Approximately 5.6 million developers around the world use Kubernetes, according to a recent State of Cloud Native Development Report compiled by SlashData for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). “This represents a 67% increase from a year ago when, adjusting for a change in the question methodology, there were 3.9 million Kubernetes developers worldwide,” per the CNCF blog.
Overall, there are now 6.8 million cloud-native developers. “This includes 4.6M developers using container orchestration tools and 4M developers using serverless platforms; the numbers correspond to 28% and 24% of backend developers, respectively,” the report states.
Geographically, cloud-native computing is most widely adopted in Oceania (56%), North America (47%), and Western Europe (46%), as compared with Eastern Europe (37%) and the Middle East and Africa (28%).
Containers and Kubernetes were found to have the highest usage rates within the edge computing sector. “Among edge developers, the adoption of Kubernetes increased by 11 percentage points to 63%. The use of containers among edge developers was 76%,” the report states.
Despite general growth, however, many backend developers are unclear about Kubernetes’s capabilities. According to the report, 21% of respondents said they had heard of Kubernetes but were unsure what it does, and 11% said they had never heard of it.
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