In this blog, let’s explore the concept of a Spot Instance, understand its benefits, and delve into the significance of a SpotQuake. Spot Instances AWS makes no mistake in the type of workloads that should use EC2 Spot Instances; ‘Fault-Tolerant’. Spot Instances are instances available in a specific region during periods of low demand. To
· March 1, 2022 · 5 min read
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
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