Learning about VMware’s Photon Controller

November 18, 2015

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 the halls to look for folks doing cool stuff to interview with my trusty Flipcam.

One of the people I chatted with was Kenneth Jung, developer lead on the Photon Controller team at VMware.  The Photon Controller, in short, is a cloud scale IO solution for managing ESX.  (One of the things Kenneth alludes to is the open sourcing of the Controller which ended up happening yesterday.)

Some of the ground Kenneth covers

  • What is the photon controller – cloud scale io solution for managing ESX
  • How the cluster manager makes deployment and management of large of container frameworks like Kubernetes, easy
  • How VMware looks at VMs vs containers
  • The Photon microvisor + Photon OS used in Photon Controller
  • They will have a cloud foundry release early next year

Extra-credit reading

  • VMware extends container campaign with open source Photon Controller – InfoWorld
  • VMware’s Photon Platform and How it Treats Containers – The NewStack

Pau for now…


ContainerCon: Intel’s mini OS – Clear Linux

August 31, 2015

Here is my penultimate interview from ContainerCon.  Today’s video features Arjan van de Ven of Intel, the lead for The Clear Linux Project.   Clear Linux is Intel’s uber light weight OS and is targeted at cloud use cases.

Take a listen as Arjan takes us through the project.

Some of the ground Arjan covers:

  • Clear Linux as a modular micro distro that demonstrates how Intel’s hardware can be used.
  • How Clear Linux supports both containers and VMs
  • What’s coming in the next year for the Clear Linux project

 

Extra-credit reading

Pau for now