Kubernetes
Containers in Production: Accelerate the Learning Curve
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…
Using CI/CD/CD for Software Lifecycle Automation – DevOps Series, Part 8
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…
Power a Multicloud World – Enabling Next-Generation Hybrid Cloud with Google Cloud
To better compete in a rapidly evolving marketplace, companies are turning to the cloud and making applications the lifeblood of their business. The pressure to innovate has never been greater. This is one of the biggest IT transformations of our generation. New and emerging technologies are changin…
Cisco ACI and Kubernetes: Increased Automation and Security for Cloud Native Applications
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…
Unlocking the Power of Enterprise Applications
Cisco is doing a lot to unlock the power of enterprise applications, not only through our own development activities but also with important technology partners. I had the opportunity to sit down with SAP’s Dr. Franz Faerber in a fireside chat at this week’s SAP Sapphire NOW event, to talk about our…
Fast and Furious (and Easy) Kubernetes Deployments – DevOps Series, Part 7
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…
On-Prem vs. Public Cloud Deployments Differences & Similarities – DevOps Series, Part 6
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…
How to Leverage a Public Cloud for Microservices-based Application Deployment – DevOps Series, Part 5
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…
Unveiling the Magic Behind On-premises Infrastructure – DevOps Series, Part 4
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…