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 […]
· October 9, 2018 · 8 min read
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
· October 2, 2018 · 3 min read
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
· September 17, 2018 · 8 min read
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
· September 12, 2018 · 5 min read
This is a 3-part series on Kubernetes monitoring and logging: Requirements and recommended toolset EFK Stack – Part 1: Fluentd Architecture and Configuration (this article) EFK Stack – Part 2: Elasticsearch Configuration In the previous article, we discussed the proven components and architecture of a logging and monitoring stack for Kubernetes, comprised of Fluentd, Elasticsearch,
· September 12, 2018 · 4 min read
We’re excited to share that Platform9 received the 2018 Stratus Award for Cloud Computing in the “Hybrid Cloud Provider” category. The Stratus Award from Business Intelligence Group recognizes companies and individuals innovating in the Cloud that provide solutions which are truly differentiated in the market. Platform9 was chosen for our unique offering – providing the industry’s only enterprise-grade,
· August 29, 2018 · 2 min read
This is a 3-part series on Kubernetes monitoring and logging: Requirements and recommended toolset (this article) EFK Stack – Part 1: Fluentd Architecture and Configuration EFK Stack – Part 2: Elasticsearch Configuration You have a K8s cluster. Now what? For a production-grade Kubernetes cluster, monitoring, alerting and log aggregation are essential. In this article, we
· August 24, 2018 · 5 min read
See Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. Cloud Management is one of the key areas that CTOs and CIOs need to make investments in in the coming years. In the previous 2 posts in this series, we discussed the challenges with existing cloud management platforms and the 5 key capabilities of CMPs.
· July 31, 2018 · 7 min read
See part 1 of this series here. The Ovum Decision Matrix Research Report discusses the impact of two major shifts in cloud adoption: The growing impact of Shadow IT in enterprises. The need to migrate workloads to the cloud. We also see a clear third shift: the need to develop Cloud Native applications for
· July 26, 2018 · 3 min read
Running resource-intensive workloads with high-volume traffic can be very expensive, especially while using managed services like RDS. Public Clouds abstract management of networking and high availability from end-users but incompatible and expensive resource types drive the need for some organizations to migrate off of the public clouds. On the other hand, privately managed IT environments
· July 25, 2018 · 2 min read
At Platform9, we work daily with some of the leading enterprises, across a wide range of industries – from Financial Services, Internet, Retail, Embedded, and more. A key question we get asked often is how enterprises can transition to becoming Cloud Native (CN) or Digitally Native (DN) businesses. The journey to becoming a truly software-driven,
· July 23, 2018 · 6 min read
The best Kubernetes architecture for your organization depends on your needs and goals, of course. Kubernetes is often described as a cloud-native technology, and it certainly qualifies as one. However, the cloud-native concept does not exclude the use of on-premises infrastructure in cases where it makes sense. Sometimes, there are advantages to running Kubernetes deployments
· July 20, 2018 · 9 min read