Kubernetes Everywhere: Operating Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Infrastructure at Scale
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15662/IJEETR.2021.0304004Keywords:
Kubernetes, Multi-Cloud Infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud, Cloud-Native Computing, Platform EngineeringAbstract
Kubernetes has grown to become a key platform for enterprise hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure management. This paper is based upon a quantitative research methodology and shows the advantages of Kubernetes-based environments as an operational, scalability, governance and automation benefit. Analysis indicated that it took an average of 42 minutes to deploy the workloads to Kubernetes, while the downtime period for the workload in the migration from current to new K8s deployment was reduced to 3.8 minutes for the average workload. The overall efficiency of CPU usage went from 61% to 82% and service availability went from 91.4% to 99.2%. Automation and GitOps practices were able to reduce the amount of manual configuration tasks by approximately 84% and reduce the industry infrastructure operating costs by 29%, during the study
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