Mirantis Melds Kubernetes With OpenStack

Source:-https://containerjournal.com Mirantis this week rolled out Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes, an instance of the open source cloud management framework in which all the components have been encapsulated in containers. Shaun O’Meara, global field CTO at Mirantis, says that approach makes it possible to then employ Kubernetes to orchestrate those containers. Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes is the first in a planned series of enhancements to the Mirantis Cloud Native Platform, a family of offerings based on Kubernetes that includes Mirantis Container

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Container Technology Market May Set New Growth Story | AWS, Chef, Cisco, CloudFoundry, ClusterHQ, CoreOS, Docker

Source:-https://factorymaintenance.com The “Container Technology – Market Development Scenario ” Study has been added to HTF MI database. The study envisage qualitative as well as quantitative market data and follows Industry benchmark classification and NAICS standards to built strong players coverage for final study. Some of the major and emerging players identified are Apcera, AWS, Chef, Cisco, CloudFoundry, ClusterHQ, CoreOS, Docker, EMC, Hashicorp, Joyent, Mesosphere, Microsoft, Openstack & Rackspace. Global Container Technology Market Development Scenario by Players Ø Financials Information, Business

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OPENSHIFT, KUBERNETES, AND THE HYBRID CLOUD

Source:-nextplatform.com For all the talk of cloud computing for the past decade and a half, for all the growth that the hyperscale public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have undergone in recent years, these are still the early days of the cloud. The bulk of workloads still live in the on premises datacenters of tens of millions of enterprises worldwide. And for any number of reasons, ranging from ongoing security or compliance concerns or

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2020 Cloud Foundry Platform Certification Now Includes Option for Architecture To Bring Ease of Cloud Foundry Developer Experience to Kubernetes Users

Source:-aithority.com Cloud Foundry Foundation, home to open source projects simplifying the developer experience, announced that Atos, Cloud.gov, IBM, SAP, SUSE, Swisscom, and VMware have renewed their Cloud Foundry Platform Certification for 2020. The updated version of the Platform Certification now allows providers to choose either Diego, the more recently developed Kubernetes-based Eirini, or both, as the internal product architecture for the container orchestration layer. Cloud Foundry Platform Certification ensures consistency of the cloud application platform and portability across any cloud

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How to scale Kubernetes: 3 factors

Source:-techrepublic.com Kubernetes is becoming the container orchestrator of choice. It even holds the ability to scale applications up with demand–if you know how to configure it. After Docker provided a small, lightweight virtual machine that could run on your laptop, Kubernetes came next to provide a real production cluster. As it turns out, running a production cluster is complex work. For example, Kubernetes does not come “out of the box” with the tools to manage scaling. In this article, I’ll

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Is Kubernetes the Cure to Cantankerous 5G Core?

Source:-sdxcentral.com The full arsenal of technology required to deliver on the promise of 5G hasn’t reached commercial networks – yet. Ultra-reliable, low-latency communications, network slicing, edge services, and converged access hinges on the adoption of cloud-native and containers by telecommunication providers. Nokia argues the only way to achieve these goals is to have a cloud-native core. The Finnish vendor isn’t the only one doubling down on that idea. A report from ABI Research contends that the “momentum of enterprise 5G

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Your occasional storage digest, featuring Rackspace, AWS, Nvidia Covid-19 initiatives and more

Source:-blocksandfiles.com The Covid-19 pandemic dominates this week’s storage roundup with Rackspace, Nvidia and AWS seeking to support researchers into the coronavirus. And in other news, Acronis is using Western Digital JBODs in its data centres and Huawei has notched up another storage benchmark. Finally, we have assembled items from CTERA, Igneous, iXsystems, NGD, Scale Computing and others to help while away your stay-at-home hours. Rackspace, AWS and Nvidia COVID-19 initiatives Rackspace has developed special offers to help customers affected by

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OpenStack remains essential: How to get your private cloud builds right

Source:-techbeacon.com When SUSE announced in October that it was pulling out of the OpenStack market, it renewed industry speculation that the once massively hyped technology is sliding toward irrelevance. Nothing could be further from the truth. OpenStack’s alleged decline has become one of tech’s favorite tropes. The infrastructure-as-a-service model of hosting private clouds was all the rage in the early and mid-2010s, touted (unfairly) by some as an alternative to public clouds. That early excitement faded when OpenStack gained a

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Container Technology Market is Thriving Worldwide | Apcera, AWS, Chef, Cisco, CloudFoundry, ClusterHQ, CoreOS

Source:-reporting99.com HTF Market Intelligence added research publication document on Global Container Technology Market breaking major business segments and highlighting wider level geographies to get deep dive analysis on market data. The study is a perfect balance bridging both qualitative and quantitative information of Container Technology market. The study provides valuable market size data for historical (Volume** & Value) from 2014 to 2018 which is estimated and forecasted till 2026*. Some are the key & emerging players that are part of

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DOCKER’S ACQUISITION BY MIRANTIS: WHAT THIS MEANS FOR BOTH COMPANIES

Source:-techgenix.com The recent announcement that Docker was acquired by Mirantis, a lesser-known enterprise cloud solutions vendor, caught many by surprise. Containerization made a splash in the IT world when it first came out and instantly became the next big thing. But that was bound to happen with the potential this new technology had. Docker was the poster-child of containerization and became a favorite of any enterprise that wanted to change things around and explore what containers had to offer. With

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Serverless: Is It The Kubernetes Killer?

Source:-forbes.com A few years ago, many believed OpenStack was going to take over the world. It was inevitable, and no one questioned it. Docker shifted the landscape, and then along came Kubernetes, which was another game-changer. Today, everyone is excitedly talking about serverless (functions as a service). Did Kubernetes kill the OpenStack engineer? Is serverless going to kill Kubernetes? The pace of innovation in the cloud over the last five years has been astounding to watch. There is no arguing that the technology is moving at

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Suse grounds its OpenStack Cloud in favor of Kubernetes and containers

Source:- fiercetelecom.com Open source vendor Suse has pulled the plug on its OpenStack Cloud a few months after its latest release, the company announced on Wednesday. Suse is throwing in the towel on OpenStack in favor of its Cloud Application platform, which is based on the open-source Cloud Foundry platform, and a Kubernetes based-container platform. As part of that move to Kubernetes, Suse is no longer producing new versions of its OpenStack Cloud while ceasing the sales of its existing

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Red Hat Wraps OpenStack In Containers

Source – nextplatform.com Red Hat is no stranger to Linux containers, considering the work its engineers have done in creating the OpenShift application development and management platform. As The Next Platform has noted over the past couple of years, Red Hat has rapidly expanded the capabilities within OpenShift for developing and deploying Docker containers and managing them with the open source Kubernetes orchestrator, culminating with OpenShift 3.0, which was based on Kubernetes and Docker containers. It has continued to enhance the platform since. Most recently,

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3 Top Cloud-Computing Stocks to Buy in 2017

Source – fool.com Cloud computing is already a huge, vibrant market — and it’s only getting bigger. According to a recent IDC report, worldwide spending on public cloud services should top $122 billion this year and grow to $203 billion in 2020. That’s a compound annual growth rate of 21.5%, or triple the estimated growth of overall spending on information technology. How can investors tap into this exceptional growth market? Here are three great cloud-computing options for your consideration: Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN),

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5 new guides for working with OpenStack

Source:- opensource.com OpenStack experience continues to be among the most in-demand skills in the tech world, with more and more organizations seeking to build and manage their own open source clouds. But OpenStack is a huge domain of knowledge, containing dozen of individual projects that are being actively developed at a rapid pace. Just keeping your skills up to date can be a challenge. The good news is that there are lots of resources out there to keep you up

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Why 2017 will belong to open source ?

Source:- ETCIO.com A few years ago, open source was the less-glamourous and low-cost alternative in the enterprise world, and no one would have taken the trouble to predict what its future could look like. Fast-forward to 2016, many of us will be amazed by how open source has become the de facto standard for nearly everything inside an enterprise. Open source today is the primary engine for innovation and business transformation. Cost is probably the last reason for an organisation

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