The "Kubernetes in the Wild—2025 Report" by Dynatrace analyzes global trends in Kubernetes usage based on data from thousands of organizations. In 2024, Kubernetes adoption stabilized, with 64% of clusters now hosted in the cloud, reflecting a major shift toward cloud-native infrastructure. Smaller node sizes dominate cloud clusters for cost-efficiency. Kubernetes continues evolving as the “operating system” of the cloud, driven by growth in auxiliary workloads like monitoring and service meshes. Security tools, internal developer platforms (IDPs), and open-source projects such as Redis and Prometheus gain traction. Java, Go, and Node.js remain the top languages.

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