Containers & Kubernetes

Containers package an application with its dependencies so it runs identically anywhere. Kubernetes orchestrates them across a cluster — scheduling, scaling, networking, storage and self-healing. It has become the de facto standard, which brings a large ecosystem and a substantial operational burden.

Why it matters

Consistent environments from development to production, efficient resource utilization, and portability across infrastructure. The caveat is that Kubernetes is powerful and genuinely complex; for a small number of simple services, managed platform services are usually the better economic answer.

Problems it addresses

• “"It works on my machine" but not in production.”
• “Infrastructure is over-provisioned because workloads cannot share it safely.”
• “Deployment is manual and inconsistent between environments.”
• “We are locked into one provider's proprietary runtime.”