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DockerCon 2016 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Golub calls out a few particular sessions—protein folding, data analysis in sports, and extending a video game—and then unveils that these sessions are being presented by kids under the age of 13. This leads Golub into a review of the efforts of Docker (the company) to democratize containers: Increasing usability. Extending community.

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Kubecon Liveblog: Opening Keynote

Scott Lowe

The demo also included a data aggregation layer, also managed by Kubernetes, to gather information; finally, a service existed for the UI to present the information shown in the demo. HTTP load balancing. It’s not to run nodes, or containers, but to build applications to support our users and our companies. Autoscaling.

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CIOs Need To Realize That Virtualization Isn't All That It's Cracked Up To Be (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

The ability to mash together a bunch of different expensive individual servers and shrink the company’s IT footprint down by a factor of 5x while reducing power and cooling costs at the same time sure seems to be a miracle cure for IT budget problems. Guess what: this isn’t Hogwarts and you’re not Harry Potter.

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AWS Tags: What makes them so important?

Galido

Role-based tags can be utilized to define either the owner or function of a specific node (load balancer, database server, web server etc). At present, the AWS tags have vital limitations. These tags can also make sense for the identification of a resource in smaller environments. Use of AWS tags.

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

Fountainhead

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

Bruce Davie (Principal Engineer at VMware and long-time networking guru) recently talked with some of the other creators of OpenFlow in preparation for his presentation at ONS 2013. This subtle distinction, by the way, is one that Bruce addressed in his recent ONS 2013 presentation. What about virtualized load balancers?

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

Fountainhead

Four days packed with presentations and networking (of the social kind). Virtualizing I/O means no more stateful NICs and HBAs on the server; rather, the I/O presents itself to the OS as any number of configurable devices/ports, and I/O + data flow over a single physical wire. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.