Clusters are treated as first-class citizens of OpenStack. Their creation is as simple as the creation of a virtual machine. Operators do not need to learn a new system or method of provisioning, and the self-service approach enables large organizations to rapidly provide the Kubernetes infrastructure to their tenants.
An intuitive UI is crucial for the simplification of operations. This is why we heavily contributed to the[Kubernetes Dashboard](https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard) project and ship it in Cloud Load Control. Especially for operators who don’t know the Kubernetes CLI by heart, because they have to care about other systems too, a great UI is perfectly suitable to get typical operational tasks done, such as checking the health of the system or deploying a new application.
Monitoring is essential. With the dashboard, it is possible to get insights on cluster level. To ensure that the OpenStack operators have a deep understanding of their platform, we will soon add an integration with[Monasca](https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Monasca), OpenStack’s monitoring-as-a-service project, so metrics of Kubernetes can be analyzed together with OpenStack metrics from a single point of access.
**Quality and enterprise-grade support**
As a Japanese company, quality and customer focus have the highest priority in every product and service we ship. This is where the actual value of Cloud Cloud Control comes from: it provides a specific version of the open source software which has been intensively tested and hardened to ensure stable operations on a particular set of platforms.
Acknowledging that container technology and Kubernetes is new territory for a lot of enterprises, expert assistance is the key for setting up and running a production-grade container infrastructure. Cloud Load Control comes with a support service leveraging Fujitsu’s proven support structure. This enables support also for customers operating Kubernetes in different regions of the world, like Europe and Japan, as part of the same offering.
**Conclusion**
2014 seems to be light years away, we believe the decision for Kubernetes was the right one. It is built from the ground-up to enable the creation of container-based, distributed applications, and best supports this use case.
With Cloud Load Control, we’re excited to enable enterprises to run Kubernetes in production environments and to help their operators to efficiently use it, so DevOps teams can build awesome applications on top of it.