At KubeCon NA 2023, finding cloud independence on the edges of Kubernetes

ANALYSIS BY JASON ENGLISH

At KubeCon/CloudNativeCon North America 2023 this past week in Chicago, discussion turned from the ubiquity of the software container orchestrator Kubernetes as the heart of cloud-native development to addressing a vast ecosystem of projects and vendors, which in turn are enabling applications and data to become more distributed and independent from any particular underlying cloud or on-premises infrastructure.

With open-source cloud native projects driving more than $4.4 billion in economic impact, according to McKinsey, Priyanka Sharma, chair of the event host Cloud Native Computing Foundation. kicked off the event noting that Kubernetes has likely “realized its Linux moment,” with trillions of downloads and more than 220,000 development contributors involved.