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In 2013, the birth of the container engine Docker marked the maturity of container technology, and has since set off a wave of cloud native.
In 2019, Gartner released a report saying that the cloud-native era has arrived, and predicted that in 2020, all container management software will have built-in service fusion technology. In three years, 75% of global enterprises will use containerized applications in production. , And 50% of application software will be containerized to use a hyper-converged environment.
Today, with the continuous development of this fusion and hyper-convergence environment, the popularity of cloud native is getting higher and higher. The origin of all this comes from the birth of container technology. With the development of containers, DevOps and microservices have also been developed simultaneously, which ultimately constitutes the current cloud native ecosystem.
should trace the beginning of domestic cloud native, and also start with the development of containers.
In 2014, it was an important node in the development of domestic containers. A group of engineers with technical backgrounds in companies such as IBM, Google, and Microsoft joined the entrepreneurial wave, and domestic container start-up technology companies began to appear. With the growth of these container manufacturers, the domestic container industry has also developed. Thanks to the commercial practice and accumulation of container cloud technology, Cloud Native has begun to spread its branches in China. The technical architecture of
has always been known for its rapid evolution. With the passage of time, the container market has also begun to rush. In addition to major manufacturers, the team of container manufacturers that are still active on the stage have gradually left a few old faces. In the past few years, some of the acquirers, those who accept capital from large companies and giants, and those who insist on independent development, each manufacturer has gone out of their own distinctive development paths. An exclusive interview with Chinasoft.com has just completed the C1 round. Shisuyun, the financing company, explores the status quo of domestic cloud native development from the perspective of Shisuyun.
Shisu Cloud, a new cloud native force
Previously, Shisu Cloud announced that the company had completed the C1 round of financing led by the Huatai New Industry Investment Fund, and released a new cloud-native application and data platform product system. The new product cloud-native data platform KubeData is a one-stop visual data construction and data development platform built by Shisu Cloud based on cloud-native technology. It is committed to solving the problems of data islands, data maintenance difficulties, and low data value utilization faced by medium and large enterprises.
Hourly Cloud is a well-known cloud native application and data platform service provider in China. It was established in Beijing in 2014 by former IBM senior engineer Huang Qigong. After 5 rounds of financing and being selected by CNCF and Linux Foundation, it has grown into the backbone of the domestic container cloud industry. In addition to the aforementioned KubeData, Shisu Cloud also owns the TenxCloud Cloud Native Application Platform (TCAP), covering core products such as container cloud PaaS, DevOps, microservices, ServiceMesh, and API gateways.
Currently, Shisuyun's products have won a large number of head customers in the domestic container cloud market. State Grid, China Mobile, China Taiping, CNOOC, FAW Group, and China Southern Airlines are all its case customers.
To understand the products and business of Speed Cloud, we have to start with the development of cloud native and container.
Cloud native, is about to usher in an explosion
It is not easy to explain cloud native in a popular way, but Li Dazhi, the solution leader of Shisu Cloud, has his own interpretation: "Cloud native is a set of cloud-based enterprise application systems The technical method system of the company is an agile way to quickly respond to business needs and support microservice applications.” When talking about cloud native, it is inevitable to demonstrate the relationship between containers, microservices and DevOps, but these three are actually complementary and mutually successful.
Hourly Cloud Cloud native data platform KubeData product architecture diagram
In 2010, microservices based on SOA architecture began to become popular. But at that time, the developers found that when the service application was continuously broken up, the original infrastructure was no longer sufficient. Complicated management, operation and maintenance, and a large amount of resource consumption among microservices began to emerge. It was not until the promotion and application of container technology that microservices could truly move from theory to practice.
With the further development of technology, such voices have appeared in the industry. If you can use microservices, DevOps and other architectures and concepts, and the better integration and collaboration of the services, capabilities, and platforms they provide can enable the cloud and cloud services and platforms to work together in a more efficient manner, and ultimately achieve cost reduction and efficiency increase. The concept of
cloud native was born and is regarded as an important development direction of cloud computing.
As application services become larger and larger, the concept of service application itself becomes difficult to define. When container technology and DevOps concepts are mentioned again, microservices begin to truly implement and expand applications. Since then, container technology, DevOps and microservices have started to promote each other, and cloud native has ushered in great development. Whether it is a major research and consulting company or a major manufacturer, they are releasing signals that cloud native is about to usher in an explosion.
A case to understand the value of cloud native
In order to fully understand how cloud native technology can achieve cost reduction and efficiency increase, a reporter from China Software Network specifically asked Li Dazhi about the case of a major domestic financial industry customer (hereinafter referred to as A ):
What are the pain points of software development in the financial industry?
1|Network environment, system software, etc. are more complicated;
2|The degree of resource integration of financial institutions is high, which increases the technical complexity and operation and maintenance risks of information systems;
3|After the data is centralized, the operation scale is huge, the management level is many, and the technical application is complicated;
4|There are many enterprise departments, the project integration is difficult, and the communication cost is high;
5|The system data security level is high, and the authority management is complicated;
6|The development and management process of micro-applications is relatively traditional and inefficient. The case of
A customer case is more special. Customer A’s business has a strong peak characteristic, and at a specific point in time, the business has shown explosive growth. In this kind of business situation, resources are required to have very strong elastic support. By introducing the Hourly Cloud cloud native platform, the rapid expansion of resources to support business applications and rapid application delivery during peak periods have been achieved.
In this process, cloud native has achieved remarkable results. According to data from Shisuyun, the resource utilization efficiency has increased to more than 60% on average after the cloud-native system was launched compared with the original, while it was only about 40% before. While greatly reducing procurement costs, the speed of system development has greatly reduced the product iteration cycle from the original one month or so to three or five days, or even one or two days.
Cloud native, responsive infrastructure, supports automatic expansion and contraction based on traffic, speeds up and faster development of various applications and systems without affecting service quality, freeing customers from various infrastructure management tasks, Focus on business applications.
The application development of cloud native in China
According to Gartner's technology maturity curve, cloud native is currently in a period of rapid growth, which presents opportunities and challenges for start-up companies on the cloud native track. With the emergence of a new technology,
will surely usher in a period of rapid ascent, then it will reach its peak and begin to fall rapidly, and eventually it will develop steadily.
Gartner technology maturity curve
So what is the application situation of domestic cloud native technology?
According to Li Dazhi’s introduction to a reporter from Chinasoft.com, the current cloud-native head market is the Internet industry, due to its high degree of IT and its ability to accept new technologies and strong anti-risk capabilities; followed by energy, finance, and transportation. Other industries have high demand for data and applications and strong pressure-bearing capacity; followed by a small number of traditional industries such as manufacturing.
At the same time, with the gradual migration of enterprises to the cloud and the maturity of cloud-native technology, while continuing to deepen energy, financial and transportation and other fields, cloud-native will also try to penetrate into the manufacturing industry and other IT-based demand surges but low Of course, in the deepening of digitalization, the business potential that may be shown in traditional fields such as agriculture is not a market. The demand market of
cloud native is gradually emerging as the demand for digital development of enterprises increases. The KubeData platform, a new product of
mentioned in the previous article, is a demand that has gradually emerged in the process of establishing a data-centric IT architecture and cloud-native technology development. In the product delivery process of Shisuyun in the past few years, there are often very urgent data management and business enablement requirements in user businesses. The emergence of the KubeData platform is to provide services for customers' data management and storage.
In the cloud era, new ones are produced every dayDemands, and the best solutions for these new demands are often based on cloud native. Cloud native is now in the critical stage of integrating with business to commercial landing. More and more new technologies and new services generated by cloud native systems have begun to be put into commercial use.
Under such circumstances, both domestic large-scale and cutting-edge manufacturers are particularly active. This leads to an old question that takes turns in the technology circle: how to avoid confrontation with large and powerful companies?
Li Dazhi believes that the key lies in two points:
1｜The value of technological innovation lies in the ability to solve practical problems, and customer experience is very important. Then, surrounded by large factories, we must rely on customer needs, seize vertical market opportunities, and work with customers to advance technology.
2｜Fight the ecological combination boxing to form a complete empowerment chain. Based on the complexity of the project's implementation environment and business logic, and the understanding of the digital transformation needs of enterprises, ecological partners are often higher than the manufacturers themselves, so every enterprise must embrace the ecology. Combining the actual needs of customers,
is thorough in one point, forming barriers to commercial accumulation and technological accumulation, laying the hard power for its own development, and then seeking breakthroughs. It is the independent development of small and medium independent manufacturers. The only way.
A big problem facing domestic manufacturers
In August of this year, the well-known open source container engine Docker attracted attention because it officially announced that the latest terms of service will take effect from August 13th. Its latest terms of service state that the commercial version of Docker's services will be prohibited from use by entities or institutions on the US "Entity List". Once the news of
was released, it attracted widespread attention. Li Dazhi said that at present, the international situation is unpredictable, and technological autonomy will be the focus of the future development of Chinese technology companies under major changes unseen in a century. Facing this problem, the industry needs to unite, discuss together, face it together, and establish a unified standard. This requires the joint efforts of industry colleagues. As one of the first batch of container cloud manufacturers in China, Shisuyun will continue to increase investment in research and development of new technology solutions to cope with future competition.
Although the disabling storm does not involve open source versions, the warning significance of the Docker disabling event is still self-evident. Topics such as domestic substitution and technological autonomy should no longer be just shouting.
At present, there has not yet been a watershed in cloud native technology in China. For cloud native to achieve long-term development, domestic manufacturers still have a long "long march" to go.
