What did the Kubernetes ecosystem cost? A couple of weeks ago the CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi posed this question. With the help of Black Duck Open Hub open source directory, we were quickly able to get an approximate answer.
Based on the lines of code in each project, we estimate that it cost about $120 million to get to Kubernetes 1.4. Albeit this is really a back-of-the-envelope guess, but it better than nothing, and it is a metric that let you compare it to other closed-source development projects.
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