The December 2021 report from the CNCF showed that 5.6 million developers use Kubernetes today. We adopted Kubernetes a little over three years ago and felt this is a good time to reflect on what we thought we were getting into and what we have actually experienced. Here are five areas where the prevailing wisdom did not match our expectations.

Here at CodeZero we know that our developer platform for Kubernetes can lead to a 10x increase in productivity, and so we promote that fact proudly. "But wait!" you say. It's one thing to make that claim, but another to demonstrate exactly how this boost in productivity is achieved.

In my previous blog post, CodeZero 301, I shared with you Part 3 of a four-part series directed at introducing you to the CodeZero platform and some of its useful tools and features for Kubernetes developers. Part 3 introduced you to the concepts behind Halyard, CodeZero’s next generation build and deployment feature that enables developers to ship code easier, faster, and with a higher level of quality.

CodeZero’s mission is to help Developers be 10x more productive on Kubernetes, which is why we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve joined the Equinix Metal Partner Ecosystem alongside a huge roster of other Kubernetes and Hybrid-Multi Cloud projects and companies. We’ll admit that we didn’t know a great deal about Equinix until we met the folks at Equinix Metal and learned of Equinix’s 20 year history of creating neutral partner led ecosystems.

Despite tremendous benefits, 47% of the Kubernetes community reports a steep learning curve as a barrier to adoption according to a recent survey of 1000 Developers by Civo.com. So when our team started out on Kubernetes, we went out looking for online resources to learn from and we have been following Viktor Farcic for well over a year now. Viktor is the author of the DevOps Paradox podcast and has a weekly video series called the DevOps Toolkit by Viktor Farcic on YouTube.

In my previous blog post, CodeZero 201, I shared with you Part 2 of a four-part series directed at introducing you to the CodeZero platform and some of its useful tools and features for Kubernetes developers. Part 2 discussed two incredibly handy features for working with Kubernetes called Teleport and Intercept.

In my previous blog post, CodeZero 101, I shared with you Part 1 of a four-part series directed at introducing you to the CodeZero platform and some of its useful tools and features for Kubernetes developers. While Part 1 focused on laying a technology foundation, this second post gets into CodeZero itself, and introduces two incredibly handy features called Teleport and Intercept. Teleport allows developers to develop and debug their code locally as though they are inside the cluster.

In a series of four articles I’m going to describe the foundational technology behind CodeZero, describe some of its features, and show how it can be of tremendous benefit to any development team or individual deploying their software to Kubernetes. You can read the first article on Medium, where I dive into some of the core concepts that you need to understand to get the most out of CodeZero.

One of the real joys of entrepreneurship is to see your product take off. When I say “take off”, I mean that moment you get as many thousands of new customers sign-up every single day as it took the company the past two years to acquire. I cannot begin to describe the exhilaration and the stress as you see your cloud infrastructure numbers skyrocket.

At CodeZero, we believe that modern DevOps practices are key to unlocking the full value of Cloud Native Computing. “Halyard” is a new approach to Developing, Deploying and Managing containerized applications that run in any Kubernetes environment. With v 1.1.0 of Halyard, CodeZero delivers the following features to developers.