Application Container Market Report 2025

This Application Container Market report delivers an in-depth analysis of the market’s key characteristics, including size, growth potential, and segmentation. It provides a detailed breakdown of the market across major regions and leading countries, highlighting historical data and future growth projections. The report also examines the competitive landscape, market share insights, emerging trends, and strategic developments shaping the market.

The application container market size has grown exponentially in recent years. It will grow from $6.19 billion in 2024 to $8.28 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33.8%. The growth during the historic period can be attributed to the increasing adoption of microservices architecture, rising demand for scalability, growing focus on cost efficiency, expanding adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and an increasing emphasis on agility and flexibility.

The application container market size is expected to see exponential growth in the next few years. It will grow to $26.22 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33.4%. The growth during the forecast period can be attributed to the rise of container-as-a-service platforms, growing demand for containerized databases, increased focus on application security, rising adoption of container orchestration tools, and the growing popularity of DevSecOps. Key trends in the forecast period include the development of machine learning-powered container orchestration, solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, AI-based resource allocation, innovations in container cost optimization, and integration with serverless architectures.

The increasing shift toward cloud-based services is expected to drive the growth of the application container market in the future. Cloud-based services refer to internet-based offerings that provide on-demand access to computing resources, applications, and data storage without the need for local infrastructure. The adoption of cloud services is growing due to factors such as cost efficiency, scalability, flexibility, enhanced collaboration, improved security, and the rising demand for remote access to data and applications. Application containers support cloud-based services by providing a lightweight, consistent, and scalable environment for running applications across various cloud platforms, ensuring efficient resource usage and seamless deployment. For example, in December 2023, Eurostat, a Luxembourg-based government agency, reported that 42.5% of European Union enterprises adopted cloud computing services in 2023, primarily for email, file storage, and office software, marking a 4.2 percentage point increase compared to 2021. Therefore, the growing shift toward cloud-based services is contributing to the expansion of the application container market.

Major companies in the application container market are focusing on developing advanced technologies, such as cloud-native infrastructure, to enhance scalability, flexibility, and efficiency in application deployment and management. Cloud-native infrastructure refers to the design and deployment of applications that leverage cloud environments, utilizing microservices, containers, and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes to create scalable, resilient, and easily maintainable systems. For example, in October 2022, Oracle Corporation, a US-based computer software company, introduced support for serverless Kubernetes container management through Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) Virtual Nodes. This innovation allows enterprises to scale Kubernetes operations effortlessly, eliminating the need to manage underlying infrastructure. Organizations benefit from OKE Virtual Nodes through pay-per-use pricing, enhanced pod-level elasticity, and reduced operational complexity, while Oracle handles Kubernetes software updates and infrastructure maintenance.

In January 2023, MicroEJ, a France-based software company specializing in application containers, partnered with Landis+Gyr to deliver scalable and secure embedded software solutions for advanced energy management and smart metering systems. This collaboration aims to improve the efficiency, scalability, and security of embedded software used in these systems, enabling utilities and consumers to optimize energy usage, reduce operational costs, and support the transition to more sustainable and intelligent energy solutions. Landis+Gyr, a Switzerland-based company, is known for offering application containers.

Major players in the application container market are Google LLC, Microsoft Corporation, Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Amazon Web Services Inc., International Business Machines Corporation, Cisco Systems Inc., Oracle Corporation, Broadcom Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, VMware Inc., Palo Alto Networks Inc., SUSE LLC, DigitalOcean Inc., Docker Inc., Sysdig Inc., Kong Inc., Mirantis Inc., Joyent Inc., Rancher Labs Inc., CloudBolt Software Inc., Virtuozzo Inc., Portworx Inc., Portainer Inc., D2iQ Inc., Weaveworks Inc.

North America was the largest region in the application container market in 2024. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in application container report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa. The countries covered in the application container market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.

Application containers are lightweight, portable units that package software and its dependencies, enabling consistent execution across various environments. They isolate applications from the underlying system, ensuring compatibility and minimizing conflicts between software components.

The primary offerings of application containers include container data management and orchestration, container monitoring and security, container networking, consultation, and other services. Container data management and orchestration involve the tools, practices, and processes required to efficiently manage and coordinate data workflows within containerized environments, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and reliability. These solutions are available through different deployment models, such as public cloud, private cloud, on-premise, and hybrid cloud. They cater to both small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as large enterprises. These solutions support various applications, including collaboration, modernization, production, and more, and serve a broad range of end users, such as information technology and telecommunications, banking, financial services and insurance, retail and e-commerce, healthcare and life sciences, education, media and entertainment, and others.

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The application containers market consists of revenues earned by entities by providing services such as orchestration services, security services, monitoring and logging services, and cloud-based container hosting services and registry services. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. The application containers market also includes sales of containerization platforms, runtime engines, serverless container platforms, microservices architecture tools, and container runtimes. Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is, the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD unless otherwise specified).

The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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