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
Last week, I joined many of my team members at Platform9, and 1000s in the Kubernetes community at KubeCon 2017 in Austin, TX. My takeaway: enterprise Kubernetes momentum is incredible, but several challenges remain and we have a lot of important work to do. Over 200 respondents participated in our survey on the state of
· December 12, 2017 · 4 min read
AWS acquiescence with Kubernetes could prove a defining moment in evolution of cloud computing, paradoxically making AWS less differentiated over time For the past decade, Amazon Web Services has been on a seemingly unending winning streak, launching innovative service after service with breathtaking velocity. This hot streak has had massive follow-on effects on the world
· November 27, 2017 · 4 min read
A clearly defined cloud strategy is an imperative need during any enterprise’s transition to a cloud based IT environment. To minimize risks and make the right choice between private, public, and hybrid cloud options, it is important to devise an effective enterprise hybrid cloud strategy with the following considerations in mind: Security and Control Is
· November 20, 2017 · 7 min read
For all those in magical Sydney for the OpenStack Summit, check out these talks from Platform9: Building a distributed benchmarking service for Openstack What: We containerized an OpenStack service, Rally, using Kubernetes! In contrast to the single-user CLI-based Rally, this benchmarking-as-a-service (BaaS) system can be used by multiple users to benchmark multiple OpenStack deployments. When:
· November 3, 2017 · 1 min read
What is Benchmarking? Benchmarking is the process of measuring performance of a software system. Benchmarking provides capacity analysis and helps determine the best tool for a specific use case. OpenStack clouds require benchmarking because of their multi-services architecture. Benchmarking OpenStack clouds can help in answering questions like how efficiently sets of servers perform. Need for
· October 9, 2017 · 5 min read
Cloud users often face network connectivity issues by failing to handle complicated network configuration details for OpenStack. This increases workload for support staff: they cannot help these users identify configuration problems without performing lengthy checks. To ease the pain, we developed an OpenStack network monitoring and troubleshooting tool for OpenStack Neutron. In addition to network
· September 7, 2017 · 5 min read
Most of the today’s IT dependent businesses are adopting the DevOps friendly practice of building agile and highly reliable services. A key aspect of achieving this is having a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline in place to validate and deploy these services. Kubernetes, along with container technologies, has many built-in constructs and capabilities that simplify
· August 31, 2017 · 8 min read
Platform9 has proposed a number of presentations for OpenStack Summit. Please cast your votes on those you want to hear at Sydney or on YouTube! Each of these presentations can be found using the these keyword(s) in its title. Customer Case Study: EBSCO on Remotely Managed OpenStack Using Remotely Managed OpenStack, EBSCO has been able
· July 31, 2017 · 4 min read
In this updated blog post we’ll compare Kubernetes with Amazon ECS (EC2 Container Service). We’ll walk you through high-level discussions of Kubernetes and Amazon ECS, and then compare these two competing solutions. For completeness, we provide an overview of Kubernetes. If you have already read the previous posts which compare Kubernetes to Docker Swarm
· July 20, 2017 · 12 min read
With Platform9 Managed OpenStack, administrators can authorize multiple hosts within a region to act as OpenStack Glance image library servers. Adding multiple image libraries has the following benefits: Creates a highly available Glance image service deployment that balances load for data-heavy block storage volume (cinder) and virtual machine instance (nova) provisioning operations. Eliminates downtime when
· July 19, 2017 · 6 min read
