The Application Container Market Overview 2025 report reveals that the market size has grown significantly over the past few years, with projections indicating further expansion.
The market size of the application container has seen immense growth lately. It expanded from $6.19 billion in 2024 and is predicted to rise to $8.28 billion in 2025, indicating a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33.8%. The historic growth trend in the Application Container Global Market Report 2025 is attributed to various factors.
The Application Container Global Market is projected to reach a worth of $26.22 billion in 2029, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33.4%.
Download Your Free Sample of the 2025 Application Container Market Report and Uncover Key Trends Now!The key drivers in the application container market are:
• Rising demand for container-as-a-service platforms
• Increasing need for containerized databases
• Enhanced focus on application security
• Growing popularity and adoption of container orchestration tools
• Increasing popularity of devsecops.
The application container market covered in this report is segmented –
1) By Offerings: Container Data Management And Orchestration, Container Monitoring And Security, Container Networking, Consultation, Other Offerings
2) By Deployment Mode: Public Cloud, Private Cloud And On-Premise, Hybrid Cloud
3) By Enterprise Size: Small And Medium Enterprise, Large Enterprise
4) By Application: Collaboration, Modernization, Production, Other Applications
5) By End User: Information Technology And Telecommunication, Banking, Financial Services, And Insurance, Retail And E-Commerce, Healthcare And Lifesciences, Education, Media And Entertainment, Other End Users
Subsegments:
1) By Container Data Management And Orchestration: Kubernetes-Based Orchestration, Container Storage Solutions, Multi-Cloud Container Management
2) By Container Monitoring And Security: Runtime Security Solutions, Vulnerability Scanning, Compliance Management
3) By Container Networking: Service Mesh Solutions, Container Network Interface (CNI) Plugins, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) For Containers
4) By Consultation: Container Adoption Strategy, Containerization Best Practices, Cloud-Native Transformation
5) By Other Offerings: Serverless Containers, Edge Computing Containers, Hybrid Cloud Container Solutions
The key trends in the application container market are:
• The rise of machine learning-powered container orchestration is a prominent emerging trend.
• Efforts are increasing towards developing solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Artificial intelligence-based resource allocation is beginning to shape the future of the market.
• Innovations in container cost optimization and integration with serverless architectures are also trending.
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