Unlocking New Possibilities in Cloud Deployment with Arm at KubeCon NA 2024
As developers and platform engineers seek greater performance, efficiency, and scalability for their workloads, Arm-based cloud services provide a powerful and trusted solution. At KubeCon NA 2024, we had the pleasure of meeting many of these developers face-to-face to showcase Arm solutions as they migrate to Arm.
Today, all major hyperscalers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), offer Arm-based servers optimized for modern cloud-native applications. This shift offers a significant opportunity for organizations to improve price-performance ratios, deliver a lower total cost of ownership (TCO), and meet sustainability goals, while gaining access to a robust ecosystem of tools and support.
At KubeCon NA, it was amazing to hear from those in the Arm software ecosystem share their migration stories and the new possibilities they’ve unlocked.
Arm from cloud to edge at KubeCon
Building on Arm unlocks a wide range of options from cloud to edge. It enables developers to run their applications seamlessly in the cloud, while tapping into the entire Arm software and embedded ecosystem and respective workflows.
Arm-based servers are now integrated across leading cloud providers, making them a preferred choice for many organizations looking to enhance their infrastructure. At KubeCon NA 2024, attendees learned about the latest custom Arm compute offerings available from major cloud service providers including:
- AWS Graviton series for enhanced performance and energy efficiency;
- Microsoft Azure Arm-based VMs for scalable, cost-effective solutions;
- Google Cloud’s Tau T2A instances for price-performance optimization; and
- OCI Ampere A1 Compute for flexible and powerful cloud-native services.
Ampere showcased their Arm-based hardware in multiple form factors across different partner booths at the show to demonstrate how the Arm compute platform is enabling server workloads both in the cloud and on premises.
System76 ‘s Thelio Astra, an Arm64 developer desktop, featuring Ampere Altra processors, was also prominently displayed in booths across the KubeCon NA show floor. The workstation is streamlining developer workflows for Linux development and deployment across various markets, including automotive and IoT.
During the show, the Thelio Astra showcased its IoT capabilities by aggregating and processing audio sensor data from Arduino devices to assess booth traffic. This demonstrated cloud-connected IoT workloads in action.
Migrating to Arm has never been easier
Migrating workloads to Arm-based servers is more straightforward than ever. Today, 95% of graduated CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) projects are optimized for Arm, ensuring seamless, efficient, and high-performance execution.
Companies of all sizes visited the Arm booth at KubeCon NA to tell us about their migration journey and learn how to take advantage of the latest developer technologies. They included leading financial institutions, global telecommunications providers and large retail brands.
For developers ready to add multi-architecture support to their deployments, we demonstrated a new tool – kubearchinspect – that can be deployed on a Kubernetes cluster and scan for container images to check for Arm compatibility. Check out our GitHub repo to get started and how to validate Arm support for your container images.
Hundreds of independent software vendors (ISVs) are enabling their applications and services on Arm, with developers easily monitoring application performance and managing their workloads via the Arm Software Dashboard.
For developers, the integration of GitHub Actions, GitHub Runners, and the soon to be available Arm extension for GitHub Copilot, means a seamless cloud-native CI/CD workflow is now fully supported on Arm. Graduated projects can scale using cost-effective Arm runners, while incubating projects benefit from lower pricing and improved support from open-source Arm runners.
Extensive Arm ecosystem and Kubernetes support
As Kubernetes continues to grow, with 5.6 million developers worldwide, expanding the contributor base is essential to sustaining the cloud-native community and supporting its adoption in technology stacks. Whether developers are using AWS EKS, Azure AKS, or OCI’s Kubernetes service, Arm is integrated to provide native support. This enables the smooth deployment and management of containerized applications.
Scaling AI workloads and optimizing complex inference pipelines can be challenging across different architectures. Developers can deploy their AI models across distributed infrastructure, seamlessly integrating with the latest AI frameworks to enhance processing efficiency.
Through a demonstration at the Arm booth, Pranay Bhakre, a Principal Solutions Engineer at Arm, showcased AI over Kubernetes. This brought together Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana open-source projects into a power-efficient real-time, scalable, sentiment analysis application. More information about how to enable real-time sentiment analysis on Arm Neoverse-based Kubernetes clusters can be found in this Arm Community blog.
Pranay also showcased the ability to run AKS on the very latest Arm Neoverse-powered Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 processors. To jumpstart running Kubernetes via AKS on Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100, check out this learning path and the corresponding GitHub repo.
Additionally, at Kubecon 2024, we launched a pilot expansion of our “Works on Arm” program into the CNCF community. This offers comprehensive resources to help scale and optimize cloud-native projects on the Arm architecture. Developers can click here to take a short survey and request to be included in this new initiative.
Switch to Arm for smarter deployment and scalable performance
As demonstrated at KubeCon 2024, Arm is transforming cloud-native deployment and accelerating the developer migration to Arm.
In fact, now is the perfect time to harness Arm-based cloud services for better performance, lower costs, and scalable flexibility. Developers can start building or migrating today to deploy smarter, optimized cloud-native applications on Arm, for Arm.
Developers are welcome to join us at KubeCon Europe in April 2025 to learn more about our latest advancements in platform engineering and cloud-native technologies.
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