State of Cloud Native

With recent developments around VMware, there is renewed market interest in KVM, the leading alternative hypervisor. Many enterprises inadvertently leverage KVM when utilizing large hyperscale cloud providers, as these platforms predominantly operate on KVM. However, when it comes to running private or edge cloud environments, KVM can be perceived as a complex and unfamiliar technology. In this se...

Enterprises are facing the ongoing issues of #Kubernetes underutilization and rising #EKS costs, alongside various operational inefficiencies. Our latest innovation, the Elastic Machine Pool (EMP), is at the forefront of this revolution. Utilizing advanced #virtualization technologies such as over provisioning, live migration, and real-time resource balancing, EMP is revolutionizing #publiccloud i...

In this session, we delve deep into the solutions for the top three challenges of #edge deployments at scale. 🌐💻 Discover how to effortlessly centralize your management processes, control thousands of edge sites, and deploy applications with just a few clicks. 🛠️⚙️ Learn from our experts how to swiftly set up new edge locations, starting from #BareMetal and progressing seamlessly. 🔐🚀 Unlock th...

Join us for a new episode where we discuss the top trends we see for Cloud Native in 2023.  This episode features Janakiram MSV, Industry Analyst @ Janakiram & Associates, who will guides us through what he thinks are the top trends we will see this year.  We are also joined by Dawn Hoefferle, Content Marketing Manager @ Platform9, and Mike Petersen, Technical Marketing Engineer @ Pl...

Join Satish Gaikwad (Infrastructure Engineer @ Luminar Technologies) and Mike Petersen (Tech Marketing Engineer @ Platform9) Friday, January 13th at 11 AM Pacific for a discussion about Infrastructure as Code. We will discuss shared responsibility model challenges and more. Interested in Infrastructure as Code and going Cloud Native but have questions about who is responsible for each piece of the...

What is Serverless? You may have heard the word floating around when looking at offerings from different providers. On this show we are going to take a look at Knative, the open source project behind many of those offerings. We will learn about how it works and why you should think about leveraging it in your Kubernetes clusters.    We will be talking with Evan Anderson, Staff Software E...

This week on State of Cloud Native we are going to talk about Crossplane. I (Mike Petersen) am very excited to be able to sit down with Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate @ Upbound and star of DevOps Toolkit.   We will learn about what Crossplane is, what issues it solves, and how to use it to create a better control plane for your users.

Ron Haberman, Market CTO @ Platform9, and Kamesh Pemmaraju, Head of Enterprise & Product Marketing @ Platform9 are back. This time they will be discussing how to Scale Cloud Reliably.    The discussion will cover topics included in Ron's recent blog post:    https://platform9.com/blog/scaling-clouds-reliably-requires-experience-and-expertise/   Come hang out at the las...

Join Pushkar Acharya, Staff Engineer @ Platform9, Anmol Sachan, Product Manager @ Platform9, and Mike Petersen, Technical Marketing Engineer @ Platform9, as we discuss Cluster API. According to the docs: "Cluster API is a Kubernetes sub-project focused on providing declarative APIs and tooling to simplify provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters." We will discuss what it...

Join Poonam Agarwal, Senior Member of Technical Staff @ Platform9, Roopak Parikh, CTO and Cofounder @ Platform9, and Mike Petersen, Technical Marketing Engineer @ Platform9, for our next episode of State of Cloud Native. We are going to discuss KubeVirt and running Virtualized workloads on Kubernetes.   We will get to know Poonam and Roopak and then take a look at why you would want to run VM...

Join Madhura Maskasky, VP Product @ Platform9, Bich Le, Chief Architect @ Platform9, and Mike Petersen, Technical Marketing Engineer @ Platform9, for a recap of ArgoCon and to talk about a new Open Source Project: Arlon. We will get to know Madhura and Bich, hear about how ArgoCon went, and then dive into Arlon. Arlon is an open source GitOps automation & orchestration engine that enables you...

State of Cloud Native: What the heck is Cloud Native anyways?  It's time for the next episode of State of Cloud Native. Join Ron Haberman, Market CTO at Platform9, and Kamesh Pemmaraju, Head of Enterprise and Product Marketing at Platform9, as they talk about what all this cloud native stuff is about.  On this episode we will get to know Ron and Kamesh, then dive into what Cloud Native i...

Join Esten Rye, Senior Technical Staff at Platform9, and Mike Petersen, Technical Marketing Engineer at Platform9, as they discuss what's new in the lab.    Esten has been at it again, looking at ways to automate air gap, edge, or Bare Metal Kubernetes deployments. We will discuss configuration options and hardware considerations when deploying a home lab, work lab, or even edge deployme...

Join us for our fourth episode of State of Cloud Native where we are joined by Matthew Roark, Principal Cloud Support Engineer at Platform9, and Mike Petersen, Technical Marketing Engineer at Platform9.  We will get to know Matthew and learn about his background in Virtualization / OpenStack and how he made his way to Kubernetes. Then we will see what insights Matthew has about day to day lif...

Join us for State of Cloud Native: Getting from day zero to day two, where we will join Mike Riggs, Sales Engineer at Platform9, and Rene Soto, Solutions Architect / CSM at Platform9, as well as our host Mike Petersen. We will get to know Mike and Rene a little bit better and see what lead them to their current roles and get a little bit of perspective behind their ideas on Cloud Native. Then we w...

Join Chris Jones, Director of Product at Platform9, and Mike Petersen as they discuss using EKS or Native Clusters. We will start by finding out a little bit more about Chris and his background, what led him to Product Management, and how his experiences have informed his decisions on building a product. Then we will dive into the topic and ask the question: "Why would you build and run a Kubernet...

In this first episode we join Esten Rye and Mike Petersen, from Platform9, discussing their journey from Bare Metal to Virtualization to Containers and Container Orchestration.