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Kubernetes runs in half of container environments

  • Nearly 90 percent of containers are orchestrated
  • A majority of Kubernetes workloads are underutilizing CPU and memory
  • GKE, AKS, and EKS dominate on their respective cloud platforms
  • 1 in 3 AWS container environments runs Fargate
  • Larger Kubernetes clusters contain larger nodes
  • Networking technologies are prevalent among DaemonSets
  • The most popular Kubernetes version is 17 months old
  • Organizations are in the early stages of service mesh adoption
  • Half of all containers are now managed by cloud provider and third-party registries
  • NGINX, Redis, and Postgres are the most popular container images

(via 11 Facts About Real-World Container Use | Datadog)