Today at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
2020, Spectro Cloud, an enterprise cloud-native infrastructure
company, announced that it has released a new, self-hosted version of its
flagship product-Spectro Cloud. Complementing its existing managed as-a-Service
offering, self-hosted Spectro Cloud provides enterprises with a Kubernetes
management option that can be deployed in any public cloud, private cloud, bare
metal or in any combination.
Since Spectro Cloud launched in March this year, there have been enterprises
asking Spectro Cloud for an option that provides the same functionality as
Spectro Cloud's as-a-Service version but with greater control over the
placement and operations of the management plane. Customers have stressed that
while externally managed options are fast to deploy and have lower operating
costs, their critical workloads need greater levels of security and control
than an outsourced service can provide. These customers can now obtain the same
flexible management at scale that Spectro Cloud provides with the enhanced
security they desire, deployed under their direct control, hosted in their
preferred way.
Spectro Cloud helps enterprises customize a Kubernetes infrastructure stack for
specific business needs by using a declarative model to define cluster
profiles. Spectro Cloud uses these cluster profiles to automate deployment
and maintenance of clusters across the enterprise. Canary deployments, patterns
for rolling out releases to a subset of users or servers,
ensure Kubernetes upgrades don't break dependencies on other ecosystem components
while keeping everything consistent with enterprise-wide standards.
"Enterprise customers have told us they want to control where they run their
management plane, sometimes for enhanced security, sometimes to maintain
options and choice, and sometimes simply to comply with specific
regulations they're subject to," said Tenry Fu, co-founder and CEO of Spectro
Cloud. "Spectro Cloud's as-a-Service version is easy to consume and use, but
it's not the only way customers want to do things. Helping enterprises achieve
maximum flexibility while maintaining consistent management at scale is what
Spectro Cloud is all about."
Instead of converting their entire business to a single cloud vendor's
preferred way of working, enterprises can deploy Kubernetes wherever suits them
best. Developers can define different cluster configurations to suit the
application they're building without breaking enterprise-wide policies that are
there to protect the whole organization. Enterprises can make use of public
cloud, private cloud, whatever suits their needs at the time, and change
their mind as circumstances require.