Kubernetes Maturity Model | Introduction

Where do I start, who do I trust, and how do I prove value?

How cloud native and Kubernetes will help drive business and technical objectives, what it will cost and agree on goals across the organization.

• Understand the value of cloud native, containers, and Kubernetes
• Be able to articulate this value to business leaders
• Get buy-in from your team, leadership and entire organization

How do I set up Kubernetes infrastructure and shift workloads?

Kubernetes foundational knowledge and the ability to adopt and transform your existing mindset, workflows and practices to the platform.

• You will become well-versed in Kubernetes terminology and be able to map existing technologies to the cloud native context
• You will containerize your applications and shift workloads to Kubernetes
• You will clean up technical debt and avoid bringing it to Kubernetes
  

What process should I implement from CI/CD through production?

Kubernetes baseline understanding achieved. You are practicing skills by exercising fundamental development, deployment, admin and troubleshooting. You are:

• Building a solid foundation for your Kubernetes workloads
• Ready to deploy Kubernetes across your organization
• Implementing the build and deployment process via CI/CD, and introducing some limited monitoring and observability. 
• Empowering developers to self-service

Is this trial and error normal, did I make the right decisions?

Building your core competency to regularly deploy and ship features with success. You are building deeper understanding that leads to more customization, experimentation and wider organizational usage. You’ll:

• Build confidence through experience
• Establish core standards around Infrastructure as Code and configuration
• Select Kubernetes add-ons that work cohesively together without regret
• Start using monitoring tools to help you understand service challenges
  

How do I improve cluster security, efficiency and reliability?

Deploying Kubernetes across the business successfully.

• You are improving security, efficiency and reliability by spending time with cluster configuration. 
• Your team is able to focus on your business instead of maintaining Kubernetes.
• Your challenges are now complex requiring Kubernetes expertise beyond your in-house team.

What should I measure and how do I ensure control?

Sophisticated monitoring and alerting to provide a deeper functional understanding of your workloads. You will:

• Assert stronger opinions and stricter controls around allowed behaviors, security, configuration and standards
• Double down on infrastructure as code and CI/CD driven processes
• Explore network policy, workload identity and service mesh to lockdown workload ability

How do I enforce policies, improve reliability and maximize efficiency?

How cloud native and Kubernetes will help drive business and technical objectives, what it will cost and agree on goals across the organization.

• Understand the value of cloud native, containers, and Kubernetes
• Be able to articulate this value to business leaders
• Get buy-in from your team, leadership and entire organization

Kubernetes foundational knowledge and the ability to adopt and transform your existing mindset, workflows and practices to the platform.

• You will become well-versed in Kubernetes terminology and be able to map existing technologies to the cloud native context
• You will containerize your applications and shift workloads to Kubernetes
• You will clean up technical debt and avoid bringing it to Kubernetes
  

Kubernetes baseline understanding achieved. You are practicing skills by exercising fundamental development, deployment, admin and troubleshooting. You are:

• Building a solid foundation for your Kubernetes workloads
• Ready to deploy Kubernetes across your organization
• Implementing the build and deployment process via CI/CD, and introducing some limited monitoring and observability. 
• Empowering developers to self-service

Building your core competency to regularly deploy and ship features with success. You are building deeper understanding that leads to more customization, experimentation and wider organizational usage. You’ll:

• Build confidence through experience
• Establish core standards around Infrastructure as Code and configuration
• Select Kubernetes add-ons that work cohesively together without regret
• Start using monitoring tools to help you understand service challenges
  

Deploying Kubernetes across the business successfully.

• You are improving security, efficiency and reliability by spending time with cluster configuration. 
• Your team is able to focus on your business instead of maintaining Kubernetes.
• Your challenges are now complex requiring Kubernetes expertise beyond your in-house team.

Sophisticated monitoring and alerting to provide a deeper functional understanding of your workloads. You will:

• Assert stronger opinions and stricter controls around allowed behaviors, security, configuration and standards
• Double down on infrastructure as code and CI/CD driven processes
• Explore network policy, workload identity and service mesh to lockdown workload ability