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Virtual Machine High Availability with Platform9 OpenStack

In any enterprise-grade cloud offering, Virtual Machine High Availability (HA) is a must have feature for ensuring application availability despite infrastructure failures. Architecting cloud with consideration to HA helps protect cloud native as well as traditional applications against failures. Until now, HA features were available only on virtual infrastructures like VMware, Hyper-V, etc. With Platform9 […]

Madhura Maskasky · August 24, 2016 · 4 min read

Container Orchestration Tools: Compare Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm

This post has been updated by Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm. — In a previous blog we discussed why you would need a container orchestration tool and followed that up with a blog comparing Kubernetes vs Mesos. Continuing the series, in this blog post we’ll give an overview of and compare Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm. Overview

Platform9 · August 15, 2016 · 3 min read

Container Orchestration Tools: Compare Kubernetes vs Mesos

This post has been updated by Kubernetes vs Mesos + Marathon. — In a previous blog we discussed why you may need a container orchestration tool. Continuing the series, in this blog post we’ll give an overview of and compare Kubernetes vs Mesos. Kubernetes vs Mesos Overview of Kubernetes According to the Kubernetes website – “Kubernetes is an

Platform9 · August 11, 2016 · 4 min read

Vote for Platform9 Talks at the Barcelona OpenStack Summit

The Platform9 team is gearing up for the Barcelona OpenStack Summit, and we’re excited to participate! We’ve proposed a handful of talks and would appreciate your vote to include our talks on the conference agenda. Please see the session abstracts below and vote on the summit website See you in Barcelona! Voting closes on Monday, August

Platform9 · August 5, 2016 · 10 min read

Why You Need a Container Orchestration Tool

We recently announced the beta release of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration tool, originally designed by Google. The “managed” experience means Platform9 handles all the nitty gritty details of Kubernetes deployment, configuration, ongoing monitoring, troubleshooting and upgrades. What’s more, the container orchestration tools provide built in support for a number of pain-points

Platform9 · August 3, 2016 · 4 min read

3 Common OpenStack Reference Architectures

Platform9’s OpenStack-as-a-service offers a unique solution by hosting the OpenStack control plane in a SaaS layer, while the VMs and confidential data remain on infrastructure in the customer’s data center. Each Platform9 customer configures OpenStack services specific to their needs, but there are some common patterns in the OpenStack reference architectures. In this blog post we highlight three

Platform9 · July 28, 2016 · 5 min read

Demo of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes with Jenkins

Recently, we announced the beta release of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, a SaaS-managed offering for Kubernetes. The “managed” experience means Platform9 handles all the nitty gritty details of Kubernetes deployment, configuration, ongoing monitoring, troubleshooting and upgrades. This lets software developers focus on using the Kubernetes APIs to build cloud-native applications, and DevOps teams can focus on realizing

Platform9 · July 26, 2016 · 1 min read

How to Use Hashicorp Terraform with OpenStack

Terraform is a tool from HashiCorp that can be used to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure easily by defining configuration files. It is similar to OpenStack Heat. However, unlike Heat which is specific to OpenStack, Terraform is provider agnostic and can work with multiple cloud platforms such as OpenStack, AWS and VMware. This blog will give an overview of

Paavan · July 22, 2016 · 5 min read

Podcast: Comparing CloudStack vs OpenStack

Peter Lopez, presently the Principal Architect at Technicolor and previously the Systems Architect at Disney, is one of the few people who’ve spent significant time deploying both Apache CloudStack and OpenStack. In this podcast, Peter and Sirish Raghuram, CEO of Platform9, compare CloudStack vs OpenStack. They contrast deployment models, networking and storage architectures, and how each

Platform9 · July 21, 2016 · 1 min read

How to Install OpenStack using Fuel

Fuel OpenStack Tutorial One of the great things about OpenStack is all the options you have for deploying it. A recent blog mentioned various deployment models – and the flowchart below may help as you decide which model is best for you. For example, if you need a highly customized OpenStack deployment, then DIY may

Platform9 · July 12, 2016 · 5 min read

With Infrastructure Software, Go SaaS or Go Home

Originally published in The New Stack The old Chinese proverb, “May you live in interesting times,” is certainly bearing out for the infrastructure technology market. Recently, Boris Renski, co-founder of OpenStack vendor Mirantis, argued that the whole Infrastructure Software market is now dead (and that he has made his peace with it). To make his point,

Sirish Raghuram · July 1, 2016 · 4 min read

How to Install OpenStack using DevStack

One of the great things about OpenStack is all the options you have for deploying it. A recent blog mentioned various deployment models – and the flowchart below may help as you decide which model is best for you. For example, if you need a highly customized OpenStack deployment, then DIY may be the way

Platform9 · June 30, 2016 · 7 min read

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