KubeCon in Amsterdam. Again. And honestly? There are worse places to talk about Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, and all the fun problems we keep creating for ourselves 😄 If you are into K8s, or wanting in… BE THERE! There is no excuse 😉
This post walks through the Good, Bad, and Ugly realities of etcd behavior after disruptive outages, especially in on-prem environments, edge deployments, and clusters without hardened storage platforms.
Even though Kubernetes is the “next cool thing”, I still see many customers sticking with Broadcom/VMware as the underlying layer. Having been a vSpecialist for over 10 years, I can relate: It is an amazing piece of middleware. Don’t have a third DC, but still want to install Kubernetes across two? With VMware vSphere, you can!
Recording of the Keynote I presented at the HCS HOPE 2025 event in the Netherlands
Rebooting the blog after being dormant for over two years!
I see a lot of people at the moment looking at alternative ways to run Virtual Machines (VMs). Where VMs used to dominate, VMware vSphere was almost a no-brainer. As more people people start dipping their toes into containers, it starts to make more sense to run VMs on that same platform… If only that was possible… And it is: Enter KubeVirt.
But with KubeVirt on the rise, now I see many people who loose the idea of what is really happening under the covers.
In the current world I see many customers looking at alternative ways of running Virtual Machines (VMs) in the same platform as
Continuing the brief history of metro from part 2 of the series with some things that really help in building out a
In the previous “a brief history of metro” blog post (part 1) I discussed replication and metro and how they are “the
You may ask yourself: Why blog about a VMware environment? In parallel to “learn to crawl before you run” I feel that a lot of people working with kubernetes have a requirement (or at least THINK they have a requirement) for active/active metro storage solutions under their kubernetes setup. Building out a metro environment seems really easy, but as I run through this series you’ll discover that metro is anything-but-simple; there are many things to consider… Things that VMware figured out in their stretched cluster setup where kubernetes will struggle. I hope that people will start to see what metro is all about when I revisit the world of Virtual Machines.
