New study identifies a shift from security concerns to collaboration and efficiency as the top priority in cloud native adoption, emphasizing the need for seamless teamwork and automation

LONDON, April 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today released its 2024 Cloud Native Survey, revealing cloud native adoption has reached an all-time high of 89% among surveyed organizations. Kubernetes remains the industry standard, with 93% of organizations using, piloting, or evaluating it, thus solidifying its role in modern infrastructure.

This widespread adoption signals a fundamental shift in how businesses develop and deploy software. Organizations are embracing cloud native technologies to accelerate innovation, reduce time to market, and improve resilience in an increasingly digital economy.

“The cloud native landscape is constantly evolving especially as we hit a decade of CNCF,” said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF. “Organizations are facing cultural and operational hurdles as they scale adoption. Security remains vital, but the focus has shifted to automation and best practices that enable faster, more reliable software delivery. Companies prioritizing both technical and cultural transformation will gain a competitive edge.”

Technology Trends Shaping Cloud Native Growth

The survey, conducted with Linux Foundation Research, highlights a shift in challenges. While security was once the top hurdle, cultural and operational shifts now take precedence. Additionally, CI/CD adoption surged 31% year-over-year, accelerating software delivery and reinforcing GitOps as a best practice. These changes reflect a critical transition: businesses are moving beyond simply adopting cloud native tools and are now optimizing how teams collaborate, automate, and scale their operations.

Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, with 80% of organizations running it in production, up from 66% in 2023.CI/CD adoption is fueling faster releases, with 60% of organizations leveraging CI/CD for most or all applications.Security measures are improving, with 60% of organizations vetting open source projects for active communities, and 57% using automated tools to detect vulnerabilities.GitOps is gaining traction, with 77% of organizations adopting its principles for deployment.Serverless adoption remains split, with some expanding use while others step back due to cost and complexity.Service mesh adoption is declining, dropping from 50% in 2023 to 42% in 2024 due to operational overhead concerns.

AI on Kubernetes: A Growing Opportunity

Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) adoption on Kubernetes remains in its early stages, with 48% of organizations yet to deploy AI/ML workloads, according to the survey. However, early adopters are leveraging Kubernetes primarily for batch jobs (11%), model experimentation (10%), real-time model inference (10%), and data pre-processing (9%). These use cases suggest that while Kubernetes is beginning to play a role in AI/ML workloads, challenges remain in fully operationalizing AI in cloud native environments. As tooling and best practices evolve, Kubernetes is expected to become a key enabler of AI-driven innovation across industries.

The Future of Cloud Native

As cloud native technologies evolve, CNCF’s findings indicate automation, cultural transformation, and security will be critical for organizations staying ahead in an increasingly digital landscape. The survey underscores that companies investing in these areas will be better positioned to navigate the challenges of a rapidly changing technology ecosystem and deliver more scalable, secure, and efficient applications.

For more details, visit www.cncf.io or access the full dataset at data.world/thelinuxfoundation.

Additional Resources

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About Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Cloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry’s top developers, end users, and vendors and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by more than 800 members, including the world’s largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit www.cncf.io.

About the Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are curtailed to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, OpenChain, OpenSSF, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDK, Zephyr, and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org. The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of the Linux Foundation, please see its trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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 Latest release boosts automation, performance, and security for Kubernetes-native GitOps

LONDON, April 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the pre-release of Argo CD v3, the latest version of the industry-leading continuous delivery solution for Kubernetes-native applications. This update introduces key improvements in security, performance, and ease of use ensuring enterprises can manage complex deployments more efficiently.

Argo CD v3 extends beyond GitOps, enabling faster, more reliable software delivery at scale, while reducing operational costs and improving time-to-market. By streamlining Kubernetes management and strengthening security, enterprises can confidently accelerate digital transformation initiatives. This release ensures organizations can maintain competitive agility while securing mission-critical applications.

As organizations increasingly adopt GitOps to streamline Kubernetes management, the demand for secure, scalable deployment tools is rising. A recent GigaOm report highlights GitOps’ role in accelerating software delivery and improving system reliability. Argo CD v3 aligns with this shift, introducing security enhancements and performance optimizations. Strengthened authorization mechanisms enhance security, while reduced memory consumption improves efficiency.

“Argo CD v3 builds upon the project’s strong foundation, empowering teams to manage Kubernetes applications with greater efficiency,” said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of CNCF. “Beyond improving security and scalability improvements, this release accelerates the adoption of GitOps best practices, fostering a more resilient and agile infrastructure. As organizations increasingly rely on Kubernetes at scale, Argo CD v3 is a critical step forward in reducing complexity, enhancing automation, and setting new benchmarks for open source application delivery.”

Argo CD v3 refines security, optimizes performance, and extends capabilities, to meet the evolving demands of cloud native application delivery. Enhanced authorization bolster security, while improved memory efficiency supports large-scale deployments.

The continued adoption of GitOps principles is further supported, ensuring teams can streamline automation and maintain full visibility into deployment processes as they scale their infrastructure.

Argo CD has become a standard for GitOps-driven continuous delivery in cloud native environments. With contributions from companies such as Akuity, BlackRock, Intuit, Octopus Deploy, Pipekit, and Red Hat; Argo CD is used in production by hundreds of organizations worldwide.

“Argo CD v3 is a major milestone for the project and the entire GitOps community,” said Regina Voloshin, Argo CD maintainer and OSS Tech Lead at Octopus Deploy.

With this release, we’re making Argo CD more performant, scalable, secure and easier to use – out of the box. This release is a fruit of the engaging dialogue with the community, during which we learned what optional configurations were in fact performed by many users and have proven to be instrumental as Argo CD had matured. Thanks to the community feedback, those configurations now become the default.

Argo CD v3 encourages more best practices and ensures enterprises can deploy and scale applications with confidence, reducing operational overhead while maintaining full visibility and control over their infrastructure”.

Argo CD v3 first Release Candidate (RC-1) is now available for testing. Argo CD v3 GA is expected in early May 2025. To explore the latest features, visit the Argo Documentation or join the Argo community on GitHub.

Additional Resources

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Learn About the CNCF End User Community

About Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry’s top developers, end users, and vendors and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by more than 800 members, including the world’s largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit www.cncf.io.

The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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WATERLOO, ON, April 1, 2025 /CNW/ — OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX), (TSX: OTEX), today introduced the availability of Project Titanium X, now ready with Cloud Editions 25.2 (CE 25.2), the culmination of two years of strategic engineering powering the next generation of Business Clouds, Business AI and Business Technology.  

Cloud Editions 25.2 brings together a comprehensive set of enterprise capabilities for process automation, data, security and AI. OpenText CE 25.2 will help organizations of all sizes create new paths for growth and productivity, next generation cloud and supply chain operations, and stellar customer experiences. Further, OpenText CE 25.2 is designed to change the nature of work by augmenting knowledge workers with AI agents to automate tasks and complete work through a new limitless Digital Workforce.

“OpenText is pleased to announce the availability of Titanium X, now ready with Cloud Editions 25.2, our most comprehensive Information Management platform in the history of the company,” said Mark J. Barrenechea, OpenText CEO & CTO.  “What excites me most is how this release empowers our customers to create limitless digital knowledge workers – AI agents that perform tasks and extend the capabilities of human teams. This new digital workforce will unlock human potential and productivity.”

Business Clouds, Business AI, Business Technology

Cloud Editions 25.2 is a comprehensive information management platform enabling organizations of all sizes to help solve their most strategic opportunities and challenges.

OpenText Cloud Editions 25.2 (CE 25.2) brings:

Content Cloud – introducing OpenText™ Content Management for Guidewire™ for knowledge management, a purpose-built solution to support the entire lifecycle of insurance processes.  With integrations across platforms including Salesforce™, Microsoft™ 356, and SAP™, digital workers gain productivity with access to a comprehensive single-source-of-truth.     Security Cloud – introducing OpenText™ Core Threat Detection & Response for cybersecurity management, an AI-driven solution that detects, protects, and mitigates insider and identity threats.  Integrated with Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Entra ID, OpenText uses advanced behavioral analytics to drive 50%-time efficiency for digital knowledge workers in SOCs and to increase detection accuracy from 10% to 80%.Business Network Cloud – introducing OpenText™ Trading Grid Command Center, a set of AI-led analytics tools to assist digital knowledge workers in supply chain operations.  Customers can now gain deeper, contextualized insights from B2B trading data or IOT tracking data, using a simple conversation interface to identify risks and opportunities with suppliers, customers, partners, and financial institutions globally.Observability and Service Management Cloud – for the digital knowledge workers in IT operations and AI operations management, CE 25.2 release focused on enabling customers to remediate issues and vulnerabilities with AI. Issue triaging, patch management, and prioritization of which critical threats to address across multi-cloud environments can now be automated, more intelligent, and more efficient.Experience Cloud – for the digital knowledge workers in customer support, services, customer success, or marketing, CE 25.2 brings a powerful combination of Aviators to help customers use GenAI to deliver relevant content faster. Whether the content needs to be delivered via SMS text, email, eFax or with a compliance verification, OpenText Experience Cloud helps customers design and execute with assurance.    DevOps Cloud – for the digital knowledge workers who are developers in engineering or in application lifecycle management, OpenText™ DevOps Aviator CE 25.2 now has new copilot functionality, is designed to accelerate Java development, automate testing, and streamline code reviews. By automatically generating unit tests from feature specifications, developers can reduce manual effort and accelerate time to market.

“Cloud Editions 25.2 is a breakthrough in enabling our customers to accelerate information to action through the digital knowledge workers,” said Savinay Berry, OpenText Chief Product Officer. “Digital and human knowledge workers will be working next to each other to create new paradigms of work. Cloud Editions 25.2 will enable AI-driven enterprises to improve the employee experience across all corporate functions, accelerate time-to-market to be competitive, and tap into a limitless workforce to bring new innovations.”

Seamless Multi-Cloud Integration

Titanium X ensures smooth IT operations across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and on prem, with built-in integrations for leading platforms like SAP, Oracle, SFDC, Microsoft, and Guidewire. OpenText’s AI-powered security and compliance with global standards (FedRamp, GDPR, ISO27001, HIPAA) provide 99.99% cloud availability, ensuring reliability and trust.

Secure Information Management

As the new digital workforce scales, Titanium X brings an enhanced secure information management posture organizations can rely on. Keeping version currency of software and upgrading to Titanium X (CE25.2) helps to avoid vulnerability threats and prevents outdated code. In addition, OpenText has a wide array of Cybersecurity solutions including identity access management, application security, data security, email encryption, backup and recovery, and security operations to assist the digital knowledge worker.     

Comprehensive AI support

OpenText Aviator is embedded everywhere. OpenText’s AI strategy is to make everyday AI (e.g., search and summarize) a common experience across all our applications. AI can leverage various LLM services like Google Vertex, Azure AI, Claude, or bring your own proprietary models. Aviator AI agents can be made available in the cloud or on prem to help manage workflows. From onboarding advisory services to helping develop the next proof-of-concepts, OpenText Professional Services is a great way to get started.    

Availability

Experience the Titanium X difference today. Whether looking to automate processes, strengthen security, or employ smart AI, upgrade to Titanium X to accelerate your organization’s digital transformation journey.

Try Aviator today and discover how Titanium X helps simplify complexity while driving enterprise growth. Upgrade to unlock advanced GenAI features and take your organization to the next level.

Visit https://www.opentext.com/innovations to learn more or contact us to schedule a demo.

Additional Resources

Read more about Titanium X and the enhancements introduced in Cloud Editions 25.2 on our Chief Product Officer’s blog post.Dive deeper into the latest updates in Cloud Editions 25.2 on the OpenText blog.

About OpenText  

OpenText™ is the leading Information Management software and services company in the world.  We help organizations solve complex global problems with a comprehensive suite of Business Clouds, Business AI, and Business Technology.  For more information about OpenText (NASDAQ/TSX: OTEX), please visit us at www.OpenText.com. 

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