As you migrate your enterprise to the public cloud or multicloud, you want to realize some of its inherent benefits regardless of what service model you utilize. Whether your goal is cost optimization, scalability or elasticity, the cloud can allow your enterprise to adopt newer, cutting-edge technologies to innovate your business without the burden of having to own and manage everything in-house.
One of the areas that has seen exponential growth is application modernization. Cloud technology has enabled companies to speed up their application development processes by leveraging newer technologies and platforms, giving rise to so-called cloud-native applications. This is where containers come in.
Containerization is the underlying technology that has accelerated the adoption of new methodologies to develop, deploy and run applications in the cloud. In contrast to virtual machines (VMs), containers improve agility, scalability, portability and cost efficiency by better utilizing the IT infrastructure.
Welcome to the Beautiful World of Shared Responsibility
Enterprises often struggle to adapt to new management paradigms as they migrate their workloads to public clouds. When on-premises, they are solely responsible for everything (hardware, operating system, middleware, software, security, etc.), but once they migrate to the cloud, cloud service providers (CSPs) take over varying responsibilities depending on the service model (e.g., IaaS, PaaS or SaaS). Although CSPs, particularly the hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google, provide some cloud-native security controls, they might not be enough to meet your security and compliance needs. It isn’t always clear where their security responsibilities begin and end.
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