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Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?

At the time of this article, Kubernetes is about  six years old , and over the last two years, it has risen in popularity to consistently be one of the  most loved platforms . This year, it comes in as  the number three most loved platform . If you haven’t heard about Kubernetes yet, it’s a platform that allows you to run and orchestrate container workloads. Containers began as a Linux kernel process isolation construct that encompasses  cgroups  from 2007 and  namespaces  from 2002. Containers became more of a thing when  LXC  became available in 2008, and Google developed its own internal ‘run everything in containers mechanism’ called  Borg . Fast forward to 2013, and Docker was released and completely popularized containers for the masses. At the time,  Mesos  was the primary tool for orchestrating containers, however, it wasn’t as widely adopted. Kubernetes was released in 2015 and quickly became the de facto container orc...