ronaldnu, Author at SUSE Communities

March 24, 2019 6:33 pm

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Kubernetes and the Enterprise

I had an interesting conversation with a CSP provider recently, Microsoft. The topic was Kubernetes uptake based on their experience with their offering Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The observation, Kubernetes uptake was high, but higher with smaller and medium size businesses than with the large enterprise. The take-away from this was that while Kubernetes […]

By: ronaldnu

October 6, 2018 12:04 am

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Adding Project Eirini to Cloud Foundry

We are showing something very cool at the upcoming Cloud Foundry Summit in Basel Switzerland. In a lightning talk and in our booth you will be able to see the Cloud Foundry incubation project Eirini. This is something to take a look at as project Eirini is a very interesting and impressive effort. What is […]

By: ronaldnu

September 28, 2018 8:24 pm

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SUSE Cloud Application Platform and OSBA

SUSE’s recent support for Microsoft’s Open Service Broker Azure (OSBA) is another big step in making Azure a premium platform for building and running Azure specific, multi-cloud, and hybrid applications. And this is true whether you are running SUSE Cloud Application Platform on Azure, directly on AKS, or on Azure Stack. What am […]

By: ronaldnu

August 31, 2018 10:30 pm

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SUSE Cloud Application Platform v1.2 released

Last week SUSE released its most recent version of SUSE Cloud Application Platform, version 1.2. Among other items, this new release has a heavy emphasis on and adds to the public cloud experience. For me, the public cloud in combination with Cloud Application Platform is one of my favorite topics. And this new […]

By: ronaldnu

June 8, 2018 8:39 pm

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SUSE Cloud Application Platform with Amazon EKS Makes Perfect Sense

Before we get into the details, let's just start with a bit of the answer, what SUSE Cloud Application Platform brings to any Amazon EKS cluster is 'cf push'. Now, drilling into what 'cf push' is and does, what SUSE Cloud Application Platform is with respect to Amazon EKS, and if you weren't reading […]

Categories: Cloud Computing, Containers, Kubernetes, SUSE Cloud Application Platform, SUSE in the Cloud, SUSE News

By: ronaldnu

April 13, 2018 9:55 pm

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The Importance of Application Portability

I have to rant a little bit. Recently I was involved in a conversation about the wonders of devops and how it was changing the concerns of IT. The conversation spawned from the growing importance of cloud providers and the impact they are having on enterprises of every size and across industries. Specifically, with the […]

By: ronaldnu

March 24, 2018 12:08 am

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Cloud Foundry Buildpacks or Dockerfiles

I often hear questions about what are these buildpacks that cloud foundry uses. And then frequently, why use a buildpack when Dockerfiles are commonplace? The most common answer alludes to a topic that is most commonly phrased as a ‘separation of concerns’. Unfortunately, these discussions tend towards an odd combination of the academic and […]

By: ronaldnu

March 9, 2018 5:55 pm

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Applying the Cloud Foundry workflow to Kubernetes

This is a topic that SUSE has been working on and maturing for a while. Before we dive into what this means, let’s take a quick high-level look at what Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes are, and what they are not. Both Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes are go-to platforms when companies think of building modern […]

By: ronaldnu

March 1, 2018 5:34 pm

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Meltdown / Spectre – a PM view

Now that some time has passed and we are through another round of patches / updates, here is a perspective on how handling the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities looked. As of now, Meltdown and Spectre are mostly behind us. Well maybe not from a chip manufacturer perspective, but it is from a SUSE update perspective. […]

Tags: Meltdown, Spectre

Categories: CSP, Server, SUSE in the Cloud, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server