A case has just been made for a long and bright future for Kubernetes with all the major technology companies backing it. In fact, it grew so rapidly and became so important that even Amazon embraced it, albeit reluctantly. You read it right. Even the mighty Amazon and AWS could not ignore Kubernetes.

The user community needs platforms to build on, safe in the knowledge that the platform they choose will be a good long-term technology investment. As things stand right now, it looks like Kubernetes will be with us for a very long time.

Another reason the user community needs and loves Kubernetes goes back to the idea that Kubernetes is the OS of the cloud.

It has already been stated that Kubernetes can abstract lower-level on-prem and cloud infrastructure, allowing you to write your applications to run on Kubernetes without even knowing which cloud is behind it. Well, this has a few side benefits, including:

You can deploy to one cloud today and switch to another tomorrow.

You can run multi-cloud

You can ramp onto a cloud and then ramp off back to on-prem more easily.

Basically, applications written for Kubernetes will run anywhere that you have Kubernetes. It is a lot like writing applications for Linux. If you write your applications to work on Linux, it does not matter if Linux is running on Supermicro servers in your garage, or AWS cloud instances on the other side of the planet.