In previous posts, we have discussed what a container is. But how do developers turn containers into a containerized application? Let’s discuss more today around containerized application design. Setting Expectations If you’re a developer or an SRE, the contents of this post may seem obvious to you. But to traditional operations folk, there are nuances […]
VMworld 2019 Announcements: Project Pacific
VMworld 2019 kicked off with a bang this week in San Francisco, California. The first day’s keynotes were packed with announcements, but the one that really excited me was Project Pacific. Project Pacific Project Pacific (in Tech Preview) is the re-architecting of vSphere, evolving it into a native Kubernetes platform. It will help vAdmins (and […]
What are container management systems?
Let’s discuss container management systems. So far, we’ve explored the history of containers, and talked about what a container actually is from an ops perspective. In the last post, we discussed how devs use containers: to build applications. Let’s delve deeper into how they actually plan to do that. As a reminder, this blog series […]
Containers for IT Admins
We hear all the time about how much developers love containers – but are containers for IT admins too? In a previous post, we discussed the history structural differences between containers and VMs, but what do IT admins need to know about containers to support them properly? For this blog post, I’m going to assume […]
Happy 6th Birthday, OpenStack!
We’ve come a long way in six years. July 19th marked the official six year mark from the launch of the open source private cloud ecosystem. There were worldwide meet ups to celebrate the event and it is clear that this is part of the continued positive growth for the open cloud platform. Technical Committee Meeting […]
Kubernetes 1.3 Released With New Enterprise Features
It’s been a long journey for Kubernetes over the last year. We first talked about Kubernetes here on 24 x7 IT Connection in August of 2015. Back then, Kubernetes was just a year old, with its 1.0 release landing in June of 2015. Now, we’re up to Kubernetes 1.3, which was announced on July 6, […]
Use Any Storage with Docker Containers for your Enterprise
As enterprises continue to become interested in Docker; the types of features we have access to and the available third party integrations become more and more important. You may have previously seen this topic covered on 24×7 IT Connection by Melissa Palmer. In this post she explains what Docker is and why we care. More […]
Kubernetes and the Tectonic Shift
One of the things tiny linux distributions lend themselves so well to are container technologies. We’ve talked about Docker here before on 24×7 IT Connection, so let’s take a look at another platform that works along with Docker, Kubernetes. What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes is a project by Google, which seeks to provide open source container […]