Top Docker Tools: 51 Useful Docker Tools for Every Stage of the Development Pipeline By Angela Stringfellow Docker is sweeping across startups and enterprises alike, changing the way we build and ship applications. It's the most prominent and widely known software container platform, and it's particularly useful for eliminating common challenges when collaborating on code (like the "it works on my machine" phenomenon that most devs know all too well). With Docker, you can run and manage apps side-by-side - in isolated containers - resulting in better compute density. It's something that many developers don't think about, but you can even use Docker with ASP.NET. You probably don't need to be sold on the many appealing Docker capabilities, but you might not be familiar with the wide range of third-party tools that integrate seamlessly with Docker, from logging tools ... (more)

Addressing the Scalability vs Price Challenge in Cloud | @CloudExpo #API #Cloud #Storage

There are several reasons why businesses migrate their operations to the cloud. Scalability and price are among the most important factors determining this transition. Unlike legacy systems, cloud-based businesses can scale on demand. The database and applications in the cloud are not rendered simply from one server located in your headquarters, but are instead distributed across several servers across the world. Such CDNs also bring about greater control in times of uncertainty. A database hack can be easily averted by shutting down the breached server and only rendering from servers that are still secure. Cloud businesses are also typically inexpensive compared to legacy systems. Cloud servers like AWS host millions of applications on their data centers and this dramatically brings down the cost per unit of storage. Setting up your own server can be quite expensi... (more)

Cloud #Serverless Architecture | @CloudExpo @AccentureCloud #AI #DevOps

Cloud Is the Engine of Ingenuity Contrary to conventional wisdom, we are not entering a new era of technology. We're already there. We are living in the midst of one of the most disruptive periods in enterprise IT, and cloud is the leading catalyst. There are several trends marking this dramatic transition in 2017, five of which warrant close scrutiny. 1. Public cloud use continues to grow at hyper-scale A global survey from Accenture of nearly 1,900 executives across 15 industries reveals massive growth in public cloud. In the study, four out of five executives indicated that they intend to move more of their operations to the cloud within the next several years. Despite common misconceptions that public cloud leaves companies more vulnerable than private cloud, business leaders are seeing the light. While our survey revealed that security is still a concern among e... (more)

[slides] How Do You Eat a Whale? | @DevOpsSummit @Skytap #CloudNative #DevOps #Serverless

Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here How Do You Eat a Whale? One Byte at a Time In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Kelly Looney, director of DevOps consulting for Skytap, showed how an incremental approach to introducing containers into complex, distributed applications results in modernization with less risk and more reward. He also shared the story of how Skytap used Docker to get out of the business of managing infrastructure, and into the business of delivering innovation and business value. Attendees learned how up-front planning allows for a clean separation between infrastructure, platform, and service concerns. Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Attendees also learned how to evaluate which components of their applications are best-suited first for containers, how to experiment safely and get fast feedback, and how to increase... (more)

API Security - Four Quick Steps to Lockdown | @CloudExpo #API #Cloud #Security

API Security is complex. Vendors like Forum Systems, IBM, CA and Axway have invested almost two decades of engineering effort and significant capital in building API Security stacks to lockdown APIs. The API Security stack diagram shown below is a building block for rapidly locking down APIs. The four fundamental pillars of API Security - SSL, Identity, Content Validation and deployment architecture - are discussed in detail below. Here are four fundamental steps that an enterprise can take to ensure that their APIs attack surface area is significantly reduced. To implement API Security: Enable SSL: One can rapidly protect API traffic by enabling SSL and changing http to https. This is a good first step in protecting the traffic from an API consumer to an API producer, however, the following items should be considered in tightening secure API communication: Check X... (more)

[slides] Million Dollar #SaaS with #Kubernetes | @CloudExpo #CloudNative #DevOps #Serverless

Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Keeping Users and Your Bottom Line Happy: Setting up a Multi-Million Dollar SaaS Service with Kubernetes In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Mike Johnston, an infrastructure engineer at Supergiant.io, discussed how to use Kubernetes to set up a SaaS infrastructure for your business. Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Speaker Bio Mike Johnston is an infrastructure engineer at Supergiant.io with over 12 years of experience designing, deploying, and maintaining server and workstation infrastructure at all scales. He has experience with brick and mortar data centers as well as cloud providers like Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services, and Rackspace. Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here His expertise is in automating deployment, management, and problem resolution in these environments, allowing his teams to run large transactiona... (more)

API Security: OWASP 2017 RC1 Gets It Right | @CloudExpo #API #SOA #Microservices

API Security has finally entered our security zeitgeist. OWASP Top 10 2017 - RC1 recognized API Security as a first class citizen by adding it as number 10, or A-10 on its list of web application vulnerabilities. We believe this is just the start. The attack surface area offered by API is orders or magnitude larger than any other attack surface area. Consider the fact the APIs expose cloud services, internal databases, application and even legacy mainframes over the internet. What could go wrong? API Security has been added to OWASP Top 10 2017 - RC1. This is a commendable step taken by the web application security thought leaders and is a clear indication of where the industry is heading. Security professionals have all the tools and awareness to fence in applications, databases and legacy systems through firewalls. OWASP has served the security professionals well... (more)

[session] Dovetailing #DevOps and the Cloud | @DevOpsSummit @CAinc @Aruna13 #CloudNative

Optimizing Alignment - Dovetailing DevOps and the Cloud As DevOps methodologies expand their reach across the enterprise, organizations face the daunting challenge of adapting related cloud strategies to ensure optimal alignment, from managing complexity to ensuring proper governance. How can culture, automation, legacy apps and even budget be reexamined to enable this ongoing shift within the modern software factory? In her Lunch Keynote at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Aruna Ravichandran, VP, DevOps Solutions Marketing, CA Technologies, will be joined by a panel of industry experts and real-world practitioners who will share their insight into an emerging set of best practices that lie at the heart of today's digital transformation. Specific topics to be addressed include: Standing up self-service infrastructure to enable DevOps Leveraging DevOps to drive com... (more)

[slides] #CloudNative Landscape | @CloudExpo #DevOps #DX #Serverless #Microservices

Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here The App Architecture Revolution: Microservices, Containers and Automation In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, CTO of Embotics, discussed how automation can provide the dynamic management required to cost-effectively deliver microservices and container solutions at scale. He also discussed how flexible automation is the key to effectively bridging and seamlessly coordinating both IT and developer needs for component orchestration across disparate clouds – an increasingly important requirement at today’s multi-cloud enterprise. Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Get a better understanding of microservices, containers and how to achieve effective and efficient operations through flexible automation, without the need for expensive or cumbersome legacy-style management suites. Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here S... (more)

How to Sponsor @DevOpsSummit | #CloudNative #DevOps #Serverless #DX #Monitoring

Download Show Prospectus ▸ Here DevOps at Cloud Expo taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Must Watch Video: Recap of @DevOpsSummit New York Javits Center The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long development cycles that produce software that is obsolete at launch. DevOps may be disruptive, but it is essential. Nutanix DevOps Booth at @DevOpsSummit New York Javits Center DevOps at Cloud Expo will expand the DevOps community, enable a wide sharing of knowledge, and educate delegates and technology pro... (more)

Getting Hybrid IT Right | @CloudExpo #SaaS #ITaaS #Cloud #Agile

Getting Hybrid IT Right By Charles Araujo, Intellyx Principal Analyst We define Hybrid IT as a management approach in which organizations create a workload-centric and value-driven integrated technology stack that may include legacy infrastructure, web-scale architectures, private cloud implementations along with public cloud platforms ranging from Infrastructure-as-a-Service to Software-as-a-Service. At Intellyx, we have a mantra that goes something like this: "We love confusion in the market. It gives us something to write about." Well, if confusion is what we like, Hybrid IT delivers it in spades. The tech industry is a buzzword-creating machine, but the truth is that all of these buzzwords serve a purpose. As an industry, we are in a constant struggle to distill, comprehend and communicate new and complex ideas that are arising at a dizzying pace. So the industry ... (more)