The Kubernetes momentum
Kubernetes has tremendous momentum behind it. The community is super strong. Users flock to Kubernetes as its mindshare increases, the technical press acknowledges its number one leadership position, the eco-system is sizzling, and a lot of big corporations and companies (in addition to Google) support it.
Community
The Kubernetes community is one of its greatest assets. Kubernetes recently joined the CNCF.
GitHub
Kubernetes is developed on GitHub and is one of the top projects on GitHub. It is in the top 0.01 percent in stars and number one in terms of activity.
More professionals list Kubernetes in their LinkedIn profile than any other comparable offering by a wide margin.
More than 1,000 contributors and 34,000 commits:
Conferences and meetups
Another indication of Kubernetes momentum is the number of conferences, meetups, and attendees. KubeCon is growing quickly and new Kubernetes meetups open up every day.
Mindshare
Kubernetes is getting a lot of attention and deployments...