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
We are on the cusp of a new era of application development software: instead of bolting on operations as an after-thought to the software development process, Kubernetes promises to bring development and operations together by design. This new open source container cluster manager provides platform automation for deployment, scaling and management of application containers and
· October 18, 2016 · 1 min read
The Platform9 team was at VMworld 2016 recently, and the results from our survey on trends in enterprise cloud infrastructure are in. We gathered insights from speaking to over a thousand people, 300 of whom gave us quantitative feedback by participating in our survey. VMworld Audience To start, we asked about roles and responsibilities. Not
· September 27, 2016 · 3 min read
This post has been updated by Kubernetes vs Amazon ECS. — Developers looking to containerize their traditional virtualized applications into micro-services face a conundrum of choice today. The contenders are Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Mesos, Amazon ECS and few others. All touting same or similar benefits, all vying for the top spot of being the most powerful container orchestration
· September 23, 2016 · 5 min read
UPDATE: Note that GluserFS Cinder support was deprecated in OpenStack Newton & will not be supported on Platform9 as of 3.6 release. Traditional hardware-based storage has two issues: scalability and centralized storage. The storage arrays scale vertically so storage capacity cannot be increased on-demand, and once the array is filled, another array must be bought.
· September 20, 2016 · 10 min read
Amobee, an advertising company in Redwood City, CA, started working with Platform9 to streamline their infrastructure with virtualization. Since then, Amobee’s Systems Engineering team has seen major improvements in efficiency as well as the flexibility and agility of their on‐premises systems. In this interview, the Director of Amobee’s Systems Engineering team, Eric Lakich, talks about the
· September 14, 2016 · 7 min read
This post has been updated by Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm. — In a previous blog we discussed why you would need a container orchestration tool and followed that up with a blog comparing Kubernetes vs Mesos. Continuing the series, in this blog post we’ll give an overview of and compare Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm. Overview
· August 15, 2016 · 3 min read
This post has been updated by Kubernetes vs Mesos + Marathon. — In a previous blog we discussed why you may need a container orchestration tool. Continuing the series, in this blog post we’ll give an overview of and compare Kubernetes vs Mesos. Kubernetes vs Mesos Overview of Kubernetes According to the Kubernetes website – “Kubernetes is an
· August 11, 2016 · 4 min read
The Platform9 team is gearing up for the Barcelona OpenStack Summit, and we’re excited to participate! We’ve proposed a handful of talks and would appreciate your vote to include our talks on the conference agenda. Please see the session abstracts below and vote on the summit website See you in Barcelona! Voting closes on Monday, August
· August 5, 2016 · 10 min read
We recently announced the beta release of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration tool, originally designed by Google. The “managed” experience means Platform9 handles all the nitty gritty details of Kubernetes deployment, configuration, ongoing monitoring, troubleshooting and upgrades. What’s more, the container orchestration tools provide built in support for a number of pain-points
· August 3, 2016 · 4 min read
Platform9’s OpenStack-as-a-service offers a unique solution by hosting the OpenStack control plane in a SaaS layer, while the VMs and confidential data remain on infrastructure in the customer’s data center. Each Platform9 customer configures OpenStack services specific to their needs, but there are some common patterns in the OpenStack reference architectures. In this blog post we highlight three
· July 28, 2016 · 5 min read