Much has been written about the technical features and benefits of Kubernetes. Technical advantages, however, are only part of the reason to migrate to Kubernetes. Cultural change is an equally important selling point for Kubernetes. In several key ways, Kubernetes can help to optimize the culture around which IT teams and developers are organized, regardless of what their technology stacks look like or which types of companies they work for. In turn, Kubernetes makes organizations leaner and meaner in a cultural sense, improving the ability of technical teams to collaborate with each other a ..read more

Overview In this post you will learn: Why Run Kubernetes On-premises Challenges Running Kubernetes On-premises Best Practices for On-premise Kubernetes Implementation Kubernetes in Production Needs Additional Services The best Kubernetes architecture for your organization depends on your needs and goals. Kubernetes is often described as a cloud-native technology, and it certainly qualifies as one. However, the cloud-native concept does not exclude the use of on-premises infrastructure in cases where it makes sense. Depending on your organization’s needs regarding compliance, locality, curre ..read more

Imagine you are a developer who is a fresh college graduate. You have got a dream job at an amazing company which values talent and merit. You are getting a chance to work on the latest technologies like Kubernetes, Cloud and Edge stack and develop solutions for end users. You take a few months to settle in, get familiar with the workflow and start some tasks on internal clusters. Now if your company is good, this process will be a breeze as they have started documenting everything from the get go to ensure developers aren’t spending unnecessary time on items not related to their task. In my c ..read more

In this article we talk about Kubernetes load balancing, specifically in the context of load balancing for your workloads that are deployed across multiple Kubernetes clusters across multiple public or hybrid cloud environments. Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Load Balancing Background Many organizations are moving workloads to the public cloud, and a big part of that transition involves using cloud native technologies like containers and Kubernetes to manage applications in a more agnostic way. One of the biggest benefits of an agnostic deployment model is that, from a developer’s perspective, the und ..read more

Enterprises are quickly adopting Kubernetes. In my role as field CTO here at Platform9 Systems, I speak to many of our prospects and current customers, and in every case, they are adopting Kubernetes at some level. And they’re looking at tools that can help them with their Kubernetes efforts. Note that I said “tools.” I call this out because these enterprises are evaluating service providers like AWS, Google, Azure, and others which are only that: tools.  They provide a Kubernetes service as a set of tools, and these are excellent for what they do. The question I have is, what happens whe ..read more

EKS, Elastic Kubernetes Service by AWS is presently the most popular Kubernetes service available on public clouds, running thousands of clusters and applications for businesses globally. EKS is great if you’re looking to run in a single cloud and have no hybrid or multi-cloud kubernetes requirements or if you happen to be an existing AWS user and looking to take your first steps in learning kubernetes. EKS, alongside AKS and GKE are driving Kubernetes adoption around the world and today Platform9 is taking our first step in expanding our SaaS platform, as well as our managed service, to inclu ..read more

It’s one thing to launch a Kubernetes cluster and deploy a Hello World app on it. It’s quite another to evolve that cluster into a production-ready state, and ensure that it is ready to meet complex needs surrounding storage, networking, monitoring and more. Yet making that transition from testing to production has become the focus for an increasingly large number of organizations across a range of verticals. From retailers, to telcos, to media companies and beyond, businesses that began kicking Kubernetes’s tires over the past few years are now done with the evaluation period, and are ready t ..read more

The journey to business agility must travel the road of agile execution. It may be tempting to look at existing software infrastructure and declare it “good enough” for needed business results – but staying the course (i.e. doing nothing) often only compounds existing business problems. Trying a “do it yourself” approach to implement new open-source software with its overhead and complexity often leads to frustration. Instead, understanding the value of employing the right partner to “do it together” via a fully managed service can significantly lower complexity and simplify deployment and adm ..read more

People often talk about Kubernetes as if it’s just one tool that is always deployed in a single way. If only! The reality of Kubernetes is that it is much more complicated. Kubernetes is actually more than a half-dozen different tools, which are combined with various third-party services to build out a complete application hosting platform. There are also multiple deployment models for Kubernetes, an array of different distributions and a multitude of core concepts that you have to understand to use Kubernetes effectively. Suffice it to say, then, that Kubernetes is much more complicated in pr ..read more

In business, stagnation is harmful to the health of a company. Without change, a successful company slowly loses relevance while more daring competitors evolve to provide additional value to their customers. In software development, this is especially true. Development organizations that don’t prioritize innovation soon find that their applications and services are technologically stale and losing viability in their marketplace – and all in a relatively short time frame. With that said, innovation in the realm of software development comes at a cost. And that cost is the risk to application s ..read more