Catapult – Remote Monitoring Simplifying Kubernetes management requires more than installation and upgrades. To truly simplify the complexities that are inherent to Kubernetes a platform provider needs to reduce the burden across a variety of factors and increase the productivity of the operations teams tasked with operating the Kubernetes environment. For example; every request for
· June 14, 2022 · 4 min read
Cloud native scale, availability, resilience and velocity done easy using Kubernetes and microservices. If only it was as simple as that. Install Kubernetes, deploy your containers and like magic, you get all benefits of cloud native immediately. Unfortunately cloud native isn’t just about the tooling. Kubernetes enables cloud native, it doesn’t deliver cloud native. Not
· April 29, 2022 · 4 min read
In this blog, let’s explore the concept of a Spot Instance, understand its benefits, and delve into the significance of a SpotQuake. Spot Instances AWS makes no mistake in the type of workloads that should use EC2 Spot Instances; ‘Fault-Tolerant’. Spot Instances are instances available in a specific region during periods of low demand. To
· March 1, 2022 · 5 min read
EKS, Elastic Kubernetes Service by AWS is presently the most popular Kubernetes service available on public clouds, running thousands of clusters and applications for businesses globally. EKS is great if you’re looking to run in a single cloud and have no hybrid or multi-cloud kubernetes requirements or if you happen to be an existing AWS
· March 30, 2021 · 4 min read
Why Calico? We want to ensure we provide the best Kubernetes software-defined networking experience that is possible with an emphasis on supporting encryption, security policies, BGP, a fast data plane and can also be deployed consistently across private, edge, and public clouds. Last year we had a request from a customer to support Calico using
· January 29, 2021 · 5 min read
The vast majority of Kubernetes clusters are used to host containers that process incoming requests from microservices to full web applications. Having these incoming requests come into a central location, then get handed out via services in Kubernetes, is the most secure way to configure a cluster. That central incoming point is an ingress controller.
· December 22, 2020 · 6 min read
In our final release of 2020, we now support multiple versions of Kubernetes running across your clusters with support for 1.17 and 1.18, we have introduced One-Click Cluster Creation for AWS, Azure, and BareOS, added enhancements to our Managed Calico CNI, and more. Oh, and a whole new user experience, we rebuilt our web app
· December 18, 2020 · 8 min readThis tutorial is the first part of a two-part series where we will build a Multi-Master cluster on VMware using Platform9. Part 1 will take you through building a Multi-Master Kubernetes Cluster on VMware with MetalLB for an Application Load Balancer. Part 2 focuses on setting up persistent storage using Rook and deploying a secured
· November 10, 2020 · 7 min read