Why the opinionated OpenShift platform demands a fundamentally different migration strategy — and where the Rancher playbook still applies. Migrating OpenShift workloads to vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) on VMware Cloud Foundation requires more than infrastructure migration—it requires application and platform decoupling. 📖 This is Part 2 of Capstone-S’s VKS Migration Series. Part 1 — “Migrating […]
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A practitioner’s guide to planning, executing, and validating a production-grade platform migration Executive Summary As organizations accelerate their private-cloud consolidation strategies, many are evaluating whether to remain on SUSE Rancher for Kubernetes orchestration or move to VMware’s first-party Kubernetes offering — vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) — delivered through VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The decision is […]
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One of the challenges with demonstrating what you have done in Kubernetes is directing others to your application in a secure manner. This typically involves you having to create a DNS entry and requesting a certificate. Two projects, external-dns and cert-manager, respectively, are making it much easier to automate this process and hide the complexities […]
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Can we do it faster and better than ever before? It’s a question that deep down, every agile development team wants to answer. Creating and deploying software better and faster is the impetus behind the rise of DevOps culture and growth of the containerization approach (expectations are that container usage will grow 64% by 2022). […]
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VMworld last week continued 2020’s atypical tech world tradition of offering all its sessions virtually. That format definitely makes the audience transition from session room to session room much quicker and easier. But for those of us tracking our physical activity we earn many, many fewer steps! This year’s conference offered the usual, very broad […]
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