Keynote speakers inadvertently signaled a tipping point for Kubernetes and the entire cloud-native computing movement this week at the Cloud-Native Computing Foundation’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019 conference in San Diego.
During the first day of keynotes, Liz Rice, chair of the CNCF technical oversight committee and vice president of open source engineering at Aqua Security, pointed out that cloud-native technologies have to run in the cloud.
The next day, however, the story from the CNCF had undergone a subtle, but significant transition. Rae Wang, group product manager at Google, laid out the cloud-native story for 2020, and it was all about multicloud and hybrid information technology.
Hybrid IT – an intentional combination of cloud and on-premises environments – is the reality for today’s enterprises. By cementing cloud-native computing as the foundation for hybrid IT, the CNCF and, by extension, the entire Kubernetes community has turned a corner.
Cloud-native isn’t just about cloud anymore. It’s time to make cloud-native for the enterprise real.
Read the entire article at https://siliconangle.com/2019/11/21/kubecon-cloud-native-starts-get-real-enterprise/.
(* Disclosure: New Relic and Robin are Intellyx customers. None of the other companies mentioned in this article is an Intellyx customer.)
