How Kubernetes is used in Industries and what all use cases are solved by Kubernetes?

Who invented Kubernetes?

Kubernetes was originally developed and designed by engineers at Google. Google was one of the early contributors to Linux container technology and has talked publicly about how everything at Google runs in containers.

The abbreviation K8s is derived by replacing the eight letters of “ubernete” with the digit 8.

What is Kubernetes in a very simple word?

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that enables the operation of an elastic web server framework for cloud applications.

PROBLEMS SOLVED BY KUBERNETES IN INDUSTRY.

CASE STUDY: Adidas

it enables 40 % of its important and impactful system working and running on the Kubernetes in a year.

Challenge was although Adidas management was very joyful with the multiple and various and software choices from a technology perspective but accessing all of the tools was a problem.

How Kubernetes solved this problem?

They(adidas) looked for ways to shorten the time it took to get a project up and running and into the company's infrastructure and found the solution with containerization, agile development, continuous delivery, and a cloud-native platform that includes Kubernetes and Prometheus.

The impact was observed within six months, after the Kubernetes tech involved in the process,100% of the adidas e-commerce site was running on Kubernetes. Load time for the e-commerce site was reduced by half. Releases went from every 4–6 weeks to 3–4 times a day. With 4,000 pods, 200 nodes, and 80,000 builds per month, adidas is now running 40% of its most critical, impactful systems on its cloud-native platform.

FERNANDO CORNAGO, SENIOR DIRECTOR OF PLATFORM ENGINEERING AT ADIDAS says:

“For me, Kubernetes is a platform made by engineers for engineers. It’s relieving the development team from tasks that they don’t want to do, but at the same time giving the visibility of what is behind the curtain, so they can also control it”

Case study: IBM (Cloud Computing Industry)

Challenge

Users of IBM Cloud can exploit capabilities from more than 170 different cloud-native services in its catalog, including capabilities such as IBM’s Weather Company API and data services. In the later part of 2017, the IBM Cloud Container Registry team wanted to build out an image trust service.

What is the functionality of the image trust device?

According to the software developer with the IBM Cloud Container Registry team, It is also called Portieris which is fully based on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) open source project Notary.

How Kubernetes is the solution to the IBM image trust device?

Portieris is a Kubernetes admission controller for enforcing content trust. Users can create image security policies for each Kubernetes namespace, or at the cluster level, and enforce different levels of trust for different images. Portieris is a key part of IBM’s trust story since it makes it possible for users to consume the company’s Notary offering from within their IKS clusters. The offering is that Notary server runs in IBM’s cloud, and then Portieris runs inside the IKS cluster. This enables users to be able to have their IKS cluster verify that the image they’re loading containers from contains exactly what they expect it to, and Portieris is what allows an IKS cluster to apply that verification.

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