by Peter Fray (Platform9) and Alessandro Catale (Comfone) There are plenty of articles describing how to setup MongoDB with a Kubernetes operator. However, is Kubernetes a viable solution for running high-performance MongoDB use cases? In this blog, we will describe a real-world application performance test that 200 million MongoDB document inserts and reads per hour […]
· April 1, 2021 · 5 min read
EKS, Elastic Kubernetes Service by AWS is presently the most popular Kubernetes service available on public clouds, running thousands of clusters and applications for businesses globally. EKS is great if you’re looking to run in a single cloud and have no hybrid or multi-cloud kubernetes requirements or if you happen to be an existing AWS
· March 30, 2021 · 4 min read
There are a variety of ways to segment workloads from each other in Kubernetes. You can run them on different pods or set up different namespaces. But if you want the maximum level of granularity – and the high availability and performance benefits that it can bring – a multi-cluster Kubernetes deployment is the way
· March 18, 2021 · 8 min readRunning Kubernetes on bare metal offers a variety of advantages: It can increase performance, lower costs and more. Although bare metal isn’t always the best deployment approach for Kubernetes, it’s certainly worth considering if you have the infrastructure to support it. Below, we walk through considerations for running Kubernetes on bare metal, then explain how
· March 18, 2021 · 8 min readThe brick-and-mortar store is the new battleground for retailers. They need to deliver outstanding in-store shopping experiences that drive new revenues while maintaining operational efficiencies. With the latest development in technologies like Kubernetes and edge computing, it is possible to deploy Software-defined stores that deliver the agility and ease of use similar to a public
· March 11, 2021 · 5 min read
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
· March 2, 2021 · 8 min read
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
· February 26, 2021 · 7 min read
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
· February 25, 2021 · 5 min read
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
· February 12, 2021 · 9 min read
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
· January 29, 2021 · 5 min read
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
· December 22, 2020 · 5 min read
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
· December 22, 2020 · 5 min read