Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2019. Read them in this 11th annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
Contributed by Stéphane Beuret, Developer Advocate and Community Manager, Data Essential
The Era of the Far West is Over
While 2018 saw the explosion
of cloud native projects related to Kubernetes, Data Essential predicts that in
2019 the open source community will take a stand on the projects it will adopt,
so as not to disperse in its development efforts. This was the case at the end
of the year for Prometheus and Envoy (who have reached the stage of graduate),
and it should continue with projects like Rook or Knative.
In 2019, we should
also see an increasing focus on security:
- How to put a sensitive container in sandbox will be clarified: at the runtime
or by using nano virtual machines?
- The systematic use of SSL between tiers of an application stack (mutual TLS),
Envoy and Istio helping.
- Strengthening the protection of secrets: isolation of etcd, use of a vault.
- The systematic use of authentication plugin for operators to access clusters.
This security enhancement will inevitably be accompanied by a need for
increased audit and automated response to anomaly detection.
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About the Author
Stéphane Beuret, Developer Advocate and Community Manager
First and foremost, Stéphane is a key to
everything: from infrastructure to code, from K8s to gRPC, he is passionate
about it. And his curiosity, he puts it at the service of all, by sharing,
evangelizing, teaching others good practices and tools that allow them to move
forward. If he had to have a motto, it would definitely be: "So much to
do, and so little time!"