Kubernetes On-Premise - What You Need to Know

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Kubernetes Adoption Grows Across Multiple Environments

Kubernetes adoption continues to expand, with 64% of organizations using it in production and 25% either piloting or evaluating it. As the de facto method for running containers at scale in production, Kubernetes is now being used by many prominent global enterprises to run their business applications in production. After all, there are various benefits to using Kubernetes in production: increased scalability and agility, improved fault tolerance, and faster time to market, among others.

Kubernetes is widely used across multiple environments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud according to Spectro Cloud 2022 State of Production Kubernetes Report. The report also found that on-premise environments are also common, including virtualized data centers (61%) and bare metal data centers (20%). Furthermore, more than a third (35%) are using Kubernetes for Edge environments.

Figure: Kubernetes Production Environment - Source

Additionally, Kubernetes is typically used across more than one type of environment, usually referred to as hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Only 22% use Kubernetes in a single production environment, with the majority (78%) using Kubernetes across multiple environments.

Figure: Different Production Kubernetes Environments - Source

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