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
Over the past two years, deploying a conformant Kubernetes cluster has become even easier, thanks to the efforts of the Cluster Lifecycle Special Interest Group (SIG) and its kubeadm tool. But if you’ve used kubeadm on a freshly provisioned machine, you know there is a considerable set of tasks you have to complete prior to
· April 16, 2019 · 3 min read
At the recent KubeCon conference in Seattle, I had the pleasure of chatting with TFiR’s Swapnil Bhartiya about Kubernetes mainstream adoption, particularly with large enterprises. Watch the short video interview to learn about the trends and the evolution we’re seeing in the open source Kubernetes, and the operations model emerging for enterprises looking to support
· April 15, 2019 · 1 min read
Yesterday, Google announced the general availability of Anthos (formerly Cloud Services Platform) along with its pricing and support for multi-cloud environments in addition to on-premises infrastructure. Google Anthos is a huge validation for Platform9’s approach to fully managed hybrid clouds powered by open-source technologies. In particular, the 5 tenets below that are at the core
· April 10, 2019 · 5 min read
Today we’ve announced a partnership with research accelerator Intersect to offer Platform9 hybrid cloud services throughout Australia and New Zealand. Intersect is Australia’s largest full-service eResearch support agency, helping scientific, university, government and research institutes accelerate their impact through innovative technologies and expert advice for over a decade. This partnership provides research organizations and large
· March 25, 2019 · 2 min read
Last month, at the Startup Grind Global conference I had the pleasure of moderating a discussion with Garry Little about the power of mentorship in the tech industry. Gary is the co-founder and general partner at Canvas Ventures, an early-stage VC firm based in the Bay Area. Gary has been a VC for more than
· March 19, 2019 · 1 min read
Today Enterprise IT does not question the value of containerized applications anymore. Given the move to adopting DevOps and cloud-native architectures, it is critical to leverage container capabilities in order to enable digital transformation. Google’s Kubernetes (K8s), an open source container orchestration system, has become the de facto standard — and the key enabler —
· March 6, 2019 · 9 min read
In my recent post on InfoQ, I discuss the techniques that serverless platforms use “under the hood” to balance performance and cost. Serverless computing is for many the logical next step in cloud computing, moving applications to a set of higher-level abstractions and offloading more of the low-level operational work to the cloud provider (regardless
· February 13, 2019 · 2 min read
This is an excerpt from The Gorilla Guide to Serverless on Kubernetes, written by Joep Piscaer. See the first chapter here. You can download the full guide here. The biggest advantage of serverless computing is the clear separation between the developer and the operational aspects of putting code into production. This simplified model of “who does
· February 12, 2019 · 4 min read