Key Features to Consider When Evaluating an Enterprise Kubernetes Solution
By Vamsi Chemitiganti
Digital transformation across industries is driving the need for IT to enable cloud-native applications. This has led enterprises to adopt Kubernetes as the most effective way to support cloud-native, container-based... Read More
The unforgiving cycle of cloud infrastructure costs (and the CAP theorem that drives them)
By Amrish Kapoor
Modern enterprises that need to ship software are constantly caught in a race for optimization – whether that is speed (time to ship/deploy), ease of use, or, inevitably, cost. What... Read More
The Hybrid Cloud Conundrum
By Sirish Raghuram
Recently I had the pleasure of being a guest on Deloitte’s Architecting the Cloud podcast, part of the On Cloud series. In a lively conversation with Deloitte’s Mike Kavis I discussed... Read More
Kubernetes in Production: Operating etcd with etcdadm
By Daniel Lipovetsky
etcd is a critical part of the Kubernetes stack. etcd stores the state of the Kubernetes cluster, including node and workload information. Having multiple etcd members (a cluster) is a... Read More
Introducing Klusterkit: An open source toolkit to simplify Kubernetes deployments and operations on on-prem, air-gapped environments
By Arun Sriraman
Today, we’re excited to announce that Platform9 is open-sourcing Klusterkit, a set of three open source tools, available under the Apache v2.0 license on GitHub. Our customers deploy their software... Read More
Kubernetes node administration and dependencies deployment: From zero to hero with nodeadm
By Daniel Lipovetsky
Over the past two years, deploying a conformant Kubernetes cluster has become even easier, thanks to the efforts of the Cluster Lifecycle Special Interest Group (SIG) and its kubeadm tool.... Read More
Kubernetes in the enterprise: Watch my interview at KubeCon Seattle
By Sirish Raghuram
At the recent KubeCon conference in Seattle, I had the pleasure of chatting with TFiR’s Swapnil Bhartiya about Kubernetes mainstream adoption, particularly with large enterprises. Watch the short video interview... Read More
Google Anthos Reaffirms “Managed Open-Source” as the Future of Hybrid Cloud
By Sirish Raghuram
Yesterday, Google announced the general availability of Anthos (formerly Cloud Services Platform) along with its pricing and support for multi-cloud environments in addition to on-premises infrastructure. Google Anthos is a... Read More
Bringing a SaaS-powered Unified Cloud to Australia and New Zealand with Intersect
By Platform9
Today we’ve announced a partnership with research accelerator Intersect to offer Platform9 hybrid cloud services throughout Australia and New Zealand. Intersect is Australia’s largest full-service eResearch support agency, helping scientific,... Read More