VALENCIA, Spain — Nearly seven years after Google released Kubernetes, the open source container orchestrator, into an unsuspecting world, 5.6 milli

Living with Kubernetes after the ‘Honeymoon’ Ends

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2022-05-27 03:00:06

VALENCIA, Spain — Nearly seven years after Google released Kubernetes, the open source container orchestrator, into an unsuspecting world, 5.6 million developers worldwide use it.

But that number, from the latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) annual survey, masks a lot of frustration. Kubernetes (K8s) can make life easier for the organization that adopts it — after it makes it a lot harder. And as it scales, it can create an unending cadence of triumph and challenge.

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, EU in Valencia, Spain last week, a trio of experts — Saad Malik, chief technology officer and co-founder of Spectro Cloud; Bailey Hayes, principal software engineer at SingleStore; and Fabrizio Pandini, a staff engineer at VMware — joined Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, and myself for a livestream event.

What resulted was a relationship status report/therapy session about the ways in which Kubernetes can be harder to live with than it seemed when the cloud native world first fell in love with it.

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