cloudmaniac.net - Romain Decker

Released as a technology preview during the latest DockerCon (June 2015), VMware AppCatalyst is an API and Command Line Interface (CLI)-driven Mac hypervisor that is purpose-built for developers. Once installed, VMware AppCatalyst allows to quickly and easily deploy Linux container hosts based on VMware Project Photon. [...] VMware AppCatalyst offers developers a fast and easy way to replicate a private cloud locally on their desktop for building and testing containerized and microservices-based applications. ...

You’re interested in Docker but not comfortable with CLI? You have a Mac? Kitematic is for you! :) Kitematic is a desktop GUI application for Docker. Kitematic is an open source project built to simplify and streamline using Docker on a Mac or Windows (coming soon) PC. Kitematic automates the Docker installation and setup process and provides an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) for running Docker containers. To run Docker containers on your Mac, Kitematic will automatically download and install latest version of VirtualBox and start a Linux VM on top of it. ...

Containerization is one of the subject which is getting the most attraction at the moment. It’s not only a geek trend, major actors are using containers in production. After all, Google was starting over 2 billion containers per week…exactly one year ago, in May 2014. Two billion containers per week…that’s 3300 containers per second! :) VMware presented last week two new open source projects that will help their customers to build, run and manage their cloud-native applications. ...

With vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 (a.k.a. vROps), VMware released a version which introduced not only major architectural changes but also many new features. Amongst those (amazing) new features, the concept of symptoms, recommendations and actions were added to the product. The actions available in vRealize Operations Manager allow you to modify the state or configuration of selected objects in vCenter Server from the correct context in vROps user interface. An administrator might need to change the configuration of an object to address a problematic resource issue or to redistribute resources to optimize your infrastructure. ...

I deployed vCenter Server Appliance 6 (vCSA) several times last week: I had to use the wizard to be able to control and troubleshoot communications to the existing Platform Services Controller (PSC) on each steps, which I couldn’t do with the integrated command-line installer. I ended up quickly with an error during the deployment: “Firstboot script execution error”. I already had two PSC nodes deployed in HA (behind a load balancer) and I was trying to deploy a vCSA that would connect to them. ...