This post is one of a series of posts previewing KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, April 18-21, Amsterdam. However, there remain government and commercial customers who, for myriad reasons, can accept only a private software environment over which they maintain complete control.
Customers across the entire economic spectrum — from global investment banks, to healthcare organizations, to social media companies, to government entities — increasingly require their software vendors to serve them via Private SaaS for myriad specific requirements, many of which are existential to their business models: Security, Controls and Auditability: Industries handling Personally Identifiable Information (PII) have data security requirements so stringent that isolation in the form of Private SaaS is the only acceptable solution.
Consistency across software products: Private SaaS deployment of software allows customers with complex security and/or compliance requirements to maintain a consistent software experience across all of their vendor-provided products, by imposing their own security and compliance controls in-house in a Private SaaS environment.
Heterogeneity: Vendors must embrace heterogeneity by design and assume that each Kubernetes and customer environment is unique — necessitating that software be designed to run in a wide variety of customers’ private SaaS environments.