2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

We’re excited to share that Gartner has recognized Google as a Leader for the third year in a row in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management, based on its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Google was positioned highest in Ability to Execute of all vendors evaluated and we believe this validates the success of our mission to be the best place for customers anywhere to run containerized workloads. In the 2025 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Container Management report, Google Cloud was ranked first in every critical capability, in addition to leading every major use case: new cloud native applications, containerize existing applications, AI workloads, edge applications, and hybrid applications.

Gartner predicts that “by 2027, more than 75% of all AI/ML deployments will use container technology as the underlying compute environment, which is a major increase from fewer than 50% in 2024.” Containers power today ...