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Containers have certainly shaken up the world of Cloud computing. The IaaS cloud management software known as OpenStack was built at a time when the compute infrastructure of choice was the Virtual Machine (VM). What does the move from VM to containers have in store for OpenStack? Is it a …
One of the many OpenStack Day events sponsored regionally around the world, OpenStack Day in Mexico City was held on June 14. It was the third such event in Mexico and was sponsored by the OpenStack Foundation and Kio Networks. Our CTO, Robert Starmer, joined a diverse lineup of local …
We had the pleasure of helping the Romana Project implement the Neutron IPAM API integration. At this meetup, our CTO, Robert Starmer will join the Romana Project‘s Chris Marino in a talk and demo of the IPAM integration provides network multi-tenancy without an overlay and using only routed layer 3 …
Linux Containers – Docker, LXC, rkt and the like – are the current darling of much of the application development and virtualization world. Seemingly the cure to everything that ailed bloated virtual machines and accelerating (and adored by) the microservices development community, Containers have very real benefits compared to virtual …
The OpenStack Foundations’s Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam was introduced this week at the Austin OpenStack summit. As experience with OpenStack can translate to substantial increases in earnings, having a way to validate your OpenStack abilities is desirable. While other vendors have provided OpenStack certifications previously, they came with no validation …
We’ve been working with the Romana Project, an OpenStack-integrated software defined networking (SDN) solution to get their top notch IPAM solution to integrate with Neutron’s IPAM APIs. The journey was challenging, but the end result was worth the effort and provides a cloud-native SDN solution that integrates not only with …
With the announcement of Mesosphere open sourcing it’s Mesos-based DC/OS container management solution, and Kubernetes clearly pushing to enable underlying container models other than Docker, is Docker the next target for crushing defeat? The darling of the container community has been getting roughed up a bit recently, with their Docker …
The role of IT for business is continuing to change due to the impact of Cloud computing. Though many manual IT tasks have been automated, there is still a management task that is required to support today’s modern Cloud infrastructure. This new role is taken on by cloud operators (the …
Kumulus Tech’s CTO, Robert Starmer joint Michael Damkot (@mdamkot) as a guest on the PacketPushers Weekly show (@packetpushers). Get a real world perspective on OpenStack Networking from people that have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly! Click on the link to listen or download the mp3 for later!
If you are developing apps on a traditional physical system or a virtual managed “Cloud-like” system (think VMware and the like), you are missing out on key benefits that are available in a cloud-based development environment. Wether you deal with a “touch the infrastructure” based IaaS system or a more …
