My thoughts on Kubernetes and the enterprise

Levels of abstraction

• Bare Metal
• VM
• VM Hypervisor
• Kubernetes: Resource Isolation, , implement distributed design patterns
• Kubernetes Clusters
• Application Containers

Table 5: Important Aspects of Containerization (Ranked)

Aspect	n
Process isolation	2026
High availability	1872
Horizontal elasticity	1863
Magical, effortless deployment	1773
Memory isolation	1736
Network stack isolation	1651
Filesystem isolation	1631
Granular resource control	1561

Table 6: What Kubernetes Improves

Things improved	% of respondents	n
Deployment in general	66%	313
Autoscaling	65%	308
CI/CD	63.7%	302
Building microservices	53.6%	254
Reliability	46%	217
Application modularity	44.3%	210
Architectural refactoring	36.1%	171
Overall system design	33.5%	159
Cost	28.9%	137
Security	24.9%	118
Other	3.2%	15

Kubernetes has improved some aspect of software architecture or design

Aspect	%
building microservices	(53.6%)
application modularity	(44.3%)
architectural refactoring	(36.1%)
overall system design	(33.5%)

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