{"id":35346,"date":"2018-07-25T16:42:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T16:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/25\/the-kubernetes-third-year-anniversary-is-just-the-beginning\/"},"modified":"2018-07-25T16:42:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T16:42:39","slug":"the-kubernetes-third-year-anniversary-is-just-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/25\/the-kubernetes-third-year-anniversary-is-just-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kubernetes Third-Year Anniversary Is Just the Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/the-kubernetes-third-year-anniversary-is-just-the-beginning.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A vibrant development community continues to help make Kubernetes the profoundly\u00a0<a class=\"local-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/future-beyond-kubernetes-1-9\/\">successful open source project<\/a>\u00a0it has become. In just a few years after Kubernetes was created as an in-house project by Google, Kubernetes\u2019\u00a0<a class=\"ext-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kubernetes.io\/blog\/2017\/10\/kubernetes-community-steering-committee-election-results\/\">governance processes<\/a>\u00a0have also served to underpin the platform\u2019s adoption as well.\u00a0 And a healthy community is at the heart of\u00a0<a class=\"local-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/future-beyond-kubernetes-1-9\/\">any successful source project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the open source community is not a \u201cstatic asset.\u201d To be permanently successful and to move forward, any open source project also needs a growing pool of contributors in order to survive. That\u2019s why the Kubernetes community is working on multiple programs, focused on onboarding contributors, including the\u00a0<a class=\"ext-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kubernetes.io\/docs\/imported\/community\/mentoring\/\">Kubernetes Mentoring initiative<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"ext-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kubernetes.io\/docs\/imported\/community\/guide\/\">Kubernetes Contributing guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"ext-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kubernetes.io\/blog\/2018\/03\/expanding-user-support-with-office-hours\/\">Office Hours<\/a>, as well as\u00a0<a class=\"ext-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kubernetes.io\/blog\/2018\/07\/10\/meet-our-contributors---monthly-streaming-youtube-mentoring-series\/\">\u201cMeet our Contributors sessions\u201d<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"ext-link\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/kubernetes\/community\/blob\/master\/sig-cli\/outreachy.md\">Outreachy<\/a>\u00a0and even\u00a0<a class=\"ext-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cncf.io\/blog\/2018\/06\/22\/cncf-joins-google-summer-of-code-2018-with-projects-envoy-proxy-containerd-coredns-prometheus-kubernetes-and-rook\/\">Google Summer of Code (GSoC)<\/a>, which is one of the most popular and well-known programs for the new contributors to the open source projects in the world. Some of the stand-out contributors have also garnered i<a class=\"ext-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CloudNativeFdn\/status\/938565409145589760\">ndustry recognition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Releases, Features and Roadmap<\/h3>\n<p>Kubernetes is a technology, first and foremost. And the project obviously couldn\u2019t be so successful if the technology did not offer such a profound benefit to organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The most important releases of Kubernetes occur four times per year, providing a new set of features each time. The patch releases (delivering security patches and bug fixes) take place even more often, keeping the codebase always up-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/the-kubernetes-third-year-anniversary-is-just-the-beginning\/\">The New Stack<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ossna18.sched.com\/event\/FAOQ\/kubernetes-project-update-ihor-dvoretskyi-cloud-native-computing-foundation?iframe=yes&amp;w=100%25&amp;sidebar=yes&amp;bg=no#\">Kubernetes project update from\u00a0Ihor Dvoretskyi<\/a>\u00a0coming up at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/events.linuxfoundation.org\/events\/open-source-summit-north-america-2018\/\">Open Source Summit<\/a>\u00a0in Vancouver.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vibrant development community continues to help make Kubernetes the profoundly\u00a0successful open source project\u00a0it has become. In just a few years after Kubernetes was created as an in-house project by Google, Kubernetes\u2019\u00a0governance processes\u00a0have also served to underpin the platform\u2019s adoption as well.\u00a0 And a healthy community is at the heart of\u00a0any successful source project. 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