Platform9 is proud to be a sponsor at Nutanix .NEXT in DC. We’ll be exhibiting at the show and demonstrating how our Platform9 Managed OpenStack can be leveraged with Nutanix’s hyperconverged hardware and Acropolis or VMware vSphere. With Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud Platform and Platform9 Managed OpenStack, you can deploy, expand and upgrade seamlessly. This combination
· June 26, 2017 · 1 min read
In this updated blog post we’ll compare Kubernetes (versions 1.5.0 and later) with Docker Swarm, also referred to as Docker Engine running in Swarm mode (versions 1.12.0 and later). Overview of Kubernetes According to the Kubernetes website, “Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.” Kubernetes was built by
· June 22, 2017 · 11 min read
Bich Le, our Co-founder and Chief Architect continued his series of webinars on containers and Kubernetes on June 14. This time, he talked about using these technologies across on-premises and public cloud environments in a true hybrid cloud fashion. Containers have taken a large amount of developer mindshare and for good reason: they allow devs
· June 9, 2017 · 3 min read
If you’re like many DevOps and IT teams, you want to reap the benefits of containers and container management. Getting started can be painful due to choosing amongst and implementing the numerous deployment models and installers, each with its pros and cons. Let us consider five of these briefly: 1. Deploy Kuberenetes with Minikube for
· May 25, 2017 · 3 min read
OpenStack Summit, Boston is around the corner and Platform9’s remotely managed SaaS OpenStack and Kubernetes offerings will be showcased by various members of the Platform9 team: our founders, customer success managers, and developers will all be involved. As an Open source-as-a-Service company, we’re excited to share our cutting-edge updates at the open source community’s premier
· May 4, 2017 · 2 min read
This post was authored by Chris Brown, Solutions Marketing at Nutanix OpenStack is a powerful tool for managing private clouds, but that power has historically come with a price: complexity. Today we’re very excited to announce a new way to remove that complexity with Platform9’s Managed OpenStack product, for deployment, upgrade, monitoring and support for
· March 23, 2017 · 4 min read
In any enterprise-grade cloud offering, Virtual Machine High Availability (HA) is a must have feature. Until now, HA features were available only on virtual infrastructures like VMware, Hyper-V, etc. With Platform9 managed OpenStack, customers can now use the same capability in their KVM environment as well. To try out this new capability, please contact our
· February 24, 2017 · 3 min read
In Platform9’s 2.5 release (February 2017), we’ve made some major changes to the way we’re deploying keystone, and we’re on our way to making keystone more scalable and highly available. This post will describe these changes and outline our plans going forward. Please be sure to leave a comment with any questions or suggestions. For
· February 14, 2017 · 7 min read
Last June, my co-founder Madhura Maskasky announced the beginning of our journey towards delivering an enterprise-class Container management product: Platform9 Managed Kubernetes. We started a private beta program involving existing and new customers. Our engineering team dove deep into the guts of all things Kubernetes, the good and the bad. We learned the hard way
· January 24, 2017 · 8 min read
Of late, there have been various Open source projects to manage networking for containers. Docker implemented “libnetwork“. I’ve written in the past about using Calico with Docker containers. Debugging and low level tweaks to performance isn’t easy without an in-depth understanding of how the network stack works for a container. This post tries to explain network
· January 10, 2017 · 5 min read
Kubernetes clusters enable a higher level of abstraction to deploy and manage a group of containers that comprise the micro-services in a cloud-native application. A Kubernetes cluster provides a single Kubernetes API entry point, a cluster-wide resource naming scheme, a placement engine and scheduler for pods, a service network routing domain and an authentication and
· December 6, 2016 · 7 min read
At Platform9, we have witnessed first-hand how the rapid growth of public cloud usage among developers has led enterprises to embrace the promise of development agility by setting up their own private cloud infrastructure. This, in turn, has fostered a growing need for the ability to work seamlessly across both public and private clouds, without
· October 27, 2016 · 4 min read