85% of Companies Are Modernizing with Microservices; Nearly Half Report Using a Service Mesh to Manage, Monitor, and Secure Application Traffic
Solo.io, the leading cloud-native application networking company, unveiled survey results that indicate that modern enterprises are standardizing on microservices — and that service mesh is a core component powering this architecture. The research also pointed to a strong correlation between success with microservices and faster, more reliable application development — with almost half describing the impact of service mesh as “transformative.”
“It’s no surprise that Kubernetes has ‘crossed the chasm,’ with nearly two-thirds of companies using it in production and an overwhelming majority of companies are modernizing with microservices,” said Idit Levine, founder and CEO, Solo.io. “Enterprises are struggling to manage this explosion of services — and they are turning to service mesh and API gateways to manage an increasingly complex application environment. Meanwhile, Istio is emerging as the Kubernetes of service mesh, with leading companies choosing an Istio-based service mesh by an almost three-to-one margin to boost application reliability and security.”
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Modernizing to Microservices — But Still Feeling Pain
The 2022 Service Mesh Adoption Survey, conducted by Solo.io and ClearPath Strategies, shows that 85% of companies are modernizing their applications to a microservices architecture. These companies also report that microservices drive faster development cycles, as 56% of organizations with at least half of their applications on a microservices architecture have daily or more frequent release cycles. However, the uptick in microservices and increased development velocity have led to pain for many organizations as they struggle with microservices and API sprawl as well as added technical debt. Also, more than 70% of organizations report having delayed or slowed down application deployment into production due to application networking or security concerns.
As microservices become a modern enterprise “must,” service mesh and API gateways have become viable solutions to address the headaches of managing application reliability, security, and observability. An overwhelming 87% of companies report using or evaluating a service mesh for use. The shift to service mesh technology can be attributed to the broad deployment of container-based architectures and explosion of microservices, which come as a result of companies looking for ways to expedite their digital transformation and move to a cloud-first posture or fully cloud-native development.
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Service Mesh: A “Transformative” Solution
Service mesh, which controls service-to-service communication over a network, offers a solution for managing application reliability, security, and observability along with application traffic monitoring and management. The vast majority of respondents (89%) reported a very positive impact on application reliability as a result of using service mesh, including 44% who called the impact “transformative.”
While service mesh is still considered a new technology, nearly half of all companies (49%) reported using service mesh at some level. And adoption is greater among companies with a high degree of containerized architectures and Kubernetes usage. Among organizations with more than half of their production workloads running on Kubernetes, 81% use a service mesh, compared to only 45% of those organizations with half or less of their production workloads on Kubernetes.
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