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How Platform9 Uses OpenStack Ironic to Manage Bare Metal as a Service

By Platform9

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... Read More

May 3, 2019

Key Features to Consider When Evaluating an Enterprise Kubernetes Solution

By Platform9

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... Read More

April 24, 2019

The unforgiving cycle of cloud infrastructure costs (and the CAP theorem that drives them)

By Platform9

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... Read More

April 23, 2019

The Hybrid Cloud Conundrum

By Sirish Raghuram

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... Read More

April 22, 2019

Kubernetes in Production: Operating etcd with etcdadm

By Platform9

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... Read More

April 18, 2019

Introducing Klusterkit: An open source toolkit to simplify Kubernetes deployments and operations on on-prem, air-gapped environments

By Platform9

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... Read More

April 16, 2019

Kubernetes node administration and dependencies deployment: From zero to hero with nodeadm

By Platform9

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.... Read More

April 16, 2019

Kubernetes in the enterprise: Watch my interview at KubeCon Seattle

By Sirish Raghuram

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... Read More

April 15, 2019

Google Anthos Reaffirms “Managed Open-Source” as the Future of Hybrid Cloud

By Sirish Raghuram

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... Read More

April 10, 2019

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