Why have all the major technology players jumped on the Kubernetes wagon this year, and where will the open-source container management system go from here?

Looking to answer these and other questions, SiliconANGLE is at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017, currently underway in Austin, Texas, with exclusive commentary and interviews from our roving news desk, theCUBE. (* Disclosure below.)

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, theCUBE will explore what’s driving the interest in Kubernetes this year, alongside the supporting initiatives from major tech players, including Google LLC, Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Kubernetes has matured to a certain point, what Stu Miniman (@stu), an analyst with Wikibon (owned by the same company as SiliconANGLE) refers to as the 1.0 ecosystem.

Kubernetes’ momentum has seen it become the de facto standard for container orchestration with backing from most of the major cloud players. The application container market is expected to see significant growth over the next few years and will quadruple in size from $762 million in 2016 to $2.7 billion by 2020, according to 451 Research LLC.  

After joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in August, Amazon Web Services Inc. finally announced support for Kubernetes at its re:Invent conference last week, joining the likes of Google and Microsoft Corp., which both offer support for the container orchestration software. AWS previously pushed its own container orchestration tools but has finally conceded to the popularity of Kubernetes.

“Go to Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, AWS — they’re not going to build a business off Kubernetes. It’s a service that helps enable their infrastructure as a service,” Miniman said. “There are a lot of small companies that do Kubernetes services and management, but Kubernetes is not like Linux’s open-source operating system, where an enterprise would choose the best product and service provider. The 30-plus companies doing Kubernetes services are all interoperable.”

Google teamed up with the CNCF last month and introduced the Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program, which will allow for Kubernetes interoperability between different implementations. Most of the big names in the container ecosystem have already certified their offerings, including Google, Docker Inc., IBM Corp. and Red Hat Inc. While the CNCF announced its first certified Kubernetes providers in September.

Keynote speakers at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 include Google executives Sarah Novotny, who leads an open-source strategy group for Google Cloud Platform; Brian Grant, co-technical lead of Kubernetes and Container Engine; Chen Goldberg, director of engineering for Container Engine and Kubernetes; and Kelsey Hightower, staff developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform.

Other speakers include Microsoft executives Brendan Burns, distinguished engineer in Microsoft Azure, and Michelle Noorali, senior software engineer at Microsoft Azure; as well as Dianne Marsh, director of engineering for the engineering tools team at Netflix Inc.; Clayton Coleman, architect and engineer on cloud orchestration and containers at Red Hat; Ben Sigelman, co-founder of LightStep Inc.; Craig McLuckie, founder and chief executive officer of Heptio Inc.; and Jesse Newland, operations engineer at GitHub Inc.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

We offer you various ways to watch all of theCUBE interviews that will be taking place at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017, including theCUBE’s dedicated website and YouTube. You can also get all the coverage from this year’s event on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE’s dedicated website and Ustream

All of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 will be available on theCUBE’s dedicated website.

You can also watch all the interviews on the dedicated Ustream channel.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, which runs until Dec. 8, will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests who will be interviewed at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE include KubeCon + CloudNativeCon keynote speakers Kelsey Hightower, Michelle Noorali, Clayton Coleman and Ben Sigelman.

Other guests include Red Hat executives Brian Gracely, director of product strategy; Steve Watt, chief architect, emerging technologies; Joe Brockmeier, senior evangelist, Linux containers; Kimberly Craven, strategic product and solutions marketing executive; and Mike Barrett, senior systems engineer.

TheCUBE’s lineup also includes Dustin Kirkland, vice president of product development for Ubuntu at Canonical Ltd; Lew Tucker, vice president and chief technology officer of Cisco Cloud at Cisco Systems Inc.; Dan Kohn, executive director of CNCF; Gabe Monroy, lead project manager of containers at Microsoft Azure; Joe Beda, founder and chief technology officer of Heptio; Matt Klein, software engineer at Lyft Inc.; and Tom Joyce, chief executive officer of Pensa Inc.

Livestream of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon

If you are unable to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Austin, you can still catch a livestream of all the event’s keynotes from the comfort of your home or office.

A live video stream of the keynotes will take place on:  

• Wednesday, Dec. 6 at 9:00 a.m. to 10:35 a.m. CST and 5:10 p.m. to 6:05 p.m. CST;
• Thursday, Dec. 7 at 9:00 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. CST;
• Friday, Dec. 8 at 9:00 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. CST.

You can register for the keynotes on the official event page.

(* Disclosure: Some segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE are sponsored. Sponsors have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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