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Overcoming the Kubernetes Skills Gap in Edge Computing

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-bartholomew-27baa625/ Kubernetes is now the most widely used orchestration platform, with nearly one-third (31%) of all backend developers using K8s, according to a https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Q1-2021-State-of-Cloud-Native-development-FINAL.pdf by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and SlashData. Edge developers, in particular, are embracing Kubernetes, with an 11% increase in adoption over the past year, nearly three times the increase in the number of backend developers overall.

Moreover, Kubernetes adds the orchestration needed to best coordinate this sort of distributed multiregion, multicluster, multiprovider topology.

However, when it comes to the distributed edge, knowing how to manage containers across Kubernetes clusters becomes increasingly complex.

In any cloud cluster, there’s a hierarchy of abstracted layers: physical networking, virtual networking and Kubernetes virtual networking.