Adoption of container technologies 2021

In 2021, 96 percent of respondents from a global survey state using container technology in the proof of concept, development, and test environments. This indicates that organizations move more workloads as they become more comfortable with using containers overall. Container technology refers to a method of packaging an application. Packaged in a container, the application can run with isolated dependencies. This makes it possible to easily move the contained application between different environments.

Adoption rate of container technologies in organizations worldwide from 2016 to 2021, by development stage

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Release date

February 2022

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2016 to 2020

Number of respondents

1,337 (2019) / 1,324 (2020) / 3,829 (2021)

Special properties

IT professionals

Supplementary notes

Majority of respondents come from software/technology organizations (56%). Other industries included are financial services (9%), consulting (6%), telecommunications (5%).

Job functions represented are SRE/DevOps engineer (43%), software architect (35%), backend developer (23%).

Respondents represent various organizational sizes, ranging from small (100 employees) to enterprise (5,000+ employees).

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