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Kubernetes Helm: Why It Matters

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 […]

Roopak Parikh · February 1, 2018 · 5 min read

OpenStack Omni, the Open-Source Alternative to VMware and AWS for Hybrid Cloud

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

Platform9 · January 30, 2018 · 5 min read

Kubernetes Helm Installation

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

Paavan · January 24, 2018 · 5 min read

What’s New in Platform9’s Managed Kubernetes v3.3?

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,

Madhura Maskasky · January 23, 2018 · 3 min read

Top 5 Considerations for Deployment of Kubernetes at Scale

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:

Madhura Maskasky · January 10, 2018 · 4 min read

VMware on AWS – Lock-in Continues with the Hybrid Cloud

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

Platform9 · January 8, 2018 · 6 min read

Containers as a Service (CaaS) Solutions Offer Greater Agility, Portability and Simplicity Benefits Over PaaS For Hybrid Cloud Deployments

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

Platform9 · December 14, 2017 · 6 min read

Enterprise Kubernetes: 5 Insights from KubeCon 2017

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

Sirish Raghuram · December 12, 2017 · 4 min read

Google’s Kubernetes Creates Vexing Conundrum for the AWS Juggernaut

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

Sirish Raghuram · November 27, 2017 · 4 min read

Enterprise Hybrid Cloud: Strategy and Cost Considerations

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

Platform9 · November 20, 2017 · 7 min read

Platform9 Showcase at OpenStack Down Under

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:

Platform9 · November 3, 2017 · 1 min read

Containerizing OpenStack Rally to create Benchmarking as a Service

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

kphatak · October 9, 2017 · 5 min read

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