How to use OpenVswitch with Docker
It is a known fact, that Docker uses linux bridge for container networking, by default. When docker daemon starts, it creates a linux bridge named docker0, and assigns an IP address from the following...
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Container Orchestration on AWS and Softlayer with Tutum
What is Tutum? Tutum, an awesome piece of work, can be described as an orchestration platform for containerized applications. You select the hosting infrastructure provider, and let Tutum manage the container work-flow. It has...
What is an OpenStack Distribution ?
OpenStack distribution (or distro for short), is typically a product offering, which makes it easy to setup and use OpenStack. While one can download the various pieces of OpenStack cloud management software, and deploy...
What is Vagrant ?
Vagrant is a tool for providing repeatable work environments running on VirtualBox, KVM, OpenStack, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Softlayer, Rackspace among others. The most common use case is to create a virtual machine (VM)...
Understanding Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid Cloud has gained significant mindshare among the enterprise customers. Almost all major cloud vendors are providing hybrid cloud solutions today. Let’s understand the basics of hybrid cloud, and the technologies that make it...
What is Container as a Service – CaaS ?
With the advent of docker, there is a spurt in Container as a Service (CaaS) offerings from multiple cloud providers – Google, Amazon, IBM, Rackspace, Joyent to name a few. What exactly is Container...
How to create repeatable development environments on KVM on Power using Vagrant and Docker
Continuing our series on Vagrant usage with KVM on Power, in this article we’ll see how to create repeatable development environments using Vagrant and Docker. Developers working on the Intel platform might be already...
How to use Vagrant Docker provisioner with PowerKVM
Vagrant provisioners allow software installation, configuration changes and other changes to the machines. Vagrant provides multiple provisioners, starting from simple shell scripts to complete configuration management systems, like chef, puppet, ansible etc. Provisioners get...
How to use Vagrant with KVM on Power
Vagrant is one of the ubiquitous devops tool for provisioning and managing operating environments on multitude of platforms – KVM, Virtualbox, AWS, Softlayer, Rackspace etc. In this article, we’ll see how to use Vagrant...
Interesting happenings in the Container world..
Recently, CoreOS announced a container runtime called Rocket. The containers are referred to as “App Containers,” and consists of app container image, app container runtime and app container discovery protocol. Canonical has come up...
