Overview
Continent 8 (C8) technical resources are aligned to deliver and manage a Kubernetes as a service platform. Why Kubernetes Everywhere? With our platform, you can achieve a consistent deployment of Kubernetes workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, giving you the power to manage your workloads regardless of the underlying infrastructure or Kubernetes distribution. Seamlessly manage and deploy Kubernetes across multiple platforms in multiple locations, combining native AWS EKS and ECS services with edge services such as AWS EKS Anywhere, VMware Tanzu, Nutanix NKE, Rancher, and more. Benefit from a cost-effective deployment by running Kubernetes workloads on the Continent 8 Cloud solution complemented with solutions like Database as a Service (DBaaS) and an S3-compatible API for object storage all maintained 24/7 by our Cloud Engineering team, ensuring you get the most out of your investment. Resilient cloud: Simplify Kubernetes workload replication for active/active deployments across cloud environments to enhance edge resilience, minimise outages and optimise customer uptime. Seamless migration: Migrate Kubernetes clusters from one cloud environment to another for immediate testing with minimal downtime. Why Continent 8? Trusted partner: Powering and protecting the largest brands in the betting and gaming industry for over 25 years. AWS specialised: A dedicated team of 30+ AWS certified and AWS trained experts available to deliver and support high touch AWS solutions tailored to each customer's unique requirements.
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- With the Kubernetes Everywhere Platform, we can easily migrate the workloads from one environment to another to quickly enable customers to start testing it out.
- The Kubernetes Everywhere platform provides a set of tools to help the customer run their Kubernetes workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- With Kubernetes Everywhere we provide a cost-efficient and right-sized environment running on the C8 Cloud, directly maintained by our Cloud Engineering team 24/7
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Modern deployment practices have reduced downtime and support efficient multi-app management
What is our primary use case?
I have been using Kubernetes Everywhere in production and UAT for almost a year, and I have also implemented it in some of my projects for freelancing.
I am using Kubernetes Everywhere for the capabilities provided by Kubernetes on AWS , called EKS, which gives me higher uptime, automatic rollback procedures, and more insights into how to handle the infrastructure, resulting in low downtime.
In my current organization, I recently used Kubernetes Everywhere in a scenario where we were doing manual deployments on EC2 . After switching to EKS, which provides replicas for traffic handling and auto-scaling, we experienced low downtime, improved user management, and easier distribution across the pods, allowing everyone to get responses efficiently with lower response time.
What is most valuable?
Kubernetes Everywhere offers features including auto-scaling, which is the best feature, as well as load balancing, ingress controllers, and the ability to host multiple applications on a single Kubernetes Everywhere cluster through segregation using namespaces. The commands are straightforward to execute, and it allows the integration and management of Docker containers efficiently.
Auto-scaling is one of the features I use in Kubernetes Everywhere that made a significant impact, helping us with user distribution as the pods scale automatically without disruption as users increase, contributing to high availability and low downtime. I am using Kubernetes Everywhere with the GitOps approach, using Git as a source of truth, which provides excellent security and has made a significant change in our current infrastructure.
Kubernetes Everywhere has positively impacted my organization by significantly reducing downtime. We have achieved almost zero minutes of downtime since implementing Kubernetes Everywhere in our organization after transitioning from manual deployments.
Regarding cost savings, we were using multiple EC2 instances for different projects, but now everything is under one cluster, running as a pod and segregated by namespaces, leading to cost savings. For team collaboration, we are using different tools with Git as a source of truth, making it easy for developers to manage instances and gain insights efficiently.
What needs improvement?
Kubernetes Everywhere can be improved by providing an easier way for users to handle commands and developing a UI-based approach to make it easier for developers and semi-technical users, as well as focusing on improving containerization.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Kubernetes Everywhere for almost a year, and I have more than three years of experience in this domain.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Kubernetes Everywhere is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability is one of the features of Kubernetes Everywhere, which is why everyone is using it.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support from AWS for EKS is good, providing all the necessary help when needed.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, we were using EC2 and then ECS deployments, but we switched to EKS due to some restrictions.
How was the initial setup?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been good. The infrastructure setup is not a significant task for an infrastructure specialist. The static cost for the control plane is $75, which is not a significant issue for a large organization considering we can host multiple applications, and the cost for the nodes remains the same as what we pay for EC2.
What about the implementation team?
We are not purchasing Kubernetes Everywhere from the AWS Marketplace . We are using the service called EKS to access Kubernetes Everywhere.
What was our ROI?
Auto-scaling is one of the features I use in Kubernetes Everywhere that made a significant impact, helping us with user distribution as the pods scale automatically without disruption as users increase, contributing to high availability and low downtime.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The static cost for the control plane is $75, which is not a significant issue for a large organization considering we can host multiple applications, and the cost for the nodes remains the same as what we pay for EC2.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I evaluated ECS before choosing Kubernetes Everywhere, but I found it is not as capable as EKS.
What other advice do I have?
My advice is to transition to Kubernetes Everywhere rather than using EC2 deployments and other serverless deployments, as you can host multiple applications under one cluster. I would rate this solution a 9 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Modern architecture has transformed backups and restores while microservices debugging becomes faster
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Kubernetes Everywhere involves different clusters, and currently, I'm working on product features that provide backup and restore for Kubernetes , so I have worked from deploying Kubernetes to writing operators as well.
A specific example of how I use Kubernetes Everywhere for backup and restore in my daily work includes the new product we are creating, which is a backup and restore solution for Kubernetes, and I'm developing new features every day, with a Vcluster setup where we create different Kubernetes clusters, and I also work on a GKE cluster and OCP.
As a product, we are using Kubernetes Everywhere, but in my free time, I just use it for deploying my different resources or personal projects that I deploy on Kubernetes and run on the server.
What is most valuable?
The best features Kubernetes Everywhere offers include its scalability; if you have a small system to deploy on Kubernetes, you can just keep a single pod running, and as traffic increases, you can use a scale command to scale your system easily, which is quite helpful.
The scalability feature impacts my day-to-day work because we haven't seen much scale ourselves, but our customers using our product really find it helpful to scale their Kubernetes cluster during traffic spikes, as our product provides easy backup and restore, which simplifies disaster recovery.
Kubernetes Everywhere positively impacts our organization by making it quite easy to deploy different microservices for different languages; we simply build the Docker container and pass it to the YAML, and if anything breaks, debugging is straightforward because we know exactly where the issue is coming from.
This ease of deployment and debugging has affected my team's productivity positively, as we observe that with the ease of microservices, we can catch bugs quickly, unlike earlier when we had a monolithic system running on a single binary, making it difficult to find root causes; now, with components deployed as different microservices running in separate pods, debugging is much easier.
What needs improvement?
I think all the features that Kubernetes provides have been very helpful, but to improve Kubernetes Everywhere, increasing the speed of releases and prioritizing certain features based on community votes might make it easier.
I find the documentation quite good; Kubernetes has verbose and friendly documentation, and the community is supportive; joining Slack or other online platforms makes it easy to resolve issues, but there is always room for improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Kubernetes Everywhere for four years now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Kubernetes Everywhere is stable in my experience, and I can confirm it is reliable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of Kubernetes Everywhere is quite straightforward, with a horizontal pod autoscaler CR allowing us to specify metrics for pod scaling, and we can also run the kubectl scale command for manual scaling.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support for Kubernetes Everywhere is very good; since we use Google Cloud , whenever we face issues, they respond quickly and efficiently.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, we were using Docker , which served us well until we discovered Kubernetes; the ease of deployment and ability to manage customer spikes made switching to Kubernetes a clear choice.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a return on investment primarily in terms of time savings, as using Kubernetes allows us to scale and work on the product more efficiently, spending less time on deployments and focusing more on customer demands.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Kubernetes Everywhere, we evaluated Docker Swarm, which is somewhat similar, but we found Kubernetes to be more useful due to its vibrant community and heavy industry adoption.
What other advice do I have?
For others looking into using Kubernetes Everywhere, I advise that if you have a large enough product that is tedious to deploy or manage, switching to Kubernetes is beneficial; however, for smaller teams with fewer customers, sticking with monolithic systems or Docker might suffice. I rate this product a ten out of ten.
Unified multi-cloud orchestration has delivered consistent deployments and reduced idle waste
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The compatibility is excellent due to a focus on open pure upstream standards. The runtimes integrate flawlessly with standard image frameworks such as Docker and Podman. When it comes to migration, the initial integration was straightforward, but it taught us a great lesson in network mapping. The smoothest part was standard stateless container microservice required absolutely zero modification. We simply pointed our existing deployment files to the new multi-environment framework.
Distinct configuration on EKS, VMware, Tanzu or bare metal is handled through one standard interface. This increased our production release frequency.
We completely eliminated structural server fragmentation and slashed our idle cloud infrastructure waste by nearly forty-five percent. This metric can be shared with you. This is achieved by utilizing automated bin packing and workload right-sizing across the multi-cloud footprint.
Kubernetes Everywhere is a premier operational asset for modern multi-cloud architecture. It delivers standard, predictable workload orchestration across any underlying hardware engine with minimal setup complexity. It only loses a small amount of points because fine-tuning network policies across very strict, air-gapped, on-premise boundaries takes extra upfront coordination during the initial discovery week.
Kubernetes Everywhere is a fully hybrid multi-cloud implementation by design. The central control plane runs as a secure cloud platform, while the actual managed worker nodes are distributed across our public clouds such as AWS and Azure , and our on-premises private data centers.
Majority of deployment occurs in AWS and a small amount in Azure .
The architecture decouples the management software from the local runtime, meaning our applications keep running even if the central management dashboard goes down for temporary maintenance.
What needs improvement?
The step-by-step documentation explicitly defines how to connect external hardware platforms using standard Helm charts or lightweight agent connectors.
For how long have I used the solution?
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
How are customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used expensive physical edge outposts initially.
How was the initial setup?
What about the implementation team?
What was our ROI?
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
What other advice do I have?
I would say start by conducting a comprehensive resource audit using the tool's read-only discovery agent. Let the system observe your actual multi-environment workloads for a few days to see exactly where your infrastructure utilization drifts. Then use that clean metrics data to build out your scaling rules smoothly.
My company is serving as a customer. I give Kubernetes Everywhere a rating of ten out of ten.
Orchestrated containers have made our non–technical team host fast, reliable web apps independently
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Kubernetes Everywhere is as an orchestrated agent to make my Docker containers communicate among themselves and host a web app.
I use Kubernetes Everywhere as an orchestrated agent in my day-to-day work to handle data which has around 10 million-plus rows. When I tried to deploy my app using a single Docker file, it took more time to deploy and my web app was slow. I decided to create a Kubernetes file where I created an orchestrated agent in which multiple Docker containers communicate among themselves and all my rows are segregated among themselves and posted separately. Using this approach, I can make my web app work faster and more efficiently so that my client can use it seamlessly.
What is most valuable?
Kubernetes Everywhere offers the best feature in that I can write a Docker file in a very human-readable format, allowing any person without any coding knowledge to code it in Kubernetes Everywhere.
The human-readable format of Kubernetes Everywhere has helped my team because we are working in a field where we do not require any tech knowledge, but only for web app-related things do we need tech to be incorporated. As a non-tech person who needs to create a web app, Kubernetes Everywhere is very helpful so that, with the help of AI and other Google forums, we can create a web app seamlessly, making it very useful.
Kubernetes Everywhere has positively impacted my organization because we do not require any tech background to make our web app work. It is very helpful and is impacting our organization in a very good manner.
I can share that there has been a reduction in required technical staff because for hosting a web app, we previously needed to hire a new technical person. However, because of using Kubernetes Everywhere, we have saved costs by not needing to hire an employee, allowing one person in our team to manage these changes.
What needs improvement?
Kubernetes Everywhere is pretty good, but it can be improved in terms of reliability and speed because currently, it takes around two to three minutes to deploy my entire app, possibly due to the weight of the codes I have or some outages from the platform side. It would be helpful if they increase the deployment speed of Kubernetes Everywhere.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Kubernetes Everywhere for the past one and a half years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Kubernetes Everywhere is pretty stable already.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of Kubernetes Everywhere is good because it works for multiple operating systems, including Linux and Windows, and it can be scalable among multiple regions, making it pretty much helpful.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for Kubernetes Everywhere is good as well; they have a very good community forum, so whenever we have some doubts, we can refer to their community websites and forums, which is pretty good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not previously use any solution at all, so we went with Kubernetes Everywhere from scratch only.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We did not evaluate any other options before choosing Kubernetes Everywhere.
What other advice do I have?
I definitely advise others looking into using Kubernetes Everywhere to consider it because it does not require any tech knowledge. Anyone can create Kubernetes Everywhere files, and if they have minimal tech knowledge, they can be able to create it and do their work. Therefore, I suggest them to go with Kubernetes Everywhere before considering any other choices. I gave this product a rating of ten out of ten.
Centralized containers have reduced costs and improved deployment speed and control
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Kubernetes Everywhere is to have a centralized infrastructure where I can manage and orchestrate all the containers in one place.
What is most valuable?
The main thing that makes the container orchestration of Kubernetes Everywhere stand out for me is the scalability and the ability to have it controlled. We can set the number of nodes we want to auto-scale up to, and we can also have dedicated memory and CPU usage for each of our applications, so that we ensure we are not overloading any nodes.
The main impact of Kubernetes Everywhere on my organization was cost because we were using different cloud platforms and different services. Since we started using Kubernetes Everywhere, we brought all the applications in one place. This impacted the speed, security, and cost, and mainly the data, so the data stays in one place.
There was an improvement in the deployment pipeline because of the Helm charts that we use with Kubernetes Everywhere. In terms of speed, speed was 50% faster than what it was before. In terms of cost, we were able to save up to 40% of the DevOps cost.
The best features that Kubernetes Everywhere offers is the container orchestration.
What needs improvement?
The best way to improve Kubernetes Everywhere is to implement AI agents which can dive deeper and it will be easy for the tech enthusiast or tech expert to just chat with that agent, so that we don't have to spend hours in debugging and finding the root causes of server downtime.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Kubernetes Everywhere since the last two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Kubernetes Everywhere is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Kubernetes Everywhere's scalability is definitely great.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support for Kubernetes Everywhere could be better.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously I used Google's App Engine and I had to switch to Kubernetes Everywhere because as I mentioned previously, we wanted to bring everything to one cloud platform.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate the customer support of Kubernetes Everywhere at eight on a scale of one to ten. I think they should thoroughly check the documentation for Kubernetes Everywhere because that is where 90% of the information is. I would give this product an overall rating of nine.