Automated Kubernetes with Packer and Ansible on vSphere
Introduction As I find myself using Kubernetes (k8s) and container technologies more and more frequently I wanted a way to easily deploy clusters in my homelab environment so I could try out new features and capabilities (as well as get a better understanding of Kubernetes generally). In particular I wanted to make the …
Read MoreDynamic Persistent Volumes with CSE Kubernetes and Ceph
Jan 29, 2019 · 24 min read · ceph container-service-extension CSE dynamic persistent volumes k8s Kubernetes vCloud Director ·Introduction Application containerization with Docker is fast becoming the default deployment pattern for many business applications and Kubernetes (k8s) the method of managing these workloads. While containers generally should be stateless and ephemeral (able to be deployed, scaled and deleted at will) almost all …
Read MoreUsing VMware Container Service Extension (CSE)
Yesterday I wrote showing the currently available container hosting options from VMware. As we’ve recently deployed one of these options – CSE in our environment I thought it would be useful to show a sample workflow on how the service functions and how customers can use this to deploy and manage both CSE clusters, and …
Read MoreVMware appears to have gone a little ‘mad’ with regards to containerisation (or containerization for any American readers) lately. Last week saw the release of Pivotal Container Service (PKS) as launched at VMworld 2017 US back in August. With this there are now a total of three VMware technologies all enabling …
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