VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Cloud Native Buzzwords (Demystified) for Dummies – CTO7964
Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:
- VMworld US 2016: The Day 0 Buzz
- VMworld US 2016: The Day 1 Buzz
- VMworld US 2016: The Day 2 Buzz
- VMworld US 2016: The Day 3 Buzz
- VMworld US 2016: The Day 4 Buzz
Quickly off to this excellently titled presentation from VMware’s Massimo Re Ferre’ who’s an Open Source PM. Massimo is one of the voices of reason in the industry with excellent perspective on the reality of global IT. He had an awesome t-shirt saying BADaaS!
He went through the transition from traditional application development and why applications are being re-architected to allow faster development time. DevOps being the enabler for this.
He explained how the infrastructure requirements are being encoded in Infrastructure as Code with the developer also being responsible for running it in production. Monitoring, scaling, scheduling, placement are now becoming operational issues that developers need to take into account.
Massimo then went through the definition for cloud native applications, talking about pets vs. cattle.
He went through the containers vs/and VMs debate and did say you need to switch your bias/politic filter to to go through the discussions or spend a weekend watching twitter.
He dissected Docker != Containers with an explanation of what Docker does as the engine which provides a mechanism to instantiate the code in a container shipped as a Docker image, the code being written in a Dockerfile.
Why are Docker and containers in general getting momentum:
- fast to start
- lean/small
- self-contained environments
- DevOps orientated
- self service authoring
- ease of sharing (public / private registries)
- infrastructure agnostic
- 1 container = 1 process (deconstruct the monolith).
Then a walk through what a container management solution attempts to do and the mass of confusion about what manages what.
Last up was a walkthrough of vSphere Integrated Containers and why VMware believes containers as VMs is a good idea so you can plumb it into the rest of your infrastructure. Also looking at Photon Platform as a container exclusive stripped down hosting environment with a distributed control plane.
Great session, Massimo, helping people understand a brave new world!
As VMworld2016 has made the recording publicly available, you can view the session here:
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