Opinion – Cloud Native, Cloud Native and Cloud Native? What I like about, and my two cents on, running Containers, Kubernetes and/or Serverless

Introduction

In the beginning of the month I posted about my experience of moving VMchooser from “Serverless” to “Containers”. As in, moving from one way of implementing a CloudNative architecture to another… Since then, I have actually moved back to “Serverless”.  Though the cogwheels in my head have been turning 24/7 on how to put everything around this into perspective. Yesterday Yves made a tweet (reply) that really made something click inside of my head…

@LaurentGoderre @DanRosanova @sfeldman @Microsoft @MicrosoftAzure Azure is itself an orchestrator, it provisions st… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Yves Goeleven (@YvesGoeleven) February 22, 2020

In today’s post I’m going to try to do a “brain dump” of several thoughts that have been floating around in my mind. Where I hope this will help you in your journey of “finding your perfect rock”. Here I will indicate what I like about the various options and what my typical advice would be to organizations looking to do a given option.

Opinion : Hybrid Cloud =/= Hybrid Cloud, and how does private cloud link to that?

Introduction

Earlier today I retweeted the following tweet…

@valb00 Here is an illustrated guide to @swardley 's cloud definitions pic.twitter.com/yDqDvxlBmd

— Mark Beaupre (@mark_beaupre) February 21, 2017

Which got the following reply…

@mark_beaupre @kvaes @valb00 @swardley

Pub/Priv hybrid cloud solves issues of budget, commercial leverage, and organisational alignment.

— Adrian (@AdrianAtRedHat) February 21, 2017

Today’s post is an opinion piece in regards to my take on “hybrid” cloud. This as I can relate to both statements made here.

 

“All clouds are equal, but some clouds are more equal than others.”

If you have ever had the (un)pleasantry of seeing my present on cloud in a non-technical manner, then you must have seen this slide…