In my recent post on InfoQ, I discuss the techniques that serverless platforms use “under the hood” to balance performance and cost. Serverless computing is for many the logical next step in cloud computing, moving applications to a set of higher-level abstractions and offloading more of the low-level operational work to the cloud provider (regardless […]
· February 13, 2019 · 2 min read
This is an excerpt from The Gorilla Guide to Serverless on Kubernetes, written by Joep Piscaer. See the first chapter here. You can download the full guide here. The biggest advantage of serverless computing is the clear separation between the developer and the operational aspects of putting code into production. This simplified model of “who does
· February 12, 2019 · 4 min read
Kubernetes is the #1 enabler for cloud-native applications and is critical to the competitive advantage for software-driven organizations today. VMware is probably the most popular virtualization infrastructure solution among large enterprises. Many organizations that have on-prem data centers have traditionally been using VMware to manage their IT environment. Unfortunately, VMware was never designed to run
· February 4, 2019 · 5 min read
Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Alan Shimmel from DevOps.com about some of the challenges and tips for cloud-ifying legacy applications and on-prem infrastructure. For many modern companies, growth often means growing through acquisition. As organizations become larger, it often makes sense to acquire existing companies who are already creating the solutions they
· January 28, 2019 · 4 min read
At last week’s KubeCon conference in Seattle, WA, we had VMblog visit us at the Platform9 booth to learn more about our SaaS-managed enterprise Kubernetes solution. Platform9 lets you leverage your existing infrastructure – either on public clouds, on-premises or at the edge. You simply plug-in all your environments to our Managed Kubernetes control plane, to
· December 19, 2018 · 1 min read
I had just returned from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018, which was held this week in Seattle, WA. The 8,000 attendees gathered at the conference (up from around 4,000 just last year!) are a huge testament to the growing adoption, maturation, and impact of Kubernetes in the enterprise. Kubernetes is not only here to stay —
· December 14, 2018 · 5 min read
CVE-2018-1002105, a critical Kubernetes security vulnerability affecting multiple versions of the popular container orchestration system was recently discovered and fixed by the Kubernetes open source community. What is the CVE-2018-1002105 Security Bug? In summary, when exploited the vulnerability would allow a lesser privileged user to perform escalated privilege operations against Kubernetes. This could be misused
· December 6, 2018 · 5 min read
Last month, I had the honor of moderating a CIO panel at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management at Lake Forest, IL near Chicago. The lively discussion at the panel centered around Digital Transformation driven by Cloud, Big Data and AI — and the challenges faced by CIOs leading these transformations. First off, I
· December 6, 2018 · 4 min read
Enterprise Infatuation with Kubernetes It seems that everyone is infatuated with Kubernetes. Every organization has an active project with Kubernetes or planning one. When adopting Kubernetes organizations are quickly realizing that many decisions need to be made and that Kubernetes is no simple thing. Some common questions are: How will I deploy Kubernetes? Where will
· December 3, 2018 · 6 min read
At Amazon’s re:Invent 2018 conference, Amazon finally announced their venture into on-premises data-centers, called AWS Outposts. Just a few years ago, this would have been unthinkable, given how Amazon executives would proclaim the inevitable death of on-premises infrastructure and private clouds. While AWS Outposts is in a very early technical preview, I wanted to share
· November 30, 2018 · 5 min read
This is a guest blog post written by Ron Illsley, distinguished analyst at Ovum. One of the biggest challenges faced by organizations as they look to adopt newer cloud native concepts, such as containers, micro-services, or serverless is marrying this new world with its existing portfolio and processes. The issue faced by many CIOs is
· November 28, 2018 · 4 min read
Over the past several years, the use of microservices as a means of driving agile best practices and accelerating software delivery has become more and more commonplace. In an effort to avoid the pitfalls that come with monolithic applications, microservices aim to break your architecture into loosely-coupled components (or, services) that are easier to update independently,
· November 26, 2018 · 7 min read