SEARCH (ENTER TO SEE ALL RESULTS)

POPULAR TOPICS

Contributed
News
Analysis
The New Stack Makers
Tutorial
Research
Podcast
Science
Feature
Off-The-Shelf Hacker
Skip to content
  • Podcasts
    • TNS @Scale Series
    • TNS Analysts Round Table
    • TNS Context Weekly News
    • TNS Makers Interviews
    • All Podcasts
  • Events
  • Ebooks
    • Storage
    • DevOps
    • Serverless
    • Microservices
    • Kubernetes Ecosystem
    • Docker Ecosystem
    • All Ebooks
  • Newsletter
  • Sponsorship
  • • • •
    • Podcasts
      • TNS @Scale Series
      • TNS Analysts Round Table
      • TNS Context Weekly News
      • TNS Makers Interviews
      • All Podcasts
    • Events
    • Ebooks
      • Machine Learning
      • DevOps
      • Serverless
      • Microservices
      • Kubernetes Ecosystem
      • Docker Ecosystem
      • All Ebooks
    • Newsletter
    • Sponsorship
Skip to content
  • Architecture
    • Cloud Native
    • Containers
    • Edge/IoT
    • Microservices
    • Networking
    • Serverless
    • Storage
  • Development
    • Development
    • Cloud Services
    • Data
    • Machine Learning
    • Security
  • Operations
    • CI/CD
    • Culture
    • DevOps
    • Kubernetes
    • Monitoring
    • Service Mesh
    • Tools
 

Kubernetes

▾ 1 MINUTE READ — CLOSE

Kubernetes is the Accepted Platform for Cloud Native Computing

Although technically best described as a container orchestration engine, Kubernetes is rapidly becoming the infrastructure platform for cloud native computing, an approach to using public or private clouds in the most flexible way possible.

With this approach, the general idea is to put your applications within containers and then manage them against available resources using Kubernetes. Beyond orchestration itself, Kubernetes as a platform solves a lot of enterprise IT issues, including service discovery, application invocation, logging, monitoring, replicas and backups, and, of course, flexibility.

Containers + Kubernetes Ease Application Deployment

Containers also allow organizations to streamline the development process, for a seamless, and often automated, transition between the developer and the production deployment. Containers free up developers to use whatever languages and frameworks they prefer, given the ability to package all the dependencies for these specific choices within the container itself.

On the operations side, Kubernetes allows operators to make the best use of available resources, by moving around containers, or having them automatically moved around, to best match the optimal performance and price.

Kubernetes also promises to provide a path forward for multicloud operations. By this time, organizations have acclimated to the fact that, in many cases, cloud computing is the best way to handle IT operations. But each of the cloud providers offers its own unique interfaces, posing a danger that a customer’s operations may be “locked” into that specific provider.

Developed by Google, Now Supported by All Major Cloud Providers

Google first created Kubernetes based on its own software for managing containers, called The Borg. The company had already been using containers in its own operations for well over a decade and so company engineers had plenty of expertise and best practices in hand when designing this new software, which was released as open source in 2014 and is now hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Now offered as a service by all the major cloud providers, Kubernetes provides, through a set of APIs, an abstraction that allows users to potentially mix and match cloud services.


A newsletter digest of the week’s most important stories & analyses.

Do you also want to be notified of the following?
We don’t sell or share your email. By continuing, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Cloud Services / Kubernetes / Machine Learning

Build Repeatable ML Workflows with Azure Machine Learning Pipelines

8 May 2020 8:27am, by Janakiram MSV

Cloud Native / DevOps / Kubernetes / Sponsored / Contributed

6 Key Criteria When Selecting a Kubernetes Service for Enterprise

7 May 2020 8:25am, by Diane Clay

Culture / Kubernetes

Responding to an Unpredictable Pandemic Means Painstaking Capacity Planning

7 May 2020 3:00am, by Jennifer Riggins

Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Networking

How HAProxy Streamlines Kubernetes Ingress Control

6 May 2020 11:13am, by Joab Jackson

Development / Kubernetes / Sponsored / Contributed

Kubernetes Ingress for Beginners

6 May 2020 11:00am, by Nick Ramirez

Kubernetes / Security

Tutorial: Create a Kubernetes Pod Security Policy

5 May 2020 12:35pm, by Jack Wallen

Kubernetes / Storage

Tutorial: Migrate Stateful Kubernetes Workloads with Portworx and Velero

1 May 2020 9:52am, by Janakiram MSV

Kubernetes / Networking / Service Mesh / Sponsored / Contributed

Service Mesh Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

1 May 2020 8:15am, by Stephen Wilson

Development / Kubernetes

Why Apps Are Fundamentally Different in the Kubernetes Era

30 Apr 2020 2:00pm, by Richard MacManus

Cloud Native / Kubernetes

KUDO Automates Kubernetes Operators

30 Apr 2020 10:39am, by Mike Melanson

Cloud Native / Data / Kubernetes / Sponsored / Contributed

How to Choose the Right Kubernetes Data Protection

30 Apr 2020 7:26am, by Nivas Iyer

Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Serverless

Red Hat Expands OpenShift to Ease Developer Use

28 Apr 2020 5:00am, by Mike Melanson

Cloud Native / Kubernetes

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Brings VMs to Kubernetes

28 Apr 2020 5:00am, by Mike Melanson

Data / Kubernetes / Storage

NetApp’s ‘Project Astra’ Brings Data Management to Kubernetes

27 Apr 2020 1:34pm, by B. Cameron Gain

Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Contributed

Why I Cringe When People Say Kubernetes Is the New Virtualization Layer

23 Apr 2020 8:34am, by Tina Nolte

Kubernetes / Storage / Sponsored

Pancake Podcast: Cassandra and the Kubernetes Data Plane

22 Apr 2020 5:00pm, by Joab Jackson

Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Security / Contributed

Open Policy Agent: Authorization for the Cloud

21 Apr 2020 7:11am, by Tim Hinrichs

CI/CD / DevOps / Kubernetes

Argo, the Kubernetes-Native Workflow Engine, Joins the CNCF

20 Apr 2020 1:30pm, by Mike Melanson

Kubernetes

Spectro Cloud: SaaS Kubernetes Your Way

20 Apr 2020 12:14pm, by Susan Hall

Kubernetes / Networking / Storage

Portworx Essentials: A Free Cloud Native Storage Engine for Kubernetes

17 Apr 2020 10:49am, by Janakiram MSV

Containers / Kubernetes / Sponsored / Contributed

How to Manage the Hidden Complexities of Kubernetes

17 Apr 2020 9:54am, by David Cramer

Containers / Data / Kubernetes / Sponsored / Contributed

Kubernetes Is the New Control Plane for Infrastructure

16 Apr 2020 11:20am, by Murli Thirumale

CI/CD / DevOps / Kubernetes / Sponsored / Contributed

How HotJar Sped up Its Deployments by 50% Using DevOps

16 Apr 2020 10:10am, by Brein Matturro

Cloud Native / Data / Kubernetes / Sponsored / Contributed

How to Simplify Your Kubernetes Story

14 Apr 2020 8:57am, by James Broadhead

Containers / Kubernetes

Trow, a Container Registry to Run Inside Your Kubernetes Cluster

14 Apr 2020 7:13am, by Joab Jackson

CI/CD / Cloud Native / Kubernetes

Automating Infrastructure that Dates Back 100 Years

13 Apr 2020 5:00pm, by Alex Williams and B. Cameron Gain

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Architecture

  • Cloud Native
  • Containers
  • Edge/IoT
  • Microservices
  • Networking
  • Serverless
  • Storage

Development

  • Cloud Services
  • Data
  • Development
  • Machine Learning
  • Security

Operations

  • CI/CD
  • Culture
  • DevOps
  • Kubernetes
  • Monitoring
  • Service Mesh
  • Tools

The New Stack

  • Ebooks
  • Podcasts
  • Events
  • Newsletter
  • About / Contact
  • Sponsors
  • Sponsorship
  • Disclosures
  • Contributions
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Soundcloud
  • LinkedIn
  • Slideshare
  • RSS

© 2021 The New Stack. All rights reserved.

Privacy Policy. Terms of Use.