- #CNCF and The Linux Foundation have just dropped their report based on the latest CNCF Annual Cloud Native Survey. The infographics attached to this post are the official highlights, including the overall adoption rate for containers, #Kubernetes, and #CloudNative technologies. 🧵
- Some other insights from the report: 1. Top 10 challenges of container use are: cultural changes with the dev team (47%), lack of training (36%), security (36%), CI/CD (35%), monitoring (35%), complexity (34%), scaling deployments (21%), networking (21%), logging (19%), and service mesh (19%).Jan 22, 2026 12:58
- 2. Service mesh is adopted in 16%-39% organisations (the number varies, depending on the overall level of using Cloud Native techniques in the org), containers for stateful workloads in 45%-79%, serverless in 29%-64%, GitOps in 0%-58%, and CI/CD in 42%-91%.
- 3. Top 5 graduated CNCF projects used in production are: Kubernetes (87%), Helm (81%), etcd (81%), Prometheus (77%), and CoreDNS (76%). 4. Top 5 incubating CNCF projects used in production are: CNI (52%), OpenTelemetry (49%), gRPC (44%), Keycloak (42%), and Kyverno (23%).
- 5. Top 5 graduated and incubating CNCF that are being evaluated: OpenTelemetry (26%), Crossplane (23%), Argo (20%), Backstage (20%), and Open Policy Agent (20%). The full version of “The CNCF Annual Cloud Native Survey: The Infrastructure of AI’s Future” report is here: www.cncf.io/reports/the-...
