The VMware Big Data Extensions v2.2 release included the cookbooks for Apache Mesos and Kubernetes from the Fling released this past spring. However, those cookbooks are not exposed when you deploy the new version. Fortunately, unlocking them only takes a few minutes before they can be made available! I will cover exactly what is needed in order to begin using […]
Ever since the VMware Photon Technical Preview was made available, I have wanted to install Apache Mesos on a node. The Photon OS is a very minimal Linux installation and so my initial attempts to work through the process led me down the old-fashioned rabbit hole of manually compiling packages. It was very reminiscent of the later 1990’s and using Debian […]
The opportunities for VMware with Project Photon and Project Lightwave are significant. The press release stated: Designed to help enterprise developers securely build, deploy and manage cloud-native applications, these new open source projects will integrate into VMware’s unified platform for the hybrid cloud — creating a consistent environment across the private and public cloud to support cloud-native and traditional applications. By […]
VMware announced a new open source project call Project Photon today. The full announcement call be seen here. Essentially Project Photon is a lightweight Linux operating system built to support Docket and rkt (formerly Rocket) containers. The footprint is less than 400MB and can run containers immediately upon instantiation. I had heard rumors the announcement today was going to include some […]
I saw activity on Twitter talking about Cloudbreak from SequenceIQ as a method for deploying Hadoop clusters into several public cloud providers. My interest was peaked and I started reading through the Cloudbreak documentation on Saturday night. About 20 minutes later, I had an account setup, tied it to my AWS account and started deploying a cluster. Approximately 15 minutes later, the […]
