Sharing opinions on Containers in two 🎙 podcasts with Nic Raboy
During the pandemic we are becoming very eager to learn new things. By chance Nic Raboy, who is a Polyglot Developer, and a Developer Advocate, asked Blumareks to join Nic in his Podcast for an interview on Containers, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift. Shall you want to listen to it, here it comes:
Nic’s Podcast is fun to listen, fun to get interviewed by him. Besides Nic has a great healthy perspective on the latest tech from the Central Valley.
Podcast 1 : https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/2020/02/tpdp-e33-containers-virtual-machines-orchestration-part-1/
During two podcasts they discussed the couple ideas that are connected with containers. They started with the beginning. That means why everybody moved from the bare metal cloud to Virtual Machines. Then why was there a need for using Containers instead of Virtual Machines. As Blumareks personally moved from doing his technical presentation from swapping hard drives and ghosting his demo machine in early 2003, to just dropping the VM images instead later the same year — Blumareks felt the advantages of the move.
Blumareks’ discovery of Containers about ten years later, and beginning of using the Docker, it came as his part of a fast learning curve to jump on Cloud already while starting his life in Silicon Valley. As the Docker became the basic environment for both desktop and server environments, everything started to be standardized for use in or by containers.
Podcast 2 : https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/2020/03/tpdp-e34-containers-virtual-machines-orchestration-part-2/
With the growth of the Microservices in the solution, the management of the containers becomes impossible. Even a large team comes to decision to switch to a tool to streamline the rollouts, health checks, enforce security constraints, etc. The orchestration of containers becomes the thing. And the niche for Kubernetes and other systems like that comes in to the light. Last two years were very good for adoption of Kubernetes in the market. As one would like to start detail tune own Microservices mesh, it becomes evident that there is lack of functionality on the vanilla Kubernetes side. Therefore companies like Google, IBM, and Lyft founded Istio. Istio answers some of the needs to deal with such a mesh, advanced load balancing methods, A/B testing, canary deployments, versioning, validating that application works correctly under stressed network, enforcing policies, or simply monitoring of the microservices.
Finally, for managers of Fortune 500 companies, or businesses with small IT departments, that are seeing difficulties in getting skilled people, but otherwise having budget for running advanced orchestrated containers and Microservices mesh based applications — OKD comes in help (aka Origin Community Distribution of Kubernetes). They are also looking into the advantages of simplified streamlined deployment, management, operations, and security provided by maintained version of Kubernetes — in this space merging Kubernetes with all the above comes Red Hat OpenShift.
If you are interested in Containers join Blumareks in his many webinars (especially now, while Blumareks is under the lock in place orders issued for Silicon Valley) — and try Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, and Kubernetes on Red Hat OpenShift thru this link: https://www.meetup.com/IBM-Developer-SF-Bay-Area-Meetup/
Try Kubernetes on IBM Cloud by using the link to sign up for the free of charge account here: https://ibm.biz/Bd2CUa
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