It’s easy to forget that it’s just seven years since Kubernetes 1.0 first sailed out of Google under the auspices of the CNCF.

But even though the container orchestration and automation platform has only just reached version 1.25, it dominates the conversation around container-based software development and deployment.

To get a handle on what Kubernetes adoption looks like in the real world, we asked over 1600 Register readers across the world and from a variety of industries, about their experiences of using the platform in production. Or not, as the case may be.