In 2017 and 2018 enterprises like Lyft, Box, eBay, and others, have been riding on Kubernetes(k8s) as their innovation engine to house not only microservices apps but also AI and backend workloads. During this time, k8s has evolved from cool new toy for startups and PoCs to production-grade container orchestration system for enterprise environments. Many […]
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Strategize Your Journey to the Cloud-Native World: A Look at Containers and Serverless
If you have embraced the concept of cloud-native computing, your organization is set up for success in today’s competitive IT environment. You have already made significant progress. You have signed on to the basic tenets of modern IT management practices like DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices and containers. You have set a goal to create applications […]
Inside-Out at HPE — Working With Customers To Meet Developer Needs
Three-and-a-half years ago, CTP started working with HPE as change agents to help in how they used and consumed information technology. In one of the use cases, they were asked to work with an HPE team of about 450 developers who were using a particular waterfall method, said Robert Christiansen, vice president of Global Cloud […]
Kubernetes Wins at Orchestration Engines, but Still Needs Backup
We discuss how Kubernetes has won the war as a leader in orchestration. However, it is still not easy to use or maintain. We explore what organizations need to consider in order to build operational efficiencies around the technology. Kubernetes, Docker, and containers are very different from something like VMware and Amazon in terms of adoption. […]
Kubernetes in Enterprises of all Sizes
We discuss the use cases for adopting Kubernetes technology. One example we reference is a small bank in Ohio that has found its own business use-case for Kubernetes. Originally, Kubernetes was built to manage Google-sized technology, so it may come as a surprise that such a small brick and mortar bank, just starting with web […]
Defending the Value of Kubernetes in the Cloud
Kubernetes was open sourced by Google in 2014. This container orchestration engine is based on Google’s Borg technology that’s been running for many years. Indeed, Google ran Kubernetes for more than 10 years, before containers became hot. Google had been powering its own web services with it. Putting things into perspective, Kubernetes was actually late […]