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IT teams can use Kubernetes to deploy and manage containerized workloads across multiple clouds — but it’s not the best approach for everyone. Look at the benefits and implementation options.

The age of edge computing has finally dawned. The rapid developments in digital and mobile technologies have made edge computing increasingly more prevalent and more critical to the success of businesses across a wide range of industries.

In the previous article, Platform9 Kubernetes engineer Jay Vyas deep-dived into the constructs of Kubernetes storage, and what the different types of storage are good for. We discussed dynamic provisioning, Storage Classes and CSI external storage. In this article, we set up a simple, private sandbox — using MiniKube — where we can observe and hack on the inner-workings of Kubernetes storage.

In this two-part article, Platform9 Kubernetes engineer Jay Vyas introduces the key concepts and components in the Kubernetes storage architecture, to build up a conceptual storage model which is technology agnostic. In the next part of this series, to run on Wednesday, we’ll turn to see how we can observe the inner-workings of Kubernetes storage and tweak those in a sandbox environment, using minikube.

“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.