OpsRamp, the service-centric AIOps platform for the modern enterprise, today announced its silver membership in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Today OpsRamp provides autodiscovery for Kubernetes and Docker hosts along with Kubernetes infrastructure monitoring for multi-cloud infrastructure (AKS, EKS, GKE) and on-prem environments. The CNCF partnership comes as the company is set to release new features for Kubernetes monitoring in a matter of weeks.

Kubernetes allows DevOps teams to deploy containerized applications faster and makes managing containers at scale significantly easier. Obtaining visibility into these containerized applications is key to maximizing application/service performance and proactively preventing downtime.

With the start of the new year, it is a good time to look at what changes have happened in our industry over the last 12 months. With the help of a few recent industry surveys and some of our own perspective, I’d like to summarize some of the key trends that we are seeing.