Platform9 in the News

“With Ironic, the time to provision bare metal servers is orders of magnitude faster, from weeks or months to just under 20 minutes.”

Platform9 introduced Klusterkit – a set of three open source tools that can be used independently or in tandem to simplify the creation and management of highly-available, multi-master, production-grade Kubernetes clusters on-premises.

Sirish Raghuram, co-founder and CEO of Platform9, was interviewed on Deloitte’s “Architecting the Cloud” series – part of the “On Cloud” Podcast – to discuss the hybrid cloud conundrum.

The combination of these three tools enables the deployment and operation of a highly-available etcd cluster and Kubernetes control plane in air-gapped, on-premise environments.

Kubernetes and open source go together hand in hand with Platform9’s new announcement: three new open source Kubernetes tools simplify cluster orchestration and deployment. Each of these tools can be used independently or together, on air-gapped environments and on-premises deployment.

Modern enterprises that need to ship software are constantly caught in a race for optimization, whether in terms of speed (time to ship/deploy), ease of use or, inevitably, cost. What makes this a never-ending cycle is that these goals are often at odds with each other.

The software-as-a-service provider’s project targets those organizations interested in modernizing their applications using the popular container orchestrator, but who run into deployment problems in data centers isolated from the outside world for security.

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.