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We’re open-sourcing etcdadm! Here’s what it means for Kubernetes in production

Today, we’re excited to announce that Platform9 is open-sourcing etcdadm, available under the Apache v2.0 license on GitHub. We’ve been working on this project for a while, and we’re stoked to now share it with the open source community at large to streamline the setup and ongoing operations of production etcd clusters. Inspired by kubeadm, etcdadm provides Kubernetes users

Platform9 · October 2, 2018 · 3 min read

Top 3 Considerations for Building A Cloud Native Foundation in Your Enterprise

If you haven’t already done so, the thought of your enterprise using cloud computing must have crossed your mind, right? The key business imperative driving moves to new data center architectures are their ability to natively support digital applications. Digital applications are “Cloud Native” (CN) in the sense that these interactive applications are originally written

Platform9 · September 17, 2018 · 8 min read

Kubernetes Logging and Monitoring: The Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana (EFK) Stack – Part 2: Elasticsearch Configuration

This is a 3-part series on Kubernetes monitoring and logging: Requirements and recommended toolset EFK Stack – Part 1: Fluentd Architecture and Configuration EFK Stack – Part 2: Elasticsearch Configuration (this article) In the previous posts in this series, we’ve reviewed the architecture and requirements for a logging and monitoring system for Kubernetes, as well

Platform9 · September 12, 2018 · 5 min read

Kubernetes Logging and Monitoring: The Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana (EFK) Stack – Part 1: Fluentd Architecture and Configuration

This is a 3-part series on Kubernetes monitoring and logging: Requirements and recommended toolset EFK Stack – Part 1: Fluentd Architecture and Configuration (this article) EFK Stack – Part 2: Elasticsearch Configuration In the previous article, we discussed the proven components and architecture of a logging and monitoring stack for Kubernetes, comprised of Fluentd, Elasticsearch,

Platform9 · September 12, 2018 · 4 min read

Logging & Monitoring of Kubernetes Applications: Requirements & Recommended Toolset

This is a 3-part series on Kubernetes monitoring and logging: Requirements and recommended toolset (this article) EFK Stack – Part 1: Fluentd Architecture and Configuration EFK Stack – Part 2: Elasticsearch Configuration You have a K8s cluster. Now what? For a production-grade Kubernetes cluster, monitoring, alerting and log aggregation are essential. In this article, we

Platform9 · August 24, 2018 · 5 min read

Cloud Management: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 3: Getting CMPs Right!

See Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. Cloud Management is one of the key areas that CTOs and CIOs need to make investments in in the coming years. In the previous 2 posts in this series, we discussed the challenges with existing cloud management platforms and the 5 key capabilities of CMPs.

Platform9 · July 31, 2018 · 7 min read

Cloud Management: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 2: 5 Key Capabilities for CMPs

See part 1 of this series here. The Ovum Decision Matrix Research Report discusses the impact of two major shifts in cloud adoption: The growing impact of Shadow IT in enterprises. The need to migrate workloads to the cloud. We also see a clear third shift: the need to develop Cloud Native applications for

Platform9 · July 26, 2018 · 3 min read

Migrating Off AWS: How to Move Production from AWS to Enterprise Data Centers Running OpenStack and Kubernetes

Running resource-intensive workloads with high-volume traffic can be very expensive, especially while using managed services like RDS. Public Clouds abstract management of networking and high availability from end-users but incompatible and expensive resource types drive the need for some organizations to migrate off of the public clouds. On the other hand, privately managed IT environments

Platform9 · July 25, 2018 · 2 min read

Cloud Management: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 1

At Platform9, we work daily with some of the leading enterprises, across a wide range of industries – from Financial Services, Internet, Retail, Embedded, and more. A key question we get asked often is how enterprises can transition to becoming Cloud Native (CN) or Digitally Native (DN) businesses. The journey to becoming a truly software-driven,

Platform9 · July 23, 2018 · 6 min read

What We Can Learn from GE and Why Digital Transformations Fail

The high profile implosion of General Electric’s (GE) ambitious digital strategy has caught the attention of many practitioners and IT leaders over the last few months. GE is an iconic business conglomerate with major operations in Aerospace, Transportation and Power, along with a major financing arm. GE has embarked on a massive digital transformation strategy

Platform9 · July 19, 2018 · 9 min read

4 Key Takeaways from HPE Discover 2018

I had the pleasure of speaking at the recent HPE Discover conference, that took place last week in Las Vegas, and saw thousands of attendees – ranging from Fortune 500 companies to Cloud Service Providers to Partners. First off, it was fascinating to see HPE, one of ‘original’ tech companies, turn on a dime to

Platform9 · June 25, 2018 · 6 min read

Why Our Users Dig the SaaS-Managed Model for Hybrid Cloud So Much

In today’s market customers take Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for granted. It used to be that a customer would have to go to a software vendor and either buy bundled software that they would then bring back to their data center to install, or purchase it from a third-party implementor and have them install it for them.

Platform9 · June 7, 2018 · 5 min read

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