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Demystifying Kubernetes for Enterprise Developers
Kubernetes is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and
management of containerized applications. Kubernetes was originally built by
Google, leveraging years of experience with managing container workloads, and
is now a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) project. Kubernetes has been
widely adopted by the community, supported on all major public and private
cloud providers, and is gaining rapid adoption in enterprises. However,
Kubernetes may seem intimidating and complex to learn. This is because
Kubernetes is more of a toolset than a ready solution. Hence it's essential
to know when and how to apply the appropriate Kubernetes constructs.
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In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Jim Bugwadia, found... (more)
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The CMP 2.0: Bringing Automation, Orchestration and Governance to Cloud
Native Apps and DevOps
As many know, the first generation of Cloud Management Platform (CMP)
solutions were designed for managing virtual infrastructure (IaaS) and
traditional applications. But that's no longer enough to satisfy evolving and
complex business requirements.
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In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, Embotics CTO, explored how
next-generation CMPs ensure organizations can manage cloud-native and
microservice-based application architectures, while also facilitating agile
DevOps methodology. He explained how automation, orchestration and governance
are fundamental to managing today's hybrid cloud environments and are
critical for digital businesses to deliver services faster, with better user ... (more)
"Grape Up leverages Cloud Native technologies and helps companies build
software using microservices, and work the DevOps agile way. We've been doing
digital innovation for the last 12 years," explained Daniel Heckman, of Grape
Up in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 - Nov 2,
2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
CloudExpo | DXWorldEXPO have announced the conference tracks for Cloud Expo
2018, introducing DXWorldEXPO.
DXWordEXPO, colocated with Cloud Expo will be held June 5-7, 2018, at the
Javits Center in New York City, and November 6-8, 2018, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.
Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction of DXWorld
Expo within the program. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on
being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable... (more)
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DevOps vs SRE vs Cloud Native
DevOps is under attack because developers don't want to mess with
infrastructure. They will happily own their code into production, but want to
use platforms instead of raw automation. That's changing the landscape that
we understand as DevOps with both architecture concepts (CloudNative) and
process redefinition (SRE).
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Rob Hirschfeld's recent work in Kubernetes operations has led to the
conclusion that containers and related platforms have changed the way we
should be thinking about DevOps and controlling infrastructure. The rise of
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is part of that redefinition of operations
vs development roles in organizations.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and
co-founder of RackN, explor... (more)
Low-Code Platforms in the Era of Automation
From manual human effort the world is slowly paving its way to a new space
where most process are getting replaced with tools and systems to improve
efficiency and bring down operational costs. Automation is the next big thing
and low code platforms are fueling it in a significant way.
The Automation era is here. We are in the fast pace of replacing manual human
efforts with machines and processes. In the world of Information Technology
too, we are linking disparate systems, software and tools to make things
self-sustaining. This is called automation. It has been helping companies
overcome the hurdles of traditional methodologies and optimize operations. It
has helped many enterprises achieve greater levels of efficiency and quality.
Intelligent automation systems can sense and process loads of information and
can automa... (more)
What Is Continuous Integration? (And What It Isn't)
By Ron Gidron
With continuous delivery (CD) almost always in the spotlight, continuous
integration (CI) is often left out in the cold. Indeed, it's been in use for
so long and so widely, we often take the model for granted. So what is CI and
how can you make the most of it? This blog is intended to answer those
questions.
Before we step into examining CI, we need to look back. Software developers
often work in small teams and modularity, and need to integrate their changes
with the rest of the project code base. Waiting to integrate code creates
merge conflicts, bugs that can be tricky to resolve, diverging code
strategies, and duplicated effort. Before CI, developers also had a problem
of wasted time: they compiled and built their changes multiple times a day on
their own machine and had to sit idle waiting for th... (more)
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The Future of Data Centers in a Serverless World
While some developers care passionately about how data centers and clouds are
architected, for most, it is only the end result that matters. To the
majority of companies, technology exists to solve a business problem, and
only delivers value when it is solving that problem. 2017 brings the
mainstream adoption of containers for production workloads.
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In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ben McCormack, VP of Operations at
Evernote, discussed how data centers of the future will be managed, how the
public cloud best suits your organization, and what the future holds for
operations and infrastructure engineers in a post-container world. Is a
serverless world inevitable?
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Ben McCormack is Evernote's V... (more)
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Segmentation and Isolation on Kubernetes for Enterprise Teams
Enterprises are adopting Kubernetes to accelerate the development and the
delivery of cloud-native applications. However, sharing a Kubernetes cluster
between members of the same team can be challenging. And, sharing clusters
across multiple teams is even harder.
Kubernetes offers several constructs to help implement segmentation and
isolation. However, these primitives can be complex to understand and apply.
As a result, it's becoming common for enterprises to end up with several
clusters. This leads to a waste of cloud resources and increased operational
overhead.
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In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Damien Toledo,
co-founder, VP of Engineering and Developer at Nirmata, demonstrated how it's
possible t... (more)
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Making Data-Driven Decisions for Better DevOps Outcomes
DevOps promotes continuous improvement through a culture of collaboration.
But in real terms, how do you:
Integrate activities across diverse teams and services? Make objective
decisions with system-wide visibility? Use feedback loops to enable learning
and improvement?
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With technology insights and real-world examples, in his general session at
@DevOpsSummit, at 21st Cloud Expo, Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate at
Splunk, explored how leading organizations use data-driven DevOps to close
their feedback loops to drive continuous improvement.
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You will learn:
What are ‘known good prac... (more)
The goal of Microservices is to improve software delivery speed and increase
system safety as scale increases. Microservices being modular these are
faster to change and enables an evolutionary architecture where systems can
change, as the business needs change. Microservices can scale elastically and
by being service oriented can enable APIs natively. Microservices also reduce
implementation and release cycle time and enables continuous delivery. This
paper provides a logical overview of the Microservices Reference Architecture
that highlights various sub systems needed to support Microservices
deployment and execution.
Introduction
Switch over to Microservices is an hour of need in web application
development and delivery and is crucial for the success of Enterprises today.
Of late, enterprises are adopting technologies like analytics, mobility,
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The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No
longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this
global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent
storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is
important.
Before 2007 and the birth of the cloud computing market we are witnessing
today, the on-premise model hosted in large local data centers dominated
enterprise storage. Key marketplace players were EMC (before the Dell
acquisition), NetApp, IBM, HP (before they became HPE) and Hitachi. Company
employees managed information technology resources (compute, storage,
network) and companies tightly controlled their data in facilities they
managed. Data security, legal and regulatory concerns, for the most part,
were very localized. The data itself was highly structur... (more)
@MicroservicesExpo Stories By Elizabeth White "Grape Up leverages Cloud Native technologies and helps companies build software using microservices, and work the DevOps agile way. We've been doing digital innovation for the last 12 years," explained Daniel Heckman, of Grape Up in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Feb. 12, 2018 10:30 PM EST Reads: 2,114 | By Elizabeth White Kubernetes is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes was originally built by Google, leveraging years of experience with managing container workloads, and is now a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) project. Kubernetes has been widely adopted by the community, supported on all major public and private cloud providers, and is gaining rapid adoption in enterprises. However, Kubernetes may seem intimidating and complex ... Feb. 12, 2018 06:15 PM EST Reads: 2,952 | By Automic Blog With continuous delivery (CD) almost always in the spotlight, continuous integration (CI) is often left out in the cold. Indeed, it's been in use for so long and so widely, we often take the model for granted. So what is CI and how can you make the most of it? This blog is intended to answer those questions.
Before we step into examining CI, we need to look back. Software developers often work in small teams and modularity, and need to integrate their changes with the rest of the project code b... Feb. 12, 2018 02:15 PM EST Reads: 2,530 | By Liz McMillan DevOps is under attack because developers don’t want to mess with infrastructure. They will happily own their code into production, but want to use platforms instead of raw automation. That’s changing the landscape that we understand as DevOps with both architecture concepts (CloudNative) and process redefinition (SRE).
Rob Hirschfeld’s recent work in Kubernetes operations has led to the conclusion that containers and related platforms have changed the way we should be thinking about DevOps and... Feb. 12, 2018 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,375 | By Liz McMillan As many know, the first generation of Cloud Management Platform (CMP) solutions were designed for managing virtual infrastructure (IaaS) and traditional applications. But that's no longer enough to satisfy evolving and complex business requirements.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, Embotics CTO, explored how next-generation CMPs ensure organizations can manage cloud-native and microservice-based application architectures, while also facilitating agile DevOps methodology. He expla... Feb. 12, 2018 09:30 AM EST Reads: 3,867 | By Pat Romanski While some developers care passionately about how data centers and clouds are architected, for most, it is only the end result that matters. To the majority of companies, technology exists to solve a business problem, and only delivers value when it is solving that problem. 2017 brings the mainstream adoption of containers for production workloads.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ben McCormack, VP of Operations at Evernote, discussed how data centers of the future will be managed, how the p... Feb. 12, 2018 08:30 AM EST Reads: 2,417 | By Karthick Viswanathan From manual human effort the world is slowly paving its way to a new space where most process are getting replaced with tools and systems to improve efficiency and bring down operational costs. Automation is the next big thing and low code platforms are fueling it in a significant way.
The Automation era is here. We are in the fast pace of replacing manual human efforts with machines and processes. In the world of Information Technology too, we are linking disparate systems, softwares and tool... Feb. 12, 2018 02:00 AM EST Reads: 3,545 | By Derek Weeks  Some people are directors, managers, and administrators. Others are disrupters. Eddie Webb (@edwardawebb) is an IT Disrupter for Software Development Platforms at Liberty Mutual and was a presenter at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference. His talk, Organically DevOps: Building Quality and Security into the Software Supply Chain at Liberty Mutual, looked at Liberty Mutual's transformation to Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and DevOps. For a large, heavily regulated industry, this task ... Feb. 6, 2018 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,439 | By Elizabeth White Enterprises are adopting Kubernetes to accelerate the development and the delivery of cloud-native applications. However, sharing a Kubernetes cluster between members of the same team can be challenging. And, sharing clusters across multiple teams is even harder.
Kubernetes offers several constructs to help implement segmentation and isolation. However, these primitives can be complex to understand and apply. As a result, it’s becoming common for enterprises to end up with several clusters. Thi... Feb. 6, 2018 06:30 AM EST Reads: 2,570 | By Stackify Blog  Let's do a visualization exercise. Imagine it's December 31, 2018, and you're ringing in the New Year with your friends and family. You think back on everything that you accomplished in the last year: your company's revenue is through the roof thanks to the success of your product, and you were promoted to Lead Developer. 2019 is poised to be an even bigger year for your company because you have the tools and insight to scale as quickly as demand requires. You're a happy human, and it's not just... Feb. 5, 2018 11:15 PM EST Reads: 2,638 | By Pat Romanski  We all know that end users experience the Internet primarily with mobile devices. From an app development perspective, we know that successfully responding to the needs of mobile customers depends on rapid DevOps – failing fast, in short, until the right solution evolves in your customers' relationship to your business. Whether you’re decomposing an SOA monolith, or developing a new application cloud natively, it’s not a question of using microservices – not doing so will be a path to eventual b... Feb. 5, 2018 08:00 PM EST Reads: 2,554 | By Dalibor Siroky  How often is an environment unavailable due to factors within your project's control? How often is an environment unavailable due to external factors? Is the software and hardware in the environment up to date with the target production systems? How often do you have to resort to manual workarounds due to an environment?
These are all questions that you should ask yourself if testing environments are consistently unavailable and affected by outages. Here are three key metrics that you can tra... Feb. 5, 2018 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,796 | By Simon Hill  Cavirin Systems has just announced C2, a SaaS offering designed to bring continuous security assessment and remediation to hybrid environments, containers, and data centers. Cavirin C2 is deployed within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and features a flexible licensing model for easy scalability and clear pay-as-you-go pricing.
Although native to AWS, it also supports assessment and remediation of virtual or container instances within Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or on-premise. By dr... Feb. 5, 2018 11:45 AM EST Reads: 2,509 | By Elizabeth White DevOps promotes continuous improvement through a culture of collaboration. But in real terms, how do you: Integrate activities across diverse teams and services? Make objective decisions with system-wide visibility? Use feedback loops to enable learning and improvement?
With technology insights and real-world examples, in his general session at @DevOpsSummit, at 21st Cloud Expo, Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate at Splunk, explored how leading organizations use data-driven DevOps to close th... Feb. 4, 2018 05:00 PM EST Reads: 3,848 | By Stackify Blog  How is DevOps going within your organization? If you need some help measuring just how well it is going, we have prepared a list of some key DevOps metrics to track. These metrics can help you understand how your team is doing over time.
The word DevOps means different things to different people. Some say it a culture and every vendor in the industry claims that their tools help with DevOps. Depending on how you define DevOps, some of these metrics may matter more or less to you and your team. Feb. 4, 2018 12:30 AM EST Reads: 2,994 | By Kevin Jackson The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is important.
Before 2007 and the birth of the cloud computing market we are witnessing today, the on-premise model hosted in large local data centers dominated enterprise storage. Key marketplace play... Feb. 3, 2018 06:00 PM EST Reads: 2,489 | By Aruna Ravichandran  For many of us laboring in the fields of digital transformation, 2017 was a year of high-intensity work and high-reward achievement. So we’re looking forward to a little breather over the end-of-year holiday season.
But we’re going to have to get right back on the Continuous Delivery bullet train in 2018. Markets move too fast and customer expectations elevate too precipitously for businesses to rest on their laurels.
Here’s a DevOps “to-do list” for 2018 that should be priorities for anyone w... Jan. 31, 2018 07:30 PM EST Reads: 2,398 | By Kevin Jackson  In a recent post, titled “10 Surprising Facts About Cloud Computing and What It Really Is”, Zac Johnson highlighted some interesting facts about cloud computing in the SMB marketplace:
Cloud Computing is up to 40 times more cost-effective for an SMB, compared to running its own IT system.
94% of SMBs have experienced security benefits in the cloud that they didn’t have with their on-premises service Dec. 30, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,681 | By PagerDuty Blog  DevOps failure is a touchy subject with some, because DevOps is typically perceived as a way to avoid failure. As a result, when you fail in a DevOps practice, the situation can seem almost hopeless. However, just as a fail-fast business approach, or the “fail and adjust sooner” methodology of Agile often proves, DevOps failures are actually a step in the right direction. They’re the first step toward learning from failures and turning your DevOps practice into one that will lead you toward even... Dec. 30, 2017 11:30 AM EST Reads: 1,545 | By Gopala Krishna Behara; Sridhar Chalasani; Tirumala Khandrika The goal of Microservices is to improve software delivery speed and increase system safety as scale increases. Microservices being modular these are faster to change and enables an evolutionary architecture where systems can change, as the business needs change. Microservices can scale elastically and by being service oriented can enable APIs natively. Microservices also reduce implementation and release cycle time and enables continuous delivery. This paper provides a logical overview of the Mi... Dec. 29, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 4,041 |
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While walking around the office I happened upon a relatively new employee dragging emails from his inbox into folders. I asked why and was told, “I’m just answering emails and getting stuff off my desk.” An empty inbox may be emotionally satisfying to look at, but in practice, you should never do it. Here’s why.
I recently wrote a piece arguing that from a mathematical perspective, Messy Desks Are Perfectly Optimized. While it validated the genius of my friends with messy desks, it also generated a barrage of good-natured ribbing from my super-neat friends. Emotions aside, the math is the m...
The cloud revolution in enterprises has very clearly crossed the phase of proof-of-concepts into a truly mainstream adoption. One of most popular enterprise-wide initiatives currently going on are “cloud migration” programs of some kind or another. Finding business value for these programs is not hard to fathom – they include hyperelasticity in infrastructure consumption, subscription based models, and agility derived from rapid speed of deployment of applications. These factors will continue to drive cloud adoption into the foreseeable future.
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