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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

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 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

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

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,

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

How to Build Hybrid Cloud Confidence

This blog post originally appeared on the AppDynamics blog   Software complexity has grown dramatically over the past decade, and enterprises are looking to hybrid cloud technologies to help power their applications and critical DevOps pipelines. But with so many moving pieces, how can you gain confidence in your hybrid cloud investment? The hybrid cloud

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How Kubernetes Transforms Your Business

Kubernetes has emerged as the defacto standard in enabling IT to build out digital architectures to deliver on their business goals, and it is now a “must have” for whatever your organization’s level of digital maturity is. In this article, Vamsi Chemitiganti talks about the five fundamental business capabilities that Kubernetes can drive in the

Best practices and anti-patterns for containerized deployments

Kubernetes is easily the most transformational cloud technology available today. It is the de facto standard for container orchestration, essentially functioning as an operating system for cloud-native applications. With its built-in high availability; granular, infinite scalability; portability; and rolling upgrades, Kubernetes provides many of the features that are critical for running cloud-native applications on a truly composable, interoperable infrastructure. Enterprises of all

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