*Respondents worked full-time in IT roles at a company with at least 500 employees. Respondents were knowledgeable aout their company's use of IT and Kubernetes technology.
Respondents were asked to rank the top three.
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Primary challenges for using Kubernetes in organizations worldwide 2021
In 2021, respondents from a global survey ranked security as the primary challenges that is most difficult to overcome for their organization when running Kubernetes. Because Kubernetes deployments consist of many different components, such as master and nodes, servers, container runtime, or networking layers, developers must adress each of these components to secure Kubernetes ovrall.
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