What Happened?
The Scheduler Race is Over – Why Kubernetes Won and What it Means to the Market
By Torsten Volk on Oct 19, 2017 11:51:23 AM
VMworld 2017 – The Container Story Will be Key for VMware’s Future
By Torsten Volk on Aug 23, 2017 10:45:10 PM
VMware’s container management strategy should be seen as the key to success for this year’s VMworld. VMware needs to conclusively convince its customers that instead of doing their own thing the company is able to offer a strong value proposition based on the fact that Kubernetes and Amazon ECS are the key container technologies to embrace. DockerCon has shown that VMware admins have realized that it is time to “learn about containers,” but VMware’s challenge today is to convince customers that Kubernetes management will not happen entirely separately from virtualization management. Even worse, Kubernetes management may not even require virtualization at all.
Full Stack Container Monitoring – A Whole New Animal
By Torsten Volk on Apr 19, 2017 11:52:20 PM
Traditional IT infrastructure monitoring focuses on hypervisor hosts, storage and VMs. Application impact is tracked through vSphere resource tagging. This simple and mostly static drilldown approach to full-stack monitoring no longer works for modern microservices based computing.