Did you know that Docker is not a “Thing”? It’s rather a collection of tools that enable users to build, run and manage containers. In this 5MoC episode, Robert Starmer explains what the pieces are and how they work together to provide the container service that has application developers so …
How PaaS Provides Value to Enterprise Users
The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud service model has a lot of benefits for enterprise users. Some “legacy” enterprise apps will not fit this model, but surprisingly, a number can be transitioned to and managed from a PaaS. Moving forward, building applications on a PaaS, that abstract away much of the hardware …
What is OpenStack? How does it build an IaaS cloud?
OpenStack is a leader in open source cloud management systems (CMS) that, while it can be used to build PaaS and SaaS model clouds, was initially intended to provide IaaS cloud functionality. What is OpenStack and how does it provide an Infrastructure-as-a-Service? OpenStack is a collection of (primarily) python-based software …
How Docker Containers help with OpenStack – OpenStack in Containers – Kolla
One of the questions that often comes up is if you should use OpenStack to run Linux Containers, or if you should use Containers to run OpenStack. I think both are valid and interesting options, and to that end, I’ve been working with the OpenStack Kolla Project to get a …
Thinking about moving your business to the Cloud? Prioritize Education.
Uneducated opinion, rather than an educated decision, is more likely going to kill your efforts to transition to a cloud service model. I was teaching a class at a company that already had a private cloud for application development and testing. Upper management had already bought into the idea. The cloud …
Containers – Part 3 – Container Benefits for the Enterprise
Enterprises are once again faced with a major shift in the application development technology landscape. And, once again, it appears that adopting this technology correctly is imperative for business success and growth. In the two previous installments in this series, we looked at two technologies that are at the core of the “new” …
Containers for Application Development- Part 2 – the Microservices Application Model
When last we left the container world, we had looked at the shifts that have brought the Container model to the front and center of every developers attention. But we have yet to look at where this fits into the Enterprise application development environment, and I believe we need to …
The Linux Container – Part 1- Rise of the Containers
It’s new, it’s hot, it’s shiny, it’s a container! Linux containers solve all of your application and infrastructure problems after all, so there’s no doubt that you want to build a container solution to solve all your company’s IT problems. Well… actually…, it’s never that simple, and in fact for …
The answer – #OpsDev
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 …
Anyone like #agile and #automation?
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 …