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The Growing Complexity of Kubernetes — And What’s Being Done to Fix It

Honeycomb is sponsoring The New Stack’s coverage of Kubecon+CloudNativeCon North America 2020. In a KubeCon + CloudNativeCon presentation this week, IBM Cloud’s Doug Davis asked: what happened to the promise of cloud computing?

Davis’ comments comparing Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry were particularly revealing, in terms of the pros and cons of complexity in containers technology.

Davis’ point is that while Kubernetes does abstract the infrastructure, it still exposes that infrastructure to you.

The main purpose of Code Engine, explained Davis, “is to get your developers back to coding, not managing infrastructure.”