Kubernetes has crossed the threshold from modern choice to baseline expectation. The 2025 CNCF Annual Cloud Native Survey confirms what platform teams already know from experience: Kubernetes is now the standard infrastructure for containerized workloads, and the organizations running it are no longer early adopters experimenting in a sandbox. Instead, they are enterprises with production-critical applications, complex multi-site environments, regulatory obligations, and no tolerance for unplanned downtime. The infrastructure is mature, but the protection strategies haven't always kept up. Read more