Kubernetes (aka k8s) is a software Container management system originally developed by Google and open sourced. In this episode, Kumulus Technologies CTO, Robert Starmer, explains the high-level architecture and control processes of how Kubernetes manages container orchestration and how Kubernetes differs from and works with Docker. Click on the video …
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 …
OpenStack – After the Install – Monitor, Manage, Upgrade
The days of OpenStack being hard to install are over (mostly), and what has become the new challenge is keeping an OpenStack system healthy, running and up to date. In this episode of Five Minutes of Cloud, Kumulus Technologies’ CTO and founder, Robert Starmer discusses some of the concerns and …
The Tricky Business of Moving Your Existing Software Applications to Containers
If you are working with cloud computing or software development, you’ve at least heard of software containers. The combination of microservices and containers is radically changing how applications are built and deployed to the cloud. In this video, CTO Robert Starmer discusses some of the things to consider when moving …
Operating Containers in Production
Containers are technology that have taken the world of cloud computing by storm and have radically changed how application developers and cloud operators are doing business. However, containers are not all created equally and some of the more modern formats have been easy and exciting to run on your laptop …
Containers and OpenStack – Friends or Foes?
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 …