 This is OpenStack's ninth user survey, a snapshot of users' perspectives and technology choices. This year, the report highlights 44% more deployments and 22% more organizations than ever before. We've surveyed more than 2,500 users in the past year, and most of our results here are in comparison to April 2016. Users are located in 78 countries and 476 cities. 61% of respondents and 74% of deployments are located outside of the United States, making this our most internationally representative survey to date. In terms of those who answered the survey, 32% of users have more than one role. OpenStack is used by organizations of every size, with one quarter of users from organizations of fewer than 100 employees and 32% of organizations with more than 10,000 employees. This demonstrates OpenStack's broad appeal and value for both large and small organizations. Most are in the IT industry, but other industries include telecommunications, academics and research, finance, retail and e-commerce, manufacturing and industrial, and government or defense. The median OpenStack user runs 61% to 80% of their infrastructure on OpenStack. This speaks to strong adoption throughout the enterprise, not only on emerging infrastructure and new applications, but also for legacy systems that are being moved to OpenStack. The business drivers for choosing OpenStack are evolving, with the ability to innovate and avoid vendor lock-in becoming more important to users. Increasing operational efficiency is also a key concern. Two-thirds of deployments are in production, which demonstrates the maturity of OpenStack. A substantial group of clouds in development predicts healthy growth for the future. For greater detail on the maturity of deployments, we asked users when their deployment was created. The vast majority were launched in 2016. The average age of a cloud is just 1.68 years. This shows OpenStack deployments adopting new releases over the nine cycles of this survey, with the majority of those surveyed on the latest three releases. The average number of OpenStack projects used by all clouds was nine, while for deployments in production, eight projects on average are used. In terms of cloud size, 37% of clouds have a thousand or more cores, up eight points over last year. Cinder block storage increased similarly, with 42%, using more than 100 terabytes of cinder storage, compared to 28% last year. Swift object storage showed greater demand in this survey, with 16% of users provisioning more than one petabyte of storage, a 200% increase over last year. For the fourth cycle in a row, container technology leads the list of emerging technologies of greatest interest to OpenStack users. Kubernetes is the most popular container or pause tool for managing applications on OpenStack. Docker is the top format for those running OpenStack services inside of containers. 20% of respondents indicated they were running more than one container format. You can analyze the results yourself by going to OpenStack.org slash analytics, where you can choose from six global filters and three reporting periods. You can also download the full report, as well as past reports, at OpenStack.org slash user hyphen survey. Many thanks to the members of OpenStack's user committee and the user survey working group, who analyzed data and comments to contribute to this report. And thanks especially to those of you who answered the user survey.