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Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster utilizing public and private clouds, providing a public cloud experience on any infrastructure from the data center to the edge. With a long-standing record of delivering solutions based on open source with enterprise-grade support, Mirantis offers an as-a-service experience of Kubernetes and OpenStack to provide containerization and virtualization services. Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Liberty Mutual, Nationwide Insurance, Reliance Jio, S&P Global, Seagate, Société Générale, and Volkswagen. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.

Mirantis is a global company headquartered in Campbell, California.

In today's rapidly evolving AI landscape, integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Kubernetes represents a transformative leap in how AI applications are deployed and managed. Despite the pivotal role of Kubernetes, many technologists don’t fully understand or appreciate its importance for AI application delivery and operations.

Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration platform on the planet, excelling at managing containerized applications. This capability is crucial for enhancing the performance and integration of sophisticated AI applications built with LLMs and RAG. By exploring the dynamic interplay between these advanced AI technologies and Kubernetes, we uncover how the platform's flexibility supports and optimizes AI infrastructure for high scalability and availability.

This exploration is essential for anyone looking to understand and leverage AI's full potential in today’s tech landscape, ensuring their AI systems are as efficient and scalable as possible.

Decoding AI infrastructure: LLMs + Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Kubernetes

Creating robust enterprise-grade dev environments using open source tools offers great advantages, including streamlined operations, reduced overhead, and higher developer productivity. This tech talk will show how to quickly build your own bulletproof dev environment, leveraging the open source Kubernetes distribution k0s, which offers simplicity, a small footprint, and ease of installation.

Building an enterprise-grade dev environment entails more than just deploying a Kubernetes cluster. You also need to integrate advanced features like centralized identity management, follow infrastructure best practices, and implement robust security measures. 

Join Roman Kuzmin, DevOps Engineer at Mirantis, and learn how to create your own enterprise-grade Kubernetes dev environment:
-  Safeguard clusters by minimizing direct access to machines
- Ensure high availability for the control plane by distributing it across multiple nodes and installing a load balancer
- Establish secure and efficient access management by using a centralized identity provider for user authentication
- Optimize costs and operational efficiency by minimizing underutilized computing resources

By adopting these practices, organizations can create secure, reliable, and cost-effective development environments that allow developers to focus on innovation without the burden of infrastructure complexities.

Build a Bulletproof Kubernetes Development Environment with Open Source Tools

OpenStack is the premier open-source private cloud framework, boasting over a decade of proven benefits. Numerous organizations worldwide have successfully leveraged OpenStack at scale, often with a tailored economic model. However, it's important to recognize that while OpenStack excels in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), its core functionalities revolve around flexible and open Compute, Network, and Storage orchestration. This leaves a gap for organizations seeking Platform as a Service (PaaS) layers, a void typically filled by public cloud implementations offering bundled services like Database as a Service (DBaaS) and Message Queue as a Service (MQaaS).

At Mirantis, we help customers address this gap with comprehensive open-source solutions, providing organizations with a genuine alternative to closed-source offerings.

Daniel Virassamy will explain how PaaS functionality is supported on OpenStack, providing a complete platform for accelerated software development and production hosting. He’ll provide and describe:
- A comprehensive overview of the architecture, spanning both IaaS and PaaS layers.
- A detailed Software Bill of Material (SBOM) and Bill of Material (BOM) for a complete open-source-based solution, ensuring transparency and accountability.
- Core services delivered by the IaaS layer, facilitating seamless infrastructure management.
- Deep integration of PaaS with IaaS, ensuring smooth interoperability and enhanced functionality.
- Various application delivery models for DBaaS, MQaaS, and other essential tools and runtimes.
- The value for the organizations and how their developers can benefit from those services.

Through these initiatives, we empower organizations to embrace open-source solutions fully, enabling agility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness in their cloud deployments.

Unlocking the Power of Open-Source: A Private Cloud Alternative to Public Cloud

Managing applications and the kubernetes cluster lifecycle at the same time can be daunting. Moreso when you have a lot of clusters.

k0smotron leverages the lightweight, certified k0s kubernetes distribution, and simplifies multi-cluster lifecycle management a lot. But what about applications? ArgoCD to the rescue! Argo provides a seamless solution that dovetails nicely with k0smotron and k0s to manage the application lifecycle atop k0smotron-managed multi-cluster Kubernetes.

Join me to discover how k0smotron/k0s+ArgoCD can provide a full declarative stack for managing Kubernetes platform and application lifecycles in agile harmony.

Manage your Clusters and Applications Lifecycle with k0smotron and ArgoCD

Are your clients exploring alternatives to VMware? Discover why Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) is the ideal solution.

Join us on September 12th at 1:00 PM EDT for a live event designed to help channel partners understand how Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) can serve as a powerful alternative to VMware. Learn why private or hybrid clouds from Mirantis are the ideal choice for many customers ready to move forward in their next step of virtualization.

In this webinar, channel partners will learn:
- Why choose Mirantis OpenStack over VMware?
- Deep dive into MOSK: Overview and Advantages  
- Maximizing client value with MOSK – Enabling Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) incentives
- Empowering Partners: Success Strategies 

If you're in the EMEA region, sign up for our webinar at a convenient time for your timezone below.
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/18604/621314?

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Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestration platform, but its complexity can be a barrier to adoption and efficient management. In this tech talk, we will explore how Lens, an open-source Kubernetes IDE, simplifies Kubernetes management by providing a user-friendly interface that makes it easier to navigate Kubernetes environments.

We will begin with a brief overview of Kubernetes, highlighting its key components, benefits and the common challenges faced by users when managing Kubernetes, such as the complexity of resource management, real-time monitoring, debugging and security.

Next, we will delve into the key features of Lens that empower you to:
- Effortlessly manage your Kubernetes environment by adding and managing multiple clusters, reducing context-switching and administrative overhead.
- Gain a clear understanding of your cluster health, resource utilization, and application deployments through interactive visualizations.
- Deploy, scale, and troubleshoot your applications with ease, without wrestling with complex kubectl commands.
- Streamline debugging and troubleshooting processes, making issue resolution faster and more efficient.

This talk will showcase practical demonstrations of how Lens has helped me effectively reduce the time spent on cluster management and issue detection by up to 50%. This improvement has enhanced my productivity, improved time-to-market for applications, increased ROI, and generally made me more efficient as a Kubernetes administrator.

Demystifying Kubernetes: Effortless Management with Lens

After Broadcom hiked up VMware prices, most customers had no leverage to negotiate better subscription rates. So now as VMware customers seek alternative solutions, many want a flexible tech stack that won’t make them vulnerable to price increases or deteriorating service levels. A number of infrastructure vendors claim to eliminate vendor lock-in, but it’s hard to figure out who’s blabbing marketing hype, and who can actually deliver.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss how some VMware alternatives can introduce new forms of lock-in, and how your organization can find a solution that genuinely frees you from proprietary constraints, so you can restore your leverage over IT suppliers.

Michael Tillman, Solution Architecture Manager, will cover:
- The different dimensions of vendor lock-in, even with open source-based solutions
- How leading VMware alternatives stack up, including Nutanix, Red Hat, Canonical, and Mirantis
- Why you need to go beyond platform flexibility and strategically implement a complete vendor-neutral solution that will provide long-term payoffs

Reclaim IT Leverage: Sifting through Market Hype in the Post VMware Age

Join Mirantis for an informative webinar with Corsec, a global leader in security compliance and validation, on leveraging the DISA STIG certification process to secure Kubernetes deployments. Using Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) as an example, we will examine the steps and best practices necessary to meet stringent government and industry standards. This session is tailored for public sector professionals and those in regulated industries such as finance, aiming to strengthen their Kubernetes environments.

What You Will Learn:
- DISA STIG Certification Overview: A thorough look at the DISA STIG certification process and its role in Kubernetes security.
- Key Security Controls: Implementation of critical security controls required for compliance.
- Overcoming Challenges: Practical strategies for addressing common obstacles in the certification journey.
- Documentation and Automation: The importance of precise documentation and automation in maintaining compliance.

By attending this webinar, you will gain a clear understanding of what is involved in the DISA STIG certification process and the critical steps needed to ensure Kubernetes security. You will learn the importance of partnering with the vendor of a STIG-compliant Kubernetes solution, like Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, to achieve compliance for your services and applications built on that solution.

Ensuring Kubernetes Security through the DISA STIG Process

OpenStack adoption is skyrocketing, as many enterprises look for alternatives to VMware or hyperscalers. Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) is a hardened, and fully-supported OpenStack distribution, designed to run on top of a Kubernetes substrate for extra resiliency, performance, and simplicity of operations, especially updates. 

See how you can leverage the new Dynamic Resource Balancer in MOSK 24.2 to automatically redistribute virtual machines within your cluster to optimize utilization of resources in it, e.g., to prevent hypervisor overloading (“hot spots”) or machine performance degradation due to noisy neighbors.

Join Staff Product Manager Artem Andreev and Principal Software Engineer Pavlo Shchelokovskyy as they give an overview of Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes and provide a demo of the new Dynamic Resource Balancer.

Attend this webinar to learn:
Learn about Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes architecture and key capabilities
Understand how the new Dynamic Resource Balancer service helps to optimize resource utilization in a MOSK cluster
See a demo of virtual machines getting dynamically redistributed
Ask any questions you have about MOSK or OpenStack in general

Sign up now!

Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes Demo: See the New Dynamic Resource Balancer

Plentiful resources exist – including a DISA Security Technical Implementation Guide – for securing Kubernetes. But what about multi-orchestrator environments that include both Kubernetes and Swarm? 

Many public sector organizations use Swarm orchestration, and a subset need both Swarm and Kubernetes platforms. Mirantis Kubernetes Engine is a hardened Kubernetes distribution that does both: one system, supporting just Kubernetes, just Swarm, or both. But this adds some steps in how to harden MKE for public sector or regulated industry (read: highly secure) use cases.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss security controls for MKE, covering both Kubernetes and Swarm mode orchestration. We’ll examine the new MKE DISA STIG in detail, to show how MKE can be locked-down for both orchestration modes.

Highly Secure Multi-Mode Container Orchestration: Kubernetes and Swarms

This webinar provides a recommended set of steps for planning your company’s migration from VMware to the leading Open Source infrastructure platform, OpenStack. The webinar will walk you through common reasons why migration is needed and some of the main benefits. The migration plan provides a well-established methodology to help your company navigate many of the complexities that can arise during the migration process and avoid pitfalls that can derail your initiative. 

To show your company the success that this migration planning approach can achieve, we will provide two concrete customer examples, including an industry-leading digital documentation company with over a billion users, and a fast-growing cybersecurity company used by federal governments around the world.

The webinar will include a live Q&A session to address any specific questions you may have regarding the planning steps.

Planning your VMware Migration to OpenStack: 2 Real-World Use Cases

Are you considering moving away from VMware to reduce cost, increase flexibility and enjoy the benefits of an OpenStack Cloud? Mirantis and Trilio, are partnering together to provide you insights to help you take advantage of technology to automate the planning and migration process helping you to complete your VMware to OpenStack journey.


Join Kevin Jackson, Senior Director of Product Management from Trilio, and Michael Tillman, Solution Architecture Manager from Mirantis, discussing everything you need to consider about moving from VMware to OpenStack, the consultancy approach, the Trilio software designed for migrating to OpenStack, and life beyond the migration.


In this webinar we will cover:
- Trilio and Mirantis joint consultancy approach
- Learn about key concepts and differences between VMware and OpenStack
- How Trilio maps a virtualization landscape to the flexibility of cloud
- How Mirantis simplifies Day 2 operations with fully-automated updates and upgrades

Automating VMware migration: From transitioning workloads to Day 2 operations

“They’re all VM-based workloads. How hard could it be to migrate them? Mostly a lift-and-shift, right?” True! But “simple” migrations can also be harder than they look, and slower, and riskier – unless you follow a dependable playbook and apply the right tools.

Doing migrations right is critical to gaining benefit from new private cloud environments: reduced ops overhead, better hardware utilization, power savings – and it’s ultimately what lets you reduce your VMware footprint on a reasonable timetable (and reduce those costs).

In this webinar, Michael Tillman and Heiko Kraemer, Principal Cloud Architect, tackle the challenge of how you plan, automate, and execute moving a diverse, VM-based workload population off VMware and onto an OpenStack private cloud. He’ll reveal the hidden gotchas, entity mapping issues, and other technical challenges, and offer both a playbook and recommendations for a toolkit to help you plan and execute migrations faster, with greater assurance and steeply-reduced risks.

Migrating off VMware to OpenStack: Here’s What It Takes

OpenStack supports a variety of Open Source and proprietary storage. Choosing the right storage backend or combination of storage technologies can make or break the cloud experience for the owner and customers alike. This webinar will compare different storage technologies in the context of OpenStack and provide insight into choosing the right approach for your individual use case.

Join Christian Huebner, an expert on OpenStack storage and system architecture, and learn how to…
- Explore storage concepts and technologies in OpenStack
- Discover key factors affecting OpenStack storage performance through use-case analysis
- Select solutions that won't disappoint, avoid expensive mistakes, and get great performance cost-effectively

Make or Break: How to Choose the Right OpenStack Storage

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Containers and Kubernetes provide a powerful, standards-based toolkit, rooted in open source, for delivering and running applications at the Edge and centrally managing large-scale distributed infrastructure with grace, ease, and reliability. Many now agree that Kubernetes is the future for Edge and IoT. But mapping the containers+Kubernetes technology stack to unique Edge use-cases can be challenging.

In this webinar, Mirantis Solution Architect Kevin Ng will discuss some of the major categories of Edge use-cases, enumerate their technical challenges, and describe how Mirantis and customers are building out a new generation of Kubernetes-native solutions to bring new fluency and simplicity to Edge operations. The focus will be on k0s – the CNCF-validated open source single binary Kubernetes distribution – and its growing set of Kubernetes operators: including k0smotron (centralized, declarative Kubernetes control plane fleet management), CAPI (declarative cloud and bare metal infrastructure management), as well as Autopilot, an operator enabling declarative configuration of automated, non-disruptive cluster updates.

Among the Edge scenarios discussed will be:
- Distributed retail and POS
- Manufacturing control and monitoring
- Scientific process management and monitoring
- Distributed telecommunications
- Specialized Kubernetes applications for remote field, military, and other scenarios

Kevin will detail how aspects of the k0s distro, like control plane/worker separation, encrypted/authenticated worker-to-control plane connectivity, meet Edge use-case requirements for efficiency and risk reduction. He’ll also provide a ‘deep’ demo of how all the Kubernetes-native moving parts work together, simplifying bootstrapping a secure, production-ready multi-cluster Kubernetes system with k0s and k0smotron, and managing remote workers at scale.

k0s and k0smotron at the Edge: Use-Cases

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, the ability to deploy large-scale on-prem cloud infrastructure swiftly is not just an advantage but a necessity. Just one catch: large-scale infra initiatives are easy to dream about and hard to execute. How can you ensure that your complex infrastructure deployments are both swift and successful? 

On February 1, Mirantis’ Satnam Johal and Menno de Fouw will explain how to leverage advanced virtualization, containerization, and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, and software-defined infrastructure to streamline and expedite deployment.

Join and learn how to…
- Design a tailored cloud blueprint and select vendors for rapid deployment 
- Combine pre-deployment planning, pre-configured hardware and software solutions, and the power of automation
- Ensure operational efficiency and scalability—while positioning yourself to respond to market changes and technological advancements

Join us to learn from our cloud infra experts’ experiences and approach.

Deploying large scale cloud on prem in weeks

Are your clients exploring alternatives to VMware? Discover why Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) is the ideal solution.

Join us on September 11th at 11:00 AM BST for a live event designed to help channel partners understand how Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) can serve as a powerful alternative to VMware. Learn why private or hybrid clouds from Mirantis are the ideal choice for many customers ready to move forward in their next step of virtualization.

In this webinar, channel partners will learn:
- Why choose Mirantis OpenStack over VMware?
- Deep dive into MOSK: Overview and Advantages  
- Maximizing client value with MOSK – Enabling Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) incentives
- Empowering Partners: Success Strategies 

If you're in the US, sign up for our webinar at a convenient time for your timezone below.
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/18604/621310?

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