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2025 State of Production Kubernetes: AI Driving Growth as Cost ...

8/20/2025Updated 11/18/2025
https://www.devopsdigest.com/2025-state-of-production-kubernetes-ai-driving-growth-as-cost-pressures-bite

### Cost is top pain — but AI is the fix Cost overtook skills and security as the #1 challenge (42%), with 88% reporting a year-on-year rise in total Kubernetes TCO, and growth expected over the next 12 months. Yet 92% say they are investing in AI-powered optimization tools to bring bills back under control. … ... Over half say their clusters are still "snowflakes" with highly manual operations. Teams that centralize application deployment in a platform-engineering function outperform every other group on key DevOps metrics around reliability and speed.

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