5 Takeaways from KubeCon North America 2019

Cloud Native Computing Foundation's flagship Kubernetes (K8s) conference, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (I will simply refer to as 'KubeCon' from here on), was held in San Diego Nov. 18-21, 2019. KubeCon continued its dramatic growth this year by selling out months in advance and drawing in over 12,000 attendees and 300 vendors, this is up 50 percent from last year. This conference is heavily developer-focused, but make no mistake -- all of the major IT vendors were represented: VMware had a huge presence, Red Hat was there representing IBM, and HPE announced their new Kubernetes-based Container Platform.