Press release: 42on Partners with Sidero Labs to Accelerate Kubernetes Implementations with Talos Operating System

Date: 27-02-24 Location: Baarn – The Netherlands / Goleta – USA 42on, a leading provider of open-source storage solutions and a subsidiary of Fairbanks International Group (FIG), is thrilled to announce its strategic partnership with Sidero Labs, the pioneering developer behind cutting-edge cloud-native technologies. This partnership is poised to deliver unparalleled value to businesses leveraging Kubernetes and Ceph scale […]

Disruptive innovation with LOKI

Redefining OpenStack and Kubernetes integration in LOKI  In recent months, I dove into the myriad of use cases that revolve around LOKI. LOKI is a combination of Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and open-source infrastructure technologies. What makes LOKI so intriguing, is its capacity to empower engineers to explore fresh avenues of technology adoption, setting their solutions […]

Open source has revolutionized the automotive industry

Open source, cars, the challenges and opportunities  Open source software is as a driving force all around us. From healthcare to finance and banking, to scientific research, to aerospace. Open source is just the most reliable, open and safest way to go, take for example the flight-certified systems at level D: Aerospace companies like Boeing […]

How we support your Kubernetes success

Starting 2023, I got some questions about if we support Kubernetes infrastructures, and how we support them. For us Kubernetes is an important open source project, because it is still fast growing and adopted more and more by the market verticals, we are active in. Since 2020 we have delivered and expanded our service portfolio […]

A LOKI case study

What is LOKI? Loki is a god in Norse mythology; he is known as a troublemaker and a shapeshifter. In the Marvel franchise, he is known as a fictional character portrayed by Tom Hiddleston, though his character is based on the Norse mythological god of the same name. In the open source industry, we know […]

Recap of OpenStack services

A recap of OpenStack services

A recap of OpenStack services; what is what again?   Why combine the components?   The various OpenStack community projects and the services they implement are modular in nature and generally capable of being used independently. They are intended to knit together into a net capability greater than the sum of the individual parts. A […]

Some highlights of the OpenStacks 2021 user survey

One of the main quality’s users love about OpenStack is that it’s a modular architecture with interconnected components with a foundation backing it to provide rapid development and expansion of features and services. To measure trends, improvements, and actual requests for functionalities; every year user surveys are conducted. These surveys are a critical tool in […]

LOKI OpenShift on OpenStack egress IP Address per project

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote an article about the benefits of LOKI, a combination of Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes and network infrastructure. This article can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/ When using LOKI, in this case OpenShift (or OKD) on OpenStack you know that OpenShift egress traffic will always use the IP address of the […]

Fairbanks and 42on at the OpenInfra Summit Berlin

The OpenInfra Summit is a global event for open source IT infrastructure professionals to collaborate on software development, share best practices about designing and running infrastructure in production, and make partnership and purchase decisions. This year (June the 7th, 8th and 9th) it is held in Berlin and brings together more than 2000 influential IT […]