Like any new trend in enterprise tech, the move to cloud-native environments will come with a healthy amount of disillusionment from companies that took the plunge, did not plan or execute properly, and suffered major issues as a result. A few key trends will rise to the forefront over the next 12 months as organizations get busy identifying, addressing, and overcoming these critical challenges:

1. API sprawl jeopardizes the security of modern applications
2. Growing understanding of service meshes accelerates cloud-native transition
3. NetOps and SecOps help DevOps shoulder the burden for cloud-native apps
4. Microservices finally start moving to mainstream as a second wave of microservices adoption unfolds
5. Kubernetes usage continues to lag for critical business apps
6. Multi-cloud over multiple clouds: One lifts organizations up, the other drags them down