Article for The New Stack by Darryl Taft
“Microsoft Radius is best positioned as a ‘universal control plane’ for Kubernetes. This universality — providing a comprehensive layer between Kubernetes infrastructure and the applications that run on it — has been largely missing from the cloud native world. Microsoft seeks to fill this gap with Radius,” said Jason Bloomberg, an analyst at Intellyx. “By making it open source, Microsoft is hoping to avoid the ‘Microsoft has to be in control’ pitfall that limits its ability to lead in the cloud native world. The jury is still out whether the K8s community at large will buy into Microsoft’s vision as a neutral player here.”
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