As the enterprise computing world grows more accepting and dependent on the cloud and its various underlying technologies, one major quality that stakeholders are increasingly clamoring for is speed.

Basically, faster application development and deployment times. Kubernetes has proven useful in filling this developer demand.

“Kubernetes has succeeded at the core mission, which is helping us stop worrying about all the problems that we spent endless amounts of time arguing about — questions like how do I deploy software, how do I roll it out?” said Clayton Coleman (pictured), lead architect, OpenShift and Kubernetes, at Red Hat Inc.

Coleman spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA. They discussed Kubernetes and how it’s driving the multicloud movement. (* Disclosure below.)

The next step for Kubernetes and Red Hat

As the biggest open-source software company in the world, Red Hat — and its OpenShift container orchestration platform, which is built on Kubernetes underpinnings — seeks to chart the lowest-cost path for developers to flow right into business value, according to Coleman.

Kubernetes has some complexities of its own, with an entire ecosystem of apps and intrinsic libraries. Therefore, in structuring the evolution of OpenShift, Red Hat has fine-tuned the entire product’s packaging to suit the use cases of organizations that are looking for containerization solutions.

“Going forward, I like to think about practical benefits; what is a practical benefit that a little bit of opinionation could bring to this ecosystem, and I think it’s around applications,” Coleman said. “It’s being application-centric, it’s figuring out a way for devs to get their code out to all the places they want it to be — and that’s everywhere. It’s not one cloud or on-premises or a data center; it’s the edge.”

Delivering solutions that incorporate these features at speed and scale is the thought process for the future of the Red Hat/Kubernetes partnership, according to Coleman.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA. (* Disclosure: Red Hat Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Red Hat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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