This is an excerpt from The Gorilla Guide to Kubernetes in the Enterprise, written by Joep Piscaer. You can download the full guide here. Software delivery has evolved The way we build and run applications has changed dramatically over the years. Traditionally, apps ran on top of physical machines. Those machines eventually became virtual. In both […]
· May 24, 2019 · 20 min read
In the previous article, we deep-dived into the constructs of Kubernetes storage, and what the different types of storage are good for. We discussed dynamic provisioning, StorageClasses, and CSI external storage. In this article, we set up a simple, private sandbox – using minikube – where we can observe and hack on the inner-workings of
· May 22, 2019 · 18 min read
Storage in Kubernetes can really frustrate customers and newcomers to the blossoming cloud-native universe. In countless customer experiences – I can honestly say that majority of customer questions and issues around Kubernetes storage are often rather elementary, and roughly half of them are somehow related to persistent storage models. These basic questions could easily be
· May 22, 2019 · 17 min read
Today, at KubeCon +Cloud Native conference in Barcelona, European cloud provider OVH, announced the availability of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes to OVH bare-metal customers around the world. While the OVH Managed Kubernetes Service is mainly designed for teams that operate on OVH’s public cloud offering, the European cloud provider has also listened to its clients who
· May 21, 2019 · 2 min read
I travel across the US and everywhere I go there is a buzz around Kubernetes. From Silicon Valley companies jumping in with both feet and running Kubernetes workloads in production, to East Coast finserv and retail organizations, to middle America — everyone is digging in to understand the details and how best to take advantage
· May 16, 2019 · 11 min read
The age of Edge computing has finally dawned. The rapid developments in digital and mobile technologies have made Edge computing increasingly more prevalent, and more critical to the success of businesses across a wide range of industries. What is Edge Computing: Edge computing essentially takes memory and computing out of the traditional data center to
· May 14, 2019 · 7 min read
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 millions of cores of compute all over the world, turning bare metal into automated infrastructure ready for today’s mix of virtualized and containerized workloads. Platform9
· May 3, 2019 · 4 min read
This is an Excerpt from The Buyer’s Guide to Enterprise Kubernetes Solutions. You can download the full guide here. Digital transformation across industries is driving the need for IT to enable cloud-native applications. This has led enterprises to adopt Kubernetes as the most effective way to support cloud-native, container-based architectures, and to modernize their applications
· April 24, 2019 · 7 min read
Modern enterprises that need to ship software are constantly caught in a race for optimization – whether that is speed (time to ship/deploy), ease of use, or, inevitably, cost. What makes this a never-ending cycle is that these goals are often at odds with each other. The choices that organizations make usually inform what they’re
· April 23, 2019 · 12 min read
Recently I had the pleasure of being a guest on Deloitte’s Architecting the Cloud podcast, part of the On Cloud series. In a lively conversation with Deloitte’s Mike Kavis I discussed the hybrid cloud conundrum: As organizations look to shift from an infrastructure-and data-centric world to cloud-centric architecture, it’s all too easy to get caught up
· April 22, 2019 · 1 min read
etcd is a critical part of the Kubernetes stack. etcd stores the state of the Kubernetes cluster, including node and workload information. Having multiple etcd members (a cluster) is a common strategy for ensuring the availability of the Kubernetes control plane, including the Kubernetes API. A highly available Kubernetes control plane is critical in production,
· April 18, 2019 · 2 min read
Today, we’re excited to announce that Platform9 is open-sourcing Klusterkit, a set of three open source tools, available under the Apache v2.0 license on GitHub. Our customers deploy their software on their private data centers, that are often air-gapped environments (either for security reasons, or other considerations). These large organizations were looking to take advantage
· April 16, 2019 · 3 min read