Happy Second Birthday: A Kubernetes Retrospective
As we do every July, we’re excited to celebrate Kubernetes 2nd birthday! In the two years since GA 1.0 launched as an open source project, Kubernetes (abbreviated as K8s) has grown to become the highest velocity cloud-related project. With more than 2,611 diverse contributors, from independents to leading global companies, the project has had 50,685 commits in the last 12 months. Of the 54 million projects on GitHub, Kubernetes is in the top 5 for number of unique developers contributing code. It also has
Figure 1: Kubernetes
At the center of the community are
Kubernetes has also earned the trust of many
July 2016 September 2016 October 2016 November 2016 December 2016 January 2017 March 2017 April 2017 May 2017 June 2017 Figure 2: The 30 highest velocity open source projects. Source:
July 2017 At the one year anniversary of the Kubernetes 1.0 launch, there were 130 Kubernetes-related Meetup groups. Today, there are more than #k8sbday celebration! Take a look at some of the pictures from their celebrations. We hope you’ll join us at CloudNativeCon +
Celebrating at the K8s birthday party in San Francisco Celebrating in RTP, NC with a presentation from Jason McGee, VP and CTO, IBM Cloud Platform. Photo courtesy of
The Kubernetes Singapore meetup celebrating with an intro to GKE. Photo courtesy of
New York celebrated with mini k8s cupcakes and a presentation on the history of cloud native from CNCF Executive Director, Dan Kohn. Photo courtesy of @coreos Quebec City had custom k8s cupcakes too! Photo courtesy of
Beijing celebrated with custom k8s lollipops. Photo courtesy of
-- Sarah Novotny, Program Manager, Kubernetes Community
