2 years ago

Category: Software, Kubernetes

Kubernetes remains a source of concern — and bother — for developers, when they must devote an inordinate amount of time and resources to ensuring their code will run correctly on Kubernetes clusters. Ultimately, the idea is to allow developers to do their software engineering magic, while Kubernetes, as an infrastructure layer like, for example, virtual machines, is not something that developers should have to struggle with as much in the future, according to speakers at the recent Cloud Foundry Summit.

Kubernetes is an infrastructure abstraction, similar to virtual machines in many ways: it’s extraordinarily powerful and is absolutely the next version of infrastructure that is going to be common across all clouds and on-premises infrastructure environments,” Cloud Foundry Foundation Executive Director Chip Childers said during the Q&A session ahead of Cloud Foundry Summit 2021.

During the Cloud Foundry Foundation’s virtual summit, the theme of Childers’ comments and keynotes, as well as a number of talks, were about Cloud Foundry’s mission to help lower the barriers of entry and improve processes for developers working in cloud native environments.

And so this model that Cloud Foundry has been using for a long time is now becoming one of the more attractive ways for developers to interact with a tool that then interacts with Kubernetes to deploy themselves.