Kubernetes, a tool that Google engineers created in 2014 to manage applications running across large numbers of machines, is becoming a kind of standard in enterprise computing, powering everything from mobile banking to smart home applications. Now the question is how much further Kubernetes can go.
“I do think [Kubernetes] is capable of running almost any kind of workload,” Jason McGee, chief technology officer and vice president of IBM Cloud, said Wednesday during a panel discussion hosted by The Information and IBM at IBM's Think conference in San Francisco.
