Chapter 9. The Future of Kubernetes and OpenShift
Spend some time at a KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference these days and you will quickly conclude that the future of Kubernetes is very bright. Attendance at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conferences is experiencing an explosive level of growth. In addition, the Kubernetes open source community of contributors continues to expand and strengthen. The number of industries that are adopting Kubernetes is astounding.1 Similarly, OpenShift has seen its customer base grow from 1,000 to 1,700 in the past year and has also seen strong adoption among Fortune 2000 companies.2 In this chapter, we make some predictions about what the future holds for both traditional Kubernetes and OpenShift. We discuss our expectations for how these technologies will grow and increase their impact across numerous facets of cloud native computing, including legacy application migration, high performance computing, machine learning and deep learning applications, open source marketplaces, and multicloud environments. We then conclude this chapter with a discussion of recommended resources for further study.
Increased Migration of Legacy Enterprise Applications to Cloud Native Applications
Over the years, both traditional Kubernetes and OpenShift have made dramatic improvements that will result in accelerating the migration of legacy enterprise applications to cloud native applications. With the introduction of the operator framework, these platforms are now much ...
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