Why Kubernetes is driving a groundswell in containerisation
Summary
Retailer JD.com has one of the world’s largest Kubernetes clusters and currently manages tens of thousands of bare metal servers to run numerous containers including online applications, middleware systems, databases and offline computing jobs.While it was originally developed by Google, the Kubernetes project supports Linux variants and Windows; server virtualisation environments like vSphere, the OpenStack private cloud platform and IaaS providers.The benefits, according to Kuo are that Kubernetes focuses on open standards and extensibility; it can run multi-cloud environments and even provide serverless computing for edge devices such for internet of things applications.In fact, GPU resource isolation is essential for applications like machine learning, Hu Luo , software engineer at VMware explained during his lightning talk at the same event.Monitoring a Kubernetes environment needs to go beyond analysing the log files that show what the various software components are actually doing, Pryanka Sharma, director of Cloud Native Alliances at GitLab, said during her KubeCon keynote presentation.