Microservices, especially cloud-native, container-based microservices have radically changed how applications are built and deployed. This shift has been driven by a number of positives that container-based microservices provide (eg. speed, portability, …). However, traditional monitoring tools don’t’ work with these new systems. The service mesh concept (and in particular the …
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 …
Silicon Valley OpenStack Ops Meetup: Simplifying your OpenStack Deployments with layer 3 multi-tenancy
We had the pleasure of helping the Romana Project implement the Neutron IPAM API integration. At this meetup, our CTO, Robert Starmer will join the Romana Project‘s Chris Marino in a talk and demo of the IPAM integration provides network multi-tenancy without an overlay and using only routed layer 3 …
PacketPushers Show 279: Real-World OpenStack Networking
Kumulus Tech’s CTO, Robert Starmer joint Michael Damkot (@mdamkot) as a guest on the PacketPushers Weekly show (@packetpushers). Get a real world perspective on OpenStack Networking from people that have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly! Click on the link to listen or download the mp3 for later!
Can’t our networks just get along? P-V converged networks can help
PLUMgrid hosted the San Francisco Bay Area OpenStack meetup this week, and we had a presentation by Gaetano Borgione on OpenStack integrated networks. I think his presentation can be summed up as follows: Virtual and Physical networks need to be cooperatively integrated from some form of central management ‘controller’, and …
Battle of the Switches: OVS vs. Linux Bridge (or “Simplicity Rules!”)
I’ve gotta come right out and say it: Open Virtual Switch– or OVS– is the wrong switch for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). That’s not to say it’s the wrong switch for virtual, or even as a base layer integration for Software Defined Networks…but it is absolutely the wrong solution …