Fairwinds, the
Kubernetes enablement company, announced the Kubernetes
Maturity Model to guide organizations along their
Kubernetes journey to secure the best possible technical and business outcomes.
Made up of seven distinctive phases, from preparation through optimization and
automation, the Kubernetes Maturity Model helps development teams self-identify
their current phase, understand gaps in their environment and gain insights into
enhancing and improving Kubernetes as they move forward.
Fairwinds created the Kubernetes
Maturity Model because, while the orchestration platform offers many benefits,
it can be complicated for development teams to use, both as they get started
with cloud native technologies and as they grow their reliance on Kubernetes.
With adoption rates skyrocketing, it is more important than ever that
organizations fully understand how to successfully utilize Kubernetes from the
earliest stage through the most complex deployments.
"Kubernetes is the de facto
container orchestration platform. It is capable of helping development teams do
remarkable work, if they know how to use it and understand what's next," said
Bill Ledingham, CEO at Fairwinds. "Other models focus on a specific
problem area or product, but we wanted to bring to the industry a robust view
of the end-to-end Kubernetes journey so teams can capitalize on the platform to
help drive business success."
Fairwinds is in the unique
position to publish the Kubernetes Maturity Model having helped hundreds of
customers with their Kubernetes infrastructure over the past five years.
According to IDC's Gary Chen,
research director, software defined compute, organizations are undergoing
digital transformations and adopting cloud native infrastructure and Kubernetes
at a rapid pace. "As enterprises start to implement Kubernetes, there is a huge
desire for guidance and to learn from those with experience. It is great to see
a vendor take their expertise with Kubernetes and develop a maturity model
around it to offer enterprises insights into the challenges, as well as the
technology and business outcomes, they can expect at every stage as they
mature."
To learn more about the
Kubernetes Maturity Model and explore where your organization currently
resides, please visit:
www.fairwinds.com/kubernetes-maturity-model.