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Category: OpenStack

How Three Enterprises Implemented OpenStack and Kubernetes

By Platform9

For the past several years, businesses have been inundated with buzzword-laden rhetoric urging them to embrace “digital transformation,” adopt “agile,” “cloud-native” infrastructures and so on. It’s one thing to talk… Read More

How Platform9 Uses OpenStack Ironic to Manage Bare Metal as a Service

By Platform9

OpenStack Ironic allows users to manage bare metal infrastructure like they would virtual machines- essentially enabling bare metal as a service. The OpenStack Foundation recently announced that Ironic is powering… Read More

Migrating Off AWS: How to Move Production from AWS to Enterprise Data Centers Running OpenStack and Kubernetes

By Platform9

Running resource-intensive workloads with high-volume traffic can be very expensive, especially while using managed services like RDS. Public Clouds abstract management of networking and high availability from end-users but incompatible… Read More

6 Key Insights from OpenStack Summit Vancouver

By Platform9

This week, I had the opportunity to attend the OpenStack Summit, hosted in the beautiful city of Vancouver, Canada. IT was an exhilarating 4-days packed with all things OpenStack: Our… Read More

Maintaining VM High Availability Using OpenStack Masakari

By Pushkar Acharya

OpenStack has become the chosen platform for managing enterprise data centers due to its ability to deliver an infrastructure-as-a-service environment and to run scalable, high availability (HA) applications on top… Read More

OpenStack Ironic: Enabling Bare Metal as a Service

By Platform9

OpenStack Ironic is an OpenStack project that provisions bare metal machines rather than virtual machines. Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS) allows you to provision your Hadoop or SQL workloads,… Read More

OpenStack Designate: Enabling DNS as a Service

By Platform9

OpenStack Designate ― an open source project under the OpenStack umbrella ― provides DNS as a Service (DNSaaS) in OpenStack. It provides a standard, open API that can be used… Read More

OpenStack Load Balancer: Native vs. Third-Party Choices

By Platform9

OpenStack load balancer supports both native and third-party methods of load balancing, and each has its advantages and disadvantages. What is load balancing? It is a technique used by service providers… Read More

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

By Platform9

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… Read More

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