Are you feeling HOT, HOT, HOT? (Templates that is). As the OpenStack platform continues to evolve and extend, a lot of great work is happening in an area that is one of my favorites, orchestration. The OpenStack orchestration program goes by the codename Heat, and is something that I’ve got a lot of work building up around in the coming …
There’s a Hole in my Container: Docker Security Fix Released
Just in case you missed this news on November 24th, Eric Windisch (@ewindisch) posted an update to the Docker application which answered a couple of vulnerabilities that were present in versions prior to the newly released version 1.3.2 that came out. This highlights the importance of maintaining diligence on watching for vulnerabilities as we run existing tools and integrate new …
OpenStack by the Numbers
I’m an analytics lover for a number of reasons (see what I did there?), so one of the things that enjoy going through is the stackalytics site which displays a lot of great information around the OpenStack ecosystem. To be honest, everything needs to be taken in context, so please be careful when you use any statistics to derive a …
Time2Start with Boot2Docker
Docker is all the rage these days, or at least some serious conversations around the potential use-cases. In the same way that we saw virtualization become a core part of nearly every data center, the application environment is about to go through an evolution. PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) offerings are becoming much more commonly used such as Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry, Heroku, and …