Kubernetes Isn’t Enough for a Production-Ready Platform

Kubernetes is the cornerstone of cloud native architecture, but this container orchestrator is not the only thing that keeps enterprise stacks standing tall.

From the start, any production-ready, cloud native platform engineering strategy demands networking, storage and observability. But then Day 2 maintenance and scalability issues emerge, which are “fixed” by finding and using more tools. This brings on more Kubernetes complexity, especially when adding capabilities like GitOps, policy management and a service mesh. Eventually,…