Adrian Ionel is back at the helm of Mirantis as CEO at a time when the shift to hybrid cloud computing is tantalizingly close to being an everyday IT reality. Ionel is one of the original co-founders of Mirantis, which provides a curated instance of OpenStack and Kubernetes cluster software alongside a suite of services […]
The Cost of Rework when Developing for OpenStack Clouds
According to the 2016 State of DevOps Report by Puppet and DORA, the mean time to recover when a service incident occurs ranges from less than one hour for high IT performers to less than one day for medium and low IT performers. Put that in a real-world scenario: your OpenStack application and the data […]
The Maturing OpenStack Cloud: Just Do it
We’ve been thinking about the maturing cloud a lot lately. In fact, we’re participating in a panel discussion on the topic at the upcoming OpenStack East in August in New York. As we’ve spoken with OpenStack users and vendors throughout the world we’re hearing a common theme about the maturation of OpenStack clouds—the results seldom […]
It’s Time to Slay the Universal Installer Unicorn
While many people want a universal “easy button installer,” they also want it to work on their unique snowflake of infrastructures, tools, networks and operating systems. I call them snowflakes because their small differences expand combinatorially. That divergence turns the idea of a prescriptive reference architecture into a destructive myth that limits community and ecosystem […]
Why Legacy Backup Solutions Aren’t Ideal for OpenStack
Our team has recently returned from the OpenStack Summit in Austin. While there were many hot topics, we discovered people fell within two camps when it comes to backup and recovery: those who understand why a native OpenStack solution is required, and those who question why legacy backup and recovery won’t fit the bill. I […]
5 Key Aspects of High Fidelity DevOps
As much as we talk about how we should have shared goals spanning Dev and Ops, it’s not nearly as easy as it sounds. To fuel a DevOps culture, we have to build robust tooling, also. That means investing up front in five key areas: abstraction, composability, automation, orchestration, and idempotency. Together, these concepts allow […]
One Month After Announcing Intentions to Bring OpenStack on Kubernetes, CoreOS Introduces “Stackanetes”
Innovator in container-enabled infrastructure leads effort to simplify OpenStack deployments with Kubernetes container management to deliver GIFEE for enterprises OpenStack Summit Austin – April 26, 2016 – A month after announcing intentions to bring OpenStack as an application on Kubernetes, CoreOS today introduces “Stackanetes”, an initiative to deploy and manage OpenStack as an application on Kubernetes. […]
Top 5 Reasons to Back Up Your OpenStack Environment
I am a big fan of lists. If you recall the movie “High Fidelity,” John Cusack’s character Rob and his co-workers—armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things musical—compile “top five” lists for every conceivable occasion, openly mock the tastes of people, and, every so often, sell a few records. In the spirit of a […]
Automic empowers cloud Continuous Delivery with OpenStack Integration
SEATTLE, Wash. & VIENNA–(Business Wire)–Automic, the leader in Business Automation today announced integration with OpenStack, one of the leading open-source software platforms for cloud computing. The new OpenStack plug-in integrates with Automic Release Automation, enabling users to streamline deployment and provisioning of OpenStack computing resources alongside application components and new versions, resulting in the Continuous […]
How to “hear” OpenStack silent failures earlier and remediate faster
Troubleshooting “silent failures” in an OpenStack cloud environment has been a tough problem to solve for many production users. eBay’s chief engineer of cloud, Subbu Allamaraju, whose team has been operating PayPal on an OpenStack-based private cloud since March 2015, has publicly defined one of his ongoing challenges as: “Too much noise, too many alerts, […]