Thoughts from OSCON 2014
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making mainstream media believe that everyone in IT was an experienced Linux SysAdmin. Or so I thought as I traveled to Portland, Oregon for OSCON 2014 (all...
View ArticleContainer Frameworks – Tools, Products or Solutions?
Earlier, I covered some of the basics of the container technologies that are quickly evolving .within web-scale clouds and will eventually be migrating into Enterprise and Mid-Market data centers. Once...
View ArticleRethinking the CCIE – 20 years later…
Sometimes you just can’t escape your past. It hangs around, popping it’s head out from time to time, reminding us of those decisions we made years ago. I started out life in this crazy world of IT in...
View ArticleThe Many Angles of Open Source in the Enterprise
Every year, the landscape of open source in the Enterprise seems to make subtle changes as IT organizations struggle to find a balance between becoming more agile and having the skills to engage with...
View ArticleTracking Container Standards
Image Source: Pixabay The last few weeks have been very interesting in the world of container “standards”. For some historical context, check out this excellent infographic about the history of...
View ArticleManaging Containers in Production
Next week at Interop 2017 in Las Vegas, I’m giving a talk about managing containers. The focus of the talk is to look at the expanded interactions that are required as engineers move from having a...
View Article3 Lessons Learned: Containers vs. Container Platforms
This past week I had the opportunity to present a session entitled “Managing Containers in Production: What you need to know” at the Interop conference in Las Vegas. In addition to the talk, I had the...
View ArticleAre Container (Standards) Wars Over?
The open source world is different than the proprietary world in that there really aren’t formalized standards bodies (e.g. IEEE, IETF, W3C, etc.). That world is mostly defacto standards, with some...
View ArticleThe Evolution of the Kubernetes Kommunity and Konformance
This past week the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced their “Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program“, with 32 distributions or platforms being on the initial list. This allows...
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