Kubernetes Top 3 Awards Categories

The rapid expansion in complexity of the Kubernetes universe has made it difficult for enterprises to operate containerized applications in production and at scale. This Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) decision guide enables influencers and decision makers to find commercial enterprise-grade products that will help lower operations cost and simplify application releases. 

The Awards Categories Are: 
​Kubernetes Storage - release date: Feb 25, 2020
Kubernetes Monitoring - release date: Feb 25
Kubernetes Application Management: Feb 25
Kubernetes Databases and Data Management: TBD
Security and Compliance: TBD
Continuous Integration and Delivery: TBD
Logging and Tracing: TBD
Service Mesh and API Gateway: TBD
PaaS Container Service: TBD

Purpose of the EMA Top 3 Awards

The Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Top 3 award winners of 2020 all have one thing in common: they address today’s most critical enterprise challenges in DevOps and IT by breaking through the vicious triangle that forces enterprises into a tradeoff between cost, quality, and speed. EMA Top 3 recipients can be startups that approach an existing critical problem from a promising new angle, or they can be more established vendors that recently introduced interesting new releases to the marketplace. More info.

Quick intro to EMA's quantitative approach toward market research

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Job Requirements for Site Reliability Engineers

This word cloud is based on 500 job descriptions for SREs (data source: Indeed.com / chart: ema)

Live Chart: Kubernetes SIGs by GitHub Activity per Year

Live Chart: Kubernetes Topics on GitHub in 2020

Live Chart: Kubernetes GitHub Issues by Priority

Storage, Network, and Security Are Key Kubernetes Challenges

Storage, Network, and Security are three fast growing Kubernetes challenges for developers today (Data source: StackOverflow / Chart: EMA)

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Kubernetes Complexity Is Growing Fast

The complexity of the Kubernetes universe grew rapidly between 2014 and 2020 (data source: StackOverflow / Chart: EMA)

Kubernetes Market Topology based on CNCF Categories

Kubernetes Market Overview Based on CNCF Product Categories

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Kubernetes Growth in Developer Popularity

The total number of monthly Kubernetes-related posts on the StackOverflow developer forum doubled between 2018 and 2020 (data source: StackOverflow / chart: EMA)

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Kubernetes Statistics by Country

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The USA is leading the Kubernetes universe ahead of China (sources: GitHub and CNCF / chart: EMA)