The New Stack Editor in Chief Alex Williams sat down with Steven Wong and Dejan Bosanac at KubeCon to talk about just this. Wong is a software engineer on the Cloud-native business unit at VMWare and Bosanac is a senior software engineer at RedHat. Both are also on the Kubernetes working group that looks to address the limitations of Kubernetes on the edge.

Wong started by offering the example of modern luxury car models, which — from entertainment systems to antilock breaks to traction controls to even power windows and doors — may have as many as 37 computers riding around inside them. Each of these connected objects are sources of data that often need configuration and updates.

He looks at Kubernetes orchestration as being uniquely suited to solving this problem — eventually.