How Automated Provisioning Tools Pave the Way to Multi-Cloud Adoption

The HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey reveals that infrastructure as code and provisioning tools are at the forefront of the movement to multi-cloud, with 90% of organizations finding automation tools critical to overcoming cloud challenges. The survey found that provisioning was the most widely used category of infrastructure automation tooling, with 78% of European/Middle East/Africa respondents using automated provisioning tools, compared to 65% of those with annual cloud budgets under $100,000. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation initiatives, with 54% of organizations reporting an increase in multi-cloud adoption. However, the top challenge hindering organizations' ability to operationalize multi-cloud was a shortage of key skills, cited by 57% of respondents. Open source provisioning tools are popular, with two-thirds of respondents using or planning to use some form of open source automation tooling for provisioning. The survey also found that adoption of SaaS solutions would seem to be a natural response to skills shortages and complex manual processes.