Kubernetes Weekly: Review in 5 Charts

Torsten Volk
2 min readMar 12, 2021

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UPDATE: Before we jump in, here is the weekly topic relationship map based on the term importance and correlation of Kubernetes topics on Stackoverflow during the week of March 4, 2021.

EMA Topic Correlations Map based on Stackoverflow.com Kubernetes-related data from the Week of March 4, 2021

Top 25 Kubernetes Topics of the Week

Based on the 325 Kubernetes-related questions asked on Stackoverflow.com, here are the Top 25 developer and DevOps centric topics of the week. The bar reflects the percentage of the number of total views received by each topic over the week. You can see that ingress control (kubernetes-ingress, nginx, nginx-ingress) was the biggest topic this week.

Topic Clusters of the Week: Ingress Rules

The topic cluster view shows the close correlation of ingress topics with AWS, Google, and Azure’s managed Kubernetes services, AKS, EKS, and GKE.

Key Observation: EKS, AKS, and ingress are closely connected

Battles of the Week: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud

EKS beats out AKS in this week’s managed Kubernetes battle, with GKE significantly behind. ECS and Fargate are at the back of the grid.

Battles of the Week Take 2: Terraform versus Ansible

In the important automation battle, Terraform leads over Ansible by 12%. Bash is also on the map but a completely different animal.

Battles of the Week Take 3: Development Languages

Python defends its usual large lead when it comes to its role within Kubernetes implementation projects.

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Torsten Volk
Torsten Volk

Written by Torsten Volk

Industry analyst for application development and modernization at the Enterprise Strategy Group (by InformaTechTarget).

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