The use of Kubernetes is growing exponentially and is now established as the de facto standard in data centers and cloud platforms worldwide. After Google made the Kubernetes project open source in 2014, a large, rapidly growing ecosystem formed. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is the vendor-independent hub for cloud native computing. Kubernetes, Prometheus and more than 100 other projects are hosted there.

Materna is a member of the Linux Foundation, an organization that drives the development of open source software like Kubernetes.

The public administration cloud strategy

The German Administration Cloud Strategy (DVS) envisages the reciprocal and cross-location use of cloud services and software solutions in public administration. The administration cloud will be interoperable via open interfaces.

Specialist procedures in the cloud

Public authorities should start today to develop specialized procedures in accordance with the "cloud-native" administration cloud strategy. This is done on the basis of container technology, open interfaces and portability in compliance with BSI specifications. Applications must be able to run on at least two cloud platforms with vendor-independent components.

Kubernetes Ecosystem

Integrated DVS layers provide authorities with access to landing zones in the respective desired cloud platforms as a technical core and pivot point. These landing zones are based on a Kubernetes Ecosystem and DevOps and GitOps principles.

The Journey2Cloud^TMPublic

Materna has developed an architecture (Journey2Cloud^TM Public) using open source components, on which cloud landing zones can be individually built and adapted to different authorities. Our solution component Journey2Cloud Public is the technical implementation of the DVS layer and follows the CNCF or open source principles as well as the German Administration Cloud Strategy. For this we offer the following services::

• Execution of first proof of concepts
• Execution of implementation projects
• Consulting and analysis as well as enablement for cloud implementation
• Modernization and migration of applications
• Consulting and support in the organizational change process
• Education as well as training in cloud technologies
• Managed services for the operation of the DVS layer or Kubernetes platform

Selected cloud projects based on Kubernetes

Integration platform for traffic data

The integration platform of the Traffic Center Germany (an important building block of the new world E21X) was jointly developed and put into operation by Materna and TraffGo Road. . The system architecture of the integration platform is based on container technology, a Kubernetes platform and open source building blocks. Data providers constantly supply the platform with new information, applications subscribe to it and refine it. Information obtained in this way is offered to further buyers. The service-oriented architecture is standardized, easily scalable and expandable with new micro-services, which are also provided in containers. To date, more than 100 applications have been integrated on the platform and up to 100 million data records are processed daily.

The intranet packed into the container

A version upgrade of the CoreMedia content management system was due for a long-standing customer. Materna has been providing application operation for the CMS used in the customer's intranet for many years. The systems in the data center were to be modernized and converted to a container-based platform. The choice fell on Kubernetes with Rancher. Rancher is a software stack with integrated tools that manages container-based environments and their workloads. Overall, the combination of the new CMS version and new container-based infrastructure accelerates the development processes, allowing new developments and technical enhancements to the intranet sites to be published much faster. The new systems are more robust and have higher fault tolerance. They consolidate the consistency and security of the intranet presence: from Quality Assurance to the development and production environment.

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