Kubecon saw significant growth in attendance from 350 people in March 2016 to 1000 people in November 2016. The Kubernetes project also continues to grow rapidly with over 1000 contributors now and the highest velocity GitHub project. Key announcements included Kubernetes support on Azure Container Service, new projects in the Kubernetes incubator, and upcoming features like StatefulSets in version 1.5. Overall, the conference highlighted Kubernetes' transition to an established ecosystem for cloud native applications.