Kubernetes at the Edge – a Natural Synergy


The world was already in a fast-accelerating race to adopt digital technologies. The pandemic added the equivalent of a “Nitro Boost” to the world’s digital ambitions. From a distributed workforce to remote customers, enterprises are now engaged in extending the boundaries of their digital landscape. The aim is to enable customers as well as employees to leverage seamless interactions and engagement for maximum benefit. In the world of software product development, this is accelerating adoption in a couple of areas that had already become the norm; Agile development with DevOps and cloud deployment.

The Rise of Edge Computing

While agile and cloud have been around for over a decade now, the way applications are built and deployed today is undergoing a bit of a transformation. The emergence of microservices architectures and multi-cloud and hybrid environments are driving innovation as technology continues to evolve. In this context, the rise of edge computing is being closely monitored by companies.  Studies predict that by 2028 edge computing will be worth USD 61.14 billion globally.

Moving computing resources and workloads closer to high-demand areas while being connected to a central data center is giving edge computing a clear advantage. Solutions such as smart home tech, remote factory operations management, and many more are emerging every day to leverage the reduced latency which is ideal for processing large workloads near their consumption areas.

Managing Application Modules Through Containerization

Applications that look to make the most of the promise of Edge computing need to consider the nature and inherent limits of Edge devices. It’s in this context that organizations are looking at ways to break large monolithic applications into containerized modules that manage individual sub-functions of the applications relatively easily.

Kubernetes Paves the Way for Efficient Container Module Management

As more cloud services split into containerized sub-services and modules, the next big challenge for digital applications is achieving seamless management. This is where Kubernetes come into the picture. Built originally by Google’s engineers to manage the orchestration of a plethora of consumer applications, Kubernetes has evolved into an open source platform used across hundreds of thousands of applications worldwide to orchestrate and manage virtual applications deployed inside containers of all scales. The Google heritage of Kubernetes is testament enough to its ability to handle automated deployments of exceptionally large applications. Google boasts of having some of the world’s most widely consumed digital services through its large collection of consumer and enterprise apps.

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