IBM Adds Cloud Foundry PaaS to Cloud Private
As IT organizations are being asked to provision and support an ever-growing number of platforms, they increasingly require an approach that abstracts away as much of that complexity as possible. With that goal in mind, IBM created IBM Cloud Private, an on-premises platform that automates the deployment of a private cloud based on Kubernetes container […]
With Distelli Technology, Puppet Expands DevOps Portfolio
At its PuppetConf 2017 conference, Puppet made it clear its ambitions now extend well beyond its namesake IT automation framework for IT infrastructure. On the heels of acquiring Distelli in September, the company announced it is adding several products to its portfolio based on technologies developed by Distelli. The new offerings include Puppet Pipelines for […]
Platform9 Brings Workflows to Serverless Computing
Serverless computing frameworks are widely regarded as the next big thing in enterprise IT because they are based on an event-driven architecture that makes servers, storage and networking resources dynamically available as needed using a programming construct known as functions. But DevOps teams are challenged in finding a way to orchestrate all those functions in […]
Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators
Admiral Calcote, also known as Lee Calcote (@lcalcote) or the Ginger Geek to his friends, gave a presentation titled, “Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators,” at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. Okay, he isn’t really an admiral—nor does anyone call him that—but he used the title “admiral” to describe what container orchestrators do, relating it to an admiral directing a […]
Sprinting in a DevOps Marathon: Tips for Success
Remember the good old days of 2007, when Heroku was the shiny toy everyone wanted? Thanks to Moore’s law and the evolution of tech, 2007 seems like a lifetime ago. In fact, 2015 seems like a lifetime ago, now that machine learning has advanced for artificial intelligence to “wake up”—but I digress. DevOps and building […]
DevOps Chat: Purpose Built Appliances for Containerized Applications with Diamanti’s Mark Balch
Back in my StillSecure days, building purpose-built appliances for security was all the rage. Over time, though, security-as-a-service captured much of the market (although security appliances are still a big seller). For containerized applications, you may think cloud is the way to go. But the folks at Diamanti say that purpose-built appliances for containerized applications […]
DevOps Chat: Madhura Maskasky, Platform9
This DevOps Chat is with Madhura Maskasky, co-founder and VP of product at Platform9. If you are not familiar, Platform9 offers an “open source as a service.” While that sounds pretty cool, think managed hybrid cloud and now managed Kubernetes in an infrastructure-agnostic service. Madhura does a great job of explaining this, so have a […]
New Kubernetes Fundamentals Course Now Available From The Linux Foundation
SAN FRANCISCO, January 26, 2017 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, today announced the availability of a new training course, LFS258 – Kubernetes Fundamentals. LFS258, developed in conjunction with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is geared towards developers and administrators who want to get started with Kubernetes. […]
Confessions from Fannie Mae, Liberty Mutual and Capital One
Learn from real-world stories from presenters at the All Day DevOps conference … True Story Over the past few years, Fannie Mae transformed the way in which it delivered software. Deploys increased from 1,200 per month to 15,000 per month. At the same time, productivity increased by 28 percent while costs were reduced by 30 […]
An IT Practitioner’s Guide To DevOps
Two technology innovations of the past decade have fundamentally changed how IT works and given rise to the “DevOps” phenomenon. Before we dive into what DevOps is and how IT organizations should adopt this culture, let’s review what gave rise to it in the first place. Pull from Agile Development The last decade has seen […]
NodeSource Announces Containerized N|Solid Deployment for Kubernetes
Developers can now deploy enterprise-grade Node.js on Kubernetes San Francisco, CA – July 26, 2016 – NodeSource, the Enterprise Node Company™, today announced at Node Summit 2016 the beta launch of its containerized N|Solid™ deployment for Kubernetes. With this release, NodeSource is offering the first version of Node.js with production-ready continuous performance and security monitoring […]
It’s Time to Slay the Universal Installer Unicorn
While many people want a universal “easy button installer,” they also want it to work on their unique snowflake of infrastructures, tools, networks and operating systems. I call them snowflakes because their small differences expand combinatorially. That divergence turns the idea of a prescriptive reference architecture into a destructive myth that limits community and ecosystem […]
One Month After Announcing Intentions to Bring OpenStack on Kubernetes, CoreOS Introduces “Stackanetes”
Innovator in container-enabled infrastructure leads effort to simplify OpenStack deployments with Kubernetes container management to deliver GIFEE for enterprises OpenStack Summit Austin – April 26, 2016 – A month after announcing intentions to bring OpenStack as an application on Kubernetes, CoreOS today introduces “Stackanetes”, an initiative to deploy and manage OpenStack as an application on Kubernetes. […]
goPaddle goes Google Cloud and Kubernetes v1.2 friendly
SEATTLE, March 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Bluemeric Inc, a Cloud & DevOps company, today announced the release of the next version of goPaddle v2.0, a DevOps platform for micro-services. 2016 being the year of DevOps, IT organizations are already looking at scale-out and economies of scale, while e-commerce companies have understood the impact of agile delivery […]
9 more open source DevOps tools we love
A while back we ran an article by Tomer Levy of Logz.io about 9 open source DevOps Tools that we loved. Of course how can you pick just 9 among so many worthy choices? So we wanted to revisit the open source DevOps tools space and add another 9 tools to the list. In a […]