Last June, my co-founder Madhura Maskasky announced the beginning of our journey towards delivering an enterprise-class Container management product: Platform9 Managed Kubernetes. We started a private beta program involving existing and new customers. Our engineering team dove deep into the guts of all things Kubernetes, the good and the bad. We learned the hard way […]
· January 24, 2017 · 8 min read
Of late, there have been various Open source projects to manage networking for containers. Docker implemented “libnetwork“. I’ve written in the past about using Calico with Docker containers. Debugging and low level tweaks to performance isn’t easy without an in-depth understanding of how the network stack works for a container. This post tries to explain network
· January 10, 2017 · 5 min read
Kubernetes clusters enable a higher level of abstraction to deploy and manage a group of containers that comprise the micro-services in a cloud-native application. A Kubernetes cluster provides a single Kubernetes API entry point, a cluster-wide resource naming scheme, a placement engine and scheduler for pods, a service network routing domain and an authentication and
· December 6, 2016 · 7 min read
It’s a great pleasure to announce that Madhura Maskasky, Platform9 co-founder and vice president of product, is being recognized as one of the most innovative women in cloud technology. Madhura is among 12 women being honored by CloudNOW, the executive consortium for the leading women in cloud and converging technologies, as part of their 5th
· November 1, 2016 · 2 min read
At Platform9, we have witnessed first-hand how the rapid growth of public cloud usage among developers has led enterprises to embrace the promise of development agility by setting up their own private cloud infrastructure. This, in turn, has fostered a growing need for the ability to work seamlessly across both public and private clouds, without
· October 27, 2016 · 4 min read
Gartner has predicted that by 2020, a corporate “no public-cloud” policy will be as rare (or as ridiculous) as a corporate “no-internet” policy would be today. Hybrid cloud will be the most common implementation among enterprises. Multi-cloud has become the new standard and a lot of organizations see it as a necessary evil. Organizations cannot
· October 26, 2016 · 3 min read
We are on the cusp of a new era of application development software: instead of bolting on operations as an after-thought to the software development process, Kubernetes promises to bring development and operations together by design. This new open source container cluster manager provides platform automation for deployment, scaling and management of application containers and
· October 18, 2016 · 1 min read
The Platform9 team was at VMworld 2016 recently, and the results from our survey on trends in enterprise cloud infrastructure are in. We gathered insights from speaking to over a thousand people, 300 of whom gave us quantitative feedback by participating in our survey. VMworld Audience To start, we asked about roles and responsibilities. Not
· September 27, 2016 · 3 min read
This post has been updated by Kubernetes vs Amazon ECS. — Developers looking to containerize their traditional virtualized applications into micro-services face a conundrum of choice today. The contenders are Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Mesos, Amazon ECS and few others. All touting same or similar benefits, all vying for the top spot of being the most powerful container orchestration
· September 23, 2016 · 5 min read
UPDATE: Note that GluserFS Cinder support was deprecated in OpenStack Newton & will not be supported on Platform9 as of 3.6 release. Traditional hardware-based storage has two issues: scalability and centralized storage. The storage arrays scale vertically so storage capacity cannot be increased on-demand, and once the array is filled, another array must be bought.
· September 20, 2016 · 10 min read
Amobee, an advertising company in Redwood City, CA, started working with Platform9 to streamline their infrastructure with virtualization. Since then, Amobee’s Systems Engineering team has seen major improvements in efficiency as well as the flexibility and agility of their on‐premises systems. In this interview, the Director of Amobee’s Systems Engineering team, Eric Lakich, talks about the
· September 14, 2016 · 7 min read
One of the major use cases for using private cloud & OpenStack is running labs; these labs can be for your dev, qa or sales organization. In these labs, OpenStack is used to create various infrastructure objects (Instances, Images, Volumes etc) on demand for development, test or demonstration purposes. OpenStack makes it very easy to
· September 7, 2016 · 2 min read