Ask the Expert: Kubernetes and Hybrid Cloud – My Interview with Chris Wright

I was very lucky to be a part of some live interviews which took place at AWS re:Invent, hosted by the team at BrightTALK.  The first interview I did was with Chris Wright, SVP and CTO of Red Hat, where we spoke at length about the value of open source technologies for today’s businesses, and … Read more

Open-ish: Knative Steering Committee Brings Open Foundation Role into Question

It was a surprising email to see from Donna Malayeri, on behalf of Google which you can read here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/knative-dev/YmL2vgMC4rc The core of the story comes from a long-asked question about Knative, a Kubernetes-based platform which allows the running of serverless workloads.  The question is “whether Knative would be donated to a foundation, such as CNCF” to … Read more

Fixing Ubuntu Vivid Vervet apt error for CDROM source: sed one-liner goodness

While I tend towards mainly Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) as my core Linux derivative, it is time to move on to the 15.x stream and embrace the Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) for the next bunch of work I’ll be doing. A common practice is that I run the installation and then do an apt-get … Read more

Fire Photon Torpedoes! Getting Started with VMware Photon Linux

A new brand of containerization just launched with the release of Photon from VMware.  This new, open source linux derivative, is similar to the concept of CoreOS in being able to provide a thin linux base to provide a fast path to hosting containers. Both Docker and Rocket are supported in the base build, and … Read more