Hybrid Cloud Apps with OpenShift and Kubernetes

Foreword

Software is integral to every industry today. From web and mobile apps that accelerate the digital transformation of business, to more efficient backend systems that support the growth of your business, to technology that’s embedded in devices as part of everyday life, containers have established themselves as a fundamental aspect of software delivery and operation across the spectrum.

The operations and applications teams powering these transformations are seeing their application footprints grow tremendously in multiple locations, clouds, data centers, and out to the edge. The bigger the organization, the broader the footprint and the more complex the challenges. As cloud becomes an integral part of application deployment, organizations also wish to modernize their existing footprints and accelerate their development teams.

So what has powered these trends? Open source technologies enable standardization, which leads to an explosion of ecosystem benefits and approaches, which then leads to a need for new standardization. As one of the most successful open source ecosystems, Kubernetes has created a significant change in how we build and run applications.

A key question that is probably on your mind is how to balance velocity and flexibility—scaling, integrating, and simplifying—while increasing your teams’ ability to deliver value. Your organization may be heavily driven by your application teams, organically adopting new services in cloud footprints. In that case, ...