6 reasons why customers should hand off Kubernetes to MSPs
6 reasons why customers should hand off Kubernetes to MSPs
Managed Kubernetes services have matured to the point where many enterprises are handing over the keys to their clusters. Here we identify some of the main drivers behind that trend. Credit: Dreamstime
Handing off Kubernetes clusters to a managed service provider (MSP) can feel like sending your kids off to college for customers - it’s scary at first, but eventually there’s a lot less work to do around the house.
The managed Kubernetes options - or Kubernetes as a service (KaaS) - from the big three public cloud providers Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure have all made huge strides over the past few years, helping customers run and orchestrate their containerised workloads without having to know the ins and outs of YAML configuration files or to worry about autoscaling, updates, and cluster management.