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Containers
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Kubernetes catches up with operational reality
Freeform Dynamics 12 Jul 2019With Kubernetes now established in many organisations as the container orchestration platform of the future, are cracks already starting to show? Well, not exactly – but if I could pull out one ...
In this guest post, Rob Greenwood, CTO at Manchester-based cloud and DevOps consultancy, Steamhaus, sets out why the emergence of Amazon's managed Kubernetes service is such good news for the ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Open source is growing up – and here’s how
Freeform Dynamics 13 Nov 2018If you’re among those who still think that open source is just for hobbyists and academics, think again. Open source is mature now, both as a concept and as tools for building enterprise IT, and we ...
In this guest post, Jon Topper, CTO of DevOps and cloud infrastructure consultancy The Scale Factory, on how the growing maturity of Kubernetes dominated this year’s Kubecon. KubeCon + ...
Open Source Insider
Varnish Software: How to avoid the tendency for multiple dependencies
22 Feb 2017This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog by Arianna Aondio in her role as field engineer at Varnish Software -- Varnish is a content delivery specialist and its HTTP ...
Load Balancing (LB), is now popping up on the corporate security agenda! LB is no longer just about managing traffic flows across enterprise routers and servers. In the age of the cloud and ...
Cloud native computing as championed, advocated and evangelised by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) itself is an approach that uses an open source software stack to deploy applications ...
Containers have been rising in prominence over the past year or so, but this last week has seen a flurry of products and features aimed at changing the way they relate to storage. In some senses ...
Open Source Insider
Pentaho Docker utilities: massage & pedicure for software footprints
20 Jun 2016Pentaho has tabled a set of Docker open source utilities intended to help simplify big data analytics. Emanating from its Pentaho Labs division, this containerised open source platform is available ...
As the decoupled (often services-driven) componentisation of computing continues apace, so does the proliferation of vendors aiming to deliver attuned wider tooling adjuncts to new lifeblood of ...
DevOps should be an all-powerful omniscient being that extends its all-seeing eye into every crevice of our programming universe to control the hearts and minds of every data engineer and developer ...
Wercker is a container-centric developer automation platform for cloud-native applications and microservices. The central technology proposition here is 'technology that goes beyond mere build ...
Black Duck's open source 'rookies of the year' 2015
Open Source Insider
Poker Face? Red Hat plays 'de facto standard' card for enterprise Java apps
19 Jan 2016There's that bit (quite a few bits actually) during the Red Hat Summit conventions every year when the middleware team gets really excited about its product set.
According to the firm's official statement, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 features many improvements to the underlying container support infrastructure.
Jenkins company CloudBees announce delivery of three Kubernetes plugins to assist in the continuous delivery of containerised applications with Jenkins.
DreamFactory Software says its open source REST API services platform is now available as a Docker container.
Esperanto openness in Red Hat Software Collections 2 - Open Source Insider:
The Clear Linux Project for Intel Architecture is a new distribution of Linux and it has been built specifically for 'various' cloud use cases.
In the real world we've seen centuries of wars, largely the result of old empires fading and new contenders arising. And the world of IT show similar parallels, albeit on much reduced timescales ...
VMware has announced a batch of integrations with a number of technology entities as it strives to create a common platform for building and operating applications at scale.
Everyone hates over-involved 'micromanagers' who refuse to allow employees to just get on with their jobs, but in cloud the case if different.
Red Hat has deliberately slowed the pace of its flagship OS release schedule in a bid to lower operational costs
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Microsoft App-V Virtualisation Issues: 5x5x5 - Part 2
Managing Editor 03 Nov 2009In the second part of this three-part series, Greg Lambert, Technology Director, ChangeBASE AOK, reviews the results of the company's analysis on App-V application compatibility issues for Windows 7.