Open Source have not had a prominent role in the Norwegian Government until the introduction of Kubernetes and the CNCF-landscape.

Ever since the Norwegian Tax Administration and Welfare Administration met during KubeCon EU 2017 and stated building their Kubernetes based application-platforms Norway has been on the fast track to open source technology adoption with more and more agencies favoring open source and open standards.

Today over 35 government agencies have a presence on GitHub where they have stared giving back to community by making what they have built themselves open source with the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration alone have 2000 public code repositories.