Looking beyond the clusters
It was only natural that the first cloud tools would be about creating infrastructure. After all, you need a place to run your application, in order to offer value to your end users. The clear winner in the cloud ecosystem is Kubernetes, and many tools revolve around it. Most of these tools only deal with the cluster itself. You can find great tools today that
- Create Kubernetes clusters
- Monitor Kubernetes clusters
- Debug Kubernetes clusters
- Network and secure Kubernetes clusters
- Auto-scale and cost-optimize the cluster according to load
This is a great starting point, but it doesn’t actually help developers in any way. Developers only care about shipping features. Kubernetes is a technical detail for them, as virtual machines were before Kubernetes.
The problem is that almost all the tools available focus on individual clusters. If your organization is using any kind of Kubernetes dashboard, I would bet that on the left sidebar there is a nice big button called “clusters” that shows me a list of all available Kubernetes installations.
