{"id":1061,"date":"2021-03-01T13:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T13:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apiculus.in\/blog\/2021\/03\/01\/aks-brings-the-power-of-kubernetes-to-clouds-running-on-apache-cloudstack\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T07:21:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T07:21:46","slug":"aks-brings-the-power-of-kubernetes-to-clouds-running-on-apache-cloudstack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/aks-brings-the-power-of-kubernetes-to-clouds-running-on-apache-cloudstack\/","title":{"rendered":"aKS brings the power of Kubernetes to clouds running on Apache Cloudstack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_69_1 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/aks-brings-the-power-of-kubernetes-to-clouds-running-on-apache-cloudstack\/#apiculus_Kubernetes_Service_aKS_%E2%80%93_a_fully_automated_ClusterOps_service\" title=\"apiculus Kubernetes Service (aKS) \u2013 a fully automated ClusterOps service\">apiculus Kubernetes Service (aKS) \u2013 a fully automated ClusterOps service<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/aks-brings-the-power-of-kubernetes-to-clouds-running-on-apache-cloudstack\/#So_what_does_this_mean_for_Service_Providers\" title=\"So, what does this mean for Service Providers?\">So, what does this mean for Service Providers?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/aks-brings-the-power-of-kubernetes-to-clouds-running-on-apache-cloudstack\/#And_what_does_this_mean_for_Subscribers\" title=\"And, what does this mean for Subscribers?\">And, what does this mean for Subscribers?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/aks-brings-the-power-of-kubernetes-to-clouds-running-on-apache-cloudstack\/#aKS_v1_supports_the_following\" title=\"aKS v1 supports the following:\">aKS v1 supports the following:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>Enhancing the ability to scale deployments in environments with large clusters, Kubernetes keeps evolving and today, Kubernetes provides you with a powerful engine and a rich ecosystem of tools to run distributed systems resiliently. Kubernetes also handles scaling and failover of your applications, provides deployment patterns and more. It effectively load-balances and distributes network traffic to ensure that the deployment is stable. With storage orchestration, Kubernetes helps make the best use of your resources. But, as Kubernetes get deployed in more complex environments, as organizations scale and as more and more Kubernetes clusters are deployed, cluster management becomes complicated.<\/p>\n<p>To offer new opportunities in monetisation and portfolio expansion for service providers, apiculus, a fully integrated and re-brandable public cloud management software for ISPs, data centres and telcos has added Kubernetes service to their existing pool of offerings.<\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"apiculus_Kubernetes_Service_aKS_%E2%80%93_a_fully_automated_ClusterOps_service\"><\/span><b>apiculus Kubernetes Service (aKS) \u2013 a fully automated ClusterOps service<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>apiculus Kubernetes Service allows users to seamlessly deploy Kubernetes clusters for running containerized cloud-native workloads. Built on K3s it is lightweight, CNCF compliant and enables Service Providers and Subscribers to instantly create Kubernetes Clusters with all the ingress and master worker configurations applied. Kubernetes cluster management is made easy as you can view workloads, ingress, volumes and monitor utilization all on a single pane of glass.<\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"So_what_does_this_mean_for_Service_Providers\"><\/span><b>So, what does this mean for Service Providers?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Service Providers (SPs) who are successfully running apiculus Cloud Management Platform, have a distinct advantage in terms of their adding value to their offerings. As a part of their Public Cloud offerings, SPs can now include an aKS subscription packs (powered by apiculus) from the Cloud Marketplace. aKS can be billed separately for each cluster, each component compute, networking or storage resource. Furthermore, SPs will be able to generate and view aKS billing reports for subscribers.<\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"And_what_does_this_mean_for_Subscribers\"><\/span><b>And, what does this mean for Subscribers?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>For subscribers to any of the Service Providers running apiculus Cloud Management Platform, aKS opens opportunities to instantly create single-master Kubernetes clusters and effectively manage their assigned resources from the apiculus CloudConsole. aKS also simplifies the monitoring of usage and the charges associated with the aKS resources. A unified invoice can be generated for all the services that are consumed from the Service Provider\u2019s apiculus CloudConsole.<\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"aKS_v1_supports_the_following\"><\/span><b>aKS v1 supports the following:<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Provisioning of aKS subscription packs from the marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Single-click creation of single-master Kubernetes clusters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Automated storage, ingress, networking and other cluster configurations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Kubeconfig file download and setup for accessing the cluster.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Monitoring of aKS clusters on the SP\/apiculus\u00ae CloudConsole.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Password-based redirect to Rancher console for advanced cluster management.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Usage-based invoicing of aKS subscriptions along with other SP cloud services.<\/p>\n<p><b>More on aKS in the future :<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The roadmap for aKS (apiculus Kubernetes Services) includes enabling Service Providers and Subscribers in turn with enhanced features and greater ability to converge with other available architectures such as Multi-master clusters etc. Support for OpenStack powered clouds and public clouds is also on the horizon. aKS will also be able to support orchestrating hyper-converged clusters on bare metal using Ceph for storage.<\/p>\n<p>With an aim to offer comprehensive solutions to enable Service Providers and their Subscribers to run successful Public Clouds within their locations, apiculus is working on several features and services that can be effectively deployed, metered, billed and monitored.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and consulting on how to set up aKS on your Public Cloud, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/contact-us.php\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enhancing the ability to scale deployments in environments with large clusters, Kubernetes keeps evolving and today, Kubernetes provides you with a powerful engine and a rich ecosystem of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,35,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apache-cloudstack","category-cloud-management","category-kubernetes","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apiculus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}