By Betsy Amy-Vogt
Kubernetes has become central to enterprise cloud strategy
Global corporations Amazon Web Services, Cisco and Intel have eclipsed early open-source evangelists in the event sponsor list, marking how much the cloud-native ecosystem has changed in the past couple of years.
“Kubernetes has grown from a niche technology to something so utterly ubiquitous that folks don’t even know they are using technologies built on it,” said Chris Aniszczyk, chief technology officer of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, in a quote from the 2021 CNCF survey.
Aniszczyk compared the pervasiveness of Kubernetes to that of Linux in that it forms an indispensable, but invisible, part of the technologies on which modern society operates.
According to the survey, there are now 5.6 million developers using Kubernetes based across every area of the globe. This is a 67% increase from a year ago, and the growth has been most prominent in large organizations, which are now more likely to use Kubernetes than smaller companies.
“If you’re interested in enterprise IT infrastructure, Kubernetes should be your technology of choice, and KubeCon is the place to be,” stated industry analyst Jason Bloomberg, founder and president of Intellyx LLC.
