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CHAPTER 4 Enabling Advanced and Modern Services 35 These materials are © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. This second approach means that you won't have to deal with the heavy lifting of building the container environment and you'll get the same management and scalability benefits of next-generation HCI that you enjoy with your VM farm. Many organizations are running open source Kubernetes or Kubernetes-based platform-as-a-service/containers-as-a-service) (PaaS/CaaS) distributions on top of Nutanix, but they are struggling with the operational burden that these services add to their already tight budgets; plus PaaS/CaaS essentially adds another silo of man- agement, infrastructure, and operations. Organizations need consumer-grade design in the world of containers and Kubernetes. They do not want to invest in dedi- cated DevOps or site reliability engineering (SRE) teams to keep Kubernetes online, up to date, or integrated with third-party components and tooling. Nutanix Karbon is a private cloud, turnkey-curated, enterprise- grade Kubernetes service offering that simplifies the provision- ing, operations, and lifecycle management of Kubernetes. Karbon makes it simple to deploy a highly available Kubernetes cluster and operate web-scale workloads. Nutanix Karbon enables enterprises to provide a private-cloud Kubernetes solution with the simplicity and performance of pub- lic clouds. It is also part of a complete cloud-native solution from Nutanix including storage (Volumes/Objects/Files), database automation (Era), and enhanced monitoring (Epoch). Leveraging Karbon, developers can enjoy the native Kubernetes experience that is delivered fast while all complexities of infrastructure are abstracted with no additional costs. Karbon is included in all Nutanix Acropolis Operating System (AOS) software editions. Supporting the Database-as-a-Service Era Databases are the circulatory system of the enterprise and should be treated as such. However, doing databases right can take a lot of time and effort. By doing them right, we mean making sure that they're highly available, that they have the resources they need, and that you can easily support common operations, like