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Etcdadm serves two other functions besides making it easier to deploy etcd clusters, including providing a recovery option from an existing backup in the event of data loss or other errors. It also helps to scale operations by making it simple to add or remove nodes to an etcd cluster.

Platform9 has announced a new open-source project called etcdadm, which is a command-line tool that lets users easily configure, install, and operate secure etcd clusters that run anywhere. Etcd is a key component in the Kubernetes stack because it stores the state of a Kubernetes cluster, including node and workload information.

A survey of attendees at the 2017 KubeCon found significant fractions of the respondents running Kubernetes on a mix of on-premise infrastructure and the three mega-clouds.

“Kubernetes will be the de facto standard across data centers within a couple of years.”

Platform9 CEO Sirish Raghuram says an Arbitrage capability added to the Platform9 Managed Kubernetes service can now continuously monitor Spot and standard EC2 instances to determine where the most cost-effective location is for a Kubernetes cluster based on the service level agreements (SLAs) established.

Madhura Maskasky, co-founder and vice president of product, Platform9, speaks at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit.

The solution provides improved cloud cost control for organizations by continuously evaluating the pricing of cloud resources against target SLAs to automatically decide whether Spot instances or standard EC2 instances are deployed.

Platform9 recently released ‘Arbitrage,’ which allows users to dynamically run nodes in a cluster on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. The company also offers solutions for Kubernetes management, a serverless framework, and more.