Fission: The Open Source Alternative to AWS Lambda
By Amrish Kapoor
Alternative to AWS Lambda AWS Lambda ushered in the serverless movement when it was first rolled out by Amazon Web Services in November 2014. Serverless computing, also referred to as... Read More
Kubernetes Networking: Achieving High Performance with Calico
By Madhura Maskasky
What is Calico? Project Calico is designed to simplify, scale, and secure cloud networks. The open source framework enables Kubernetes networking and network policy for clusters across the cloud. It... Read More
Demystifying Kubernetes Monitoring
By Jeremy Brooks
As we talk to our customers about moving from OpenStack into the new world of Kubernetes, we get involved in a lot of conversations about what it means for their... Read More
Kubernetes Upgrades with Low/No Downtime
By Jeremy Brooks
Kubernetes has a large and innovative community actively working on projects resulting in a new Kubernetes version coming out every few months. Mid to large enterprises need to stay current... Read More
Maintaining VM High Availability Using OpenStack Masakari
By Pushkar Acharya
OpenStack has become the chosen platform for managing enterprise data centers due to its ability to deliver an infrastructure-as-a-service environment and to run scalable, high availability (HA) applications on top... Read More
OpenStack Ironic: Enabling Bare Metal as a Service
By Cody Hill
OpenStack Ironic is an OpenStack project that provisions bare metal machines rather than virtual machines. Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS) allows you to provision your Hadoop or SQL workloads,... Read More
OpenStack Designate: Enabling DNS as a Service
By Sachin Manpathak
OpenStack Designate ― an open source project under the OpenStack umbrella ― provides DNS as a Service (DNSaaS) in OpenStack. It provides a standard, open API that can be used... Read More
OpenStack Load Balancer: Native vs. Third-Party Choices
By Sachin Manpathak
OpenStack load balancer supports both native and third-party methods of load balancing, and each has its advantages and disadvantages. What is load balancing? It is a technique used by service providers... Read More
Kubernetes 1.10: What’s New?
By Daniel Lipovetsky and Bich Le
Introduction Kubernetes 1.10 is set to be released on Wednesday, March 21. As has been the case over the past year, this release is characterized by incremental but significant enhancements in... Read More