04 Jan How Will DevOps Teams Leverage Data within Kubernetes in 2022?
Kirby Wadsworth
Kirby has more than two decades of marketing leadership in both publicly traded large enterprises and emerging startups. As a founder and early venture executive with several successful exits, Kirby helped pioneer the cloud storage, continuous data protection, and file virtualization industries.
According to Pepperdata’s survey, 77% of respondents were expecting to migrate 50% or more of their data applications to Kubernetes (K8s) by the end of 2021. 10% of respondents had already migrated their applications to K8s and 28% reported that 75% of their apps moved to K8s before the turn of the year. As Kubernetes becomes more widely adopted, enterprises are determining new ways to implement data in K8s.
We’re taking a deep dive into the many ways people are using data in K8s in 2022. If you haven’t already or are planning to do so, here’s your opportunity to learn more about how you can leverage your data in K8s to gain a competitive advantage.
DevOps Teams are Using Data in Kubernetes to Boost Efficiency in Test, Build, and Deployment Environments
To begin, let’s uncover the environments in which DevOps teams are using data in Kubernetes and why.
To Increase Flexibility and Portability
Kubernetes is key to boosting efficiency and security in test, build, and deployment environments as it allows for the flexibility and portability of data. With K8s, data can be transported to and across clouds and clusters with security in mind. According to Pepperdata, almost one-third of DevOps organizations are adopting K8s to increase the flexibility and portability of their workloads.
To Gain Advanced Security
45% of DevOps professionals are leveraging data in Kubernetes to gain increased security and protection. With the right Kubernetes technology, DevOps teams are enabled to work in individual containers. Developers can test individual containers without disrupting others. For example, with ionir, developers can instantly access new data after destructive testing or instantly produce copies of near-production data on remote worker nodes.
Enterprises are Moving Large Data Applications to Kubernetes to Reduce Costs
A top reason DevOps organizations are adopting Kubernetes is to decrease cost and vendor lock-in. Cloud providers offer complicated tiering and pricing for managing persistent data, causing vendor lock-in. Approximately 10% of Pepperdata survey respondents report leveraging data in K8s to enable a multi-cloud solution without being locked in to one cloud vendor.
By eliminating legacy storage to reduce infrastructure, K8s solutions like ionir free you from cloud lock-in and actually slash storage charges by 40% or more. Using data in Kubernetes lowers costs via:
- Automated scaling to ensure reliable performance
- Automated tiering to meet space, performance, and cost requirements
- Quick data delivery to eliminate 99% of data wait time
Running Stateful Workloads in K8s
The difference between stateless and stateful workloads is that stateless workloads and apps don’t store data. Stateful apps, on the other hand, require storage capabilities to retain memory and data. According to RedHat, the majority of applications used on a daily basis are stateful.
As more and more applications are becoming containerized, workloads are becoming stateful. Stateful workloads require persistent data services that can be easily consumed by a Kubernetes platform. The main challenge with stateful workloads is insufficient and slow data mobility. However, by leveraging data in K8s with innovative technologies like ionir, DevOps organizations can increase their data agility and efficiently run stateful workloads in Kubernetes.
According to Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s 2020 survey, 55% of participants report currently running stateful applications in containers in production. Since the use of containers in production has increased by 300% since 2016, we can expect the number of stateful apps running in K8s to exponentially increase in years to come. With the right technology supporting stateful workloads, DevOps teams can deliver high-speed persistent data to Kubernetes applications regardless of the concern as to where the data is stored.
Final Thoughts
Are you leveraging data in Kubernetes in a way that’s worthwhile to your operations and business outcomes? Built on and for Kubernetes, ionir can help make your data as agile as applications.
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