Benefits of Kubernetes
Kubernetes offers numerous benefits for managing containerized applications. It automates deployment, scaling, and updates, optimizing resource utilization and ensuring high availability. Its self-healing capabilities automatically restart or replace failed containers, enhancing application reliability. Kubernetes abstracts underlying infrastructure, enabling portability across cloud providers. With load balancing and auto-scaling, it accommodates varying workloads. It enhances security through isolation and role-based access controls. Overall, Kubernetes streamlines complex application orchestration, reducing operational complexities and accelerating development in cloud-native computing.
Portability: Kubernetes eliminates the complexities of dealing with variations in underlying infrastructure, so the same Instant Connect Enterprise software can be run on different operating systems; either on 'bare metal' or as virtual machines; on-prem, in the cloud, or across clouds. This capability allows Kubernetes to adapt to changes in your IT department’s software and hardware infrastructure.
Resiliency: Kubernetes manages the applications running within it to ensure that they are available to end-users. If an application or any of its components fail (for example, due to a hardware failure), Kubernetes automatically redeploys those components and ensures they remain available.
Scalability: Applications like Instant Connect Enterprise that have been purposely designed and built to be managed by Kubernetes can scale dynamically in response to fluctuations in demand. This capability reduces the resource footprint of an application during normal usage while maintaining the ability to serve spikes in demand.