How is platform engineering influencing Kubernetes adoption?
Let’s face it: monitoring Kubernetes health signals is probably not top of mind when you’re thinking about summer fun. Nonetheless, as Kubernetes celebrated its 10th anniversary on June 6, its adoption continues to rise worldwide. One report finds that 60% of enterprises have adopted Kubernetes, and projects that adoption to exceed 90% by 2027. Our own research finds that Kubernetes has effectively become the “operating system of the cloud.”
Despite its growing implementation, however, Red Hat reports that 67% of companies have delayed or slowed down their Kubernetes adoption because of security concerns. In fact, security breaches cost many of these companies both customers and revenue. In response, our research indicates a 55% annual growth rate in the percentage of companies using Kubernetes security tools.
The platform engineering movement has contributed to the rise in Kubernetes adoption and the need to automate workflows that monitor and maintain its health.
Every organization is on its own Kubernetes adventure as teams navigate the complexities of clusters, pods, and nodes, and work to secure them using policies governing how pods communicate.
In July, Cloud Cover explores how platform engineering is influencing Kubernetes adoption and how organizations are using observability to enable it all securely.
What’s been your Kubernetes adventure? Leave us a comment about your adventures with Kubernetes and your questions about platform engineering.
Kubernetes health at a glance: A K8s-centric IDP for platform engineers
The beauty of platform engineering is that developers use a standard set of tools and a reliable, secure environment to streamline development of high-quality applications.
With a Kubernetes-centric internal development platform (IDP), platform engineers can provide self-service capabilities with a unified view of all Kubernetes clusters across all environments and distributions. Senior product manager Maor Rudick demonstrates how the Dynatrace Kubernetes experience gives engineers the ability to easily identify problematic clusters and auto-baseline performance and alerting.
How do you secure Kubernetes clusters from build to deployment?
As the “platform for building platforms,” you’d think Kubernetes security should be built in. But just as a thief tries to break into your house from the doors and windows, so a hacker tries breaking into your application from its ingress rules and APIs. Simply locking your entry points isn’t enough.
In this blog from Is it Observable, Henrik Rexed and Giulia di Pietro walk through how to protect a Kubernetes cluster from an attacker trying to exploit its infrastructure to gain access to your pods and workloads.
Photobox delivers summer holiday memories by automating their Kubernetes and AWS technology stack
For the summer holidays and throughout the year, Photobox helps people share the fun through personalized photobooks and gifts. But sustaining user journeys that can last hours or weeks requires bespoke solutions that span Kubernetes and AWS. For Alex Hibbitt and his SRE team at Photobox, optimizing their custom technology stack’s performance from a single pane of glass is imperative. Observability through automatic discovery and instrumentation for AWS Lambda and Kubernetes has been invaluable.
On June 6, Google threw a "KuberTENes” 10th anniversary bash for Kubernetes, celebrating key people and milestones in the technology’s history. Meanwhile, a CNCF microsurvey finds that Kubernetes is driving up cloud spending for 49% of respondents, 70% of whom cite overprovisioning as the reason. Respondents say implementing best practices and standardizing tools are key to managing FinOps strategies.
Also, if you couldn’t make it to Paris this year for Kubecon Europe, fear not: Is it Observable’s Henrik Rexed takes you from Marseilles to the Paris convention hall in his knapsack pocket. In his Formula 1-style grid walk, Rexed tracks down experts from across the industry, talking Prometheus with Google Cloud, OpenTelemetry Collector with Sumo Logic, metrics-driven pod constraints with Red Hat and OpenFeature with Dynatrace, among others.
Join Is It Observable's Henrik Rexed as he demonstrates observability tips and practical strategies for healthy Kubernetes platforms and workloads with the Dynatrace OpenTelemetry Collector distribution and the Kubernetes experience app. Register now for this on-demand webinar.
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