Almost a decade ago, public clouds offered CIOs the possibility to explore OpEx based infrastructure to optimise their costs. A few years later, many came to the conclusion that the public cloud is not a one-size-fits-all solution to every infrastructure and operations challenge, and cloud repatriation projects gained popularity. CIOs began moving back some of their workloads to private and hybrid/multi-cloud environments to get the best of both worlds.
Along the way, Kubernetes comes to be one the of the greatest advancements in IT since the public cloud. Containerisation is expected to replace virtualisation in the near future. CIOs, still figuring out the optimum cloud strategy, started exploring where, when and how to fit containerisation in their clouds. Covid lockdown strikes, and quickly disrupts cloud strategies. A new norm is coming with a lot of uncertainty, and we need to cope and enable employee mobility, secure remote working and data integrity. Many plans were set…
