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The cloud-native environment has seen the growing adoption of Kubernetes and containers. More and more companies are now adopting a multi-cloud environment to manage their business applications and daily operations. This has led to the expansion of Kubernetes clusters.

Mitch Ashley chats with Sirish Raghuram, co-founder, and CEO of Platform9.

Platform9 announced key additional building blocks in delivering the next generation SaaS managed Kubernetes experience.

Platform9, the first company to provide open-source SaaS managed solutions for private and edge clouds including Kubernetes and OpenStack, announced key additional building blocks in delivering the next generation SaaS managed Kubernetes experience.

Platform9: Allows enterprises to drive digital transformation by enabling them to manage VMs, containers, and serverless functions on any infrastructure—on-premise, in public clouds, or at the edge—with a self-service, simple, and unified experience.

Platform9 offers a management plane for cloud operations across all private cloud deployments – including those at the edge.

Enterprises have been developing microservices-based applications for a while, and many of them are moving from the development and testing of their first applications to production. At the same time, we are quickly advancing from initial curiosity around Kubernetes, to first proof of concepts and training laboratories, to early production environments. In this context, there’s an increasing interest in solutions that can bridge the gap between user expectations and the reality of Kubernetes.

In this example we are going to see deployment of: a Redis master, multiple Redis slaves, and a sample guestbook application that uses Redis as a store