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Developing Cloud Native Applications Using the Cisco’s Open Source Shipped and Mantl Platforms
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Software engineering and developer communities are driving the market for cloud consumption and leading each industry into a new era of software-defined disruption. There are no longer questions about elastic and flexible agile development as the way to innovate and reduce time to market for businesses. Open source software plays a key role in the […]
How Cloud Native and Container Platforms Change the Way We Think about Networking
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Networking has been a foundational component of our economy since the Internet days. In the early days, defining protocols and standards for how to connect, route, and interoperate local, metro,...
Open Source All the Way Up the Stack
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Software engineering and developer communities are driving the market for cloud consumption and leading each industry into a new era of software-defined disruption. There are no longer questions about elastic and flexible agile development as the way to innovate and reduce time to market for businesses. Open source software plays a key role in the […]
Mantl Knows Secrets
7 min read
You have secrets in your cluster. Everybody does, it’s a fact of life. Database passwords, API keys, deployment tokens, just to name a few. Secrets are hard to manage, even before you throw in the fact that most of us now are operating in a cloud environment. In software development, the common advice to “never roll […]
Batteries Included, not Crippleware
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At Cisco, we are continuously working with our Enterprise and Service Provider customers on the many issues they are facing with the transition to Cloud Native and Hyperscale in the datacenter. What we have discovered is that with this transition, administrators are struggling with the the increasing complexity in the data center, policy, and data […]
Innovate Beyond the Stack – Innovation begins with Software Disruption
4 min read
Software engineering and developer communities are driving the market for cloud consumption and leading each industry into a new era of software-defined disruption. There are no longer questions about elastic and flexible agile development as the way to innovate and reduce time to market for businesses. Open source software plays a key role in the […]
What is Mantl API?
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When developing applications, one to the first obstacles we encountered was around installing applications and frameworks. To address this complicated ecosystem, we developed a service framework and API. The Mantl API is a feature built in to Mantl that helps you find and install applications and Mesos frameworks. Think of the effort involved to build a […]
Synthetic Monitor for Cisco Shipped
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When developing applications in a microservices architecture, one of the first obstacles a developer faces is determining the state of the underlying orchestration and container services. The developer has no real insight into how the underlying services and orchestration system(s) are performing. As part of the developer experience we built for this new application development […]
Visualizing a minimesos Cluster with Weave’s Scope
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This week we are very pleased to release version 0.8.0 of minimesos. This new release contains many improvements, bug fixes and new features. The two most important features are that minimesos now ships with Weave Scope and HashiCorp’s Consul. In this blog, I am going to focus on how important we think the integration with […]