Living with Kubernetes After the 'Honeymoon' Ends

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. In other words: It’s complicated. 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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.