Edge Computing, Machine Learning, Security and More Red Hat Container Trends 2022
15.12.2021Source: Press release
There is no standstill in the world of containerization, as the past years have already shown. Markus Eisele from Red Hat recently identified five container trends for 2022.
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They have long been a niche existence, but containers have now arrived in the IT mainstream. As Red Hat has shown in various studies over the year 2021, containers play a major role in the software strategy of many companies.
Nevertheless, there is still a lot of new things to discover and old things to improve in the field of container technology, the IT and open source specialist emphasizes. Markus Eisele, Developer Adoption Program Lead EMEA at Red Hat, identified five trends that users of container technology should keep an eye on in the coming year.
Here are the most important developments in the wording:
1. Edge Computing
More and more companies are relying on decentralized systems that process data at the edge of the network. For so-called edge computing, a far-reaching standard for the delivery of applications is unavoidable. Containers are worth their weight in gold in this context because of their ability to make applications usable in isolation and independently of the target system.
But containers alone do not solve all the challenges at the edge. Above all, the management of such highly distributed and highly complex solutions must be guaranteed. Orchestration tools such as Kubernetes will therefore become even more important in the coming year.
2. AI/ML
At the edge, two of the most important topics from this year, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), will also be important again next year. As they are increasingly appearing on the radar of companies in combination with containers, the number one challenge in 2022 will be to create a coherent toolbox that takes into account the needs of both analysts and software developers.
Trained AI / ML models that are used in software solutions also follow different development cycles than classic applications. Nevertheless, you need the full support of the underlying containers and development platforms. Bringing these two worlds together in one process and across the boundaries of different clouds will be one of the biggest challenges for many companies in the coming year.
3. Developer Productivity
If you think about productivity, automation driven by AI and ML naturally plays an important role for you. Unfortunately, this is not always easy to do, but the use of containers could be so simple: after all, they are basically nothing more than shielded process environments. But what sounds simple at first and certainly allows an easy entry, becomes much more complex in practice.
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Developers must keep an eye on the security of the process environment, determine the content as well as the distribution and orchestration of the containers, and also think about the easy integration of containerized applications. The development of distributed systems in particular has gained a lot of complexity in recent years. It is therefore not so easy for newcomers to be productive within a very short time. Only with the right tools can developers get started directly and reliably.
However, plug-ins for development environments only provide a basis, more is required for actual productivity: the availability of libraries for troubleshooting and monitoring and their deep integration into the container workflow environment are also necessary. So far, only holistic approaches such as Red Hat OpenShift with the developer console and the Quarkus framework in combination with OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka do justice to this. The goal in 2022 will be to bring lost productivity back to the forefront through industry standards.
4. Stateful workloads and storage solutions
Good productivity is often the result of a container initiative. For many companies, however, modernizing IT with containers and their orchestration is complicated and time-consuming. Modernization via a container platform does not automatically mean a need to switch to stateless, microservices-based architectures.
Companies are also increasingly running stateful workloads on container platforms: a trend that will continue to prevail in the coming year. Particularly important in this scenario is the seamless provision and monitoring of the associated storage partitions and their connection with the already available storage solutions or with flexible, cloud-based services.
5. Security
With modernizations, the use of containers at the edge and the spread throughout corporate IT, the potential for threats is increasing exponentially, because for a long time the IT industry considered container security only implicitly. However, the increasing containerization and availability of technology from a wide variety of sources are bringing the topic more and more to the fore. The further companies penetrate into the operation of containers and their management – and the more applications run on these systems – the more a holistic view of the topic of security becomes relevant.
This topic also covers all architectural levels and requires appropriate support from the respective specialists: starting with static code analysis, through the investigation of existing containers to patching and zero trust approaches across system boundaries. What has so far often only been solved selectively by individual providers is increasingly being integrated into development platforms and is bringing back the security that is necessary for the protection of valuable data to companies.
As these trends show, container technology will continue to play a very important role in 2022. The biggest developments will be in the field of edge computing and machine learning, but the increasingly important security aspect will also produce interesting innovations.
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