Many companies only consider the public cloud model when considering a digital (cloud) transformation. In this episode, Kumulus Technologies CTO and Founder, Robert Starmer, argues that there are cases when a private cloud will provide greater value to your business. Robert takes a closer look at some of the assumptions that …
The Pitfalls in Cloud Adoption
We all tend to be dazzled by the bright and shiny new things, rushing to the adoption of a new technology due to a perception of fast and easy returns on minimal investment. It’s been said that hope is not a strategy, yet when it comes to implementing cloud-based technologies many …
NoOps – Is this the Future of DevOps?
NoOps – as in “No Operations” – has been suggested as next step in the evolution of DevOps. DevOps, after all, in some minds, freed application developers from the shackles of IT overlords that stingily doled out hardware resources. This was good, but managing infrastructure is not what devs really …
Cloud vs. on-premises: Finding the right balance
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 …
OpenStack and Kubernetes – Combining the Best of Both Worlds?
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 …
OpenStack Kolla Tutorial – Multi-node IaaS Deployment and Upgrades
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 …
The new way to Build Cloud-native Applications
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 …
The Cloud is People!
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 …
Are they really just Containers v2.0?
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 …