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7 Insights into AWS’ Outposts announcement at re:Invent and the future of hybrid cloud

At Amazon’s re:Invent 2018 conference, Amazon finally announced their venture into on-premises data-centers, called AWS Outposts. Just a few years ago, this would have been unthinkable, given how Amazon executives would proclaim the inevitable death of on-premises infrastructure and private clouds. While AWS Outposts is in a very early technical preview, I wanted to share […]

Sirish Raghuram · November 30, 2018 · 5 min read

Transitioning from managing VMs to orchestrating containers

This is a guest blog post written by Ron Illsley, distinguished analyst at Ovum. One of the biggest challenges faced by organizations as they look to adopt newer cloud native concepts, such as containers, micro-services, or serverless is marrying this new world with its existing portfolio and processes. The issue faced by many CIOs is

Platform9 · November 28, 2018 · 4 min read

8 Architectural Considerations to Keep in Mind About Microservices

Over the past several years, the use of microservices as a means of driving agile best practices and accelerating software delivery has become more and more commonplace. In an effort to avoid the pitfalls that come with monolithic applications, microservices aim to break your architecture into loosely-coupled components (or, services) that are easier to update independently,

Platform9 · November 26, 2018 · 7 min read

What is Serverless and What it Means for You – Part 1

Serverless Computing has emerged in the past year as a compelling architectural alternative for building and running modern applications and services. Serverless applications allow developers to focus on their code, instead of on the infrastructure configuration and management. This speeds up development and release cycles, as well as allows for better, more efficient, scaling. Serverless

Platform9 · November 19, 2018 · 8 min read

How to Build Hybrid Cloud Confidence

This blog post originally appeared on the AppDynamics blog Software complexity has grown dramatically over the past decade, and enterprises are looking to hybrid cloud technologies to help power their applications and critical DevOps pipelines. But with so many moving pieces, how can you gain confidence in your hybrid cloud investment? The hybrid cloud

Platform9 · October 31, 2018 · 4 min read

Five Signs Winter Is Coming For Enterprise Cloud (And How To Prepare)

In HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones, the mythical seven kingdoms are preparing for winter brought on by a force of zombie-like creatures called “White Walkers.” The phrase “winter is coming” is repeated throughout the course of the series, foreshadowing perils that lie ahead. With the changing seasons upon us, let’s consider what challenges are in

Sirish Raghuram · October 25, 2018 · 5 min read

How Kubernetes Transforms Your Business

Kubernetes has emerged as the defacto standard in enabling IT to build out digital architectures to deliver on their business goals, and it is now a “must have” for whatever your organization’s level of digital maturity is. In this article, Vamsi Chemitiganti talks about the five fundamental business capabilities that Kubernetes can drive in the

Platform9 · October 22, 2018 · 10 min read

Best practices and anti-patterns for containerized deployments

Kubernetes is easily the most transformational cloud technology available today. It is the de facto standard for container orchestration, essentially functioning as an operating system for cloud-native applications. With its built-in high availability; granular, infinite scalability; portability; and rolling upgrades, Kubernetes provides many of the features that are critical for running cloud-native applications on a truly composable, interoperable infrastructure. Enterprises of all

Platform9 · October 18, 2018 · 5 min read

Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Hybrid Cloud?

Cloud Management is a key aspect organizations are looking at on their journey to becoming a software-driven enterprise – in order to simplify operations, increase IT efficiency and reduce datacenter costs. Enterprise IT has to juggle supporting many different types of applications (legacy, mainframe, monolithic, cloud-native apps, microservices, serverless, and more) – each requiring their

Sirish Raghuram · October 9, 2018 · 8 min read

We’re open-sourcing etcdadm! Here’s what it means for Kubernetes in production

Today, we’re excited to announce that Platform9 is open-sourcing etcdadm, available under the Apache v2.0 license on GitHub. We’ve been working on this project for a while, and we’re stoked to now share it with the open source community at large to streamline the setup and ongoing operations of production etcd clusters. Inspired by kubeadm, etcdadm provides Kubernetes users

Platform9 · October 2, 2018 · 3 min read

Top 3 Considerations for Building A Cloud Native Foundation in Your Enterprise

If you haven’t already done so, the thought of your enterprise using cloud computing must have crossed your mind, right? The key business imperative driving moves to new data center architectures are their ability to natively support digital applications. Digital applications are “Cloud Native” (CN) in the sense that these interactive applications are originally written

Platform9 · September 17, 2018 · 8 min read

Kubernetes Logging and Monitoring: The Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana (EFK) Stack – Part 2: Elasticsearch Configuration

This is a 3-part series on Kubernetes monitoring and logging: Requirements and recommended toolset EFK Stack – Part 1: Fluentd Architecture and Configuration EFK Stack – Part 2: Elasticsearch Configuration (this article) In the previous posts in this series, we’ve reviewed the architecture and requirements for a logging and monitoring system for Kubernetes, as well

Platform9 · September 12, 2018 · 5 min read

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