Technology grows up. Obviously, that’s not a term we normally use, because, of course, we say that applications, platforms, tools, components and entire ecosystems eventually start to evolve, extend and mature.

Now looking at where the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s total project base sits some halfway through 2024, the CNCF is upbeat about Kubernetes due to the clearly visible groundswell of interest that the orchestration platform has afforded the increasingly compartmentalized world of containers and microservices.

“Kubernetes continues to mature with its consistent and largest contributor base,” states Chris Aniszczyk, an open-source technologist who sits as a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer experience and running the CNCF status and operations.