Only 38% of enterprises running Kubernetes in production reach enterprise-grade maturity, F5 study finds

• F5-commissioned research found only 38% of enterprises running Kubernetes in production reached enterprise-grade maturity, despite 61% demanding comparable or higher IT standards.
• The survey covered 445 hands-on practitioners at organizations with more than 500 employees in August 2026.
• Observability was the most common maturity gap, yet only 28% planned investment within 12 months, versus 42% targeting security and policy enforcement.
• Enterprise-grade maturity reached 66% where dedicated platform teams operated Kubernetes under separate central security oversight; only 19% used that structure.
• AI model deployment or serving reached 45% of production Kubernetes enterprises; among those, only 43% inspected agent tools and Model Context Protocol traffic.

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