2020 Top Kubernetes Predictions

As we conclude 2019 and a decade of success, we take this opportunity to reflect on the milestones & trends of our industry with special focus on the last 12 months. Looking forward to what the coming year is to bring us, we peer through the lens of the trends from the preceding year to draw a more accurate forecast of where things are headed. Here are some of my Kubernetes related predictions for the year 2020.

Further simplified Kubernetes deployments: There is still quite a bit of plumbing needed to make production grade Kubernetes deployments, so there is a lot of potential to make such Kubernetes deployments even quicker to set up and manage so that DevOps teams can get up and running quickly when setting up a new platform. The industry has made some strides to make Kubernetes set ups even easier to manage. There is still some ways to go, and I believe a lot more ground will be covered in this direction in 2020.

Kubernetes on the Edge: As companies expand their use of edge computing, and Kubernetes distributions made to run on low-power devices, we will see more and more usage of Kubernetes on the edge, allowing companies with edge use cases to benefit from all the container orchestration goodies that Kubernetes has to offer.

Container Security: Companies will give more serious thought into security for containers, as more and more use cases and workloads continue to be run inside containers. And in response we will see even more open-source tools developed to bolster the DevSecOps pipeline of these companies and help them with the shift-left philosophy.

Service Mesh: As various Service mesh implementations have appeared on the scene, and support for these increasing in Kubernetes based platforms, expect to see more Service mesh usage in the enterprise around the most popular use cases of traffic management, traffic encryption, and observability.

New skills for Developers: And finally with Kubernetes being used even further across organisations, developers will be expected to up-skill on Kubernetes application development for them to effectively develop for such platforms. Additionally with shift-left security on the rise in DevOps, developers will also be expected to learn about Container security.

I’d love to hear some of your predictions as well and perhaps one year from now we can reflect on how accurate these were. Feel free to comment and share. Wishing everyone a prosperous new year!

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