Digital disruption is forcing banks to satisfy the demands of increasingly connected customers with growing expectations. To serve the on-demand customer, banks must become agile digital enterprises focused on delivering innovative products, services, and customer experiences. Containers-and specifically Kubernetes-are a key to meeting the needs of bank customers at speed and scale.

Containers offer a logical packaging tool in which applications can be decoupled from the surroundings in which they run. This allows container-based applications to be installed easily and consistently, regardless of whether the target environment is a private or a public cloud. With containerization, development teams move fast, deploy software efficiently, and operate at an unprecedented scale.

Google has packaged containers through the open-source platform Kubernetes, giving banks an opportunity to easily benefit from the latest in container innovation.

Why Kubernetes?

Banks must keep up with consumer demand through real-time customization, instant scalability, and response to evolving security challenges-all of which cannot be achieved with traditional on-premise systems. Containerization is secure because applications and data are ‘contained’ within a workload and not visible unless made so-there is no ability to impact other containers. However, despite the advantages, containers are hard to manage and track individually, and across multiple cloud platforms. Container orchestration solves this issue by automating the management and tracking of containers.

Kubernetes is the widely accepted gold standard of container orchestration, allowing for easy organization, deployment, and scaling.

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