Cloud Native & Kubernetes Trends 2021 –
Summary
Although – or perhaps because – the year turned out to be completely different economically, socially and “pandemically” than most could have predicted, the Cloud Native universe has continued to evolve almost unperturbed, spawning new projects, innovations and opportunities for application development and IT infrastructure. → on the way • Hire or Buy or Automate – Enterprises are working meticulously to catch up with the skills gap and get into the driver seat for cloud-native environments themselves, with many initially relying on Kubernetes deployments and managed services. Regardless of the infrastructure basis (private, public, hybrid, multi-cloud, edge or on-premise) as well as the deployment scenarios (web applications, IoT, machine learning), the cloud-native stack seems to have no alternative in terms of flexibility, manageability and developer experience. With services based on Kubernetes, which additionally evaluate all existing data in operation (such as performance, failures or anomalies) and transfer them to the control of the container clusters, these worries are also relieved. While the architectures are variable and open, CRI-O seems to have secured momentum at the moment, which may be due in no small part to its proximity to the OpenShift platform, which is also riding high alongside Plain Kubernetes and hyperscaler distributions.