Virtualization
Virtualizing server and desktop infrastructure improves utilisation, raises availability and simplifies management. That has been true for twenty years and still is.
The route to containers
Containers are where many estates stall, because the obvious answer is a second platform: its own operating model, its own monitoring, its own permissions.
Through vSphere Kubernetes Service, formerly vSphere with Tanzu, the container platform runs on the virtualization that is already there. If your team knows vSphere, the way in is much shorter than it looks.
How we start
Usually with a proof of concept. Container infrastructure is an area where the requirements only surface once something runs: storage classes, networking and permissions get decided by the first real use case, and then for every one after it.