01 Aug Impact and Importance of Kubernetes on scaling your Business.
Marc Andreessen penned his famous article on “Why Software Is Eating the World” in The Wall Street Journal about a decade ago. Oh Boy! We have travelled a long way. Today, not only strong digital presence is necessary but also ability to innovate and modify software, at will, is a critical aspect of every business. This agility drives firms the way they build, operate and secure applications thereby transforming software architecture in to microservices to enable faster and continuous change.
Microservice architecture is a software development techique that arranges application in a suite of small services that run on it’s own and communicate with others services using lightweights mechanishm. Microservices are typically realized using a Container paradigm.
Containers are next generation to virtual machines that make application development faster, portable and quicker to deploy. Containers, in itself, are great. But scaling them is both tricky and challenging. Even a simplest application will have thounsands of containers. Think of modern day large warehouse having thousands of rows, with each row having many compartments and reaching up to about 40 feet in height. Each row is stacked with goods that need to be constantly updated either for storing, stock update or for delivery. It becomes next to impossible even for a decently sized team to manage such a large warehouse. Thankfully, robots help to managed such large warehouses. This is what Kubernetes does to conainers; What is robots for warehouse is what Kubernetes is for IT infrastructure.
Kubernetes is an opensource Container Orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling and management. Kubernetes enables businesses to drive agility hence faster time to market. Apart from velocity, there are other benefits while using Kubernetes. They are…
Cost Optimization:
Kubernetes provides mechanisms to pack diverse applications to run on same infrastructure there by getting max ROI out of them. Cost reduction is not only on the CAPEX front but also from OPEX perspective where the operations teams are aggregated, work on same infra, same tools etc instead of diverse systems and tools.
Improved Availability & Scalability:
The fundamental building blocks of Kubernetes architecture is to provide self-healing & auto-scaling mechanism when any failures or demand changes. Such a robust mechanism help IT operations to focus on productive tasks rather than tedious & error prone repeatable tasks.
Multi-Cloud Portability:
Most (if not all) Cloud vendors provide managed services around Kubernetes. This help IT operators move applications from one cloud to another with little time and error based on business need. We can boldly claim that Kubernetes abstracts out cloud and move towards any cloud approach.
In the next blog, we will touch upon drawbacks of Kubernetes.
Getting Started With Kubernetes?
At Tailwinds, our mission is to help every business adapt to a Kubernetes infrastructure faster and cheaper. We provide bunch of solutions and services to help manage your Kubernetes cluster better. We are delighted to help you.
About Tailwinds:
We are a small team of technocrats from the Silicon Valley who bring more than two decades of cloud computing expertise to global clients. We have, together, empowered several businesses to go “digital”, delivering measurable value and cost-savings consistently.
We provide Kubernetes consulting and managed services for fast-growth enterprises that are looking to provide superior customer experience on the cloud.
A little under 10 years ago, we saw businesses making/ considering a conscious shift to the cloud. We also saw these businesses grappling with several challenges during the transit. We saw a big opportunity that leveraged our backgrounds, our knowledge, our business understanding and our capability to get enterprise applications work better, create positive perception, deliver value to end customers and also, save a lot of money for businesses. Tailwinds was thus born!
Significant impediments exist for an Enterprise to transition to a Cloud-native company. Fast changing technology landscape, and lack of skilled resources are key reasons for the current state of affairs. Our Kubernetes-centric CloudOps platform consisting of Open source and Proprietary software along with Services is designed to address these challenges.
We have an enviable team of diverse talents with proven ability to transform cutting-edge ideas in Cloud Operations, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Big Data, and Machine Learning into innovative products and solutions for the Cloud-native Enterprise.
To reach Tailwinds, send an email to info@tailwinds.com
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