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INNO VATION
Interview by Alain de Fooz, Solutions Numériques
KUBERNETES...
MANAGED, ON DEMAND Businesses will reap the rewards of KaaS – Kubernetes-as-a-Service – the latest innovation from EBRC. This highly innovative solution gives developers added flexibility, while also being good value and highly secure.
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rganisations working online now have no
—F OCUS ON BUSINESS NEEDS IN A CHANGING WORLD
— MORE EFFICIENT, COSTEFFECTIVE RESOURCES
option but to adapt
“The only thing that is constant is
Therefore, rather than waiting weeks
and innovate rapidly.
change,” noted the ancient Greek
or even months to get the physical or
Competition to gain and retain
philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus
cloud infrastructure required for the
customers will continue to grow. To meet
2,500 years ago. This time-honoured
application, developers can benefit from
these business needs, technologies
wisdom underlines the continual need
quick access to these environments on
related to DevOps methodologies
for innovation by online service providers
a self-service basis.
have emerged, notably cloud native
seeking to attract and retain clients. No
The beauty of KaaS is that it is
tools such as Kubernetes. These tools
longer can new applications take 18
“agnostic” about the used cloud
supply the required automation and
months to plan and implement. They
platform. Applications do not need
agility to the development teams so
have to improve continuously in order to
to be modified, regardless of whether
that they can continuously manage,
offer new functionalities, to upgrade the
the KaaS is deployed on-premises or
adapt, test and boost the performance
interface, to fix bugs and patch security
through the cloud. They can quickly
of their applications; and so meet the
flaws. Kubernetes accelerates each
grow without having to be defined again
needs of Sales and Marketing teams,
stage of development and delivery
or having to rebuild the infrastructure
as well as those of the Security teams.
by supplying the configuration tools
for each new project. “Regardless of
Companies are then freed from the
to meet the best practice. Thus
the underlying infrastructure, KaaS
limitations of legacy development
developers can work with shorter, less
offers a management environment
methodologies. There is no longer
restrictive delivery schedules which
focused on the container. It orchestrates
a need to plan months in advance
give the upgrades that clients consider
resources (computing, network, storage)
for relatively rare deployments.
useful. “Businesses which constantly
for user workloads, while maintaining
Upgrades are easy and can be carried
review customer behaviour can thus
the portability between different
out at any stage in order to securely
quickly react and match the offering
infrastructure providers,” Gérard Miceli
support business development. Easy
with the demand,” explained Gérard
added.
deployements at a lower cost: this
Miceli, Innovation Consultant at EBRC.
This also leads to an increase in speed
is the key advantage of Kubernetes-
Freed from various constraints related
which frees resources. Large parts of the
as-a-Service. “We help our clients
to application deployment, testing, and
application portfolio can be upgraded
achieve their development goals more
synchronisation with the production
even more quickly and at a lower cost;
quickly,” explained Yuri Colombi,
teams, efforts can be focused on
thus fostering business innovation by
Head of Solutions & Innovation at
delivering the business functionality
allowing key services to be presented
EBRC.
operational teams need and expect.
in the form of application components.
