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VMware Tanzu and Project Pacific: 3 Considerations for Enterprises Adopting Kubernetes

At VMworld 2019, VMware shared two major announcements: VMware Tanzu Mission Control, which provides multi-cluster management across distributed Kubernetes clusters and Project Pacific, which ties Kubernetes more closely within vSphere. These are significant announcements in the first VMworld following VMware’s acquisition of Heptio a year ago and the recent news of its intent to purchase […]

Sirish Raghuram · August 27, 2019 · 7 min read

SELinux, Kubernetes RBAC, and Shipping Security Policies for On-prem Applications

Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a swiss army knife for Linux security, which is as relevant in commodity Kubernetes deployments as it was in yesterdays era of artisanally crafted linux server silos. Whether or not you are using cloud native technology, some of the lessons we’ve learned around being transparent, disciplined in your security practices, and

Platform9 · August 23, 2019 · 9 min read

Kubernetes CI/CD Pipelines at Scale

Kubernetes orchestrates containers reliably at scale while abstracting the underlying infrastructure. Unlike Virtual Machines, this helps developers separate the workloads from the complexities of the infrastructure. Kubernetes is ideal for CI/CD automation because it offers many built-in capabilities that makes application deployment standardized and reusable, improves developer productivity, and speeds up the adoption of cloud-native

Kamesh Pemmaraju · August 12, 2019 · 5 min read

Kubernetes in the Enterprise – Chapter 7: What You Need to Know About Platform9 Managed Kubernetes

This is the final chapter from The Gorilla Guide to Kubernetes in the Enterprise, written by Joep Piscaer. Previous Chapters: You can download the full guide here. Platform9 Managed Kubernetes Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) is the industry’s only SaaSbased, continuously managed Kubernetes service that guarantees 24x7x365 SLA and works across any infrastructure: on-premisesdata centers,

Platform9 · August 1, 2019 · 3 min read

Kubernetes in the Enterprise: Top Use Cases

This is an excerpt from The Gorilla Guide to Kubernetes in the Enterprise, written by Joep Piscaer. Previous Chapters: You can download the full guide here. Overview In this article you’ll learn: Top Use Cases for Kubernetes Kubernetes has gained popularity for a number of use cases, given its unique features. It’s a suitable platform

Platform9 · July 29, 2019 · 6 min read

Kubernetes in the Enterprise – Chapter 5: Managed Kubernetes Solutions

This is an excerpt from The Gorilla Guide to Kubernetes in the Enterprise, written by Joep Piscaer. Previous Chapters: Chapter 1: The Changing Development Landscape Chapter 2: Kubernetes Concepts and Architecture Chapter 3: Deploying Kubernetes Chapter 4: Putting Kubernetes to use: RBAC, Monitoring, Logging, Storage, & more You can download the full guide here.

Platform9 · July 26, 2019 · 5 min read

Kubernetes in the Enterprise – Chapter 4: RBAC, Monitoring, Logging, Storage, & More

This is an excerpt from The Gorilla Guide to Kubernetes in the Enterprise, written by Joep Piscaer.Previous Chapters: Chapter 1: The Changing Development Landscape Chapter 2: Kubernetes Concepts and Architecture Chapter 3: Deploying Kubernetes You can download the full guide here. Now that you’ve deployed a basic Kubernetes cluster, let’s review what it takes

Platform9 · July 23, 2019 · 7 min read

NEW! Kubernetes Managed Apps: Prometheus, EFK Stack, MySQL, and More – Delivered as a Service, with 99.9% SLA

I’m excited to announce the new Kubernetes Managed Apps offering – an extension of our Managed Kubernetes solution – ushering the next phase of self-service for Kubernetes Platform Operations! Things are getting complicated… As we know, bare-bones Kubernetes by itself is not sufficient to enable a comprehensive cloud-native infrastructure that is enterprise-ready. DevOps teams

Platform9 · June 24, 2019 · 6 min read

Modernize: Five Pathways To Level Up Your Apps And Infrastructure

The cloud-native paradigm for application development and delivery lights a pathway for organizations to modernize their existing applications and underlying infrastructure — all to achieve benefits ranging from faster time to market, ease of maintenance, granular scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Is your business ready to modernize? Here are five considerations that will help you realize a

Platform9 · June 20, 2019 · 5 min read

Democratizing MySQL: From Cloud Managed to Kubernetes Managed

At the recent KubeCon Barcelona conference I had the pleasure to deliver a joint talk with our friends at PressLabs about MySQL on Kubernetes. Platform9, like many startups, used public cloud-based MySQL service as a backend to quickly get started. But as our customer base grew, the public cloud costs became significant. Our goal for

Platform9 · June 11, 2019 · 2 min read

Kubernetes Deployment: On-premises or in the Public Cloud

This is an excerpt from The Gorilla Guide to Kubernetes in the Enterprise, written by Joep Piscaer.Previous Chapters: Chapter 1: The Changing Development Landscape Chapter 2: Kubernetes Concepts and Architecture You can download the full guide here. Just as there are many parts that comprise Kubernetes, there are multiple ways to go about

Platform9 · June 3, 2019 · 6 min read

Five Enterprise Kubernetes takeaways from KubeCon 2019, Barcelona

We just returned from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019 which was held in beautiful Barcelona, Spain last week. While at the show, we interacted with more than 1,000 attendees and had almost 500 attendees complete our survey at the booth, to give us an insight into their use of Kubernetes. Here are the five most important

Kamesh Pemmaraju · May 30, 2019 · 6 min read

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