Top 5 Considerations for Successful Deployment of Kubernetes
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The document discusses the top five considerations for successfully deploying Kubernetes at scale, highlighting operational challenges such as complex installation and management, especially when using multiple cloud environments. Key considerations include managing downtime during upgrades, ensuring enterprise readiness through essential features, supporting hybrid or multi-cloud deployments, enabling multi-tenancy for user separation, and enhancing developer productivity with self-service tools. The document also promotes Kubernetes-as-a-Service from Platform9 as a solution to reduce overhead costs and enhance availability.
Top 5 Considerations for Successful Deployment of Kubernetes
- 1. Top 5 Considerations for Successful Deployment of Kubernetes at Scale Madhura Maskasky Co-Founder and VP of Product
- 2. Kubernetes simplifies container management but... These challenges are exacerbated as the scale of deployment increases. There are operational challenges in deploying, managing and maintaining the Kubernetes lifecycle.
- 3. Enterprises struggle with deploying Kubernetes at scale Installation and configuration are complex. There is no “one size fits all” recipe. It’s difficult to keep pace with updates and patches while keeping critical applications running.
- 4. Enterprises struggle with deploying Kubernetes at scale Deploying across multiple public and private clouds can be time consuming, expensive, and require specific developer expertise. Monitoring and troubleshooting is difficult across such a complex and distributed system.
- 5. Top 5 Considerations for Successful Deployment of Kubernetes at Scale
- 6. Enterprises need to have a solid game plan, including quarterly upgrades with minimal or zero downtime. #1 Managing Downtime during Upgrades With an innovative community behind it, a new Kubernetes version comes out every 3 months.
- 7. #2 Enterprise Readiness Enterprise readiness features or attributes include • Workload monitoring • Log collection • SSL termination • Certificate management • Network isolation These are must-haves for running Kubernetes at scale successfully.
- 8. #3 Hybrid or Multi-Cloud Support Enterprises typically need to apply Kubernetes across a diverse set of endpoints, including private infrastructure and public cloud. The Kubernetes solution must have the same consistent experience and the same SLA regardless of the endpoint.
- 9. #4 Multi-Tenancy Enterprises need to support Kubernetes across many users, and across development, staging, and production environments. Key components here are single sign-on, support for Kubernetes RBAC, and multi-tenancy that separates users into teams. Isolation policies are also critical.
- 10. #5 Developer Productivity After Kubernetes is deployed at scale, must-haves include a self-service portal, CI-CD integration, and a good registry management solution. An application catalog is also key to enhancing developer productivity and enabling easy application deployment.
- 11. Kubernetes-as-a-Service from Platform 9 Deploy containerized applications using Kubernetes with lower overhead costs Get high availability, single sign-on, and federation Work anywhere with an infrastructure- agnostic solution Get started on Platform9 with our free sandbox. Or sign up for a free 15-day trial.