Build a cloud-native platform for your customers

To bring new products and services to market faster, companies are adopting cloud native technologies like containerization to engineer loosely coupled systems. According to the CNCF 2022 survey¹, Kubernetes has emerged as a key enabler in creating a platform for such application product teams.  

Think of a hotel as an analogy for a platform. A hotel offers a set of basic services for guests — a room booking website, a manned reception or parking facilities etc. Similarly, you can build a set of basic services for your internal customers using Kubernetes to orchestrate containers. But this alone doesn't answer questions around what kind of storage you want to offer to the tenant applications, which toolsets could enable DevOps workflows, or how the underlying infrastructure could be hardened etc. You could employ a plethora of open-source projects to fulfill these scenarios. However, it may be a challenge to support the business needs with community-based support alone. But with Red Hat OpenShift — an enterprise grade open-source application platform — you can have your cake and eat it too. You can take advantage of the innovation from upstream projects and get enterprise support.

But how can Amanox help customers with Red Hat OpenShift today?
You might already be managing an on-prem infrastructure using e.g. Nutanix. You could lay the foundation for the future for modern applications by extending your existing environment to include a container orchestration platform using Red Hat OpenShift.
In the future, if your applications need to access certain services from a public cloud, you could extend your existing platform to the public cloud with Red Hat OpenShift and stay flexible.

Requirements for platforms will depend on the services you want to offer to your application teams. Going back to the hotel analogy, you could cater to different customer categories — the ones who need a suite, or the ones who bring a dog along or the ones who need just a bed without breakfast. Furthermore, many customers in the above mentioned CNCF survey pointed out training and security as the top two difficulties in adopting containers in production.

Amanox enables you to build and run a cloud native application platform.
For doing so we have put together a team and toolset — we call it the enterprise cloud platform — consisting of tightly integrated, easy to consume solutions from our partners² to address different technological and operational challenges.