--- title: "The Results are In… for the 2016 Calico User Survey" source: "https://wordpress-1075849-4005834.cloudwaysapps.com/blog/the-results-are-in-for-the-2016-calico-user-survey/" --- [Technical Blog](https://wordpress-1075849-4005834.cloudwaysapps.com/category/technical-blog/) # The Results are In… for the 2016 Calico User Survey By [Tom Blossom](https://wordpress-1075849-4005834.cloudwaysapps.com/blog/author/tomblossom/) on Nov 28, 2016 • 2 min read Thank you to all that completed the recent Project Calico user survey. We found the results to be illuminating – and hope you will too! But before we dive into them, I wanted to introduce myself to the community.  I joined the Project Calico team about a month ago as the Director of Customer of Success at Tigera.  In those weeks I’ve had the opportunity chat with many users as well as meet quite a number at our KubeCon booth in Seattle.  I greatly enjoyed hearing about their use cases, how the project has been valuable and where improvements can be gained. ## Survey Results The survey itself was an immense source of interest to the team and to me.  While we keep a watchful eye on github pulls and Slack memberships, those numbers do not have the same insights as the survey. Following is a summary of the key take aways: - 20% of users responding were now in production, with additional 64% testing for production - Kubernetes is of very strong interest. A full 75% of of respondents are using, or intend to use, Calico with Kubernetes. [![calico_usage_chart](/app/uploads/2016/11/calico_usage_chart.png)](/app/uploads/2016/11/calico_usage_chart.png) - The top 5 most important factors for a virtual networking solution, according to Calico community, are: - Reliability/Simplicity - Data Plane Performance - Ease of Troubleshooting - Scalability / control plane performance - Microsegmentation / fine grained security policies - Calico did rank well in each of these areas which is great to hear (and matches many of our priorities). ## Additional info The survey also included lots of individual use cases and feature requests. Rest assured those are closely reviewed by the management team. Two points that I want to briefly mention here: (1) Calico does currently support IPV6 (yeah!) – although not all the orchestrators we work with (most notably Kubernetes) do not fully do so, yet; and (2) We recognize that documentation has been an issue. 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