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WHAT TO KNOW WHEN<br />

USING KUBERNETES<br />

by JANAKIRAM MSV<br />

Kubernetes is gaining ground in the container orchestration and<br />

cloud-native application management segment. While there are<br />

options available to customers in the form of other orchestration<br />

engines, PaaS and hosted solutions, the community and ecosystem built<br />

around Kubernetes makes it a top contender.<br />

This section touches upon the key factors of Kubernetes that customers<br />

may consider before adopting it.<br />

Strengths<br />

• Kubernetes has a clear governance model managed by the Linux<br />

Foundation. Google is actively driving the product features and<br />

roadmap, while allowing the rest of the ecosystem to participate.<br />

• A growing and vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem provides<br />

<br />

Intel and Red Hat are some of the companies making prominent<br />

contributions to the project.<br />

USE CASES FOR KUBERNETES<br />

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