% Yes | 1-5 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | All our applications run on Kubernetes | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | FALSE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower | Don't know | 1 | Older than 1.10 (we don’t judge, old timer) | FALSE | _ | 0 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | No, we build everything ourselves | False | SRE | What is happening in that YAML file?, Where should the application run? | Just one | Application Definition & Image Build, Database | A master .yaml file used to deploy multiple applications and their components | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Trying them out is on my to-do list | kubeconfig | I can do everything I need using Kubernetes | True | Service mesh | Price - lowest cost for pulling or running the image, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher | Yes, in production | Namespaces | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE | echo ‘true’ | Minikube | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Engineering Manager | dog | Scientific or technical services | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Lower infrastructure TCO, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least two private clouds | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | Nooo | 501-1000 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | TRUE | None of the above | Inefficient day to day operations, Velocity of evolution of the k8s platform | OpenStack | 2-5 | 1.17 | TRUE | 🙂 | 1-10 | Operators: KUDO, K8s Operators, Charmed Operators, etc | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | False | Self-serve admin | How secure is that thing?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | Just one | Automation & Configuration, Cloud Native Network | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Using them for apps in production | How are these different from the others? | cluster | Integrate legacy/MVC applications running on VMs with my containers | True | Database | Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher | Yes, in production | Namespaces | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | On-prem Kubernetes installation | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Data Scientist | penguin | Healthcare | The one doing funny faces | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Faster time to market | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Switch between public cloud providers in a flash | Nooo | 1-5 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | Don’t know | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | FALSE | Deploying business solutions in different geographies | Company IT culture | Don't know | Don't know | I say 1.21 because I want to look cool, but it’s really 1.20. | FALSE | _ | 11-100 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, bags of gold | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | Self-serve admin | How secure is that thing?, How should that scenario be integrated into the wider estate? | Don’t know | None - I’m still learning | A master .yaml file used to deploy multiple applications and their components | Don’t care for them | Don’t care for them | kubeconfig | Make coffee | False | Ummm, I don’t know | Stability - long term supported versions, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | No, stateless applications only | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Don't know | Image processing, Healthcare | Device “phone home” | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Back-end Developer | penguin | Transportation and warehousing | The one without the camera on | Modernizing infrastructure, Agility around traffic spikes | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Disaster recovery | Nooo | 6-20 | Physical layer | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | TRUE | Deploying business solutions in different geographies, Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Company IT culture | AWS, GCP | 1 | 1.18 | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | No, we build everything ourselves | False | DevOps | Where should the application run?, How secure is that thing? | Just one | Cloud Native Storage, Serverless/Function-as-a-Service | A master .yaml file used to deploy multiple applications and their components | Getting comfortable with them | Other | kubeconfig | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Size - lightweight images | No, stateless applications only | Namespaces | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | Minikube | Automotive & transportation | Security and compliance, Scalability, Specific communications protocol support | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Infrastructure Architect | cat | Manufacturing | The one without the camera on | Modernizing infrastructure, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Disaster recovery | Nooo | 51-100 | Physical layer | On a mix of bare metal and VMs | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | TRUE | None of the above | Company IT culture | Don't know | None | echo ‘true’ | I don’t run containers during development | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Data Scientist | dog | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Removing vendor dependencies | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | 100% Yes | 6-20 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | Mostly on VMs, planning a full migration to Kubernetes | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | TRUE | Deploying business solutions in different geographies | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Difficulty training users, Integrating cloud-native applications together | AWS | 2-5 | Older than 1.10 (we don’t judge, old timer) | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | Yes | False | Platform Engineer | What is happening in that YAML file?, Which software components should be included in the workflow? | Just one | None - I’m still learning | Don’t know | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Trying them out is on my to-do list | kubeconfig | Automate the integration of cloud services with my on-prem applications | True | Service mesh | Size - lightweight images, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included, Stability - long term supported versions | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | Namespaces | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | return 1 | Docker Kubernetes, k3s, MicroK8s | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Academic/Teacher/Student | Software / Technology | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Faster time to market | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | I literally took them off a minute ago | N/A or don't know | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | Don’t know | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | TRUE | Using best-of breed cloud-native tools, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Company IT culture, Velocity of evolution of the k8s platform, Observability / monitoring requirements not addressed adequately | Don't know | I say 1.21 because I want to look cool, but it’s really 1.20. | TRUE | 🙂 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | Our Intern | Which software components should be included in the workflow?, What is happening in that helm chart? | Don’t know | None - I’m still learning | Don’t know | Other | Other | cluster | I have a monolith the company worships | True | Database | Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc, Stability - long term supported versions, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Don't know | Living on the edge | Supported platforms (Linux flavors, Windows hosts…) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Data Scientist | dog | Financial Services | The one without the camera on | Faster time to market, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | Nooo | 51-100 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | FALSE | None of the above | Velocity of evolution of the k8s platform | Azure, AWS | Don't know | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | What’s the fastest way to deploy X?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | Don’t know | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none, Database | Don’t know | Tried once, failed miserably | Don’t care for them | kubeconfig | Unsure | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard | No, stateless applications only | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Don't know | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Infrastructure Architect | panda | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Lower infrastructure TCO, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Expand cloud backup options to cut costs | 100% Yes | 201-500 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | TRUE | Moving to an open-source solution, Using best-of breed cloud-native tools | Difficulty training users, Company IT culture | DigitalOcean | 1 | I say 1.21 because I want to look cool, but it’s really 1.20. | TRUE | 🙂 | 11-100 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | More helm charts | Yes, often | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | Self-serve admin | Where should the application run?, What is happening in that helm chart? | Just one | Serverless/Function-as-a-Service, Container Runtime | A Go application that can talk to the Kubernetes API to manage resources | Most useful invention since pizza | We have security concerns | kubeconfig | Make coffee | False | Database | Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Stability - long term supported versions, Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | Separate clusters | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE | echo ‘true’ | kind (Kubernetes in Docker) | Residential/smart home | Security and compliance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | pterodactyl | Transportation and warehousing | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least two public clouds and a private cloud | Expand cloud backup options to cut costs | Business on top, PJs on the bottom | 1001-2000 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | TRUE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service, Deploying business solutions in different geographies | Velocity of evolution of the k8s platform, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower | AWS, GCP, Bare metal | 50+ | 1.18 | TRUE | 🙂 | 11-100 | Helm | Operators | Yes, sometimes | Yes | False | SRE | How secure is that thing?, How can we optimize resource utilization? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none, None - I’m still learning | Don’t know | Other | Trying them out is on my to-do list | cluster | Confirm absolutely secure deployment | False | Ummm, I don’t know | Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc, Price - lowest cost for pulling or running the image, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | Yes, in production | Separate clusters | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | return 1 | Minikube, Cloud provider managed Kubernetes | Automotive & transportation, Data centers & CDNs, Living on the edge | GPUs for AI/ML, EPA features (SR-IOV, DPDK, Numa, etc), Device “phone home”, Observability, Security and compliance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Back-end Developer | cat | Telecommunications | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Lower infrastructure TCO, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Cluster mission-critical databases | 100% Yes | 51-100 | Abstraction layer | All our applications run on Kubernetes | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Difficulty training users, Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower | AWS, OpenStack | 2-5 | 1.17 | FALSE | 🙂 | 11-100 | Helm | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | How secure is that thing?, What resources should be allocated to the scenario? | Just one | Continuous Integration & Delivery, API Gateway, Container Runtime, Automation & Configuration, Cloud Native Network | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Tried once, failed miserably | Trying them out is on my to-do list | cluster | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | False | Ingress/Service Proxy | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Stability - long term supported versions, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | Yes, in production | Namespaces | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | MicroK8s | Telco/MEC | Resource allocation, Network support | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Sales representative | panda | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Modernizing infrastructure, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Expand cloud backup options to cut costs | 100% Yes | N/A or don't know | Abstraction layer | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | TRUE | None of the above | Company IT culture | AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack | Don't know | I say 1.21 because I want to look cool, but it’s really 1.20. | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | Platform Engineer | Which software components should be included in the workflow?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | Continuous Integration & Delivery, None - I’m still learning | A Go application that can talk to the Kubernetes API to manage resources | Don’t need them | Don’t care for them | kubeconfig | Automate the integration of cloud services with my on-prem applications | False | Ummm, I don’t know | Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc, Price - lowest cost for pulling or running the image, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Docker Kubernetes, Cloud provider managed Kubernetes, k3s | Telco/MEC, Healthcare, Manufacturing/Industrial IoT, Energy, Retail, Automotive & transportation | Supported platforms (Linux flavors, Windows hosts…) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Product Manager | fish | Software / Technology | The one doing funny faces | Faster time to market, Ensure portability | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Switch between public cloud providers in a flash | Nooo | N/A or don't know | Abstraction layer | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | TRUE | Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup, Using best-of breed cloud-native tools, Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Cloud platforms don’t meet needs/expectations, Storage / Data requirements not addressed adequately, Velocity of evolution of the k8s platform | AWS, Azure, VMware | Don't know | 1.18 | TRUE | _ | 1-10 | Operators: KUDO, K8s Operators, Charmed Operators, etc | Operators | Yes, sometimes | Yes | False | SRE | How can we optimize resource utilization?, How secure is that thing? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Other | How are these different from the others? | cluster | Integrate legacy/MVC applications running on VMs with my containers | True | Cloud-native storage | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | Yes, in production | Separate clusters | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE | exit | kind (Kubernetes in Docker) | Telco/MEC, Retail | Offline mode experience, Security and compliance, Ability to create a 1 or 2 node cluster, GPUs for AI/ML, EPA features (SR-IOV, DPDK, Numa, etc), Provisioning & management of the edge fleet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Executive | dog | Software / Technology | The one who just woke up | Faster time to market, Modernizing infrastructure | No thanks, but I’ll fill it out because i’m awesome. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Uncontrolled dispersion | 100% Yes | 201-500 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | Heroku | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | TRUE | Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup, Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Cloud platforms don’t meet needs/expectations, Inefficient day to day operations, Cost overruns | AWS, Azure, GCP | 50+ | 1.19 | TRUE | 🙂 | 501-1000 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, bags of gold | Yes | False | Managed service | How should that scenario be integrated into the wider estate?, Where should the application run? | Don’t know | Continuous Integration & Delivery, Application Definition & Image Build, Database, Streaming & Messaging, Serverless/Function-as-a-Service, Container Runtime | An IT person with experience in operating Kubernetes | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Other | kubeconfig | I have a monolith the company worships | True | Database | Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | Yes, in production | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Docker Kubernetes | Data centers & CDNs | Low latency | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | panda | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Modernizing infrastructure, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Accelerate development, automate DevOps | 100% Yes | 51-100 | VMs/containers | All our applications run on Kubernetes | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | TRUE | Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Company IT culture | Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud, Bare metal, Private Cloud | 6-10 | 1.17 | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, often | No, we build everything ourselves | True | SRE | How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations?, What’s the fastest way to deploy X? | Don’t know | Automation & Configuration, Continuous Integration & Delivery | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Using them for apps in production | Trying them out is on my to-do list | kubeconfig | I can do everything I need using Kubernetes | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Size - lightweight images, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | No, stateless applications only | Namespaces, Labels, Separate clusters | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE | exit | On-prem Kubernetes installation | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Data Scientist | raccoon | Scientific or technical services | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Agility around traffic spikes | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Move an application | Nooo | 101-200 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | TRUE | None of the above | Networking requirements not addressed adequately | VMware, Private Cloud | Don't know | Older than 1.10 (we don’t judge, old timer) | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | Platform Engineer | How secure is that thing?, Where should the application run? | Don’t know | Database | Don’t know | Most useful invention since pizza | Most useful invention since pizza | cluster | Make coffee | False | Ummm, I don’t know | Stability - long term supported versions, Price - lowest cost for pulling or running the image, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | Yes, evaluating | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | Don't know | Education & workplaces | Low latency, Supported platforms (Linux flavors, Windows hosts…), Network support | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Machine Learning Specialist | dog | Consulting | The one without the camera on | Faster time to market, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please. | A combination of at least two public clouds | Accelerate development, automate DevOps | Nooo | N/A or don't know | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | All our applications run on Kubernetes | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | TRUE | Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Company IT culture | AWS | 2-5 | 1.18 | FALSE | 🙂 | 11-100 | Helm | Operators | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | No, we build everything ourselves | False | Platform Engineer | How secure is that thing?, How should that scenario be integrated into the wider estate? | Just one | Application Definition & Image Build, Continuous Integration & Delivery, Database, Streaming & Messaging, Observability, API Gateway, Scheduling & Orchestration, Ingress/Service Proxy, Container Registry, Security & Compliance, Cloud Native Storage, Container Runtime, Serverless/Function-as-a-Service | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Using them for apps in production | Trying them out is on my to-do list | kubeconfig | I can do everything I need using Kubernetes | True | Ingress/Service Proxy | Size - lightweight images, Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Price - lowest cost for pulling or running the image | Yes, in production | Namespaces, Labels | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Minikube, Docker Kubernetes, MicroK8s, Cloud provider managed Kubernetes, I don’t use Kubernetes during local development (e.g. use Docker Compose) | Manufacturing/Industrial IoT, Healthcare, Smart buildings & cities | Resource allocation, Scalability, Low latency, Observability, Security and compliance, Supported platforms (Linux flavors, Windows hosts…), Network support | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Data Scientist | cat | Education | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Modernizing infrastructure, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please. | A combination of at least two public clouds and a private cloud | Cluster mission-critical databases | Nooo | 6-20 | Abstraction layer | Mostly on VMs, planning a full migration to Kubernetes | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | FALSE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Difficulty training users, Poor or limited support from platform providers or partners, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Cost overruns | AWS, GCP | 2-5 | 1.17 | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | Operators: KUDO, K8s Operators, Charmed Operators, etc | Kustomize | Yes, often | No, we build everything ourselves | True | DevOps | Which software components should be included in the workflow?, What’s the fastest way to deploy X? | A team of at least 9 | Observability, Chaos Engineering, Streaming & Messaging, API Gateway, Coordination & Service Discovery, Service Mesh, Ingress/Service Proxy, Container Registry | A helm chart that can be dynamically modified at execution time | Getting comfortable with them | Trying them out is on my to-do list | cluster | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | False | Service mesh | Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Size - lightweight images | Yes, in production | Namespaces, Labels, Separate clusters | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE | exit | Minikube, Docker Kubernetes, kind (Kubernetes in Docker), k3s, MicroK8s, Cloud provider managed Kubernetes, On-prem Kubernetes installation | Telco/MEC, Data centers & CDNs, Healthcare, Energy, Retail | Low latency, Scalability, Observability, Security and compliance, Device “phone home”, Offline mode experience, Provisioning & management of the edge fleet, Specific communications protocol support | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | dog | Telecommunications | The one who always talks | Removing vendor dependencies, Sadly I'm not sure my team are interested in Kube.. I am . | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | Nooo | 5000+ | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | FALSE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Company IT culture | AWS | Don't know | I say 1.21 because I want to look cool, but it’s really 1.20. | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | Dont know. | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | No, we build everything ourselves | True | Managed service | What is happening in that YAML file?, What’s the fastest way to deploy X? | Don’t know | None - I’m still learning | Don’t know | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Trying them out is on my to-do list | cluster | dont know what I dont know. | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc, Stability - long term supported versions, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image | No, stateless applications only | Namespaces | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | return 1 | MicroK8s, Cloud provider managed Kubernetes, On-prem Kubernetes installation | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | DevOps Management | penguin | Software / Technology | The one who always talks | Global reach, Faster time to market | Yes please. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Move an application | 100% Yes | 6-20 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | All our applications run on Kubernetes | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | TRUE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Deploying business solutions in different geographies | Integrating cloud-native applications together, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Networking requirements not addressed adequately | AWS, Bare metal, OpenStack | 2-5 | 1.17 | FALSE | 🙂 | 11-100 | Helm | I don’t know | Yes, often | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | SRE | What is happening in that YAML file?, How secure is that thing? | Just one | Container Runtime, Container Registry, Security & Compliance, Cloud Native Network | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Using them for apps in production | Using them for apps in production | cluster | Integrate legacy/MVC applications running on VMs with my containers | True | Ingress/Service Proxy | Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Size - lightweight images, Price - lowest cost for pulling or running the image | Yes, in production | Labels, Namespaces | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE | exit | On-prem Kubernetes installation, MicroK8s | Telco/MEC, Healthcare | Scalability, Observability, Service mesh support | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | None | I don’t have an edge use case | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | CTO | cat | Software / Technology | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Modernizing infrastructure, Removing vendor dependencies | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | Nooo | 21-50 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | TRUE | Using best-of breed cloud-native tools, Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Inefficient day to day operations, Observability / monitoring requirements not addressed adequately, Company IT culture | Private Cloud | Don't know | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | False | DevOps | How secure is that thing?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | Just one | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A Go application that can talk to the Kubernetes API to manage resources | Don’t care for them | Don’t care for them | cluster | Automate the integration of cloud services with my on-prem applications | False | Ummm, I don’t know | Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Size - lightweight images | Yes, in production | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | I don’t use Kubernetes during local development (e.g. use Docker Compose) | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Machine Learning Specialist | fish | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Lower infrastructure TCO, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Accelerate development, automate DevOps | 100% Yes | 51-100 | VMs/containers | Mostly on VMs, planning a full migration to Kubernetes | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | TRUE | Moving to an open-source solution, Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Incompatibility with legacy systems, Lack of flexibility when it comes to address workload spikes, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Difficulty training users, Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower | Azure, AWS, GCP | 11-20 | 1.18 | TRUE | _ | 11-100 | Kustomize | Kustomize | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | False | SRE | What’s the fastest way to deploy X?, How can we optimize resource utilization? | A team of at least 9 | Streaming & Messaging, Continuous Integration & Delivery, Application Definition & Image Build | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Tried once, failed miserably | kubeconfig | I can do everything I need using Kubernetes | True | Cloud-native storage | Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included | Yes, in production | Namespaces, Separate clusters, Labels | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE | echo ‘true’ | MicroK8s, Minikube, kind (Kubernetes in Docker), On-prem Kubernetes installation, Cloud provider managed Kubernetes | Image processing, Manufacturing/Industrial IoT, Smart buildings & cities | Low latency, Observability, Device “phone home”, GPUs for AI/ML, Ability to create a 1 or 2 node cluster | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | cat | Financial Services | The one who just woke up | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Lower infrastructure TCO | Yes please. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Expand cloud backup options to cut costs | 100% Yes | 5000+ | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | TRUE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting | Incompatibility with legacy systems, Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately | Bare metal, OpenStack, GCP, Azure, AWS | 50+ | 1.19 | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, bags of gold | No, we build everything ourselves | True | SRE | What is happening in that YAML file?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | Just one | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Trying them out is on my to-do list | How are these different from the others? | cluster | Integrate legacy/MVC applications running on VMs with my containers | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image | Yes, in production | Namespaces | TRUE | FALSE | TRUE | exit | On-prem Kubernetes installation | Telco/MEC, Data centers & CDNs | Specific communications protocol support | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | cat | Transportation and warehousing | The one who always talks | Faster time to market, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Expand cloud backup options to cut costs | 100% Yes | 6-20 | Bare metal | Mostly on VMs, planning a full migration to Kubernetes | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Cloud platforms don’t meet needs/expectations | AWS, GCP, Azure | 6-10 | 1.18 | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | Kustomize | Yes, sometimes | No, we build everything ourselves | True | DevOps | Which software components should be included in the workflow?, How can we optimize resource utilization? | Just one | Continuous Integration & Delivery, Application Definition & Image Build | A master .yaml file used to deploy multiple applications and their components | Trying them out is on my to-do list | kubeconfig | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | True | Database | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Price - lowest cost for pulling or running the image | Yes, in production | Namespaces, Separate clusters, Labels | FALSE | TRUE | TRUE | echo ‘true’ | Minikube, Docker Kubernetes, MicroK8s | Energy, Image processing, Manufacturing/Industrial IoT, Telco/MEC | Offline mode experience, Device “phone home” | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | panda | Software / Technology | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Removing vendor dependencies | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Cluster mission-critical databases | Nooo | 21-50 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | TRUE | Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service, Using best-of breed cloud-native tools, Deploying business solutions in different geographies | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Incompatibility with legacy systems | AWS, VMware | 2-5 | 1.19 | TRUE | 🙂 | 1-10 | Kustomize | Kustomize | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | How secure is that thing?, How can we optimize resource utilization? | Just one | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Using them for apps in production | How are these different from the others? | cluster | Automate the integration of cloud services with my on-prem applications | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Size - lightweight images, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher | Yes, in production | Namespaces | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | On-prem Kubernetes installation, k3s | Living on the edge, Image processing | Observability, Security and compliance, Provisioning & management of the edge fleet, GPUs for AI/ML, Low latency, Scalability | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Back-end Developer | cat | Financial Services | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Ensure portability | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | Nooo | N/A or don't know | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal and VMs | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | FALSE | None of the above | Observability / monitoring requirements not addressed adequately, Integrating cloud-native applications together, Poor or limited support from platform providers or partners | AWS, Azure, KVM | Don't know | 1.18 | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | Operators | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | True | DevOps | How secure is that thing?, Where should the application run? | Just one | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A master .yaml file used to deploy multiple applications and their components | Getting comfortable with them | Trying them out is on my to-do list | cluster | Make coffee | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included, Stability - long term supported versions | Yes, evaluating | Labels, Namespaces | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Minikube, Docker Kubernetes, MicroK8s, On-prem Kubernetes installation | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Full-Stack Developer | panda | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please. | A combination of at least two public clouds | Monitor and predict usage costs | 100% Yes | 6-20 | Abstraction layer | All our applications run on Kubernetes | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | FALSE | Moving to an open-source solution, Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup, Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Difficulty training users, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Cost overruns | AWS, GCP, Bare metal | 6-10 | 1.17 | FALSE | 🙂 | 11-100 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | More helm charts | Yes, sometimes | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | What’s the fastest way to deploy X?, How secure is that thing? | A team of at least 9 | Application Definition & Image Build, Continuous Integration & Delivery, Database, Streaming & Messaging, API Gateway, Container Registry | A Go application that can talk to the Kubernetes API to manage resources | Tried once, failed miserably | Tried once, failed miserably | cluster | Integrate legacy/MVC applications running on VMs with my containers | True | Service mesh | Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Size - lightweight images, Stability - long term supported versions | No, stateless applications only | Separate clusters, Labels | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | echo ‘true’ | Cloud provider managed Kubernetes | I don’t have an edge use case | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Consultant | raccoon | Financial Services | The one without the camera on | Modernizing infrastructure, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | You put your left foot in, you take your left foot out, you put your left foot in, and you shake it all about | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | Nooo | N/A or don't know | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | Don’t know | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | TRUE | None of the above | Company IT culture | Don't know | None | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | More helm charts | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | Our Intern | How secure is that thing?, Where should the application run? | A team of at least 9 | None - I’m still learning | An IT person with experience in operating Kubernetes | Most useful invention since pizza | Trying them out is on my to-do list | cluster | I have a monolith the company worships | False | Service mesh | Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc, Stability - long term supported versions | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | return 1 | Don't know | Living on the edge | Device “phone home” | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | penguin | Telecommunications | The one who always talks | Modernizing infrastructure, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | You put your left foot in, you take your left foot out, you put your left foot in, and you shake it all about | Move an application | Business on top, PJs on the bottom | 5000+ | VMs/containers | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | FALSE | Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service, Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Inefficient day to day operations, Observability / monitoring requirements not addressed adequately, Incompatibility with legacy systems | VMware, IBM Cloud, OpenStack, Bare metal, KVM | 50+ | 1.18 | TRUE | 🙂 | 11-100 | Kustomize | Operators | Yes, sometimes | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | What resources should be allocated to the scenario?, What’s the fastest way to deploy X? | A team of at least 9 | Service Mesh, Continuous Integration & Delivery, Automation & Configuration, Key Management, Cloud Native Storage | A helm chart that can be dynamically modified at execution time | Using them for apps in production | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Make coffee | True | Service mesh | Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included | Yes, in production | Separate clusters, Namespaces, Labels | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE | echo ‘true’ | kind (Kubernetes in Docker), On-prem Kubernetes installation, k3s | Telco/MEC, Data centers & CDNs, Manufacturing/Industrial IoT | Observability, Service mesh support, GPUs for AI/ML, EPA features (SR-IOV, DPDK, Numa, etc) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Infrastructure Architect | bird | Software / Technology | The one walking around the house | Agility around traffic spikes, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Cluster mission-critical databases | Business on top, PJs on the bottom | 201-500 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | TRUE | Moving to an open-source solution, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service, Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup | Observability / monitoring requirements not addressed adequately, Storage / Data requirements not addressed adequately, Cost overruns, Difficulty training users | AWS, GCP, OpenStack, IBM Cloud, Azure | 11-20 | 1.18 | TRUE | 🙂 | 11-100 | Helm | Operators | Yes, sometimes | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | Which software components should be included in the workflow?, How can we optimize resource utilization? | Just one | Continuous Integration & Delivery, Automation & Configuration, Container Registry, Container Runtime | A Go application that can talk to the Kubernetes API to manage resources | Don’t need them | Trying them out is on my to-do list | cluster | Automate the integration of cloud services with my on-prem applications | True | Service mesh | Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | Yes, in production | Namespaces, Labels, Separate clusters | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | MicroK8s, k3s, Minikube | Image processing, Manufacturing/Industrial IoT, Telco/MEC | Low latency, Offline mode experience, Network support | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Software Architect | dog | Financial Services | The one without the camera on | Global reach, Lower infrastructure TCO | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Cluster mission-critical databases | 100% Yes | 51-100 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | Mostly on VMs, planning a full migration to Kubernetes | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Moving to an open-source solution | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Difficulty training users, Cloud platforms don’t meet needs/expectations, Cost overruns, Storage / Data requirements not addressed adequately | AWS, IBM Cloud, OpenStack, Bare metal, KVM | 2-5 | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | Operators | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | What resources should be allocated to the scenario?, How can we optimize resource utilization? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A master .yaml file used to deploy multiple applications and their components | Trying them out is on my to-do list | How are these different from the others? | kubeconfig | Make coffee | True | Database | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Size - lightweight images | Yes, in production | Namespaces | FALSE | TRUE | TRUE | echo ‘true’ | Minikube | Image processing | Resource allocation, Scalability, Security and compliance, Offline mode experience | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | dog | Media / Analyst | The one walking around the house | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please. | A combination of private datacenter with public cloud | Disaster recovery | Business on top, PJs on the bottom | 51-100 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | FALSE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Deploying business solutions in different geographies, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Networking requirements not addressed adequately, Incompatibility with legacy systems | AWS, GCP | 2-5 | 1.17 | FALSE | 🙂 | 11-100 | Helm | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | Yes | True | DevOps | How secure is that thing?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | A team of at least 9 | Application Definition & Image Build, Continuous Integration & Delivery, Service Mesh, Ingress/Service Proxy, Container Runtime | A Go application that can talk to the Kubernetes API to manage resources | Getting comfortable with them | How are these different from the others? | cluster | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Stability - long term supported versions | No, stateless applications only | Labels | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | return 1 | MicroK8s | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | dog | Consulting | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Faster time to market, Global reach | Yes please. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Cluster mission-critical databases | 100% Yes | 201-500 | VMs/containers | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | FALSE | Moving to an open-source solution, Using best-of breed cloud-native tools, Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Lack of flexibility when it comes to address workload spikes | AWS, Azure | 1 | 1.18 | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | Yes | False | DevOps | How can we optimize resource utilization?, How secure is that thing? | Just one | Serverless/Function-as-a-Service | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Trying them out is on my to-do list | cluster | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | True | Service mesh | Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher | Yes, in production | Namespaces | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | return 1 | Cloud provider managed Kubernetes | Data centers & CDNs | Security and compliance, Message brokers support | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Mobile Developer | fish | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Expand cloud backup options to cut costs | Nooo | 6-20 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal and VMs | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | FALSE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Company IT culture, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower | AWS, GCP, Private Cloud | None | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | Yes | False | DevOps | Which software components should be included in the workflow?, What resources should be allocated to the scenario? | Just one | API Gateway, Serverless/Function-as-a-Service | Don’t know | Other | Trying them out is on my to-do list | cluster | I have a monolith the company worships | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Docker Kubernetes, Cloud provider managed Kubernetes | I don’t have an edge use case | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Engineering Manager | dog | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Faster time to market | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | You put your left foot in, you take your left foot out, you put your left foot in, and you shake it all about | Cloud bursting | 100% Yes | 6-20 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | FALSE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Deploying business solutions in different geographies | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Poor or limited support from platform providers or partners, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Cloud platforms don’t meet needs/expectations, Lack of flexibility when it comes to address workload spikes, Cost overruns, Observability / monitoring requirements not addressed adequately, Velocity of evolution of the k8s platform, Company IT culture | AWS | 6-10 | 1.17 | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Operators: KUDO, K8s Operators, Charmed Operators, etc | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | SRE | How can we optimize resource utilization?, Which software components should be included in the workflow? | Just one | Application Definition & Image Build, Container Registry | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Getting comfortable with them | Don’t need them | kubeconfig | I have a monolith the company worships | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image | Yes, in production | Not applicable to me or don't know | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | return 1 | MicroK8s, Docker Kubernetes, I don’t use Kubernetes during local development (e.g. use Docker Compose) | Living on the edge | Scalability, Low latency | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Machine Learning Specialist | pterodactyl | Financial Services | The one walking around the house | Modernizing infrastructure, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Accelerate development, automate DevOps | I literally took them off a minute ago | 201-500 | Earthy material | Mostly on VMs, planning a full migration to Kubernetes | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | TRUE | Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Integrating cloud-native applications together, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Inefficient day to day operations | AWS | Don't know | I say 1.21 because I want to look cool, but it’s really 1.20. | FALSE | _ | 0 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | False | DevOps | What resources should be allocated to the scenario?, How can we optimize resource utilization? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Don’t need them | Getting comfortable with them | kubeconfig | Make coffee | False | Database | Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included, Stability - long term supported versions, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | Yes, evaluating | Labels, Namespaces, Separate clusters | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | MicroK8s, Docker Kubernetes, Cloud provider managed Kubernetes | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | cat | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Monitor and predict usage costs | Nooo | 2001-5000 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | TRUE | None of the above | Incompatibility with legacy systems, Cloud platforms don’t meet needs/expectations, Inefficient day to day operations, Cost overruns, Networking requirements not addressed adequately, Company IT culture | GCP | 2-5 | 1.19 | TRUE | 🙂 | 1-10 | Helm | Operators | Yes, sometimes | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | Platform Engineer | Where should the application run?, Which software components should be included in the workflow? | A team of at least 9 | Application Definition & Image Build, Continuous Integration & Delivery, API Gateway, Container Registry, Ingress/Service Proxy | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Using them for apps in production | How are these different from the others? | cluster | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | True | Service mesh | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Size - lightweight images | Yes, evaluating | Namespaces, Separate clusters | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | I don’t use Kubernetes during local development (e.g. use Docker Compose) | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Consultant | dog | Consulting | The one without the camera on | Ensure portability, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | Nooo | N/A or don't know | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | Don’t know | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | TRUE | None of the above | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Observability / monitoring requirements not addressed adequately, Storage / Data requirements not addressed adequately | Don't know | Don't know | Older than 1.10 (we don’t judge, old timer) | FALSE | _ | 0 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | Self-serve admin | How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations?, What is happening in that YAML file? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | None - I’m still learning | Don’t know | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Trying them out is on my to-do list | kubeconfig | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | False | Cloud-native storage | Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | Don't know | I don’t have an edge use case | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Back-end Developer | dog | Telecommunications | The one without the camera on | Removing vendor dependencies, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Disaster recovery | 100% Yes | 21-50 | Abstraction layer | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | TRUE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Difficulty training users, Poor or limited support from platform providers or partners, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Cloud platforms don’t meet needs/expectations, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Networking requirements not addressed adequately, Storage / Data requirements not addressed adequately, Observability / monitoring requirements not addressed adequately, Company IT culture, Velocity of evolution of the k8s platform | VMware | 2-5 | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | FALSE | 🙂 | 101-500 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | More helm charts | Yes, bags of gold | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | Which software components should be included in the workflow?, What is happening in that helm chart? | Just one | Application Definition & Image Build, Continuous Integration & Delivery, Database, Streaming & Messaging, Observability, API Gateway, Scheduling & Orchestration, Service Mesh, Automation & Configuration, Container Registry, Cloud Native Storage, Serverless/Function-as-a-Service, Container Runtime | An IT person with experience in operating Kubernetes | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Getting comfortable with them | cluster | Make coffee | True | Service mesh | Size - lightweight images, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Stability - long term supported versions | Yes, in production | Not applicable to me or don't know | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | Minikube, k3s, MicroK8s, On-prem Kubernetes installation, I don’t run containers during development | Telco/MEC | Message brokers support, Device “phone home”, EPA features (SR-IOV, DPDK, Numa, etc), Ability to create a 1 or 2 node cluster | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Back-end Developer | panda | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Faster time to market, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please. | You put your left foot in, you take your left foot out, you put your left foot in, and you shake it all about | On and off-ramp data | 100% Yes | 1-5 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | All our applications run on Kubernetes | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | FALSE | Using best-of breed cloud-native tools | Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately | GCP | 2-5 | 1.18 | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | No, we build everything ourselves | False | DevOps | What resources should be allocated to the scenario?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | Just one | Application Definition & Image Build, Continuous Integration & Delivery, Observability | A master .yaml file used to deploy multiple applications and their components | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Other | cluster | Make coffee | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | No, stateless applications only | Namespaces, Labels | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Minikube | Image processing | Scalability | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Software Architect | cat | Financial Services | The one who always talks | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Lower infrastructure TCO | Yes please. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Move an application | Nooo | 101-200 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | Mostly on VMs, planning a full migration to Kubernetes | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Poor or limited support from platform providers or partners, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Company IT culture | GCP, VMware | 1 | 1.18 | TRUE | 🙂 | 1-10 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | More helm charts | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | True | Our Intern | How secure is that thing?, How should that scenario be integrated into the wider estate? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Tried once, failed miserably | How are these different from the others? | cluster | I have a monolith the company worships | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Stability - long term supported versions, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc | Yes, in production | Labels | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Minikube, Docker Kubernetes, MicroK8s | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Infrastructure Architect | dog | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Faster time to market, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Nooo | 21-50 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal and VMs | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Moving to an open-source solution | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Company IT culture | AWS | 6-10 | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | FALSE | 🙂 | 1-10 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, often | Yes | False | SRE | How can we optimize resource utilization?, How secure is that thing? | Just one | Continuous Integration & Delivery, Database, API Gateway, Cloud Native Network, Cloud Native Storage, Serverless/Function-as-a-Service | A master .yaml file used to deploy multiple applications and their components | Getting comfortable with them | Trying them out is on my to-do list | kubeconfig | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | False | Ummm, I don’t know | Size - lightweight images, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Price - lowest cost for pulling or running the image | No, stateless applications only | Namespaces | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE | return 1 | Cloud provider managed Kubernetes, Docker Kubernetes | Healthcare | Observability | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | penguin | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Faster time to market | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Cluster mission-critical databases | Nooo | 501-1000 | Abstraction layer | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Deploying business solutions in different geographies, Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Moving to an open-source solution, Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Difficulty training users, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Company IT culture | AWS, GCP, VMware, Bare metal, KVM | 11-20 | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | TRUE | 🙂 | 11-100 | Kustomize | Kustomize | Yes, sometimes | Yes | False | DevOps | How can we optimize resource utilization?, How secure is that thing? | Just one | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Using them for apps in production | Trying them out is on my to-do list | cluster | I can do everything I need using Kubernetes | True | Database | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard | Yes, in production | Namespaces, Labels, Separate clusters | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | return 1 | k3s, kind (Kubernetes in Docker), Cloud provider managed Kubernetes, Minikube, On-prem Kubernetes installation | Living on the edge, Data centers & CDNs, Telco/MEC, Manufacturing/Industrial IoT, Healthcare, Automotive & transportation, Smart buildings & cities, Residential/smart home, Energy, Agriculture, Education & workplaces, Retail | Low latency, Message brokers support, Specific communications protocol support, Security and compliance, Observability, Scalability, Resource allocation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | dog | Software / Technology | The one who always talks | Modernizing infrastructure, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please. | A combination of at least two public clouds and a private cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | Nooo | 1001-2000 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | All our applications run on Kubernetes | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service, Using best-of breed cloud-native tools | Incompatibility with legacy systems | AWS, VMware, Bare metal, Private Cloud, KVM | 2-5 | 1.17 | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | Kustomize | Kustomize | Yes, often | Yes | True | Platform Engineer | How secure is that thing?, Which software components should be included in the workflow? | A team of at least 9 | Application Definition & Image Build, Continuous Integration & Delivery, Observability, Scheduling & Orchestration, Ingress/Service Proxy, Automation & Configuration, Container Registry, Security & Compliance | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Using them for apps in production | Trying them out is on my to-do list | cluster | Automate the integration of cloud services with my on-prem applications | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Stability - long term supported versions | No, stateless applications only | Namespaces | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | return 1 | I don’t use Kubernetes during local development (e.g. use Docker Compose) | Residential/smart home | Provisioning & management of the edge fleet, Device “phone home”, Ability to create a 1 or 2 node cluster | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Data Scientist | penguin | Telecommunications | The one without the camera on | Modernizing infrastructure, Agility around traffic spikes | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | Nooo | 5000+ | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | Mostly on VMs, planning a full migration to Kubernetes | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Deploying business solutions in different geographies | Cloud platforms don’t meet needs/expectations, Integrating cloud-native applications together, Company IT culture | Private Cloud | 2-5 | 1.20 | FALSE | 🙂 | 1-10 | Helm | More helm charts | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | True | DevOps | What is happening in that helm chart?, What is happening in that YAML file? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A helm chart that can be dynamically modified at execution time | Using them for apps in production | Other | kubeconfig | I can do everything I need using Kubernetes | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image | Yes, evaluating | Namespaces, Separate clusters | TRUE | FALSE | TRUE | echo ‘true’ | On-prem Kubernetes installation, Cloud provider managed Kubernetes | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | bird | Financial Services | The one who always talks | Lower infrastructure TCO, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least two public clouds | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | Nooo | 21-50 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | Ecs | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | FALSE | Deploying business solutions in different geographies | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower | AWS | None | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | What’s the fastest way to deploy X?, How secure is that thing? | Don’t know | Application Definition & Image Build, Continuous Integration & Delivery, Database, Observability, Scheduling & Orchestration, Automation & Configuration, Container Registry, Container Runtime | Don’t know | Other | Other | kubeconfig | False | Ingress/Service Proxy | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | Yes, in production | Namespaces | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Just docker | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Infrastructure Architect | cat | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Ensure portability, Faster time to market | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Disaster recovery | 100% Yes | 51-100 | VMs/containers | On a mix of bare metal and VMs | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | TRUE | Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Difficulty training users, Lack of flexibility when it comes to address workload spikes, Inefficient day to day operations, Company IT culture | Don't know | None | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | Which software components should be included in the workflow?, How secure is that thing? | Just one | Database, None - I’m still learning | Don’t know | Tried once, failed miserably | Most useful invention since pizza | cluster | I have a monolith the company worships | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Price - lowest cost for pulling or running the image, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Stability - long term supported versions | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | Namespaces, Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | MicroK8s, Docker Kubernetes | Data centers & CDNs, Retail, Education & workplaces | Scalability, Offline mode experience, Ability to create a 1 or 2 node cluster | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Infrastructure Architect | fish | Professional Services | The one doing funny faces | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Accelerate development, automate DevOps | I literally took them off a minute ago | 21-50 | Bare metal | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | TRUE | Moving to an open-source solution, Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service, Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Difficulty training users, Poor or limited support from platform providers or partners, Velocity of evolution of the k8s platform | OpenStack | 2-5 | 1.19 | _ | 101-500 | Operators: KUDO, K8s Operators, Charmed Operators, etc | Operators | Yes, sometimes | Yes | True | Platform Engineer | How can we optimize resource utilization?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | A team of at least 9 | Continuous Integration & Delivery, Application Definition & Image Build, Database, Streaming & Messaging, Scheduling & Orchestration, Container Registry, Cloud Native Network, Container Runtime | A master .yaml file used to deploy multiple applications and their components | Using them for apps in production | Getting comfortable with them | cluster | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | True | Database | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Price - lowest cost for pulling or running the image, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard | No, stateless applications only | Namespaces, Separate clusters | TRUE | FALSE | TRUE | return 1 | Docker Kubernetes, k3s, MicroK8s, On-prem Kubernetes installation, Cloud provider managed Kubernetes, kind (Kubernetes in Docker) | Telco/MEC, Retail | Resource allocation, Scalability, Low latency, Observability, Security and compliance, Offline mode experience, Provisioning & management of the edge fleet, Specific communications protocol support, EPA features (SR-IOV, DPDK, Numa, etc), Supported platforms (Linux flavors, Windows hosts…) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Back-end Developer | dog | Consulting | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Lower infrastructure TCO | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Disaster recovery | 100% Yes | 1-5 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | TRUE | Deploying business solutions in different geographies | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower | AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba cloud, DigitalOcean, IBM Cloud | 2-5 | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, often | Yes | False | DevOps | What is happening in that YAML file?, How can we optimize resource utilization? | Just one | Serverless/Function-as-a-Service | A master .yaml file used to deploy multiple applications and their components | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Integrate legacy/MVC applications running on VMs with my containers | True | Cloud-native storage | Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Stability - long term supported versions | No, stateless applications only | Separate clusters | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | Don't know | Education & workplaces, Data centers & CDNs, Manufacturing/Industrial IoT | Scalability, Low latency, Security and compliance, Supported platforms (Linux flavors, Windows hosts…) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | pterodactyl | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Faster time to market, Customer satisfaction | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | Business on top, PJs on the bottom | 21-50 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | Mostly kubernetes, few special cases on VMs | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Moving to an open-source solution, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service, Using best-of breed cloud-native tools | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Company IT culture | Azure | 2-5 | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | Kustomize | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | No, we build everything ourselves | False | DevOps | How secure is that thing?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | Just one | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Using them for apps in production | How are these different from the others? | cluster | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | True | Database | Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image | Yes, in production | Namespaces, Separate clusters | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | return 1 | I don’t use Kubernetes during local development (e.g. use Docker Compose) | Living on the edge | Ability to create a 1 or 2 node cluster | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Security Engineer | penguin | Software / Technology | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Lower infrastructure TCO, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Accelerate development, automate DevOps | Business on top, PJs on the bottom | 21-50 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | Mostly on VMs, planning a full migration to Kubernetes | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | FALSE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Difficulty training users, Integrating cloud-native applications together, Poor or limited support from platform providers or partners, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Cost overruns | OpenStack, Private Cloud, KVM, Azure | 2-5 | 1.18 | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | Operators: KUDO, K8s Operators, Charmed Operators, etc | Operators | Yes, often | Yes | False | Self-serve admin | How can we optimize resource utilization?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | Just one | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A master .yaml file used to deploy multiple applications and their components | Getting comfortable with them | Using them for apps in production | kubeconfig | Automate the integration of cloud services with my on-prem applications | Service mesh | Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc, Size - lightweight images, Stability - long term supported versions | Yes, evaluating | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | MicroK8s | Data centers & CDNs | Scalability, Security and compliance, Provisioning & management of the edge fleet, Network support, Supported platforms (Linux flavors, Windows hosts…), Offline mode experience, Observability, Low latency, Resource allocation, Specific communications protocol support, Service mesh support, EPA features (SR-IOV, DPDK, Numa, etc), Diversified edge gateway and leaf devices | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Security Engineer | penguin | Government | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Modernizing infrastructure, Removing vendor dependencies | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Accelerate development, automate DevOps | Nooo | 51-100 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On a mix of bare metal and VMs | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | FALSE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Using best-of breed cloud-native tools | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Company IT culture | Bare metal | None | FALSE | _ | 0 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | Kustomize | Yes, sometimes | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | Self-serve admin | Which software components should be included in the workflow?, How secure is that thing? | Don’t know | None - I’m still learning | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Getting comfortable with them | Trying them out is on my to-do list | kubeconfig | Automate the integration of cloud services with my on-prem applications | True | Ingress/Service Proxy | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | Yes, evaluating | Namespaces | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | return 1 | MicroK8s | Education & workplaces | Security and compliance, Scalability | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Other | dog | Software / Technology | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Cluster mission-critical databases | Nooo | 1-5 | VMs/containers | On a mix of bare metal and VMs | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | FALSE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting | Incompatibility with legacy systems, Inefficient day to day operations, Company IT culture | Don't know | 1 | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | FALSE | _ | 0 | Operators: KUDO, K8s Operators, Charmed Operators, etc | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | False | DevOps | How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations?, What’s the fastest way to deploy X? | A team of at least 9 | None - I’m still learning | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Tried once, failed miserably | Trying them out is on my to-do list | cluster | Integrate legacy/MVC applications running on VMs with my containers | False | Ummm, I don’t know | Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard | Yes, evaluating | Separate clusters | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Docker Kubernetes, MicroK8s | Energy, Manufacturing/Industrial IoT, Telco/MEC, Healthcare, Smart buildings & cities, Automotive & transportation, Education & workplaces | Low latency, Resource allocation, Security and compliance, Offline mode experience, Network support | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Project Manager | dog | Telecommunications | The one without the camera on | Removing vendor dependencies, Ensure portability | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | On and off-ramp data | 100% Yes | 101-200 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | TRUE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup | Networking requirements not addressed adequately | AWS, Azure, OpenStack | 11-20 | 1.18 | TRUE | 🙂 | 11-100 | Helm | Operators | Yes, sometimes | Yes | False | DevOps | How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations?, How can we optimize resource utilization? | Don’t know | None - I’m still learning | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Using them for apps in production | Using them for apps in production | kubeconfig | Make coffee | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Stability - long term supported versions, Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard | No, stateless applications only | Not applicable to me or don't know | TRUE | TRUE | FALSE | exit | Docker Kubernetes, MicroK8s, On-prem Kubernetes installation | Telco/MEC, Automotive & transportation | Low latency, Resource allocation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | penguin | Telecommunications | The one without the camera on | Removing vendor dependencies, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Disaster recovery | Nooo | 21-50 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Incompatibility with legacy systems | OpenStack | None | TRUE | 🙂 | 1-10 | rancher | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | False | DevOps | Which software components should be included in the workflow?, How secure is that thing? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | Application Definition & Image Build, Coordination & Service Discovery, Scheduling & Orchestration, Automation & Configuration, Container Registry, Cloud Native Network, None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Getting comfortable with them | cluster | suport for port ranges in loadbalancers to suport voip | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | Yes, in production | Namespaces | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | return 1 | k3s | Telco/MEC | Low latency, Scalability, EPA features (SR-IOV, DPDK, Numa, etc) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Software Architect | penguin | Financial Services | The one walking around the house | Faster time to market, Agility around traffic spikes | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | You put your left foot in, you take your left foot out, you put your left foot in, and you shake it all about | Move an application | I literally took them off a minute ago | 1001-2000 | Abstraction layer | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Moving to an open-source solution, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Company IT culture | AWS, DigitalOcean, VMware, Azure | 1 | 1.18 | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | More helm charts | Yes, bags of gold | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | Platform Engineer | What resources should be allocated to the scenario?, How can we optimize resource utilization? | A team of at least 9 | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Most useful invention since pizza | Don’t care for them | kubeconfig | I have a monolith the company worships | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Size - lightweight images, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included, Stability - long term supported versions | No, stateless applications only | Namespaces, Separate clusters | TRUE | TRUE | FALSE | exit | I don’t use Kubernetes during local development (e.g. use Docker Compose), kind (Kubernetes in Docker) | Energy, Telco/MEC | Low latency, Provisioning & management of the edge fleet, GPUs for AI/ML | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | penguin | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Lower infrastructure TCO, Removing vendor dependencies | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | Nooo | 51-100 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | FALSE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Deploying business solutions in different geographies | Incompatibility with legacy systems, Company IT culture, Difficulty training users, Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower | AWS, OVH | 1 | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | FALSE | _ | 11-100 | Kustomize | More helm charts | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | How secure is that thing?, What is happening in that helm chart? | Just one | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A helm chart that can be dynamically modified at execution time | Don’t need them | Other | kubeconfig | Make coffee | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image | Yes, in production | Namespaces, Labels | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | kind (Kubernetes in Docker), I don’t use Kubernetes during local development (e.g. use Docker Compose) | Data centers & CDNs | Low latency | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Security Engineer | pterodactyl | Consulting | The one without the camera on | Faster time to market, Lower infrastructure TCO | Yes please. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Disaster recovery | Business on top, PJs on the bottom | 5000+ | VMs/containers | Mostly on VMs, planning a full migration to Kubernetes | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | TRUE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Integrating cloud-native applications together, Storage / Data requirements not addressed adequately, Company IT culture | AWS, DigitalOcean, Private Cloud | 6-10 | Older than 1.10 (we don’t judge, old timer) | TRUE | 🙂 | 1-10 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | I don’t know | Yes, often | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | Which software components should be included in the workflow?, What’s the fastest way to deploy X? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | Continuous Integration & Delivery, Automation & Configuration, Container Registry | Don’t know | Other | Trying them out is on my to-do list | cluster | Make coffee | True | Database | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | Yes, evaluating | Namespaces | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | MicroK8s, Minikube | Data centers & CDNs | Scalability, Security and compliance, Supported platforms (Linux flavors, Windows hosts…) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Back-end Developer | dog | Financial Services | The one doing funny faces | Faster time to market, Agility around traffic spikes | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Expand cloud backup options to cut costs | 100% Yes | 51-100 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | All our applications run on Kubernetes | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Integrating cloud-native applications together, Cost overruns, Company IT culture | AWS, Azure, OpenStack | 1 | 1.20 | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | Kustomize | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | No, we build everything ourselves | False | DevOps | What is happening in that YAML file?, How can we optimize resource utilization? | Just one | API Gateway | Don’t know | Most useful invention since pizza | Most useful invention since pizza | cluster | Integrate legacy/MVC applications running on VMs with my containers | True | Database | Size - lightweight images, Stability - long term supported versions, Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher | No, stateless applications only | Namespaces, Separate clusters | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | Minikube, MicroK8s | Retail | Scalability, Low latency, GPUs for AI/ML, Ability to create a 1 or 2 node cluster | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Consultant | fish | Software / Technology | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Agility around traffic spikes, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Cluster mission-critical databases | Business on top, PJs on the bottom | 201-500 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Deploying business solutions in different geographies, Moving to an open-source solution, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service, Using best-of breed cloud-native tools | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Inefficient day to day operations, Networking requirements not addressed adequately, Observability / monitoring requirements not addressed adequately, Velocity of evolution of the k8s platform, Incompatibility with legacy systems | AWS, GCP, Bare metal, Packet, DigitalOcean, Private Cloud | 11-20 | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | FALSE | _ | 1-10 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | Yes | False | DevOps | What resources should be allocated to the scenario?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | Just one | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none, Cloud Native Network | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Tried once, failed miserably | kubeconfig | Automate the integration of cloud services with my on-prem applications | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included, Stability - long term supported versions | Yes, evaluating | Namespaces, Labels, Separate clusters | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Docker Kubernetes, kind (Kubernetes in Docker), Cloud provider managed Kubernetes | Data centers & CDNs, Telco/MEC, Smart buildings & cities, Healthcare, Manufacturing/Industrial IoT | Resource allocation, Scalability, Observability, Security and compliance, Ability to create a 1 or 2 node cluster, Diversified edge gateway and leaf devices, Network support, Service mesh support, Low latency | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Software Architect | penguin | Energy & Utilities | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Faster time to market, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Accelerate development, automate DevOps | I literally took them off a minute ago | 201-500 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Moving to an open-source solution | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Storage / Data requirements not addressed adequately, Observability / monitoring requirements not addressed adequately, Company IT culture | VMware, OpenStack, AWS | 2-5 | 1.18 | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | What’s the fastest way to deploy X?, How secure is that thing? | Just one | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Other | How are these different from the others? | kubeconfig | Make coffee | False | Service mesh | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Size - lightweight images, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | No, stateless applications only | Namespaces, Labels | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | echo ‘true’ | Minikube, k3s | Manufacturing/Industrial IoT, Energy | Scalability, Low latency, Security and compliance, Service mesh support, GPUs for AI/ML, Message brokers support, Supported platforms (Linux flavors, Windows hosts…) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Full-Stack Developer | panda | Non-profit | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Ensure portability | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | 100% Yes | 1-5 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | All our applications run on Kubernetes | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | FALSE | Moving to an open-source solution | Cost overruns | OpenStack | 2-5 | I say 1.21 because I want to look cool, but it’s really 1.20. | FALSE | 🙂 | 1-10 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | No, we build everything ourselves | False | Self-serve admin | How can we optimize resource utilization?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | An IT person with experience in operating Kubernetes | Getting comfortable with them | How are these different from the others? | kubeconfig | I can do everything I need using Kubernetes | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Stability - long term supported versions | Yes, evaluating | Not applicable to me or don't know | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | return 1 | I don’t use Kubernetes during local development (e.g. use Docker Compose) | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Engineering Manager | dog | Software / Technology | The one doing funny faces | Agility around traffic spikes, Faster time to market | Yes please. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Cloud bursting | Nooo | 201-500 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | All our applications run on Kubernetes | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | FALSE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service, Using best-of breed cloud-native tools | Velocity of evolution of the k8s platform | AWS, Azure, GCP, Vultr, Packet, DigitalOcean | 21-50 | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | Kustomize | Operators | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | No, we build everything ourselves | True | Platform Engineer | How can we optimize resource utilization?, How secure is that thing? | Just one | Application Definition & Image Build, Observability, Ingress/Service Proxy, Container Registry | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Using them for apps in production | How are these different from the others? | cluster | I can do everything I need using Kubernetes | True | Database | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Stability - long term supported versions, Size - lightweight images | No, stateless applications only | Namespaces, Separate clusters | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | Minikube, On-prem Kubernetes installation | Data centers & CDNs, Retail, Living on the edge | Low latency, Provisioning & management of the edge fleet, Network support, Scalability, Resource allocation, Observability, Security and compliance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | CTO | penguin | Government | The one who just woke up | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Ensure portability | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Move an application | Nooo | 5000+ | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On a mix of bare metal and VMs | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | TRUE | Deploying business solutions in different geographies, Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately, Networking requirements not addressed adequately, Company IT culture | None | Don't know | 1.18 | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | More helm charts | Yes, sometimes | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | Managed service | What resources should be allocated to the scenario?, How secure is that thing? | A team of at least 9 | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Other | Other | kubeconfig | Automate the integration of cloud services with my on-prem applications | False | Service mesh | Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included | No, stateless applications only | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Don't know | Manufacturing/Industrial IoT | Resource allocation, Scalability, Low latency | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Engineering Manager | dog | Software / Technology | The one who always talks | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Lower infrastructure TCO | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Disaster recovery | Nooo | 501-1000 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | FALSE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower | AWS, GCP | 2-5 | 1.18 | FALSE | 🙂 | 1-10 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | SRE | How secure is that thing?, What resources should be allocated to the scenario? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none | A master .yaml file used to deploy multiple applications and their components | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Trying them out is on my to-do list | kubeconfig | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | True | Service mesh | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Size - lightweight images, Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc | No, stateless applications only | Namespaces | TRUE | TRUE | FALSE | return 1 | kind (Kubernetes in Docker) | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Engineering Manager | dog | Telecommunications | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Removing vendor dependencies | No thanks, but I’ll fill it out because i’m awesome. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | 100% Yes | 1-5 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | On a mix of bare metal and VMs | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | FALSE | Moving to an open-source solution, Using best-of breed cloud-native tools | Cloud platforms don’t meet needs/expectations, Inefficient day to day operations | Azure, OpenStack | 1 | 1.17 | FALSE | 🙂 | 1-10 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | Managed service | What is happening in that YAML file?, What is happening in that helm chart? | A team of at least 9 | Application Definition & Image Build | A Go application that can talk to the Kubernetes API to manage resources | Don’t care for them | Getting comfortable with them | cluster | Integrate legacy/MVC applications running on VMs with my containers | False | Ummm, I don’t know | Price - lowest cost for pulling or running the image, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Size - lightweight images | Yes, evaluating | Namespaces | TRUE | TRUE | FALSE | return 1 | kind (Kubernetes in Docker) | Manufacturing/Industrial IoT | Low latency | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Full-Stack Developer | dog | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Global reach, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Disaster recovery | 100% Yes | 1-5 | Bare metal | On a mix of bare metal and VMs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | dog | Consulting | The one doing funny faces | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Expand cloud backup options to cut costs | 100% Yes | 21-50 | Bare metal | On a mix of bare metal and VMs | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | TRUE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Company IT culture | Bare metal | 2-5 | 1.19 | FALSE | _ | 0 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | What resources should be allocated to the scenario?, How secure is that thing? | A team of at least 9 | Continuous Integration & Delivery, Automation & Configuration | A master .yaml file used to deploy multiple applications and their components | Getting comfortable with them | Other | kubeconfig | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | True | Service mesh | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc | Yes, in production | Namespaces | TRUE | TRUE | FALSE | exit | Docker Kubernetes, k3s | Smart buildings & cities | Observability, Device “phone home”, EPA features (SR-IOV, DPDK, Numa, etc) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Back-end Developer | dog | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | 100% Yes | 6-20 | VMs/containers | All our applications run on Kubernetes | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | TRUE | Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Incompatibility with legacy systems, Integrating cloud-native applications together | AWS, GCP | 2-5 | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | TRUE | 🙂 | 0 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | Operators | Yes, sometimes | Yes | False | DevOps | Where should the application run?, What resources should be allocated to the scenario? | Just one | Continuous Integration & Delivery, API Gateway, Scheduling & Orchestration, Ingress/Service Proxy, Container Registry, Key Management, Container Runtime, Serverless/Function-as-a-Service | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Don’t need them | kubeconfig | Automate the integration of cloud services with my on-prem applications | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc | Yes, in production | Namespaces | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Minikube | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | penguin | Arts, Entertainment | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Faster time to market | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Accelerate development, automate DevOps | Nooo | 101-200 | Abstraction layer | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | TRUE | Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Inefficient day to day operations, Networking requirements not addressed adequately | AWS, OpenStack | 2-5 | 1.18 | FALSE | 🙂 | 1-10 | Helm | Kustomize | Yes, sometimes | Yes | True | DevOps | What’s the fastest way to deploy X?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | Just one | Continuous Integration & Delivery, None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none, API Gateway | An IT person with experience in operating Kubernetes | Trying them out is on my to-do list | How are these different from the others? | kubeconfig | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | True | Service mesh | Price - lowest cost for pulling or running the image, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included | Yes, in production | Namespaces | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | Minikube, MicroK8s, Docker Kubernetes | Retail | Security and compliance, Provisioning & management of the edge fleet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Full-Stack Developer | cat | Software / Technology | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Disaster recovery | Business on top, PJs on the bottom | 6-20 | VMs/containers | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | TRUE | Moving to an open-source solution, Deploying business solutions in different geographies | Difficulty training users, Poor or limited support from platform providers or partners, Company IT culture | Bare metal, DigitalOcean | 2-5 | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | TRUE | 🙂 | 1-10 | We prefer a managed Kubernetes offering | Operators | Yes, often | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | SRE | How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations?, What is happening in that YAML file? | A team of at least 9 | Database, Continuous Integration & Delivery, Container Registry | A master .yaml file used to deploy multiple applications and their components | Most useful invention since pizza | Trying them out is on my to-do list | kubeconfig | I can do everything I need using Kubernetes | True | Database | Size - lightweight images, Stability - long term supported versions, Base layer - preference for an Alpine, UBI, Ubuntu, etc | Yes, in production | Separate clusters, Namespaces | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | echo ‘true’ | Docker Kubernetes, I don’t use Kubernetes during local development (e.g. use Docker Compose) | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Software Architect | bird | Healthcare | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Ensure portability | No thanks, but I’ll fill it out because i’m awesome. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | Business on top, PJs on the bottom | 6-20 | Huh? (I honestly don’t know) | All our applications run on Kubernetes | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Networking requirements not addressed adequately, Storage / Data requirements not addressed adequately, Observability / monitoring requirements not addressed adequately | Azure | 21-50 | 1.17 | FALSE | 🙂 | 1-10 | Kustomize | Kustomize | Yes, sometimes | Yes | False | DevOps | What’s the fastest way to deploy X?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | Kubernetes is unscrewable | API Gateway, None - I’m still learning | A software extension that uses custom resources to operate applications | Other | Other | kubeconfig | Make coffee | True | Cloud-native storage | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included | No, stateless applications only | Namespaces | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Minikube, MicroK8s | Healthcare | Security and compliance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Software Architect | pterodactyl | Financial Services | Zoom is very serious and we need to focus, people! | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Faster time to market | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Accelerate development, automate DevOps | Nooo | 501-1000 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices, Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup, Deploying or managing Kubernetes-as-a-Service, Using best-of breed cloud-native tools | Difficulty training users, Integrating cloud-native applications together, Observability / monitoring requirements not addressed adequately, Company IT culture | AWS, VMware | 1 | 1.18 | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, often | Yes | False | Platform Engineer | What is happening in that YAML file?, How can we optimize applications to reduce work/errors in Day 2 operations? | A team of at least 9 | Application Definition & Image Build, API Gateway, Continuous Integration & Delivery, Scheduling & Orchestration, Ingress/Service Proxy, Container Registry, Automation & Configuration, Container Runtime | A Go application that can talk to the Kubernetes API to manage resources | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Trying them out is on my to-do list | cluster | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | True | Service mesh | Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | Yes, in production | Namespaces, Labels | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | On-prem Kubernetes installation | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | penguin | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Modernizing infrastructure, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Disaster recovery | Business on top, PJs on the bottom | 101-200 | VMs/containers | On a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | TRUE | Orchestrating workloads across a multi-cloud setting | Difficulty training users, Poor or limited support from platform providers or partners, Cloud platforms don’t meet needs/expectations, Inefficient day to day operations, Networking requirements not addressed adequately, Storage / Data requirements not addressed adequately, Company IT culture | AWS | 50+ | Newer than 1.10 but older than 1.17 | FALSE | 🙂 | 101-500 | Scripts (Bash, Python, etc) | Kustomize | Yes, sometimes | Yes | False | DevOps | What’s the fastest way to deploy X?, How secure is that thing? | Just one | Continuous Integration & Delivery, Automation & Configuration | An IT person with experience in operating Kubernetes | Getting comfortable with them | Most useful invention since pizza | kubeconfig | Automate the integration of cloud services with my on-prem applications | False | Database | Price - lowest cost for pulling or running the image, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning, Stability - long term supported versions | Yes, in production | Labels, Namespaces, Separate clusters | TRUE | TRUE | FALSE | echo ‘true’ | Docker Kubernetes, MicroK8s | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | DevOps Management | dog | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Move an application | Nooo | 101-200 | Bare metal | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | TRUE | Managing or enabling a hybrid-cloud setup | Integrating cloud-native applications together, Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower | AWS, Azure | 2-5 | 1.17 | FALSE | _ | 1-10 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | I don’t know | Yes, sometimes | No, we build everything ourselves | True | DevOps | How can we optimize resource utilization?, How secure is that thing? | Just one | Cloud Native Network, Cloud Native Storage, Security & Compliance, Container Registry, API Gateway | A master .yaml file used to deploy multiple applications and their components | Most useful invention since pizza | Don’t need them | cluster | Have visibility around failure predictions of my Kubernetes clusters | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Developer experience - frictionless usability of the image, Provenance - getting the image from a trusted publisher, Security - passed vulnerability and malware scanning | Yes, in production | Namespaces, Labels, Separate clusters | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | exit | Minikube, Docker Kubernetes, I don’t use Kubernetes during local development (e.g. use Docker Compose) | Living on the edge | Scalability, Message brokers support, Ability to create a 1 or 2 node cluster | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | SRE / DevOps Engineer | dog | Software / Technology | Modernizing infrastructure, Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | Switch between public cloud providers in a flash | 1001-2000 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Lack of in-house skills/limited manpower, Difficulty training users | AWS, Bare metal | None | FALSE | 🙂 | 0 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | I don’t know | No, we build everything ourselves | Depends who I’m talking to | DevOps | How can we optimize resource utilization?, What’s the fastest way to deploy X? | Just one | None - I’m pretty good at some of them, but master of none, None - I’m still learning | An IT person with experience in operating Kubernetes | Trying them out is on my to-do list | Trying them out is on my to-do list | kubeconfig | I have a monolith the company worships | True | Ummm, I don’t know | Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Size - lightweight images, Stability - long term supported versions | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | TRUE | echo ‘true’ | I don’t use Kubernetes during local development (e.g. use Docker Compose), Minikube, On-prem Kubernetes installation | I don’t have an edge use case | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Back-end Developer | cat | Software / Technology | The one without the camera on | Improved maintenance, monitoring, and automation, Modernizing infrastructure | Yes please, AND I’d also like to be entered to receive a t-shirt. | A combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud | We don’t use hybrid or multi-cloud | 100% Yes | 501-1000 | It’s the base infrastructure that we build everything upon | On VMs, evaluating Kubernetes for development | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | TRUE | Re-architecting proprietary solution into microservices | Security and compliance concerns not addressed adequately | OpenStack | 6-10 | 1.17 | TRUE | 🙂 | 1-10 | Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc) | I don’t know | I’ve got fifty cents over here, what can you do for me? | Yes | Depends who I’m talking to | Platform Engineer | What is happening in that YAML file?, What’s the fastest way to deploy X? | Don’t know | Application Definition & Image Build, Database, Cloud Native Network, Cloud Native Storage | An IT person with experience in operating Kubernetes | Don’t care for them | Don’t care for them | kubeconfig | I can do everything I need using Kubernetes | False | Cloud-native storage | Compliance - with your company policies or a standard, Ready-to-use - default packages and tools included, Size - lightweight images | No, but planning to in the next 12 months | Not applicable to me or don't know | FALSE | FALSE | FALSE | return 1 | On-prem Kubernetes installation | I don’t have an edge use case |