Best of 2020: OpenStackâs Complicated Kubernetes Relationship>
Container Journal – Mike Vizard
2020 may be the year the OpenStack community comes to terms with Kubernetes

As the open source community heads into 2020, loyalties between OpenStack and Kubernetes are likely to become increasingly divided. Contributors to open source projects are trying to determine where to prioritize their efforts, while IT organizations are wondering to what degree they will need a framework such as OpenStack to deploy Kubernetes.

The debate now is to what degree that approach will continue as organizations become first more familiar with native Kubernetes toolsets and alternative approaches to isolating workloads using lighter-weight virtual machines emerge.

Lighter-weight alternatives to OpenStack and VMware for deploying Kubernetes clusters already exist, notes Rob Hirschfeld, CEO of RackN, a provider of an infrastructure automation platform based on open source Digital Rebar software.

At the same time, managed service providers such as Mirantis have begun rolling out highly distributed services based on Kubernetes that make no use of OpenStack at all.

In many ways, the OpenStack community is confronting many of the same challenges that face VMware. As Kubernetes continues its momentum, IT organizations are trying to determine whether they will be able to rely solely on a cloud-native Kubernetes stack versus continuing to layer Kubernetes on top of their existing stack of legacy IT infrastructure.
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