Here’s a simple scenario: you have some Virtual Machines (VMs) in your on-premises environment, likely in VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V. You want to either fully migrate some or all of those VMs to the AWS Cloud or you want to copy a gold image to the AWS Cloud so you can launch compute instances from that image. Simple enough.
Now, how do you do it?
Can you just export an OVA of the VM, copy it up, and then boot it? Can you somehow import the VMDK files that hold the VM’s virtual drive contents? Regardless the eventual method, how do you do it at scale for dozens or hundreds of VMs? And lastly, how do you orchestrate the process so that VMs belonging to an application stack are brought over together, as a unit?
This post will answer these questions and more by providing an introduction to the services available on the AWS Cloud to discover, plan, migrate, and track VMs from on-prem to AWS.
This post assumes good working knowledge of technologies such as VMware vCenter and only basic knowledge of AWS.
Let’s just clarify some things first…
Remembering that this post is tailored for those that Continue reading
For the last several years, I’ve organized a brief morning prayer time at VMworld. I didn’t attend the conference last year, but organized a prayer time nevertheless (and was able to join one morning for prayer). This year, now that I’m back at VMware (via the Heptio acquisition) and speaking at the conference, I’d once again like to coordinate a time for believers to meet. So, if you’re a Christian interested in gathering together with other Christians for a brief time of prayer, here are the details.
What: A brief time of prayer
Where: Yerba Buena Gardens behind Moscone North (near the waterfall)
When: Monday 8/26 through Thursday 8/29 at 7:45am (this should give everyone enough time to grab breakfast before keynotes/sessions start at 9am)
Who: All courteous attendees are welcome, but please note this will be a distinctly Christian-focused and Christ-centric activity (note that I encourage believers of other faiths/religions to organize equivalent activities)
Why: To spend a few minutes in prayer over the day, the conference, the attendees, and each other
As in previous years, you don’t need to RSVP or anything like that, although you’re welcome to if you’d like (just hit me up on Twitter).
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Today's Network Break is all about cloud wheeling and dealing. IBM and AT&T ink a multi-billion cloud deal, but AT&T has also announced a cloud partnership with Microsoft. Oracle looks for ways to get back into the running for a fat Defense Department cloud contract, IBM announces its Q2 financials, and more tech news.
Here's a simple scenario: you have some Virtual Machines (VMs) in your on-premises environment, likely in VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V. You want to either fully migrate some or all of those VMs to the AWS Cloud or you want to copy a gold image to the AWS Cloud so you can launch compute instances from that image. Simple enough.
Now, how do you do it?
Can you just export an OVA of the VM, copy it up, and then boot it? Can you somehow import the VMDK files that hold the VM's virtual drive contents? Regardless the eventual method, how do you do it at scale for dozens or hundreds of VMs? And lastly, how do you orchestrate the process so that VMs belonging to an application stack are brought over together, as a unit?
Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Docker Enterprise 3.0 – the only desktop-to-cloud enterprise container platform enabling organizations to build and share any application and securely run them anywhere – from hybrid cloud to the edge.
Docker Enterprise 3.0 Demo
Leading up to GA, more than 2,000 people participated in the Docker Enterprise 3.0 public beta program to try it for themselves. We gathered feedback from some of these beta participants to find out what excites them most about the latest iteration of Docker Enterprise. Here are 3 things that customers are excited about and the features that support them:
Simplifying Kubernetes
Kubernetes is a powerful orchestration technology but due to its inherent complexity, many enterprises (including Docker customers) have struggled to realize the full value of Kubernetes on their own. Much of Kubernetes’ perceived complexity stems from a lack of intuitive security and manageability configurations that most enterprises expect and require for production-grade software. We’re addressing this challenge with Docker Kubernetes Service (DKS) – a Certified Kubernetes distribution that is included with Docker Enterprise 3.0. It’s the only offering that integrates Kubernetes from the developer desktop to production servers, with ‘sensible secure Continue reading
Super
fast: ISPs run by local communities or run
through a partnership with a local community offer some of the fastest
broadband in the U.S., a story at Vice.com says. Six of the 10
fastest ISPs in the country are either operated by local communities or are
partnerships between the public and private sectors, according to a PCMag
review.
Conflicting laws: Australia’s recently-passed encryption law, which mandates law enforcement access to encrypted communications, may conflict with the EU’s GDPR and the U.S. CLOUD Act, according to a story at ZDNet. Australian law enforcement agencies may have trouble requiring U.S. and EU companies to decrypt data, the Law Council of Australia has said.
Tweeting is back: The government of Chad has restored access to social media after a 16-month shutdown, QZ.com reports. That’s a lot of missed likes. The government had restricted access to electronic communications for “security reasons” and in “a context of terrorist threats.”
It steals your face: Mobile phone apps that allow you to edit pictures of your face may introduce security vulnerabilities, Forbes notes. One app may upload faces to a database without users’ permission, and another app Continue reading
Today's Tech Byte podcast, sponsored by AppNeta, delves into how AppNeta provides visibility and real-time insight into network performance by monitoring the end-to-end network path and capturing packets and flows, and performs synthetic testing for an accurate measure of user experience.
Today's Tech Byte podcast, sponsored by AppNeta, delves into how AppNeta provides visibility and real-time insight into network performance by monitoring the end-to-end network path and capturing packets and flows, and performs synthetic testing for an accurate measure of user experience.
Earlier this year, AT&T finalized a deal to divest itself of its 31 data centers for $1.1 billion. Now that it has dumped its data center business, the company partnering with two of the largest providers of them: Microsoft and IBM.IBM and AT&T this week announced a multi-year strategic alliance where AT&T’s network and IBM Cloud will link up to provide software-defined network (SDN) services, including giving IBM Cloud access to AT&T’s 5G network. In return, IBM will make AT&T its primary provider of 5G, edge computing, and internet of things (IoT) services and help manage AT&T’s entire infrastructure footprint, including third-party cloud services, using Red Hat’s open-source tools to manage the network. This isn’t really new, as AT&T was using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for some time.To read this article in full, please click here
Something very interesting is happening in the Indian telecom space these days.
The Indian government is considering a new data localisation law that would require all data around Indian citizens to be stored locally, i.e., within Indian borders. It starts with the fintech companies first, and would then bring in the social media and other IOT companies storing data in its ambit. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cheerfully given a deadline to all fintech companies to ensure that the entire data operated by them, is stored in data centers only in India. Ouch.
RBI so far has refused to accept the representations made by the fintech companies to relax the norms. It’s ruled out the option of data mirroring while addressing the arguments of technological hurdles raised by the fintech companies. It’s instead suggested that companies opt for cloud services or private clouds in order to ensure data localization.
So, what’s data localisation? Data localisation is the process localising the citizen’s data to one’s home country for its processing, storage and collection before it goes through the process of being transferred to an international level. It’s done to ensure the country’s data protection and privacy Continue reading
Something very interesting is happening in the Indian telecom space these days.
The Indian government is considering a new data localisation law that would require all data around Indian citizens to be stored locally, i.e., within Indian borders. It starts with the fintech companies first, and would then bring in the social media and other IOT companies storing data in its ambit. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cheerfully given a deadline to all fintech companies to ensure that the entire data operated by them, is stored in data centers only in India. Ouch.
RBI so far has refused to accept the representations made by the fintech companies to relax the norms. It’s ruled out the option of data mirroring while addressing the arguments of technological hurdles raised by the fintech companies. It’s instead suggested that companies opt for cloud services or private clouds in order to ensure data localization.
So, what’s data localisation? Data localisation is the process localising the citizen’s data to one’s home country for its processing, storage and collection before it goes through the process of being transferred to an international level. It’s done to ensure the country’s data protection and privacy Continue reading
I can’t believe we’ve arrived at the end-of-term again already! I’ll be taking a
four-week break from writing The Morning Paper, normal service resumes on Monday
19th August. A big milestone will slip quietly by during this recess – it was
five years ago on the 30th July 2014 that I read and shared the very
first paper in this current streak of paper reading. In case you’re wondering,
that paper was "Why functional programming matters" (revisited again on
the blog 2 years later). In terms of published posts, we’re also
rapidly approaching the 1,000 posts/papers mark! I wonder what amazing research
developments the next five years might bring us??!
There are so many interesting papers published all the time, and I can only
cover the tiniest fraction of them on The Morning Paper. If you still feel in
need of your regular paper fix over the next few weeks, then a great exercise is
to think back to a paper you particularly enjoyed, see where it was published,
and then go look through the proceedings to discover what else is there you
might like.
My most loathed feature of Gowas the mandatory use of GOPATH:
I do not want to put my own code next to its dependencies. I was not
alone and people devised tools or crafted their own Makefile to
avoid organizing their code around GOPATH.
Hopefully, since Go 1.11, it is possible to use Go’s modules to
manage dependencies without relying on GOPATH. First, you need to
convert your project to a module:1
$ go mod init hellogopher
go: creating new go.mod: module hellogopher$ cat go.mod
module hellogopher
Then, you can invoke the usual commands, like go build or go test.
The go command resolves imports by using versions listed in
go.mod. When it runs into an import of a package not present in
go.mod, it automatically looks up the module containing that package
using the latest version and adds it.
$ go test ./...
go: finding github.com/spf13/cobra v0.0.5go: downloading github.com/spf13/cobra v0.0.5? hellogopher [no test files]? hellogopher/cmd [no test files]ok hellogopher/hello 0.001s$ cat go.mod
module hellogopherrequire github.com/spf13/cobra v0.0.5
Python is a great language to write a standalone script. Getting to
the result can be a matter of a dozen to a few hundred lines of code
and, moments later, you can forget about it and focus on your next
task.
Six months later, a co-worker asks you why the script fails and you
don’t have a clue: no documentation, hard-coded parameters, nothing
logged during the execution and no sensible tests to figure out what
may go wrong.
Turning a “quick-and-dirty” Python script into a sustainable version,
which will be easy to use, understand and support by your co-workers
and your future self, only takes some moderate effort. As an
illustration, let’s start from the following script solving the
classic Fizz-Buzz test:
I was listening to a nice podcast with Nick Buraglio discussing the recent BGP hijack SNAFU impacting Cloudflare (and their reaction) and while I usually totally agree with Nick, I think that he tried to be way too nice when saying (paraphrasing) “I think Cloudflare was a bit harsh - I would prefer a more community-oriented approach along the lines of how could we help you do your job better”
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