Kubernetes distribution
Building the Ideal Kubernetes Distro for SaaS: Part 2
In the first article of this two-part series, we took a critical look at the Kubernetes distribution-for-SaaS landscape. While the InfluxData team proves that it’s possible to use Kubernetes as a cloud ...
VMware Tanzu Advanced Expands Scope of Kubernetes Platform
VMware’s advanced edition of its Tanzu distribution of Kubernetes promises to simplify deployment and management of cloud-native environments. In addition, VMware has launched the Project Iris initiative, through which the company says it will ...
Canonical Brings HA to MicroK8s Distribution
Canonical today announced it has added an autonomous high availability (HA) clustering capability to its MicroK8s lightweight distribution of Kubernetes that is automatically enabled after three nodes join a cluster. Alex Chalkias, ...
Canonical Brings MicroK8s Kubernetes Distro to Windows, MacOs
Canonical this week announced it’s now possible to deploy its lightweight distribution of Kubernetes on both Windows and MacOS platforms. Alex Chalkias, a product manager for Canonical, says that while the MicroK8s ...
Appvia Simplifies Kubernetes Deployments for Developer Teams
Appvia this week launched a distribution of Kubernetes that is easier to provision and deploy on behalf of developer teams. Company CEO Jonathan Shanks says Appvia developed its open source Appvia Kore ...
Mirantis Acquires Kubernetes Assets from Kontena
Mirantis today announced it has acquired the assets of Kontena, a provider of a distribution of Kubernetes based on Finland. David Van Everen, senior vice president of marketing for Mirantis, says Mirantis ...
k3OS Takes Kubernetes to the Edge
In the tradition of embedded Linux comes k3OS, an open source project for managing Kubernetes instances on embedded platforms at the edge. k3OS combines a Linux distro with a k3s Kubernetes distro ...
Kubernetes and OpenShift: Discerning the Differences
At VSHN and APPUiO.ch we rely on OpenShift as our Kubernetes distribution of choice. What a Kubernetes distribution is, why we use it and what the differences are to “plain” Kubernetes are ...
Do We Have More Kubernetes Distributions Than We Need?
How many Kubernetes distributions does the world need? As more and more vendors roll out their own distributions, that’s a question worth asking. It’s also a question whose answer is No, I ...