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Date Published
Author
Ramon Guiu
Word count
754
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Docker has announced support for Kubernetes, a critical part of its enterprise platform, further validating Kubernetes' leadership position in container orchestration. Kubernetes is an open-source platform that provides abstraction layer to schedule and deploy container applications, giving organizations flexibility to run workloads on-premise or in the cloud without changes to the application layer. Container adoption is growing rapidly, with the market expected to grow 40% per year from $762 million in 2016 to $2.7 billion by 2020, driven by portability and reduced costs through better infrastructure capacity utilization. Kubernetes has become a central container orchestration engine for major cloud providers and industry leaders are standardizing on it. New Relic is working to provide deeper visibility into Kubernetes at various levels, including application, container, pod, and host levels, essential for companies moving fast with confidence in the container orchestration space.