In the decade-long history of public cloud, this is the first time that we are experiencing real portability of applications. For example, a large enterprise can federate an on-premises Kubernetes cluster with Google Kubernetes Engine running in the public cloud. Federated Kubernetes clusters can go a long way in delivering the promise of multi-cloud. The ability to connect multiple clusters running across different public clouds makes multi-cloud a reality. Apart from federated clusters, the other project that enables multi-cloud is Open Service Broker (OSB).

Source: Forbes April 29, 2018 10:52 UTC