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We’ve all been there. Fired up our online banking app only to get a server error. Tried to buy something online but the app times out before we can complete the process. Attempted to download an online catalog only to have the image loading stall. Customers today have high expectations for how apps…

Do you remember? I bet all of you who are working or playing with Kubernetes still remember perfectly the first time you tried to install it. And then the second time. And then the third time. … And finally, the one that it worked. And most likely, if you’re a professional you also remember th…

Planning to attend Microsoft Ignite September 24-28 in Orlando?  This event is hotter than Hamilton having sold out six weeks ahead of opening day! If you were able to get one of the golden tickets to this event, include a visit to Cisco (Booth 418) to learn how to secure your cloud journey with Cis…

In a previous post we demonstrated how to automate the setup of a Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment environment. Now we will demonstrate how to use it: a developer can create an application that will be compiled, then built and deployed into a test environment automatically using this C…

Some people may still think that Cisco competes with AWS. That is not the case. The reality is that Cisco can help customers with solutions that address challenges like connectivity, security, management and analytics when moving to AWS public cloud. In this post, I will make an analogy with millenn…

There is a learning curve associated with scheduling containers in production on Kubernetes. But if your cloud architect or platform engineering team can integrate and configure the set of tools needed for deploying and managing containerized workloads, then Developers, Application Ops, and Cluster…

Kata, Kata, Kata! I swear that was all I heard during the week of the very recent OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. I was not in attendance this time (nor the previous time), but I’m an OpenStack enthusiast, I make an effort to stay current on what’s happening with it, and I had never even…

Technological developments in the age of Industry 4.0 are accelerating some business sectors at a head-spinning pace. Innovation is fueling the drive for greater profitability. One way that tech managers are handling these changes is through the use of microservices, enabled by containers. And as us…

Are you interested in creating a complete, fully configured Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment with a single request, saving you tons of time in configuring and managing the pipeline? This is the first one of four posts about a CI/CD-as-a-Service solution built on top o…