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Platform9 Announces Kubernetes Managed Apps for Monitoring, Logging, Databases and More to Enable Easy Consumption and SLA Guarantee for Critical Kubernetes Tools and ServicesSUNNYVALE, Calif., June 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Platform9 (https://platform9.com/), the leader in SaaS-managed hybrid cloud, today announced Kubernetes Managed Apps. This new offering extends Platform9 fully-managed Kubernetes service and SLA guarantee to also cover a set of critical Kubernetes services and tools - such as monitoring, logging, database services, and more. This makes Platform9 the industry's only solution to offer SaaS-managed Kubernetes service with 99.9 percent SLA on any environment (on-premises or hybrid clouds) for both the Kubernetes infrastructure and the application tiers. Bare-bones Kubernetes by itself is not sufficient to enable a comprehensive cloud-native infrastructure that is enterprise-ready. DevOps team must be able to easily deploy and manage the lifecycle of additional applications and services - such as monitoring, tracing, logging, CI/CD, storage, databases, and more. Kubernetes Managed Apps enables self-service consumption, white-glove experience and seamless Day-2 operations for these applications - at scale - all backed by Platform9's industry-leading 99.9% SLA. Per customer demand, the first set of fully-managed applications to be offered are:
Additional applications will be added on an ongoing basis in future releases. A Powerful Enterprise-grade User Experience Each managed app provides one-click deployment for developers while giving Operations teams the governance they require to manage security, access controls, and capacity across the entire organization.
SLAs for the individual apps would be complementary to the SLA that Platform9 already provides for the Kubernetes infrastructure itself. Depending on the complexity of the managed application chosen, the SLA and fully-managed functionality may also cover additional capabilities--such as cross-geo disaster recovery for databases and advanced integrated services with other complementary managed applications offered, automatic backup/recover, auto-scaling, and more. In many of these cases, Platform9 will partner directly with various organizations behind specific applications or Kubernetes Operators, to advance the development and ongoing support for its customers. The first of such collaboration is with Percona, around its MySQL offering - enabling automatic backups, DR, zero-touch upgrades, support, and more. "Platform9 Managed Apps enables organizations to maximize the value of open source - for both Kubernetes and databases - by delivering them as an integrated managed service - with SLA, in one click," said Peter Zaitsev, Co-Founder and CEO of Percona. "With Kubernetes Managed Apps, organizations can benefit from MySQL at scale, for Production use, delivering seamless operations and reduced complexity for both Dev and Ops." "Managed Apps is a huge accelerator for an organization such as ours that standardizes on Kubernetes. Having a consistent user experience and seamless management across infrastructure and Kubernetes applications means our engineers don't have to spend cycles to learn each new tool, API's, Operators, integrations, etc. -- and our Operations team doesn't need to worry about how to operate these apps or troubleshoot how they work together. We can just consume these as managed services, and focus on delivering great software to our customers, faster," said Ravi Ravichandran, Cloud Platform Engineering, Cloud Operations & DevOps at Juniper Networks. An Open Source Approach Being an open platform, built on upstream open source technology, Platform9 is leveraging the capabilities in the Kubernetes community, including Kubernetes Operators. These are extended, for various managed applications, to allow organizations to benefit from a fully managed service and SLA, without having to deal with the overhead and complexity of managing multiple applications, operators, and their inter-dependencies for production deployments. This enables enterprises to easily adopt both Kubernetes--and Kubernetes applications--at scale, with no management overhead for the underlying infrastructure stack or its related services and tools. "The rising complexity associated with adopting Kubernetes infrastructure and related applications creates a business need for developers and IT Ops teams to have self-service consumption and governance for all related tools and services around the core infrastructure," said Madhura Maskasky, Co-Founder and VP of Product at Platform9. "Kubernetes Managed Apps is designed to strategically tackle this challenge by extending Platform9's seamless management experience of Kubernetes Day-2 operations to the applications themselves, eliminating the need for DevOps teams to become experts in these related tools and services." To learn more about Platform9 Kubernetes Managed Apps
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