Cloudfleet Kubernetes Engine
The hybrid cloud is rapidly emerging as the future of enterprise computing. Why? Because it seamlessly merges the security and control of private clouds with the scalability and flexibility of public clouds. Essentially, it delivers the best of both worlds. By embracing hybrid cloud strategies, businesses can adapt to changing demands more quickly, optimize their resources, and remain competitive in today’s fast-paced digital landscape.
Whether you’re a startup searching for scalable solutions or an enterprise that requires high-performance computing, hybrid cloud is a game-changing tool. It gives you the flexibility to operate smarter and more efficiently. Ready to make the shift? It might just be the key to elevating your business to the next level.
With hybrid cloud, you can manage your on-premise clusters and cloud-hosted environments (like Azure, AWS, and GCP) all from one unified dashboard. Picture this: a single pane of glass where you can configure security policies, audit logs, and monitor performance—no more hopping between different platforms or tools.
Hybrid cloud also ensures consistency when deploying multi-cluster apps. Using an app catalog, you can deploy these apps across environments seamlessly. And when it comes to security, you’re in complete control. You can manage access by connecting your cloud infrastructure to your internal identity provider, whether it’s Active Directory, LDAP, or Okta.
By uniting these powerful capabilities, hybrid cloud transforms how businesses operate. It’s more than just a tech trend—it’s a strategic advantage for companies looking to thrive in the digital age. Why wait? Explore how hybrid cloud can unlock new levels of efficiency and growth for your business.
Cloudfleet delivers a scalable, highly available Kubernetes control plane designed to operate seamlessly across multiple availability zones and regions. With Cloudfleet Kubernetes Engine (CFKE), you don’t have to worry about the heavy lifting—CFKE takes care of managing the availability and scalability of both the Kubernetes API servers and the etcd persistence layer.
To ensure high availability, Cloudfleet runs the Kubernetes control plane across three separate availability zones. This setup guarantees that your infrastructure remains resilient, even if an issue arises in one zone. And when things do go wrong, no need to stress—CFKE automatically detects and replaces unhealthy control plane nodes, so your operations stay smooth and reliable without missing a beat.
Cloudfleet runs upstream Kubernetes and is fully Kubernetes-conformant, which means you have access to all the plug-ins and tools available from the Kubernetes community. Whether you’re already using on-premises data centers or public clouds, applications running on CFKE are completely compatible with any standard Kubernetes environment.
What does that mean for you? Zero refactoring. You can migrate your Kubernetes applications to CFKE without needing to modify your code. It’s a seamless transition that saves you time and headaches, so you can focus on scaling your applications rather than worrying about compatibility issues.
Cloudfleet simplifies Kubernetes cluster security with powerful features and seamless integrations with partner solutions. One key benefit? Your compute resources are never shared with other customers, giving you a high level of isolation to build secure, reliable applications without compromise.
Cloudfleet Kubernetes Engine (CFKE) leverages the Cilium container network interface (CNI), ensuring that Kubernetes pods receive IP addresses directly from your private network. This boosts both security and performance, creating a controlled environment where you can confidently scale and protect your applications.
With Cloudfleet, managing and operating Kubernetes clusters on-premises has never been easier, whether you’re using virtual machines (VMs) or bare metal servers. Say goodbye to the complexity of building and maintaining your own Kubernetes management tools—Cloudfleet takes care of that for you.
Cloudfleet Kubernetes Engine (CFKE) offers powerful automation tools that streamline every aspect of cluster creation, administration, and operations across various infrastructures like bare metal, VMware vSphere, and cloud-based virtual machines. It even handles default configurations for logging, monitoring, networking, and storage on cloud VMs.
With Cloudfleet, you can effortlessly deploy your training workloads across any cloud provider using a unified Kubernetes API. Need specific GPUs? Simply specify the GPU model your application requires within the Kubernetes manifest, and Cloudfleet takes care of the rest. It intelligently selects the most cost-effective cloud provider with the capacity to meet your needs, optimizing performance and cost.
Have your own cloud accounts with credits? No problem—Cloudfleet allows you to link those accounts, so it can spin up the necessary compute capacity under your existing account. It’s the smart, seamless way to leverage cloud infrastructure for your workloads, without the hassle of manual management.
Apps running on Cloudfleet can effortlessly scale to thousands of instances across hundreds of nodes within seconds, giving you the flexibility to handle even the most demanding workloads with ease and speed.
Cloudfleet makes it easy to deploy and manage hybrid infrastructure, offering you the flexibility to choose between a self-managed or fully managed service. Whether you’re running on-premise, in the cloud, or across a hybrid environment, Cloudfleet adapts to your needs, simplifying the entire process and ensuring seamless operations.
CFKE integrates Open Container Initiative (OCI) containers and Cloud Native Computing Foundation-certified Kubernetes for seamless container orchestration, while also leveraging a range of other powerful open-source technologies to ensure flexibility and scalability in your infrastructure.
With automated systems, software installations and updates are triggered without the need for human intervention, keeping your applications up-to-date with the latest features and security patches. This not only saves time but also minimizes downtime, allowing your teams to focus on innovation rather than tedious maintenance tasks.
Cloudfleet Cluster Security for Kubernetes enhances protection with advanced capabilities like runtime threat detection, full lifecycle vulnerability management, and risk profiling, ensuring your Kubernetes environments are secure from deployment to runtime.
As businesses increasingly turn to cloud computing, the concept of the hybrid cloud has become a game-changer. But what exactly is hybrid cloud, and why should you care? In this article, we’ll break down the key aspects of hybrid cloud architecture, its benefits, and how it can revolutionize the way your organization handles computing resources.
In simple terms, hybrid cloud refers to the combination of at least two distinct computing environments—such as public and private clouds—that share information and resources while running uniform applications. This setup creates a seamless infrastructure, offering flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness that traditional computing environments cannot match. A hybrid cloud environment can be composed of various elements, including:
The unique aspect of hybrid cloud is that it blends these environments, allowing your business to run applications across them seamlessly.
As cloud technology has advanced, the lines between public and private clouds have become increasingly blurred. Initially, public clouds were off-premise, managed by third-party providers, while private clouds were on-premise and locally managed. But modern cloud computing has evolved significantly.
Today, it’s common for public cloud providers to offer cloud services directly within their clients’ on-premise data centers, while organizations can build private clouds in rented, off-premise vendor-owned data centers. This complexity makes the location and ownership of clouds less relevant and brings new opportunities for hybrid cloud strategies.
It’s easy to confuse hybrid cloud with multicloud, but they are two distinct strategies.
A multicloud approach treats different clouds—such as public and private clouds—as completely separate entities. Each cloud runs its own applications, and there is no interoperability or shared management across them. While multicloud can provide flexibility by allowing you to choose different cloud providers for different workloads, it can also create siloed environments that don’t communicate with each other.
On the other hand, a hybrid cloud strategy promotes workload portability, meaning that applications can run across different cloud environments as part of a single, unified platform. Hybrid cloud allows for seamless communication between clouds, creating an integrated computing ecosystem where workloads can be shifted between environments based on performance, cost, or security needs.
The hybrid cloud model offers a wide array of benefits that can help your business become more agile, efficient, and resilient.
Hybrid cloud gives your organization the flexibility to use a mix of public and private cloud resources based on specific needs. For example, sensitive data can be kept in a private cloud for security reasons, while non-sensitive workloads can be run on a public cloud to take advantage of its scalability.
By leveraging a combination of public and private clouds, businesses can reduce operational costs. You can scale up with public cloud resources when demand spikes, avoiding the expense of over-provisioning your private infrastructure. Hybrid cloud allows you to pay only for the resources you need, when you need them.
Hybrid cloud environments enable organizations to maintain control over sensitive data by keeping it within a secure private cloud, while still accessing the benefits of public cloud infrastructure. This hybrid model can also help with regulatory compliance, as businesses can choose where and how to store their data.
With hybrid cloud, workloads can be moved to the optimal environment for performance, helping to reduce latency and improve the reliability of applications. Whether it’s offloading non-critical tasks to the public cloud or keeping mission-critical workloads in-house, hybrid cloud ensures that you’re always using the best resources available.
By distributing workloads across multiple cloud environments, hybrid cloud increases redundancy and ensures business continuity. In the event of a failure in one cloud environment, workloads can automatically be shifted to another, reducing downtime and ensuring your applications remain operational.
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