Digital Infrastructure Enabling A Hybrid Future

IT teams are increasingly developing apps with agility to take advantage of the best of the cloud and the best data centre capabilities.

FREMONT, CA: The design of the digital infrastructure must change to meet the demands of businesses and the people who work for them. All remain connected through dependable networks, low latency, and maximum application performance. The exciting features of a hybrid cloud and a hybrid workforce are what is driving this future, which is being driven by agile technology. IT teams are increasingly developing apps with agility to take advantage of the best of the cloud and the best data centre capabilities. In the future, as workloads and businesses scale horizontally, application agility is built on four fundamental components.

Containerization

Containers are small, lightweight components that separate application needs from infrastructure requirements, making it simple to deploy those programs. Applications that are containerized may load much more quickly than those that depend on infrastructure, which offers a smooth, secure, agile, and infrastructure-independent experience that increases uptime and enhances the user experience.

Security advantages are also offered by containerization. In actuality, the application lifecycle includes automated security and governance. Quick patching and streamlined configuration management are provided by disposable containers and container orchestration. Each of these techniques promotes an effective legal system from the beginning.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a container orchestration system that directs the container orchestra. It was created by Google as an open-source solution to automate the deployment, scaling, and administration of containerized workloads. Users can access the pods and worker nodes that deliver application data at scale through the Kubernetes API.

According to the 2020 Cloud Native Survey by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), "Kubernetes adoption in production has climbed to 83 per cent, up from 78 per cent in 2019.

Due to Kubernetes, or K8s, and their impact on infrastructure independence, it is projected that this increase will continue. Among the advantages of K8s is the deployment of an application's horizontal scaling, regular application health checks with automated rollbacks and rollouts to manage the load on the containers, and load balancing features that offer various IPs to the containers behind a single DNS name.

Colocation

Cloud technologies and digital transformations have improved application delivery at scale and increased application agility. Colocation has expanded alongside cloud computing. Colocation is yet another strategy for helping teams concentrate on what makes them unique. Organizations can concentrate on their core competencies and delegate issues related to physical infrastructure to experts and benefit from predictable, consistent, and redundant space, power, and cooling. Businesses can build a flexible environment that gives freedom to adapt to future developments, such as the ability to switch between colocation and the cloud as applications evolve. Change the direction of spending from CapEx to OpEx. They will have access to cloud on-ramps and carrier competition. As they continue to advance into the hybrid future, there are colocation solutions available to meet the complete range of firms.

Applications First Mindset

It is never ideal to try to cram an application onto an infrastructure. An infrastructure-agnostic perspective, on the other hand, focuses on the requirements of the application and workload delivery. Instead of considering existing contracts, the SWOT analysis for application design and delivery will focus on performance, user experience, flexibility, security, and scalability.