Kubernetes is an amazing building block for managing containers at scale, but it is only a piece of the puzzle and does not solve the problems of actually provisioning the infrastructure and all the heavy lifting & management that goes along with it. To build fully portable, containerized infrastructure that…
Containership Blasts Kubernetes Into Multicloud Orbit Announces easy, cloud-agnostic deployment and management for advanced cluster portability PRESS RELEASE JUL 25, 2017 13:00 EDT Pittsburgh, PA , July 25, 2017 - Containership, the company making multicloud computing easy, has announced support for Kubernetes on their Container-as-a-Service platform. This will allow developers…
We are excited to announce some exciting new products and features in Containership Cloud! Ride the Kubership Today we have released to production our support for launching Kubernetes clusters via Containership Cloud with support all of the integrated providers on our platform: AWS Azure Alibaba Cloud Bluemix Digital Ocean Google…
Today we're unveiling a very awesome and desperately needed feature, a cloud agnostic firewall service. The firewall feature allows you to lock down your clusters from both internal inter-host traffic, as well as from the internet, selectively opening the ports across the cluster that need to be open for your…
Anyone paying any attention to the technology industry knows containers are a hot topic. Perhaps no hotter than the past couple of days. Yesterday, Docker announced a new CEO, the respected industry veteran, Steve Singh. It’s a big move by Docker and one that, so far, has been received…
On November 30th, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new service called "Lightsail" which promises to deliver easy Virtual Private Servers (VPS) at predictable costs. AWS has been the leader in on-demand computing resources for a decade. They pioneered the space, and have by far the largest footprint when…
Whether there will still be a need for dedicated private cloud hosting solutions in the not-too-distant future has been a debate that has steadily gained momentum in recent years. This is partly due to the fact that public cloud has grown in popularity as a cheaper option for businesses looking…
Only a few years ago, we heralded the arrival of the virtual machine (VM) as the answer to our problems concerning utilizing every resource on our server hardware. Virtual machines came along to revolutionize the way we thought about computing and it seemed as if all of our resource woes…
Configuration management is best understood through a simple example. If you, a new sysadmin, were to configure a web server with your Linux knowledge, you would know the commands to install packages and perhaps even build a few of your own. After editing some configuration files, loading kernel modules, restarting…
As cloud computing goes from novelty to necessity, many companies are thinking about how to best leverage its performance-enhancing potential while stratifying their IT investments more wisely. A relative but popular newcomer on the scene is hybrid cloud computing; a way for businesses to integrate their on-premise, public and private…