Author | Song Hui
produced by| CSDN (ID: CSDNnews)
Now, when companies talk about digital transformation and the topic of cloud use, they must talk about cloud native. Under the slogan that cloud native devours everything, after frequent and heated discussions about cloud native, its real value is emerging. That is, in public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud multiple architecture environments, cloud native technology can help enterprises Build and run elastically scalable applications. This will greatly expand the richness of enterprise application loads, allowing applications to play their extreme potential to respond to rapidly changing market demands.
Because of cloud nativeness, enterprise applications can extend from traditional data centers to public cloud, hybrid cloud, edge cloud, etc. Among them, in industries such as industry, finance, and medical care, emerging applications such as edge, big data, and AI have gradually become popular, and the workloads of these applications have also shown a diversified trend.
Cloud native technology is complex, new opportunities for cloud vendors
Under the trend, from Kubernetes container orchestration, service mesh to microservices, DevOps, cloud native has a variety of popular technologies, in each field There are many manufacturers and technical teams in deep research. Because of the open source mechanism, cloud native technology has also broken the boundaries of enterprises. In GitHub , many cloud native projects are contributed by developers from multiple enterprises. However, on top of cloud-native technology, for more traditional enterprises besides Internet companies, the complexity of cloud-native technology, the difficulty of new technology and the cost of learning are still very high. For example, regarding "what is cloud native", many versions of the definition may be heard.
In the "CSDN 2021 Annual Developer Survey", our research on the cloud native field shows that 47% of the respondents believe that the biggest difficulty of cloud native is the lack of skilled technical talent . For traditional industries, their own R&D capabilities are relatively weak. Even if the advantages of cloud native are revealed, it is difficult to apply the benefits of cloud native to their own enterprises in a short time according to local conditions and scale.
Based on such real pain points, while cloud service vendors are using cloud native for their own business development, they are also working with all parties in the cloud computing ecosystem to explore and integrate the best solutions for cloud native technologies, and use cloud native as a kind of Capabilities, provided to users of its services.
In the exploration of these technical solutions, although cloud native currently emphasizes application-level research and use, cloud native’s requirements for the underlying IT infrastructure have not been reduced. For applications to get the best user experience, they all need cloud native to provide stable, reliable and extreme performance at the infrastructure layer. At the same time, the advent of cloud native technology promotes the containerization of hybrid cloud . Based on container standardized packaging, the application operating environment is decoupled from the heterogeneous infrastructure of hybrid cloud , making it easier for enterprises to achieve agile development and continuous delivery.
Cloud vendors + chip giants work together to explore the ultimate performance of cloud native
Take Qingyun as an example among many cloud service vendors. Qingyun's cloud-native distributed operating system KubeSphere with Kubernetes as its core can be used as an example. Enterprise users build container hybrid clouds for cloud-native applications. KubeSphere is an application-centric multi-tenant container platform built on Kubernetes, and provides full-stack IT automated operation and maintenance, simplifying the DevOps workflow of enterprise users.
In addition to kubeSphere, Qingyun and Intel are also jointly launching Intel Select Solutions for Open Cloud based on the KubeSphere container platform. The selected open source cloud solution is a full-stack solution that takes OpenStack, Ceph and Kubernetes and other open source infrastructure software as its core components, based on Intel hardware products, and performs performance verification and optimization for virtualization, big data and artificial intelligence workloads. .
In detail, the Intel Select Open Source Cloud Solution 2.0 version integrates the container orchestration tool Kubernetes for overall verification, supports bare metal or virtual machines, and integrates the latest Intel cloud-native components to give full play to the performance of hardware in cloud-native scenarios , So that the cloud infrastructure has stronger elastic scalability to support the upper-level business. The most important highlight of the solution lies in the joint R&D strength of domestic first-line cloud service providers and chip giants, and 's hardware configuration recommendations for specific container cloud application load testing and verification and performance optimization . The hardware in the
solution covers the core technology nodes in the infrastructure, including the second-generation Intel Xeon processor, Optane persistent memory, Optane solid state disks, and Ethernet converged network adapters. You should know that in the past, enterprise-level hardware testing and verification and performance optimization were important items that consumed IT personnel. Now, enterprise users can quickly build agile container clouds that meet different load requirements based on selected open source cloud solutions. platform. Another highlight of the
solution is that version 2.0 adds support for the big data engine workload optimized for Intel and Optane persistent memory. Persistent memory is a more important point of tapping performance technology and application potential in domestic first-line Internet manufacturers. Therefore, the solution also provides for promoting open source cloud partners and end users to select software and hardware, performance tuning, and reducing total costs. An important reference basis.
Intel’s cloud native: the road to a full stack of software and hardware
The future development trend of data centers is heterogeneous computing, and hardware such as GPU/FPGA/ASIC will exert more innovative features. In the past, in the traditional virtualization era, applications can only be enjoyed when virtualization supports new hardware features. In the container era, the new features of hardware have been easily used by applications. Therefore, in the future heterogeneous infrastructure,More and more hardware will bring value to applications through cloud-native platforms.
Intel's global engineers have done a lot of work on the performance verification optimization on the hardware and the overall software and hardware solutions. Taking open source cloud solutions as an example, Intel’s optimization of high-performance and highly agile hardware for the Kubernetes open-source technology framework allows cloud-native software and hardware facilities to be more closely integrated to mine computing, storage, and network The optimal computing power in this respect, for users, the most direct benefit is to reduce the total cost of ownership of TCO.
The author saw a picture, Intel is working hard and contributing its own software and hardware technologies at all layers of the cloud native architecture.
Intel's contribution to the cloud-native full stack
In detail, for the cloud-native field, Intel has multiple technologies and solutions in computing, network, storage, and security layers. The detailed technology list is as follows:
image from Intel cloud native technical documents
Intel’s cloud gathering trend: open source, technology tuning, extreme performance
In addition to the technical solutions in the cloud native field, return to the big field of cloud computing Now, business-critical enterprise workloads such as VMware, SAP, Microsoft SQL Server , Salesforce, Oracle , and data analysis are all migrating to the cloud. Data shows that among the global mainstream cloud service providers, more than 83% of cloud instances are tuned by Intel technology. Among them are the latest technologies such as Optane persistent memory, FPGA, SmartNIC, and QAT.
Intel has 20 years of global open source experience and is active in more than 650 open source projects such as KVM, Kubernetes, and TensorFlow.Based on this, Intel technology can carry users' load requirements in various scenarios of private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud deployment.
Back to Intel’s old line of business, its pursuit of the performance of each generation of processors also allows users to maintain consistent performance in various environments such as cloud to edge . In addition, Intel is also updating the virtual machine density to achieve the same performance of , halving the core, and ultimately reducing the total cost .
In selected open source cloud solutions, Intel is a collection of top hardware products provided by cloud-based enterprise workloads , which meets the extreme requirements of top-level enterprise users for performance and stability.
In addition to the exploration of hardware and performance, mainstream hybrid cloud stacks, such as AWS Outposts, Azure Stack, Google Cloud's Anthos and VMware Cloud, are all optimized for Intel architecture, and ultimately, it is to provide users with easier management Operation and maintenance environment.
After ten years of development, the cloud has become the foundation of all digitization. The rise of cloud native also confirms the future progress of cloud computing, which is the stage of formally entering the efficient use of resources on the cloud. In addition to the harder and more basic chip and hardware provider in IT infrastructure, Intel has turned into a full-stack solution and technology provider that advances both software and hardware in the cloud-native era.
The cloud market has a vast space. This kind of technical cooperation between cloud vendors and Intel will also become the best integration point for cooperation between top-level technology vendors, jointly tap the ultimate potential of technology and cloud native performance, and jointly meet the cloud native era New challenges in a rapidly changing market.
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