CNCF Survey Surfaces Little Platform Engineering Consensus
Platform Engineering, Friday, March 27th, 2026
A global survey of 420 application developers published this week by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) finds that while more than a quarter (28%) work for organizations that have a dedicated platform engineering team responsible for internal platforms, another 72% have adopted a multi-team approach (41%) or have no formal approach at all (31%).
Shared this week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference, the survey also finds only 19% of developers working for organizations that are building artificial intelligence (AI) workflows have a separate, dedicated platform.
Conducted by the market research firm SlashData on behalf of the CNCF, the report also identifies Armada, GitHub Actions, Helm, cert-manager and Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro) as tools that have matured to the point where more than 85% of respondents familiar with them give them a four or five star rating.