The software systems of tomorrow will be bigger, more complicated, will be able to handle more data, and will have an even bigger impact on our world. Just think about self-driving cars and ubiquitous robots. The human capacity to deal with complexity will not scale. That means that we will have to use a divide-and-conquer approach to build those complex software systems. Microservice-based architectures will continue to replace monoliths. Then, the challenge will shift into coordinating all those microservices into a coherent whole. This is where Kubernetes comes in as the standard orchestration solution.
In this chapter, we will discuss the near future of microservices and Kubernetes. We will focus on the near future, because the innovation pace is amazing and trying to look much further ahead is futile. The long-term vision is that...
