etcd is a critical part of the Kubernetes stack. etcd stores the state of the Kubernetes cluster, including node and workload information. Having multiple etcd members (a cluster) is a common strategy for ensuring the availability of the Kubernetes control plane, including the Kubernetes API. A highly available Kubernetes control plane is critical in production,
· April 18, 2019 · 2 min read
Today, we’re excited to announce that Platform9 is open-sourcing Klusterkit, a set of three open source tools, available under the Apache v2.0 license on GitHub. Our customers deploy their software on their private data centers, that are often air-gapped environments (either for security reasons, or other considerations). These large organizations were looking to take advantage
· April 16, 2019 · 3 min read
Today, we’re excited to announce that Platform9 is open-sourcing etcdadm, available under the Apache v2.0 license on GitHub. We’ve been working on this project for a while, and we’re stoked to now share it with the open source community at large to streamline the setup and ongoing operations of production etcd clusters. Inspired by kubeadm, etcdadm provides Kubernetes users
· October 2, 2018 · 3 min read