Container and K8s technology is the core and foundation of the concept of native cloud. Cloud computing was born more than 10 years, but the era of cloud computing application that is in the end what it was like, no one has been able to make it clear that
no one can determine cloud computing infrastructure will be how to develop. Before K8s appears, no one imagined there will be a cloud all vendors support distributed application platform,
until after the container technology appears, people realized that finally one step further away from the goal.
What K8s victory in the end mean?
It means that, for the first time ever, no matter what kind of cloud platform, developers can have exactly the same computing environment.
In the past, many users are often worried about being Ali, Amazon, Microsoft and other cloud computing providers "binding." But since been K8s, distributed applications and cloud platform to achieve a "decoupling",
engineers no longer worried about how the application from one platform to another platform, because K8s can run on a variety of cloud platform environment.
Currently a lot of things platform has added support for K8s, but the edge in computing scenarios, K8s has not made much progress.
We all know that things in the vast majority of data is required at the network edge-side analysis, processing and storage. Many side edge to overcome the problem,
not just resource-constrained side edge, and fragmentation and homogenization solutions may bear the brunt of problems to be solved.
10 suppliers may have 10 different solutions for the same application, not only a waste of resources, duplication and lack of versatility.
The latest open source KubeEdge can run on ARM / MIPS architecture 512M edge hardware memory, the support for the deployment of a private network to meet the needs of running off edge computing,
so that the edge side without having communication with the cloud, you can respond quickly to certain emergency situations response. KubeEdge appears likely to promote further decoupling of IT and OT.