A couple weeks ago Pivotal announced how kubo is being productized into Pivotal Cloud Foundry, namely, as Pivotal Container Service (or "PKS"). We discuss what PKS is and the types of workloads it seems suited for compared to the existing Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform. There's also a couple of studies about container adoption and some other news from the infrastructure software world.
Subscribe, follow, feedback
-
Download the episode directly, check us out in SoundCloud, subscribe to the feed directly, or in iTunes to have it automatically downloaded for you.
-
Feedback: podcast@pivotal.io
Upcoming Events
-
SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration.
News
-
Meanwhile, an abstract of a containers penetration study, from RedMonk: "Docker, is running at 71% across Fortune 100 companies. Kubernetes usage is running in some form at 54%, and Cloud Foundry usage is at 50%"
-
This update from the Cloud Foundry Foundation: 2016/2017 y/y shows those evaluating containers went up from 31% to 42%, while “using” ticked up a tad from 22% to 25%, n=540.
-
Pivotal offers integrations with ECS, Dell Boomi, VMware Wavefront. New tiles for those who want to use S3-compatible cloud storage, iPaaS integration, or smart app monitoring with PCF.
-
Introducing KSQL: Open Source Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka. Query data in flight.
-
Equifax data breach. Not good, not good at all. May have fallen behind in patching their web-facing app.
PKS at VMworld
-
Pivotal Container Service is announced. At VMworld, we took the wraps off Pivotal Container Service (PKS) and shared details of this BOSH-powered Kubernetes offering.
VMware delivers VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware took the wraps off their now-available service that lets you use VMware tooling to build and manage servers on-prem or in AWS.
About the Author
More Content by Michael Coté
