Cloud-native, meaning cloud-first, you’re kidding, right? Sorry, it’s not 1999 anymore, we’ve moved past the CIO & CTO conversations that happened in the early days of cloud, where the incredulous notion of hosting data and application resources in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model was thought to be the talk of mad folk. As we know, the last quarter century has seen on-premises private cloud dovetail with hybrid cloud, while the gargantuan movement of public cloud SaaS eventually gave birth to the notion of cloud-native.
So much has the notion of cloud-native now been galvanised, standardised and validated, that we now have the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to thank for the KubeCon CloudNativeCon symposium, a technology conference with an impressive list of world locations and an enviable attendee roster. Given this week’s gathering of the cloud-native glitterati in Atlanta, Georgia, for this month’s event, now feels like the perfect time to ask… what is the state of cloud native in 2025?
According to the newly released State of Cloud Native 2025 report by CNCF and SlashData, there are 15.6 million developers adopting cloud-native tools, which means that cloud-native technologies are now a cornerstone of modern software delivery. However, only 30% of backend developers surveyed say they use Kubernetes, a decrease from its peak of 36% in Q3 2023.
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