OpenStack and Kubernetes -> Flexibility and Stability
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We would like to translate two tech phenomena related to the cloud – OpenStack and Kubernetes – to the language of the managers.
Managers and decision-makers are more likely to focus on the areas of finances and costs and efficiency of individual activities and tools. But sometimes you encounter words that at first glance are not related to this and they are the kind of words that make many people sick.
We would like to translate two tech words related to cloud – OpenStack and Kubernetes – to the language of the managers. You will see that a second glance will help you like these technologies much more because they are closely related to the topics of high interest – flexibility and stability.
OpenStack – Flexibility Promoter
Let’s not talk about the specific technologies that go into these. We will focus more on how the use of OpenStack and related services helps our cloud – virtual data center – ensure flexible environment.
It may seem that OpenStack services are written by various people and form a set of individual packages that are put together as a puzzle – meaning it is not an efficient tool for building and operating cloud. An advantage is that the whole community constantly keeps on developing it and reacts to the demands of the mmarket. That way the services that are available fit the demand and are developed in a way to always match the expectations of the market.
As a customer, you usually don’t get to look under the hood of the cloud provider so you really cannot know how is the virtual environment provided. But it could happen that the environment shows its functionality that you learn is vital for your cloud. Thanks to using the OPenStack services, we are free in expanding our cloud in a away our customers need.
It is not about OpenStack being open-source not restricting you by licenses. OpenStack is ana ctive community that constantly takes in advances in technologies which is why we always have at our hands the most modern tools that enable us to work with out environment flexibly and adapt the functionalities in a way to match the needs and wishes of our customers.
Kubernetes – Stable Mosaic
Kubernetes is a current buzzword and who has it is the king. What kind of influence does it have that you have cloud from a provider that builds on Kubernetes? We will not talk about a company building their own Kubernetes platform on their own environment. We will show you why we build on it and how it shows in our user interface.
Thanks to Kubernetes we can divide up the building blocks of our virtual data center into several parts. Thankys to this we can focus our attention to the management, maintenance and updates or upgrades only to the parts of the system they need ir. If we have to update a tenth of the whole environment, we don’t have to restart and reboot. Thanks to Kubernetes, we just take the tenth and do what is needed.
And what does it mean to the real operations of our custommer that has no change to ever know we use Kubernetes until we say so? This approach helps us to ensure the highest stability of the nevironment and the shortest outages when doing repairs or edits. What regular servers takes tens of minutes, virtual servers take minutes and with Kubernetes we can do that within a blink of an eye.
If you have encountered the words OpenStack and Kubernetes, we believe we have helped you take a look into the benefits for the company cloud infrastructure. Flexibility and stability are a necessity today and it seems that they will play an even more crucial role in the future. Be ready and use the best available technologies.
