Determine whether Containerisation should stand as a foundational pillar of your migration strategy, before assessing the right solution.
A structured assessment that focuses on aligning technology with business goals and objectives. Setting the course for the entire migration journey.
Evaluate your existing infrastructure landscape. Assessing legacy systems and assessing their performance and security.
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As a bespoke solution provider consulting across multiple industries and business sizes, we’ve seen a mix of unique and complex application, platform, and data landscapes. The three most common use cases we see when considering Containerisation are:
Whichever category you’re aligned with, containerisation offers many compelling strategic and operational advantages that align with business goals across functions– making it an attractive option for modernising software development and deployment practices.
Containers on their own are meaningless. To bring true business value, the software running in these individual containers must be interconnected to collaborate and be managed by a platform that runs containerised software – this is where a container orchestration system is required.
When using Kubernetes on a Hyperscaler, the control plane is managed by the Hyperscaler, and the management of the worker nodes is your responsibility. This is known as Kubernetes as a Service (KaaS). With KaaS, your organisation will actively be involved in the management and support of Kubernetes, and without significant Kubernetes administration experience, your container strategy will most likely fail. The most common KaaS offerings are Azure’s AKS, AWS’ EKS, and Google’s GKE.
The benefits of Containers as a Service (CaaS) are that it streamlines container management and automates the hosting and deployment of containerised software packages with minimal Kubernetes experience. The downsides are the lack of true control and management of the platform and increased dependency on your Hyperscale’s services and support. The most common CaaS offerings are Azure’s Container Apps, AWS’ Fargate, and Google’s GKE Autopilot.
The broad list of benefits continues to grow rapidly as organisations of all shapes and sizes adopt Containerisation. We have distilled down the core benefits we feel are most important for businesses to understand.
Containerisation offers genuine deployment flexibility by enabling applications to be deployed seamlessly across cloud environments, on-premises infrastructure, or hybrid setups, eliminating barriers, unlocking opportunities, customising solutions, and cutting down costs.
Containerisation enhances security by isolating applications and their dependencies from the underlying infrastructure. This mitigates risks associated with cyber threats, compliance requirements and system failures, addressing these concerns by providing much smaller, more isolated surface areas that are exposed to potential threats.
Containers ensure consistency and predictability in software environments by packaging applications with their dependencies in a standardised format. This minimises configuration drift, enhances reproducibility, and simplifies the deployment process, resulting in fewer errors and faster time-to-market for updates.
Containerisation ensures consistency and predictability in software environments by packaging applications with their dependencies in a standardised format. This consistency minimises configuration drift, improves reproducibility and simplifies the deployment process, leading to fewer errors and faster time-to-market for new features and updates.
Scale can occur automatically based on demand, enabling businesses to adjust resource allocation to meet their changing workload needs.
Costs can be optimised through improvements in the use of resources, streamlining of deployment processes and automation, while reducing infrastructure overhead, operational complexity and the need for manual intervention.
Our Principal Consultants have put together this whitepaper to show how, by adopting the right containerisation solution and implementing it correctly, businesses can accelerate innovation, improve agility and gain a competitive edge in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape.
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