A Decade in: is Kubernetes still a Block Party or being Blocked In?

There were dozens of stories and blog posts written about the #Kubernetes 10th birthday. Milestones in open source projects are important to celebrate, and most of the content focuses on the technical and market adoption achievements notched by the penultimate open source container cluster management framework.?

David Cassel wrote at The New Stack on how the community that has built the code, deployed the clusters, and operated the microservices that have ushered in a completely new way to managing application portfolios and infrastructure fleets.

But Dan Robinson highlights in The Register points to the challenges we continue to face as community projects meet enterprise market adoption. Despite the fact that a multitude of cloud providers operate Kubernetes services, the plugins and extensions they develop break the portability promise that cloud-native communities champion.?

The community is key. Without the tens of thousands of developers who’ve iterated K8s to maturity, we would not be here today, just a decade after the cloud native revolution.?That's why Akamai Technologies is building an open platform and partnering with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as we build an enterprise Kubernetes platform based on open principles together with open source champions like Sander Rodenhuis .

We look forward to showcasing how enterprise grade K8s can be managed at planetary scale at KubeCon this year. We'll see you there to discuss further!

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