This report explores how Kubernetes adoption has matured, showing widespread use across large organizations and steady expansion into multi-cloud, modernization, and microservices workloads. It highlights challenges such as tool sprawl, rising operational complexity, skill gaps, and increased debugging overhead. Survey findings reveal differing experiences by organization size and emphasize the role of platform engineering, self-service developer platforms, observability tooling, and cost-optimization practices. The paper concludes that Kubernetes is now a stable, core enterprise technology requiring stronger governance and automation.

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