Ah, 2021. The year we waited all 2020 for. Linux containers helped organizations get and stay agile—a key marker for getting through 2020 and ready for whatever comes next. Here are three things organizations should keep on their container radar for the coming year (and then some).

Containers and virtualization

When Linux containers started to gain popularity, there was a lot of discussion about “containers versus virtual machines.” Today, the discussion is moving toward “containers and virtual machines.”

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This is especially true as many companies face the reality of their past—that is, their legacy systems—as they expand their use of containers and Kubernetes. Sure, writing everything from scratch is a way to go, but it’s not possible for most companies. They only have so much money to do so many things. We saw this with Unix to Linux. We saw it with Linux on bare metal to Linux on VMs. We see it with anything new.

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Ah, 2021. The year we waited all 2020 for. Linux containers helped organizations get and stay agile—a key marker for getting through 2020 and ready for whatever comes next. Here are three things organizations should keep on their container radar for the coming year (and then some).

Containers and virtualization

When Linux containers started to gain popularity, there was a lot of discussion about “containers versus virtual machines.” Today, the discussion is moving toward “containers and virtual machines.”

[ Also on InfoWorld: The best open source software of 2020 ]

This is especially true as many companies face the reality of their past—that is, their legacy systems—as they expand their use of containers and Kubernetes. Sure, writing everything from scratch is a way to go, but it’s not possible for most companies. They only have so much money to do so many things. We saw this with Unix to Linux. We saw it with Linux on bare metal to Linux on VMs. We see it with anything new.

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Značky: #Containers, #Rozne, #Kubernetes, #Docker

Kubernetes is just the latest example of a powerful technology that can provide a solid solution in many instances. Although it may seem like all the cool kids are choosing Kubernetes-related technology, it’s not right for every application. When a technology has such a huge following that its use becomes a forgone conclusion, that’s when mistakes are made and projects get derailed.

Most enterprises that are moving to cloud-based platforms will consider using containers and Kubernetes. Many enterprises using cloud already are also using Kubernetes. Kubernetes does provide many resources that make it easier to manage and scale distributed systems, including microservices. It’s also an orchestration system, meaning we can bind together processes and services to form larger, more holistic solutions.

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Značky: #Rozne, #Containers, #Kubernetes

Kubernetes 1.17, released in December 2019, introduced the following key new features and revisions:

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Značky: #Kubernetes, #Rozne, #Containers

Azure’s Cognitive Services are a quick and easy way to add machine learning to many different types of applications . Available as REST APIs, they can be quickly hooked into your code using simple asynchronous calls from their own dedicated SDKs and libraries. It doesn’t matter what language or platform you’re building on, as long as your code can deliver HTTP calls and parse JSON documents.

Not all applications have the luxury of a low-latency connection to Azure. That’s why Microsoft is rolling out an increasing number of its Cognitive Services as containers, for use on appropriate hardware that may only have intermittent connectivity. That often requires using systems with a relatively high-end GPU, as the underlying neural nets used by the ML inferencing models require a lot of compute. Even so, with devices like Intel’s NUC9 hardware with an Nvidia Tesla-series GPU, that can be very small indeed.

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Značky: #Containers, #Rozne, #Azure

There are certain people who thrive in a crisis. They have the ability to go beyond just getting the job done, no matter what is going on around them (which is huge in and of itself), but they also find opportunity amid difficult situations and help those around them be the best they can be. You want these crisis champions in (and leading) your organization.

The same is true with technology. There is some technology that works well enough when things are calm but tends to buckle under pressure. Then there are the crisis champions of the technology world—the products that keep doing what they are supposed to be doing no matter what but are flexible and resilient enough to meet the most pressing new requirements (and then some). Linux containers and the Kubernetes ecosystem are prime examples.

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Značky: #Rozne, #Kubernetes, #Docker, #Containers