containers

Breaking up is hard to do, but if it’s concerning PaaS and meeting the growing needs of enterprises and their developers, breaking up—or disaggregation—is exactly what should happen. Consider this: companies have traditionally turned to PaaS for enabling rapid development and deployment of cloud-nat…

If you followed my previous post you are now quite familiar with how Docker containers work. But we just covered the way to work with them manually. When you go into production environments you quickly realize manual management is not really a viable option. There are multiple reasons to avoid manua…

OK, I’ll cop to this right up front: I called my most recent guest “Vekler.” On tape. The problem with that is that his name is not Vekler. It’s Voelker. Sounds like “Velker.” With the L before the K. He patiently explained this to me prior to the recording, when I asked him how to pronounce his nam…

Containers are the basis for so many modern applications that you cannot really ignore them anymore. If you are not familiar with them you are missing out on something big. Something useful to overcome many limitations suffered by legacy monolithic applications. And something real that the community…

What do you know about CNCF? You probably hear people in the industry mention the acronym fairly often—generally in connection with Kubernetes—but do you know what it is, when it started, or why it exists? I didn’t, and I suspect that at least some of you don’t either, so this week I invited Dan Koh…

Recently, you may have noticed Cisco discussing Kubernetes quite a bit.  Back in October we announced our partnership with Google to bring joint hybrid cloud solutions to market that include GKE, Google’s managed Kubernetes offering and in February there were a number of articles here on the Cisco C…

What a great leap forward for those forward-thinking Cisco development teams! Cisco IT has recently released a brand new Cloud Application Environment (CAE) for internal general availability. This is a remarkable platform-related accomplishment that drives our internal global cloud strategy forward…

Maybe you saw the announcement that Cisco is now providing a Google-blessed Kubernetes distribution that is super easy to install on prem.  Possibly you even watched the TechWiseTV episode that shows the wizard-like experience that spins up a container cluster in a few minutes.  Whatever your exposu…

Greetings from Cisco Live Barcelona! It’s great to be here, sharing and showcasing the big things Cisco and our partners are doing to help our customers embrace multicloud. We announced one of those big things earlier today. The Cisco Container Platform is a new Cisco software offer to simplify the…