Clint Kitson

Kubernetes 1.10 is out! This release continues to move important features through the alpha, beta and stable feature gates. Speaking of milestones, did you notice that the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee voted for Kubernetes to graduate from incubating status, making it the first CNCF project to do so? This is no accident; the momentum of Kubernetes continues to build as it becomes more stable and production deployments increase.

At Dell {code], We’ve been writing about the benefits that cloud-native patterns and container technology gives us all, as well as the challenges that we (as technologists, users, and industry leaders) need to address. In part, these articles serve as background for the announcements we have been making about standardizing to the Container Storage Interface (CSI), into which {code} has invested heavily. By now, I think it’s clear why we need such a thing.

Digital transformation is everywhere, and it’s a critical point in IT evolution—but there’s a whole ecosystem of companies that are forming, not transforming, and starting from scratch with their own modern data centers—using both open source and proprietary software. A great number of today’s established data centers rely heavily on virtualization.