CloudOps has always believed that open source software plays an important role in any cloud-based solution. By leveraging the power of community, open source projects transcend the incumbent industry players to act as a catalyst for transformation. The Linux Foundation and its subsidiary foundations provide sustainable ecosystems for these communities to grow and flourish. As a member of T…
Mesh your Services with Istio: Solving Complexity at the Network Layer
Istio and the service mesh
Developed in collaboration between Google and IBM, Istio is an open source technology that provides operational control over and behavioural insight into the service mesh of an application as a whole. Sitting above the application layer, service meshes consist of a dedicated network layer abstracted away from microservices themselves. Monitoring the service mesh,…
Lost at Sea: Navigating the Complexities of Kubernetes
A Comparative Summary of Kubernetes Tooling: Open Source, Distributions, and Managed Services
While the efficiency and long-term viability of Kubernetes are apparent, its reputation for complexity is not unfounded. To that end, CloudOps has compiled a summary of the most well-known tooling to implement and manage Kubernetes clusters. Facilitating the deployment of containers at scale,…
Containerizing ONAP for Efficiency: Why Bell created OOM using Kubernetes
Companies determined to stay digitally relevant are adopting software-centric architectures and many are transitioning their Information Technology (IT) departments from virtual machines (VMs) to containers in order to orchestrate workloads in an agile fashion. Although VMs have brought some degree of agility and flexibility by abstracting the computer system into virtual machine images, they…
CloudOps is a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider
CloudOps is pleased to announce that we are now a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP). Run by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in collaboration with the Linux Foundation, the KCSP program is comprised of 28 vetted service providers with substantial experience helping enterprises adopt Kubernetes successfully. KCSP partners provide support, consulting, and professional services and…
Announcing Will Stevens As The New Apache™ CloudStack Vice-President
Friday, May 27th 2016: CloudOps is excited to announce that Will Stevens, Lead Developer at CloudOps, has been named as the new Vice-President of the Apache CloudStack project. At the ASF meeting on May 18th, the board passed the resolution appointing Stevens to this position.
CloudOps makes this announcement with the full support and enthusiasm of the entire team and community. Stevens played…