Cloud native is a hot word in the field of cloud computing. With the concept of cloud native comes the explosion of the digital industry, the advent of digital transformation, the breakthrough of digitalization, and a new wave of technological dividends. Cloud native means "cloud" + native. As the name suggests, it is the best way for "applications" to maximize the use of cloud capabilities and maximize the value of the cloud. Specifically, cloud native provides users with a methodology and defines a path that allows businesses to maximize the use of existing container-based or cloud-based infrastructure to achieve greater enterprise efficiency, including reducing enterprise costs and improving business efficiency. .
With the vigorous development of new technologies such as cloud computing, big data, AI, and the Internet of Things, cloud native has become a core technical capability support platform in the digital transformation of enterprises. Enterprises in the upstream and downstream industry chains involved in the digital transformation process are also deploying cloud native technologies. For example, many traditional software vendors and cloud computing vendors are migrating their products to the new cloud native architecture. According to Gartner data predictions, by 2022, 75% of global enterprises will use "cloud-native containerized applications" in production.
Compared with traditional IT architecture, the advantage of cloud native architecture is that it makes full use of the distributed, scalable and flexible characteristics of cloud computing through open standard cloud native products such as databases, big data, middleware, function computing, and container services. services, effectively lowering the threshold for enterprises to migrate to the cloud and sharing the technical value dividends of cloud nativeization. On the other hand, cloud-native technology has wonderful features such as making the system more flexible, reliable, fault-tolerant, loosely coupled, easy to manage, and observable, giving enterprises the motivation to overcome the difficulties of cloud-native migration to the cloud.
In the field of cloud native, KubeSphere has gained a large number of supporters from community users. KubeSphere is a Kubernetes (K8s) distribution initiated by Qingyun Technology, fully open source, and certified by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). To put it simply, KubeSphere is a fully open source container platform for cloud native applications. It is a distributed operating system based on K8s that manages cloud native applications. It provides a pluggable open architecture that allows third-party applications to be seamlessly connected and solves the application-level demands brought about by the normalization of hybrid cloud. KubeSphere can enable enterprises to quickly enter the cloud-native era.
In July 2018, KubeSphere 1.0 was officially released. In April 2019, KubeSphere 2.0 was released. In 2020, KubeSphere 3.0 was released. In 2021, it was upgraded to KubeSphere 3.1.0. As of the first quarter of this year, the KubeSphere community has grown from one community in 2019 to five communities at present, achieving a global community growth of more than 400%, with more than 110 contributors on GitHub.
After three years of iteration, KubeSphere is no longer a single product, but has evolved into a product family. KSV (KubeSphere Virtualization) focuses on virtual machine management, which can be delivered independently and deployed on a single node; Porter (hard load balancing), a component of the container platform that exposes service load balancing; OpenPitrix cross-cloud application distribution management; KubeEye (cluster inspection ), solving the problem of moving applications to the container platform from the beginning, and then considering security, health, etc.; KubeKey, as a delivery framework, packages many components together. Based on the plug-in mechanism, it can deliver software packages on demand with one click, and cooperate with Integrate delivery with partners; OpenFunction’s goal is to provide customers with a complete FaaS framework based on the new generation of cloud-native infrastructure.
KubeSphere provides multi-cluster and multi-cloud hybrid deployment and cloud-edge collaboration. Enterprise applications can span multiple clouds without any obstacles. It is adapted to all mainstream brand public clouds at the resource layer, such as QingCloud, AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, etc. Container platforms such as OpenShift, Rancher, etc. With KubeSphere 3.1.0, enterprises can deploy applications at a higher density and improve application reliability and scalability; they can standardize IT infrastructure, reduce hardware investment, get rid of the constraints of hardware manufacturers, and no longer need computer rooms and operation and maintenance. , truly realizing code as infrastructure (Infrastructure as Code).
It is reported that at the CIC (Cloud Insight Conference) 2021 Cloud Computing Summit held on July 29, Qingyun Technology will release an end-to-end cloud native strategy and synchronize the latest progress of cloud native in KubeSphere and other product lines. Let us wait and see.