Platform9 in the News

Platform9 just released updates to Fission.io – the open source, Kubernetes-native Serverless framework, with new features enabling developers and IT Operations to improve the quality and reliability of serverless applications.

Live-reload, Record-replay, Automated Canary Deployments, Prometheus integration, and more give both Dev and Ops confidence in the production-readiness of serverless applications, as well as easy troubleshooting, and cost/performance optimization.

Kubernetes is easily the most transformational cloud technology available today. It is the de facto standard for container orchestration, essentially functioning as an operating system for cloud-native applications.

“Fission was created to provide a simpler, easier way for developers to accelerate time to value with Kubernetes. Our goal is to help developers produce quality serverless code, and provide Ops teams with the utmost confidence to run serverless applications in production,” said Soam Vasani, creator of Fission at Platform9. “Serverless allows developers to move faster and be more productive. The latest release of Fission focuses on accelerating feedback loops and lowering deployment risk, to ensure that teams can not only move fast, but also safely, and at scale.”

The company, which cut its teeth selling remotely-managed OpenStack cloud infrastructure for customers, also sells managed Kubernetes deployments and produces Fission.io, an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework. The new update to Fission, announced today, adds several functions to make the deployment and testing of serverless functions easier.

Fission comes with built-in Live-reload and Record-replay capabilities to simplify testing and accelerate feedback loops. Other new features include Automated Canary Deployments to reduce the risk of failed releases, Prometheus integration for automated monitoring and alerts, and fine-grained cost and performance optimization capabilities.

etcdadm is a kubeadm-like open source command-line tool that allows users to easily configure, install and operate secure etcd clusters that can run anywhere – in the cloud, on-premises, as well as in air-gapped environments.

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Platform9 has open sourced its etcdadm tool, answering the prayers of anyone who’s ever said to themselves, “I could really do with a command line interface to manage Kubernetes clusters”.

The open source tool, inspired by kubeadm, is the first to provide the Kubernetes community a simple command-line experience to deploy and manage secure etcd clusters anywhere – on-premises or in the cloud – with built-in support for recovery and scalability

Platform9 pushed its etcdadm support tool out into the open source community via GitHub in an effort to generate momentum behind automating the configuration, deployment, and management of etcd clusters used by Kubernetes to store control plane information. Those tasks are currently either part of more broadly-focused efforts put on the shoulders of a Kubernetes user, or cobbled together by developers.

Etcdadm serves two other functions besides making it easier to deploy etcd clusters, including providing a recovery option from an existing backup in the event of data loss or other errors. It also helps to scale operations by making it simple to add or remove nodes to an etcd cluster.