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Bare-bone Kubernetes is never enough for real-world production applications. Here are seven key services you need around bare-bone Kubernetes to enable mission-critical production use.

More organizations are riding the wave of Serverless and Kubernetes, and many are starting to see tangible results. Here are five trends in serverless that are sure to impact the way organizations develop and deliver software for years to come.

Positioned as an open source alternative to AWS Lambda, Platform9’s Fission uses containers and Kubernetes to underpin its event-based function-as-a-service framework. New features include testing enhancements, automated canary deployments, Prometheus integration and the ability to trade off cost vs. performance with pre-warmed container pools. To build application logic, Fission Workflows (in beta) is a low-code platform for tying multiple functions and triggers together.

Fission’s Erwin Van Eyk shares the two aspects that have been key to the rapid adoption of serverless computing: the performance and the cost model; the tradeoffs between them, and the opportunity ahead.

Hybrid cloud solution provider Platform9 has announced its fully managed Kubernetes service on VMware vSphere, Platform9 Managed Kubernetes. This managed Kubernetes service would work out-of-the-box on VMware and comes with a 24x7x365 SLA guarantee.

Platform9 introduced a new managed Kubernetes service to run on VMware systems in order to reduce the complexity of wedding the hot container technology with the leading virtualization software.

Platform9, a SaaS-managed hybrid cloud provider, released a fully managed Kubernetes service on VMWare vSphere. This service is provided with a 99.9% uptime guarantee and live monitoring. This service provides the open source version of Kubernetes with no code forks.

Fully managed, enterprise-grade Kubernetes service that works out-of-the-box on VMware with 24x7x365 SLA guarantee enables enterprises to easily deploy and operate Kubernetes at scale, with no management overhead and no need for advanced Kubernetes expert