Several different analysts and tech journalists have proclaimed that 2017 was the year of Kubernetes. But if you’re not involved in the day-to-day management of cloud workloads, you can be forgiven for not understanding what the fuss is all about.

Kubernetes is a relatively young technology. The first open source code for the tool became available in 2014. But in the roughly three years it has been around, Kubernetes has really taken off. .