Gcore, a European CDN technology provider delivering high-performance, low-latency, international cloud, and edge solutions, has introduced significant revisions to its Managed Kubernetes service. In addition to virtual machines (VMs), the service now allows customers to operate containers on bare metal servers.
Running containers directly on bare metal operating systems would enhance latency and performance and eliminate interference from neighboring virtual machines. The implementation is based on Kubernetes’ Cluster API and comes with a service level agreement (SLA) that guarantees high availability and reliability.
Director of Edge Cloud stream at Gcore, Seva Vayner, noted: “The majority of cloud vendors only support Kubernetes containers in VM-based infrastructure. The majority of industries, including banking, healthcare, broadcasting, entertainment, and others, require a competitive advantage to support real-time applications and live-streaming graphics. Here, Gcore comes into play. Our new bare metal service enables low-latency, high-performance capabilities, giving users a significant competitive advantage.”
Mr. Vayner continued, “Gcore’s Managed Kubernetes service is less expensive than the hyperscalers, providing customers with a greater return on their investments. And unlike other providers, we provide comprehensive production-level, SLA-backed cluster management at no additional cost - you only pay for the computing and storage of worker nodes.”
Data Protection
Director of Edge Cloud stream at Gcore, Seva Vayner, noted: “The majority of cloud vendors only support Kubernetes containers in VM-based infrastructure.”
The Managed Kubernetes service from Gcore would reduce IT team workloads, simplify infrastructure deployment in a cloud environment, and facilitate scalability and application testing. The service will initially be accessible from Gcore’s Points-of-Presence (PoPs) in Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Singapore, and Virginia, USA, and will then be rolled out to 14 additional locations in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including London, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and São Paulo.
Customers of Gcore’s Managed Kubernetes service would also enjoy robust data protection across the network and transport layers, as well as application-level protection via a Web Application Firewall (WAF).
Gcore claims to be one of the first cloud service providers to adopt the Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) encryption standard at the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) level, further enhancing client security. Gcore complies with all GDPR requirements regarding customer-stored personal data.
