Tag: Docker
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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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XPS 13 Developer Edition launches in US, Ubuntu-based Workstations available worldwide
[ Update– April 7: i5 config now available] [Update — March 28: Precision 7510 and 7710 now available] Today I am excited to announce the worldwide launch of the Precision line of Ubuntu-based workstations along with the US launch of the 5th generation of the XPS 13 developer edition. Part of Project Sputnik, these systems began…
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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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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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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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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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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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Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS, what its about and where Dell fits in
The next interview in my series from Dell World features Julio Tapia of Red Hat. Julio is a global director for Red Hat’s platform as a service, OpenShift. I got Julio to give me a quick overview of OpenShift, where Dell plays and what they are planning going forward. Some of the ground Julio covers…
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Dell Cloud Marketplace launches public Beta
Today at Dell world, we are rolling out the public beta of the Dell Cloud Marketplace. The marketplace, which is targeted at both sys admins and developers, allows you to set-up, manage, monitor and pay for a variety of cloud services in a self-service model. The IaaS platforms available at launch are provided by Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud…
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Azure architect talks about Kubernetes and the future of PaaS
Here is the third of four interviews that I conducted last week at the Cloud Standards Customer Council. The theme of the conference was “preparing for the post-IaaS phase of cloud adoption” and there was quite a bit of talk around the role that PaaS would play in that future. The last session of the morning, before…
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The Future of PaaS, its “value proposition” and Docker
At last week’s Cloud Standards Customer Council held in Austin Texas, the first panel of the day dealt with “Current and Future PaaS Trends.” The panel debated whether there should or could be a PaaS standard as well as what its future might look like. One of the panelists was Diane Mueller, community manager of…
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Project Sputnik Profile Tool: Dell commits engineering resources, Docker joins the cause and we want your input!
When we first introduced Project Sputnik over a year ago we talked about two community projects: the profile tool and the cloud launcher. We garnered a fair amount of attention and made some progress but unfortunately not as much as I would have liked. I am very happy to report therefore that recently we have…
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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…