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 …
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and the rise of the OpsDevs
Platform as a service (PaaS) systems are changing the relationship of applications developers to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) systems. This change is having a ripple effect in the world of DevOps practitioners that are most interested in application development enabled by PaaS and the new container paradigms and less …
How are Containers Revolutionizing Applications Deployment?
In Part 1 of this Container series, we covered the historic shift in how applications are run and how segregation is provided via the Container model. Now we can focus on how we achieve that segregated state, as well as the current set of tools that are making this easier. …
A History of Containers: This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Chroot Environment
What’s all the fuss about? Why has the concept of Linux containers become the current rallying cry of cloud infrastructure and Agile/Extreme developers? In this article, we’ll take a look at Linux container history from both the perspective of the evolution of the technology and its value from a developer’s …
Video: Top 5 Takeaways from the Vancouver Kilo/Liberty OpenStack Summit
DefCore, the Big Tent, containers, Ironic, Puppet…. there was a lot going on at the most recent OpenStack summit. Cloud technologist and OpenStack expert Robert Starmer was there the entire week. In this video, he distills that week and downloads his top 5 (of course) key tidbits about the state of OpenStack …