Kubernetes Won the Orchestration Wars. Its Teams Are Still Fighting.
The New Stack, Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
Sponsored New Stack piece with HPE Fellow David Estes on dev-ops friction in Kubernetes teams and how AI automation could ease it.
This sponsored New Stack article notes that 82% of container users run Kubernetes in production, yet its teams are often unhappy.
Developers value self-service scaling and configuration, while operations teams, as HPE Fellow David Estes puts it, 'have always wanted to slow things down' in favor of stability and change control.
AI inference across hybrid and edge environments adds GPU scheduling and capacity pressures, Estes thinks many firms overuse microservices and create 'architecture bloat,' and the piece suggests AI automation may help ease these tensions.