Surveys

CNCF surveys include the CNCF Annual Survey, the State of Cloud Native Development series produced with SlashData, and focused microsurveys on topics such as FinOps, GitOps, and training. Below is every published survey, newest first, with a brief description and a link to the full report.

Mirrored from cncf.io/reports on November 4, 2026.

• The State of Cloud Native Development in Japan 2026

  July 28, 2026

  SlashData analysis, produced with CNCF for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026, of how nearly one million cloud native developers in Japan balance on-premises infrastructure with cloud native practices and prepare for AI-powered development, drawing on a global survey of 12,500+ developers.

• State of Cloud Native Development Q1 2026

  March 24, 2026

  CNCF and SlashData survey of nearly 20 million developers worldwide on how cloud native is adopted, standardized, and scaled, covering platform standardization, hybrid cloud as the dominant deployment model, and AI workloads.

• State of Cloud Native Development

  November 11, 2025

  CNCF and SlashData report on where developer adoption of cloud native is accelerating, how new infrastructure models are changing the economics of cloud computing, and how AI and data workloads are converging with cloud native architectures.

• State of Cloud Native Development Q1 2025

  April 25, 2025

  SlashData analysis, produced with CNCF, of the trends shaping cloud native development in Q1 2025, drawing on the 29th Developer Nation survey of more than 10,000 developers fielded between December 2024 and February 2025.

• Cloud Native 2024: Approaching a Decade of Code, Cloud, and Change

  April 1, 2025

  Tenth CNCF Annual Survey, based on 750 community responses from fall 2024, covering cloud native adoption, cloud and container usage, Kubernetes reach, and project growth.

• CNCF Ecosystem Gaps – Japanese translation

  November 14, 2024

  Japanese translation of the CNCF Ecosystem Gaps report, which asked 300+ cloud native developers in the Q3 2024 CNCF Radar survey about gaps across security, cost management, skills, complexity, standardization and interoperability, and observability.

• CNCF Ecosystem Gaps

  November 14, 2024

  Findings from 300+ cloud native developers in the Q3 2024 CNCF Radar survey on gaps and limitations in the ecosystem, grouped into security, cost management, skills and expertise, complexity, standardization and interoperability, and observability.

• CNCF Annual Survey 2023

  April 9, 2024

  CNCF Annual Survey 2023 on cloud native adoption, Kubernetes usage, and CNCF project trends across the community.

• CNCF Annual Survey 2023 – Japanese translation

  April 8, 2024

  Japanese translation of the CNCF Annual Survey 2023 on cloud native adoption, Kubernetes usage, and CNCF project trends across the community.

• Cloud Native and Kubernetes Finops Microsurvey

  December 14, 2023

  CNCF microsurvey on cloud native and Kubernetes FinOps, finding that Kubernetes drove cloud spend up for nearly half of respondents and examining how organizations are establishing cost control.

• Learning on the job as GitOps goes mainstream

  November 7, 2023

  CNCF GitOps microsurvey of 220 community members, conducted July to September 2023, on the state of GitOps adoption, the reasons and benefits for adopting it, and the challenges adopters face.

• CNCF Training & Certification Microsurvey

  October 5, 2023

  CNCF microsurvey of about 135 contributors on cloud native training and certification, finding that workers are not getting the training they need, mainly for lack of time and money, and want employers to contribute more.

• The State of WebAssembly 2023

  September 6, 2023

  SlashData study, conducted with the Linux Foundation and CNCF in Q3 2023, of the languages developers compile to WebAssembly, the performance benefits and challenges they see, their outlook on adoption, and their familiarity with WASI.

• CNCF Annual Survey 2022

  January 31, 2023

  CNCF Annual Survey 2022 on cloud native adoption, container and Kubernetes usage, and CNCF project trends across the community.

• CNCF Annual Survey 2021

  February 10, 2022

  CNCF Annual Survey 2021, the year Kubernetes crossed the chasm, with production data and insights from Datadog, New Relic, and SlashData on container and Kubernetes adoption going mainstream.

• Cloud Native Survey 2020

  December 1, 2020

  CNCF's eighth assessment of the cloud native marketplace, surveying the community on where and how cloud native technologies are being adopted.

• Cloud Native Survey 2019

  December 1, 2019

  CNCF's seventh assessment of the cloud native marketplace, surveying the community on where and how cloud native technologies are being adopted.

This list mirrors the Survey-type reports on cncf.io/reports and is regenerated daily by scripts/collect-survey-reports.mjs via the refresh-radar-reports scheduled workflow, which opens a PR with any new or changed reports.