Kubernetes
Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 39: OpenStack Update from VMware’s Mark Voelker
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…
Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 38: Dan Kohn Explains What CNCF is Up To
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…
Why Contiv?
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…
Become Comfortable with Programming and Dev Tools at My Cisco Live Workshops
Fast on the heels of Cisco Live Europe, I’m on my way next week to the Cisco Live DevNet Zone (March 6-9, 2018) in Melbourne, Australia. — or “melbun” if you’re a local! The DevNet Zone will be rockin’ with new and tried-and-true workshops and sessions to help you…
Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 36: Pete Johnson Explains the Cisco/Google Cloud Partnership
Do you feel like you “get” the Cisco/Google hybrid cloud partnership? The announcement went out in late October, and it seemed to generate a lot of excitement on a very general level. Folks in the press said things along the lines of “This makes sense. Cisco has the hardware infrastructure and the e…
Cisco Container Platform: What’s In It For Me?
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…
The Next Milestone in Enabling Multicloud: The Cisco Container Platform
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…
Cisco Container Platform – Kubernetes for the Enterprise
Developed by Google to shepherd their in-house container clusters, Kubernetes has been vying for the attention and adoption of cloud architects. For the past several years, Docker Swarm, Mesos and Kubernetes have engaged in the duel to bring orchestration nirvana to containerized applications. While…
Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 33: Shannon McFarland
Are we all comfortable with the term “multicloud” yet? Used to be that we just had “the cloud,” then “public and private clouds,” then “hybrid cloud,” and now it seems that most companies are running a little bit of everything, so we needed a new term, and just like that we’ve arrived at the doorste…