Five reasons why every CIO should consider Kubernetes

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Many enterprises adopting a multi-cloud strategy and breaking up their monolithic code realize that container management platforms By Melissa Sussmann.

The key to modern applications is utilizing microservices for breaking up your monolithic code. Your digital transformation journey will depend on containerized application — and orchestration automation — to speed up app deployment and maintain highly available, secure customer experiences.

Further in the article:

  • What is Kubernetes?
  • OK, so what specifically can Kubernetes do for me?
  • Kubernetes security best practices
  • So you deployed Kubernetes. What next?

Kubernetes enables a microservices approach to building apps. Now, you can break up your development team into smaller teams focusing on a single, smaller microservice. These teams are smaller and more agile because each has a focused function. APIs between these microservices minimize the cross-team communication required to build and deploy. So, you can scale multiple small teams of specialized experts who each help support a fleet of thousands of machines.

Since Kubernetes runs consistently across all environments, on-premise, and clouds like AWS, Azure and GCP, Kubernetes provides a more seamless and prescriptive path to port your application from on-premise to cloud environments. Good read!

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