The CNCF Technology Radar Report: Workflow Orchestration, App Delivery and Security & Policy Management

Published: March 23, 2026

Developer trust is converging around a new generation of cloud native tools.

The CNCF Technology Radar Report, featuring insights from 400+ developers, reveals which technologies are leading across workflow automation, application delivery, and security – and why developers rely on them in production. 

From platform engineering to AI-driven workflows, this report uncovers:

  • Which tools developers trust most for maturity, usefulness, and reliability
  • How technologies are shifting from experimentation to production adoption
  • How teams are structuring internal platforms to support modern workloads
  • What’s driving the rise of hybrid approaches for managing AI and cloud native systems