Glossary on Linux container technology, runtimes and orchestrators

Microservices Lots of „slim“ and “autonomous” Processes, scalable seperately and, in the best case, replicable. Pro: scalability and resilienceCon: complexity and traceability/transparency (Zipkin → Tracetool) Container / Vms Container technologies (here: Docker, rkt, etc.) use Linux Namespaces to enable runtime isolation for processes on the underlying OS (read: underlying Kernel, LXC, runc, etc.).Example Namespaces are:– …

Notes on Openstack

What is OpenStack and why should I need it? In short terms: OpenStack is a collection of software, made to control resources (e.g. CPU, Harddisks, RAM, etc.) on many hosts efficiently. In other words: it’s a cloud management/orchestration system.I use it to provision VMs. Do you need it? That depends.If you are planning to go …