This document summarizes a presentation about how RightScale uses Kubernetes, Terraform, and other tools in their cloud management platform. It discusses how RightScale has transitioned from using Docker containers on individual VMs ("Bay of Containers") to using Kubernetes container clusters in the cloud ("Sea of Containers"). RightScale built custom images with Kubernetes components pre-installed to speed up cluster creation. Terraform is used to provision infrastructure including Kubernetes clusters and integrate with the RightScale platform. The goal was to enable developers to have self-managed Kubernetes clusters using infrastructure as code principles. Key aspects included making clusters disposable while maintaining high availability, and distributing Terraform modules to development teams to simplify cluster creation and management
Using RightScale CMP with Cloud Provider ToolsRightScale
Large organizations are using cloud management platforms (CMPs) to manage and govern multi-cloud environments. They need their CMPs to work regardless of the cloud provider tools used by development teams, including AWS Cloud Formation templates, Azure Resource Manager templates, and container services. We will show how RightScale CMP can add operation orchestration and governance regardless of how you provision your workloads.
The 5 Stages of Cloud Management for EnterprisesRightScale
With cloud use exploding and cloud bills skyrocketing, enterprises are implementing new cloud governance processes and tools. A cloud management platform (CMP) will be a foundational technology you’ll need to get it all under control. We cover the 5 stages of cloud management that enterprises go through to fully manage their cloud use, and how a CMP helps.
Tagging Best Practices for Cloud GovernanceRightScale
In the cloud, it’s critical to implement specific global tags across your organization that enable cloud governance and cost management. If, like most enterprises, you are using multiple clouds, you will want to ensure consistency across all of the clouds you use, despite varying tagging capabilities on each cloud.
Should You Move Between AWS, Azure, or Google Clouds? Considerations, Pros an...RightScale
The media is highlighting scores of stories about companies that have moved from one public cloud to another for business or technical reasons. Regardless of whether you are running on AWS, Azure, or Google, there will likely come a time that you’ll want to consider switching cloud providers. Whether you are contemplating a move now or just want to keep your options open in the future, you will need to consider a variety of cost, service, and technical factors. In this webinar, we’ll walk you through the evaluation process of migrating to another cloud provider and highlight the pros and cons.
Prepare Your Enterprise Cloud Strategy for 2019: 7 Things to Think About NowRightScale
Cloud adoption just keeps on growing and now is the time to take control. Your enterprise cloud strategy for 2019 needs to address the broad impact of cloud use in your company. Your strategy should also cover implications for your technical processes, as well as supporting areas including finance, governance, organization, and culture.
How to Set Up a Cloud Cost Optimization Process for your EnterpriseRightScale
As cloud spend grows, enterprises need to set up internal processes to manage and optimize their cloud costs. This process will help organizations to accurately allocate and report on costs while minimizing wasted spend. In this webinar, experts from RightScale’s Cloud Cost Optimization team will share best practices in how to set up your own internal processes.
Multi-Cloud Management with RightScale CMP (Demo)RightScale
Almost every enterprise will face the challenge of multi-cloud management. A cloud management platform (CMP) can help you broker standardized cloud services with a single view across both public and private clouds, giving you control over existing cloud usage and enabling you to offer self-service provisioning across all your clouds and virtualized infrastructure.
Managing Container-as-a-Service and Docker Clusters in the Cloud with RightScaleRightScale
As companies look to orchestrate Docker in the cloud, they have several options for container orchestration. We delve into both container-as-a-service options from AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform as well as running your own Kubernetes cluster in the cloud.
Using RightScale CMP with Cloud Provider ToolsRightScale
Large organizations are using cloud management platforms (CMPs) to manage and govern multi-cloud environments. They need their CMPs to work regardless of the cloud provider tools used by development teams, including AWS Cloud Formation templates, Azure Resource Manager templates, and container services. We will show how RightScale CMP can add operation orchestration and governance regardless of how you provision your workloads.
The 5 Stages of Cloud Management for EnterprisesRightScale
With cloud use exploding and cloud bills skyrocketing, enterprises are implementing new cloud governance processes and tools. A cloud management platform (CMP) will be a foundational technology you’ll need to get it all under control. We cover the 5 stages of cloud management that enterprises go through to fully manage their cloud use, and how a CMP helps.
Tagging Best Practices for Cloud GovernanceRightScale
In the cloud, it’s critical to implement specific global tags across your organization that enable cloud governance and cost management. If, like most enterprises, you are using multiple clouds, you will want to ensure consistency across all of the clouds you use, despite varying tagging capabilities on each cloud.
Should You Move Between AWS, Azure, or Google Clouds? Considerations, Pros an...RightScale
The media is highlighting scores of stories about companies that have moved from one public cloud to another for business or technical reasons. Regardless of whether you are running on AWS, Azure, or Google, there will likely come a time that you’ll want to consider switching cloud providers. Whether you are contemplating a move now or just want to keep your options open in the future, you will need to consider a variety of cost, service, and technical factors. In this webinar, we’ll walk you through the evaluation process of migrating to another cloud provider and highlight the pros and cons.
Prepare Your Enterprise Cloud Strategy for 2019: 7 Things to Think About NowRightScale
Cloud adoption just keeps on growing and now is the time to take control. Your enterprise cloud strategy for 2019 needs to address the broad impact of cloud use in your company. Your strategy should also cover implications for your technical processes, as well as supporting areas including finance, governance, organization, and culture.
How to Set Up a Cloud Cost Optimization Process for your EnterpriseRightScale
As cloud spend grows, enterprises need to set up internal processes to manage and optimize their cloud costs. This process will help organizations to accurately allocate and report on costs while minimizing wasted spend. In this webinar, experts from RightScale’s Cloud Cost Optimization team will share best practices in how to set up your own internal processes.
Multi-Cloud Management with RightScale CMP (Demo)RightScale
Almost every enterprise will face the challenge of multi-cloud management. A cloud management platform (CMP) can help you broker standardized cloud services with a single view across both public and private clouds, giving you control over existing cloud usage and enabling you to offer self-service provisioning across all your clouds and virtualized infrastructure.
Managing Container-as-a-Service and Docker Clusters in the Cloud with RightScaleRightScale
As companies look to orchestrate Docker in the cloud, they have several options for container orchestration. We delve into both container-as-a-service options from AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform as well as running your own Kubernetes cluster in the cloud.
7 Common Questions About a Cloud Management PlatformRightScale
You already know you need to deliver software more quickly. But what’s the best route to get that agility? Cloud, containers, and DevOps can all help, and a cloud management platform (CMP) pulls it all together. Get answers to the common questions about a CMP.
A cloud management platform (CMP) is fast becoming a de facto requirement for enterprises pursuing a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategy. But what should you be looking for in a CMP? Many companies make the mistake of taking a “boil the ocean” approach to a CMP evaluation. We’ll share best practices and discuss whether you need an RFP.
Successful Cloud Orchestration with RightScale CMPRightScale
As cloud use explodes, it’s important to develop a strategy for orchestrating and automating across all your cloud and non-cloud infrastructure environments. However, the use of the term orchestration has become overloaded and can refer to many different types of tools. Learn about the different types of orchestration automation tools and the role a cloud management platform (CMP) can play as an “orchestrator of orchestrators.”
How to Allocate and Report Cloud Costs with RightScale OptimaRightScale
Spend on cloud is increasing, but getting cloud costs allocated to the right business units can still be challenging, especially when you are using multiple clouds. You need automated tools that enable you to allocate costs from your cloud bill and report on spend to users across your organization.
Cloud Migration and Portability (with and without Containers)RightScale
Companies are moving more workloads to cloud and many need the flexibility to move some workloads between cloud providers on a one time or ongoing basis. The use of containers is further enabling companies to embrace portability. IT organizations need to understand the considerations, architectures, and tools that are needed to successfully migrate to and between clouds and create portable workloads.
Orchestrating PaaS and IaaS+ with RightScaleRightScale
The lines between IaaS and PaaS are blurring. Cloud providers are offering dozens of individual IaaS+ services as an alternative to “all-in-one” PaaS options like OpenShift and Cloud Foundry. How do you handle cloud orchestration when you have a blend of IaaS, IaaS+, and PaaS? We’ll show how you can manage them all with a single pane of glass.
Enterprise Cloud Strategy: 7 Areas You Need to Re-ThinkRightScale
Companies from Fortune 1000 on down are going all-in on cloud, but your enterprise cloud strategy also needs to address the broad impact of cloud use in your company. Your strategy needs to cover implications for your technical processes, but also supporting areas including finance, governance, organization, and culture.
12 Ways to Manage Cloud Costs and Optimize Cloud SpendRightScale
It can be difficult to manage cloud costs. As a result, you are likely wasting 30-45 percent or more of your cloud spend. Cloud governance, IT, and finance teams need to understand where costs are coming from, allocate those costs to the appropriate departments, and find ways to reduce waste and save money. In this webinar, we will show you how to manage cloud costs and optimize spend.
Hybrid Cloud Orchestration: How SuperChoice Does ItRightScale
Automation and orchestration are key to cloud success, especially in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Find out how Superchoice, a leading fintech company based in Australia, and Offis, a hybrid cloud services company, are using RightScale CMP to automate the delivery of 200+ applications across AWS, Azure, and VMware.
Optimize Software, SaaS, and Cloud with Flexera and RightScaleRightScale
Flexera and RightScale have now joined forces to help you optimize the technologies you use. Learn how Flexera solutions for software license optimization and SaaS management complement RightScale cloud management and cost optimization offerings to give you comprehensive management of your technology spend.
Automating Multi-Cloud Policies for AWS, Azure, Google, and MoreRightScale
With the explosion of cloud use, enterprises need to implement appropriate governance controls. Automated policies can optimize costs and ensure that operational, compliance, and security requirements are met. Using RightScale, you can create a single policy to work across all of your clouds, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and VMware vSphere.
10 Must-Have Automated Cloud Policies for IT GovernanceRightScale
As both cloud use and spend increase, enterprises need to implement automated cloud governance. IT leaders must avoid impeding the agility that cloud provides while ensuring efficient cloud spend and reducing risk. In this webinar, we will cover 10 automated policies that every enterprise should have as part of IT governance best practices for cloud.
Best Practices for Cloud Managed Services Providers: The Path to CMP SuccessRightScale
Managed services providers (MSPs) and other IT services providers offering managed services across multiple clouds use a cloud management platform (CMP) as a foundational technology. But what are the best practices for MSPs to leverage a CMP for success with end customers? MSPs need to implement appropriate account hierarchies, tagging strategies, cost management practices, templating and automation approaches, and DevOps processes.
How to Use RightScale CMP to Manage Cloud: In-Depth DemoRightScale
Enterprises are quickly realizing that a cloud management platform (CMP) is a critical foundation for managing and optimizing cloud use. Whether you are already using one or more clouds or just getting started, RightScale CMP gives you visibility, governance, cost management, automation, and orchestration for resources across all your cloud and virtualized infrastructure. See an in-depth demo of RightScale that shows how.
Automating Cloud Operations: Tips from Managed ServicesAngela_Tripp
Once you have applications deployed in the cloud, your Ops team comes to the fore. Whether you are an enterprise IT team or a managed services provider, you need to automate operations as much as possible to meet your SLAs. We’ll share lessons learned from RightScale Managed Services on making your cloud operations more efficient and effective.
Manage and Optimize Cloud Spend with RightScale OptimaRightScale
Cloud bills have climbed sharply as cloud use becomes strategic. RightScale Optima helps enterprises better understand, allocate, and optimize their cloud spend. Find out how to implement key cloud cost management practices with RightScale Optima.
Top 10 Cloud Trends for 2018 and Actions You Can Take NowRightScale
Enterprises are going all in on multi-cloud strategies. Operating in this multi-cloud world requires new processes, new policies, and new tools. In 2018, it’s time for enterprises to build the right foundations for their cloud strategies going forward by enabling the use of multiple cloud providers and myriad cloud services while ensuring the right policies and cost governance.
Got a Multi-Cloud Strategy? How RightScale CMP HelpsRightScale
Most enterprises already have a multi-cloud strategy. A cloud management platform (CMP) can help you broker cloud services with a single view across both public and private clouds, giving you control over existing cloud usage and enabling you to offer self-service provisioning across all your clouds and virtualized infrastructure.
Enterprise IT teams know they need to broker cloud services to their internal cloud users. Many companies implement a cloud management platform to provide a foundation for delivering cloud services. However, success as a cloud broker also requires also organizational, cultural, and process changes. Learn about the key steps needed to transform your IT organization into a cloud broker.
Identifying Workloads to Move to the CloudRightScale
RightScale Webinar: Cloud infrastructure offers a new set of building blocks for cost effectively deploying and managing applications. One of the first questions encountered is often which application workloads present the best fit? We’ll start by profiling different environments (datacenter, hosted and public/private cloud) and highlight the application characteristics that align well for each. We’ll then discuss the most common use cases we encounter and the reference architectures we’ve used to deliver them. Along the way, we’ll work to provide guidance how to evaluate company workloads for public, private and hybrid cloud deployments and when it makes sense to re-architect applications.
Introduction to containers, k8s, Microservices & Cloud NativeTerry Wang
Slides built to upskill and enable internal team and/or partners on foundational infra skills to work in a containerized world.
Topics covered
- Container / Containerization
- Docker
- k8s / container orchestration
- Microservices
- Service Mesh / Serverless
- Cloud Native (apps & infra)
- Relationship between Kubernetes and Runtime Fabric
Audiences: MuleSoft internal technical team, partners, Runtime Fabric users.
Scaling Security on 100s of Millions of Mobile Devices Using Apache Kafka® an...confluent
Watch this talk here: https://www.confluent.io/online-talks/scaling-security-on-100s-of-millions-of-mobile-devices-using-kafka-and-scylla-on-demand
Join mobile cybersecurity leader Lookout as they talk through their data ingestion journey.
Lookout enables enterprises to protect their data by evaluating threats and risks at post-perimeter endpoint devices and providing access to corporate data after conditional security scans. Their continuous assessment of device health creates a massive amount of telemetry data, forcing new approaches to data ingestion. Learn how Lookout changed its approach in order to grow from 1.5 million devices to 100 million devices and beyond, by implementing Confluent Platform and switching to Scylla.
7 Common Questions About a Cloud Management PlatformRightScale
You already know you need to deliver software more quickly. But what’s the best route to get that agility? Cloud, containers, and DevOps can all help, and a cloud management platform (CMP) pulls it all together. Get answers to the common questions about a CMP.
A cloud management platform (CMP) is fast becoming a de facto requirement for enterprises pursuing a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategy. But what should you be looking for in a CMP? Many companies make the mistake of taking a “boil the ocean” approach to a CMP evaluation. We’ll share best practices and discuss whether you need an RFP.
Successful Cloud Orchestration with RightScale CMPRightScale
As cloud use explodes, it’s important to develop a strategy for orchestrating and automating across all your cloud and non-cloud infrastructure environments. However, the use of the term orchestration has become overloaded and can refer to many different types of tools. Learn about the different types of orchestration automation tools and the role a cloud management platform (CMP) can play as an “orchestrator of orchestrators.”
How to Allocate and Report Cloud Costs with RightScale OptimaRightScale
Spend on cloud is increasing, but getting cloud costs allocated to the right business units can still be challenging, especially when you are using multiple clouds. You need automated tools that enable you to allocate costs from your cloud bill and report on spend to users across your organization.
Cloud Migration and Portability (with and without Containers)RightScale
Companies are moving more workloads to cloud and many need the flexibility to move some workloads between cloud providers on a one time or ongoing basis. The use of containers is further enabling companies to embrace portability. IT organizations need to understand the considerations, architectures, and tools that are needed to successfully migrate to and between clouds and create portable workloads.
Orchestrating PaaS and IaaS+ with RightScaleRightScale
The lines between IaaS and PaaS are blurring. Cloud providers are offering dozens of individual IaaS+ services as an alternative to “all-in-one” PaaS options like OpenShift and Cloud Foundry. How do you handle cloud orchestration when you have a blend of IaaS, IaaS+, and PaaS? We’ll show how you can manage them all with a single pane of glass.
Enterprise Cloud Strategy: 7 Areas You Need to Re-ThinkRightScale
Companies from Fortune 1000 on down are going all-in on cloud, but your enterprise cloud strategy also needs to address the broad impact of cloud use in your company. Your strategy needs to cover implications for your technical processes, but also supporting areas including finance, governance, organization, and culture.
12 Ways to Manage Cloud Costs and Optimize Cloud SpendRightScale
It can be difficult to manage cloud costs. As a result, you are likely wasting 30-45 percent or more of your cloud spend. Cloud governance, IT, and finance teams need to understand where costs are coming from, allocate those costs to the appropriate departments, and find ways to reduce waste and save money. In this webinar, we will show you how to manage cloud costs and optimize spend.
Hybrid Cloud Orchestration: How SuperChoice Does ItRightScale
Automation and orchestration are key to cloud success, especially in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Find out how Superchoice, a leading fintech company based in Australia, and Offis, a hybrid cloud services company, are using RightScale CMP to automate the delivery of 200+ applications across AWS, Azure, and VMware.
Optimize Software, SaaS, and Cloud with Flexera and RightScaleRightScale
Flexera and RightScale have now joined forces to help you optimize the technologies you use. Learn how Flexera solutions for software license optimization and SaaS management complement RightScale cloud management and cost optimization offerings to give you comprehensive management of your technology spend.
Automating Multi-Cloud Policies for AWS, Azure, Google, and MoreRightScale
With the explosion of cloud use, enterprises need to implement appropriate governance controls. Automated policies can optimize costs and ensure that operational, compliance, and security requirements are met. Using RightScale, you can create a single policy to work across all of your clouds, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and VMware vSphere.
10 Must-Have Automated Cloud Policies for IT GovernanceRightScale
As both cloud use and spend increase, enterprises need to implement automated cloud governance. IT leaders must avoid impeding the agility that cloud provides while ensuring efficient cloud spend and reducing risk. In this webinar, we will cover 10 automated policies that every enterprise should have as part of IT governance best practices for cloud.
Best Practices for Cloud Managed Services Providers: The Path to CMP SuccessRightScale
Managed services providers (MSPs) and other IT services providers offering managed services across multiple clouds use a cloud management platform (CMP) as a foundational technology. But what are the best practices for MSPs to leverage a CMP for success with end customers? MSPs need to implement appropriate account hierarchies, tagging strategies, cost management practices, templating and automation approaches, and DevOps processes.
How to Use RightScale CMP to Manage Cloud: In-Depth DemoRightScale
Enterprises are quickly realizing that a cloud management platform (CMP) is a critical foundation for managing and optimizing cloud use. Whether you are already using one or more clouds or just getting started, RightScale CMP gives you visibility, governance, cost management, automation, and orchestration for resources across all your cloud and virtualized infrastructure. See an in-depth demo of RightScale that shows how.
Automating Cloud Operations: Tips from Managed ServicesAngela_Tripp
Once you have applications deployed in the cloud, your Ops team comes to the fore. Whether you are an enterprise IT team or a managed services provider, you need to automate operations as much as possible to meet your SLAs. We’ll share lessons learned from RightScale Managed Services on making your cloud operations more efficient and effective.
Manage and Optimize Cloud Spend with RightScale OptimaRightScale
Cloud bills have climbed sharply as cloud use becomes strategic. RightScale Optima helps enterprises better understand, allocate, and optimize their cloud spend. Find out how to implement key cloud cost management practices with RightScale Optima.
Top 10 Cloud Trends for 2018 and Actions You Can Take NowRightScale
Enterprises are going all in on multi-cloud strategies. Operating in this multi-cloud world requires new processes, new policies, and new tools. In 2018, it’s time for enterprises to build the right foundations for their cloud strategies going forward by enabling the use of multiple cloud providers and myriad cloud services while ensuring the right policies and cost governance.
Got a Multi-Cloud Strategy? How RightScale CMP HelpsRightScale
Most enterprises already have a multi-cloud strategy. A cloud management platform (CMP) can help you broker cloud services with a single view across both public and private clouds, giving you control over existing cloud usage and enabling you to offer self-service provisioning across all your clouds and virtualized infrastructure.
Enterprise IT teams know they need to broker cloud services to their internal cloud users. Many companies implement a cloud management platform to provide a foundation for delivering cloud services. However, success as a cloud broker also requires also organizational, cultural, and process changes. Learn about the key steps needed to transform your IT organization into a cloud broker.
Identifying Workloads to Move to the CloudRightScale
RightScale Webinar: Cloud infrastructure offers a new set of building blocks for cost effectively deploying and managing applications. One of the first questions encountered is often which application workloads present the best fit? We’ll start by profiling different environments (datacenter, hosted and public/private cloud) and highlight the application characteristics that align well for each. We’ll then discuss the most common use cases we encounter and the reference architectures we’ve used to deliver them. Along the way, we’ll work to provide guidance how to evaluate company workloads for public, private and hybrid cloud deployments and when it makes sense to re-architect applications.
Introduction to containers, k8s, Microservices & Cloud NativeTerry Wang
Slides built to upskill and enable internal team and/or partners on foundational infra skills to work in a containerized world.
Topics covered
- Container / Containerization
- Docker
- k8s / container orchestration
- Microservices
- Service Mesh / Serverless
- Cloud Native (apps & infra)
- Relationship between Kubernetes and Runtime Fabric
Audiences: MuleSoft internal technical team, partners, Runtime Fabric users.
Scaling Security on 100s of Millions of Mobile Devices Using Apache Kafka® an...confluent
Watch this talk here: https://www.confluent.io/online-talks/scaling-security-on-100s-of-millions-of-mobile-devices-using-kafka-and-scylla-on-demand
Join mobile cybersecurity leader Lookout as they talk through their data ingestion journey.
Lookout enables enterprises to protect their data by evaluating threats and risks at post-perimeter endpoint devices and providing access to corporate data after conditional security scans. Their continuous assessment of device health creates a massive amount of telemetry data, forcing new approaches to data ingestion. Learn how Lookout changed its approach in order to grow from 1.5 million devices to 100 million devices and beyond, by implementing Confluent Platform and switching to Scylla.
Amazon EKS 그리고 Service Mesh
Kubernetes는 컨테이너 서비스를 도입하는 기업들에게 가장 있기있는 Orchestration 플랫폼입니다. 이 세션에서는 아마존에서 6월 정식 출시한 managed Kubenetes서비스인 EKS를 소개해드리며, 오픈소스 버전과의 차이점 및 장점 등에 대해 설명하고, 진보한 마이크로 서비스인 Service Mesh를 구현하는 Linkerd 소개 및 데모를 진행하고자 합니다.
Recent momentum around the evolution of Containers are gradually increase in last two years.Containers virtualize an OS and applications running in each container believe that they have full access to their very own copy of that OS. This is analogous to what VMs do when they virtualize at a lower level, the hardware. In the case of containers, it’s the OS that does the virtualization and maintains the illusion.
Recent past many software companies have quickly adopted container technologies, including Docker Containers, aware of the threat and advantage of the approach. For example, Linux companies have also jumped into the ground, seeing as this as an opportunity to grow the Linux market. Also Microsoft is going to add features to support containers and VMware have made efforts in integrating support for Docker into virtual machine technology.
Recent momentum around the evolution of Containers are gradually increase in last two years.Containers virtualize an OS and applications running in each container believe that they have full access to their very own copy of that OS. This is analogous to what VMs do when they virtualize at a lower level, the hardware. In the case of containers, it’s the OS that does the virtualization and maintains the illusion.
Recent past many software companies have quickly adopted container technologies, including Docker Containers, aware of the threat and advantage of the approach. For example, Linux companies have also jumped into the ground, seeing as this as an opportunity to grow the Linux market. Also Microsoft is going to add features to support containers and VMware have made efforts in integrating support for Docker into virtual machine technology.
Modern Cloud-Native Streaming Platforms: Event Streaming Microservices with A...confluent
Microservices, events, containers, and orchestrators are dominating our vernacular today. As operations teams adapt to support these technologies in production, cloud-native platforms like Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes have quickly risen to serve as force multipliers of automation, productivity and value.
Apache Kafka® is providing developers a critically important component as they build and modernize applications to cloud-native architecture.
This talk will explore:
• Why cloud-native platforms and why run Apache Kafka on Kubernetes?
• What kind of workloads are best suited for this combination?
• Tips to determine the path forward for legacy monoliths in your application portfolio
• Demo: Running Apache Kafka as a Streaming Platform on Kubernetes
Bandwidth: Use Cases for Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes Elasticsearch
Bandwidth has been an avid user of the Elastic Stack for aggregating their logs from its many data centers. Learn how Bandwidth uses Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes to help satisfy various use cases.
Recent momentum around the evolution of Containers are gradually increase in last two years.Containers virtualize an OS and applications running in each container believe that they have full access to their very own copy of that OS. This is analogous to what VMs do when they virtualize at a lower level, the hardware. In the case of containers, it’s the OS that does the virtualization and maintains the illusion.
Federated Kubernetes: As a Platform for Distributed Scientific ComputingBob Killen
A high level overview of Kubernetes Federation and the challenges encountered when building out a Platform for multi-institutional Research and Distributed Scientific Computing.
Kubernetes (commonly referred to as "K8s") is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications It aims to provide a "platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts". We will see Kubernetes architecture, use cases, basics and live demo
Free GitOps Workshop + Intro to Kubernetes & GitOpsWeaveworks
Follow along in this free workshop and experience GitOps!
AGENDA:
Welcome - Tamao Nakahara, Head of DX (Weaveworks)
Introduction to Kubernetes & GitOps - Mark Emeis, Principal Engineer (Weaveworks)
Weave Gitops Overview - Tamao Nakahara
Free Gitops Workshop - David Harris, Product Manager (Weaveworks)
If you're new to Kubernetes and GitOps, we'll give you a brief introduction to both and how GitOps is the natural evolution of Kubernetes.
Weave GitOps Core is a continuous delivery product to run apps in any Kubernetes. It is free and open source, and you can get started today!
https://www.weave.works/product/gitops-core
If you’re stuck, also come talk to us at our Slack channel! #weave-gitops http://bit.ly/WeaveGitOpsSlack (If you need to invite yourself to the Slack, visit https://slack.weave.works/)
Red Hat multi-cluster management & what's new in OpenShiftKangaroot
More and more organisations are not only using container platforms but starting to run multiple clusters of containers. And with that comes new headaches of maintaining, securing, and updating those multiple clusters. In this session we'll look into how Red Hat has solved multi-cluster management, covering cluster lifecycle, app lifecycle, and governance/risk/compliance.
Comparing Cloud VM Types and Prices: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBMRightScale
In today’s multi-cloud world, you need to understand how VM types and prices compare between public clouds. Whether you are comparing clouds to find the best placement, benchmarking your compute costs, or want to migrate between clouds, you’ll find out how to map the instance types and how costs will vary by cloud provider.
Best Practices for Multi-Cloud Security and ComplianceRightScale
The last few months have seen ongoing cloud security breaches and a heightened data privacy focus due to GDPR. In today’s multi-cloud environment, enterprises are challenged to ensure security and compliance across both public and private clouds. We will help you understand best practices for multi-cloud security and compliance and how a cloud management platform (CMP) can help.
Cloud storage costs are increasing and now represent a significant portion of cloud spend. As a result, cloud users need to focus on ways to reduce storage spend by selecting the best options while also finding ways to manage the rapid increase in the use of cloud storage.
Serverless Comparison: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBMRightScale
Serverless computing, (sometimes called function-as-a-service) is the top-growing cloud service year-over-year in 2018 compared to 2017 according to the RightScale State of the Cloud Survey. Serverless is appropriate for a variety of different use cases. We share how serverless offerings and pricing for different cloud providers compare.
Cloud Storage Comparison: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBMRightScale
As public cloud storage services mature, it becomes easier to make apples-to-apples comparisons. We drill down on the latest specs and features for object, block, archival, and file storage across AWS, Azure, Google, and IBM. We also compare prices for a variety of storage scenarios.
2018 Cloud Trends: RightScale State of the Cloud ReportRightScale
The RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report has just been released. It includes new insights on cloud adoption trends. We highlight the most interesting cloud trends that will help you evolve your cloud strategy, deliver on your 2018 cloud goals, and mobilize your internal stakeholders for cloud initiatives
How to Manage Cloud Costs with RightScale OptimaRightScale
With cloud use rising, managing cloud costs for your enterprise becomes more critical. To effectively control costs, you can leverage a cloud cost management tool like RightScale Optima to collaborate across your organization to report on and optimize your cloud spend.
Get behind the hype and headlines from AWS re:Invent 2017 and find out what it all means to you. We’ll share what’s working for AWS users and highlight which new features and services you’ll want to look at. Whether or not you attended re:Invent, this wrap-up will help you determine how your cloud initiatives will evolve in 2018.
Cloud Instances Price Comparison: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBMRightScale
The cloud price wars are heating up with Azure’s announcement of reserved instances, the introduction of per-second billing by AWS and Google, and other recent changes from the leading cloud providers. To get the most out of your cloud spend, you need to stay on top of the latest information on price cuts and changes to pricing models. And if your organization is multi-cloud, you may even want to adjust your investment across your cloud providers based on who has the lowest prices.
How MSPs Can Be Successful in AWS, Azure, and Google CloudsRightScale
As cloud use explodes, organizations are looking for managed services providers (MSPs) to help them migrate to the cloud and manage cloud use. RightScale will share best practices from 10 years of migrating customers to cloud and delivering managed services. You’ll also learn how one MSP, Flair Data Systems, is leveraging the RightScale Cloud Management Platform to help.
VMware Cloud on AWS is now generally available and many VMware users are wondering what it can do for them. Despite its name, VMware Cloud on AWS is not much like AWS. In this webinar we will explain the architecture, technical limitations, pricing, and benefits.
Compare Cloud Services: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBMRightScale
Most enterprises are leveraging multiple clouds, but it can be difficult to understand which services are available in each cloud and how they compare. If you are looking to move a workload, you may not know what the equivalent services are on a different cloud. We outline the services available for each public cloud provider and share a free tool to compare public cloud features.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
2. • Ryan Williamson
• Director of Engineering
• Mark Dotson
• Steel Team Manager/Infrastructure Tech Lead
Presenters
3. Two Solutions from RightScale
RightScale
Cloud Management Platform
Orchestrate, automate and govern workloads
across all your environments.
VIRTUAL
SERVERS
PUBLIC
CLOUDS
ANY CLOUD
SERVICE
PRIVATE
CLOUDS
BARE METAL
SERVERS
CONTAINER
CLUSTERS
RightScale
Optima
Work collaboratively across the organization
to manage and optimize clouds costs.
Orchestration
Cloud Workflow
Plugins
Monitoring
Access Control
Accounts/Groups
Access/Permissions
Tags
Policies
Cost
Security/Compliance
Operational
RIGHTSCALE
CMP ENGINE
EXTENSIBLE ORCHESTRATION API
6. • The role each technology plays in DevOps
• Tales from the trenches on Kubernetes & Terraform
• Case study of RightScale’s DevOps process
Agenda
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7. Pets vs Cattle
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Source: Randy Bias via Slideshare.net, The History of Pets vs Cattle,
License: CC Attribution-NoDerivs License
8. “Developers want to have self-service
programmatic access to infrastructure, integrated
into the continuous integration/continuous delivery
(CI/CD) pipeline. Immutable infrastructure is a
best-practice solution to this problem, and is
increasingly adopted by DevOps-oriented teams.”
“Cattle” = Immutable Infrastructure
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Source: Gartner, Four Key Container Deployment Considerations for I&O Leaders Feb 2018
10. How We Got Here: Project Sherpa circa 2016
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● Moved to Docker containers deployed
in “Bay of Containers”
○ Single containers of a given docker image
invoked via the “Docker Deploy” script on
individual instances invoked from an
ops-maintained template.
○ Service discovery mesh and inputs
provided by Hashicorp Consul
○ Capacity planning via static mapping.
● Centralized development &
management structures (ops,
architecture, eng management)
11. Bay of Containers - What is That?
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• Deploy N ‘good
neighbor’ containers
onto a VM
• Supports
microservices
• Supports “traditional”
services
• Abstract level - logical
groupings of
individual hosts
running groups of
containers.
10
Host & Container Logical Grouping 1..n
balancer
A
smtp syslog
srv.
dsc.
B C D
Sidecar B
balancer
E
smtp syslog
srv.
dsc.
F
G H Z
12. Sea of Containers - The Next Step
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VM VM VM
A A A
A A
A
C C
B B
B B
VM VM VM
A A A
C C
A A A
C C
B B B
B B
Container Management
BA A
• N(×M) containers
• 0..N VMs
• Elastic mesh network
• Declarative
everything
• Resource scheduling
• Abstract level - a
cluster of hosts
running everything
13. Where Did We Want to Go?
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● Research spike to evaluate
container engines - kube chosen
● Service discovery moved into
cluster(s).
● Scheduler takes over capacity
planning.
● Autoscaling nodes and pods are
potential ultimate HA model.
● Unified location to express app
deployment - release strategy,
limits, environment inputs...all in
one place
Sea of Containers Full on DevOps
● Engineering Teams are The
Deciders and Owners of all aspects
of their stacks; instances, DBs,
apps…
● No centralized
development/management
structures - cross-functional groups
for shared ownership aspects.
● RS Service Groupings moved to
individual RS accounts
14. Overarching Themes
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● Disposable
○ After 10 years in cloud, lesson learned is to build with failure planning as
table stakes
○ If an instance that is exhibiting issues, launch a new instance and “replace”
the problematic one.
● Repeatable
○ Infrastructure as code - no ad hoc or one-off fixes, fix the code.
○ You don’t want your services updating in an unscheduled method to new
versions that break other aspects of your stack.
16. Concept: Disposable Kubernetes Clusters
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● Small purpose-driven clusters to allow full ownership and avoid resource
conflicts between development teams.
● A valid strategy for troubleshooting an entire Kubernetes cluster could be to
launch a new cluster and “replace” the problem one.
● Storage layers/persistent services could generally live outside the application k8
cluster.
● Upgrades to kubernetes versions could be executed as no-downtime
replacement operations a-la A/B deployment.
● … but for all this to work we needed to keep things relatively simple so our new
devops could gain confidence in using these new toolsets. (Walk before
running)
17. Pieces of the Puzzle: Infrastructure Deployment
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● Disposable clusters require stateful assets (databases,
secrets, logs, etc.) to live external to the cluster.
● Executed through Terraform RS Provider + any other resource
providers as needed, an overall framework was constructed in
each account had a given “Infrastructure Deployment” that
was static and held stateful objects.
○ Familiar RightScale objects - Servers, Arrays, etc.
○ Secrets stored in mix of Hashicorp Vault & RightScale
Credentials
○ Use of external hosted services (eg splunk) as determined
by team also helped with this strategy.
● “Hub and Spoke” strategy of N disposable Kube clusters with
unique network ranges would be peered to the infrastructure’s
network range.
18. Pieces of the Puzzle: The Image
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● Speed to build the cluster is critical
● Images were built that had as much baked into it as
possible
● Versions of Kubernetes services (kubelet, flannel, etc.)
locked - no unscheduled updates here at boot!
● Result: Faster boot times and guaranteed operational
clusters with the tested/verified versions of services.
20. Pieces of the Puzzle: Terraform Part 1
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● Terraform is API client with large open-source community of
developers writing “providers” that operate against publicly
exposed and documented APIs.
● A developer-friendly laptop-centric runtime cli experience for
provisioning of infrastructure assets ideal for fast development
iteration.
● Given the powerful “mix-and-match” ability to take AWS
objects and combine with Rightscale objects and gce objects
and and and…. magic!
● An easy way to use the “right tool for the job.”
21. Pieces of the Puzzle: Terraform Part 2
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● The RightScale provider was born!
https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/rightscale/index.html
● Allows us to use RightScale for the governance and
orchestration we need, intermixed with other provider
resources directly.
● Example: Creation/Reading of RightScale credential objects to
populate secrets during the creation of ec2 autoscaling
groups.
● Example 2: RightScript “any” execution against assets
external to infrastructure managed by Terraform. In our case,
scripts executing setup logic for new clusters.
22. Pieces of the Puzzle: Devops
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● No centralized team to manage infrastructure and desire to
reinforce full stack ownership to devops teams.
● Use of Terraform Modules to express generic aspects of the
cluster build process with duplicated/full copies of this code
distributed to each team.
○ Copy/Paste isn’t always the best way, but it is dirt simple
to understand.
○ Smoothing the distribution process for updates to
modules would be undertaken at a later date.
● Cluster invocations (environments or “envs”) largely identical
other then variables defined in variables config file.
○ Creating new clusters easy as copying existing folder, and
changing a few variables.
25. Pieces of the Puzzle: HA while Disposable, Part 1
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● Goal of purpose-driven disposable kube clusters that could be
replaced in no-downtime operations yet is still HA for the end
customer while attempting to keep things easy to manage… a
bit of a challenge.
● Lots of horror stories about multi-master/cross-az
troubleshooting-in-place woes or “my cluster is slow” mystery
troubleshooting were abound at the time of research.
26. Pieces of the Puzzle: HA while Disposable, Part 2
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● Each env is N fully independent clusters each scoped to a
single az that are treated as a logical unit and knitted together
via Kubernetes Federation.
● This gives each individual cluster the ability to service a given
request, with inbound requests balanced between the N
invocations w/health checks and knit together with Federation
so if one cluster on a given az went belly up, the other would
immediately be scaled up by the Federation to handle things.
● Combined with ability to invoke our disposable cluster
anywhere including any cloud and knit together with the
Federation for easy combined management, gave us a strong
small-yet-resilient model.