Istio – Service Mesh for Kubernetes and Cloud-native Systems

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 …