Awesome Upcoming Austin Techie Events
We’re entering cool event season… I thought I’d mention a bunch of the upcoming major events you may want to know about! Product Camp Austin, Saturday March 7 (free), for product management types...
View ArticleDevops State of the Union 2015
James, Karthik, and Ernest did a Webcast on Devops State of the Union 2015 talk for the BrightTalk Cloud Summit. It went well! We had 187 attendees on the live feed. In this blog post we’ll add...
View ArticleWhy to Docker?
I recently gave a presentation on “Why to Docker” for the BrightTalk summit. Here’s a list of all the things I talked about. I had a great turnout of over 300 people, and some great questions that...
View ArticleDocker and The Future of Configuration Management – Call For Posts
Docker Docker Docker Docker is taking the DevOps world by storm. It has moved from “cool DevOps tool” to “lots of attention at the highest levels in the enterprise” in record time. One of the key...
View ArticleDocker and the Future of Configuration Management – Coming In November!
All right! We have a bunch of authors lined up for our blog roundup on Docker and the future of CM. We’ll be publishing them throughout the month of November. But it’s not too late to get in on the...
View ArticleDocker: Service Management Trumps Configuration Management
Docker – It’s Lighter, Is That Really Why It’s So Awesome? When docker started to hit so big, I have to admit I initially wondered why. The first thing people would say when they wanted to talk about...
View ArticleContainers, Configuration Management, and The Right Tool for the Right Job
Docker brings an incredibly appealing method of managing applications to the table, but also requires us to rebuild a lot of systems that aren’t broken. In this post I’m going to look at the pros and...
View ArticleTemplating Config Files In Docker Containers
Configuration management does many things, and it does most of those quite poorly. I could write a long essay on how by solving software problems with more software we’re simply creating more software...
View ArticleContainer Automation: Building a Brickyard
My name is Nathaniel Eliot, and I’ve worked extensively in software deployment over the last several years. I have worked on two automation frameworks around Chef: Ironfan, an open-source cluster...
View ArticleImmutable Delivery
This article proposes a design pattern modeled after “Immutable Infrastructure”, something I call “Immutable Delivery”. There has been a lot of debate and discussion about the usage of the term...
View ArticleHeterogeneous Hardware Management and Benchmarking via Docker
We do a lot of Benchmarking and functionality testing here at Bitfusion.io to continuously evaluate our application acceleration technology across different CPU architectures, storage and memory...
View ArticleUsing Docker To Deliver Open Source Security Tools
Security tools are confusing to use but they are even worse to install. You often get stuck installing development packages and loads of dependencies just to get one working. Most of the tools are...
View ArticleStackEngine Webinar – Docker and the Future of Configuration Management
I hope you’ve been enjoying our Docker and the Future of Configuration Management blog roundup! I’m joining Jon Reeve of StackEngine, who’s sponsoring the roundup with prizes and such, in a Webinar...
View ArticleCloudAustin Talks – April 2016
The CloudAustin user group that Karthik, James, and I run is in its fifth year and still going strong. Our venue hosts at Rackspace now have the equipment to record the talks! So I thought I’d share...
View ArticleJava Docker Pull Travails
Just had a problem that I thought I’d document the solution to for the world… In our build pipeline at work, we use maven and the fabric8 docker-maven-plugin to manage our builds. We love it,...
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