Tag: open source
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Of Linux Laptops, Open Source and Hawaiian Food
In the last two weeks I’ve had the opportunity to participate in two podcasts. The first was the wild and wacky Lunduke & Whatnot (with Matt) show where System76 founder CEO, Carl Richell and I talked with our hosts about pre-loaded Linux laptops. In the second, which was recorded last week at SpringOne platform, Michael Cote hosts…
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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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Live in Europe: Next gen XPS 13 developer edition
[Update — April 8: Offline country URLs added] A couple of weeks ago we announced the worldwide release of the Ubuntu-based mobile Precision mobile line as well and the US availability of the next gen XPS 13 developer edition. Today I’m happy to announce that the Skylake-based XPS 13 developer edition is now available in…
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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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Mark Shuttleworth talks 16.04 LTS, Snaps & Charms
Last week I flew out to sunny California to participate in SCaLE 14x and the UbuCon summit. As the name implies this was the 14th annual SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo) and, as always, it didn’t disappoint. Within SCaLE was the UbuCon summit which focused on what’s going on within the Ubuntu community and how to better the community. While…
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Covering Mesos and Mesosphere
Today’s post is the penultimate video in my series of interviews from KubeCon back in November. Below, Aaron Bell, the product manager working on developer facing tools, talks about the Mesos project and Mesosphere — what they do and who’s using it. Some of the ground Aaron covers How mesosphere is connected to the Apache Mesos…
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Talking to ClusterHQ founder about Flocker and the Dell storage plugin
Continuing with my videos from KubeCon, here is a chat ClusterHQ’s founder and CTO, Luke Marsden. Luke explains Flocker, how its being used and talks about the Dell/Flocker driver. Some of the ground Luke covers What is Flocker (hint: a way to connect the container universe to the storage universe) Why you don’t want containers…
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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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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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Google Kubernete’s new community lead: Sarah Novotny
A couple of weeks ago I attended KubeCon in San Francisco. There were a series of talks as well as a bunch of vendors who were there in mini-booths chatting with folks and showing off what they do. As always, the part I get the most out of at conferences like this is the “hallway track”…
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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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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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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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4th gen Dell XPS 13 developer edition available!
I would first like to thank everyone for their patience and support as we worked through various bugs that crept up. This has taken longer than we would have liked but I’m happy to say that as of today, the Dell XPS 13 developer edition is now available in the United States, Canada and Europe! A short history…
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Available in Europe: Precision M3800 developer edition
At the end of January we announced the launch of the Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation, developer edition. This beefy complement to the existing XPS 13 developer edition is the direct result of feedback from the community who have been asking for a larger system. Over the past few weeks we have been adding EMEA availability.…
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Welcome the Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation, developer edition
Update March 17: Great review in Network World — Review: Dell’s Ubuntu-powered M3800 Mobile Workstation is a desktop destroyer Since the planning stages of project Sputnik over two years ago we wanted to offer two versions of our developer-focused systems. The idea was to have both an ultra mobile laptop and a beefier workstation offering, a beauty…
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Learning about Dell’s OpenStack private cloud offering
The week before last I was roaming the expo floor at Dell World and I bumped into Steve Croce. Steve is at Dell and is the product manager and strategist for our OpenStack private cloud offering. I got Steve to spend a few minutes with me and give me the lowdown on what we are offering…