Name: Choosing a Kubernetes management platform: the analyst perspective
Start: 2025-04-10T15:00:00Z
End: 2025-04-10T15:00:30.000Z
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Spectro Cloud uniquely enables organizations to manage Kubernetes in production, at scale. Our Palette management platform gives effortless control of the full Kubernetes lifecycle, across clouds, data centers, bare metal and edge environments.

Edge computing environments present unique challenges for running Kubernetes clusters. In this webinar, we'll show you how you can solve them all with Spectro Cloud's Palette Edge platform.

We'll run through the lifecycle of an edge project, exploring how you can:

* Build optimized software stacks with your choice of integrations, from OS to app
* Provision devices to hundreds or thousands of sites, without burning your field engineering budget
* Secure against tampering and theft
* Manage lifecycle activities like patching, without downtime or manual toil
* Support the unique needs of your workloads, from legacy VMs to today's AI apps
* Maintain service even in disconnected or airgapped environments

Each step of the way we'll draw on examples of how real businesses are thriving at the edge with Kubernetes.

Your one-stop shop for edge Kubernetes

"Public sector, defense, healthcare, financial services... many different industries set high standards for infrastructure security, privacy and governance, and these standards have huge implications for your Kubernetes environments.

In this webinar we'll take a tour of Spectro Cloud's Palette VerteX, a Kubernetes management platform designed specifically to meet security requirements in DoD and regulated industries. We'll spotlight features such as:

* Support for airgapped and high side environments
* Deploying to government clouds in AWS and Azure
* FIPS cryptography from management plane to cluster
* Choice of hardened OS, distributions and software packages available
* Native security scans and audit logging
* CONUS technical support

We'll share real-world examples of how agencies and businesses are using Palette VerteX to simplify how they manage K8s clusters in regulated environments, and show you how you can get started."

Managing Kubernetes in regulated environments: Palette VerteX

Many organizations have placed their bets on Kubernetes and cloud native as the future for their application infrastructure — and not just for containers, but traditional VMs, too.

In this webinar, we'll explore the strategies and best practices you’ll need to bring your VMs to K8s, drawn from real experiences helping enterprises migrate to KubeVirt in production. You'll learn:

* What's new with KubeVirt, what it's good at — and where there are still gaps
* How to speed up and de-risk the migration of thousands or tens of thousands of VMs from vSphere to KubeVirt
* Why 'migrate' should be the last step in your application triage
* How you can draw on outside services and a new generation of tools to help your project succeed

VMs on K8s: making your KubeVirt migration happen

As enterprises seek to modernize their infrastructure, migrating applications to containerized environments can be complex — especially when managing workloads across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments. 

AWS and Spectro Cloud are partnering to simplify and accelerate this journey, helping organizations seamlessly transition from legacy systems to modern Kubernetes-powered infrastructure.

Join us for this exclusive webinar, where experts from AWS and Spectro Cloud will share insights on:
* Best practices for migrating and modernizing workloads with Kubernetes
* How to leverage AWS services and Spectro Cloud’s automation for seamless deployment
* Real-world use cases showcasing success from edge to cloud
* Q&A with industry experts

Whether you’re just starting your container migration journey or looking to optimize existing deployments, this session will provide actionable strategies to help you modernize with confidence.

Accelerating migrations to modernized containers, from edge to cloud

Air gapped environments are a necessity in many mission scenarios — and a constant management headache for IT operations teams.
In this webinar, Mike Wood and Tommy Scherer from Spectro Cloud will explore how you can use Kubernetes to create and operate secure and consistent application environments, across both high-impact airgapped and low-side connected environments.
You’ll take away best practices covering:
Infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines and configuration management
Image and data synchronization mechanisms such as mirror registries
Monitoring and logging using ELK, Prometheus and Grafana
Security practices and compliance, including permissions and network policies
Business continuity, including backup and recovery
Expect deep technical insight and real-world examples to bring the concepts to life.

Crossing the Chasm: Using Kubernetes to Overcome Air Gap Challenges

Kubernetes is everywhere in today’s enterprise; data centers, clouds, the edge. The benefits are there, but one question remains: how do you manage it all? 

As more and more organizations are moving from experimenting with containers and Kubernetes to operationalizing at scale, they are considering solutions to increase efficiency, manage cost and future proof their investments, across heterogeneous environments. A whole class of product called enterprise Kubernetes management platform has emerged to fill this need.

Part of their decision-making is balancing their business requirements with the technical capabilities vendors have to offer; to meet the needs of the now without constraining the future.

In this webinar we’ll be joined by Howard Holton, CTO at tech analysts GigaOm, and Cornelia Davis, technology fellow at Spectro Cloud. They’ll explore what enterprise Kubernetes means — without the hype — and drill into the required capabilities and criteria that organizations are really looking for.

If you’re investigating better ways to manage your Kubernetes infrastructure at scale, don’t miss out on this session.

Choosing an enterprise Kubernetes platform: an analyst's guide

As a retailer, you know all too well the value edge computing promises for all kinds of use cases — many of which can now be supercharged with the addition of AI models right in the store or warehouse, built on the familiar foundation of Kubernetes and cloud-native development.

If your edge initiatives have kicked into high gear this year, you’ve probably already started planning for the many challenges you’ll face. Edge computing presents unique security risks, and requires a whole new approach to managing the hardware and software stack throughout its lifecycle. 

Join us for this webinar to hear the latest insights and best practices from edge computing veterans from CDW’s retail team and the edge Kubernetes ninjas at Spectro Cloud. We’ll cover:

- The most impactful use cases for AI-powered retail edge in 2024, from video monitoring to supply chain management
- Top operational considerations for your edge computing project, including how to minimize the cost of field engineering, assure availability, and protect your data and proprietary models
- Approaches to managing edge computing deployments in retail locations with limited connectivity or even in air gapped sites

You’ll take away real examples and hard-earned best practices that you can put to work immediately in your projects. And if you need a shortcut to edge success, we’ll also share how CDW’s services, plus Spectro Cloud’s Palette Edge management platform, can help you get started.

Retail edge computing: Unlocking value with Kubernetes and AI

Last year Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware created turmoil in the industry as Broadcom set about transforming VMware’s product portfolio, pricing, and even channel partnerships.

Enterprises are naturally wondering about the macro impact on virtualization as a computing paradigm — is it time to look for another vSphere, or to jump ship to new generations of containers and bare metal?

But many are also more critically looking for practical guidance about alternative solutions and strategies that they can investigate in the short and medium terms.  

In this webinar, Jeremy Oakey from Spectro Cloud will sit down with Jared Cheney from SoftwareONE to: 
- Recap the current state of play and what they’re hearing from customers and partners on one of the hottest topics in the industry. 
- Share perspectives on the impact the Broadcom acquisition is having on enterprises
- Explore how Kubernetes and cloud native come into the mix, using real, tangible stories from the “field”.

Whatever your level of commitment and investment to VMware, don’t miss this opportunity to consider the big picture and guide your strategy in the right direction.

After VMware… What’s next?

Broadcom’s takeover of VMware has caused chaos in the world of application infrastructure — but if (like many platform engineering teams) you’re already committed to being container-first and cloud native, the disruption is just validation that you already made the right decision.

Still, VM workloads aren’t going away, whether in the cloud and data center, or even at the edge. 

You know that you’re not looking for another vSphere to migrate to. But what if you could bring those VMs into Kubernetes and run and manage them with the same cloud-native patterns you use to manage your containers?

In this webinar we’ll show you the best way to make a new home for your VMs in Kubernetes.

We’ll explore:
* The different technology options available to you, from roll-your-own open source KubeVirt to megavendor stacks and HCI platforms
- The key features you need to look for to satisfy your use case, whether you’re using Kubernetes in the data center or in edge computing deployments
- A live tour of Spectro Cloud Palette’s Virtual Machine Orchestrator (VMO) capability, showing how you can model, deploy and manage VM workloads alongside containers in all your clusters and environments
- How to painlessly migrate your existing VMs, minimizing downtime and stress for you and the application teams you work with

The clock is ticking. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the best-in-class solutions for VMs on Kubernetes.

The new home for your VMs: Kubernetes

Infusing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into data and applications at the edge has the potential to transform operations at Federal civilian agencies and in national defense. But edge environments can be challenging to manage at scale, and sensitive data and AI stacks are vulnerable to attack.

Join Spectro Cloud and Hitachi Vantara Federal in this webinar to discuss the keys to effective use of AI at the edge.

We’ll cover:
- The use cases driving edge and AI together in public sector, and examples of the impact they are having on real mission outcomes today
- The challenges of deploying and managing edge computing in defense and federal environments, from security to connectivity, scale and interoperability
- Approaches to managing the lifecycle of edge devices and the data that they gather, both locally and centralized in the cloud, and why data provenance and lineage are so critical
- A best practice architecture for building edge AI deployments on open platforms like Kubernetes, plus Spectro Cloud Palette and Hitachi Vantara Pentaho

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the cutting edge of edge AI from the experts that are making it happen.

Advancing AI at the edge to transform missions

Organizations across the public sector and regulated industries are facing the challenge of rapidly transitioning to modern cloud-native infrastructure built around Kubernetes. 

In this webinar we’ll explore the key factors you need to consider to ensure success, and answer some of the most challenging questions you’ll face:

- Scaling with simplicity: how can you scale to hundreds of clusters across different environments, without creating a management and performance nightmare?
- Flexibility and openness: can you drive a modernization strategy that’s right for your organization, without being locked in to a costly opinionated platform?
- Securing the stack: from the software supply chain to cluster access controls, how can you protect your workloads and meet regulatory standards, without constraining agility?
- App and developer innovation: how can you support your application teams with the infrastructure they need to migrate legacy VMs and build new apps, without losing control?
- Protecting and managing the edge: can you embrace edge computing opportunities while enforcing compliance and protecting sensitive data?

We’ll share examples of real use cases we’ve encountered working on projects in the field, and illustrate solutions to these questions that you can implement today using our Palette VerteX Kubernetes management platform.

Kubernetes in government: 5 key requirements for your app modernization journey

Join us for a rundown of the top trends you need to know about as you head into 2024 and beyond.

We’ll explore:

- What’s next for platform engineering and IDPs as the devex challenge remains
- The next steps for optimizing Kubernetes costs beyond cloud spend to edge, power consumption, green IT and more
- AI on Kubernetes and how we move from buzzword to business-critical
- How Kubernetes and software supply chain security is evolving to keep pace with the threat landscape
- Strategies for modernizing the hidden iceberg of legacy applications in cloud-native environments

We’ll put these trends in the context of the broader evolution of the cloud-native ecosystem, as Kubernetes itself becomes the extensible meta-orchestrator.

You’ll take away best practices, trends to watch, and hot new projects to explore over the Christmas shutdown. Expect fierce debate and more than a little humour as we close out the year in style.

What's in store for 2024?

What does a “typical” Kubernetes environment look like? What’s the best way to give devs access to clusters? Is anyone really using Kubernetes at the edge?

The new 2023 State of Production Kubernetes report answers these questions and many more, drawing on a large-scale survey and in-depth interviews with enterprise IT professionals and executives.

Join us for a whistlestop tour of some key findings, including:

- Why multi-everything is the reality for today’s Kubernetes adopters
- The top pain points ops teams face — and what they plan to do to address them
- How organizations really feel about the role of app devs in managing K8s
- Where legacy VM workloads fit in the cloud-native landscape
- What the future holds for Kubernetes at the edge

Whether you’re looking to benchmark your own Kubernetes adoption, gather data to support budget requests for 2024, or just want fresh data to catch up on the frontiers of the cloud-native landscape, this webinar is for you.

To be the first to get your hands on the full report when it launches, sign up for updates from Spectro Cloud right here - https://info.spectrocloud.com/subscribe

New frontiers: 5 key insights from the 2023 State of Production Kubernetes

Edge clouds are one of the main building blocks of modern telecom infrastructure, bringing performance and cost-efficiency to telecom systems, and better user experience in network services. By deploying cloud computing capabilities closer to where users and end-devices are located, a telco operator can run its services more effectively, benefiting from reduced latency in delivering services to consumer devices and business systems. Furthermore, edge computing capabilities enabled at an edge cloud bring a plethora of business applications to users and devices running on cloud-native environments as micro services.

Kubernetes systems provide modern cloud-native execution environments for software applications, and are getting increasingly more popular in the telco sector in recent years, thanks to their self-healing and container orchestration capabilities. The flexibility and scalability of kubernetes makes it ideal for micro-services based 5G mobile networks, and multi-access edge computing (MEC) applications. 

In this webinar, Canonical and Spectro Cloud will explain how their combined telco edge cloud solution provides automation, scalability, and flexibility to operate edge clouds with Kubernetes on bare metal for the best application performance. 

Join us to find out how you can address common challenges, such as:

Bare metal automation at scale to reduce operational costs and deployments times
Meeting security compliance requirements such as timely security patches, confined execution spaces, and tenant isolation 
A repeatable pattern in deployments and centralised management

Speakers:
Serdar Vural, Telco Product Manager at Canonical 
Pedro Oliveira, Senior Solutions Architect at Spectro Cloud.

Telco edge cloud automation at scale

AI and edge computing are the new killer apps for business transformation in many industries. 
 
Many organizations are experimenting with edge AI stacks on Kubernetes to unlock new customer experiences and streamline operational processes.

But in such a fast-moving space as AI, it can be hard to separate fact from fiction and work out not just what’s actually possible, but the best way to make it happen.

In this webinar, technology fellow, Cornelia Davis and CTO, Saad Malik will walk you through:

- What edge AI means, and how it relates to terms like AIops and MLops
- Why the edge is the natural home for critical AI inferencing workloads
- The top challenges for edge computing — and why adding AI models and engines to the mix exacerbates these problems
- Key requirements for successful AI deployments in edge environments, from security to lifecycle management
- Which tools and projects you need to know, from Kubeflow to LocalAI

We’ll also introduce you to Palette EdgeAI, a new enhancement to Spectro Cloud Palette that simplifies the deployment and management of AI stacks in your Kubernetes-based edge computing environments.

You’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of edge AI and a clear direction for your edge computing projects.

Edge AI: from hype to reality

Living with Kubernetes can be tough enough without having to deal with the rapid release schedule of K8s itself and all the projects you deploy into your clusters. 

How can you promptly update to take advantage of new features and patches without compromising application availability — or working yet another weekend?

We can help.

This webinar will cover some simple strategies you can follow to streamline how you manage Kubernetes deployments and versioning in your production environment. We’ll explore: 

- Considerations when you upgrade the cluster in different environments, from public cloud managed Kubernetes services like EKS, to small form-factor bare metal edge computing devices
- How rolling upgrades can help ensure availability throughout the update process
- Key steps to successful upgrade processes, including using SBOM scans to inventory your software and using rollbacks to correct errors

We’ll do a live demo of updating a multicluster environment, using our Palette enterprise Kubernetes management platform to trigger an upgrade based on a change to a declarative blueprint called a ‘Cluster Profile’ to ensure desired state.

This presentation will leave you feeling more confident with your deployment strategy the next time you need to perform an upgrade to the latest version… however soon that may be!

Deploying and upgrading Kubernetes in the real world

Run VMs on Kubernetes with Palette Virtual Machine Orchestrator

Containers are the future. But that doesn’t mean VMs are going away. So the question is: what’s the best way to manage both type of workloads?

With the new Virtual Machine Orchestrator (VMO) feature in Spectro Cloud Palette 4.0, you can bring your VMs into your Kubernetes clusters and manage them as first-class citizens alongside your containers.

In this webinar, we’ll explore:
- Why VMs still have a role to play in your infrastructure — whether for legacy apps or new hybrid workloads
- What options are available to you for running VMs and containers today, including the open-source project KubeVirt
- The most common challenges when running KubeVirt in production at scale, and how Palette’s VMO addresses those challenges

We’ll take you on a live and technical hands-on tour of VMO in action. If you want to optimize and consolidate your VMs and container platforms, this webinar will help you make the right decisions and explore new options.

In the meantime, check out our website (www.spectrocloud.com) and docs pages (https://docs.spectrocloud.com/vm-management/) for more information about running VMs on Kubernetes.

About the presenter
Romain Decker is a Principal Product Manager at Spectro Cloud, and is responsible for the VMO product. He has 18+ years of experience in architecture, consulting, and technical product management, including nearly a decade at VMware — so he knows a thing or two about VMs!

Together at last: VMs and containers running on your K8s clusters

Kubernetes management essentials - 2025

Kubernetes is everywhere in today’s enterprise; data centers, clouds, the edge. But how do you manage it all?

A whole class of product called enterprise Kubernetes management platform has emerged to fill this need.

In this webinar we’ll be joined by tech analysts GigaOm to explore the state of the art in K8s management platforms for edge to cloud, drawing on insights from two recent 2025 Radar Reports. 

You'll learn the required capabilities and criteria that you should be looking for in your vendor selections, and gain insights into how you can better manage your Kubernetes infrastructure at scale.

Choosing a Kubernetes management platform: the analyst perspective

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