3 years ago

Any organization that has made the shift to cloud native computing will almost invariably speak of their struggles with porting their legacy applications to Kubernetes. Without negating the tremendous benefits containerized environments can offer for speed of delivery, agility and resource savings, most legacy applications and platforms were not designed to run on Kubernetes. The additional fact remains that the majority of enterprises with existing data centers are not fully relying on containerized and Kubernetes environments.

Additionally, now that VMs have become “first-class citizens,” DevOps teams can now take advantage of a self-service model on OpenShift to access and use VMs on an as-needed basis, Gracely said.

Essentially, the idea is to allow VMs and containers to become “all self-service” under OpenShift, Gracely said.