Driven by the rise of container-based workflows for software development, Kubernetes has seen a surge in adoption in recent years as the platform of c

Why Developers Should Learn Kubernetes

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2021-07-15 02:30:02

Driven by the rise of container-based workflows for software development, Kubernetes has seen a surge in adoption in recent years as the platform of choice to deploy these containers.

Since 2016, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has conducted a yearly survey to assess the adoption of containers and cloud native technologies by various engineering organizations. According to the CNCF 2020 survey respondents, 92% of companies are running containers in production, and 83% of them are using Kubernetes as their orchestration tool.

At the same time, many organizations are also adopting DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices to improve their applications’ reliability and the time it takes to deliver new application features.

Due to this adoption, engineering teams are seeing the benefits of merging operational and development best practices. Operations teams are becoming more service- and software-oriented, and development teams are learning about the platforms and environments on which they deploy their applications.