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Companies adopt hybrid and multicloud strategies for various reasons, including reliability, geographic necessity, and vendor independence and with this comes the complexity that no two private or hybrid clouds are alike. Despite the industry standardizing on Kubernetes, how it presents itself is different for every cloud. Amazon‘s Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) requires different configuration than Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Most private clouds are built on platforms like VMWare‘s Tanzu/VSphere or Nutanix where the installs and deployed capabilities are often highly customized.
Any systems engineer who has tried to maintain multicloud or hybrid cloud infrastructure knows that this variability makes management very difficult. It is not just the different Kubernetes configurations but the scripts necessary to log in and apply the changes are also unique. And even if one is adopting infrastructure as code approaches, managing
K8ssandra Now Runs on Any Kubernetes
on May 04 2021 10:00 PM
Data on Kubernetes community momentum, and K8ssandra’s custom integrations for Amazon EKS, GKE and AKS, signal that Data on Kubernetes has arrived
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) DataStax today announced that K8ssandra, an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra™ on Kubernetes, is available on any Kubernetes environment including distro-specific integrations for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Apache Cassandra is a highly scalable, fast and reliable database and running it on Kubernetes removes many of the operation hurdles around installation, customization and maintenance. Cloudleaf, Inc., a leader in next generation digital supply chain solutions, has been running Cassandra at scale on Kubernetes as a stateful set for several years now as part of its digital visibility platform. With the huge adoption for Cassandra users
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Microsoft bolsters Azure hybrid container platform capabilities with Kinvolk buy
Kinvolk builds and maintains open source projects that span all layers of the cloud native stack. Credit: Dreamstime
Microsoft has acquired German Flatcar Container Linux creator Kinvolk with the intention of bringing the expertise of the company’s team to its Azure business where it is hoped they will contribute to projects that will expand Azure’s hybrid container platform capabilities.
Founded in Berlin in 2015, Kinvolk builds and maintains open source projects that span all layers of the cloud native stack, from Kubernetes, through the container runtimes, systemd and the Linux kernel.