Even though DevOps shortens production cycles, the popping up of multi-clusters is making it cumbersome.

Through instant platform engineering, D2iQ Inc. offers a production-ready and multi-tenant management platform powered by Kubernetes that functions the same as DevOps under the guardrails of what the platform provides, according to Deepak Goel (pictured), chief technology officer of D2iQ.

“DevOps has been very good in achieving the agility and time-to-market, but what it missed led to the problems like clusters sprawl, cloud sprawl, where developers are spinning because their main focus is how to get their code running in production easily,” Goel said. “It created some of the challenges, which is what is simplified by having a platform or IT team, which has the experience and expertise to use something we call instant platform engineering.”

Goel spoke with industry analysts John Furrier and Rob Strechay at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how platform engineering is proving to be a game-changer in DevOps and the importance of Kubernetes. (* Disclosure below.)

Kubernetes has become ‘the de facto platform’

Kubernetes is powering many innovations across different industries. Furthermore, integration points are happening as enterprises move up the stack, according to Goel.

“I would say it’s an enabler to create a platform … that’s why its API based and it has been very successful,” he explained. “In fact, ChatGPT, which I’m pretty sure is a known name in every house, is being run on Kubernetes. So Kubernetes has become the de facto platform that is fueling innovation in every area today.”

With Kubernetes going mainstream, platform engineering is becoming more defined because it empowers developers with reusable, scalable, standard and consistent tools. As a result, platform engineering provides developers with an environment where they feel self-served and self-managed, according to Goel.

“What platform engineering has started doing is consolidating all those variety to a standard tooling, where developers can still achieve the agility that they hope to achieve with the cloud-native platform, but in a much more consistent and cost-effective manner,” he noted. “Platform engineering is an aware ITOps, which they now understand the platform through, for example, Kubernetes.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event:

(* Disclosure: This is an unsponsored editorial segment. However, theCUBE is a paid media partner for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. Neither Red Hat Inc. nor other sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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