Across industries, hybrid cloud adoption is growing. In fact, 81% of financial services firms say that the cloud is the most essential technology for achieving business priorities, and 74% have adopted a cloud-first approach for new application development. Cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and containers play key roles in hybrid cloud environments. They support efficient, agile ways for developing, deploying, and consuming business applications and services across on-site, cloud, and edge infrastructure. They can also help financial services firms address evolving regulatory requirements, shifting customer preferences, and new competition more easily.