I finally decided to buy a Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for my lab environment after a short power failure crashed my environment last week. After the restart, the Network Attached Storage (NAS) refused to come online again, and while visible as datastore on ESXi/vSphere, it was unreachable.
At VMworld US a couple of guys in suits and Sam Ramji VMware, Pivotal, and Google introduced Pivotal Container Service. Exciting stuff! But what does it mean?
Last week I spoke with Pivotal’s VP of Product Marketing, Richard Seroter, about the Pivotal/ITQ partnership, and how we at ITQ are helping our customers get through the transition from a traditional enterprise IT organisation to a modern ‘cloud-native’ software delivery organisation which can provide applications which are scaleable, resilient, adaptable, and secure.
As a consultant on the Cloud Foundry platform I regularly get asked if CF can host .NET applications. The answer is yes. However, it depends on the application how much we as platform engineering have to do to make it possible.
Netflix is a pioneer in microservices land, and had to develop tools to run microservices efficiently as none existed at the time. They were largely open-sourced as Netflix OSS tools, and include components such as:
