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Load Balancing Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Workloads in Kubernetes

In this article we talk about Kubernetes load balancing, specifically in the context of load balancing for your workloads that are deployed across multiple Kubernetes clusters across multiple public or hybrid cloud environments. Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Load Balancing Background Many organizations are moving workloads to the public cloud, and a big part of that transition involves […]

Platform9 · January 10, 2022 · 10 min read

The Six Most Popular Kubernetes Networking Troubleshooting Issues

Kubernetes follows certain rules and policies when it comes to networking, and it’s not uncommon to encounter issues when trying to connect applications running in Kubernetes. Even the most trivial deployment needs to have the correct configuration so that K8s can assign the right IP address or ingress controller to the service. Furthermore, if you

Platform9 · January 10, 2022 · 11 min read

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes and Tanzu Community Edition

VMware Tanzu recently announced Community Edition (CE). A new flavor in their Kubernetes based Tanzu platform. As I learned more, it got me wondering how our Managed Kubernetes (PMK) free tier compared to it. Tanzu CE is meant for test, discovery, and pre-production scenarios. While our free tier is production ready. To be fair to

Platform9 · December 16, 2021 · 8 min read

Grade your cloud-native maturity and find out how you can improve

Most companies are at the early stages of the cloud-native journey and can benefit by leveraging knowledge and insight from others to accelerate this mission-critical transformation. Platform9 has spent the past eight years supporting companies like Juniper Networks, Kingfisher, and Redfin in their cloud-native journey, sharing and gathering best practices along the way. Platform9 has

Kamesh Pemmaraju · December 13, 2021 · 2 min read

Guide to Kubernetes Networking

Prior to the advent of Kubernetes, in the so-called “bare-metal” era, networking was primarily confined to physical peripherals, such as network interfaces, cables, switches and routers, and other components of Layer 2 of the OSI model. When virtual machines were introduced, along with virtual networks, overlays, and the like, the concept of networking shifted from

Platform9 · December 8, 2021 · 9 min read

The Top 5 Most Popular Kubernetes Storage Troubleshooting Issues

Trying to configure persistent Kubernetes storage options comes with its issues and challenges. Although the official storage docs are quite extensive, they only cover a fraction of the specific configurations you might need in order to successfully install and provision them. From an operator’s point of view, you might encounter issues choosing a CSI and

Platform9 · December 8, 2021 · 6 min read

Ultimate Guide to Kubernetes Storage

When you’re studying Kubernetes, one of the first things you learn is that it won’t handle any storage requests for your applications when deploying a new cluster by default. This is because K8s was initially designed only for stateless apps; thus, storage was considered to be an add-on. This was such a common problem that

Platform9 · December 6, 2021 · 9 min read

How to Create a Virtual Machine Using KubeVirt – A Detailed Walkthrough

If you are looking for a way to deploy Virtual Machines, alongside your container workloads, then KubeVirt may be the answer. In this blog post we will explore the details on how to create a Virtual Machine using KubeVirt. Platform9 Managed Kubernetes has a new UI for KubeVirt. The UI has been reworked and has added

Platform9 · December 1, 2021 · 10 min read

Shared Kubernetes Clusters on Azure with Platform9

In a previous article, we discussed isolating workloads and took a deep dive into Kubernetes multi-tenancy and best practices. In this tutorial, we will show you some real-world examples using a Platform9 cluster environment, and we’ll introduce you to some useful techniques for setting up shared Kubernetes clusters by your development teams using Platform9 Managed

Platform9 · November 30, 2021 · 13 min read

Manage roles in all your clusters with Platform9 cluster profiles engine

Recently, we set out to answer an age-old Kubernetes mystery – “what’s different about my cluster’s profile RBAC”. Let’s say you are managing 3 environments for many developer teams. The promotion lifecycle goes “Development”, “Staging”, then “Production”. The Development environment is an internal, safe place for developers to develop. It’s not highly available or has

Platform9 · November 16, 2021 · 6 min read

Five Enterprise Kubernetes Takeaways from KubeCon 2021, Los Angeles

At the KubeCon show in LA, we conducted a survey of 567 attendees who gave us insight into their use of Kubernetes. Here are the five most important takeaways from the survey results: 1. Autoscaling, speed, portability – top reasons to adopt Kubernetes KubeCon attendees tend to be advanced users of Kubernetes so the

Kamesh Pemmaraju · October 29, 2021 · 3 min read

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes 5.4 Release

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) release version 5.4 is now available. This new version brings support for Kubernetes 1.21, new dashboards for Workloads and Storage, the containerd runtime, and other fixes and improvements. Platform9 is also excited to announce the Profile Engine, which is a new cluster governance and policy management feature that leverages the SaaS

Platform9 · October 21, 2021 · 6 min read

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