GCP – Google is a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

We’re excited to share that Gartner has recognized Google as a Leader for the second year in a row in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management, based on its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Gartner predicts that by 2028, “80% of custom software running at the physical edge will be deployed in containers, which is an increase from 10% in 2023.”  We believe this validates the success of our mission to be the best place for customers anywhere to run containerized workloads.

Containers power today’s most innovative apps and businesses — and deliver the infrastructure customers demand as they transform their businesses with AI. We believe we led the cloud-native and container technology wave in 2014 when we introduced Kubernetes and launched Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), the world’s first managed Kubernetes service. We were proud and humbled to celebrate, along with our customers and industry partners, Kubernetes’ 10th birthday earlier this summer. We set the bar high with GKE, and it’s still the most scalable, secure, and simple Kubernetes service available.

Our customers have adopted containers in every industry and GKE now powers some of the world’s largest and most innovative workloads, from global ecommerce platforms to jaw-dropping AI-powered experiences. But GKE was just the beginning! In 2019, we launched Cloud Run, the first platform to combine the benefits of containers and serverless. Today, Cloud Run provides one of the leading developer experiences available from any cloud provider. We also extended GKE to hybrid and multi-cloud environments with Google Distributed Cloud, and introduced Autopilot mode in GKE in 2021. Today, GKE delivers the AI infrastructure in the Google AI Hypercomputer, and developers globally use both Cloud Run and GKE to create truly amazing AI-powered apps and experiences.

Take the next steps on your container journey with Google Cloud

Wherever our customers build and run containers, from Google Cloud to other clouds to the data center and the edge, we aim to deliver the most simple, comprehensive, secure, and reliable container platform for all workloads. Let us help accelerate your business transformation journey today. We can’t wait to see what you build!

Download your complimentary copy of the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management.

Read all about A decade of Kubernetes leadership: why Google Cloud should be your choice for Kubernetes.

If you’re attending KubeCon in November, please visit us at Booth C1! Join us for a digital preview of Google Cloud at KubeCon on October 23rd, and register for Google Container Day @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. 

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Container Management, Dennis Smith, et al, 9 September 2024

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