Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2022. Read them in this 14th annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
2022 Kubernetes Predictions: Automation, Flexibility vs. Usability, and Bare Metal Deployments
By Tenry Fu, CEO & Co-Founder, Spectro Cloud
Automation
will be the key to evolution driven by Kubernetes management. As rapid adoption
of Kubernetes becomes apparent, enterprises will continue to struggle with a
balancing act between flexibility and usability, along with managing the
diverse nature of Kubernetes.
In order
to cut out hypervisor management and cost while adding performance, there will
be an increasing desire to deploy Kubernetes directly on bare metal servers and
move closer to the edge.
1. In
2022, automation will be key to the evolution of Kubernetes.
Enterprise adoption of Kubernetes
is continuing to rise, but teams are often finding themselves hindered by
the skill set required to manage and operate Kubernetes. The overwhelming
majority (98%) of IT executives report they are facing challenges with
Kubernetes and coordinating the related ecosystem, according to our 2021
Annual Kubernetes Adoption Report findings, a report we sponsored with
research conducted by Dimensional Research. This obstacle with adoption
creates a need for a more simplified approach to Kubernetes management
from both a user interface (UI) and automation perspective. This will also
help companies remain competitive amidst the backdrop of the IT talent
gap, as more user-friendly and automated Kubernetes management will not require
the sophistication or experience once needed by niche and very technical
IT professionals for deployment and oversight.
2. Despite rapid enterprise adoption, organizations may still
struggle to have both flexibility developers crave and usability IT teams need
in a Kubernetes environment.
Two-thirds of IT executives (66%) do not believe you can have
both flexibility and usability, according to the report cited above. This is reflective of
the complicated balancing act for organizations, which want to empower
developers with flexibility for their application development efforts and at
the same time, provide IT with controls including compliance and mitigating
security risks. Enterprises must explore new solutions and approaches to
rectify this gap in order to enable the true adoption potential of Kubernetes.
3. Bare metal and edge deployments will generate growing interest.
For multi-environment
distributions, teams will begin to explore more options beyond just private and
public clouds. Bare metal machine deployments will become more attractive to
enterprises looking to cut out hypervisor management and minimize overall
operational costs. Further, companies are increasingly interested in edge
deployments, which do not require dedicated IT staff and enable access to data
via edge devices such as IoT sensors. These edge deployments will compel
companies to look further into Kubernetes deployment as compute power gets
pushed further and further out towards the edge.
##
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tenry Fu, CEO & Co-Founder
Tenry has
more than 20 years of experience in system software. Prior to co-founding
Spectro Cloud, he most recently led the architecture for Cisco's multi-cloud management
and private cloud solutions, after his previous company, CliQr, was acquired by
Cisco. He has more than 15 patents in the fields of scalable distributed
systems, enterprise system management, and security.