What is a cloud native data center? With the recent announcement of Mirantis Flow, our new data center-as-a-service solution, there’s been a lot of talk about this concept of a cloud native data center and the impact it will have on the future of cloud native infrastructure. Below, you will find a complete definition from Mirantis Field CTO Shaun O’Meara along …

Cryptography is the beating heart of cybersecurity, lying behind everything from SSH to the Secrets in a Kubernetes cluster. The history of the Internet is littered with weak encryption algorithms - many of which remain in widespread use long after the discovery of critical vulnerabilities. Security moves quickly, and organizations often struggle to keep up. In order to protect its data, …

Pairing Mirantis Flow’s Data Center-as-a-Service with the world-class bare metal at Equinix can make cloud native infrastructure management a breeze. If you’d like a small taste of the simplicity and freedom that Mirantis and Equinix can bring to your data center, here are a few ways to get started: 1) Get insights from the hybrid multi-cloud experts In this session from Equinix’s …

I once worked next door to a nondescript, high-security building. One day I was surprised to find out that it was a server farm for one of the Silicon Valley tech giants. Even more surprising was learning that that one building used more than half of the electricity of the whole city! That was my first awakening to the massive energy …

Kustomize lets you create a K8s application. You can combine pieces from different sources without touching the originals, keep your kustomizations in source control, and create overlays.

Recently, we launched a webinar series called Cloud Native & Coffee. In these conversations, the Mirantis team invites special guests to discuss cloud native concepts that are currently impacting the industry. Our inaugural session — "Has Cloud Killed the Data Center?" —premiered last month with special guest Jacob Smith, VP of Bare Metal Strategy and Marketing at Equinix. Below you will …

Mirantis is pleased to announce the availability of Mirantis OpenStack for K8s, version 21.5. This release expands upon the open nature of the Mirantis offerings by extending the workload orchestration service, provides an early look into Block Storage Encryption, and enhances the product documentation to provide you with a clear mapping of the versions of the major components that …

At Mirantis, our strength and success comes from the talent and hard work of our employees, and we believe in recognizing and rewarding excellence among our staff. Recently, our HR team asked managers across the company to nominate candidates for our Outstanding Employee awards who not only embody Mirantis’ core values but also produce outstanding results for our business. Below is …

For organizations operating at scale, the application supply chain provides malefactors with a troubling range of opportunities for attack. The recent revelation of the “OMIGOD” exploit is only the latest in a long line of reminders that security must be tailored for a cloud-native world, and we need to account for vulnerabilities at every stage of deployment. So how can organizations …

We are thrilled to launch our inaugural book from Mirantis Press, Service Mesh for Mere Mortals, by Bruce Basil Mathews. Below we've shared the first three chapters of the book, where you can learn about the history of service mesh, and how service mesh fits in versus container orchestrators like Kubernetes. Download the full 100+ page eBook for free. Introduction The reason …

Today we welcome the newly released version 2.12 of Mirantis Container Cloud. In this release, our focus was to improve integration and interoperation with other technologies. We are excited to announce full support of Mirantis Container Cloud on top of Mirantis OpenStack with OvS technology, along with significant improvements to metrics and alerting. Interoperation and integration are vital to the flexible …

Because we wanted to keep the book Service Mesh for Mere Mortals short and consumable, there was a lot of interesting (but peripheral) content we had to cut.  We did, however, want to make sure it was available to you if you want it, so we're presenting it here. Troubleshooting k0s installation For the sake of thoroughness and to assist the reader …

Here at Mirantis we do a lot of thinking about outcomes. After all, you don't care how hard we work or what exciting rounding features we talk about, you only care about whether your job gets done and accomplishes what you expected it to. And rightfully so! So we've decided to do something about it. Recently we launched an initiative designed …

Kubernetes was designed to orchestrate multiple containers and replication. In this article, we’ll look at three options: Replication Controllers, Replica Sets, and Deployments.

The ability to move code between platforms is an inalienable right that has also become a critical business imperative. Every developer knows that not every application workload runs equally well on all platforms. Developers in this day and age also need to be able to easily shift between platforms as platforms and business conditions evolve. Containers, along with the Kubernetes orchestration …