Imagine an integration that dramatically accelerates development at scale in the CI workflow where faster code/build cycle times allow for increased build frequency. Beyond the obvious speed and productivity gains, accelerated iterative testing and identifying bugs at a very early stage of the development cycle leads to improved code quality. And I haven’t even gotten … Read more
Red Hat’s OpenShift is one of the more popular Platform-as-a-Service offerings for deploying containerized applications. It’s built on Kubernetes, but also adds a large number of additional services to make the process of creating, deploying, and managing applications easy. One of the services which OpenShift provides is a version of the Docker Registry to host … Read more
By Chad Morgenstern and Jenny Yang Overview In the blog post Cinder Cheesecake: Things to Consider, we wrote that we would be looking at various failure scenarios. Scenarios that build on one another to give a clear view of what happening in the environment. This blog focuses on scenario 1, namely: Your environment encounters an issue … Read more
The Docker Registry acts as the repository for image data for most deployments. Whether you’re using the fully supported Docker Trusted Registry, or the open source version deployed by itself or in combination with something like Red Hat’s OpenShift, the preferred storage for the images is object based. While the registry can be configured to … Read more
Terraform is a popular tool from HashiCorp that’s widely used by data center admins for managing and provisioning infrastructure as code. In this blog, let’s look at how to use Terraform and NetApp Service Level Manager (NSLM) for provisioning a LUN in ONTAP. Before we start, this blog assumes a couple of things: You have (some) … Read more
By Chad Morgenstern and Jenny Yang In the blog post An Introduction to Cheesecake in OpenStack, we spoke to Cinder Cheesecake replication, but we didn’t go into detail about how it works. In summary: Cinder automatically sets up a replication relationship between backends. If a primary storage backend fails, the OpenStack administrator issues the cinder … Read more