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Deploy Kubernetes In Five Different Ways

If you’re like many DevOps and IT teams, you want to reap the benefits of containers and container management. Getting started can be painful due to choosing amongst and implementing the numerous deployment models and installers, each with its pros and cons. Let us consider five of these briefly: 1. Deploy Kuberenetes with Minikube for

OpenStack Implementation Options

Comparison of OpenStack Implementation & Consumption Options

You’ve decided to move forward with OpenStack implementation to build a private cloud! Congratulations – you are in good company. According to Wikibon, true private cloud (on-premise and hosted together) is expected to grow from $7 billion in 2015 to $201 billion in 2026 (36% CAGR) and be 31% of infrastructure spend. At last month’s

Platform 9

Getting Started with OpenStack Neutron

Platform9 recently announced beta support for OpenStack Neutron networking. In this blog post, I explain the differences between Linux bridges and Open vSwitch and why Platform9 chose one over the other. I have come across quite a few people who are very excited to get onboard with deploying OpenStack and bringing up their own private clouds.

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Where You Can Find Platform9 at the OpenStack Summit

We are only a week away from the next OpenStack Summit and I am happy to report that Platform9 will have our biggest presence yet at any Summit. This is a testament not only to our growth as a company but our growing commitment to the OpenStack community. We would love to engage with you in

Platform 9

Handling OpenStack Cloud Images in Platform9

OpenStack Image Management One of the most fundamental functions of an any cloud platform is the management of virtual machine images. In OpenStack, this functionality is mostly taken care of by the Glance collection of services. Glance services provide a repository for virtual machine images and metadata, and endpoints for delivering the OpenStack cloud images to

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SolidFire Storage Now Available with Platform9 OpenStack

One of the primary benefits of an open platform such as OpenStack is its ability to be an integration engine for various cloud technologies. This gives users the flexibility to choose best of breed compute, networks, and storage technologies to build out their private cloud while retaining the benefits of a common management framework for operators and

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The Easy Button for VMware Private Cloud Is Here!

Back in January, we made our SaaS delivered Cloud Management-as-a-Service solution generally available to the public, with initial support for new and existing KVM environments. Since then, we’ve seen an increasing number of customers who have bought into the concept of an easy button for private clouds where they can focus on building applications and leveraging existing infrastructure management

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Explaining How VMware vSphere ESXi Integrates with OpenStack

One of the more interesting developments that we are seeing within our customer base and among the users we speak with regularly is the growing desire to understand OpenStack hypervisor support and leverage OpenStack as a “manager of managers” for different types of technologies such as server virtualization and containers. This lines up with the messaging

Platform 9

OpenStack Upgrades Made Easy: The Cloud-Native Way

Anyone who has ever attempted to upgrade a cloud platform, be it from Microsoft, OpenStack, or VMware, will readily attest that doing so in a live production environment is not for the faint of heart. No Cloud Admin wants to suffer through a failed upgrade that causes a production cloud to be degraded, unavailable, or

The Melting Pot In Virtualized Datacenters

The time when IT used one virtualization platform for server consolidation seems long past. Cost and performance tradeoffs have led to IT Administrators deploying multiple virtualization technologies, some for production and some for dev/test use. Rebel developers profess their love for a new found religion. Containers, they say, are the way forward. Some even swear to never boot

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