According to this recently completed CNCF Survey, the adoption rate of Cloud Native technologies in production is growing rapidly. Kubernetes is at the heart of this technological revolution. Naturally, the growth of cloud native technologies has been accompanied by the growth of the ecosystem that surrounds it.
Of course, the complexity of cloud native technologies have increased as well. Just google for the phrase “Kubernetes is hard”, and you’ll get plenty of articles that explain this complexity problem. The best thing about the CNCF community is that problems like this can be solved by smart people building new tools to enable Kubernetes users: Projects like Knative and its Build resource extension, for example, serve to reduce complexity across a range of scenarios.
Even though increasing complexity might seem like the most important issue to tackle, it is not the only challenge you face when transitioning to Cloud Native. Now that you understand Kubernetes, your teams are trained and you’ve started building applications on top, it’s time to face a new layer of challenges. Cloud native doesn’t just mean deploying a platform for developers to build on top of.
Developers also need storage, backup, monitoring, logging and a service mesh to enforce policies upon data in transit. Each of these individual systems must be properly configured and deployed, as well as logged, monitored and backed up on its own. The CNCF is here to help.
We provide a landscape overview of all cloud-native technologies, but the list is huge and can be overwhelming.
Source: kubernetes.io