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Docker launched its 2024 State of Application Development Report, providing a deep-focus snapshot of today’s rapidly evolving world of software development. Based on a wide-ranging survey of more than 1,300 respondents, the report shares a broad array of findings about respondents’ work, including what tools they use, their processes and frustrations, opinions about industry trends, participation in developer communities, Docker usage, and more.

What emerges is an illuminating picture of the current state of application development, along with insights into key trends such as the expanding roles of cloud and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) in software development, the continued rise of microservices, and attitudes toward the shift-left approach to security.

Reflecting the changing state of the industry, the 2024 report drills down into three main areas:

The state of application development today

AI’s expanding role in application development

Security in application development

The online survey is a key vector through which Docker product managers, engineers, and designers gather insights from users to continuously develop and improve the company’s suite of tools.

“The findings in this report demonstrate how Docker continuously seeks to address market needs so that we can better empower development teams not just to compete, but to thrive and innovate with the right processes and tools for their workflows,” said Nahid Samsami, Vice President of Developer Experience at Docker.

Read on for key findings from this year’s report and download the full report for more details.

The rise of cloud for software development

A key insight was the growing popularity of developing software in the cloud. When asked about their main development environment, almost 64% of respondents cited their laptop or desktop. But the real story is that more than 36% cited non-local environments, such as ephemeral environments, personal remote dev environments or clusters, and remote development tools such as GitHub Codespaces, Gitpod, and Coder.

These findings appear to underscore the growing popularity of developing software in the cloud — a trend fanned by benefits such as increased efficiency, shorter build times, reduced time to market, and faster innovation.

Why this apparent increase in reliance on cloud during development? It seems likely that the growing size of applications is a factor, along with the increasing number of dependencies and overall growth in complexity — all of which would render an all-local environment difficult, if not impossible, to maintain in parity with production.

AI/ML goes mainstream in app development

Another key finding was the growing penetration of AI/ML into the software development field. Most respondents (64%) reported already using AI for work — for tasks such as code writing, documentation, and research.

This trend is notably driven by junior/mid-level developers and DevOps/platform engineers, who expressed a higher dependency on AI compared with senior developers surveyed. In terms of AI tools, respondents most often used ChatGPT (46%), GitHub Copilot (30%), and Gemini (formerly Bard) (19%).

This year’s survey showed a growing interest in ML engineering and data science within the Docker community. When asked if they were working on ML in any capacity, almost half of respondents (46%) replied in the affirmative. Within that group, 54% said that they trained and deployed ML models in one or more projects, 43% worked on ML infrastructure, and 39% leveraged pre-trained ML models.

Where developers get stuck

A primary goal of the survey was to gain insights into how Docker can improve the app development experience. When we asked where their team gets stuck in the development process, respondents cited multiple stages, including planning (31%), estimation (24%), and designing (22%). Planning was also one of the most-selected areas in which respondents desired better tools (28% of respondents).

These findings demonstrate that respondents hit sticking points in project-level tasks before development. However, there are areas identified for improvement within the development process itself, as 20% of respondents reported getting stuck during debugging/troubleshooting or testing phases. Testing was also one of the top areas in which respondents wanted better tools (28%).

Microservices, security, and open source

Other notable trends include the continued rise of microservices, frustration with the shift-left approach to security, and interest in open source. Underscoring the growing popularity of microservices, nearly three times more respondents (29%) said they were transitioning from monolithic to microservices than were moving in the other direction, from microservices to monolithic (11%).

The shift-left approach to security appears to be a source of frustration for developers and an area where more effective tools could make a difference. Security-related tasks topped the list of those deemed difficult/very difficult, with 34% of respondents selecting one of these options. Regarding the need for better tools in the development process, 25% of respondents selected security/vulnerability remediation tools (behind testing, planning, and monitoring/logging/maintenance).

Open source software is important to developer ecosystems and communities, with 59% of respondents saying they contributed to open source in the past year, compared with 41% saying they did not. Of the 41% who did not contribute, a large majority (72%) expressed interest in contributing to open source, while less than 25% did not.

Get the full report

The 2024 Docker State of Application Development Report is based on an online, 20-minute survey conducted by Docker’s User Research Team in the fall of 2023. Survey respondents ranged from home hobbyists to professionals at companies with more than 5,000 employees. The findings are based on 885 completed responses from the roughly 1,300 respondents surveyed.

The survey was developed to inform Docker’s product strategy. Given the fascinating information we discovered, we wanted to share the findings with the community. This was the second annual Docker State of Application Development survey; the third will take place in the fall of 2024.

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Docker’s User Research Team — Olga Diachkova, Julia Wilson, and Rebecca Floyd — conducted this survey, analyzed the results, and provided insights.

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12. Juni 2024

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Docker Desktop 4.31: Air-Gapped Containers, Accelerated Builds, and Beta Releases of Docker Desktop on Windows on Arm, Compose File Viewer, and GitHub Actions

In this post:

Air-gapped containers: Ensuring security and compliance

Accelerating Builds in Docker Desktop with Docker Build Cloud

Docker Desktop on Windows on Arm (Beta)

Compose File Viewer (Beta)

Enhanced CI visibility with GitHub Actions in Docker Desktop (Beta)

Docker Desktop’s latest release continues to empower development teams of every size, providing a secure hybrid development launchpad that supports productively building, sharing, and running innovative applications anywhere.

Highlights from the Docker Desktop 4.31 release include:

Air-gapped containers help secure developer environments and apps to ensure peace of mind.

Accelerating Builds in Docker Desktop with Docker Build Cloud helps developers build rapidly to increase productivity and ROI.

Docker Desktop on Windows on Arm (WoA) Beta continues our commitment to supporting the Microsoft Developer ecosystem by leveraging the newest and most advanced development environments.

Compose File Viewer (Beta) see your Compose configuration with contextual docs.

Enhanced CI visibility with GitHub Actions in Docker Desktop (Beta) that streamline accessing detailed GitHub Actions build summaries, including performance metrics and error reports, directly within the Docker Desktop UI.

Air-gapped containers: Ensuring security and compliance

For our business users, we introduce support for air-gapped containers. This feature allows admins to configure Docker Desktop to restrict containers from accessing the external network (internet) while enabling access to the internal network (private network). Docker Desktop can apply a custom set of proxy rules to network traffic from containers. The proxy can be configured to allow network connections, reject network connections, and tunnel through an HTTP or SOCKS proxy (Figure 1). This enhances security by allowing admins to choose which outgoing TCP ports the policy applies to and whether to forward a single HTTP or SOCKS proxy, or to implement policy per destination via a PAC file.

Figure 1: Assuming enforced sign-in and Settings Management are enabled, add the new proxy configuration to the admin-settings.json file.

This functionality enables you to scale securely and is especially crucial for organizations with strict security requirements. Learn more about air-gapped containers on our Docker Docs.

Accelerating Builds in Docker Desktop with Docker Build Cloud

Did you know that in your Core Docker Subscription (Personal, Pro, Teams, Business) you have an included allocation of Docker Build Cloud minutes? Yes! This allocation of cloud compute time and shared cache lets you speed up your build times when you’re working with multi-container apps or large repos.

For organizations, your build minutes are shared across your team, so anyone allocated Docker Build Cloud minutes with their Docker Desktop Teams or Business subscription can leverage available minutes and purchase additional minutes if necessary. Docker Build Cloud works for both developers building locally and in CI/CD.With Docker Desktop, you can use these minutes to accelerate your time to push and gain access to the Docker Build Cloud dashboard (build.docker.com) where you can view build history, manage users, and view your usage stats.

And now, from build.docker.com, you can quickly and easily create your team’s cloud builder using a one-click setup that connects your cloud builder to Docker Desktop. At the same time, you can choose to configure the Build Cloud builder as the default builder in Docker Desktop in about 30 seconds — check the Set the default builder radio button during the Connect via Docker Desktop setup (Figure 2).

Figure 2: Setting the default builder in Docker Desktop.

Docker Desktop on Windows on Arm

At Microsoft Build, we were thrilled to announce that Docker Desktop is available on Windows on Arm (WoA) as a beta release. This version will be available behind authentication and is aimed at users with Arm-based Windows devices. This feature ensures that developers using these devices can take full advantage of Docker’s capabilities.

To learn more about leveraging WoA to accelerate your development practices, watch the Microsoft Build Session Introducing the Next Generation of Windows on Arm with Ivette Carreras and Jamshed Damkewala. You can also learn about the other better-together opportunities between Microsoft and Docker by visiting our Microsoft Build Docker Page and reading our event highlights blog post.

Compose File Viewer (Beta)

With Compose File Viewer (Beta), developers can now see their Docker Compose configuration file in Docker Desktop, with relevant docs linked. This makes it easier to understand your Compose YAML at a glance, with proper syntax highlighting.

Check out this new File Viewer through the View Configuration option in the Compose command line or by viewing a Compose stack in the Containers tab, then clicking the View Configuration button.

Introducing enhanced CI visibility with GitHub Actions in Docker Desktop

We’re happy to announce the beta release of our new feature for inspecting GitHub Actions builds directly in Docker Desktop. This enhancement provides in-depth summaries of Docker builds, including performance metrics, cache utilization, and detailed error reports. You can download build results as a .dockerbuild archive and inspect them locally using Docker Desktop 4.31. Now you can access all the details about your CI build as if you had reproduced them locally.

Figure 3: Docker Desktop 4.31 Builds tab supporting one-click importing of builds from GitHub Actions.

Not familiar with the Builds View in Docker Desktop? It’s a feature we introduced last year to give you greater insight into your local Docker builds. Now, with the import functionality, you can explore the details of your remote builds from GitHub Actions just as thoroughly in a fraction of the time. This new capability aims to improve CI/CD efficiency and collaboration by offering greater visibility into your builds. Update to Docker Desktop 4.31 and configure your GitHub Actions with docker/build-push-action@v5 or docker/bake-action@v4 to get started.

Conclusion

With this latest release, we’re doubling down on our mission to support Docker Desktop users with the ability to accelerate innovation, enable security at scale, and enhance productivity.

Stay tuned for additional details and upcoming releases. Thank you for being part of our community as we continuously strive to empower development teams.

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