If you’re searching for the application containerisation solutions your business needs to succeed, find out how Playtime Solutions can help you. Our certified containerisation specialists work alongside your business to ensure you get the most out of your containerisation solutions.
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.
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.
True deployment flexibility:
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.
Security:
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.
Consistent Day 2 Ops:
With containerisation, you have less overhead during startup, and you don’t need to set up separate guest operating systems for each app because they all share one Operating System. Due to this high efficiency, software developers commonly use containerisation of applications for packaging several individual microservices making up modern apps.
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 still 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 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’ Elastic Bean Stalk, and Google’s GKE Autopilot.
Determine whether Containerisation should stand as a foundational pillar of your migration strategy, and therefore continue to assess the right solution for your needs.
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.
1. Introduction Workshop
2. Proof of Concept (platform and simple app migration)
3. Container Application Best Practice Landing Zone (Governance and Security)
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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