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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
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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
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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 […]
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 […]
minimesos – An experimentation and testing tool for Apache Mesos
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Apache Mesos, it’s fair to say, is a battle-hardened system for treating your whole data center as one pool of resources. Through the use of frameworks and their APIs, it’s possible to manage and schedule resources across both data centers and different cloud environments. It is for these reasons that Mantl, our microservices framework, was […]
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Kubernetes as First Project
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Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that their first project accepted is Kubernetes. This is an important initial milestone as this represents the first core functional component of a CNCF solution. There will me more core functional components to come as the TOC is busy already investigating projects. This is not validation that CNCF […]
Cisco Live Berlin: Developer Hackathon and Cloud/OpenStack Sessions
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Next week is Cisco Live Europe (CiscoLiveEurope) in Berlin, Germany. I wanted to get a quick blog post our before the week to highlight some of the pre-events, workshops, and sessions. For the second year, Cisco’s Developer Network (CiscoDevNet) is hosting a hackathon the weekend before and is sold out. You can keep up to […]
Programmable Microservices Infrastructure with Mantl Release 1
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Introduction The proliferation of a containers, public and private clouds and orchestration applications like Kubernetes and Apache Mesos have helped to ratify the use of microservices in production environments. Pini Reznik wrote a great blog summarizing the history here. However, experience shows that more time is being spent deploying, managing and debugging the infrastructure than […]
Stateful Applications on Mantl Using the Mesos ELK Framework
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Introduction Throughout this week the discussion has been focused on the necessity of a programmable infrastructure and the Mantl project. Mantl was formulated to deliver application level flexibility by providing a set of pluggable components. One of the main use cases for enterprises is data management and analytics. This post discusses a subset of these […]
2016 Prediction #1 – Production Application Development and Deployment Rapidly Transforming to Microservices Architect …
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As I look back on 2015 and the great effort of the Mantl.io and CiscoShipped.io teams, I am reminded of the efforts I had in the initial cloud computing efforts 8 years ago. The buzz and market interest in cloud computing then was not accepted by traditional hosting and telecommunications companies. A retail company understood […]
Why Containerize?
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We are really looking forward to next week in Barcelona @dockercon Europe. As a sponsor and exhibitor we are really excited to be showing what Cisco is innovating with @docker and how we are enabling and delivering the platform for the digital disruption era. We extend a warm invitation to anyone who is interested to see how […]
Ceilometer + Monasca = Ceilosca
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Integrating Monasca and Ceilometer seemed like a very good idea from the start. It would integrate all the OpenStack resources notifications and metrics as well as provide a unified storage layer for Monitoring and Metering, simplifying deployment at scale as well as opening the door for new solutions that weren’t possible before. So the team […]
Microservices Infrastructure – Mantl – Release 0.4
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During the OpenStack Summit last week, we released Mantl 0.4. In this blog I would like to go into more details about the release. But first I’d like to start by explaining what Mantl is – and what it is not. System Integration as Open Source Mantl is a layered stack that takes care of […]