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 …
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 …
Kumulus Technologies CTO, Robert Starmer, Presents Keynote at OpenStack Day Mexico City
One of the many OpenStack Day events sponsored regionally around the world, OpenStack Day in Mexico City was held on June 14. It was the third such event in Mexico and was sponsored by the OpenStack Foundation and Kio Networks. Our CTO, Robert Starmer, joined a diverse lineup of local …
Mesosphere open sources DC/OS – and gives Docker a push toward the Beach
With the announcement of Mesosphere open sourcing it’s Mesos-based DC/OS container management solution, and Kubernetes clearly pushing to enable underlying container models other than Docker, is Docker the next target for crushing defeat? The darling of the container community has been getting roughed up a bit recently, with their Docker …
OpenStack Magnum – the Underlay Solution for Deploying Production Containers
Containerize all things? Containers seem to be the only answer these days for how applications should be deployed, especially in the web-scale and microservices systems models. In jumping on the container bandwagon, most developers see a real benefit in a reduction in the operations burden needed to implement a service, …
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. …