The last few months saw the emegence of industry standards on containers and container orchestration, leading to initiatives like Open Container Project and Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Red Hat’s OpenShift became the first application deployment platform on top of Docker based Containers and Kubernetes. There are many other vendors planning to offer platforms using Docker […]
Continuous Delivery – Reduce The Damn Friction
If a CIO went into a coma 5 years back and wakes up today, he/she will see a world that is drastically different from the time he/she slipped into coma. The very approach to IT has changed over the past few years, enabled by various tools and cultural adjustments. Cloud became the canvas on top […]
Beyond Container Orchestration | PaaS Is Full Choreography
When I talk to end users in my role as industry observer, I see confusion between container orchestration and PaaS. Some people seem to wrongly assume that the only thing PaaS does is orchestrate application containers. While PaaS takes care of container orchestration, it goes way beyond that to offer a developer interface similar to […]
Infrastructure for Modern Enterprises
As I go about talking about my Modern Enterprise theme, people ask me about the role of infrastructure in the Modern Enterprise platform. Industry confusion about the role of PaaS Vs IaaS (even though PaaS is a distinct layer on top of IaaS) is one of the biggest reasons for this. Today I’m adding my […]