The On-Prem Kubernetes Reality Check

I know what you’re thinking – 0n-prem? Why is this guy teaching us about on-prem Kubernetes? It’s all in the cloud!

Although it may seem like that from tech marketing and large cloud providers screaming Kubernetes at the top of their lungs, in the production world, there are a lot of on-prem Kubernetes clusters and a lot of engineers managing them. Mercedes-Benz, a popular German car manufacturer, hosts over 900 Kubernetes clusters on OpenStack, which is a private cloud solution. All those clusters are sitting in a data center, not in the public cloud. If you peel back the layers of the onion and wonder how cloud providers are running Kubernetes clusters, they’re doing something similar. They have several data centers that are running Kubernetes just like you would on-prem or on a server that you can buy on eBay. The only difference is the cloud providers are running Kubernetes at a major scale around the world. However...