CIO opinion
CIO OPINION
with growth in container use at Netflix now
exceeding three million in April 2018.
The rise of microservices and Kubernetes is
fundamentally allowing a more agile way for
teams to experiment, fail fast and the same
time to find out the right and wrong bits of
applications to put in containers.
This is the very heart of innovation in today’s
multi-cloud world, and where automating
the deployment process for managing
containers enables businesses to save
money, ensure scalability improve efficiency
and free up IT teams from maintenance-
based tasks.
In the long term, we believe that Kubernetes
can be applied to so much more than just
containers. We predict that many vendors
will start to offer the whole Kubernetes stack
to customers and help them to apply it to
other areas to scale their business.
We’re only just starting to see the impact
this technology can have on businesses.
Enterprises need to make the most out of
their technology, helping them transition from
where they are to where they need to be, and
future-ready for the next technology frontier.
It’s about knowing how organisations want
to consume Kubernetes. Some might want
a simple version, others will require a more
integrated solution, and some will want
Kubernetes as a service that’s managed in
the cloud, and so all of these options need to
be factored in.
buttons or fighting fires – they are now
freed up to build and deploy softer skills for
business success.
Beacons of best practice
Kubernetes is already helping many
organisations to enrich the developer,
or even citizen experience. Abu Dhabi
Government, for example, has enhanced
its digital solutions to support a unified
government services platform. The expected
outcome is to streamline and enhance
the experience of citizens. ADSSSA, the
authority that oversees the development
of Abu Dhabi’s government services, is
consolidating over 1,600 government
services into 80 end-user journeys that cover
everything from buying a house to medical
insurance. This has all been underpinned by
effective advanced container networking
and Kubernetes cluster management.
And let’s talk about the online gaming,
which is now a bigger industry than
Hollywood and the music business
combined. And growing rapidly. Playtika, a
leader in the games industry with 22 million
monthly active users, has publicly talked
about its container journey. Playtika chose
VMware PKS as their container platform
to create a more agile environment for
developers and testers to develop faster.
Finally, the team at T-Mobile have had
success by clearly aligning Kubernetes with
business objectives – they established clear
requirements for Kubernetes and can now
track business outcomes to make sure the
technology is driving valuable results such as
delivering production clusters, which frees up
the IT team to focus on coding.
Technology companies like ours
have to keep adapting with their
customers as they embark on their
multi-cloud journey. Moving into open-
source, and creating a strong culture of
innovation and engineering, is what we
believe will help CIOs innovate and allow for
further experimentation.
Embracing Kubernetes
Kubernetes is fundamental for innovation
in our multi-cloud world, and we are
seeing more organisations embrace
this technology. Having Kubernetes at
the core of your operations, and for the
management of multiple containers,
is absolutely vital to allow a culture of
experimentation to thrive.
This is the year that large organisations
embrace Kubernetes, the foundation
or management success in our multi-
cloud world. n
Breaking down the barriers
If Kubernetes is so effective at helping to
drive business transformation forward – why
are more not jumping at the chance?
The barriers to effective Kubernetes
deployment will always be existing processes
and siloed teams. The crucial first step is to
understand how to bridge the gaps between
different teams in your organisation.
That might be between developers and
operations, or it might be between IT and
a commercial function. It’s also about
encouraging technical people to talk to, and
empathise with, sales and marketing or vice
versa. Kubernetes can help deliver these
consistent operations, so that IT teams no
longer need to be spending time pushing
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