Introduction Kubernetes 1.10 is set to be released on Wednesday, March 21. As has been the case over the past year, this release is characterized by incremental but significant enhancements in multiple functional areas. This is more evidence of the reality that Kubernetes is maturing nicely, and that recent releases are not dominated by any single […]
· March 7, 2018 · 5 min read
Kubernetes Operations, or Kops, is an open source project used to set up Kubernetes clusters easily and swiftly. It’s considered the “kubectl” way of creating clusters. Kops allows deployment of highly available Kubernetes clusters on AWS and Google (GCP) clouds. It includes features such as dry-runs and automatic idempotency, terraform config generation making Kops a
· February 28, 2018 · 4 min read
As containerization continues to explode, the need for a container orchestration and management platform has exploded with it. Kubernetes has become that de facto leader for orchestration and management. At Platform9, we have observed that, as our customers enter the Kubernetes space, their primary inclination is to start doing the implementation by themselves. They want
· February 22, 2018 · 4 min read
Enterprise production readiness with Kubernetes installation and deployment means that you have the ability to securely and repeatedly deploy, manage and maintain multiple clusters over long periods of intensive usage. What do you need to achieve this? Key Capabilities Required for Kubernetes Installation and Deployment As more enterprises plan to deploy Kubernetes on production, here
· February 16, 2018 · 5 min read
Migration From AWS to Data Centers from Public Clouds and Achieving Data Center Consolidation The convenience offered by public clouds e.g. AWS from both agility and flexibility perspectives has been a major driving factor for enterprise adoption. In a previous blog post “Enterprise Hybrid Cloud: Strategy and Cost Considerations,” the strategy and cost considerations that
· February 5, 2018 · 4 min read
Kubernetes Helm, by making application deployment easy, standardized and reusable, improves developer productivity, reduces deployment complexity, enhances operational readiness, and speeds up the adoption of cloud native apps. These applications can be sourced from open-source community provided repositories, or from an organization’s internal repository of customized application blueprints. In much the same way that the
· February 1, 2018 · 5 min read
According to the 2017 State of the Cloud report, hybrid cloud usage has increased to 71%, up 13% from the previous year. As hybrid clouds become more of a common occurrence, they introduce complexities to cloud infrastructure management and can result in vendor lock-in, if not done right, and added costs. In a previous blog
· January 30, 2018 · 5 min read
Introduction In the previous blog article “Kubernetes Helm Accelerates Production-Ready Deployments”, we provided an overview of Kubernetes Helm and the benefits it can offer in improving developer productivity, reducing deployment complexity, and achieving production readiness quickly. In this blog, we will provide an overview on deployment of Helm and Helm Charts. This can be carried
· January 24, 2018 · 5 min read
Platform9 Managed Kubernetes: An Overview Enterprise infrastructure environments can benefit from Platform9’s Managed Kubernetes services that enable onboarding in minutes (typically 30 minutes), provide ongoing operational monitoring with committed 24/7/365 SLAs, troubleshooting and orchestration of Kubernetes upgrades. Platform9’s infrastructure-agnostic Managed Kubernetes service works across all public clouds and on-premise infrastructure environments: bare metal, enterprise Linux,
· January 23, 2018 · 3 min read
Kubernetes simplifies container management, including the deployment, discoverability, scale, high availability, and serviceability of containerized applications. We’ve learned from customer conversations and our own experience, that although Kubernetes is powerful and offers the right building blocks, enterprises often struggle with the deployment of Kubernetes at scale. Challenges hindering Kubernetes adoption in the production environment include:
· January 10, 2018 · 4 min read
The past several years have seen fast growth in enterprise hybrid cloud adoption as more and more businesses seek a hypothetical sweet spot between purist extremes of 100% private cloud and 100% public. In the process, according to studies by Intel and others (including Platform9), the industry has refined our understanding of where that sweet
· January 8, 2018 · 6 min read
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions point in appealing conceptual directions. But are Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) solutions actually better for delivering the agile development workflow, simplicity and no-kinks workload portability that hybrid cloud deployments require? In real-world organizations with diverse needs, DevOps teams may need to wrangle platforms ranging from relatively simple and generic (e.g., LAMP servers, small
· December 14, 2017 · 6 min read