[$] An overview of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon

The CloudNative Computing Foundation (CNCF) held its conference,KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, in December 2017. There were 4000 attendees at this gathering in Austin, Texas,more than all the previous KubeCons before, which shows the rapid growth of thecommunity building around the tool that was announced by Google in2014. Large corporations are also taking a larger part in the community, with major players in the industry joining the CNCF, which is a project of the Linux Foundation. The CNCF now features three of the largest cloudhosting businesses (Amazon, Google, and Microsoft), but also emergingcompanies from Asia like Baidu and Alibaba.