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Mirantis has launched a Software Community site where you can download and get resources for our latest offerings, including our recently released Mirantis OpenStack 9.1 maintenance update.
The Mirantis Software Community site is your go-to place to find the latest downloads, repositories, documentation and other materials for not just Mirantis branded software but also the various open source software projects we’re working on, including Fuel, StackLight, Salt, Kubernetes, Ceph and OpenContrail. Additionally, you’ll find links to relevant plugins and add-ons, from both Mirantis and our Unlocked Partners.
Mirantis Software Community site
Mirantis OpenStack 9.1
The Community Site currently features Mirantis OpenStack 9.1, which has several enhancements for lifecycle management, including a streamlined mechanism for maintenance updates. Additionally, MOS 9.1 provides new tabs in Fuel for Workflows and History where we’ve made it easier to manage custom deployment workflows and view details about in-progress or completed deployment tasks. We’ve also added support for event-driven task execution for further deployment automation, targeted diagnostic snapshots for reduced footprint, and various security features.
Deployment HIstory tab in Fuel

Learn more in our technical blog or release notes
View MOS 9.0 to 9.1 update instructions

Please note that in order to install the MOS 9.1 update package, you must first have MOS 9.0 installed.
Get Involved and Contribute
Besides providing software and related technical materials, the Community site is also a starting point for you to get involved and contribute to the community. We invite you to join a mailing list, jump on an IRC channel or submit to a Launchpad community page or Q&A forum — we’ve provided relevant links for you to quickly get in touch and offer your ideas and expertise, including information on how to contribute.
We’ve also set up a monthly community newsletter, geared towards users and operators. Subscribe to get information on the latest software and related resources from both Mirantis and the open source projects we’re contributing to.
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2. November 20162. November 2016

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Senior Manager, Financial Business Partner- Services

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Mirantis is the industry leader in OpenStack with more customers in production than any other OpenStack company. Our customers include iconic brands like AT&T, Comcast, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, eBay, Wells Fargo Bank and Volkswagen. Open source projects are in our DNA with Mirantis being the number one contributor to OpenStack and a top three contributor to Ceph. Additionally, Mirantis places significant value on building communities around open source projects evidenced by our Platinum sponsorship of OpenStack, involvement with the OpenStack Foundation Board, and our own online and in person events used to educate end users about all things OpenStack. Mirantis, Inc. is looking for a Senior Manager, Financial Business Partner – Services. You will be the finance point of contact working closely with the Services department while providing strategic analyses and recommendations to help drive the business. You will provide variance analysis of bookings, revenues and expenses, clearly explaining the business reasons for variances and owning the financial forecast to reflect operational adjustments. The Services organization has an annual revenue of $ 45M and 200 employees. You will be reporting to the Director of FP&A with a strong dotted line to the GM, EVP of Services.ResponsibilitiesBe key business partner to the Services department to provide strategic financial insights and recommendationsComplex financial modeling development / improvement / maintenanceMonitor key performance metrics relevant to the Services department and provide insights into drivers of bookings, revenue, and expenses, as well as risks and opportunitiesEstablish regular cadence with business partners for monthly budget vs actual analysis, headcount reporting, monthly and quarterly expense forecast updates, annual planning, and special projectsMonitor the project administration and track project margins versus budget.Be involved in the hiring process and keep track of headcountReporting of travel and entertainment expenses at the account level and monitor accurate billingWork with the Services department to lead ad hoc analyses to address the business’ needsLead the development and implementation of tools, systems and processes to support the successful completion of timely and accurate forecastsAnalyze data, identify trends and associated action plans to drive improvements in the businessProvide ongoing communication and collaboration with departmental staff and management.Assist in identifying and implementing financial and operationally relevant Key Performance Indicators within the Services organizationProactively analyze the financial stability (profitability) of individual accounts (clients), identify drivers and make recommendationsDeliver account level P&L’s for each of our top level accountsEstablishing and maintain various reusable reporting templatesMaintain a working knowledge of current principles and methodologies in financial reporting; profit planning, cost accounting and profitability analysis best-practices as they apply to service organizations QualificationsBA/BS degree in business or related field required, MBA a plusPrevious experience as a business partner for a professional services organization is a mustAnalytical background working directly in an FP&A environmentExcellent computer skills and proficient in excel, word, PowerPoint, outlook, and accessExcellent communication skills both verbal and writtenExcellent interpersonal skills.A demonstrated commitment to high professional ethical standards and a diverse workplaceExcels at operating in a fast pace and diverse environmentCollaborative work style and commitment to get the job doneAbility to challenge and debate issues of importance to the organization.Ability to look at situations from several points of viewPersuasive with details and factsHigh comfort level working in a matrix environmentThe post Senior Manager, Financial Business Partner- Services appeared first on Mirantis | The Pure Play OpenStack Company.
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1. November 20161. November 2016

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CloudForms 4.2 Beta 1 (Public)

Welcome to the CloudForms 4.2 Beta 1 release. The beta program will run for a number of weeks starting Halloween 2016.
Please note this is a Beta Blog and therefore should NOT be used to confirm the GA release of this product.
Let’s break down the mega release into various sections of the platform for a quick review;
Providers
VMware vCloud Air/Director
This new provider has been developed in conjunction with XLAB.SI. It delivers the following capabilities;
Inventory

Collect vApps
Collect Datacenters

Events
Event Catcher and Switchboard support
Metrics – Not Yet
LifeCycle

Provision vCloud Apps (vApps) from CloudForms Service Catalog and Operations UI

VMware vSphere

New Dashboard for vSphere Provider.
Allow for Cluster only selection &8211; We had a requirement to allow users to select only the cluster, and not specify the host or datastore. So during provisioning on VMware vSphere you can now do this, select only the cluster and if the cluster supports DRS it will automatically decide a host and datastore on the VMware side of the house.
Provisioning with Storage Profiles &8211; Now you can provision in CloudForms supporting VMware Storage Profiles. VMware Storage Profiles let you assign policies to datastores such as production or test. In CloudForms we pre-filter the datastore selection based on these profiles.

Red Hat Virtualization

Snapshot Management &8211; Take/Restore from Snapshots within RHV.
Disk Management &8211; Connect/Disconnect drives to your virtual machines. Fully supporting VM reconfigure.

Middleware (Hawkular)
Inventory

Clusters
Hosts
Entities
Topology
Applications
Templates
Datasources
Drivers
Deployment status
Cross linking

Dedicated performance reports for Hawkular are also included.
Events

Receive Events
Support for Alert Profiles and automated expressions for middleware servers

Metrics
The Hawkular provider supports live metrics. This means that when you view the charts within CloudForms we grab the live metrics from the server at that time for the following,

Datasources
Transactions
JMS Topics
Queues

Life Cycle Operations

Deploy Application
Upload WAR
Create Datasource(s)
Add JDBC Drivers

OpenStack Cloud

Create/Update/Delete OpenStack Cloud Tenants
Create/Update/Delete Host Aggregates
Take and Remove Snapshots at VM level

OpenStack Infrastructure

New topology view of the Under Cloud
Ironic Controls Added for Hosts

Set as Manageable
Introspect Nodes
Provide Nodes

OpenStack Neutron

Create/Update/Delete Router
Create/Update/Delete Network
Create/Update/Delete Subnet
Inventory of Network Ports

OpenStack Swift
New provider in a new Storage menu. This provider class will be built out in future releases.

Inventory

OpenStack Cinder
New provider in a new Storage menu. This provider class will be built out in future releases.

Inventory
Snapshot Support for Volumes exposed in the UI and Automate.
Create/Restore from Backup exposed in the UI and Automate.

OpenShift Enterprise

View Container Templates
Chargeback for container images &8211; Enabling images to support a fixed cost. This can contribute a base image cost to a variable utilised report for pods and applications.
Chargeback based on container image tags.
Support for Custom Attributes &8211; Now we see the OpenShift labels as custom attributes.
Allow policies to prevent image scans, this is useful if you wish to stop CloudForms from inspecting certain images for security or performance reasons.
Reports : Pods for images per project and Pods per node.

Google Cloud

Metrics &8211; CPU, Memory and Network.
Load Balancer Inventory.
Load Balancer Health Checks &8211; Shown in inventory and actionable using automation.
Hide deprecated images from provisioning.
Preemptible Instances &8211; Googles Preemptible Instances are a low cost way of getting compute, coming with restrictions such as termination without notice. CloudForms supports the provisioning of these instances.
Retirement Support.

Microsoft Azure

Additional metrics to CPU such as;

Memory
Disk

Chargeback for Fixed, Allocated and Utilized costs for VM resources.
Support for Floating IPs during provisioning.
Load Balancer inventory.

Microsoft SCVMM

Bug fixes.

Amazon EC2
New CloudForms Appliance Image &8211; This means you can now run CloudForms in Amazon EC2 without any other hosting infrastructure required.
User Interfaces
Both

Single Level Proxy Support &8211; This allows for users to access the remote console for workloads that may be behind a firewall (e.g. service providers). You can configure CloudForms to proxy remote console sessions when direct host visibility is not available. This capability is also exposed to automate.
Notification Draw &8211; Users can receive both Toasts and Notifications from any event happening in CloudForms. This means that during provisioning, as various phases are passed such as approval, quota check, etc., you can notify the user that this has happened. Furthermore, we have enabled this with a helper method in Automate, meaning that any automate method can emit notifications. The notifications can be read or saved. The drawer holds a history of previous notifications.

Operations UI

Topology viewer added for Infrastructures and Cloud Providers.
New toggle view to switch between classic inventory view and new dashboard view.
Schedule automate tasks &8211; Run once or recurring.
VM Explorer Trees &8211; A new setting has been introduced and set as default. This setting REMOVES the VM&8217;s from the explorer trees, as it caused a substantial performance hit. This setting can be turned back on for smaller environments under My Settings > Services > Workloads > All VMs. The page load time was reduced from 93,770ms to 524ms (99% improvement) with a test of 20,000 VMs.
Timelines &8211; New Timelines component for timelines view on VMs, Providers or other objects supporting this feature.

Service UI

New support for Chargeback roll-up data per My Services. Shows $/$$/$$$ costings.
Service Power Operations &8211; You can now Stop/Start/Suspend an entire service composed of multiple VMs.
Confirmation when deleting items from your shopping cart.
Cockpit Integration &8211; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x systems can be managed/configured using the Cockpit server manager interface. CloudForms now allows launching the Cockpit UI in a new window for systems identified as enabled.

Platform
Chargeback

Numerous changes to Chargeback to improve accuracy in results.

Centralized Administrator

This item is to support some of our larger installations of CloudForms whereby the customer wishes to have one single entry point into CloudForms from any number of regions or zones setup globally. We have supported for some time the notion of a Reporting Region, this allows to report centrally on any data rolled up from child regions to the parent reporting region. With Centralized Administration you can now not only report, but start to perform some of lifecycle tasks too such as;

VM Power Operations &8211; Start/Stop/Suspend a VM in any region from your central region.
VM Retirement &8211; Retire a VM in any region from your central region.

Tenancy
Tenancy has seen two major changes in this release as follows;
OpenStack and our Tenancy
You can now synchronize the tenants that exist within OpenStack to CloudForms. This means you can, as an administrator, define some simple mapping rules and CloudForms will automatically keep the tenants that exist within the OpenStack providers synchronized to those in CloudForms.
CloudForms Tenancy
Ad-hoc sharing of resources across tenants. This will allow users to select an item in their view and share it with anyone in any other tenant in CloudForms.
Database Maintenance
The results from numerous support surveys shows that the database can suffer performance or stability issues when maintenance is not carried out regularly. Therefore we are including in the “black console” menus the ability to configure Database Maintenance activities.
Database High Availability
We are supporting in the product, PostgreSQL High Availability. The support is for Primary to Stand-by, you can manually control the swap or use a heartbeat to automatically fail over. The feature is easily enabled using the &8220;Black Console&8221; menu.
Automate

Import Automate Models from GiT Repository

Fully UI configurable and managed.
Post Commit Hooks &8211; Automatically synchronize the changes to the CloudForms appliances enabled with the GiT Server Role.
Tags &8211; Select what is synchronized by Tags.
Branches &8211; Select what is synchronized by Branch.
Supports certificates

Schedule automate tasks &8211; Now you can create tasks that are triggered based on a timed schedule
Notifications &8211; You can $evm.create_notification(:message => &8220;my custom message&8221;). We support error levels and subjects too. This will allow you to provide feedback direct to your users from automate. For example, if you have an automate script that exports, converts and imports a VM from one platform to another, you could notify the user who initiated the task when each phase has completed. Previously the only messaging to the user was email, with notifications you have live feed back through the UI direct to the user.

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1. November 20161. November 2016

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What you missed at OpenStack Barcelona

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The OpenStack Summit in Barcelona was, in some ways, like those that had preceded it — and in other ways, it was very different. As in previous years, the community showed off large customer use cases, but there was something different this year: whereas before it had been mostly early adopters &8212; and the same early adopters, for a time &8212; this year there were talks from new faces with very large use cases, such as Sky TV and Banco Santander.
And why not? Statistically, OpenSTack seems to have turned a corner, with the semi-annual user survey showing that workloads are no longer just development and testing but actual production, users are no longer limited to huge corporations but also to work at small to medium sized businesses, and containers have gone from an existential threat to a solution with which to work, not fight, and concerns about interoperability seem to have been squashed, finally.
Let’s look at some of the highlights of the week.
#RunsOnOpenStack
It&8217;s traditional to bring large users up on stage during the keynotes, but this year, with users such as Spain&8217;s largest bank, Banco Santander, Britain&8217;s broadcaster, Sky UK, the world&8217;s largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, and the world&8217;s largest retailer, Walmart, it did seem more like showing what OpenStack can do, than in previous years, when it was more about proving that anybody was actually using it in the first place.
For example, Cambridge’s Dr. Rosie Bolton talked about the SKA radio observatory that will look at 65,000 frequency channels, consuming and destroying 1.3 zettabytes of data every six hours. The project will run for 50 years cost over a billion dollars.

This.is.Big.Data @OpenStack #OpenStackSummit pic.twitter.com/XgT3eEjDVh
— Sean Kerner (@TechJournalist) October 25, 2016

OpenStack Foundation CEO Mark Collier also introduced enhancements to the OpenStack Project Navigator, which provides information on the individual projects and their maturity, corporate diversity, adoption, and so on. The Navigator now includes a Sample Configs section, which provides the projects that are normally used for various use cases, such as web applications, eCommerce, and high throughput computing.
Research from 451 Research
The Foundation also talked about findings from a new 451 Research report that looked at OpenStack adoption and challenges.
Key findings from the 451 Research include:

Mid-market adoption shows that OpenStack use is not limited to large enterprises. Two-thirds of respondents (65 percent) are in organizations of between 1,000 and 10,000 employees.1
OpenStack-powered clouds have moved beyond small-scale deployments. Approximately 72 percent of OpenStack enterprise deployments are between 1,000 to 10,000 cores in size. Additionally, five percent of OpenStack clouds among enterprises top the 100,000 core mark.
OpenStack supports workloads that matter to enterprises, not just test and dev. These include infrastructure services (66 percent), business applications and big data (60 percent and 59 percent, respectively), and web services and ecommerce (57 percent).
OpenStack users can be found in a diverse cross section of industries. While 20 percent cited the technology industry, the majority come from manufacturing (15 percent), retail/hospitality (11 percent), professional services (10 percent), healthcare (7 percent), insurance (6 percent), transportation (5 percent), communications/media (5 percent), wholesale trade (5 percent), energy & utilities (4 percent), education (3 percent), financial services (3 percent) and government (3 percent).
Increasing operational efficiency and accelerating innovation/deployment speed are top business drivers for enterprise adoption of OpenStack, at 76 and 75 percent, respectively. Supporting DevOps is a close second, at 69 percent. Reducing cost and standardizing on OpenStack APIs were close behind, at 50 and 45 percent, respectively.

The report talked about the challenge OpenStack faces from containers in the infrastructure market, but contrary to the notion that more companies were leaning on containers than OpenStack, the report pointed out that OpenStack users are adopting containers at a faster rate than the rest of the enterprise market, with 55 percent of OpenStack users also using containers, compared to just 17 percent across all respondents.
According to Light Reading, “451 Research believes OpenStack will succeed in private cloud and providing orchestration between public cloud and on-premises and hosted OpenStack.”
The Fall 2016 OpenStack User Survey
The OpenStack Summit is also the where we hear the results of the semi-annual user-survey. In this case, the key findings among OpenStack deployments include:

Seventy-two percent of OpenStack users cite cost savings as their No. 1 business driver.
The Net Promoter Score (NPS) for OpenStack deployments—an indicator of user satisfaction—continues to tick up, eight points higher than a year ago.
Containers continues to lead the list of emerging technologies, as it has for three consecutive survey cycles. In the same question, interest in NFV and bare metal is significantly higher than a year ago.
Kubernetes shows growth as a container orchestration tool.
Seventy-one percent of deployments catalogued are in “production” versus in testing or proof of concept. This is a 20 percent increase year over year.
OpenStack is adopted by companies of every size. Nearly one-quarter of users are organizations smaller than 100 people.

New this year is the ability to explore the full data, rather than just relying on highlights.
Community announcements
Also announced during the keynotes were new Foundation Gold members, the winner of the SuperUser award, and progress on the Foundation&8217;s Certified OpenStack Administrator exam.
The OpenStack Foundation charter allows for 24 Gold member companies, who elect 8 Board Directors to represent them all. (The other members include one each chosen by the 8 Platinum member companies, and 8 individual directors elected by the community at large.) Gold member companies must be approved by existing board members, and this time around City Network, Deutsche Telekom, 99Cloud and China Mobile were added.
China Mobile was also given the Superuser award, which honors a company&8217;s commitment to and use of OpenStack.
Meanwhile, in Austin, the Foundation announced the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam, and in the past six months, 500 individuals have taken advantage of the opportunity.
And then there were the demos…
While demos used to be simply to show how the software works, that now seems to be a given, and instead demos were done to tackle serious issues. For example, Network Functions Virtualization is a huge subject for OpenStack users &8212; in fact 86% of telcos say OpenStack will be essential to their adoption of the technology &8212; but what is it, exactly? Mark Collier and representatives of the OPNFV and Vitrage projects were able to demonstrate how OpenStack applies in this case, showing how a High Availability Virtual Network Function (VNF) enables the system to keep a mobile phone call from disconnecting even if a cable or two is cut. (In this case, literally, as Mark Collier levied a comically huge pair of scissors against the hardware.)
But perhaps the demo that got the most attention wasn&8217;t so much of a demo as a challenge. One of the criticisms constantly levied against OpenStack is that there&8217;s no &8220;vanilla&8221; version &8212; that despite the claims of freedom from lock-in, each distribution of OpenStack is so different from the others that it&8217;s impossible to move an application from one distro to another.
To fight that charge, the OpenStack community has been developing RefStack, a series of tests that a distro must pass in order to be considered &8220;OpenStack&8221;. But beyond that, IBM issued the &8220;Interoperability Challenge,&8221; which required teams to take a standard deployment tool &8212; in this case, based on Ansible &8212; and use it, unmodified, to create a WordPress-hosting LAMP stack.
In the end, 18 companies joined the challenge, and 16 of them appeared on stage to simultaneously take part.
So the question remained: would it work? See for yourself:

Coming up next
So the next OpenStack Summit will be in Boston, May 8-12, 2017. For the first time, however, it won&8217;t include the OpenStack Design Summit, which will be replaced by a separate Project Teams Gathering, so it&8217;s likely to once again have a different feel and flavor as the community &8212; and the OpenStack industry &8212; grows.
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31. Oktober 201631. Oktober 2016

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5 Tales from the Docker Crypt

(Cue the Halloween music)
Welcome to my crypt. This is the #Docker crypt keeper speaking and I’ll be your spirit guide on your journey through the dangerous and frightening world of IT applications. Today you will learn about 5 spooky application stories covering everything from cobweb covered legacy processes to shattered CI/CD pipelines. As these stories unfold, you will hear how Docker helped banish cost, complexity and chaos.
Tale 1 – “Demo Demons”
Splunk was on a mission to enable their employees and partners across the globe to deliver demos of their software regardless of where they’re located in the world, and have each demo function consistently. These business critical demos include everything from Splunk security, to web analytics and IT service intelligence. This vision proved to be quite complex to execute. At times their SEs would be in customer meetings, but their demos would sometimes fail. They needed to ensure that each of their 30 production demos within their Splunk Oxygen demo platform could live forever in eternal greatness.
To ensure their demos were working smoothly with their customers, Splunk uses Docker Datacenter, our on-premises solution that brings container management and deployment services to the enterprise via an integrated platform. Images are stored within the on-premises Docker Trusted Registry and are connected to their Active Directory server so that users have the correct role-based access to the images. These images are publicly accessible to people who are authenticated but are outside of the corporate firewall. Their sales engineers can now pull the images from DTR and give the demo offline ensuring that anyone who goes out and represents the Splunk brand, can demo without demise.
Tale 2 &8211; “Monster Maintenance”
Cornell University’s IT team was spending too many resources taking care of r their installation of Confluence. Their team spent 1,770 hours maintaining applications over a six month period and were in need of utilizing immutable infrastructure that could be easily torn down once processes were complete. Portability across their application lifecycle, which included everything from development, to production, was also a challenge.
With a Docker Datacenter (DDC) commercial subscription from Docker, they now host their Docker images in a central location, allowing multiple organizations to access them securely. Docker Trusted Registry provides high availability via DTR replicas, ensuring that their dockerized apps are continuously available, even if a node fails. With Docker, they experience a 10X reduction in maintenance time. Additionally, he portability of Docker containers helps their workloads move across multiple environments, streamlining their application development, and deployment processes. The team is now able to deploy applications 13X faster than in the past by leveraging reusable architecture patterns and simplified build and deployment processes.
Tale 3 &8211; “Managing Menacing Monoliths and Microservices!”
SA Home Loans, a mortgage firm located in South Africa was experiencing slow application deployment speeds. It took them 2 weeks just to get their newly developed applications over to their testing environment, slowing innovation. These issues extended to production as well. Their main home loan servicing software, a mixture of monolithic Windows services and IIS applications, was complex and difficult to update,placing a strain on the business. Even scarier was that when they deployed new features or fixes, they didn’t have an easy or reliable roll back plan if something went wrong (no blue/green deployment). In addition, their company decided to adopt a microservices architecture. They soon realized that upon completion of this project they’d have over 50 separate services across their Dockerized nodes in production! Orchestration now presented itself as a new challenge.
To solve their issues, SA Home Loans trusts in Docker Datacenter. SA Home Loans can now deploy apps 30 times more often! The solution also provides the production-ready container orchestration solution that they were looking for. Since DDC has embedded swarm within it, it shares the Docker engine APIs, and is one less complex thing to learn. The Docker Datacenter solution provides ease of use and familiar frontend for the ops team.

Tale 4 &8211; “Unearthly Labor”
USDA’s legacy website platform consisted of seven manually managed monolithic application servers that implemented technologies using traditional labor-intensive techniques that required expensive resources. Their systems administrators had to SSH into individual systems deploying updates and configuration one-by-one. USDA discovered that this approach lacked the flexibility and scalability to provide the services necessary for supporting their large number of diverse apps built with PHP, Ruby, and Java – namely Drupal, Jekyll, and Jira. A different approach would be required to fulfill the shared platform goals of USDA.
USDA now uses Docker and has expedited their project and modernized their entire development process. In just 5 weeks. they launched four government websites on their new dockerized platform to production. Later, an additional four websites were launched including one for the first Lady, Michelle Obama, without any additional hardware costs. By using Docker, the USDA saved upwards of $150,000 in technology infrastructure costs alone. Because they could leverage a shared infrastructure model, they were also able to reduce labor costs as well. Using Docker provided the USDA with the agility needed to develop, test, secure, and even deploy modern software in a high-security federal government datacenter environment.
Tale 5 &8211; “An Apparition of CI/CD”
Healthdirect dubbed their original applications development process “anti CI/CD” as it was broken, and difficult to create a secure end-to-end CI/CD pipeline. They had a CI/CD process for the infrastructure team, but were unable to repeat the process across multiple business units. The team wanted repeatability but lacked the ability to deploy their apps and provide 100% hands-off automation. .
Today Healthdirect is using Docker Datacenter. Now their developers are empowered in the release process and the code developed locally ships to production without changes. With Docker, Healthdirect was able to innovate faster and deploy their applications to production, with ease.
So there they are. 5 spooky tales for you on this Halloween day.To learn more about Docker Datacenter check out this demo.
Now, be gone from my crypt. It’s time for me to retire back to my coffin.
Oh and one more thing….Happy Halloween!!
For more resources:

Hear from Docker customers
Learn more about Docker Datacenter
Sign up for your 30 day free evaluation of Docker Datacenter

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31. Oktober 201631. Oktober 2016

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Considerations for Running Docker for Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V VMs

We often get asked at #Docker, “Where should I run my application? On bare metal, virtual or cloud?” The beauty of Docker is that you can run a #container anywhere, so we usually answer this question with “It depends.” Not what you were looking for, right?
To answer this, you first need to consider which infrastructure makes the most sense for your application architecture and business goals. We get this question so often that our technical evangelist, Mike Coleman has written a few blogs to provide some guidance:

To Use Physical Or To Use Virtual: That Is The Container Deployment Question
So, When Do You Use A Container Or VM?

During our recent webinar, titled “Docker for Windows Server 2016”, this question came up a lot, specifically what to consider when deploying a Windows Server 2016 application in a #Hyper-V VM with Docker and how it works. First, you’ll need to understand the differences between Windows Server containers, Hyper-V containers, and Hyper-V VMs before considering how they work together.
A Hyper-V container is a Windows Server container running inside a stripped down Hyper-V VM that is only instantiated for containers.

This provides additional kernel isolation and separation from the host OS that is used by the containerized application. Hyper-V containers automatically create a Hyper-V VM using the application’s base image and the Hyper-V VM includes the required application binaries, libraries inside that Windows container. For more information on Windows Containers read our blog. Whether your application runs as a Windows Server container or as a Hyper-V container is a runtime decision. Additional isolation is a good option for multi tenant environments. No changes are required to the Dockerfile or image, the same image can be run in either mode.
Here we the the top Hyper-V container questions with answers:
Q: I thought that containers do not need a hypervisor?
A: Correct, but since a Hyper-V container packages the same container image with its own dedicated kernel it ensures tighter isolation in multi-tenant environments which may be a business or application requirement for specific Windows Server 2016 applications.
Q: Do you need a hypervisor layer before the OS in both Hyper-V and Docker for Windows Server containers?
A: The hypervisor is optional. With Windows Server containers, isolation is achieved not with hypervisor, but with process isolation, filesystem and registry sandboxing.
Q: Can the Hyper-V containers be managed from the Hyper-V Manager, in the same way that the VM’s are? (ie. turned on/off, check memory usage, etc?)
A: While Hyper-V is the runtime technology powering Hyper-V Isolation, Hyper-V containers are not VMs and neither appear as a Hyper-V resource nor be managed with classic Hyper-V tools, like Hyper-V Manager. Hyper-V containers are only executed at runtime by the Docker Engine.
Q: Can you run Windows Server container and Hyper-V Containers running Linux workloads on the same host?
A: Yes. You can run a Hyper-V VM with a Linux OS on a physical host running Windows Server. Inside the VM, you can run containers built with Linux.

Next week we’ll bring you the next blog in our Windows Server 2016 Q&A Series – Top questions about Docker for SQL Server Express. See you again next week.
For more resources:

Learn more: www.docker.com/microsoft
Read the blog: Webinar Recap: Docker For Windows Server 2016
Learn how to get started with Docker for Windows Server 2016
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29. Oktober 201629. Oktober 2016

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Here's What Some Women In Tech Would Tell The Next President

At Grace Hopper, an annual conference that celebrates women in tech, BuzzFeed’s own tech team asked fellow attendees what they thought our next president can do for women in STEM. Here&8217;s what they said.

What should the next president do for women in STEM?

Fifteen thousand women descended on Houston, TX last week to attend the Grace Hopper conference. The event, which has been taking place for more than 20 years, both celebrates the careers of women working in technology, and serves as a space to discuss the unique challenges faced by woman engineers, developers, coders, hackers, designers, programmers, product managers, and more.

Those challenges are significant. This year, a study using data from Glassdoor found that male computer programmers earn 28.3% more than their female counterparts. According to a report published by the Harvard Business Review, 41% of women end up abandoning careers in tech, compared to only 17% of men.

Five of us: Jane Kelly, Director of Data Products, Phil Wilson, GM of Minneapolis office, Paola Mata, iOS Engineer, Jennifer Wolner, Sr. Project Manager, and Swati Vauthrin, Director of Engineering, went to Grace Hopper to represent BuzzFeed. We had a few goals in mind that included building our BuzzFeed Technology brand, meet individuals in industry to talk about their work, and also talk about the challenges that women in technology often encounter. While we were there, we chatted with women from Google, Microsoft, General Assembly and more about what they think the next president of the United States could do to make tech an easier and better career choice for women.

(The photos below were taken by Jennifer Wohlner, Jane Kelly, Paola Mata, and Swati Vauthrin.)

Increase funding

Katlyn Edwards, a software engineer at Google, loves cats, computers and coffee, and hopes the next U.S. president increases funding for women in STEM!

More transparency around diversity

From left to right, Stefanie Swift and Sophie Cooper are software engineers at CourseHero, Aracely Payan is a student at USC and Malvika Nagpal also works at CourseHero. They want to the next US president to push companies to publish more data around diversity in tech.

Equal pay for men and women

From bottom left, Paula Paul of AmWINS Group Inc., Joey Capolongo of Lending Tree, Hannah Lehman of General Assembly, Simone Battiste-Alleyne of the Tax Management Association, and Felicia Jacobs of Microsoft want the next president to help women to earn the same salary as men doing the same job.

Says Paul, “I'm a bad ass coding goddess&033;”

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Corporate training is about to get a whole lot smarter

Video’s power to engage makes it a go-to tool for employee onboarding and training, especially among companies looking to reach large groups through a single stream.
A majority of organizations surveyed by Wainhouse Research use online video for one-to-many training scenarios. But companies that merely accumulate volumes of training video, risk diminishing returns without a deeper understanding of the content. They are not deriving maximum value from it.
Generating and cataloging training videos, after all, does little good if companies have only a superficial understanding of what&8217;s inside. IBM Watson&8217;s machine learning and advanced analytics capabilities helps companies build and maintain a searchable, easily accessible library of video content.
Here&8217;s how:
Less searching, more learning
The ability to provide effective video training is important not only for employee retention and development, but also for preserving companies&8217; bottom lines. U.S. employers spent more than $70 billion on workforce training last year, and video was a top technology investment.
Some companies are going a step further to ensure that investment pays off. Using Watson cognitive capabilities — including facial recognition, audio recognition, and speech-to-text — companies can better index and classify new video content along with their existing videos. A benefit of Watson&8217;s analysis is the ability for HR teams and employees to easily search the library for specific topics or information.
If an employee wants to review a particular aspect of safety guidelines, for example, Watson could serve up a video clip along with instructions to tune in at the 15-minute mark to find the exact information requested. The payoff? More time spent learning and staying productive.
Longer live content shelf life
Companies can also extend the reach of their live content with Watson.
With speech-to-text capabilities, Watson can transcribe live-stream learning sessions and classify that information so employees can access it from the content library. Watson can also automatically clip specific highlights from a live event, whether it’s a training session or the CEO&8217;s company-wide address. It can then post those clips to corporate channels such as the company&8217;s intranet.
Smart, relevant recommendations
Over time, as Watson learns more about the learning needs and preferences of individuals or teams, it will be able to automatically recommend relevant videos, or even specific clips, to meet any corporate training scenario. Whether an inexperienced employee needs advice on how to fix the latest Internet of Things (IoT) enabled machine, or a customer asks an unexpected question during a demo, the answer is a simple search query away.
Training the trainers
Training isn&8217;t a static problem, of course, given evolving technological, demographic and market changes. Ineffectual training can have severe consequences. Research shows that businesses lose millions of dollars annually due to ineffective training. But Watson can help companies refine their approach. Soon, HR teams could gauge the social sentiment of participants in a live training event by analyzing their Q&A and social activity, for instance.
The insight Watson provides today and the advanced analytics on the horizon will help businesses develop more compelling video content for their workforce while avoiding investing in material that won&8217;t resonate. Companies will be able to efficiently identify gaps in their training programs and keep their content library fresh, ensuring it remains relevant to an evolving workforce.
Learn more about IBM Cloud Video solutions for the workforce.
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