Breaking down the barriers
If Kubernetes is so effective at helping to drive business transformation forward – why are more not jumping at the chance?
The barriers to effective Kubernetes deployment will always be existing processes and siloed teams. The crucial first step is to understand how to bridge the gaps between different teams in an organisation. That might be between developers and operations, or it might be between IT and a commercial function. It’s also about encouraging technical people to talk to, and empathise with, sales and marketing, or vice versa. Kubernetes can help deliver these consistent operations, so that IT teams no longer need to be spending time pushing buttons or fighting fires – they are now freed up to build and deploy softer skills for business success.
Beacons of best practice
Kubernetes is already helping many organisations enrich the developer, or even citizen, experience. Abu Dhabi Government, for example, has enhanced its digital solutions to support a unified government services platform. The expected outcome is to streamline and enhance the experience of citizens. ADSSSA, the authority that oversees the development of Abu Dhabi’s government services, is consolidating over 1,600 government services into 80 end-end user journeys that cover everything from buying a house to medical insurance. This has all been underpinned by effective advanced container networking and Kubernetes cluster management.
And let’s talk about online gaming, which is now a bigger industry than Hollywood and the music business combined. And growing rapidly. Playtika, a leader in the games industry with 22 million monthly active users, has publicly talked about its container journey. Playtika chose VMware PKS as its container platform to create a more agile environment for developers and testers to develop faster.
Finally, the team at T-Mobile has had success by clearly aligning Kubernetes with business objectives – it established clear requirements for Kubernetes and can now track business outcomes to make sure the technology is driving valuable results, such as delivering production clusters, which frees up the IT team to focus on coding.
Technology companies like ours have to keep adapting with their customers as they embark on their multi-cloud journey. Moving into open-source, and creating a strong culture of innovation and engineering, is what we believe will help CIOs innovate and allow for further experimentation.
Embracing Kubernetes
Kubernetes is fundamental for innovation in our multi-cloud world, and we are seeing more organisations embrace this technology. Having Kubernetes at the core of operations, and for the management of multiple containers, is absolutely vital to allow a culture of experimentation to thrive.
This is the year that large organisations embrace Kubernetes, the foundation for management success in our multi-cloud world.
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