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Containerizing an old school Dell application
About a year ago Senior Linux engineer Jose De la Rosa had heard so much Docker and container-mania that he thought he’d find out what the fuss was all about. Jose started looking around for an app within Dell that he could containerize and came across Dell’s OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA). In case you’re wondering, OMSA is an in house…
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Learning about VMware’s Photon Controller
Last week I headed out to San Francisco to attend Kubecon and soak in the Kubernetes and devops-ecosystem goodness. As the event landing page explained: KubeCon 2015 is the first inaugural community Kubernetes conference, fully dedicated to education and community engagement focused on early Kubernetes, production users and contributors. As I normally do at events like this I prowled…
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Flocker plugin for Dell storage up on GitHub
Today ClusterHQ and Dell announced the availability on GitHub of code that allows ClusterHQ’s Flocker to integrate with the Dell Storage SC Series. What this does is allow developer and operations teams to use existing storage to create portable container-level storage for Docker. Before we dive into the back story on how the plugin came to be, take a listen to ClusterHQ’s…
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Incorporating DevOps into the development of Dell’s Active System Manager
As Dell as a company continues to evolve we have started implementing DevOps practices in our software development. Dell IT is employing DevOps as are some of our product development teams. In the following video, systems engineer Chris Gully explains how Dell’s Active System Manager has incorporated DevOps into its development. (the audio could be a…
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My Dell World Talk: DevOps, Containers and Microservices
Yesterday at Dell World, Dell’s annual customer event, I did a session entitled: DevOps, Containers and Microservices: Buzzwords or fundamental to survival? The idea was to explain these concepts, show how they serve as a foundation for digital transformation and talk about where Dell plays in the space. (see abstract below) Topics and times 2:20 –…
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Touchpad Palm Detection – the “confidence” feature
More info from the tech team: The XPS 13 9343 utilizes the Microsoft Precision Touchpad specification in I2C mode. The specific feature within the Microsoft Precision Touchpad specification is the “Confidence” feature: Confidence Confidence is used to indicate that the contact does not have any dimensions (height or width) > 25mm that implies that it…
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Alternate Touchpad Configuration for XPS 9343 Developer Edition Running Ubuntu 15.04
Here is information addressing the lack of palm detection with Ubuntu 15.04. A big shout out to Pilot6 who developed the steps below and shared them with the community on Ask Ubuntu Some customers have reported frustration with the lack of palm detection due to limitations with the Synaptics driver currently implemented in current stable versions of the Linux Kernel. This walkthrough…
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Kernel panics when switching wireless networks — XPS 13 developer edition 9343
In addition to the recent fixes I posted for the XPS 13 developer edition, here is one more from the team. thanks Broadcom bug Some customers may experience an issue where their system crashes when switching wireless networks while running the factory install of Ubuntu 14.04. The issue appears to be a bug within the…
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Recent Fixes for XPS 13 developer edition
About a month ago we stopped new sales of the XPS 13 developer edition in order to address a few issues. A couple weeks ago we started selling the systems again. For your reference, here are the details around the fixes: Keyboard repeat: The unwanted keyboard repeat issue is being addressed via BIOS updates. The…
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ContainerCon: How Google helps developers with Kubernetes
Last week at Container/LinuxCon I conducted a handful of video interviews. Video number three stars Brian Dorsey from Google. Brian works with developers to get them up to speed with Kubernetes. Here’s what Brian had to say: Some of the ground Brian covers Brian’s focus on cloud-building developers, specifically those working on Kubernetes Key partners such…
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My new gig — I’ve joined the CTO office!
A couple of weeks ago I took a new position here within Dell. I’m now in the office of the CTO in our enterprise solutions group. In my new role the main areas I will be focusing on are DevOps and OpenSource. And, because you can’t swing a dead cat without hearing about “containers,” I will…
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ContainerCon: Rancher Lab’s founder Sheng Liang
Rancher Labs debuted late last year and it has already made quite a splash. Rancher positions itself as a complete infrastructure platform for running Docker in production or, putting it another way, it provides infrastructure services reimagined for containers. Sheng Liang, who previously founded Cloud.com and then sold it to Citrix, is one of the founders of Rancher…
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Talking to Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth re: Containers, IoT, Project Sputnik and Cloud
Yesterday at ContainerCon here in Seattle I ran into Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and the man behind Ubuntu. I asked Mark about some of the efforts Canonical has been focusing on recently and this is what he had to say: This is what Mark had to say: Some of the ground Mark covers: Ubuntu on the…
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Meet the project Sputnik team + Case Study
The other day Canonical came to Dell for a show and tell. The Sputnik team, normally located in various buildings in Austin and Round Rock, all found ourselves in attendance at the event. Here is a quick meet-the-team video introducing ourselves, saying where we’re from and declaring our favorite TV show. Additionally, here is a short case…
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Introducing Kubernetes 1.0 and the Cloud Native Computing foundation
This morning at OSCON a special event was held to announce the launch of Kubernetes 1.0 (Google’s open source container management framework) as well as the introduction of the Cloud Native Computing foundation. One of the key speakers at the event was Craig McLuckie of Google who is a founding member of Kubernetes’ team. Craig has also been working with the Linux…
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XPS 13 developer edition on pause
We are aware of some issues that need to be addressed with our XPS 13 developer edition. While patches have been made available (or coming soon), we are working to add these fixes to the systems at the factory. Given that we want our customers to have the best experience possible, we have temporarily stopped new sales…
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Container management and landscape
Back at the end of April I gave an internal presentation laying out a high level overview of the container and container management space. I pulled this together using public info. Needless to say big things have happened since I created it, most notably the announcement of the Open Container Project. That being said it I feel it still…
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Updated Developer Edition Knowledge base: XPS 13 and M3800
Once again we want to thank the entire community for your posts containing feedback and questions to the Dell TechCenter forum and this blog regarding the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 and M3800 developer editions. Last month we posted links to four knowledge base articles addressing: wireless drivers, keyboard repeat, suspend/resume and cursor freezes. Today we are…
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John Willis of Docker – DevOps Days Austin
Last but not least here is the final video from DevOps days Austin featuring the one and only John Willis aka Botchagalupe. John gave the closing key note using an intriguing comparison to Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel. Take a listen: Some of the ground John covers: John’s DevOps background From Socketplane founder to Docker employee…