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
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