3 years ago

Category: Kubernetes, Infrastructure, github, gitlab, bitbucket

The benefits of running on Kubernetes can be overshadowed for some by the difficulties of operating Kubernetes itself. While these managed offerings help solve some of the complexity, they still provide a point of view solidly focused on Kubernetes, rather than running and managing an application that is delivering value to customers. In 2019, DigitalOcean released its own managed Kubernetes offering, but now the company is taking that one step further with the launch of the DigitalOcean App Platform, a platform as a service (PaaS) built on Kubernetes that is meant to provide an application-centric view to developers who want to enjoy the benefits of Kubernetes without dealing with its complexities. Kubernetes provided a great start gap to take some of the common infrastructure management away, but at the end of it, it is still APIs and still complicated.

We shipped managed Kubernetes and we wanted to provide another layer of abstraction on top of it, so we use our own managed Kubernetes offering in a shared clusters environment where we do multitenancy built on top of Kubernetes and using open standards.”