Modernising Applications from Legacy Virtualization to Kubernetes with Nutanix
Modernizing applications has become a critical task for enterprises striving to stay competitive. Transitioning from legacy virtualization to Kubernetes offers significant advantages, including enhanced flexibility, scalability, and efficiency. Nutanix provides a comprehensive solution with its Nutanix Kubernetes? Platform (NKP) to address this need, enabling businesses to manage and operate Kubernetes clusters across diverse environments seamlessly.
The Challenges of Modernization
Many organisations face the challenge of balancing their existing legacy applications with the need to adopt modern, cloud-native technologies. Traditional virtualization platforms often lead to operational silos and increased complexity when integrated with modern applications. This complexity is further exacerbated by the adoption of disparate Kubernetes environments within the same organisation, resulting in operational inefficiencies and higher costs.
Nutanix understands these challenges and offers a pathway to modernisation that leverages both legacy systems and modern Kubernetes environments. Here’s how we support this transition:
Nutanix Kubernetes? Platform: Bridging the Old and the New
1. Simplified Kubernetes Management:
Nutanix's NKP provides a comprehensive cloud-native stack that is CNCF-compliant, ensuring consistency and reliability across Kubernetes clusters. It enables Platform Engineering teams to manage containerised applications on-premises, in hybrid, and multicloud environments from a single pane of glass. This reduces operational complexity and provides a unified approach to managing both legacy and modern workloads.
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2. Integrating Legacy Virtualization with Kubernetes:
NKP supports a smooth transition from traditional virtualization environments by integrating with Nutanix AHV, an enterprise-grade hypervisor. This allows organizations to manage both VMs and containers, enabling them to modernise applications at their own pace while maintaining operational continuity. NKP’s ability to support Kubernetes clusters running in both Nutanix and non-Nutanix environments, including public clouds, ensures that enterprises can leverage their existing infrastructure while adopting new technologies.
3. Enabling Multi-Cluster Fleet Management:
NKP simplifies the management of multiple Kubernetes clusters through a centralised management plane. This feature is crucial for enterprises deploying Kubernetes across various environments, including on-premises, public cloud, edge, and air-gapped locations. With a user-friendly dashboard, NKP provides a single point of control, reducing the complexity of managing a distributed Kubernetes ecosystem.
Key Features of Nutanix Kubernetes? Platform:
With Nutanix’s NKP, enterprises can achieve a seamless transition that integrates the benefits of both legacy systems and modern Kubernetes environments. By providing tools for simplified management, scalable infrastructure, and robust security, we are empowering businesses to innovate faster and operate more efficiently in today’s complex IT landscape.
And following on from what Sammy says in his blog, I think that it is worth thinking about why Nutanix for Kubernetes management. As we know, developing Kubernetes based containers allows the resulting applications to be independent from the underlying Cloud platform. Those applications could therefore run on any hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, GCP), a Service Provider's Cloud, or On-Premises. But Kubernetes needs management and a number of organizations have come up with solutions for this. VMware's Tanzu is one. Red Hat's OpenShift is another. Good though these solutions are, the problem is that you end up being locked onto those platforms instead. So, you get independence from the Hyperscalers, but are locked onto another supplier's Kubernetes management environment. The big advantage of the Nutanix solution for Kubernetes is that it is an integrated suite of 100% best of breed OPEN SOURCE components. This means that your Kubernetes Containers management will not be locked into Nutanix as you would be elsewhere. You will have the freedom to move applications between Clouds and On-Premises, AND the freedom to easily move away from Nutanix in the future should you ever want to: a fantastic solution for Kubernetes management.