Saturday, 8 November 2025

Robin Platform Overview: Kubernetes for Data & Network Intensive Applications

“Welcome to the Robin Platform Overview! In this session, we’ll explore how Robin.io simplifies the deployment and lifecycle management of data- and network-intensive applications on Kubernetes.”


[Section 1: What is Robin Platform?]

“Robin is a Kubernetes-based platform that automates deployment, scaling, and lifecycle management for complex workloads. It ships with pure open-source Kubernetes in a ‘batteries-included but replaceable’ mode. This means you can use the built-in Kubernetes or replace it with your own CNCF-certified distribution—whether on-premises or in the cloud.”

> Robin is a Kubernetes-based platform that automates the deployment, scaling and lifecycle management of Data and Network intensive applications

> Robin supports the open-source Kubernetes that is shipped with the product and provides automated installation, frequent upgrades, and monitoring.

>  However, because Robin platform capabilities don’t require any changes to open-source Kubernetes

> one may choose to replace the built-in open-source Kubernetes with their own distribution of CNCF-certified Kubernetes (including on-premises or cloud-vendor distributions).


[Section 2: Key Capabilities ]

“Robin stands out with several advanced capabilities:

  • Cluster Operations & Observability: Automated installation on bare metal, VMs, and cloud environments. Built-in monitoring and Sherlock-based observability for compute, network, and storage.
  • Multi-tenancy & RBAC: Rich role-based access control for secure operations.
  • Advanced Scheduling: NUMA-aware policies, affinity/anti-affinity rules, and data locality for optimal performance.
  • Data Management: Application-aware storage stack with high performance, scalability, encryption, compression, and rapid failover. Supports major databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, Oracle, SAP HANA, and big data platforms like Cloudera and Hortonworks.
  • Network Features: Persistent IPs, multiple NICs per pod, SR-IOV support, and seamless connectivity for CNFs and VNFs.
  • Application Lifecycle: One-click operations for cloning, scaling, snapshotting, backup, restore, and migration across clusters or clouds.”





[Section 3: Why Choose Robin? ]

“Robin is trusted for running stateful workloads at scale—whether it’s databases, big data clusters, or telecom-grade 5G deployments. Its automation and application-aware design reduce complexity and accelerate innovation.”


[Section 4: How to Use Robin ]

“You can interact with Robin using its intuitive CLI or REST APIs. The CLI provides commands for cluster management, application lifecycle, and monitoring. For automation and integrations, the API offers full functionality with detailed endpoints and parameters.”

API call being made by client is need, one can append --urlinfo to any CLI command to see the cURL request being made.


[Closing]

“With Robin.io, you can unlock the full potential of Kubernetes for data and network-intensive applications. Ready to dive deeper? Let’s get started!”


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