KubeCon EU 2022: CNCF CTO Discusses the Future of Kubernetes, Emerging Use Cases & More
Aberdeen Strategy & Research VP Jim Rapoza met with Chris Aniszczyk, the CTO of Linux Foundation, at the sidelines of KubeCon EU 2022 in Valencia to understand the importance of Kubernetes for today’s organizations.
Kubernetes is quickly becoming the default go-to platform for deploying, scaling and maintaining software and applications. Its value lies in its open-source credentials, letting businesses deploy applications on-premises, hybrid, or on a public cloud. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) claims that today, 96% of organizations are either using or evaluating the technology. But what makes the platform so ubiquitous? Aberdeen Strategy & Research’s VP Jim Rapoza met with Chris Aniszczyk, the CTO of CNCF, at the sidelines of KubeCon EU 2022 to understand the what’s and the why’s of Kubernetes.
A modernized application infrastructure serves as the backbone of today’s successful organizations. According to an Aberdeen Strategy and Research study, organizations that excel in application development are in the top 30% of key success metrics in quality, performance, security, and reliability. These leaders run the highest-quality, most efficient, and most secure application development programs.
But what are those secret ingredients that make the application development programs of these leaders so successful? According to Jim Rapoza, the vice president and principal analyst at Aberdeen Strategy & Research, organizations running best-in-class application development embrace modernization across their entire IT stack, building cloud, on-premise, and development environments ideally positioned to run containers and Kubernetes-based applications.
Similarly, DevOps organizations that are leaders in their industries are twice as likely as their peers to develop Kubernetes applications. The same organizations are 95% more likely to take advantage of serverless development trends, more likely to have multicluster container environments, and 60% more likely to deploy applications in hybrid cloud infrastructures.
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The Growing Stature of Kubernetes
So why is Kubernetes becoming the go-to container-orchestration system for successful organizations? Rapoza states that, unlike traditional monolithic applications, applications built with Kubernetes and containers are created out of a whole set of microservices, all doing their own thing and creating unique levels of flexibility, portability, and scalability for applications. “If a traditional application is at best a three-piece acapella group singing a pop song, a Kubernetes-based application is a full orchestra playing a complex symphony,” he says.
To learn more about recent developments in the Kubernetes universe, Rapoza caught up with Chris Aniszczyk, the CTO of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2022 conference in Valencia, Spain. CNCF, a Linux Foundation project that was founded in 2015 as an open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, hosts plenty of KubeCon and CloudNativeCon events every year to let business leaders and developers share ideas, announce new projects, and discuss the latest developments in the application development sphere. The next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 conference will be held in Detroit, Michigan from October 24 – 28, 2022.
In his conversation with Rapoza, Aniszczyk talked about what Kubernetes means for business today, how it is transforming the way services and applications are created and delivered, and how businesses can better understand and leverage this vital technology. Watch the top highlights of Jim Rapoza’s interview with Chris Aniszczyk here:
Why is Kubernetes important for businesses?
According to Aniszczyk, Kubernetes came about to meet the needs of organizations to scale up their operations and to support millions of users. “Over the past decade, companies have embraced digital transformation, moved to the Cloud, and the purpose of KubeCon is to help companies take advantage of new technologies and new developments in Kubernetes to scale their operations. Kubernetes can help companies deliver software faster and deliver value to customers.”
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How many people attended KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Valencia?
“KubeCon has seen tremendous participation this year with over 7,000 in-person and over 11,000 virtual attendees,” said Aniszczyk. “The conference aims to answer questions from over 7.1 million developers worldwide, and 150,000 developers from 140 countries are now participating in projects, making it a global community that is coming together to refine the Kubernetes technology.
“If you want to learn about how to use the modern Kubernetes technologies, enable cloud native digital transformation, technology events like KubeCon are a good place to visit. Here you can learn the best practices of how to deliver software faster and more efficiently, updating them continuously, and delivering value to customers faster,” he added.
What are the top Kubernetes technologies that businesses should adopt?
“If you’re interested in scalability, reliability and efficiency, you need something like Kubernetes to efficiently power all your workloads,” said Aniszczyk. “Kubernetes helps businesses scale, helps make the infrastructure more efficient, be it at the Edge or on satellites. Businesses can use the technology to scale workloads and data centers in the cloud- two use cases that benefit from Kubernetes.”
Where can budding developers learn new skills to excel in Kubernetes?
“In terms of skill sets, there’s a beautiful organization called EdX that provides training on Kubernetes. There is also a pre-professional certification called Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate that I highly recommend developers to look at,” says Aniszczyk. “Also. Kubernetes.io and Cloud Native Foundation on Twitter are great places to learn.”
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