In this report, commissioned by F5 NGINX and authored by SlashData, we explore the current state of the NGINX community. We provide an overview of the profiles of respondents to the survey in terms of their geographic location, role, and size of their organisation, before focusing on their use cases and the challenges they face in application (app) and API delivery projects.

We then dive deeper into apps andAPIs, looking at how respondents’ companies approach APIs. We also explore how important security, scalability, and observability features are in app and API delivery projects.

Moving forward, we look at the technology choices and development environments of NGINX community members, with a focus on their workloads, Kubernetes adoption/maturity, where their code is run, and attitudes towards open source software. We examine how role and organisation size affects each of these topics, and compare the profiles of those with low and very high workloads. Finally, we take a look at which management/security and monitoring/observability tools the community uses, discuss cross-usage, and explore the differences between the profiles of those who use NGINX and those who don’t.

The findings in this report are based on the 2022NGINX Survey, which was designed and hosted by SlashData and fielded by F5 NGINX between August and September 2022, with more than 2,000respondents worldwide.