In August 2017, the company considered Kubernetes overkill for its applications and evaluated Docker swarm mode as a simpler approach to container orchestration.įast-forward a year, however, and the global education software company plans to introduce upstream Kubernetes into production due to its popularity and ubiquity as the container orchestration standard in the industry.Ĭoncerns about Kubernetes management complexity are outdated, given how the latest versions of the tool smooth out management kinks and require less customization for enterprise security features, said Kevin Burnett, DevOps lead for Rosetta Stone in Arlington, Va. One such company is Rosetta Stone, which has used Docker containers in its DevOps process for years, but has yet to put a container orchestration tool into production.
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"We're seeing a lot of companies go with Kubernetes over Docker and OpenShift," said Damith Karunaratne, director of client solutions for Indellient Inc., an IT consulting firm in Oakville, Ont. "Those platforms may help with management out of the gate, but software license costs are always a consideration, and companies are confident in their technical teams' expertise." The case for pure upstream Kubernetes However, some enterprise IT shops still prefer to download Kubernetes source code from GitHub and leave out IT vendor middlemen. Some of these products - such Red Hat's OpenShift Container Platform, Docker Enterprise Edition and Rancher's eponymous platform - offer their own distribution of the container orchestration software, and most add their own enterprise security and management features on top of upstream Kubernetes code.
Red Hat, Docker, Heptio, Mesosphere, Rancher, Platform9, Pivotal, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Cisco are among the many enterprise vendors seeking to cash in on the container craze with prepackaged Kubernetes implementations for private and hybrid clouds.
Enterprises will stick with a DIY approach to Kubernetes implementation.
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