The 8,000 attendees attending the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Kubernetes conference this week in Seattle demonstrated the exponential growth in interest in this complex, technical combination of open source technologies.
Kubernetes is container orchestration software – essentially, plumbing for running enterprise-class software in the cloud. Not the kind of nuts-and-bolts tech that you might think would generate such enthusiasm.
Why all the excitement? The answer: containers represent the reinvention of virtualization for the cloud. Virtualization was the core innovation that transformed enterprise IT in the last decade, and containers promise the same for the next.
As the leading platform technology underlying containers, Kubernetes is at the heart of how both enterprises and Web-scale companies will run their technology for years to come.
And as the KubeCon crowd would tell you, that’s a very big deal.
Read the entire article at https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2018/12/13/seven-remarkable-takeaways-from-massive-kubernetes-conference/.
Intellyx publishes the Agile Digital Transformation Roadmap poster, advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives, and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, none of the organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. CNCF provided Jason Bloomberg a free pass to KubeCon, a standard industry practice. Image credit: Jason Bloomberg.
