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Integrating Istio with VMware Enterprise PKS
Cloud-Native Apps posted 46 minutes ago By Pranay Bakre, Alka Gupta, Kendrick Coleman Adoption of modern distributed architectures has challenged enterprises to monitor, manage, and secure services in a consistent way. Some of the challenges include individual services handling retries, flow control, circuit breaking, authorization and authentication with increased attack surface, service-level monitoring requirements, and cross-platform ops tool chains.
Deeper Multi-Tenancy Support with VMware Enterprise PKS Using Multiple NSX-T T0 Routers
Cloud-Native Apps posted 3 minutes ago By Boskey Savla, Technical Product Marketing Manager at VMware When it comes to tenancy within the Kubernetes platform, there are multiple ways to slice and dice the platform depending on how app-dev teams are structured, the projects they work on, or the different production or development environments needed.
Federated Service Mesh on VMware PKS and VMware Cloud PKS - Cloud Native Apps
by Boskey Savla, Technical Product Marketing Manager at VMware Today at KubeCon North America, Seattle, VMware announced NSX Service Mesh. NSX Service Mesh will be a SaaS-based offering that provides a single pane of glass to manage service mesh across multiple Kubernetes clusters deployed across multiple clouds and/or datacenters. It will work in conjunction with container networking, such as NSX-T which provides pod-level networking and security for VMware PKS.
Implementing CI/CD Tooling on VMware Cloud PKS
by Dan Illson, Cloud Solutions Architect for VMware Cloud Services Implementing a modern software development process is a complex endeavor involving a combination of philosophies, practices, and tools to accelerate the development and deployment of new services. As more teams adopt ‘agile’ and ‘DevOps’ mentalities, the necessity of building and maintaining well architected integration and deployment pipelines increases.
Operational Best Practices with Istio on VMware Cloud PKS
Operational Best Practices with Istio on VMware Cloud PKS Cloud-Native Apps posted 1 hour ago 0 Comments By Bahubali Shetti, Director of Public Cloud Solutions for VMware Cloud Services at VMware Deploying and managing an application on Kubernetes, while easy in a single cluster configuration, becomes complex across clusters. Complexity surrounds not only application deployment but also management capabilities, such as monitoring, security, scale, and inter-service connectivity.
Aggregating Application and Cluster Logs from VMware Cloud PKS on AWS Elasticsearch
Aggregating Application and Cluster Logs from VMware Cloud PKS on AWS Elasticsearch Cloud-Native Apps posted 1 hour ago 0 Comments By Bahubali Shetti, Director of Public Cloud Solutions for VMware Cloud Services at VMware Observability is one aspect of managing Kubernetes clusters. Observability involves gaining insight into multiple data points/sets from the cluster and analyzing this data to resolve issues.
VMworld Europe Lands in the World of Gaudi
Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia and land of Gaudi, where many of the architectural attractions are created by a single person. VMworld Europe kicks off Monday, Nov. 5, in Barcelona with a full agenda of sessions, demos, hands-on labs, expert roundtables, you name it─you can even find out how to build your own architectural creations by using cloud-native technology.
Securing VKE Workloads with Aporeto
VMware Kubernetes Engine (VKE) is Kubernetes-as-a-Service offering in the growing VMware Cloud Services SaaS portfolio. VKE is a fully managed, enterprise-grade Kubernetes-as-a-Service offering that is cost-effective, easy to use, and integrates with cloud-native solutions, such as Aporeto. VKE is available on AWS and will later be available on Azure as well as additional cloud environments. VKE is differentiated on three core value propositions.
Dispatch Team Joins Cloud-Native Apps BU
Dispatch started as an xLabs project to explore serverless computing for VMware. This year-long program resulted in the Dispatch Framework, an enterprise take on open-source Functions as a Service (FaaS). The team graduated from xLabs in August and joined the VMware Cloud-Native Applications business unit(CNABU). With this move, the Dispatch team has more resources to enable functions-based workloads for VMware customers.
Going to eXtremes: Securing Cloud-Native Workloads with X.509 Certificates
An identity management system is critical to enable large-scale software systems to authenticate and authorize users, operators, and software. Traditionally, enterprise security best practices aim to establish trust at the perimeter by securing and segmenting networks. In the cloud-native space, however, security best practices shift from trusting the perimeter to trusting the workload because environments become dynamic and network boundaries thin.
Configuring Fluent Bit on VKE for AWS Elasticsearch
By Bahubali Shetti, Director of Public Cloud Solutions for VMware Cloud Services at VMware As noted in one of my earlier blogs, one of the key issues with managing Kubernetes is observability. Observability is the ability to gain insight into multiple data points/sets from the Kubernetes cluster and analyze this data in resolving issues.
VMware CNA Crossword Puzzle
Ready for some fun?! It’s the VMware Cloud-Native Apps crossword puzzle. Test your knowledge. Let us know how you did! Tweet to us! Click here for the full puzzle in .pdf format!
VMware CNA Crossward Puzzle
Ready for some fun?! It’s the VMware Cloud-Native Apps crossword puzzle. Test your knowledge. Let us know how you did! Tweet to us! Click here for the full puzzle in .pdf format!
Simplifying Kubernetes Networking and Security with NSX-T Data Center
VMware NSX-T Data Center helps simplify networking and security for Kubernetes by automating the implementation of network policies, network object creation, network isolation, and micro-segmentation. NSX-T also provides flexible network topology choices and end-to-end network visibility. A network policy is defined by Kubernetes as a specification of how groups of pods are allowed to communicate with each other and other network endpoints.
VKE Beta Now Offers Unlimited Use
Since introducing the VMware Kubernetes Engine (VKE) beta on June 26, 2018, we have onboarded many users while trial requests have come in continuously from all over the world. Today, we are announcing that our beta users can use VMware Kubernetes Engine without any limitations. This change will allow our users to create as many Smart Clusters as they want and to add as many developers and IT operators as they like.
Power Up into the Clouds at VMworld with the Container Squad
The Cloud-Native Container Squad will once again be making an appearance at VMworld to promote high availability, scalability, simplicity, and other benefits of cloud-native apps. Spot them on the VMworld floor at the exhibition Hall, Hands-on Labs, VMvillage, and the public areas for a chance to win a special prize. If you spot the Container Squad, take a picture with them, tweet the picture, and tag it with @CloudNativeApps and VMware {code}. There are extra points for fun tweets.
Application Stats Collection in Kubernetes via Telegraf Sidecars and Wavefront
by Bahubali Shetti Director of Public Cloud Solutions for VMware Cloud Services at VMware This blog was originally posted here, on August 7, 2018. Kubernetes (K8S), is becoming the defacto management tool to run applications homogeneously across resources (bare metal, public cloud, or private cloud). The single most widely deployed operational component in kubernetes is monitoring. Almost everyone uses Prometheus in a cluster to aggregate the stats from the cluster.
Be on the Cloud-Native Cutting Edge! Get the Inside Story from Early Adopters at our PKS Panel
One of the best practices of attending conferences like VMworld is to never miss a session which includes customer stories, and that’s the reason why you don’t want to miss this PKS panel at VMworld. On the afternoon of Monday, Aug. 27 at VMworld US, three industry experts will join Paul Dul, VP of Product Management in the VMware Cloud-Native Apps BU, to discuss their experiences, challenges, and success stories with containers, Kubernetes, and PKS.
Monitoring VMware Kubernetes Engine and Application Metrics with Wavefront
For a demonstration of the solution discussed in this article, please see this video posted by Boskey Savla. Monitoring is a cornerstone of the process of characterizing, analyzing, and optimizing applications. As an increasing number of applications either move to or are built atop container technologies, the challenges of monitoring these ephemeral workloads become a greater part of the operational burden for application developers and operators.
Crunching Numbers to Max Out Your VMworld Schedule? Stream into these Power Sessions from PKS Partners
VMware {code} is bringing focused presentations and workshops called “Power Sessions” to VMWorld Las Vegas. Held in the VMware {code} Shop, Power Sessions will run the gamut from presentations to demos, but they’re all short, focused bytes of DevOps knowledge. We have worked with our partners at Redis Labs, Crunchy Data, Confluent, and CloudBees to bring you a set of power sessions that explore the power of VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) in conjunction with other technologies.
Strategic Approaches for a Successful Digital Transformation
Guest blog by Gautham Pallapa Vice President, Systems and Platforms at West Corporation Driving a digital transformation for an organization with a lot of brownfield applications in its portfolio can be extremely hard, and the journey can be arduous and perilous.
Istio 1.0 Release: An Interview with the Technical Lead for Istio Networking
Today marks a major milestone for the Istio open source project – the release of Istio 1.0. In support of today’s release, I interviewed Shriram Rajagopalan, one of Istio’s founding engineers as well as the technical lead of the networking subsystem within the Istio project. Shriram actively contributes to the Istio and Envoy projects, working alongside contributors from Google, Lyft, IBM, and other companies. Shriram was also one of the founding members of IBM’s Amalgam8 project.
Harbor Accepted as CNCF-Hosted Project
Today, we are excited to announce that (CNCF) has accepted Harbor as a Sandbox-level hosted project (read CNCF’s post here). This marks a major milestone for the container registry project that originated as an internal VMware project in China back in 2014 and was open sourced in 2016. With Harbor, VMware has now contributed three projects to The Linux Foundation including Open vSwitch and the IO Visor project.
Harbor Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Today we are thrilled to announce that Harbor has become an official CNCF project, joining the ranks of other cloud-native projects like Rook, SPIFFE, Spire, Open Policy Agent, CloudEvents, and Telepresence. Harbor will enter CNCF as a sandbox project as we continue to add features and functionality desired by the community.
VMworld Session Sneak Peek: The Value of Running Kubernetes on vSphere - Cloud-Native Apps
Kubernetes is one of the most exciting technologies of the year. Will it replace virtual machines? Will it displace VMware vSphere? Is it the next platform or is it just another technology making its way into the data center? By now, we know that Kubernetes optimizes cloud-native workloads when failure and disruption are anticipated. But, you might ask, what about the infrastructure required to run these cloud-native apps? After all, Kubernetes does not run on thin air.
CNCF Adds VMware vSphere to Cross-Cloud CI Dashboard
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) CI Working Group has been making steady progress on the Cross-Cloud CI project to continuously test deployments of Kubernetes and CNCF projects. Many cloud providers and projects have been added over the year, making it a comprehensive and important validation. See the latest dashboard and matrix describing the interoperability with stable releases and the latest commits. What’s new?
Getting Started with Elastic Stack on vSphere Integrated Containers
In today’s dynamic world of application development and deployment, a good monitoring framework is a bare minimum. Elastic Stack (formerly known as the ELK Stack) is a monitoring framework that lets you reliably and securely ingest data from a variety of sources and formats so you can analyze it in real time. The large open-source community behind this project has done a wonderful job of making it a huge success.
Harbor Delivers a Trusted Cloud Native Registry
There’s no doubt that cloud native services and practices boost developer productivity, and that’s a key reason why enterprises are turning to Kubernetes in droves. But as organizations put containerized applications into production, they quickly discover another fundamental truth: they need a secure way to store, scan, and sign their container images.
Enterprise-Ready Containers with vSphere Integrated Containers 1.4
We are pleased to announce the general availability of the newest release of vSphere Integrated Containers. Version 1.4 adds support for vSphere 6.7 and vSphere Remote Office Branch Office Advanced Edition, enhances stability, extends the scheduling capabilities, and introduces a number of UI improvements.
Red Hat Summit returns to the City by the Bay
On the heels of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, we’re following up on the cloud-native momentum and heading to the City by the Bay for Red Hat Summit, May 8-10, 2018. We have two theater sessions devoted to the synergies between Kubernetes, cloud-native solutions and cloud management at the summit. Today’s developer needs to rapidly build and deploy code in a consistent, predictable, and declarative manner.
VMware Pivotal Container Service Journeys to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe
We’re following up our VMware SIG announcement with some exciting plans for our presence at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen. On the heels of the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston, we’re starting to see the Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes coming together. There’s a full day of content devoted to the synergies between Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes during Cloud Foundry Day at KubeCon.
Winery Application Demo: IoT Pipeline with Kubernetes on vSphere
In my previous blog post — “Uncorking Fine Wine by Using an IoT Pipeline with Kubernetes on vSphere” — I wrote about a demonstration winery application that facilitates discussions around the Internet of things and machine learning. I’m pleased to announce that Dan Linsley, a VMware architect, has recorded a demonstration of the winery application.
The PKS Workshop Is Coming to Your City! Register Today to Learn How to Run Containers and Kubernetes on vSphere!
Since the launch of VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) in February, we have received an overwhelming amount of interest in the product, which is why we decided to bring our PKS experts closer to you at this workshop so you can talk to them face to face. We have designed the workshop to fit a broad level of expertise. No matter where you are on your application modernization journey, you will find useful information in the workshop.
Announcing a New Gathering Place for Kubernetes + VMware
Over the past few years, Kubernetes has become one of the largest and fastest-growing areas in open source software. A trend seen with open source projects is that as community participation increases, a project organizes itself into a hierarchy of smaller, focused groups.
Hello, Kubernetes 1.10
Kubernetes 1.10 is out! This release continues to move important features through the alpha, beta and stable feature gates. Speaking of milestones, did you notice that the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee voted for Kubernetes to graduate from incubating status, making it the first CNCF project to do so? This is no accident; the momentum of Kubernetes continues to build as it becomes more stable and production deployments increase.
VMware Pivotal Container Service Hands-on Lab Is Now Live
The Cloud-Native Apps Business Unit at VMware is pleased to announce that the VMware Pivotal Container Service Hands-on Lab, a new lab focused on Kubernetes and PKS, is now live. HOL comprises more than 80 independent labs covering the entire breadth of VMware products. When you take a lab, a vPod is instantiated for you. A vPod is a complete virtual data center with VMware ESXi hosts, VMware vCenter, storage, networking and a Windows Console VM.
Running Selenium Grid with vSphere Integrated Containers
One thing that makes containers great is their ability to rapidly spin up a browser-compatibility testing environment. There are plenty of great tools that can then be used to automate this testing, and Selenium is one of the most deployed and trusted solutions available.
Enterprise Management Associates Awards VMware PKS EMA Top 3 Container Management Products of 2018
VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) was awarded EMA Top 3 products of 2018 by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) in its report published on March 1 — Ten Priorities for Container Management and DevOps in Production and at Scale in 2018. Based on primary research data obtained from 300 U.S. enterprises, this report presents ten key priorities for successfully leveraging containers in production and at scale.
Getting Started with Kubernetes-as-a-Service
As digital transformation moves from a talking point to an IT mandate, infrastructure teams are being asked to step up to expanded roles. An understanding of containers and container orchestration technologies, combined with deep expertise in storage, networking and compute virtualization, are the minimum requirements for platform engineering teams—which now must provide containers as a service to developers on demand.
Connect with VMware at ContainerWorld
The third-annual ContainerWorld, Feb. 26-28, is all about helping organizations drive business and technical agility with containers. Bringing the promise of cloud-native to the enterprise is the mission statement driving this year’s ContainerWorld. Around 750 software engineers, DevOps professionals and architects from financial services, insurance, e-commerce, telecommunications and media and entertainment are expected to converge in Santa Clara, CA during the three-day conference.
A Look into the Kubernetes Master Components
This blog post looks at the most important control plane components of a single Kubernetes master node — etcd, the API server, the scheduler and the controller manager — and explains how they work together. Although other components, such as DNS and the dashboard, come into play in a production environment, the focus here is on these specific four. etcd is a distributed key-value store written in golang that provides a reliable way to store data across a cluster of machines.
Uncorking Fine Wine by Using an IoT Pipeline with Kubernetes on vSphere - Cloud-Native Apps
The AMER PSO Cross-Cloud team and the PS ERD Emerging Technologies team (which I am a part of) have been developing the following demonstration application to facilitate discussions around Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning (ML) topics with customers and colleagues. This blog post outlines a general IoT pattern with a view from the perspective of a developer, an operator, and a data scientist. IoT architectures generally develop vast amounts of data.
Join VMware at This Year’s DeveloperWeek Conference - Cloud-Native Apps
Every spring, more than 8,000 developers from 40 different countries make the trip to the San Francisco Bay Area to participate in one of the world’s largest fanfests: DeveloperWeek. VMware will be the lead sponsor of this year’s DeveloperWeek, and we have exciting plans in store for this week-long developer festival: Around 1,000 developers will be participating over the weekend in the DeveloperWeek Hackathon, the nation’s largest challenge-driven hackathon of its kind.
Containers and Kubernetes: The Time Is Now - Cloud-Native Apps
Kubernetes is poised to be the most impactful infrastructure technology of 2018. The system offers a rare and powerful set of capabilities that enables enterprises to streamline and automate complex operational processes and deliver a cloud-like user experience and feature set. This post discusses the state of the container ecosystem and why the time is now for enterprise IT leaders to take advantage of the tremendous benefits that Kubernetes offers.
vSphere Integrated Containers 1.3 Makes Deployment Easier - Cloud-Native Apps
We are pleased to announce the release of vSphere Integrated Containers 1.3. This newest version enhances stability and delivers a new graphical-user interface to guide users through the creation of a Virtual Container Host (VCH).
A Look Back at KubeCon 2017 - Cloud-Native Apps
The community around Kubernetes is blossoming. Attendance for this month’s KubeCon in Austin doubled last year’s audience to hit more than 4,200 attendees. That impressive number is made all the sweeter due to VMware’s participation in KubeCon 2017 as a platinum sponsor. So much went down at KubeCon 2017, it would be hard to recap it all. Rather, let’s go big picture and highlight the major themes of the event.
Kubernetes 1.9: Expanded Ecosystem, Workloads API, Storage Visibility and More - Cloud-Native Apps
The new Kubernetes 1.9 gives you more control over clusters, solidifies aspects of the API and improves the extensibility of the underlying system’s architecture. This release is expected to include 38 features spanning security, cluster lifecycle management, APIs, networking, storage and additional functionalities. Of these 38 features, 22 are listed in alpha, 13 are in beta and three have moved to stable.
Exciting Updates to Project Hatchway for KubeCon 2017 - Cloud-Native Apps
Unveiled at this year’s VMworld, Project Hatchway is VMware’s persistent storage and availability platform for cloud-native applications. It enables static and dynamic provisioning of persistent storage for cloud-native applications in Kubernetes and Docker swarm environments deployed on vSphere. By tightly integrating with the software defined storage (SDS) control plane in vSphere, Project Hatchway exposes a rich set of data services.
Deploy Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) - Cloud-Native Apps
By Narayan Mandaleeka, Senior Product Line Manager and Paul Dul, VP of Product Management VMware and Pivotal are excited to announce that Pivotal Container Service (PKS) will be initially available in mid-December for customers seeking an enterprise-grade Kubernetes solution. PKS is a purpose-built product to operationalize Kubernetes for enterprise and service providers, it significantly simplifies the deployment and operations of Kubernetes clusters.
Deploy Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) - Cloud-Native Apps
By Narayan Mandaleeka, Senior Product Line Manager and Paul Dul, VP of Product Management VMware and Pivotal are excited to announce that Pivotal Container Service (PKS) will be initially available in mid-December for customers seeking an enterprise-grade Kubernetes solution. PKS is a purpose-built product to operationalize Kubernetes for enterprise and service providers, it significantly simplifies the deployment and operations of Kubernetes clusters.
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