Another KubeCon has wrapped up (this time in Atlanta) and it offered a clear snapshot of where the cloud-native ecosystem is heading. Here are a few trends and lessons we're bringing home, based on conversations at our booth and what our team observed throughout the week.
When Kubernetes first entered the enterprise, it promised a unified way to run workloads anywhere. And it delivered! Today, nearly every modern engineering organization uses Kubernetes in some form, and according to DZone’s 2025 Kubernetes in the Enterprise Trend Report, adoption rates continue to climb across industries.
If you're building applications in Kubernetes and using Klutch to provision and connect to data services, this post will help you get oriented fast. Whether you're debugging a service binding or deploying a new proxy resource, it pays to understand the terminology, and to know the kubectl commands that'll save you time.