Dell Technologies sponsored this podcast.

In this The New Stack Makers podcast, Savla and Chip Zoller, senior principal engineer for Dell Technologies, discuss infrastructure challenges associated with cloud native and Kubernetes and how the right tool choice can help to make the shift that much less painful.

Kubernetes’ arrangement of container clusters and pods is one of the more amazing computing structures this writer has observed. Its relatively simplicity as a container orchestrator, in many ways, begs the question why such a straightforward system was so hard to invent in the first place. Regardless, in addition to the resource-savings capabilities Kubernetes offers, the hype about its versatility and scaling capabilities is also well-deserved.

But then your organization decides to make the cloud native shift to Kubernetes — suddenly, DevOps sees the very steep learning curve ahead as they face the often immense challenges of managing a Kubernetes infrastructure.

DevOps teams, for example, begin to think about the daunting prospect of ensuring a particular stack is safe and secure on Kubernetes, Boskey Savla, technical product line marketing manager, modern apps, for VMware, said. “These are the things a lot of times customers start thinking about [when adopting] cloud native architectures and they tend to think about this as an afterthought,” Savla said. “And they go all in on Kubernetes. But then they realize, ‘okay, we need to take care of all this. How do I even scale a cluster”’?