What Cloud Native is and why it isn't just another buzzword.
One of the fastest-growing trends in the modern IT landscape is the emergence and adoption of cloud-native technologies, with the Kubernetes container orchestration system at the core. Why is Cloud Native taking off? For one, it's important to realize that the term Cloud Native isn't just yet another buzzword, it's a model for IT that defines a different approach than what many organizations have embraced in the past. Cloud-Native defines a modular container-based architecture for workload deployments. While the cloud is at the center of cloud-native, cloud-native models enable hybrid, on-premises and multi-cloud deployment and portability, which is what makes the approach so attractive, to so many.
One of the new tools that are being developed in the Cloud Native community is Network Service Mesh (NSM), which enables robust networking capabilities for Kubernetes.
NSM became a CNCF sandbox project in April 2019 and to date has already had over 40 contributors. Pandey noted that there has been interest from multiple verticals including financial services, enterprise organizations as well as Service Providers.
Adoption for Cloud-Native encompasses nearly every industry sector imaginable and even some that aim higher than others. Big organizations at KubeCon spoke about how they are using Cloud-Native and Kubernetes. More often than not, the speakers ended their presentations telling attendees that they are hiring for Kubernetes experts as demand continues to grow.
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Exploring Network Service Mesh
