I am currently working on building out a vPod nested ESXi lab environment that will be deployed through OpenStack’s Heat orchestration service. As I worked out the vPod application components, I realized that I wanted to include a single Linux VM that would run various services inside Docker containers. I needed a Bind Docker container! It seems like everything in […]
The recent update to v2.3.1 of VMware Big Data Extensions required a few updates on the management server to enable the proper deployment of Apache Mesos, Mesosphere Marathon and Docker. In order to have BDE deploy the latest code, the Apache Mesos Chef recipes needed a few updates. I prefer to use the Mesosphere CentOS repo for installing the packages, […]
Version 2.3.1 of VMware Big Data Extensions was released on March 29, 2016. The latest version includes the fix for the glibc vulnerability disclosed in February. The current branch saw many new features included back in December when v2.3 was released, including an updated CentOS 6.7 template and support for multiple VM templates within the BDE vApp. The full release notes […]
At VMworld 2015 in San Francisco, support for Flocker data volumes inside a VMware vSphere environment was announced. The announcement was one of the items I was most excited about hearing during the conference. The challenge of data persistence when Dockerizing workloads is prevalent in many organizations today. There are a few projects like Flocker and Rexray from EMC {Code} […]
My 11-year old son has been after me to get a Minecraft server setup locally that he could connect to and play off of any of the computers in the house. Fortunately for him, my home lab environment is running a few different Docker container hosts, and I figured loading up a couple servers via Docker would be the simplest […]
