Why Kubernetes will become the orchestration system of the cloud in 2020
The number of businesses using Kubernetes has risen rapidly over the last few years and adoption is forecasted to increase in 2020.
The success of Kubernetes has in part been the ease in which applications can be easily deployed and managed post release, including the speed in which an application can be scaled up or down. Early adopters and those benefiting most from the flexibility of the technology has been e-commerce applications especially when processing seasonal spikes in service.
The growth of Kubernetes has gone hand in hand with the rise of containers. The increase use of Microservices in creating the end product has enabled Kubernetes to be more versatile to the end client. This has allowed them to deliver bespoke products that meets the needs of the final customer and also gives the client a greater competitive edge over their competitors.
Kubernetes use of container clusters via the cloud (or physical units) allows for fast scale up in response to short term demand spikes. This has been favoured by many clients and aided in the continued growth of Kubernetes.
Demand for Kubernetes specialists has exploded and DevOps Engineers are a logical source of talent to meet this demand. There are clear transferable skills and methods of working that makes DevOps Engineers an ideal talent pool to manage containers and the deployment of code. The demand for DevOps Administrators has also grown as they migrate over to being responsible for managing, scaling and patching of containers.
With AWS and VMware providing customer products that run Kubernetes, the scope and use of Kubernetes will continue to grow which is why I believe Kubernetes will become the orchestration system of the cloud in 2020.
What do you think? Do you think Kubernetes will dominate the sector or will products such as ECS & Docker provide more versatility to developers?
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5yGood article Sai. My initial thoughts are that Kubernetes will dominate due to its popularity among the developer community and also for the reason that some Organisations have had an early start onto container driven strategy before moving to the Cloud. As organisations mature with the adoption of Cloud, they will want to move away from risks of managing complex container technologies on bare metal and leverage higher level managed services offered by Cloud service providers (Google, AWS and Azure) to minimise their operational overhead. The adoption of ECS will most likely align to the organisation's cloud strategy and especially the ones which have decided to go all in on the AWS. However with the multi-cloud and global organisations, you will continue to see the trend of Kubernetes adoption at a large scale compared to CSP managed services.
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5yIt's a great article.. keep going
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5yGreat article Sai, K8s is a good tool and concept and I think they are leading the industry on that niche, surely enough they could streamline the overall functionality/experience of it. As the cloud era is omnipotent, the on-prem concept was really "serverless" - it just uses the resources it needs to fulfill the very one query and doesn't reserve/lock any resources, as it grows to the cloud the name could be be definitely awkward, in a way it only acts as a "lease server" with an orchestration wrap-up and in fact looses a bit of its magic. There are a few alternative but I see k8s as the most enterprise wise solution out there, not the cheapest indeed...cheap/good/fast - the 3 way relation as always :)
ECS is not Kubernetes but Amazon’s proprietary implementation of Dockerswarm. EKS is Kubernetes but eh. ECS doesn’t cost any extra as EKS currently still does, is battle tested and comes with support from Amazon. Kubernetes consultants will cost you a lot more than the % of your AWS bill that “Business Support” costs