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Modern enterprises that need to ship software are constantly caught in a race for optimization, whether in terms of speed (time to ship/deploy), ease of use or, inevitably, cost. What makes this a never-ending cycle is that these goals are often at odds with each other.

The software-as-a-service provider’s project targets those organizations interested in modernizing their applications using the popular container orchestrator, but who run into deployment problems in data centers isolated from the outside world for security.

SaaS-managed hybrid cloud developer Platform9 today announced Klusterkit, which contains three open-source tools that help developers use production-grade Kubernetes clusters in air-gapped, on-premises environments.

Today, Platform9 open sourced Klusterkit under the Apache 2.0 license. It is a set of three open source tools that can be used separately or in tandem to simplify the creation and management of highly-available, multi-master, production-grade Kubernetes clusters on-premise, air-gapped environments.

Platform9 packaged together a trio of open source Kubernetes tools in a push to ease the deployment and operation of Kubernetes clusters in air-gapped, on-premises environments.

Kubernetes service provider Platform9 is combining three open source Kubernetes tools as Klusterkit to make it easier to deploy the orchestrator in air-gapped, on-premise environments.

At the recent KubeCon conference in Seattle, TFiR’s Swapnil Bhartiya sat down with Platform9’s co-founder and CEO, Sirish Raghuram, to discuss Kubernetes mainstream adoption, particularly with large enterprises.

“In an ideal world, the IT landscape would be a greenfield, where every organization could start with a blank slate and build out their optimum infrastructure,” shares Sirish Raghuram, co-founder and CEO of Platform9. “But for most businesses, it is often more of a brownfield—muddied with old systems and stodgy practices—and it’s not always clear the best way to build on top of it.”