Harvester HCI
Our Technology Stack: Powering Innovation with Open-Source Solutions
At Baytech Consulting, we believe in harnessing the power of open-source technology to deliver robust, flexible, and cost-effective solutions. Our commitment to innovation and efficiency drives us to select tools that not only meet current industry standards but also leverage existing technology, such as well-established systems like Linux and kernel-based virtual machines, to offer scalability and reliability to support your business’s growth. This page is dedicated to the key open-source tools we utilize to power our solutions and why we have chosen them as the backbone of our infrastructure.
Open-Source:
The Heart of Our Technology Stack
Harvester HCI
Harvester is a cutting-edge hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution, designed for the modern needs of businesses. It is a modern hyperconverged infrastructure tailored for bare metal servers. Built on a foundation of enterprise-grade open-source technologies including Linux, KVM, Kubernetes, KubeVirt, and Longhorn, Harvester HCI offers a cost-effective, flexible solution for managing both cloud-native and kernel based virtual machines (VM) workloads. Longhorn provides distributed block storage, enhancing the reliability of the infrastructure. Whether in your datacenter or at the edge, Harvester HCI provides a unified platform for virtualization and cloud-native workload management by running on bare metal servers. It has the ability to run cloud native and virtual machines workloads, making it the ideal choice for businesses looking to optimize their infrastructure without sacrificing performance or scalability.
Why Harvester HCI?
Cost-Effective
By leveraging existing technology and open-source solutions, Harvester HCI eliminates costly vendor lock-in and reduces total ownership cost.
Scalability and Flexibility
Easily scalable to meet your business needs, Harvester HCI supports both virtualized workloads and containerized workloads, providing the versatility your IT infrastructure demands.
Integrated Kubernetes Support
Built-in Kubernetes integration ensures that the Kubernetes API is a central component, allowing your containerized applications to run smoothly alongside traditional VM workloads. The unified automation language within the Kubernetes API manages both container and virtual machine workloads, providing a standard approach for customization and extension of the Harvester platform's capabilities according to user needs.
Rancher
Rancher is an open-source container management platform that simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters. By providing a centralized platform for managing multiple Kubernetes environments, Rancher ensures that containerized applications and virtual machine workloads are efficiently deployed, monitored, and secured across any infrastructure.
Why Rancher?
Simplified Kubernetes Management
Rancher streamlines the complexity of managing Kubernetes clusters, making it accessible even to organizations with limited container expertise.
Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Ready
With Rancher, you can manage Kubernetes clusters across different cloud providers or on-premise environments from a single pane of glass.
Enhanced Security
Rancher offers built-in security features and policies to protect your containerized applications and comply with regulatory standards.
Kubernetes
As the de-facto standard for container orchestration, Kubernetes allows us to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. The Kubernetes API is a central component, enabling seamless integration and management of various workloads. Additionally, the unified automation language within the Kubernetes API facilitates the management of both container and virtual machine workloads, allowing for customization and extension of the platform's capabilities according to user needs. Its robust ecosystem and widespread adoption make Kubernetes an essential tool in our technology stack.
Why Kubernetes?
Scalability
Kubernetes handles scaling applications with ease, ensuring that your applications can grow with your business needs.
Flexibility
With Kubernetes, we can deploy applications on-premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment, providing the flexibility to choose the best infrastructure for your specific application needs.
Cloud Native Efficiency
Kubernetes optimizes the use of underlying infrastructure resources, reducing costs and improving application performance.
Argo CD
Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. It allows us to maintain and manage Kubernetes resources using a git repository as the source of truth, making it easier to implement automated and repeatable deployments.
Why Argo CD?
GitOps Workflow
By adopting a GitOps workflow, we ensure that all changes to our infrastructure and applications are version controlled, traceable, and auditable.
Automated Deployment
Argo CD automates the deployment process, reducing the potential for human error and accelerating time to market for new features and updates.
Rollback Capabilities
Argo CD provides easy rollback features, allowing us to quickly revert changes if an issue is detected, ensuring high availability and reliability of our applications.
Embracing Open-Source for Success
At Baytech Consulting, our choice of open-source tools like Harvester HCI, Rancher, Kubernetes, and Argo CD reflects our commitment to delivering state-of-the-art, cost-effective solutions to our clients. By leveraging the collective strength of these technologies, we're able to offer a technology stack that is not only powerful and reliable but also adaptable to the ever-evolving needs of modern businesses.
Whether you're looking to modernize your infrastructure, streamline your development lifecycle, or simply reduce costs without compromising on quality, our open-source-driven approach is designed to propel your business forward.
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