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Kubernetes Installation and Deployment: Key Capabilities Checklist

Enterprise production readiness with Kubernetes installation and deployment means that you have the ability to securely and repeatedly deploy, manage and maintain multiple clusters over long periods of intensive usage. What do you need to achieve this? Key Capabilities Required for Kubernetes Installation and Deployment As more enterprises plan to deploy Kubernetes on production, here

Platform9 · February 16, 2018 · 5 min read

Migration from AWS to Enterprise Data Centers: 5 Top Considerations

Migration From AWS to Data Centers from Public Clouds and Achieving Data Center Consolidation The convenience offered by public clouds e.g. AWS from both agility and flexibility perspectives has been a major driving factor for enterprise adoption. In a previous blog post “Enterprise Hybrid Cloud: Strategy and Cost Considerations,” the strategy and cost considerations that

Platform9 · February 5, 2018 · 4 min read

OpenStack Omni, the Open-Source Alternative to VMware and AWS for Hybrid Cloud

According to the 2017 State of the Cloud report, hybrid cloud usage has increased to 71%, up 13% from the previous year. As hybrid clouds become more of a common occurrence, they introduce complexities to cloud infrastructure management and can result in vendor lock-in, if not done right, and added costs. In a previous blog

Platform9 · January 30, 2018 · 5 min read

VMware on AWS – Lock-in Continues with the Hybrid Cloud

The past several years have seen fast growth in enterprise hybrid cloud adoption as more and more businesses seek a hypothetical sweet spot between purist extremes of 100% private cloud and 100% public. In the process, according to studies by Intel and others (including Platform9), the industry has refined our understanding of where that sweet

Platform9 · January 8, 2018 · 6 min read

Containers as a Service (CaaS) Solutions Offer Greater Agility, Portability and Simplicity Benefits Over PaaS For Hybrid Cloud Deployments

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions point in appealing conceptual directions. But are Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) solutions actually better for delivering the agile development workflow, simplicity and no-kinks workload portability that hybrid cloud deployments require? In real-world organizations with diverse needs, DevOps teams may need to wrangle platforms ranging from relatively simple and generic (e.g., LAMP servers, small

Platform9 · December 14, 2017 · 6 min read

Enterprise Hybrid Cloud: Strategy and Cost Considerations

A clearly defined cloud strategy is an imperative need during any enterprise’s transition to a cloud based IT environment. To minimize risks and make the right choice between private, public, and hybrid cloud options, it is important to devise an effective enterprise hybrid cloud strategy with the following considerations in mind: Security and Control Is

Platform9 · November 20, 2017 · 7 min read

Platform9 Showcase at OpenStack Down Under

For all those in magical Sydney for the OpenStack Summit, check out these talks from Platform9: Building a distributed benchmarking service for Openstack What: We containerized an OpenStack service, Rally, using Kubernetes! In contrast to the single-user CLI-based Rally, this benchmarking-as-a-service (BaaS) system can be used by multiple users to benchmark multiple OpenStack deployments. When:

Platform9 · November 3, 2017 · 1 min read

OpenStack Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Cloud users often face network connectivity issues by failing to handle complicated network configuration details for OpenStack. This increases workload for support staff: they cannot help these users identify configuration problems without performing lengthy checks. To ease the pain, we developed an OpenStack network monitoring and troubleshooting tool for OpenStack Neutron. In addition to network

Platform9 · September 7, 2017 · 5 min read

OpenStack Summit: Vote For Presentations

Platform9 has proposed a number of presentations for OpenStack Summit. Please cast your votes on those you want to hear at Sydney or on YouTube! Each of these presentations can be found using the these keyword(s) in its title. Customer Case Study: EBSCO on Remotely Managed OpenStack Using Remotely Managed OpenStack, EBSCO has been able

Platform9 · July 31, 2017 · 4 min read

Kubernetes vs Amazon ECS

In this updated blog post we’ll compare Kubernetes with Amazon ECS (EC2 Container Service). We’ll walk you through high-level discussions of Kubernetes and Amazon ECS, and then compare these two competing solutions. For completeness, we provide an overview of Kubernetes. If you have already read the previous posts which compare Kubernetes to Docker Swarm

Platform9 · July 20, 2017 · 12 min read

Platform9 Multi-node Highly Available Glance Services

With Platform9 Managed OpenStack, administrators can authorize multiple hosts within a region to act as OpenStack Glance image library servers. Adding multiple image libraries has the following benefits: Creates a highly available Glance image service deployment that balances load for data-heavy block storage volume (cinder) and virtual machine instance (nova) provisioning operations. Eliminates downtime when

Platform9 · July 19, 2017 · 6 min read

Kubernetes vs Mesos + Marathon

In this updated blog post we’ll compare Kubernetes with the Mesos + Marathon container orchestration solution. We’ll walk you through a high-level discussion of Kubernetes and Mesos with Marathon, look at their features, and cover their pros and cons. Overview of Kubernetes According to the Kubernetes website, “Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment,

Platform9 · July 11, 2017 · 12 min read

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