Platform9, the first company to
provide open-source SaaS managed solutions for private and edge clouds, announced a number of new features to provide operational efficiencies for its
freedom, growth, and enterprise managed
Kubernetes products. Key
advances include multi-version Kubernetes support, enhanced cluster deployment
options, and upgraded manageability. Use cases span Technology, Retail, Telco,
Media, and Entertainment verticals.
"Focused on offering ease-of-use features and increasing
efficiencies, this product release continues to address deployment challenges
faced by IT, DevOps, and SRE and IT teams while increasing our solution's
flexibility, performance, and end-to-end management," said Madhura Maskasky, Platform9
co-founder and VP of Product. "The result is tangible and significant savings
and productivity gains for all our customers, be they free tier, growth, or
enterprise, across a variety of use cases and verticals."
"Kubernetes is on a clear glide path to broad deployment in the
enterprise and Platform9's unique SaaS managed approach unburdens users from
the complexities of Kubernetes while ensuring the fastest adoption possible,"
Maskasky explained further.
Featured
updates include:
- Operational Freedom with Industry's First
Managed, Multi-version Kubernetes. Until now, running different versions of
Kubernetes across the software lifecycle added significant cost, time, and
complexity to the DevOps process. Platform9 now allows all DevOps teams
complete freedom to run multiple versions of managed Kubernetes across
staging, production, and development environments. Users can also decide
which upgrades and patches to perform and time them at their convenience.
Stephen Pride, Senior
Systems Cloud Engineer at Snapfish noted, "Enabling my team to run multiple
versions of managed Kubernetes across staging, production, and development is a
game changer. This allows quick testing of new K8s features whilst maintaining
stable production environments, enhancing our ability to deliver to our
customers. I estimate that the 5.0 release will save us significant hours per
month, freeing the team for more value-added work and significantly simplifying
our end-to-end DevOps processes."
- One-click Cluster Deployment across
Multiple Clouds. Platform9 users can now deploy a cluster with one-click
across VMs, physical servers, AWS, and Azure. This drastically simplifies
cluster creation for both VM and physical environments. Additionally, the
new Platform9 Terraform provider enables users to leverage automation to
build clusters.
- Enhanced Observability and Logging Improves
System Health Insight. System availability is a 24 x 7 necessity
for DevOps environments. This release significantly improves system health
insight including new dashboards for Kube Events statistics, file system
usage, CPU, Memory, and Network usage, as well as API Server support.
- Consistent and Declarative Clusters and
Profiles via GitOps Ready APIs. Platform9 is transforming how users
interact with clusters through the introduction of new APIs for
declarative clusters and profile-based deployments. The combination of the
new APIs and profiles ensures clusters remain consistent across
environments and are built exactly to specification, saving significant
operational time and effort.
Availability
The Platform9 Release 5.0 is available now for all freedom,
growth, and enterprise users. New users can sign up for free at this link, and see
all plans here.