containers

The modern data center has evolved in a brief period of time into the complex environments seen today, with extremely fast, high-density switching pushing large volumes of traffic, and multiple layers of virtualization and overlays.  The result – a highly abstract network that can be difficult…

This is part 5 in Julio Gomez’s series of blogs on DevOps.  Find previous blogs in Julio’s DevOps series here. Using public Cloud providers services (like GCP, AWS or Azure) is a nice option for multiple scenarios. Let’s say you do not have any on-premises infrastructure and would…

Now that you are familiar with how Developers work in their local environments (see previous blog), it is time to explore their peer Operations teams. Once developers feel comfortable with code running in their laptops, Ops needs to start thinking about how it will go into production. That productio…

Some of you may be surprised to learn about Cisco’s involvement in the open source community. In fact, we’ve been working with open source technologies for close to 20 years. We are heavily invested. Our releases of Cisco CloudCenter 4.9 and AppDynamics for Kubernetes today are not only milestones i…

When it comes to multicloud, containers are one of the most compelling technologies to emerge over the past few years. Containers offer new potential by making it possible for applications to start faster and use less memory, provide a consistent development environment, and run anywhere. However, c…

Kubernetes is a production-grade container orchestration solution that automates management of cloud-native applications. Features that make Kubernetes production-grade include automated rollout and rollback, auto-scaling, and self-healing of containerized applications (among other things). It is ea…

Welcome back! If you followed my previous posts you are really fluent on Docker and Kubernetes, so now let’s put that knowledge into practice! The Life of a DevOps Team Have you heard about DevOps from multiple sources and still don’t have a clear idea what it really is? Would you like to create a r…

As far back as 2016 when Tech Republic used metrics like search queries and StackOverflow activity, Kubernetes claim to fame as the top container cluster management platform has been pretty solid. Follow that up with a survey that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation conducted the summer of 2017, a…

Questions about containers? Curious about Kubernetes? We’re not surprised. Though you’ve no doubt heard of them both, you’re probably wondering if they’re actually worth exploring or if they’re hiding behind the hype. Sure, the simplicity and speed offered by containers may have caught the eye of le…