The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.


IN THE NEWS:
Increment - The Container Incubator
A look at the role of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in shaping containers’ ever-accelerating evolution.


RECOMMENDED READING:
The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox
Not only has cloud already impacted hundreds of billions of dollars of IT spend, it’s still in early innings and growing rapidly on a base of over $100B of annual public cloud spend. This shift is driven by an incredibly powerful value proposition — infrastructure available immediately, at exactly the scale needed by the business — driving efficiencies both in operations and economics.


CHECK IT OUT:
InfoWorld - You’re Thinking About Kubernetes All Wrong
Try using Kubernetes like an app server for smaller teams instead of treating it like a centralized cloud.


GOOD READ:
GCN - Why Now is the Right Time for an Open-source Serverless Strategy
Many agencies continue to rely on traditional static infrastructure provisioning models to support these increasingly dynamic applications. However, that approach may not make much sense in today’s cloud-based, data-intensive, event-driven world.


WATCH NOW:
In the Clouds - Business Value of GitOps
In this episode, Red Hat's Siamak Sadeghianfar and Weaveworks' Cornelia Davis join the show to talk about the business value of GitOps, modern application development in the cloud and how Kubernetes and GitOps mix.
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