Platform9 Managed Kubernetes

Overview

• PMK
• SaaS
• On-prem, public cloud, edge
• 99.9% SLA—across all deplopyment targets, including public cloud
• Deploy < 5 min
• Scale on demand
• Remote 24/7 monitoring—troubleshoot and repair

Tech Stack

• Load balancer—MetalLB
• Monitoring—Prometheus, Fluentd
• etcd—optional backups
• Multi-tenancy—implemented via Keystone
• Knative—self install
• Istio—self install
• Multi-cluster ingress—self install (CloudFlare suggested)

Deployment Targets

BareOS

• Physical/VMs with supported Linux version
  • Not VMware—pre-built image available
• Networking not managed by PMK

AWS And Azure

• Native PMK clusters—running on EC2/VMs
• EKS/AKS cluster import—subset of features
• Native—can set up VPC, subnets, Security Groups etc. or bring your own VPC
• ELB
• Cluster autoscaling
• Fully automated rolling upgrades
• Centralised deployment UI/API/TF provider

Google Cloud

• No native clusters—import GKE clusters only
• Cluster must have public API endpoint and public VPC
• Limitations: No cluster lifecycle management from PMK (delete, upgrade, scale)
  • Monitoring only

Profile Engine

• Similar to GKE Enterprise Config Management
• Cluster governance/policy management—RBAC only
• Drift detection

Monitoring

• Prometheus, Grafana
• PMK monitoring dashboard
• Alerts