A few years ago, digital transformation led to enterprises moving away from traditional monolithic architectures to microservices.
When Netflix adopted microservices in 2009 for enhanced availability, scale, and speed, and openly documented its journey along the way, it kick-started a trend that led to a complete digital transformation — making monolithic architecture obsolete. But as things work in technology, with new solutions, comes a set of unprecedented challenges. Using VMs to manage and run multiple microservices together, negate the benefits of microservices.
Thus came the containers. Though the concept of virtual containers dates back to 1979, its popularity has been soaring only since 2012. Containers offer the ideal solution for running microservices in isolated environments. With this, containers became mainstream and app development methods evolved. Containers changed the way applications are built, designed, developed, packaged, delivered, and managed. This has paved the way for speedy and agile innovation and improved customer experience.
To keep up with the sheer volume of containers, IT capabilities and tools to deliver these applications needed to evolve as well, and they are still evolving to this date. Kubernetes became a part of the solution by offering efficient orchestration of containers in production. Kubernetes enables container orchestration and adds resilience, reliability, and portability to applications. It helps enterprises to build and maintain production-scale deployments.
Kubernetes is the defacto when it comes to container orchestration but before jumping into Kubernetes-based deployments, organizations need to realize that Kubernetes is just one piece of the puzzle for agile DevOps system. Real-world applications require a set of supporting systems to achieve your organization’s cloud-native goals.
Thus, before jumping head-first into Kubernetes adoption, there are a few things you need to consider.
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