4. Commercial and managed services will boom

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Seepersad believes that progress will be made in 2022 if companies become more willing to invest — with money, not just words — in training existing employees, new or future, in Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies (like Linux). He looks at this from the perspective of the Linux Foundation, which is a major player in the emerging Kubernetes certification market and one of the largest players in cloud-native certifications overall.

But the trend here isn’t really about certification. Rather, it’s a philosophical shift for employers who — let’s face it — talk nice things about the wonders of professional development but really expect their employees to do it in their spare time. “We pay you to do the work, not to learn” is their mindset. An executive who thinks like that is almost certainly not going to hire Kubernetes talent unless they have a blank check to wave around. Companies that make on-the-job training and experience part of their cloud hiring practices, Drobiszewski points out, will find a large pool of willing learners.

“This may mean hiring someone with little or no egypt mobile database and paying for their first month of training,” Sepersad says. “We argue that the financial and time investment is worth it, because the only way to get out of this talent crisis is to train more people.”

Commercial Kubernetes platforms built on the open source project have already become the foundation for enterprise adoption and use of Kubernetes. As more and more success stories from early adopters become known, other organizations naturally seek similar business outcomes, says Gracely. But then they run into a common problem: Not every company has the desire or ability to build the internal capabilities needed to launch its own platform.

“They are often unwilling to invest in the operational skills to manage and maintain Kubernetes,” says Gracely. “This is where we expect to see rapid growth in the use of managed Kubernetes cloud services like OpenShift Dedicated, Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA), and Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO).”