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
Recently, we announced the beta release of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, a SaaS-managed offering for Kubernetes. The “managed” experience means Platform9 handles all the nitty gritty details of Kubernetes deployment, configuration, ongoing monitoring, troubleshooting and upgrades. This lets software developers focus on using the Kubernetes APIs to build cloud-native applications, and DevOps teams can focus on realizing
· July 26, 2016 · 1 min read
Peter Lopez, presently the Principal Architect at Technicolor and previously the Systems Architect at Disney, is one of the few people who’ve spent significant time deploying both Apache CloudStack and OpenStack. In this podcast, Peter and Sirish Raghuram, CEO of Platform9, compare CloudStack vs OpenStack. They contrast deployment models, networking and storage architectures, and how each
· July 21, 2016 · 1 min read
Fuel OpenStack Tutorial One of the great things about OpenStack is all the options you have for deploying it. A recent blog mentioned various deployment models – and the flowchart below may help as you decide which model is best for you. For example, if you need a highly customized OpenStack deployment, then DIY may
· July 12, 2016 · 5 min read