Robert Starmer, Kumulus’ Founder and CTO shares his insights into the decision-making process of cloud migration or cloud repatriation and provides practical advice on how to manage a successful and repeatable migration. Does it make sense to migrate your current cloud environment back into a self-managed or third-party managed data …
Sydney OpenStack Summit Container Presentations for Cloud Operators
The 2017 Sydney OpenStack Summit is a wrap and once again, there was an amazing amount of great content being presented on multiple tracks. Thankfully, the Sydney Open Stack Summit organizers and the OpenStack Foundation once again did a solid job of not just capturing these presentations on video, but …
Docker, You’ve Failed me Again – RKT please save me?
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 …
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 …
PacketPushers: Datanauts Podcast 060: Running OpenStack in Containers
Robert Starmer talks with Datanauts host Drew Conry-Murray about the general whys and hows of operating OpenStack in Containers. They then explore the relationship between OpenStack and Kubernetes, and how stateful services like storage and databases might function. Finally, they discuss the Kolla project which leverages Ansible and Docker to …
DefragCon X – Cloud Application Development
DeFrag Con 10 was actually the last (it will merge with GlueCon after this) and it went back to its roots with a strong Cloud development focus. Robert Starmer, Kumulus Tech CTO and Founder, attended and shares his takeaways from the two days of keynotes and presentations. Day 1 Key …
Saying Goodbye to OpenStack
Containers have won, throw up your hands and just admit it. But let’s first consider that OpenStack had a good run. Six years… it’s been just a bit over six years since NASA’s Nebula Cloud “science project” morphed into the open source OpenStack and set its sights on world domination. …
SF Bay OpenStack Meetup – OpenStack on Kubernetes?
This two-part session at the SFBay OpenStack Meetup looks at the idea of an Openstack Kubernetes IaaS. OpenStack was designed as a virtual server-focused IaaS platform. Kubernetes is the Google-invented, open source Container management platform. The meetup starts with a brief discussion by John Starmer, Kumulus Tech’s Director of Education, …
OpenStack Seattle – HPE Keynote – Containers and OpenStack
HPE’s Lisa-Marie Namphy discusses the impact of Container technology on OpenStack with our CTO, Robert Starmer, during the 2016 OpenStack Days Seattle event. Lisa provided a prequel with her HPE Community blog post and generated a lot of community and customer input and questions that Lisa used to drive the …
Kubernetes – Google’s Open Source Contribution to Docker Container Orchestration
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 …