easy buttons
(3-4 minute read)
Fluid brings the magic of cloud that we’ve all come to know and love, to infrastructure, at the touch of a button. Here are the top three easy button functionalities and the Fluid Team has plans for more…
What is Fluid?
Fluid is an orchestration and automation platform that enables businesses to deploy cloud-like infrastructure, anywhere. It deploys cloud-like networks and compute stacks on bare-metal hardware in a matter of minutes, whether that’s on-premise, at the edge, or in a co-located facility.
The platform’s goal is to make infrastructure easy. This collection of easy buttons mean the complexity that exists with standing up compute, network, and storage disappear. All various configuration complexities that exist within data centers now become cloud-like for any business no matter where their information resides and with no restrictions on region or location.
Fluid comes out of the box with the following easy buttons:
- Easy button for connecting to AWS
The entire process, start to finish, of;
- connecting your networking stack to on-premise hardware
- then to the server hardware
- through AWS network switching hardware
- across an elastic cloud connect provider or a VPN tunnel
- to the AWS stack
- with all networking elements configured
It’s literally achieved with a click of a button.
A process that requires a dozen steps from different teams within an organisation, and approximately a months’ timeline, is now turned around in under an hour with Fluid.
AWS easy button = instant AWS stack set up and project cost-efficiency
- Easy button for downloading KubeConfig files
Fluid marries any tool of choice that manages your Kubernetes infrastructure, whether that’s OpenShift, Rancher, Kubectl, or any other in the marketplace, for an easy kubeconfig file button for all clusters.
Kubeconfig button = a universal cluster management system
- Easy button for NetApp Spot Controller
The easy button to deploy NetApp Spot Controller is realized on-premises inside of Fluid, running in a co-located facility allowing for a truly hybrid multi-cloud story to form. This means the infrastructure location and complexity fade away, building features and enhancements that will really serve the client.
NetApp Spot button = visibility and automation for all your cloud operations
Keep a lookout for new Fluid features like an easy NetApp Astra Data Store button.
Fluid has created the easy button for infrastructure that lives outside of the cloud. The agility of the application allows development teams to accelerate the journey from bare-metal hardware out of the cardboard box to a full-stack running in under an hour. Fluid makes it easy.