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Running applications on multiple cloud platforms has become the main driving force for the use of container technology, bringing far more benefits than ever before, such as improved developer efficiency and support for micro-services.

In the 2018 version of the Annual Container Technology Adoption Survey, the number of users interviewed by Portworx increased from 250 in 2017 to 424 in 2018. From the perspective of more mature container users: security, data management and multi-cloud are the biggest challenges, while permanent storage is no longer the biggest problem.

Over the past few years, we have seen that people often say that targeting a single cloud provider is disadvantageous, but in fact they do not use multiple cloud service providers at the same time. The survey shows that only 26% of respondents who claim to use container technology because of cloudy clouds actually use containers on multiple cloud platforms. In contrast, 40% of respondents who emphasized developer efficiency run containers on multiple cloud platforms. Only 12% of respondents believe that the micro-service architecture promotes the use of container technology, down from 32% in 2017. In 2018, more than 25% of respondents believed that the application of containers was mainly to save infrastructure costs.

Compared with containers, the idea of no server is still more popular. Developers believe that if you do not need to maintain the server, you can achieve higher productivity while reducing the cost of cloud infrastructure. Container users in this group tend to think that "unserviced containers will make containers obsolete." 41% of the respondents agreed with this view, while only 29% disagreed.

But according to a recent The New Stack survey, many respondents may not know that portability between multi-cloud platforms is the biggest problem with serverless concepts. If this problem cannot be solved, then we need to go back to using containers, as long as current container users no longer consider cloudiness to be one of the biggest challenges.

More than half of container users point out that security is one of the biggest challenges they face when deploying containers. This is in stark contrast to last year's view that permanent storage was the biggest challenge. The bigger challenges in data management outweigh the concerns about permanent storage.

Gou Rao, Portworx CTO, believes that data storage and protection issues have been addressed, allowing developers to focus on backup / restore, migration, and replication data management. From the perspective of connector-based container storage, both EMC's RexRay and NetApp's Trident have the problem of scheduler integration because they are data management functions built on the underlying storage system.

Security is currently the biggest challenge in container deployment. Security concerns are even more serious than in previous surveys, as respondents are gradually deploying more applications in containers.

This brings us to storage again. Concerns about permanent storage are fading, but the challenge is actually growing. When asked about the specific challenges of running stateful containers, except for the lack of tools, all the other challenges increased compared to 2017. Rao believes that the reason why some people feel that the persistent storage problem has been solved is that the industry has achieved some results in standardizing the interface of persistent storage, first Docker volume drives, followed by the recent emergence of container storage interfaces. Although we have been able to use containers to run stateful services, the operation process is still not simple.

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