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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.”

Intersect CEO Marc Bailey says, “For Intersect, Platform9 represents the single most strategic solution to a set of challenges we see expanding across the board, as organisations come to terms with the post-cloud reality of infrastructure-as-a-service.”

Platform9 announced a partnership with research firm Intersect to provide managed hybrid cloud services throughout Australia and New Zealand.