Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “OpenStack”
Did you know that Docker is not a “Thing”? It’s rather a collection of tools that enable users to build, run and manage containers. In this 5MoC episode, Robert Starmer explains what the pieces are and how they work together to provide the container service that has application developers so …
The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud service model has a lot of benefits for enterprise users. Some “legacy” enterprise apps will not fit this model, but surprisingly, a number can be transitioned to and managed from a PaaS. Moving forward, building applications on a PaaS, that abstract away much of the hardware …
OpenStack is a leader in open source cloud management systems (CMS) that, while it can be used to build PaaS and SaaS model clouds, was initially intended to provide IaaS cloud functionality. What is OpenStack and how does it provide an Infrastructure-as-a-Service? OpenStack is a collection of (primarily) python-based software …
One of the questions that often comes up is if you should use OpenStack to run Linux Containers, or if you should use Containers to run OpenStack. I think both are valid and interesting options, and to that end, I’ve been working with the OpenStack Kolla Project to get a …
OpenStack was perhaps initially ‘conceived’ in the form of the Nasa Nebula project right down the road from us, at the NASA Ames Research Center, but was ‘born’ at the first Design Summit in Austin, TX- July 13-14, 2010. We attended last week’s birthday party hosted by the SF Bay OpenStack to …
The days of OpenStack being hard to install are over (mostly), and what has become the new challenge is keeping an OpenStack system healthy, running and up to date. In this episode of Five Minutes of Cloud, Kumulus Technologies’ CTO and founder, Robert Starmer discusses some of the concerns and …
Containers have certainly shaken up the world of Cloud computing. The IaaS cloud management software known as OpenStack was built at a time when the compute infrastructure of choice was the Virtual Machine (VM). What does the move from VM to containers have in store for OpenStack? Is it a …
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 …
The OpenStack Foundations’s Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam was introduced this week at the Austin OpenStack summit. As experience with OpenStack can translate to substantial increases in earnings, having a way to validate your OpenStack abilities is desirable. While other vendors have provided OpenStack certifications previously, they came with no validation …
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!
