Kubernetes has emerged as a transformative force, reshaping the way organizations develop, deploy, and manage applications. Adoption of containers and Kubernetes has ballooned in the past years, as heralded by everyone from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) itself, to the vendors offering their Kubernetes wares, to the research firms that track trends in enterprise technology adoption.

As companies continue to invest, adopt, and grow into cloud, as well as manage a strong public and hybrid cloud environment, it is very important to understand what are the common pain points of their sub-organizations.

Setting and tracking appropriate target metrics are an important part of a product manager’s job. Goals must be defined, not just as inspiring vision statements, but also as quantifiable targets that can be objectively measured. Metrics can be deployed in different contexts and for purposes; however, useful metrics in one scenario can be misleading in regards to another. The problem comes when you’re not clear about what kind of metric you’re trying to set.