Looking forward – Kubernetes trends and industry outlook

According to a Gartner report titled Emerging Technologies: Kubernetes and the Battle for Cloud-Native Infrastructure, October 2021, “By 2025, 85% of organizations will run containers in production, up from less than 30% in 2020.” In this section, we will look at some of the key trends that are going to drive Kubernetes adoption and use in enterprises.

Trend 1 – security is still everyone’s concern

Significant security concerns are posed by containers and Kubernetes that are already well known. In the last 12 months, 93% of Kubernetes environments suffered at least one security incident. This is likely due to a number of problems, such as a lack of security expertise about containers and Kubernetes, insufficient or unsuitable security tooling, and central security teams that are unable to keep up with rapidly developing application development teams who consider security to be an afterthought...