Bitmovin Introduces Managed On-Prem Encoding Service
本周早些时候, Bitmovin launched a new managed on-premise encoding service based on Docker and Kubernetes, the same software stack the company uses for its cloud encoding service. We spoke with CEO and co-founder Stefan Lederer to find out more.
流媒体: Tell us about the new service.
莱德尔: 基本上, our new managed on-premise encoding service allows customers to run what's essentially the Bitmovin cloud encoding platform in their own data center or virtual private cloud. 从技术上讲, it's a service deployed on Kubernetes, which is an open source cluster manager originally designed by Google and donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. This allows multiple disparate computers in a data center or cloud to function as a (more or less) single platform. The encoding and related services are actually performed by Docker containers that run on Kubernetes.
流媒体: Sounds like virtual machines. 这有什么不同??
莱德尔: There are a number of technical reasons that the containerized approach enabled by Kubernetes and Docker is superior, but the bottom line is that many large companies are moving towards Kubernetes-based clusters in their data centers or private clouds. They're using these clusters to run any number of applications, from accounting to databases. 据我们所知, we're the first encoding platform that runs on Kubernetes and Docker, which makes us the only solution for enterprises running this platform.
流媒体: What are the advantages of this approach?
莱德尔: It's a way for multiple enterprise applications to efficiently share a cluster of hardware resources. 这是, Kubernetes can manage multiple requests for CPU resources from multiple applications and distribute these tasks over the instances in the cluster. It can even add and remove instances when necessary, which helps minimize operating expenses in the cloud or data center. When you don't need resources for encoding, it frees up resources for other enterprise-related tasks. If you need to spin up additional resources for time-critical tasks, you can do so.
流媒体: How does the new service work?
莱德尔: From a deployment perspective, 我们部署, 监控, 升级, and support the system as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) that's running on your hardware or in your virtual private cloud. From a user perspective, it looks identical to our cloud service, and uses the same API.
Bitmovin's managed on-premise encoding runs on Kubernetes and Docker locally or in a virtual private cloud.
流媒体: 目标用户是谁?
莱德尔: 很明显, you have to be running Kubernetes to be interested, and that's primarily large enterprises today. So that's the starting point.
流媒体: What can you tell me about pricing?
莱德尔: In a data center you'll pay by the CPU. In a virtual private cloud, you'll pay based upon actual throughput, using a schema similar to our cloud SaaS service.
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