Platform9 in the News

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.”

The alliance aims to accelerate cloud adoption and modernize IT infrastructure with hybrid platforms that ensure operational efficiencies.

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, supports active administrative tasks across OpenStack, Kubernetes and serverless environments deployed on top of on-premises IT infrastructure.

Platform9 is now firing on all cylinders, having recently added a Managed Kubernetes offering (PMK) for VMware vSphere to its hybrid cloud portfolio.

Platform9, a company whose primary offering is a managed-Kubernetes service, saw the need for a serverless solution apart from Lambda. It released Fission, an open source serverless framework. Its goal was to provide an easy way for users to get started and manage their applications without having to do any of the plumbing related to containers. Fission is based on native Kubernetes.