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NEW! Kubernetes Managed Apps: Prometheus, EFK Stack, MySQL, and More – Delivered as a Service, with 99.9% SLA

I’m excited to announce the new Kubernetes Managed Apps offering – an extension of our Managed Kubernetes solution – ushering the next phase of self-service for Kubernetes Platform Operations! Things are getting complicated… As we know, bare-bones Kubernetes by itself is not sufficient to enable a comprehensive cloud-native infrastructure that is enterprise-ready. DevOps teams

Platform9 · June 24, 2019 · 6 min read

Modernize: Five Pathways To Level Up Your Apps And Infrastructure

The cloud-native paradigm for application development and delivery lights a pathway for organizations to modernize their existing applications and underlying infrastructure — all to achieve benefits ranging from faster time to market, ease of maintenance, granular scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Is your business ready to modernize? Here are five considerations that will help you realize a

Platform9 · June 20, 2019 · 5 min read

Democratizing MySQL: From Cloud Managed to Kubernetes Managed

At the recent KubeCon Barcelona conference I had the pleasure to deliver a joint talk with our friends at PressLabs about MySQL on Kubernetes. Platform9, like many startups, used public cloud-based MySQL service as a backend to quickly get started. But as our customer base grew, the public cloud costs became significant. Our goal for

Platform9 · June 11, 2019 · 2 min read

Kubernetes Deployment: On-premises or in the Public Cloud

This is an excerpt from The Gorilla Guide to Kubernetes in the Enterprise, written by Joep Piscaer.Previous Chapters: Chapter 1: The Changing Development Landscape Chapter 2: Kubernetes Concepts and Architecture You can download the full guide here. Just as there are many parts that comprise Kubernetes, there are multiple ways to go about

Platform9 · June 3, 2019 · 6 min read

Kubernetes Concepts and Architecture

Overview In this articles you’ll learn about: Kubernetes: More than just container orchestration As stated before (but is worth stating again), Kubernetes is an open source platform for deploying and managing containers. It provides a container runtime, container orchestration, container-centric infrastructure orchestration, self-healing mechanisms, service discovery and load balancing. It’s used for the deployment, scaling,

Platform9 · May 28, 2019 · 14 min read

Enterprise Kubernetes Guide: The Changing Development Landscape

This is an excerpt from The Gorilla Guide to Kubernetes in the Enterprise, written by Joep Piscaer. You can download the full guide here. Software delivery has evolved The way we build and run applications has changed dramatically over the years. Traditionally, apps ran on top of physical machines. Those machines eventually became virtual. In both

Platform9 · May 24, 2019 · 20 min read

Tutorial: Dynamic Provisioning of Persistent Storage in Kubernetes with Minikube

In the previous article, we deep-dived into the constructs of Kubernetes storage, and what the different types of storage are good for. We discussed dynamic provisioning, StorageClasses, and CSI external storage. In this article, we set up a simple, private sandbox – using minikube – where we can observe and hack on the inner-workings of

Platform9 · May 22, 2019 · 18 min read

Kubernetes Storage: Dynamic Volumes and the Container Storage Interface

Storage in Kubernetes can really frustrate customers and newcomers to the blossoming cloud-native universe. In countless customer experiences – I can honestly say that majority of customer questions and issues around Kubernetes storage are often rather elementary, and roughly half of them are somehow related to persistent storage models. These basic questions could easily be

Platform9 · May 22, 2019 · 17 min read

OVH partners with Platform9 to offer Managed Kubernetes on OVH dedicated bare-metal servers

Today, at KubeCon +Cloud Native conference in Barcelona, European cloud provider OVH, announced the availability of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes to OVH bare-metal customers around the world. While the OVH Managed Kubernetes Service is mainly designed for teams that operate on OVH’s public cloud offering, the European cloud provider has also listened to its clients who

Platform9 · May 21, 2019 · 2 min read

How Platform9 Uses OpenStack Ironic to Manage Bare Metal as a Service

OpenStack Ironic allows users to manage bare metal infrastructure like they would virtual machines- essentially enabling bare metal as a service. The OpenStack Foundation recently announced that Ironic is powering millions of cores of compute all over the world, turning bare metal into automated infrastructure ready for today’s mix of virtualized and containerized workloads. Platform9

Platform9 · May 3, 2019 · 4 min read

Key Features to Consider When Evaluating an Enterprise Kubernetes Solution

This is an Excerpt from The Buyer’s Guide to Enterprise Kubernetes Solutions. You can download the full guide here. 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 architectures, and to modernize their applications

Platform9 · April 24, 2019 · 7 min read

The unforgiving cycle of cloud infrastructure costs (and the CAP theorem that drives them)

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 makes this a never-ending cycle is that these goals are often at odds with each other. The choices that organizations make usually inform what they’re

Platform9 · April 23, 2019 · 12 min read

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