Web-scale technologies have enabled enterprises to take advantage of the innovations in analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud that can directly affect their bottom lines and business competitiveness. These advances have required traditional applications to be modernized, new cloud-native applications to be built, public cloud services designed for analytics, and AI and IoT to be used in conjunction with their on-premises datacenter applications.
Kubernetes has become a popular source for building these applications, with many major public cloud providers reportedly having a Kubernetes service, and enterprises deploying an increasing number of clusters. Kubernetes is also a means for application modernization and cloud native development for enterprises transforming their application portfolios