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 …
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, …
What you Must know about Compute Services Needed for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud
The Compute Service is one of the three key resources in any cloud. Exactly how to approach compute has been rapidly evolving in recent years. The Virtual Machine is no longer “The” answer. Bare metal is increasingly important, especially in compute-intensive environments used for Big Data analytics. In the world …
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: The Computer in Cloud Computing: An Introduction
“Compute” is on of the three core resource pools leveraged by cloud systems. In this episode, Robert Starmer introduces how computers fit into (and drive) the Cloud. Get a clear, concise introduction to how ‘traditional’ hypervisor-based virtualization differs from the ‘new’ container technology that has cloud technologists all abuzz. …