Analyst Blog: The New Cloud Playbook – Kubernetes, Private Cloud, and Open Source

Discover more from VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog Related Articles Analyst Blog: The New Cloud Playbook – Kubernetes, Private Cloud, and Open Source VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 82 – Beyond DevOps: What is Platform Engineering? Better Together: Modernizing Access Management with Symantec SiteMinder and VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service In a VMware Cloud Foundation webinar, Lee Sustar (Forrester), Audrey Bian (Broadcom), and Natalie Fisher (Broadcom) discussed application modernization and the evolving role of Kubernetes within. Their insights focused on the challenges enterprises face and the emerging technologies reshaping cloud operations, security, and risk. Lee began the webinar by addressing application modernization acceleration and innovation: Cloud native technology is gaining momentum , beyond public cloud. While cloud native security and observability are still top of mind, the enterprise is embracing technologies like Kubernetes at the edge, service mesh, and WASM. They are focused on adopting new technologies to enable their diverse environments as they continue to modernize. While public cloud has momentum, cloud leaders say they plan to increase spending on private cloud also, due to myriad reasons including AI sovereignty, cost management, and building on existing data centers. AppMod is everywhere. Enterprises are increasingly using containers for not just new projects, but existing projects. Containers are a critical part of application modernization and private cloud. Leaders are leaning on domain-driven design for modernization to modernize in ways that understand domain requirements, establish context and boundaries, legacy decomposition, and more. The image highlights how domain-driven design enables modernization by helping teams understand business domains, establish clear boundaries, decompose legacy systems, and incrementally refactor applications while maintaining appropriate protection and testing mechanisms. Open-source flexibility, security and ecosystem maturity continue to drive Kubernetes and container adoption, across enterprise environments.