Container Platform as a Service by Fundaments: scalable, efficient and self healing

What is CPaaS by Fundaments?

Wietze: ‘We developed CPaaS because in recent years an emerging trend was visible around application development: companies want to convert their monolithic application (one large complex application where processes are dependent on each other) to one that is more focused on scalability and efficiency. These ‘new applications’ are broken down into microservices (small services that are each maintained separately and together form a unit). By dividing an application into microservices, it can be developed per service, speeding up the development of the entire application. In addition, this structure of microservices ensures that individual parts of an application are scalable and therefore highly resource-efficient. So, there is a shift in how applications are developed and therefore it is important that the platform, or infrastructure, also evolves along with it. To properly manage a complete container infrastructure with different application functions, a management platform is needed. Kubernetes constitutes one of the most important solutions in today's market. To be completely unburdened in hosting and maintaining this Kubernetes platform, Fundaments offers the Container Platform as a Service (CPaaS) service.’

‍

The trends

‘This application modernisation has led to a 78% increase in operational efficiency. This means that organisations are more scalable as a result of modernisation, but also, for example, need to allocate less labour capacity to an application. Previously, an extra server had to be rigged up, but now only an extension has to be done or an extra service spun up alongside it. In addition, there is self healing, organisations do not have to worry that when a service stops, management has to be performed on the application again immediately. An additional service is simply spun up and replaces the discontinued service. So an application works much more efficiently and is much less labour-intensive. By 2023, every organisation is expected to start using Kubernetes in some capacity. It is therefore developing tremendously and this makes sense, customers no longer want to be dependent on a single provider, but want to be able to easily leave and transfer their application to another provider or, on the contrary, go hybrid with a Multi Cloud. With this, you have the applications on-premises but also in the Cloud.’

‍

‍

What kind of customers approach Fundaments?

'Customers with a CPaaS requirement are often in transition from a monolithic application to one focused on containerisation. These customers want to have a platform on which they can develop further and from which management is easy. There are also customers who already have an application that is containerised and are looking for a platform on which to run their application. With us, they get a platform based on VMware Tanzu. This technology makes managing the environment easier and allows them to be busy with only one thing, which is developing the application.’

‍

‍

Why CPaaS by Fundaments?

‘Fundaments was the first in the Netherlands to achieve the Sovereign Cloud status by VMware. This means we are fully in control of our data and our customers' data. This means our customers can be 100% sure that data is on Dutch soil, that there is only one party processing the data and that we are in control of our processes from A to Z. We also have a Managed Cloud proposition: this enables us to offer that little bit extra to customers who have an application with a database, for instance. An application that doesn't quite fit within a container. What we do for those customers is that we take over the OS management, do the configuration management and monitor the VM. The customer is actually just completely relieved of these tasks. In addition, as a customer you get access to the full Fundaments portfolio, with services such as Backup as a Service and Disaster Recovery as a Service and other security solutions.’

‍

‍