Recent DockerCon saw the announcement of Open Container Project (OCP ) – the acronym is similar to Open Compute Project :-). See the press release here. OCP , governed by the Linux Foundation, is...
You must have heard about the new scale-out POWER8™servers from IBM as well as OpenPOWER members. Some of you might also want to evaluate it for your big data workloads, but have the following...
Docker swarm provides native clustering for docker hosts. In other words it turns a pool of docker hosts into a single virtual host. Conceptually a swarm cluster looks like the following: How to get...
If you are planning to setup baremetal cloud using OpenStack Ironic and your environment consists of scale-out servers based on IBM POWER8 processor architecture, then you needn’t worry. You can leverage OpenStack Ironic for...
In this article, let us see how to use the Power scale-out servers for Linux, running Debian LE (ppc64el), as an OpenStack compute node. Thanks to my colleague Sudipta Biswas, who helped me to...
Normally OpenStack is associated with managing of virtual servers. However OpenStack also supports managing of bare-metal cloud. This is made possible via the OpenStack Ironic project. OpenStack Ironic project provides bare metal management functionality....
ELK stack which stands for Elasticsearch Logstash and Kibana is a very common opensource log management solution, providing real time log analysis. Elasticsearch provides the storage and search engine, Logstash is the data collection...
Tutum can now manage hosts behind firewalls as well. This is especially useful for development environments on Virtual Machines (VMs) running on laptops or systems without having public IPs. It’s always better to know...
Current docker network functionality is limited. There is no support for openvswitch, tunneling, multiple networks among others. There are solutions like pipework, socketplane, weave, flannel from third party vendors providing advanced network functionality for...
Looks like the Big data world is now aiming for some standardization. Recently, a new alliance of Apache Hadoop distribution vendors, solution providers and customers got formed. The alliance named Open Data Platform (ODP)...
