Tag: cloudfoundry

  • 🗂 Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.4 Boosts Security With Compliance Scanner

    Two big features: > So how does zero downtime actually work in production? Seroter explained that, for example, an organization could deploy an application (v1) with Cloud Foundry and then perhaps a second app (v2). After the v2 application is deployed, an administrator could then just simply switch the network route to enable the new…

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  • 🗂 DBS banks on data to know what customers want before they themselves know

    > DBS built its API platform on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, which enabled it to upgrade or update the system without any downtime, Soh said, adding that the bank’s marketplace is also built on Pivotal. Plans also are underway to migrate DBS’ mobile wallet, PayLah, to the Pivotal development platform. And some example use cases. www.zdnet.com/article/d…

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  • Link: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3

    A laundry list of new feature and services in the software I market around. There’s a lot of .Net expansion, adding some standard platform services (like a task scheduler), and Morlock stuff like multi-install (would you say “zone”?) OpenStack, and Kubernetes and embedded OS update: Original source: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3

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  • Link: My Interoperable Opinions of Cloud Foundry Summit 2018

    “[I]n my previous life working in IT, I’ll admit I wasn’t in the opinionated camp. I didn’t even understand it as a concept. I generally went for selecting software with the ultimate flexibility. What I didn’t realize was how often this led to analysis paralysis and decreased productivity.” I remember one of the last projects…

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  • Link: Merrill Corporation alongside Leading Technology Companies, Launch New Category for M&A Professionals

    “Merrill uses MongoDB technology to build horizontal applications on top of four key pillars: a secure repository, document collaboration, data and machine learning as well as analytics. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is used across all engineering stages – development, testing and production – with a focus on maximizing the microservices infrastructure that arranges the application into…

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  • Link: Finally, a more coherent IBM story?

    ‘IBM is pushing their cloud hard than ever before. Even though it is mostly IBM Cloud Private, this is the first time I heard a more consistent hybrid cloud story. They have moved away from OpenStack (completely) and CloudFoundry (for the most part) and building a good hybrid cloud story using Kubernetes. Both he product…

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  • Link: Meltdown and Spectre underscore the ongoing need for infrastructure automation

    “In the Cloud Foundry scenario, these are embodied by BOSH to automate the infrastructure resource, namely VMs, container clusters, virtual storage and networks, configuration and deployment and Concourse for the development pipeline. Together, these enable organizations to rapidly and consistently patch all applications using the PaaS environment. Together, these enable organizations to rapidly and consistently…

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  • Link: App development teams brace for big change in 2018

    “The rush is on for enterprises to build and deploy better software faster, and that’s going to drive a doubling of PaaS adoption – both on premises and in the cloud – in the next 18 months,” Bartoletti said. “In some industries, like financial services and retail, leaders are already differentiating by how well they…

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  • Video: DevOps for Normals - what’s happening as donkeys adopt DevOps

    Coté Memo #10 – DevOps talk recordings, cash on hand, towel meat

    The nook of the IT world I operate in now – application development and delivery – had a good event this week in the Cloud Foundry Summit. This is the annual meeting of the open source foundation and community built around Cloud Foundry.  There are several distributions of the core project, I of course work…

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  • Coté Memo #8 – Change Review Boards Are Annoying

    Coté Memo #8 – Change Review Boards Are Annoying

    This week it’s DevOpsDays Seattle after a few days at home. I have two extra passes to give out to that conference if you’re interested, plus a discount code, per usual. Check out cote.io/promos for that code plus discounts to other DevOpsDays, OSCON Austin, and the Cloud Foundry summit. OSCON is next week in Austin,…

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  • Software Defined Talk 061: Baltimore is not the same as Annapolis. Also, they like crab there

    Coté Memo #6 – OpenStack, big cloud transformation

    The OpenStack Summit was pretty good stuff. Coming up next week is DevOpsDays Austin where I’ll be speaking on Tuesday and staffing the table. I’m then off to the Agile and Beyond conference to talk better ways of doing software and unicorns. Hopefully I’ll see y’all around, otherwise, keep apprised of the Twitters for any…

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  • From “Survey Analysis: DevOps Adoption Survey Results,” Gartner, Sep 2015.

    Coté Memo #5 – OpenStack, an interest in cheese

    I’ll be at the OpenStack Summit in Austin this week, meandering about talking with folks, at the Cloud Foundry Foundation booth a few afternoons, getting some pancakes and breakfast tacos with The New Stack folks, visiting with some analysts and other in-town, and moderating a panel on developer marketing Thursday morning. Also, I got my…

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  • I like seeing the old soft drink machines. Check that wood paneling at the bottom!

    Coté Memo – Issue #2

    Hello there, welcome to the second re-birth issue. Go to a conference on the cheap! Discount Codes I round up all sorts of discount codes for conferences and such, here’s what I got so far: Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I’ll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle…

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  • Coté Memo #83, now back to #1, and linky!

    Hello there! Let’s be honest, the highly manual-driven newsletter of mine was mostly dead. I stumbled across Revue.co which looks like the exact level of automation needed to make me more successful at sending out newsletters. I’ll try for every few days and first and see what happens. I imported the 107 existing subscribers I…

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  • Link: Cloud Foundry poised to shine in 2016, Chris Talbot

    “Based on the articles I wrote and the people I spoke with in 2015, I’d say 2016 is going to be a good one for Cloud Foundry, as well as for PaaS in general. Compared to SaaS and IaaS, PaaS is still quite small, but it’s growing.” Source: Cloud Foundry poised to shine in 2016,…

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  • Link: Ford teams with Pivotal, bets on Cloud Foundry

    “As for the Pivotal partnership, Ford will use Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry and big data suit e to build its connected vehicle program. So far, Ford said it has sped up software development times from months to weeks using agile techniques.” Source: Ford teams with Pivotal, bets on Cloud Foundry

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  • Coté Memo #077: Avoid going from “VP of Having a P&L” to “VP of Special Projects”

    Chicago I’ll be at DevOpsDays Chicago in a few weeks, August 26th to 27th. If you want to go and haven’t registered yet, you can use the code PIVOTAL10 to get 10% off, which gets it down to like $170 or something. It’s excellent value for a tech conference, plus you can see me speak…

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  • Coté Memo #076: How cloud native makes customers awesome

    Follow-up The piece on “cloud journeys” I excerpted from last time is now posted. Tech & Work World Cloud Native I’ve been writing some pieces on “cloud native” of late. It’s a term we’ve been using at work to describe what we’re all about. Here’s an excerpt from an internal newsletter piece I drafted today:…

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    Coté Memo #071: How to eat a bubble at #ApacheCon

    View this on the web In this episode: who comes up the ApacheCon booths, a seemingly coordinated conversation about tech bubbles, and “how to eat.” The Cloud Foundry Summit is coming up on May 11th and 12th, in Santa Clara. It’s a great chance to dive into Cloud Foundry ecosystem both on the technology side…

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  • Uber

    Coté Memo #069: Chili Cheese Tots, shift key avoidance syndrome

    Follow-up, Follow-forward The column I excerpted from last time is up, over at FierceDevOps: Software-defined businesses need software-defined IT departments. Tell me what you think; they asked me to write a monthly piece, so I’d love to get some ideas for topics going: got any? I got some good feedback on the podcast sponsorship meanderings.…

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