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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

Kubernetes in Production: Operating etcd with etcdadm

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 common strategy for ensuring the availability of the Kubernetes control plane, including the Kubernetes API. A highly available Kubernetes control plane is critical in production,

Platform9 · April 18, 2019 · 2 min read

Introducing Klusterkit: An open source toolkit to simplify Kubernetes deployments and operations on on-prem, air-gapped environments

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 on their private data centers, that are often air-gapped environments (either for security reasons, or other considerations). These large organizations were looking to take advantage

Platform9 · April 16, 2019 · 3 min read

Kubernetes node administration and dependencies deployment: From zero to hero with nodeadm

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. But if you’ve used kubeadm on a freshly provisioned machine, you know there is a considerable set of tasks you have to complete prior to

Platform9 · April 16, 2019 · 3 min read

Bringing a SaaS-powered Unified Cloud to Australia and New Zealand with Intersect

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, university, government and research institutes accelerate their impact through innovative technologies and expert advice for over a decade. This partnership provides research organizations and large

Platform9 · March 25, 2019 · 2 min read

The Gorilla Guide to Serverless on Kubernetes – Chapter 2: Serverless’ Big Benefits

This is an excerpt from The Gorilla Guide to Serverless on Kubernetes, written by Joep Piscaer. See the first chapter here. You can download the full guide here. The biggest advantage of serverless computing is the clear separation between the developer and the operational aspects of putting code into production. This simplified model of “who does

Platform9 · February 12, 2019 · 4 min read

Platform9 at KubeCon 2018: Kubernetes that Just Works!

At last week’s KubeCon conference in Seattle, WA, we had VMblog visit us at the Platform9 booth to learn more about our SaaS-managed enterprise Kubernetes solution. Platform9 lets you leverage your existing infrastructure – either on public clouds, on-premises or at the edge. You simply plug-in all your environments to our Managed Kubernetes control plane, to

Platform9 · December 19, 2018 · 1 min read

Questions Every CIO Must Ask Before Embarking on a Cloud-Driven Digital Transformation

Last month, I had the honor of moderating a CIO panel at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management at Lake Forest, IL near Chicago. The lively discussion at the panel centered around Digital Transformation driven by Cloud, Big Data and AI — and the challenges faced by CIOs leading these transformations. First off, I

Platform9 · December 6, 2018 · 4 min read

Transitioning from managing VMs to orchestrating containers

This is a guest blog post written by Ron Illsley, distinguished analyst at Ovum. One of the biggest challenges faced by organizations as they look to adopt newer cloud native concepts, such as containers, micro-services, or serverless is marrying this new world with its existing portfolio and processes. The issue faced by many CIOs is

Platform9 · November 28, 2018 · 4 min read

8 Architectural Considerations to Keep in Mind About Microservices

Over the past several years, the use of microservices as a means of driving agile best practices and accelerating software delivery has become more and more commonplace. In an effort to avoid the pitfalls that come with monolithic applications, microservices aim to break your architecture into loosely-coupled components (or, services) that are easier to update independently,

Platform9 · November 26, 2018 · 7 min read

What is Serverless and What it Means for You – Part 1

Serverless Computing has emerged in the past year as a compelling architectural alternative for building and running modern applications and services. Serverless applications allow developers to focus on their code, instead of on the infrastructure configuration and management. This speeds up development and release cycles, as well as allows for better, more efficient, scaling. Serverless

Platform9 · November 19, 2018 · 8 min read

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