3 years ago

Category: Software, Kubernetes

Platform9, a SaaS provider of managed Kubernetes and OpenStack for private and edge clouds, has added bare metal to its list of offerings with this month’s introduction of Platform9 Managed Bare Metal, a fully managed cloud-based service that allows its customers to turn their servers into private clouds. For many large organizations, provisioning bare metal servers remains a tedious process, but Platform9’s managed bare metal offering turns that all around, explains Platform9 head of product marketing Kamesh Pemmaraju.

API access combined with the self-service UI, explained Pemmaraju, offers a developer agility in regards to bare metal that is otherwise unavailable.

Increasingly, people want to run Kubernetes directly on bare metal, for obvious reasons: they want high performance, they don’t want the hypervisor tax, and they want to be able to scale and take advantage of everything that Kubernetes offers.

There are a number of vendors that provide Kubernetes on bare metal, but they expect the customer to handle the bare metal piece of it,” said Pemmaraju.