In a recent keynote for The DEVOPS Conference, Cheryl Hung, VP ecosystem for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), shared her top 10 predictions for cloud native in the upcoming year. This includes improvements in cross cloud support, growth in GitOps and chaos engineering practices, and an increase in the adoption of FinOps.

The 10 predictions for cloud native in 2021 from Hung’s keynote (source: Twitter)

Hung notes that 83% of respondents in the 2020 CNCF survey are running Kubernetes within production. This heavy usage of Kubernetes is mirrored in the catalog of CNCF projects. For example, Flux is a tool to enable the GitOps methodology with Kubernetes. This approach focuses on declaratively describing the entire desired state within git. As Hung notes, with GitOps “you get a perfect audit log through your entire infrastructure and it’s easy for you to roll back in case there are any problems.”

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