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To Solve Kubernetes Sprawl, Try Kubernetes ‘All the Way Down’
- Kubernetes is becoming the dominant app platform for delivering a range of applications but it also leads to increasing 'sprawl' of Kubernetes clusters, with large businesses using it everywhere. To manage this, Kubernetes can become a natural control point for managing other clusters of it. Using Kubernetes as a control plane can manage the 'thin layer' of Kubernetes, providing a single control point for managing Kubernetes clusters across different providers and achieve the Holy Grail of “hybrid multicloud."
- Increasing sprawl of Kubernetes clusters is a growing concern as organizations struggle to manage Kubernetes at scale.
- Kubernetes is emerging as the default standard for delivering a range of applications from cloud-native to legacy monolithic applications and virtualization.
- In large organisations, Kubernetes clusters can sprawl across multiple providers and location, making it difficult to manage.
- Using Kubernetes as a control point can manage the 'thin layer' of Kubernetes, providing a single control point for managing Kubernetes clusters across different providers and achieve the Holy Grail of “hybrid multicloud."
- Cluster API (CAPI) and its providers allow Kubernetes to manage Kubernetes due to its control point capability.
- Kubernetes has a baked-in architecture that assists with operations, allowing proper tiering of payloads (pods), extensible API, and more.
- Kubernetes was not the first attempt at an application platform; WebLogic, WebSphere and virtualization came before it.
- As a control point, Kubernetes can manage other control points and legacy control points were far less likely to have an API-enabled control point.
- Kubernetes is considered the 80-90% solution that effectively solves application packaging, deployment, and operations problems due to its extensible architecture and friendly API.
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