Mantl

August 25, 2016

CLOUD

The Journey to Cloud Native

3 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 […]

July 13, 2016

CLOUD

Mantl Version 1.2 Released – Kubernetes Fully Integrated

1 min read

This week we are excited to announce our next release of Mantl that introduces Kubernetes integration with Consul which enables Kubernetes services to automatically get registered in Consul and all the enhanced  networking and security capabilities of Mantl are fully integrated to Kubernetes. The architecture of Mantl’s integrated stack is shown below. Mantl has become a […]

June 30, 2016

CLOUD

Developing Cloud Native Applications Using the Cisco’s Open Source Shipped and Mantl Platforms

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 […]

June 16, 2016

CLOUD

How Cloud Native and Container Platforms Change the Way We Think about Networking

4 min read

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,...

May 10, 2016

CLOUD

Open Source All the Way Up the Stack

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 […]

May 2, 2016

CLOUD

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 […]

April 26, 2016

CLOUD

What is Mantl API?

4 min read

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 […]

April 21, 2016

CLOUD

Synthetic Monitor for Cisco Shipped

2 min read

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 […]

April 19, 2016

CLOUD

Batteries Included, not Crippleware

2 min read

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 […]