MSPs primed as customers move away from managing Kubernetes
MSPs primed as customers move away from managing Kubernetes
Availability of solid and varied managed Kubernetes options has seen more and more companies shy away from managing their own clusters. Here’s why
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Managing Kubernetes is hard, and many organisations are starting to realise they can better focus on other, as-yet unsolved engineering problems if they hand off a big chunk of their container orchestration responsibilities to managed service providers (MSPs).
Each cloud provider offers more and more managed versions of these services—such as the highly opinionated GKE Autopilot and the serverless EKS Fargate—since first launching around 2018. There are other options, such as Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, and VMware Tanzu, but the Big Three cloud vendors dominate this area.