This is the first article of a series of two covering the advantages and disadvantages of hosted and non-hosted Kubernetes management platforms. First, let’s introduce hosted what is hosted Kubernetes management platform (KMP) and provide a broader view of hosted KMPs.

This article is the second in a series covering Kubernetes Management Platforms (KMPs). In the first article, we analyzed hosted KMPs, exploring their potential benefits and customer base. This blog will examine non-hosted KMPs and the organizational customer profiles that can benefit the most from this solution. After the first article, you may think that hosted KMPs are the way to go, but there are many things to consider before deciding.

At Platform.sh, we run containers. Lots and lots of containers. On hundreds of virtual machines rented from various IaaS providers. These containers run your software. They also team up with other containers that run other software that your software depends upon (such as databases or caches). This is naturally an extremely complex system, and today we'll take a look at how we wire (most of) it up.

One of the biggest issues related to large-scale cloud deployments is overspending. It’s no surprise that as organizations scale their cloud-native Kubernetes environments, the associated costs rise along with that growth. However, there is a disconnect between the rising expenses and how well businesses can accurately and effectively monitor and control costs in the cloud, across multiple clouds and in hybrid cloud environments.

Spiraling costs are causing organizations to look for ways to reduce their monthly spend – hidden charges and unexpected bills are surprises that CFOs can no longer afford. With current costs from hyperscaler cloud providers skyrocketing, many are now asking whether going cloud-native is the right move for them. There are, however, a number of tips and tricks that you can action today that will help you reduce your cloud bill at any provider.

At Logz.io, we’re seeing a very fast pace of adoption for Kubernetes–at this point, it’s even outpacing cloud adoption, with companies running on-prem fully adopting Kubernetes in production. Why are companies going in this direction? Kubernetes provides additional layers of abstraction, which helps create business agility and flexibility for deploying critical applications. At the same time, those abstraction layers create additional complexity for observability.

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