Platform9 in the News

The new managed service, announced Monday, is available now worldwide through Platform9 partners, and Platform9 claims it’s the industry’s only fully managed Kubernetes service that works on existing infrastructure. It also delivers visibility and management across Kubernetes environments that are on-premises, in the public cloud, or at the edge.

Today, the team at Platform9, a company known for its SaaS-managed hybrid cloud, introduced a fully managed, enterprise-grade Kubernetes service that works on VMware with full SLA guarantee.

Offerings to use Kubernetes on VMware however tend to be a bit harder to find, since it wasn’t actually designed to run containerised workloads. The only prominent representative is – unsurprisingly – VMware Cloud PKS, which is maintained by Pivotal (hence the use of PKS, Pivotal Container Service). Platform9’s new service wants to change that.

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) allows enterprises to be up and running in less than an hour with Kubernetes on VMware that is both simple to use and production-ready.

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) allows enterprises to be up and running in less than an hour with Kubernetes on VMware that is both simple to use and production-ready.

Hybrid cloud provider Platform9 has announced a new managed Kubernetes service on VMware vSphere.

Normalization of infrastructure through open source technologies is one way to make the move to the cloud an easier process for organizations.

At KubeCon 2018, VMblog interviewed industry experts from StackRox, Platform9 and Binaris to talk about predictions and futures in 2019 within the IT industry, covering containers, Kubernetes and more.

They’re currently one of Platform9’s largest deployments: more than a 1,000 sockets and a workload that involves deploying Heat stacks hundreds of times a day.

Fission provides a serverless framework for Kubernetes with a focus on high performance and developer productivity, with a speedy 100ms start time.

An introduction on serverless. What is serverless? That’s where we start to say I don’t want to be in operations anymore. I don’t want to have infrastructure to operate. I don’t even want to have Kubernetes to operate. I just want to write code and deploy it and have it run for me as a service. Mostly you can see precedents for this in such things as Amazon Lambda and there’s other products by other cloud providers. We have Andres Vega who is the product manager for Fission from Platform9 with us to tell us how they leverage serverless to develop, distribute and deploy code.