OpenStack Boston Day 1 Notes
Contrary to pundit expectations, OpenStack did not roll over and die during the keynotes yesterday. In my 2011 Boston Summit shirt. In fact, I saw the signs of a maturing project seeing real use and...
View Article(re)Finding an Open Infrastructure Plan: Bridging OpenStack & Kubernetes
TL;DR: infrastructure operations is hard and we need to do a lot more to make these systems widely accessible, easy to sustain and lower risk. We’re discussing these topics on twitter…please join in....
View ArticleExploring the Edge Series: “Edge is NOT just Mini-Cloud”
While the RackN team and I have been heads down radically simplifying physical data center automation, I’ve still been tracking some key cloud infrastructure areas. One of the more interesting ones to...
View ArticleHelp OpenStack build more Open Infrastructure communities
Note: OpenStack voting is limited to community members – if you registered by the deadline, you will receive your unique ballot by email. You have 8 votes to distribute as you see fit. I believe open...
View ArticleHow about a CaaPuccino? Krish and Rob discuss containers, platforms, hybrid...
CaaPuccino: A frothy mix of containers and platforms. Check out Krish Subramanian’s (@krishnan) Modern Enterprise podcast (audio here) today for a surprisingly deep and thoughtful discussion about how...
View ArticleMay 12 – Weekly Recap of All Things Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Welcome to the weekly post of the RackN blog recap of all things SRE. If you have any ideas for this recap or would like to include content please contact us at info@rackn.com or tweet Rob (@zehicle)...
View ArticleMay 19 – Weekly Recap of All Things Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Welcome to the weekly post of the RackN blog recap of all things SRE. If you have any ideas for this recap or would like to include content please contact us at info@rackn.com or tweet Rob (@zehicle)...
View ArticleOpenStack’s Big Pivot: our suggestion to drop everything and focus on being a...
TL;DR: Sometimes paradigm changes demand a rapid response and I believe unifying OpenStack services under Kubernetes has become an such an urgent priority that we must freeze all other work until this...
View ArticleJune 2 – Weekly Recap of All Things Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Welcome to the weekly post of the RackN blog recap of all things SRE. If you have any ideas for this recap or would like to include content please contact us at info@rackn.com or tweet Rob (@zehicle)...
View ArticleWhat makes ops hard? SRE/DevOps challenge & imperative [from Cloudcast 301]
TL;DR: Operators (DevOps & SREs) have a hard job, we need to make time and room for them to redefine their jobs in a much more productive way. The Cloudcast.net by Brian Gracely and Aaron Delp...
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