While a hot topic at various conferences, Kubernetes is the sole technological focus at KubeCon, a conference dedicated to education and community engagement of Kubernauts (Kubernetes enthusiasts).

A brief recap of the Docker, Docker, Docker highlights from Dockercon EU 2015. Presented at Docker Austin.

Last week, I was delighted to join in heralding the announcement the release of the Redfish 1.0 specification and highlight Seagate’s support of this emerging systems management API standard. For those unfamiliar with this newly minted, industry API specification, understand that Redfish is a standard for data center and systems management that delivers improved performance, functionality, scalability and security. Designed to meet the expectations of end users for simple and interoperable management of modern scalable platform hardware, Redfish takes advantage of widely-used technologies to speed implementation and help system administrators be more effective.

Murano is an OpenStack-native application catalog that allows application developers and cloud administrators to publish applications in a categorized catalog to be perused and deployed by application consumers. The selection of applications available within the catalog is intended to be that of released versions (ready-state) of applications (cloud-native or enterprise-architected), not application versions that are mid-development. Ideally, these are applications ready to be consumed and run by application users.

Cloud infrastructure is useless without applications running atop, providing business serviOpenStack Applicationsces and solving customer needs. So, as applications ascend to the throne as the rightful king of cloud, focus sharpens on their support within OpenStack-based clouds.