Kubernetes platform gives public sector IT development teams the tools to modernize their applications, using containers and microservices to gain speed, agility and scale. At the same time, storing data in modern cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud environments through traditional means poses substantial hurdles for container-native development in Kubernetes.
This brief outlines the opportunities and challenges of container-native data storage and management and explains why Kubernetes requires this new storage management and orchestration layer to reduce complexity and accelerate development timelines.