devops

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…

“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…

Are you ready to have your mind blown by something so cool you’ll wonder how you lived without it before?  Of course you are… so without further a-do let me introduce you to virlutils, the NetDevOps command line tool for Cisco VIRL and Cisco CML. If you are not familiar with VIRL or CML,…

If you have been following my DevOps blog series, you know how developers work in their local environment, and how operations teams manage application deployments on public Cloud and on-premises environments. As we’ve discussed, there are many different scenarios where each of the options migh…

Kubernetes, an open source container orchestration platform system, allows for automated deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications. By “containerized applications” we refer to an environment whereby the operating system is virtualized and can be shared by multiple application…

Find previous blogs in Julio’s DevOps series. Moving forward in our DevOps series, I would like to explore with you some specific tools and processes that help with automation for your software. If you are involved in the lifecycle of an application I am pretty sure you will be interested in a…

Find previous blogs in Julio’s DevOps series. If you followed my previous posts on deployments for on-premises and public Cloud environments, you are now quite familiar with how each one of them work. Today I would like to elaborate a bit on how they compare after our recent experience working…

Cisco UCS and HyperFlex are fully programmable infrastructure. The UCS Management Sandbox provides a safe environment for IT administrators, DevOps teams, and application developers to learn about and test the power of UCS for automating your data center. Cisco UCS – Programmable Infrastructure Prog…

Do you ever wish you could just bring someone in that would tell you how to do this whole cloud thing right? A person with the expertise to explain where you should focus your energy, which technologies you should adopt, and how to change your company culture? Someone who already knows where the pot…