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Containers and Kubernetes are two of the leading drivers of enterprise digital transformation. Software application containerization makes life easier for developers by further abstracting computing infrastructure, and adoption of enterprise container platforms is on the rise.

By 2025, more than 85 percent of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, which is a significant increase from fewer than 35 percent in 2019.1

At the same time, Kubernetes—open source software for deploying and managing those containers—is rapidly becoming the preferred way to build digital services at scale and across clouds.

BoxBoat delivers a full suite of services that include customized strategies for Kubernetes and Enterprise Container Platform adoption, application containerization, DevSecOps, training and enablement. BoxBoat guides enterprises on the right tooling, business strategy, workflows and processes to meet their DevOps goals.

Capabilities Build modern platform and practices and become a center of innovation DevOps consolidation

Modernize people and processes by leveraging modern “value stream delivery platforms” which help untangle the web of DevOps tooling.

Complex Kubernetes environments

Modernize platforms by building a platform + operating framework + enablement plan to extract the value at scale that containerized workloads promise.

Software supply chain security

Modernize security and eliminate the risk of building software with 3rd party parts by ensuring you’re starting with secure building blocks.

Internal developer portals

Modernize productivity and take the chaos out of microservices, devtools, CI, CD and scripts by presenting a unified, self-service abstraction layer for your teams.

BoxOps

Modern, managed plug-and-play platform. Your developers can keep creating new software, we’ll handle the infrastructure complexity.

Enablement

Uplevel your teams with Cloud Native Academy by combining a prescription of point in time training and ongoing skills development.

Digital platform strategy

We are problem solvers who guide the development of customized DevSecOps, Kubernetes, and Git strategies based on a maturity model, as well as the development of secure containerization workstreams architectures.

Migration services

We can help your organization migrate to an automated containerization workstream with a choice of tool chain, Kubernetes distribution, on prem, cloud, hybrid cloud or multicloud, and migrate workloads to EKS, AKS, and GKE.

Build services

We create and optimize CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code and offer configurations management.

BoxBoat helped us migrate our web microservice applications into Azure AKS. The combination of BoxBoat’s extensive Kubernetes experience with AKS and its integrations with Azure DevOps, Azure Active Directory, Azure Monitor, and Azure Insights provided us with a class-leading experience. Stone Lasley Software Development Director, Stampin’ Up
Meet our experts David Widen

David is a Distinguished Engineer in Hybrid Cloud Transformation, focused on DevSecOps platform standardization and containerization technologies, and joined IBM in 2021 through the acquisition of BoxBoat Technologies, where he led technical engagements at BNY Mellon, Mars, Melco Resorts, USAF and more.

Nick Miethe

Nick is an Associate Partner, Consulting Practice Lead, expert technologist and industry-wide thought leader on OpenShift, with speaking experience on the subject at events such as Red Hat Summit Connect and Kubecon. He also leads the complex solutions OpenShift Practice within IBM Consulting.

Josh Knarr

As a Principal Solutions Architect with 20+ years of experience in technology, Josh saw DevOps come into the industry and the evolution of automation, containerization and orchestration. He is also an Anthos Fellow and CNCF Contributor who enjoys using and learning new technologies to help make things easier.

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Footnotes

1 Gartner, Best Practices for Running Containers and Kubernetes in Production, Arun Chandrasekaran, 4 August 2020.