2018 has been the year of mass adoption of container platforms, and the momentum will very much continue into 2019. With Kubernetes (K8s) being the clear winner of the “container orchestration war,” organizations (both providers and adopters) focused their efforts on productionizing and maturing their Kubernetes deployments. In this regard, 2018 has seen some significant […]
Docker
Modernizing Applications: Moving From Virtual Machines to Containers
Shifting from virtual machines to Docker containers allows developers to deliver changes in a fraction of the time. And once an app is in a container, it’s portable. So the team can move it freely from AWS to Azure to Google Cloud, back to on-premise, optimizing the benefits of a hybrid environment. Problem is, development […]
Docker Doubles Down On Legacy Applications
When most people think of Docker, they think of microservices, 12 factor applications, cloud native architecture, and all things new. When Docker became a household name back in 2013, those were the architectures that they were targeting. Fast forward to DockerCon in 2016 and Docker, for the first time, stated that migrating legacy workloads was […]
Kubernetes in Enterprises of all Sizes
We discuss the use cases for adopting Kubernetes technology. One example we reference is a small bank in Ohio that has found its own business use-case for Kubernetes. Originally, Kubernetes was built to manage Google-sized technology, so it may come as a surprise that such a small brick and mortar bank, just starting with web […]
DockerCon 2017 Roundup
Recently I attended DockerCon in Austin, Texas. Docker has been gaining an increased amount of interest in the enterprise for both building new greenfield applications and migrating legacy applications. Docker has become synonymous with microservices-based architectures, but enterprises are mired in legacy applications. In my experience, well over 90% of all workloads in enterprises are […]
Docker and Kubernetes: Friends or Foes?
Unless you live under a rock, you know that Docker’s valuation is over $1B and the Docker brand is one of the most talked about brands in all of technology. Docker is known as the de facto standard for container runtime, but Google’s Kubernetes is winning the battle for orchestration engines. The question I often […]