Tag: containers
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Microsoft and Containers
Earlier this summer I was out in Seattle for DockerCon. Among the people I interviewed was Taylor Brown of Microsoft. While Microsoft may not be the first company you think of when talking containers, they actually have a bunch going on. Taylor in fact leads the team focusing on the server container technology coming out…
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What the heck’s a Unikernel? And why should you care
Just when the tech world was starting to get their heads around containers, along come unikernels. Like containers, unikernels have been around in some form or another for quite awhile. Their resurgence has to do in large part to their container-like functionality. In a nutshell, unikernels combine an uber-stripped down version of an OS packaged with…
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VMware’s Photon Platform
Last week I attend DockerCon 2016 in Seattle. Besides spending time working the Dell booth, I grabbed a bunch of folks and did some short, guerrilla-style interviews. One of my victims was Kit Colbert who heads up VMware’s cloud native applications group. With the onslaught of container-mania VMware, the 800-pound-VM gorilla, has had to take a hard look at…
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Where LXD fits within the virtualization and container landscape — OpenStack Summit
Yesterday here at the OpenStack summit here in Austin I caught a few of the sessions in the track that Canonical was hosting. One of the sessions dealt with Canonical’s LXD and where it fits into the whole virtualization/container space. The talk was given by Dustin Kirkland and after he had finished, I grabbed him…
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Working on Triton in the lab, what’s on the horizon
As we’ve talked about before, a few of us in Dell’s CTO group have recently been working with our friends at Joyent. This effort is a part of the consideration of platforms capable of intelligently deploying workloads to all major infrastructure flavors – bare-metal, virtual machine, and container. Today’s post on this topic comes to us complements of Glen…
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Intro: Setting up Joyent’s Triton in Dell’s CTO lab
A while back I tweeted how we had begun setting up a mini-instance of Joyent’s Triton in our Dell CTO lab. Triton is Joyent’s elastic container infrastructure that runs on their cloud, a private cloud or both. This cloud platform includes OS and machine virtualization (e.g. Docker with regards to the former and typical VMs under KVM…
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Learning about CoreOS and Tectonic
With today’s post we are five interviews into the videos I took at Kubecon with three remaining. Today’s interviewee is Rob Szumski, one of the early employees of CoreOS. Rob explains CoreOS, Tectonic and where CoreOS is going from here. Some of the ground Rob covers CoreOS began as an operating system for large scale clusters and…
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Containers, VMs and Joyent’s Triton — how they relate
While I was in San Francisco back in November, I stopped by Joyent’s headquarters. The main purpose was to talk about the Docker/Triton platform we are setting up in the CTO lab. While I was there I chatted with Joyent’s Casey Bisson, director of product management. Casey took me through a couple of white board sessions…
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Learning about Joyent and Triton, the elastic container infrastructure
Here’s another interview from KubeCon back in November. This one’s a twofer. Joyent’s CEO and CTO, Scott Hammond and Bryan Cantrill respectively, talk about taking their learnings from Solaris zones and applying them to the world of modern apps and containers. Some of the ground Scott and Bryan cover Joyent, a software company focused on delivering…
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Red Hat launches OpenShift v3.1, full of Docker/Kubernetes goodness
Im just getting around to publishing my interviews from KubeCon back in November Today’s interview features Red Hat’s Grant Shipley, director of developer advocacy for “container application platform” OpenShift. Grant talks about the launching of OpenShift v3.1 and what’s ahead. Some of the ground Grant covers: Announcing 3.1, the latest upstream version of Red Hat’s open source project OpenShift…
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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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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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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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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…
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Talking to the Docker Dudes
This morning a group of us here at Dell met with Ben Golub, Jerome Petazzoni and Nick Stinemates of dotCloud, the company behind the wildly popular open source project, Docker, “the Linux container engine.” They came to sample the great barbecue and to chat about how Docker might potentially work with Project Sputnik, the Crowbar Project…
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Dell’s Modular Data Center — Hello World
Last week at VMworld, Dell held a Super session where we debuted a video walking through our Modular Data Center (MDC). The group that I belong to, Data Center Solutions (DCS), created the MDC as a custom solution addressing the specific needs of a few of our big strategic customers. (As background, the DCS group…