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2025 Kubernetes Survey

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The survey should take ~4-8 minutes.

Your participation will inform developers and other IT professionals around the world on the latest innovations, challenges, and emerging cloud native trends across organizations. We'll analyze responses and publish our findings in our upcoming Kubernetes Trend Report.

Thank you for your help and insights!
1. Does your organization run any Kubernetes clusters?
What use cases does your organization deploy Kubernetes into? Select all that apply.
Does your organization run any Kubernetes clusters that orchestrate containers on both bare-metal and virtual machines (in the same Kubernetes cluster)?
What types of workloads does your organization run on Kubernetes clusters? Select all that apply.
What constructs does your organization use to maintain state within a Kubernetes cluster? Select all that apply.
2. Does your organization run any microservices?
Are any of these microservices deployed on Kubernetes clusters?
What autoscalers does your organization use in its Kubernetes clusters? Select all that apply.
3. What tools/platforms does your organization use to manage containers in either development or production environments? Select all that apply.
4. Has your organization experienced tool sprawl in its container/Kubernetes ecosystem?
5. What are your organization's biggest challenges related to managing Kubernetes tooling? Select all that apply.
6. Which of the following practices and techniques does your organization use to manage and optimize costs? Select all that apply.
What pain points has your organization encountered while working with Kubernetes? Select all that apply.
7. Have you personally worked with Kubernetes?
8. Does your organization provide a self-service platform or internal developer platform (IDP) for Kubernetes or container-based development?
9. What types of friction exist in your organization's staging-to-production release process? Select all that apply.
10. In what ways has Kubernetes affected developer productivity at your organization? Select all that apply.
11. Does your organization run AI/ML workloads on Kubernetes?
12. Has your organization adopted AI for release management?
13.  In what ways has your organization adopted AI for monitoring and/or observability? Select all that apply.
14. Is your organization using AI/ML to optimize Kubernetes cluster performance or autoscaling?
Which of the following tools does your organization use for monitoring and/or observability of Kubernetes-based applications? Select all that apply.
Which of the following security-related measures does your organization take with regard to Kubernetes? Select all that apply.
Note: See OWASP's Kubernetes Security Cheat Sheet
In the past year, has your organization needed to reassess any planned Kubernetes deployments to production due to security concerns?
15. Which of the following common cloud security threats are active concerns at your organization? Select all that apply.

Background and Experience

Information from the questions below will enable us to provide a more granular analysis of survey responses based on factors such as technical role, programming language, and years' experience.

Note: Answers remain anonymous unless you choose to enter the raffle. Emails will be used for raffle purposes only.
 
16. What types of software are you currently developing? Select all that apply.
17. What programming language ecosystems does your company use? Select all that apply.
18. What is your primary programming language at work?
Response should be between 0-60 This question requires a valid number format.
20. What best describes your primary role in your company? *This question is required.
21. What is the size of your organization in terms of employees? *This question is required.
22. Do you wish to enter the survey raffle?
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