Unlocking the Full Potential of Serverless with Fermyon and WebAssembly
As the demand for serverless computing continues to rise, WebAssembly (WASM) is emerging as a game-changer in the industry. With the potential to simplify th...
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Kubernetes
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Thoughts on 2023
NOTE: The following content was transcribed and modified from the Thoughts on X podcast…Click Play if you would like to listen. I think we should all put a p...
SpyderBat: Threat prevention and security operations in a rapidly changing cloud world
I don't have to remind anyone of the importance of security and threat detection when it comes to protecting your critical systems, applications and the data...
Creatures of Adaptation - Learning the Evolving Language of Kubernetes
Creatures of Adaptation Living and working in global societies means that in both our real locales and our virtual communities we exist in ever expanding mul...
Plan now to maximize the ROI in Kubernetes
Traditionally, I don't like to talk about return on investment... it was something that I always felt was used to justify a purchasing decision by pushes ven...
Kubecost - Optimizing Spend for Kubernetes
As the use of containerized applications becomes more mainstream (driven by modern application development), so does the need to control costs. For those tha...
Real World Kubernetes - Working with .htaccess files for WordPress
Real word Kubernetes... that is a slightly tongue in cheek title however in reading through a lot of blogs and how-to's around Kubernetes, I never get a sens...
Managed Kubernetes for Labs and Learning
I've been talking a lot about Managed Kubernetes this year. About a month ago I submitted a session for Cloud Native Data Management Day around Managed Kuber...
Released - Kasten K10 4.5 for Kubernetes Backup
Releases are different in the Cloud Native world... unlike more traditional software vendors that release less often with more fixes and features, in this wo...
ROOK – Ceph Backed Object Storage for Kubernetes Install and Configure
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a quick post about Longhorn as a storage provider for my Kubernetes labs. While that has worked pretty well, I thought I would ...
Quick Post: Quick Post: Expanding MetalLB IP Pool to Fix Pending Status
I've been using MetalLB for a while now in my Kubernetes Clusters and it's a great easy way to achieve high availability networking for service endpoints. Fo...
Longhorn - Distributed Block Storage for Kubernetes Install and Configure
For those old enough to remember, Longhorn was the codename for Windows Vista...so when I came across Longhorn in the Kubernetes world, I was drawn in. That ...
First Look - Deploying KubeVirt with Platform9
Last week I wrote an introductory post around KubeVirt giving some insight into were it sits in the current Kubernetes and Virtualization landscape. As menti...
Quick Intro: KubeVirt... Where Kubernetes and VMs meet!
I'll admit that when I first saw the KubeVirt appear on my radar I thought that someone was pulling my leg... Kubernetes rise in the IT professionals day to ...
Cloud Field Day Recap and Kasten Session Breakdown #CFD11
Cloud Field Day 11 was held a couple weeks back...and while this time around I was not presenting, I still wanted to give a round up of the event from a Kast...
Enterprise Ready Managed Kubernetes as a Service with Rafay
Though Kubernetes has made significant headways into being accepted as the way forward in terms of how modern applications are developed, deployed and manage...
Why the Kubernetes wave is not equal to Virtualization... but why that doesn't matter!
If you are engaged with the general IT community that deals with infrastructure, virutalization or cloud, you have probably heard the comparison between Kube...
One Click Managed Kubernetes Labs with Platform9
I first blogged about Platform9 all the way back in 2015 after discovering them in 2014 at VMworld... that was around their VMware/KVM and OpenStack solution...
Managed Kubernetes and OpenStack as a Service with Platform9
Kubernetes can pose a steep learning curve for those coming from a more traditional infrastructure background. Its adoption is growing as we know, and there ...
Introducing Kubestr - Identify, Validate and Evaluate Kubernetes Storage
For as long as I can remember I have been benchmarking storage. Knowing how storage would perform under certain IO profiles was a key part of the burn in pro...
A Quick and Easy Load Balancer for Kubernetes Labs with MetalLB
I've been tinkering with a number of different Kubernetes platforms again and the relative complication of external networking for deployed Kubernetes applic...
Kubernetes Backup - Kasten K10 Online Lab Walkthrough
Kubernetes has arrived. But this new wave can be hard to get into for traditional IT Infrastructure folks. Both Infrastructure and DevOps alike need to be aw...
Quick Fix: vSphere with Tanzu - No Default StorageClass set
Over the past few weeks I've posted a couple of articles that should help people new to vSphere with Tanzu . There are some common hurdles that can pop up. I...
Insights into the WHY around Kubernetes Backup with Kasten
Veeam acquired Kasten last month and for those that maybe wondering why a lot of us internal to Veeam are super excited about this taking place I thought I w...
Quick Fix: vSphere with Tanzu – virtualmachineimages No resources found in namespace
Over the past week I've posted a couple of articles that should help people new to vSphere with Tanzu . There are some common hurdles that can pop up. I've n...
Quick Fix: vSphere with Tanzu – no persistent volumes available for this claim and no storage class
I've been grappling with vSphere with Tanzu for the past week or so and while I haven't completely nailed how things operate end to end in this new world, i'...
Quick Fix: vSphere with Tanzu - Unable to validate against any pod security policy
I've been grappling with vSphere with Tanzu for the past week or so and while I haven't completely nailed how things operate end to end in this new world, i'...
Deploying Tanzu with HAProxy on a Single ESXi HomeLab Host Architecture
VMware released Update 1 of vSphere 7 last month and one of the big things to come out of that release was the ability to deploy Tanzu Basic which is vSphere...
Simplifying Kubernetes with Portainer 2.0 CE
I think it would be a very brave person to claim that Kubernetes, Docker or containers in general was straight forward. There is intrinsic complexity that co...
Veeam and Kasten - Kubernetes and Containerization Backup
Yesterday Veeam and Kasten announced a strategic partnership focused on offering a pathway to achieving a multi-platform backup strategy levering both data p...
vSphere 7 Announcement - Project Pacific is Finally Here!
It didn't seem that long ago that at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco where VMware announced Project Pacific. At the time I wrote about how I thought that it wa...
Kubernetes... Kubernetes... Kubernetes!
Kubernetes is getting centre stage at KubeCon and Cloud Native Con this week and it has attracted 12000 attendees which is amazing for an open source non ven...
#Kubcon - 12,000 People Can't Be Wrong... Right?
This week, KubeCon and Cloud Native Con is happening in San Diego. In the lead up to the event, there was talk about 12,000 registrations which puts it up th...
Deploying a Kubernetes Sandbox on VMware with Terraform
Terraform from HashiCorp has been a revelation for me since I started using it in anger last year to deploy VeeamPN into AWS . From there it has allowed me t...
The Separation of Dev and Ops is Upon Us!
Apart from the K word, there was one other enduring message that I think a lot of people took home from VMworld 2019 . That is, that Dev and Ops should be co...
VMworld 2019 Review - Project Pacific is a Stroke of Kubernetes Genius... but not without a catch!
Kubernetes Kubernetes, Kubernetes... say Kubernetes one more time... I dare you! If it wasn't clear what the key take away from VMworld 2019 was last week in...
Kubernetes Everywhere...Time to Take off the Blinkers!
This is more or less a follow up post to the one I wrote back in 2015 about the state of containers in the IT World as I saw it at the time. I started off th...