Month: July 2023
Intel Pulls Out of OpenStack Effort It Founded with Rackspace
Intel has cut funding for an effort it launched two years ago with Rackspace to encourage the use of OpenStack software technology by big business customers that want more flexible and cheaper data center infrastructure. The two companies announced the joint effort, called the OpenStack Innovation Center, in July 2015. A source close to…
Read MoreWhat Makes Up a Kubernetes Cluster?
In our first three installments in this series, we learned what Kubernetes is, why it’s a good choice for your datacenter, and how it was descended from the secret Google Borg project. Now we’re going to learn what makes up a Kubernetes cluster. A Kubernetes cluster is made of a…
Read MoreHow Docker Is Growing Its Container Business
Docker is a name that has become synonymous with the application container revolution in recent years. At the helm of Docker Inc. is CEO Ben Golub who is tasked with leading the company forward and making sure that containers aren’t just a good idea for developers, but are also a…
Read MoreVersioning a REST API in Kubernetes with Nginx Ingress Controller
An ingress makes it easy to route traffic entering a Kubernetes cluster through a load balancer like NGINX. Beyond basic load balancing and TLS termination, an ingress can have rules for routing to different backends based on paths. The NGINX ingress controller also allows more advanced configurations such as URL rewrites. In this post,…
Read MoreWatson Service Chaining With OpenWhisk (Part 1 of 3)
OpenWhisk can merge the power of Watson with the simple beauty of serverless computing. As we delve into Watson services, we’ll cover the building blocks here. This three-part series will help you understand the in-depth features of Serverless Computing via OpenWhisk. OpenWhisk offers an easy way to chain services where an output…
Read MoreServerless Computing Picks Up New Docker Option
Serverless computing and Docker are fast turning into seatmates. Where you find one, you’ll find the other. Case in point: Hyper.sh, a container hosting service that uses custom hypervisor technology to run containers on bare metal, has introduced Func, a Docker-centric spin on serverless computing.
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