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Five Technical Challenges to Optimize Kubernetes for 5G Deployments

Operators of 5G mobile broadband networks deal with large-scale, complex, dynamic, and highly distributed infrastructure requirements. They have to deploy and operate thousands of radio towers and networks while managing software applications across the access layer, aggregate layer, and core data centers. Furthermore, they have to satisfy stringent specifications for latency and network performance of […]

Kamesh Pemmaraju · March 2, 2021 · 8 min read

Edge Computing and 5G Power: Telco and Cloud Convergence

This article first appeared on Telecomms.com Edge computing is rapidly emerging as the new cloud. According to Gartner, by 2022, more than 50% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed outside the data center or cloud (Gartner report on edge). This poses a significant challenge for cloud computing giants like Amazon Web Services and

Sirish Raghuram · February 26, 2021 · 7 min read

KubeVirt: Tearing Down Another Silo

The KubeVirt open-source project has opened up possibilities for organizations to run VMs and containers alongside each other in a Kubernetes cluster. While it is still early days for the project, we at Platform9 see a lot of potential in it, especially when we think about the problems it can solve for organizations looking to

Platform9 · February 25, 2021 · 5 min read

Kubernetes Service Mesh: How To Set Up Istio

In this article, you will learn how to set up Istio as a Kubernetes service mesh. Overview This article will cover: Quick Introduction to Kubernetes Service Mesh and Istio Pre-requisites Installing Istio as a Kubernetes service mesh Deploying a BookInfo Application on top Managing Ingress Monitoring the application Quick Introduction to Kubernetes Service Mesh and

Platform9 · February 12, 2021 · 9 min read

Why Managed Calico?

Why Calico? We want to ensure we provide the best Kubernetes software-defined networking experience that is possible with an emphasis on supporting encryption, security policies, BGP, a fast data plane and can also be deployed consistently across private, edge, and public clouds. Last year we had a request from a customer to support Calico using

Chris Jones · January 29, 2021 · 5 min read

How To Set Up OpenEBS on Kubernetes Using Platform9

In this article, you will learn how to set up OpenEBS on Kubernetes clusters, as a storage solution for your deployment. OpenEBS is one of the leading open-source projects for cloud-native storage on Kubernetes. OpenEBS adopts the Container Attached Storage (CAS) approach, where each workload is provided with a dedicated storage controller. OpenEBS provides granular

pkatira · December 22, 2020 · 5 min read

How To Set Up Linkerd as a Kubernetes Service Mesh

In this article, you will learn how to set up Linkerd as a Kubernetes Service Mesh using a free Platform9 Kubernetes account. Linkerd is a light-weight service mesh for Kubernetes. It adds observability, reliability, and security to Kubernetes applications without code changes. For example, Linkerd can monitor and report per-service success rates and latencies, can

pkatira · December 22, 2020 · 5 min read

How To Set Up Kubevirt For Kubernetes Based VM Management

In this article, you will learn how to set up Kubevirt for Kubernetes based VM management. Kubevirt For VM Management Kubevirt is an open-source project that makes it possible for virtual machines to be manageand isd by Kubernetes. This means that Kubevirt VMs will be able to run on Pods, alongside containers – allowing you

Peter Fray · December 22, 2020 · 5 min read

Setup NGINX Ingress Controller on Kubernetes

The vast majority of Kubernetes clusters are used to host containers that process incoming requests from microservices to full web applications. Having these incoming requests come into a central location, then get handed out via services in Kubernetes, is the most secure way to configure a cluster. That central incoming point is an ingress controller.

Chris Jones · December 22, 2020 · 6 min read

Platform9 5.0 – Wrapping Up 2020 in Style

In our final release of 2020, we now support multiple versions of Kubernetes running across your clusters with support for 1.17 and 1.18, we have introduced One-Click Cluster Creation for AWS, Azure, and BareOS, added enhancements to our Managed Calico CNI, and more. Oh, and a whole new user experience, we rebuilt our web app

Chris Jones · December 18, 2020 · 8 min read

Announcing the Industry’s Only SaaS Managed Bare Metal Orchestration Platform

In our previous blog on why bare metal cannot, yet, be operated as a cloud, we outlined the problem in our industry about how bare metal management is critical in industries like retail, 5G and Telco, and research, as well as for use-cases such as private cloud elasticity and high-performance computing (HPC). Yet, today bare

Platform9 · December 16, 2020 · 7 min read

Why Bare Metal Can’t Be Operated Like the Cloud (Yet)

There is a problem with bare metal management in our industry. We lack an end-to-end solution that provides a seamless managed operating model that automates the provisioning, deployment, and management of bare metal servers located anywhere. Whether it is a private cloud running Kubernetes or Virtualization in an on-premises data center, or a couple of

Platform9 · December 10, 2020 · 5 min read

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