role in driving and managing application
innovation – Kubernetes.
Kubernetes is the new foundation
to Digital Transformation success –
CIOs need to listen up
“
Kubernetes – far more than a technical
buzzword – is a crucial part of the modern
management story within our changing
landscape of app build and delivery. In
fact, did you know, Kubernetes is Greek for
‘helmsman’ and the origin of the word
governor, so this technology really is the
governor of the infrastructure. WHAT MAKES
KUBERNETES
SO COMPELLING
IS THAT IT WAS
MADE TO ALLOW
YOUR IT TEAM
TO MANAGE AND
ORCHESTRATE
THOUSANDS OF
CONTAINERS.
What makes Kubernetes so compelling is
that it was made to allow your IT team
to manage and orchestrate thousands of containers. It is fundamental to building
modern apps in a multi-cloud world – acting
But let’s take a step back for a moment.
Understanding the capabilities of
Kubernetes – a technology for running,
automating and managing containers – has
to start by understanding the role it can play
in helping CIOs evolve the business.
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as the foundation to manage and scale
cloud native applications and ensure an
open consistent developer experience across
multiple cloud environments.
And understanding Kubernetes also requires
understanding the fundamentals behind
how modern apps are built. It used to be
that applications were built as monoliths,
but unfortunately, monoliths tend to
not scale very well and often also have
availability issues.
An example is Twitter. You used to hear
about Twitter outages every time there
was a big celebrity event where lots of
people tweeting. You don’t hear about
that anymore. It’s because Twitter
adopted a new way of architecting their
application: Microservices.
Think of Netflix, its meteoric rise to the
world’s leading internet entertainment
service. This simply wouldn’t be possible with
monolithic databases and apps. It is only
through microservices that it has succeeded,
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