Overcoming Infrastructure Obstacles When Deploying Production-Ready Kubernetes

Chapter 1. What Problems Are You Solving and Are You Ready?

Modern businesses have to adapt to a changing infrastructure landscape to achieve their growth goals. Part of that transition has been the transformation in the enterprise to use tools such as containers and Kubernetes. These new tools, while offering many benefits, come with a high degree of uncertainty too. The pressure to use new technology to stay competitive is constantly vying with other needs of the business, such as operational reliability. A new deployment system and infrastructure has to solve more problems than it introduces.

How can an enterprise harmonize Kubernetes adoption with the need to protect itself, to preserve existing value, and to ensure compliance? In this piece, we’ll discuss what you need to prepare for adopting Kubernetes in your business.

Is the Business Ready?

Why would you be interested in using Kubernetes in the first place? The constructs Kubernetes has allow us to move faster, deploy more software, and quickly roll back changes in the event of a buggy build. This workflow is beneficial to developers because it is can free them up from laborious infrastructure tasks and allow them to focus on shipping more code.

Some folks on your team might need some convincing before jumping in to Kubernetes with both feet. After all, there’s a whirlwind of buzzwords and hype out there, and even for experts, it’s hard to keep up. When articulating the value of adopting Kubernetes, especially in the ...