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So let me just stop you right here for a moment. If you though, reading the title, “Yeah, which is the right choice?” You have been misled. Where your hardware sits does not make your system a Cloud, despite the fact that many people talk about the cloud vs on-prem …
Kubernetes has been thought of, incorrectly, as a direct competitor to OpenStack by some. A more appropriate view recognizes OpenStack and Kubernetes as conceivably complementary and considers the benefits of combining them. This opens up the question of which project is dominant in controlling the infrastructure? Does OpenStack build and …
This OpenStack Kolla tutorial builds on our original single-node demo. You will learn how OpenStack Kolla enables you to containerize the OpenStack services you want to deploy as Docker Containers and automates deployment and management with Ansible. This video tutorial goes through the process, from building and managing your own …
Are your Cloud-ready? Cloud-native applications built on microservice architecture and running at web scale are the new status quo for SaaS providers or most any startup worth its salt. Along with the desire to build the next unicorn or just capture a competitive edge in an existing market comes the …
Does asking your company to pay for a technical training outside of those offered by your learning department feels a bit like asking someone to cover the tab because you forgot your wallet? It shouldn’t. It is a well-supported fact that employees that get relevant training opportunities and feel like …
So Docker 1.13 is out, and it lists a whole host of improvements on it’s release notes page, including: better Swarm support including docker-compose modeling – so you can build your Swarm with one file. better cleanup commands – so that the mess docker leaves behind can be more easily …
If you need Kubernetes training like, yesterday, “read the docs” is not really a helpful answer. We’ve just released two new introductory courses as part of our k8s learning path that will jump you over the steep part of the learning curve and get you oriented and working with Kubernetes …
What are microservices? Do they have to be small? What do APIs have to do with all this? Microservice application architecture is the current favorite, new model for application development in general and Cloud-native applications in particular. But what are they, how do they work and why are they better …
In the dystopian 1973 sci-fi thriller Soylent Green, detective Frank Thorn discovers one of the primary food rations of the world in 2020- Soylent Green- is made of processed human remains. “Soylent green is people” is a climactic and most famous quote from the movie. The title of this article …
Unikernels – will they be the next hype thing after Containers or are they “just” Containers v2.0? How do they compare to Containers, Bare Metal or Serverless compute models? Kumulus Tech CTO, Robert Starmer, breaks down how they are like, yet differ from, Linux Containers and where their value proposition …
