Sreenivas Makam

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Devops in Networking presentation

This link has the slides that I presented as part of lightning talk at Devops Days India, 2016. In the slides, I have tried to capture how automation in networking area is evolving. I attended first day of the conference and it had a pretty decent collection of talks in Devops area.

Vault Overview

I have always loved Hashicorp’s Devops and cloud tools. I have used Vagrant, Consul, Terraform, Packer and Atlas before and I have written about few of them in my previous blogs. Vault is Hashicorp’s tool to manage secrets securely in a central location. Secret could be database credentials, AWS access keys, Consul api key, ssh … Continue reading Vault Overview

Service Discovery and Load balancing Internals in Docker 1.12

Docker 1.12 release has revamped its support for Service Discovery and Load balancing. Prior to 1.12 release, support for Service discovery and Load balancing was pretty primitive in Docker. In this blog, I have covered the internals of Service Discovery and Load balancing in Docker release 1.12. I will cover DNS based load balancing, VIP … Continue reading Service Discovery and Load balancing Internals in Docker 1.12

Comparing Swarm, Swarmkit and Swarm Mode

One of the big features in Docker 1.12 release is Swarm mode. Docker had Swarm available for Container orchestration from 1.6 release. Docker released Swarmkit as an opensource project for orchestrating distributed systems few weeks before Docker 1.12(RC) release. I had some confusion between these three projects. In this blog, I have tried to put … Continue reading Comparing Swarm, Swarmkit and Swarm Mode