These research slides from EMA Managing Research Director Torsten Volk provide you with insights into EMA’s Kubernetes research. Based on the perspective of application developers, platform engineers, and security and IT operations professionals, this research delivers insights into the real-world adoption patterns, challenges, trends, and enterprise priorities related to the Kubernetes container platform. Download and learn more about: Challenges and Solutions – The top issues developers, IT operations, and security teams face and how to solve them. Real-Life Insights – From cost pitfalls to maximizing developer productivity, this research sheds light on what IT professionals face and delivers actionable insights into these issues. Security Vulnerabilities – The core types of security vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them. Community Priorities – What the Kubernetes community is working on. Global Trends – Adoption patterns of Kubernetes worldwide.

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4. The Five Pillars of the
Ideal Kubernetes
Management Platform
• Declarative Management
• Policy-Driven Automation
• Unified Operations
Management
• Observability
• Continuous Optimization

5. Kubernetes is
About the
Stack

6. Developers Use Kubernetes: There Are 1,609
Python Libraries Currently Available on PyPy

7. Kubernetes Adoption
Has Grown Fast...
1.35M Kubernetes Clusters Publicly Accessible

8. ...And so Have Kubernetes Challenges

9. Kubernetes Facts
• Public Cloud Managed Kubernetes holds 50%
market share
• Amazon EKS leads in the adoption race
• Ubuntu/Debian is ahead of Fedora/RHEL in terms
of Kubernetes OS

10. 140+
Kubernetes
Distributions
and Installers

11. The Public Cloud Kubernetes Universe

15. The Number
of CVEs
Doubled in 12
Months

16. Kubernetes CVEs
by Topic and by
Product

17. Security Pain Points
for Kubernetes
Operators

19. Summary
• We can expect the number of Kubernetes clusters per
enterprise to further increase quickly.
• Developers need to be able to focus on writing app
code
• Platform engineers need to be able to deploy, scale,
rung, manage, debug and update apps without help
from developers
• Policy-driven unified automation and management are
key for scalability
• EKS, AKS, and GKE are great, but they require a unified
operations framework