Lyft had tried to make the switch to containers a few years before, with a home-grown provisioning system based on Salt, but ultimately waited until Kubernetes came on the scene and then matured.

Using a lot of Go for infrastructure and development (in addition to some Python), the Lyft engineering team aims to provide a unified developer experience going between dev and ops.

Lyft cites Kubernete's ecosystem and ability to be understood easily as reasons for adoption, and now uses it to support developers who have the option of deploying many different microservices with full control of the entire stack from the VM up.

“Now, [developers] just need to know that they can build an image that needs to run, and once they have that, they hand it over to the infrastructure team and then that’s it.”