containers

If you’re a developer working on your modern, microservices-based applications, you already have enough on your plate having to deal with your code. As we have discussed in previous posts: containers help you with packaging and dependencies; a scheduler helps scaling out your deployments and m…

Many of today’s global enterprises are looking to service providers (SPs) for the infrastructure, platforms and services they need to help them innovate. We’re excited that the Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud is now shipping. With it, businesses can accelerate on-prem app modernization,…

Have you noticed that when cloud people talk about cloud they (we) stick to a fairly narrow range of topics? Containers (for sure), Kubernetes, OpenStack, DevOps, culture change, big data, cloud native, serverless…and maybe a little AI/ML now and then to keep things spicy? Sure, we cover different a…

How many times have you heard the phrase: “The network is down” in your business? This may mean that anything but the network is malfunctioning (it may be the server, storage or others), however, the always-guilty network-admin is usually the first one to blame. There have been several times where p…

Of course you don’t feel like dealing with modernizing your IT organization. Who would? It sounds like a hideous task—especially if you’ve let it go for a while. There’s so much to think about, and it seems like more technologies and more variations of those technologies pile on every day until the…

With the recent availability of Istio 1.0 it is not surprising that it continues to capture much attention from the technical press and developer community. As an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices, Istio promises to make it much easier to build and operate micro-service base…

Telepresence is another useful tool that allows you to work from your laptop like you were inside a remote Kubernetes (k8s) cluster. This way you can easily do live debugging and testing of a service locally, while connected to a remote k8s cluster. For example you could be developing on a local mic…

Have you been to the OpenStack Summit lately? If you haven’t, I’ll let you in on a not-at-all-closely-guarded secret: It’s not just about OpenStack anymore. Shoot, you can probably argue that it’s not even primarily about OpenStack anymore. It’s about containers and aut…

“Draft” is a useful tool that enables developers to easily build applications and run them in Kubernetes (k8s). It helps you by hiding the complexity of building images, publishing them, and creating the deployments. That way you can focus on what is really important… your code. Wi…