🗂 Link: VMware is bringing VMs and containers together, taking advantage of Heptio acquisition

“Kubernetes is a way of bringing a control metaphor to modern IT processes. You provide an expression of what you want to have happen, and then Kubernetes takes that and interprets it and drives the world into that desired state,” McLuckie explained. More from another article: The Tanzu portfolio also includes Project Galleon, which harnesses the packaging technology of VMware’s recent acquisition of Bitnami, to provide developers with an easy way to assemble software stacks.

🗂 Link: VMware is bringing VMs and containers together, taking advantage of Heptio acquisition

“Kubernetes is a way of bringing a control metaphor to modern IT processes. You provide an expression of what you want to have happen, and then Kubernetes takes that and interprets it and drives the world into that desired state,” McLuckie explained. More from another article: The Tanzu portfolio also includes Project Galleon, which harnesses the packaging technology of VMware’s recent acquisition of Bitnami, to provide developers with an easy way to assemble software stacks.

🗂 Link: What the heck are content experiences, and why are we overhyping them? A skeptical riff

The two "tent poles" of quality B2B content are: Thought-provoking stuff that stakes your industry vision and customer know-how, making those who aren’t even your customers want to follow you. Helpful content from internal experts that covers the nitty-gritty of your products and services. In other words, all B2B content should either entertain or inform. Informing is easier. Source: What the heck are content experiences, and why are we overhyping them?

🗂 Link: What the heck are content experiences, and why are we overhyping them? A skeptical riff

The two "tent poles" of quality B2B content are: Thought-provoking stuff that stakes your industry vision and customer know-how, making those who aren’t even your customers want to follow you. Helpful content from internal experts that covers the nitty-gritty of your products and services. In other words, all B2B content should either entertain or inform. Informing is easier. Source: What the heck are content experiences, and why are we overhyping them?

🗂 Link: VMware Adds Containers to Its Cloud Provider Platform

The platform also added an integration with VMware’s container orchestrator, Enterprise PKS, which means cloud providers can offer containers-as-a-service. And at VMworld the vendor will showcase a technology preview of vCloud Director integration with Bitnami Community. VMware bought Bitnami in May. It provides application packaging targeted at container and Kubernetes environments. The Bitnami Community houses one of the largest catalogs of click-to-deploy applications and development stacks. Combining this with and Enterprise PKS will allow VMware Cloud Providers to “provide a cloud that’s developer ready, and offer both VM-based workloads and container-based workloads from the same platform,” Bhardwaj said

🗂 Link: VMware Adds Containers to Its Cloud Provider Platform

The platform also added an integration with VMware’s container orchestrator, Enterprise PKS, which means cloud providers can offer containers-as-a-service. And at VMworld the vendor will showcase a technology preview of vCloud Director integration with Bitnami Community. VMware bought Bitnami in May. It provides application packaging targeted at container and Kubernetes environments. The Bitnami Community houses one of the largest catalogs of click-to-deploy applications and development stacks. Combining this with and Enterprise PKS will allow VMware Cloud Providers to “provide a cloud that’s developer ready, and offer both VM-based workloads and container-based workloads from the same platform,” Bhardwaj said

Notes on the 2019 DevOps Report

Some quick notes and callouts from this year’s 2019 DevOps Report: Four key metrics: lead time, deployment frequency, mean time to restore (MTTR) and change fail percentage. Med, High, and Elite all have a change fail rate of 0-15%. So, expect 15% change fail as benchmark worst case to shoot for...? Demographics: 30% are devs, 26% "DevOps or SRE" - [so, lots of ICs self-evaluating]. 16% "