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
· January 8, 2018 · 6 min read
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
· December 14, 2017 · 6 min read
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
· November 20, 2017 · 7 min read
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:
· November 3, 2017 · 1 min read
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
· September 7, 2017 · 5 min read
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
· July 31, 2017 · 4 min read
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
· July 20, 2017 · 12 min read
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
· July 19, 2017 · 6 min read
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,
· July 11, 2017 · 12 min read
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