The future of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure [Video]

New development approaches and open-source tools are set to address the complexity and scaling challenges of Kubernetes and evolve cloud infrastructure as we know it today.

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For the past decade, Kubernetes has been the dominant force in cloud-native computing and in enterprise software generally, as cloud providers and their customers have turned toward running their applications and services in clusters of containers instead of in tiers of virtual machines. And yet, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s 2023 annual survey (conducted from August through December 2023) found that 44% of organizations still are not yet using Kubernetes in production. Findings like this indicate there is still much room for growth in the mass enterprise market, where on-premises deployments are still common.

What’s holding Kubernetes back? As the CNCF survey finds year after year, the top challenges organizations face in using containers continue to be complexity, security, and monitoring, which were joined in the latest survey by …