One of the questions my colleague Stephen is adept at asking and answering is of the form: “You won, so now what?” On the flight home from Kubecon 2018 recently it struck me that this frame is appropriate for a discussion of the state of the union. Kubernetes is the de facto standard for container orchestration. The Kubernetes community won. So now what?<\/p>\n
What are the jobs to be done?<\/p>\n
Grow the community<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Broaden the platform<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Establish a strong narrative for event-driven computing\/serverless<\/strong><\/p>\n Improve the developer experience<\/strong><\/p>\n So first let\u2019s look at<\/p>\n Community<\/strong><\/p>\n First some impressions from Copenhagen. The energy and positivity of the community was palpable. Sessions were packed, the hallway track was buzzing, and booths were getting plenty of attention (there were even rumours of solid leads, with some IT budget holders at the show). Also Copenhagen – can we just hear it for Copenhagen one more time. Such a great city.<\/p>\n There were more than 4300 attendees this year, three times as many as the show last time around in Berlin, and about the same size as the US event in Austin last December.<\/p>\n Kubernetes is not just for the cool kids any more. We’ve seen enterprises start to use Kubernetes in production over the past 18 months or so. At least 54% of the Fortune 500 were hiring for Kubernetes skills in 2017, a fairly reasonable proxy for adoption. So far implementations have generally been for new workloads and departmental in nature. But some organisations in the midst of major \u201cDigital Transformation\u201d projects are explicitly embracing Kubernetes to underpin a radical improvement in software development velocity as they move to continuous integration\/continuous deployment and trunk based development.<\/p>\n My favourite talk of the conference was by Sarah Wells, technical director of operations at the Financial Times, describing using Kubernetes to manage 150 microservices. As I said at the time:<\/p>\n Well @sarahjwells<\/a> just made kubernetes in the enterprise practical, sensible and inevitable, like a nice cup of tea. Well played<\/p>\n — Grumble Bundle (@monkchips) May 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n