In full swing of the holiday shopping and travel season, AWS yesterday experienced an outage in its US-EAST-1 region. It brought down websites and applications galore, including those of Disney+, the Associated Press, Amazon Prime, and Southwest and Delta Airlines. As cloud computing adoption continues to accelerate with the COVID-19 pandemic, enterprises are increasingly turning to public cloud, with AWS …

This week we are pleased to announce the release of Mirantis Container Cloud 2.14. Container Cloud enables you to easily create multiple Kubernetes, Swarm, and even Mirantis OpenStack clusters, and with this new version, we are pleased to introduce numerous new features for enterprise users, including: Private networking for Bare Metal clusters Additional operating system support Operational and usability improvements Let's look at these …

Today at Mirantis we are excited to announce the launch of our newest offering, DevOpsCare powered by Lens. While our previous products and offerings have been mainly focused on operators, we recognize the needs of the "Dev" half of "DevOps", and DevOpsCare powered by Lens is designed specifically to address that challenge. DevOpsCare: The Challenge Modern IT teams are faced with the …

We are proud to announce that Lens 5.3 is now available! The highlight of this release is the new Managed Dev Clusters feature that makes it possible for all Lens users to easily run their own Kubernetes development clusters. Managed Dev Clusters are made available directly from Lens Desktop through Lens Spaces — our cloud based service — supercharging the …

Recently, Mirantis released version 21.6 of Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes, which includes technical previews of several new features to provide enhanced security and expanded networking connectivity options. These include image signature verification, enhanced secrets management, and multi-rack architecture support for Tungsten Fabric. Image Signature Verification With the new experimental Image signature verification feature, users of Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes 21.6, can now …

We are pleased to announce the availability of Mirantis Kubernetes Engine 3.5, with key enhancements including: Standard OIDC support for single sign-on More efficient installation footprint Improved ease of use Simplified lifecycle management for Swarm users Support for massive clusters with high traffic throughput requirements Enhanced support options through Mirantis OpsCare In this post, we’ll break down some of the most important new features and capabilities. OIDC …

Recently, Systems Engineer Stephane Montri and Edward Ionel from our open source growth team walked webinar viewers through the process of creating a production-grade Kubernetes cluster — and sharing access to the cluster within a team. Today, we’re presenting an excerpt to help you get started doing the same. If you’d like to watch the full webinar, you can check it …

Every month, the team at Mirantis sends out a newsletter chronicling top industry and company news. Below you’ll find links to thought leadership articles, blogs, tutorials, and the latest updates to our enterprise, open source, and training offerings. If you don’t currently receive the newsletter, you can subscribe using the form on the right. Mirantis Container Cloud now supports Microsoft Azure Microsoft …

The great paradox of IT today is that while the individual cost of running a workload has decreased over the years thanks to the rise of cloud computing, the actual total cost of IT has increased. The main reason for this is that each IT platform employed is managed in isolation from all the other IT platforms that an organization …

In September, we launched Mirantis Flow, an exciting new data center as a service offering based on open source cloud native technologies. For enterprises, it provides a completely hands-off approach to infrastructure operations, so you can focus staff and resources on building applications and creating customer value. In terms of compute, it provides both virtualization and containerization in one platform …

In our recent webinar Long Live Docker Swarm! Sr. Solutions Engineer Jason Epstein and Sr. Solutions Architect Avinash Desireddy discussed the current state of Docker Swarm and how its use has changed with the emergence of Kuberenetes. This proved to be an extremely popular webinar, with tons of interest about where Docker Swarm stands today — and many questions about …

Kubernetes is complicated, so it’s no wonder that a host of tools have emerged to help operators make use of it. As the container orchestrator has skyrocketed into widespread adoption, two open source tools — the configuration manager Kustomize and the “package manager for Kubernetes” Helm — have emerged as essential ingredients for many organizations’ Kubernetes implementations. Both Helm and Kustomize …

Many organizations use external identity providers like Google or Microsoft to manage authentication across their applications — and many may wish to bring this functionality to their cluster management, too. In the upcoming Mirantis Kubernetes Engine 3.5.0, we’ll introduced support for external OpenID Connect (OIDC) providers to help you do just that. OIDC enables you to authenticate Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) …

This week, we’re excited to announce that Mirantis Container Cloud officially supports Microsoft Azure deployment. For those who wish to experiment with this new feature using a trial license — or deploy to Azure with an existing license — we’ve created this walkthrough to help you get started. In this guide, we will show you how to: Deploy Mirantis Container Cloud to …

The rapidly changing business requirements which IT organizations are faced with today have many looking at moving their operations to cloud-native strategies. In today’s landscape, there are many options for where to host your infrastructure — from internal private clouds to a wide range of public cloud offerings — or some combination of them all. But selecting a cloud partner, …