Saved You An Analyst Read on Kubernetes Growth (2019 Edition)

For the last two years I’ve written blog posts showing graphs and anecdotal data to show the dramatic growth Kubernetes has experienced and is experiencing. In past years I’ve set comparison between Kubernetes, Mesos and docker-swarm. This year I’m adding OpenShift to the mix. Although some argue it’s Kubernetes proper, in my brief research it also has several value-add parts Red Hat has put around it that would make it much more than an augmented superset of Kubernetes.

First, let’s look at StackOverflow trends:

Number of weekly questions tagged

We can see that although higher than in July ’18, it has fallen about 10% from its October peak. But trend still is decidedly upwards and healthy. Also as common in the last couple of years none of the other container orchestrators/platform I’ve compared against hold a candle against Kubernetes’ incredible ascent.

Let’s now consider GitHub gravitas:

These numbers are interesting and sort of align with the growth “cool-off” we see in StackOverflow.