The New Stack: “Why Kubernetes Has Emerged as the ‘OS’ of the Cloud”

Since the dawn of the computer age, IT has been defined by the operating systems (MS-DOS, Unix, Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS) that quarterback them. New research has revealed that the main players and market shares in 2023 remain the same but that there’s also a rising star on this horizon as we move into the mysterious new Web3 era.

That star, to the surprise of few, is Kubernetes. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) reports that this “operating system” — well, really a base layer of ops management inside a modern IT stack — has made a successful mainstream leap to the cloud and seen its instances multiply greatly in just a few years’ time.