Platform9 in the News

Do we need more Kubernetes as a service? Platform9 thinks so. This week, the company introduced what it calls the first implementation of Kubernetes as a managed service.

The company has just announced the general availability of its Managed Kubernetes offering along with the introduction of a new, open-source, serverless framework built on the Kubernetes container orchestration tool that it claims is an alternative to Amazon Web Services’ Lambda.

Fission is a new framework for serverless functions on Kubernetes. It focuses on high performance and developer productivity by allowing developers focus on the task and hand, not on infrastructure. Fission is still in early alpha…

A new framework built atop Kubernetes is the latest project to offer serverless or AWS Lambda-style application architecture on your own hardware or in a Kubernetes-as-a-service offering.

Cloud infrastructure provider Platform9 has announced that OpenStack users will now get high availability capability on their deployments.

Today, they’re coming out with a managed Kubernetes Container-as-a-Service platform with support for the Docker container runtime engine . In true Platform9 style, they’ve made the service Enterprise-ready, by integrating RBAC, multi-tenancy, SSO, persistent storage, fine-grained network isolation and image management.

Ben Kepes writes: Platform9’s managed Kuberentes service is touted as an “enterprise-ready container management platform that makes it easy to orchestrate containerized workloads, while providing mission-critical features for deploying and managing Docker containers in production and at scale.” It’s a smart play.