Four Open Technologies To Pen Down For Cloud Independence!

Almost everyone assigned a new infrastructure project in the last few years has used cloud computing to solve their problems.

The faster time to value and the variety of services to solve virtually any need have made the initial decision easy.?

Cloud adoption will likely expand. However, it would behoove multiple organizations to keep their options open by adopting technologies that deliver a path from one cloud to another as quickly as it does to on-premises data centers.?

Here is a list of the open technologies you should count on:?

Terraform?

Terraform from Hashicorp is an open-source infrastructure-as-code software tool that offers a uniform CLI workflow to address hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files.?

Terraform is a cloud-independent deployment tool that operates on various cloud providers; for instance, even though AWS carries its own AWS cloud formation tool, it also supports Terraform.?

It also enables infrastructure to be expressed as code. The efficiently read language is called HCL, which is Hashicorp Configuration Language.

Kubernetes?

The second technology on the list is a no-brainer, and most cloud-native users are aware of it. Kubernetes, also termed K8s, is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and managing containerized applications.?

Utilizing Kubernetes as your deployment layer enables portability from virtually any cloud to any other cloud, or your database, without a rewrite of your applications.?

Not only does Kubernetes offer a medium to orchestrate containerized applications, but it also hosts serverless infrastructure. Kubernetes is evolving as the de facto fabric of cloud computing.?

Tekton?

Tekton is one of the most influential and flexible open-source frameworks for designing CI/CD systems, enabling developers to design, test and deploy across cloud providers and on-premise systems.?

Tekton authorizes developers to automate cloud native deployment pipelines for all languages and frameworks. Because Tekton is open source, engineering teams can customize and integrate the tool with other tools per their requirements.?

Note: Tekton and Jenkins are a project of the Continuous Delivery Foundation.?

Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka in the list is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of organizations for high-performance data pipeline, streaming analysis, data integration, and other mission-critical applications.?

As the dependency on the real-time availability of data expands, it's a tool that enables you to fetch your data to where it needs to be even faster.

Originally developed at LinkedIn, Apache Kafka was a scalable messaging queue, but now Apache Kafka has emerged as much more than just a messaging queue.?

It's a robust tool for working with data streams and shines as you grow your event-streaming needs to a grander scale. If your message volume is low, you are perfectly well-served to utilize the event streaming in your existing cloud providers.?

If you want to have one streaming platform for multiple clouds, then Apache Kafka is an adequate solution.?