Chapter 9. The Future of Kubernetes
Spend some time at a KubeCon/CloudNativeCon conference these days, and you will quickly come to the conclusion that Kubernetes’ future is very bright. Attendance at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon conferences continues to experience 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 just astounding. In this chapter, we make some predictions on what the future holds for Kubernetes. Specifically, we expect to see Kubernetes growth to occur in the areas of legacy application migration to cloud-native applications, high-performance computing, machine learning and deep learning applications, and hybrid cloud environments.
Increased Migration of Legacy Enterprise Applications to Cloud-Native Applications
As enterprise success stories with Kubernetes continue to be publicized and highlighted at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon conferences, we anticipate that more and more enterprise legacy applications will be moved to run as cloud-native computing applications. Accelerating this transformation will be tooling and containerized enterprise middleware tailored toward simplifying the process of moving enterprise applications to Kubernetes-based cloud-native environments. More and more enterprise customers will experience the benefits of improved application quality, reduced defects, reduced deployment times, and improved automation and ...
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