Kenneth Owens
Chief Technical Officer, Cloud Infrastructure Services
Articles
Developing Cloud Native Applications Using the Cisco’s Open Source Shipped and Mantl Platforms
Software engineering and developer communities are driving the market for cloud consumption and leading each industry into a new era of software-defined disruption. There are no longer questions about elastic and flexible agile development as the way to innovate and reduce time to market for busines…
How Cloud Native and Container Platforms Change the Way We Think about Networking
Networking has been a foundational component of our economy since the Internet days. In the early days, defining protocols and standards for how to connect, route, and interoperate local, metro, and wide area networks was critical to the businesses strategy. The computer networking exports with thei…
Open Source All the Way Up the Stack
Software engineering and developer communities are driving the market for cloud consumption and leading each industry into a new era of software-defined disruption. There are no longer questions about elastic and flexible agile development as the way to innovate and reduce time to market for busines…
Mantl Knows Secrets
You have secrets in your cluster. Everybody does, it’s a fact of life. Database passwords, API keys, deployment tokens, just to name a few. Secrets are hard to manage, even before you throw in the fact that most of us now are operating in a cloud environment. In software development, the commo…
What is Mantl API?
When developing applications, one to the first obstacles we encountered was around installing applications and frameworks. To address this complicated ecosystem, we developed a service framework and API. The Mantl API is a feature built in to Mantl that helps you find and install applications and Me…
Synthetic Monitor for Cisco Shipped
When developing applications in a microservices architecture, one of the first obstacles a developer faces is determining the state of the underlying orchestration and container services. The developer has no real insight into how the underlying services and orchestration system(s) are performing. A…
Batteries Included, not Crippleware
At Cisco, we are continuously working with our Enterprise and Service Provider customers on the many issues they are facing with the transition to Cloud Native and Hyperscale in the datacenter. What we have discovered is that with this transition, administrators are struggling with the the increas…
Innovate Beyond the Stack – Innovation begins with Software Disruption
Software engineering and developer communities are driving the market for cloud consumption and leading each industry into a new era of software-defined disruption. There are no longer questions about elastic and flexible agile development as the way to innovate and reduce time to market for busines…
Visualizing a minimesos Cluster with Weave’s Scope
This week we are very pleased to release version 0.8.0 of minimesos. This new release contains many improvements, bug fixes and new features. The two most important features are that minimesos now ships with Weave Scope and HashiCorp’s Consul. In this blog, I am going to focus on how important we th…