Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) Study Guide
by Jorge Valenzuela Jiménez, Adrián González Sánchez
Foreword: An Overview of the Cloud Native Ecosystem
The year 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of Kubernetes. It is undeniable that Kubernetes changed how entire sectors and industries approach software delivery in production environments. As the second largest open source project in the world after Linux, Kubernetes is the primary container orchestration framework for 71% of Fortune 100 companies. On a yearly basis, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and other organizations conduct several annual surveys and audits to showcase overall user satisfaction, while the myriad of adopter case studies highlight the benefits and numerous solved technical challenges.
Looking back, Kubernetes served as the gravitational point for the cloud native ecosystem. Over the years, there was considerable growth in the number of vendor organizations that developed new tooling or functionalities that would benefit the container-focused infrastructure. At the same time, platform engineering teams around the world would leverage a pluggable system, integrating their desired tooling for networking, storage, service mesh, observability, and many more with minimal technical compromises. The constant adoption rate from the end user’s side and the creation of new/enhanced offerings from third-party companies created a closed feedback loop that skyrocketed the growth of the cloud native landscape. Currently, there are more than 175 fully open source projects (as of November 2023) of varying maturity ...
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