Gartner just published a research note titled “Estimating a Large-Scale VMware Migrations” that details the burdens expected for large-sized companies moving off of VMware. The Register’s Simon Sharwood wrote an article on this research note. He highlighted the concerns tens of thousands of VMware customers are facing that large-scale migrations are daunting, often taking
· January 30, 2025 · 3 min read
We are launching Arlon – a Kubernetes native tool for complete end-to-end cluster configuration and lifecycle management, security policy and application, using a declarative approach. In this post, I will discuss why declarative management of infrastructure is important for your Kubernetes clusters, challenges around Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management and how the Cluster API (CAPI) project
· September 20, 2022 · 5 min read
Last week I had the honor of speaking at GeekWire’s Cloud Tech Summit in Bellevue, WA. The event was a huge success, featuring a full day of talks, interviews, and presentations that painted a clearer picture of this fast-changing world. The programming had a great selection of talks around the issues that are relevant and
· July 3, 2018 · 2 min read
What is Calico? Project Calico is designed to simplify, scale, and secure cloud networks. The open source framework enables Kubernetes networking and network policy for clusters across the cloud. It was originally designed for today’s modern cloud-native world and runs on both public and private clouds. Within the Kubernetes ecosystem, Calico is starting to emerge
· April 17, 2018 · 3 min read
Platform9 Managed Kubernetes: An Overview Enterprise infrastructure environments can benefit from Platform9’s Managed Kubernetes services that enable onboarding in minutes (typically 30 minutes), provide ongoing operational monitoring with committed 24/7/365 SLAs, troubleshooting and orchestration of Kubernetes upgrades. Platform9’s infrastructure-agnostic Managed Kubernetes service works across all public clouds and on-premise infrastructure environments: bare metal, enterprise Linux,
· January 23, 2018 · 3 min read
Kubernetes simplifies container management, including the deployment, discoverability, scale, high availability, and serviceability of containerized applications. We’ve learned from customer conversations and our own experience, that although Kubernetes is powerful and offers the right building blocks, enterprises often struggle with the deployment of Kubernetes at scale. Challenges hindering Kubernetes adoption in the production environment include:
· January 10, 2018 · 4 min read
Gartner has predicted that by 2020, a corporate “no public-cloud” policy will be as rare (or as ridiculous) as a corporate “no-internet” policy would be today. Hybrid cloud will be the most common implementation among enterprises. Multi-cloud has become the new standard and a lot of organizations see it as a necessary evil. Organizations cannot
· October 26, 2016 · 3 min read
In any enterprise-grade cloud offering, Virtual Machine High Availability (HA) is a must have feature for ensuring application availability despite infrastructure failures. Architecting cloud with consideration to HA helps protect cloud native as well as traditional applications against failures. Until now, HA features were available only on virtual infrastructures like VMware, Hyper-V, etc. With Platform9
· August 24, 2016 · 4 min read
There are two reasons we’ve always been excited about Docker, containers and Kubernetes. Enabling a True Multi-Cloud Deployment For the past decade, it has been difficult to make application development (using virtualized infrastructure) truly multi-cloud, since virtual machines and guest OSes are inherently not portable. For example, it’s very easy to create and deploy virtual machines on
· June 20, 2016 · 3 min read
If you missed Udy Gold’s presentation on the benefits of public vs. private cloud at the OpenStack Summit, here it is! If you don’t have 37 minutes to watch the entire video, here’s a quick recap of what he had to say about his “cloud-hopping” journey. Udy Gold is vice president of Data Center and
· May 11, 2016 · 7 min read
Picture this (rather familiar) scenario. It’s that dreaded time of the year again – your OpenStack upgrade (or perhaps VMware vCloud upgrade) is long overdue. You know that the latest security updates and patches must be applied else your environment will be at a high security risk. After several months of procrastinating-the-unpleasant (some call it
· April 1, 2015 · 3 min read
A few weeks ago, my co-founder Bich ran a fantastic post on How We Run Platform9 on Platform9. Since then, we’ve been asked many times for our recipe on using Continuous Integration (CI/CD) with OpenStack. This post describes such a recipe for Platform9 customers or other OpenStack users, for use with Jenkins or Teamcity based continuous integration. Building a Software-as-a-Service
· March 16, 2015 · 5 min read
