Nutanix Dev Station: A containerized toolkit for managing Nutanix and Kubernetes

Managing any platform using a terminal requires the installation of several CLI tools. Sometimes, you even need different versions of the same tool installed on your system, which can become a problem with certain tools. Nutanix Dev Station aims to solve this issue by using Microsoft Development Containers for managing Nutanix and Kubernetes. It doesn’t …

Gain Visibility with Nutanix Kubernetes Engine’s (NKE) Advanced Kubernetes Management

We recently announced that Nutanix Karbon is now Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE). In addition to the new name and new features released in NKE 2.5, we also introduced Advanced Kubernetes Management as a tech preview. This new feature provides insights into applications running in NKE clusters. Now, with just a few clicks, and without having …

How to integrate Nutanix Self-Service and HashiCorp Vault using new Credential Providers

With Nutanix Self-Service 3.4 (formerly Calm), the concept of Credential Providers was introduced. With a Credential Provider account, you can make Nutanix Self-Service to retrieve secrets from an external provider such as Hashicorp Vault, CyberArk Conjur, and others. The Credential feature has been developed to make it easier for anyone to integrate Nutanix Self-Service with …

Using Red Hat OpenShift with Nutanix Unified Data Services

In the second blog of this series we discussed “Deploying Red Hat OpenShift on Nutanix AHV”; a detailed overview was provided of how to deploy an OpenShift cluster on AHV using the Nutanix Self-Service feature (formerly Nutanix Calm) – a process that takes under 30 minutes end-to-end. In this third part of the blog series, …

Deploying Red Hat OpenShift on Nutanix AHV

In the first blog of this series, we discussed “Getting Started with Red Hat Openshift on Nutanix HCI”; a good overview was provided of how the Nutanix partnership with Red Hat can help organizations in their Digital Transformation journey toward implementing Cloud Native. Now that we have a good understanding of Cloud Native on Nutanix …

Anthos clusters on AHV: Getting started

On January 2021 was announced Anthos clusters on AHV for running Kubernetes on-prem. This announcement brings freedom of choice to Google and Nutanix customers, with no need to be paying a hypervisor license anymore. To help with the process for getting started with Anthos on AHV, this article covers the process using two automated methods …

Use Case: Video On Demand with Nutanix Cloud Native – Part 2

In Part 1 you learnt how to deliver video content with Nutanix Cloud Native stack. In this part 2 you will experience how to prepare, encode or transcode, a video source into several resolutions or formats for delivery. Architecture The Nutanix products part of this solution for the delivery stage are: The HCI platform runs …

Use Case: Video On Demand with Nutanix Cloud Native – Part 1

First thing that comes to mind when talking about Video On Demand, aka VOD, are the typical video platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and others. Consumption of media content has grown globally since early this year due to the current situation around COVID-19. This increase on demand requires having a platform that scale when needed. Many …