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When they first got together, cloud computing and Kubernetes seemed like the perfect couple. Now, with almost three-quarters<\/a> of organizations running Kubernetes workloads in production, the honeymoon phase is over.<\/p>\n

Kubernetes is great at container orchestration; however, its complexity and lack of transparency are causing security issues, soaring cloud costs<\/a>, and delays in deployment, as well as developer frustration and burnout.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2022, I expect many organizations will hit a \u2018cloud-native wall,\u2019 where complexity challenges become too big to handle manually,\u201d predicted Matt Provo<\/a>, chief executive officer of StormForge, in a recent blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Feb. 23 at 2 p.m. EST, StormForge and theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media\u2019s livestreaming studio, present the \u201cSolving the Kubernetes Complexity Gap by Optimizing With Machine Learning<\/a>\u201d event, which will spotlight improving cloud-native production environments with machine learning<\/span>. (* Disclosure below.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Kubernetes suffers from a complexity crisis<\/h3>\n

Invariably, companies hit the \u201cspend panic moment,\u201d according to\u00a0J.R. Storment<\/a>, executive director of the FinOps Foundation in an interview with theCUBE<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThey realize they\u2019re initially\u00a0spending much more than they expected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

More importantly, companies don\u2019t have the people, processes or tools in place to be able to track Kubernetes spend and establish how to optimize their cloud costs, Storment added.\u00a0The FinOps Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation microsurvey \u201cFinOps for Kubernetes<\/a>\u201d found that while Kubernetes related spend increased for 68% of companies in 2020, only 6% could accurately predict their monthly cloud bill before it arrived.<\/p>\n

The issue is the complexity and lack of transparency inherent in Kubernetes, according to Provo. While Kubernetes provides developers with a lot of flexibility in terms of container management, there is no provision for visibility into the effect on applications as the operational parameters are adjusted.<\/p>\n

\u201cOften organizations are becoming more agile [and] shipping code more quickly, but then all of a sudden the cloud bill comes and they\u2019ve overprovisioned by 80, 90%,\u201d Provo told theCUBE<\/a> at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2021.<\/p>\n

This cloud waste isn\u2019t only a bottom-line issue. Data centers are estimated to emit nearly 100 million metric tons<\/a> of CO2 annually, meaning that alongside wasted financial resources, unnecessary data center use caused by overprovisioning has a heavy environmental impact.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s security. In the \u201cState of Kubernetes Security<\/a>\u201d report, Red Hat Inc. found that security was the number one container strategy concern, with more than half the respondents experiencing delayed rollout because of security concerns. Misconfiguration tops the list of security lapses, a problem compounded by the well-documented Kubernetes skills gap. There are currently over 67,000<\/a> open positions for Kubernetes-trained engineers on Indeed.com, and the \u201cKubernetes and Cloud-Native Operations Report 2021<\/a>\u201d report listed \u201clack of in-house skills\/limited manpower\u201d as the biggest challenge when \u201cwhen migrating to\/using Kubernetes and containers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adding to the problem, trained Kubernetes engineers are getting burned out and quitting. Fifty-one percent of respondents to a 2020 study<\/a> claimed they wanted to find a new job.<\/p>\n

Machine learning can reduce data center carbon-footprint<\/h3>\n

StormForge was formed under the name Carbon Relay in 2019 with the goal of optimizing energy usage in data centers. That mission soon expanded to machine learning-based cloud-native application performance testing and optimization. And in 2020, after the purchase of performance-testing-as-a-service platform StormForger, the company rebranded and released its platform<\/a> for automated Kubernetes optimization.<\/p>\n

Optimizing data center energy use is still high on the company\u2019s priority list, however. StormForge has an ongoing cloud waste reduction challenge<\/a> where it pledges to reduce its client\u2019s cloud waste bills by a minimum of 30% or pay their cloud bill for them.<\/p>\n

Rather than application performance management, StormForge defines itself as an intelligence platform. Instead of competing with APM, monitoring and observability solutions, such as DataDog, Sysdig, Sumo Logic, VMware Tanzu Observability, Dynatrace, New Relic, Prometheus, Splunk and AppDynamics, StormForge has worked to integrate its platform with these companies and counts them within its ecosystem. This means that customers don\u2019t have to switch from their existing management tools to benefit from StormForge\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have machine learning capabilities that\u00a0can predict very accurately what organizations\u00a0will need from a resource standpoint to meet their goals, not just from a cost\u00a0standpoint, but also from a performance standpoint,\u201d Provo said. <\/a><\/p>\n

StormForge closes the Kubernetes gap<\/h3>\n

The product announcement to be made during the Feb. 23 \u201cSolving the Kubernetes Complexity Gap by Optimizing With Machine Learning<\/a>\u201d event builds on StormForge\u2019s expertise in machine learning to enable automated Kubernetes optimization. The promise is to eliminate the barriers discussed in the beginning of this article and smooth out the path for enterprise use of Kubernetes in production<\/p>\n

Three key gaps are blocking Kubernetes and cloud-native technology from achieving its full potential, according to Provo. They are complexity, data overwhelm, and a lack of skills. All three combine to form a perfect storm that leads to inefficiencies in Kubernetes management. StormForge promises that its new platform will address all three of these problems, using its machine learning smarts to automatically optimize Kubernetes in pre-production and production, eliminate manual trial and error application tuning, and make cloud spend transparent and easy to track.<\/p>\n

\u201c2022 will be the year we move closer to closing the gap on complexity, data and skills,\u201d Provo predicts<\/a>. \u201cBut it\u2019s going to take some work, and it requires sophisticated machine learning and automation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Livestream of StormForge\u2019s \u2018Solving the Kubernetes Complexity Gap by Optimizing With Machine Learning\u2019 event<\/h3>\n

StormForge\u2019s \u201cSolving the Kubernetes Complexity Gap by Optimizing With Machine Learning\u201d event<\/a> will feature interviews to be broadcast on theCUBE.\u00a0Add this event to your calendar<\/a>\u00a0to watch the event live. Plus, you can watch theCUBE interviews\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0on demand after the live event.<\/p>\n

How to watch theCUBE interviews<\/h3>\n

We offer you various ways to watch StormForge\u2019s \u201cSolving the Kubernetes Complexity Gap by Optimizing With Machine Learning\u201d\u00a0event<\/a>, including theCUBE\u2019s\u00a0dedicated website<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a>. You can also get all the coverage from this year\u2019s events on\u00a0SiliconANGLE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

TheCUBE Insights podcast<\/h4>\n

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on\u00a0iTunes<\/a>,\u00a0Stitcher<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Spotify<\/a>, which you can enjoy while on the go.<\/p>\n

Guests<\/h3>\n

During StormForge\u2019s \u201cSolving the Kubernetes Complexity Gap by Optimizing With Machine Learning\u201d\u00a0event<\/a>, theCUBE will talk with\u00a0Matt Provo, founder and chief executive officer of StormForge, and Charley Dublin, vice president of product management at Acquia Inc.<\/p>\n

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the \u201c<\/em>Solving the Kubernetes Complexity Gap by Optimizing With Machine Learning<\/em>\u201d event. Neither StormForge, the sponsor of theCUBE\u2019s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Image: StormForge<\/h5>\n
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