Keynote: Is Kubernetes Delivering on its Promise? A Platform Engineering Perspective

The presentation discusses the use of Kubernetes as a solution for building an internal platform and evaluates its effectiveness from the perspective of platform engineering teams.

• An internal platform is necessary to meet the expectations of application developers, business stakeholders, and platform engineers.
• Before Kubernetes, building an internal platform required an army of experts and took many months to build.
• Kubernetes was a perfect match for building an internal platform due to its scalability, reliability, resiliency, and extensibility.
• Kubernetes has fulfilled its promise and is the engine of productivity for platform teams.
• The CNCF end user developer experience community discusses all things related to building and operating a Kubernetes platform.

The speaker shared an anecdote about a telecom industry end user who built their own Kubernetes platform in their data center due to strict latency requirements. They are considering using cloud providers but it will be a while before the providers can meet their needs.

The question of “Is Kubernetes delivering on its promise?” comes up every so often in our social media feeds. With the early adoption hype behind us, how are users deriving value from this seemingly ubiquitous technology? What problem has the technology solved and what additional problems did it create? In this talk, Aparna Subramanian, co-lead of CNCF Developer Experience SIG, and Director of Production Engineering, Shopify will share a candid summary based on end users’ experience using Kubernetes. You can also expect to learn about the strategies to get value out of this technology and the CNCF resources that can help you in this journey.