Manage and scale your applications with Kubernetes
As businesses innovate in this digital age, user-facing applications are becoming increasingly complex to deploy, manage and scale. Specifically, managing and scaling applications becomes a nightmare during times of peak use for example during holiday sales (like Black Friday), launches, and when marketing campaigns are ongoing. This is where Kubernetes comes in!


Kubernetes: What is it?
This is an open-source platform that automates container operations. It eliminates the complexities involved in deploying and scaling containerized applications. If you are wondering what a container is, the simplest answer is that this is a packaged form of your application that makes it more portable and cloud-native (cloud-first/cloud compatible). You can read more on containers and containerization here. Kubernetes is built with the same principles that allow companies like Google to scale planet-wide. Kubernetes automatically grows or shrinks the resources consumed by your applications based on the amount of traffic or usage.


Should my company use Kubernetes?

Truly, several considerations need to be made before jumping on to the K8s (short for Kubernetes) bandwagon. Here are some starter questions to ask yourself:
> Is my platform the next big thing?
> Is my application experiencing intermittent bursts of traffic?
> Are my applications cloud-native? (are your applications using containers?)
> Are you using microservices?
> Are you considering a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategy?
Perfect use-cases for Kubernetes
Legacy monitoring solutions were not designed to monitor systems with several moving, replacing, and scaling components. Legacy monitoring tools were built to keep a record of static environments where the only modifications were externally driven and preplanned. The need to keep up with the more dynamic needs of the business is the primary driver for the rapid adoption of containers, serverless, and K8s. Microservices are essential for staying competitive, and K8s is essential for managing microservices.
Retail and eCommerce
eHealth
Application Development
Financial and Insurance
Betting and Gaming
Software Services
What Kubernetes can do for your business
Get faster time to market
Develop and iterate more rapidly and easily. Kubernetes helps free up your operations teams and developers by providing automated scaling, monitoring, and self-healing.
Optimize IT spend
K8s lets you automatically scale up and down the resources needed by your application. This ensures cost savings by increasing the efficiency of your resource usage.
Effectively migrate to the cloud
K8s and the applications it runs are effectively cloud-native, thus enabling your to leverage the various advantages of operating in the cloud.
Easily shift to a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategy
Kubernetes is open source and can be run on-premise. It is also supported by many major cloud providers, thus making it possible to have Kubernetes clusters running in multiple separate environments.
Improve scalability and availability of applications
Applications deployed on Kubernetes automatically scale horizontally to increase the instances processing requests of your apps, or vertically to increase the processing power of each instance of your application.
Resource optimization to organize workloads
Kubernetes lets you specify how much CPU, memory (RAM), and storage each container or application requires, and schedules instances across the container or application to maximize resource efficiency.
6 reasons you should use Kubernetes engine
Automation
Easy deployment
High availability
Industry standards
Security
Interoperability
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