Benefits of Using Kubernetes
Kubernetes has taken the industry by storm and its popularity continues to grow. In fact, Kubernetes is one of the most successful open-source projects of all time. Experts initially believed that Kubernetes would only be used by large companies. However, it has become increasingly clear that all companies, large and small, are poised to benefit from switching to Kubernetes.
Modern software infrastructure is built on a microservices framework. Indeed, containers are an increasingly popular method to enable software to run reliably when moved from one computing environment to another. The use of containers has exploded in recent years and this trend is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. The majority of containers are orchestrated, with Kubernetes being the most popular container orchestration platform available.
Kubernetes is an extremely popular open-source orchestrator for deploying and managing containerized applications at scale for cloud, multi-cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments. Often called the “Linux of the cloud,” Kubernetes is flexible, scalable, and open source. Kubernetes enables organizations to deploy modern applications that are scalable, modular, and fault-tolerant, thereby freeing up developers from manual tasks around infrastructure management and leading to significant productivity gains.
Kubernetes accelerates productivity of developers, improves security, enables new applications, helps reduce costs, minimizes vendor-lock, and streamlines the task of managing containers. The adoption of Kubernetes within enterprise IT environments is significant and continues to grow. Kubernetes has been proven robust for a wide range of production environments, as it is currently used by thousands of IT teams. In addition, more and more businesses are switching over to Kubernetes to solve their container orchestration needs. One of the reasons Kubernetes has been so quickly adopted and continues to grow is it delivers clear benefits to multiple stakeholders in an organization, including both operations teams and development teams.
In addition, Kubernetes is future-proof. All major cloud vendors support Kubernetes and also provide out-of-the-box solutions for implementation. The Kubernetes ecosystem is growing rapidly as new products supporting different needs on top of the Kubernetes platform are continuously being released.
Kubernetes is portable and flexible and therefore can work with virtually any type of program that runs containers as well as any type of underlying infrastructure, such as cloud, on-premise, or hybrid infrastructures. In fact, Kubernetes can even host workloads across multiple clouds.
Another advantage of Kubernetes is the speed at which application updates can be deployed, avoiding downtime. This is makes applications more stable as rolling updates can be implemented without downtime.
Kubernetes stands apart from other container orchestration options and is the clear choice for managing modern container deployments in a manner that is efficient, flexible, and business-friendly. Not all companies are using Kubernetes, but more and more organizations will continue to modernize to Kubernetes, enabling flexibility, power, and scalability that will pay off in the long term.