Congratulations to our friends at Microsoft
There is exciting news from our long time friend Brendan Burns at Microsoft this week with the announcement of AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) general availability! As one of the co-founders of Kubernetes no one is better connected to the Kubernetes ecosystem or has had more direct personal impact on the emerging cloud native landscape than Brendan. It has been heartening to watch his impact as a leader in the Microsoft team working in the container and cloud native computing space.
As enterprises start putting together their cloud native strategy, first class managed Kubernetes services like AKS are an important tool in the tool-chest. Microsoft’s commitment to delivering a 100% clean, upstream friendly managed service is significant. You can rely on a service built and run by Microsoft engineers, and optionally complement it with Kubernetes solutions running on your own infrastructure or tuned to your unique workload requirements without having to retrain your engineers, re-qualify your applications, or invest in new tools or app management practices.
We strongly support Microsoft’s approach to its hosted Kubernetes service, and are excited to see this important product being made generally available and accessible in several new regions. The default introduction of RBAC is also an important step forwards in securely configuring Kubernetes clusters.
Heptio is committed to continuing to work with Microsoft to deliver HKS (Heptio Kubernetes Subscription) solutions that can run on-premises or at the network edge, or even in the public cloud when needed that can be operated and upgraded in lock-step with AKS. We have also been working hard to make sure that the tools we create to help with Kubernetes operations work well with AKS. Our joint work on Heptio Ark means it is not only an effective solution for backing up and restoring production managed clusters, but that it also acts as a migration tool to get users onto the latest AKS cluster from unmanaged Kubernetes solutions.
