Kubernetes in the Enterprise Trend Report

Optimizing the Scale, Speed, and Intelligence of Cloud Operations

DZone’s 2025 Trend Report, sponsored by Nutanix, reveals how enterprises are tackling tool sprawl, rising costs, and cultural shifts with platform engineering, AI, and smarter operations.

Get expert insights to build scalable, intelligent Kubernetes strategies that work in production.

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What You’ll Learn:

Over a decade in, Kubernetes is the central force in modern application delivery. However, as its adoption has matured, so have its challenges: sprawling toolchains, complex cluster architectures, escalating costs, and the balancing act between developer agility and operational control. Beyond running Kubernetes at scale, organizations must also tackle the cultural and strategic shifts needed to make it work for their teams.

As the industry pushes toward more intelligent and integrated operations, platform engineering and internal developer platforms are helping teams address issues like Kubernetes tool sprawl, while AI continues cementing its usefulness for optimizing cluster management, observability, and release pipelines

DZone’s 2025 Kubernetes in the Enterprise Trend Report examines the realities of building and running Kubernetes in production today.

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FAQ

Enterprises often struggle with fragmented environments, siloed teams, inconsistent tooling, and compliance risks. These issues can make it difficult to manage Kubernetes® deployments efficiently across hybrid and multicloud infrastructures.

Nutanix offers a unified Kubernetes platform that simplifies operations across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments. It provides persistent storage, centralized fleet management, and seamless upgrades.

This guide is designed for IT leaders, cloud architects, DevOps teams, and enterprise decision‑makers who want to simplify Kubernetes operations, reduce tool sprawl, and build scalable, intelligent cloud ‑native strategies that work in production.

NKP is a production-grade Kubernetes management platform built on technology acquired from D2IQ. It simplifies container operations across hybrid multicloud environments and supports edge deployments, persistent storage, and seamless upgrades — all integrated with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure.

Whether you’re launching your first production cluster or refining a globally distributed platform, the report delivers the data, perspectives, and practical takeaways you need to meet Kubernetes’ demands head‑on.

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