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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 more pull requests and issue comments than any other project on GitHub.  

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Figure 1: Kubernetes Rankings

At the center of the community are Special Interest Groups with members from different companies and organizations, all with a common interest in a specific topic. Given how fast Kubernetes is growing, SIGs help nurture and distribute leadership, while advancing new proposals, designs and release updates. Here's a look at the SIG building blocks supporting Kubernetes:

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Kubernetes has also earned the trust of many Fortune 500 companies with deployments at Box, Comcast, Pearson, GolfNow, eBay, Ancestry.com and contributions from CoreOS, Fujitsu, Google, Huawei, Mirantis, Red Hat, Weaveworks and ZTE Company and others. Today, on the second anniversary of the Kubernetes 1.0 launch, we take a look back at some of the major accomplishments of the last year:

July 2016

September 2016

  • Kubernetes v1.4 release
  • Launch of kubeadm, a tool that makes Kubernetes dramatically easier to install
  • Pokemon Go - one of the largest installs of Kubernetes ever

October 2016

November 2016

December 2016

January 2017

  • Survey from CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Seattle showcases the maturation of Kubernetes deployment

March 2017

April 2017

May 2017

  • Four Kubernetes projects accepted to The Google Summer of Code (GSOC) 2017 program
  • Stutterstock and Kubernetes appear in The Wall Street Journal: “On average we [Shutterstock] deploy 45 different releases into production a day using that framework. We use Docker, Kubernetes and Jenkins [to build and run containers and automate development,” said CTO Marty Brodbeck on the company’s IT overhaul and adoption of containerization.

June 2017

Figure 2: The 30 highest velocity open source projects. Source: https://github.com/cncf/velocity

July 2017

  • Kubernauts celebrate the second anniversary of the Kubernetes 1.0 launch with #k8sbday parties worldwide!

At the one year anniversary of the Kubernetes 1.0 launch, there were 130 Kubernetes-related Meetup groups. Today, there are more than 322 Meetup groups with 104,195 members. Local Meetups around the world joined the #k8sbday celebration! Take a look at some of the pictures from their celebrations. We hope you’ll join us at CloudNativeCon + KubeCon, December 6- 8 in Austin, TX.

Celebrating at the K8s birthday party in San Francisco

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Celebrating in RTP, NC with a presentation from Jason McGee, VP and CTO, IBM Cloud Platform. Photo courtesy of @FranklyBriana

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The Kubernetes Singapore meetup celebrating with an intro to GKE. Photo courtesy of @hunternield

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 @arieljatib and @coreos

Quebec City had custom k8s cupcakes too! Photo courtesy of @zig_max

Beijing celebrated with custom k8s lollipops. Photo courtesy of @maxwell9215

-- Sarah Novotny, Program Manager, Kubernetes Community