Kubernetes is the future: But what does this future look like?

This makes Kubernetes the de facto standard for running containerized, cloud-native applications at scale, a critical part of the modern enterprise IT mix. CIOs and IT decision-makers recognize the importance of Kubernetes to enable developer productivity and help speed business innovation.

When industry influencers and CIOs talk about the future of computing, they typically aren’t only discussing hardware advancements or cloud-based software. Increasingly, these conversations center on transformation through application innovation, providing new predictive services to customers that are driven by an integrated user experience. This could be something like inspecting customer data patterns to promote new banking services, analyzing health indicators to proactively recommend treatment or an immersive interface for personalized interactions. 

Whatever the end product, it’s about gaining a competitive advantage in an ever-evolving, highly-competitive marketplace through technological advancement. Enter containers. Containers enable these applications to evolve faster, increase developer velocity and bring a greater level of portability and consistency regardless of underlying infrastructure.

Gartner predicts that, by 2022, more than 75% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, which is a significant increase from fewer than 30% in 2019.1

This makes Kubernetes the de facto standard for running containerized, cloud-native applications at scale, a critical part of the modern enterprise IT mix. CIOs and IT decision-makers recognize the importance of Kubernetes to enable developer productivity and help speed business innovation. 

The future of IT is going to be about greater interactivity, seamless integrated experiences, predictive analytics, automation, decision making via machine learning, making sense of data exhaust, adding in augmented and virtual reality and a host of other applications we cannot even imagine yet. These applications will run most effectively when they are offered the greatest flexibility and agility. Container-based, cloud-native apps orchestrated by Kubernetes, offers those attributes to become the building blocks of the modern IT infrastructure. The future of IT requires a platform that supports all of this and that spans existing IT investments in data centers and clouds as well as embraces what is yet to come. This is why Red Hat champions an open hybrid cloud approach.

For a long time, the hybrid environments we saw customers using included bare-metal physical servers, virtual machines and private and public clouds (sometimes even multiple public clouds to meet specific needs). Customers want their hybrid environments to come together or, in other words, for the specific IT environment to be immaterial. They want their hybrid environments to be used as one, secured as one, managed as one and to interact as one - in short, they want a consistent and solid foundation. And, they want consistent ways to build and manage apps, regardless of which footprint they are on.

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Our original Kubernetes tool list was so popular that we've curated another great list of tools to help you improve your functionality with the platform.

This article explains how you can leverage Kubernetes to reduce multi cloud complexities and improve stability, scalability, and velocity.

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Microsoft announced the general availability of Bridge to Kubernetes, formerly known as Local Process with Kubernetes.