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Cloud Native Apps, Containers & Docker sessions at VMworld

05.19.2015 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

I just saw a nice list of VMworld sessions that was shared internally by Ben Corrie, an Engineer working in our Cloud Native Apps team at VMware on some of the VMworld sessions related to Cloud Native Apps, Containers & Docker. I figure I would share his list with a wider audience for those interested and I have also included session proposals by both VMware Employees as well as from our partners which you can find below.

I am personally excited for session 5229 - Docker and Fargo: Exploding the Linux Container Host which will be presented by both Ben & George Hicken if it gets accepted. I was fortunate enough to catch a demo of this internal project at our R&D Innovation Offsite (RADIO) last week and I think folks will be blown away with some of the work that has been done in this area. I can not say anymore other than to vote for this session and any others that you might be interested in! If there are other sessions, please let me know and I will update the list.

I had to also thrown in a shameless plug at the very bottom of this post on three of the sessions that I have submitted for VMworld this year. Hope you find them interesting to vote for and hope to see you all at VMworld!

VMware Submitted Sessions (14)

Session # Session Title
4590 Hypervisors vs. Containers - Wait That's the Wrong Question!
4600 An Interesting Application Software Based on Docker
4725 Scalable On-Demand Cloud Native Apps with Docker and Mesos
4767 Seven Things vSphere Admins Need to Know About Photon Lightwave and Containers
4853 Docker Containers on vSphere: Performance Deep Dive
4940 CIS Benchmark Compliance for Docker - Automated with VMware
5006 Monitoring Software Containers with vRealize Operations
5121 Containers as a Service with vRealize Automation and VMware Project Photon
5229 Docker and Fargo: Exploding the Linux Container Host
5266 Docker in the Real World: Tales Round the Campfire
5343 Rapid and Continuous Delivery Through Docker Container and VMware Cloud Technologies
5409 Migration of Docker Based Applications across Clouds
5627 How Do You Manage and Monetize the Docker Deployments as Containers Not VMs to Groups in Your Organization Using Your Existing vRealize Suite?
5860 Containers without Compromise: Providing Persistent Storage for Docker Containers using vSphere

Partner Submitted Sessions (8)

Session # Session Title
4742 Understanding Databases for Distributed Containerized Applications
5078 Back to the Future: What Current Container Trends Mean for the Future of Application Deployment
5321 Building Container Infrastructure for Enterprise Applications with Docker VMware Photon and vSphere
5494 TOSCA: Containers Microservices OpenStack and Orchestrating the Whole Symphony
5520 Containers on VMware Infrastructure
5907 Taming Containerized Workloads with Photon and Tectonic
6081 Are You Prepared to Contain the Container? Understand the Security and Compliance Considerations for Application Containers
6126 Containers VMs and Microservices Walk into a Bar.....

William Lam Submitted Sessions (3)

Session # Session Title
4528 vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Best Practices & Tips/Tricks
5106 Content Library
5278 VC Windows to VCSA Migration Fling Deep Dive

Categories // Automation, Cloud Native, vRealize Suite, vSphere Tags // cloud native apps, container, Docker, LightWave, Photon

Collection of VMware Project Photon & Lightwave Resources/Links

04.20.2015 by William Lam // 1 Comment

Today is a very exciting day for VMware and later this morning, the new Cloud Native Apps team under Kit Colbert will be hosting an online event (replayed of the event will be posted here) to talk more about Next-Generation Apps on VMware as well as diving into more details on two specific initiatives that have recently been open sourced: Project Photon and Lightwave. In anticipation of the flood of information, I thought it would be useful to aggregate all the resources, links and articles in a single place for ease of consumption. This page will be updated through out the day, let me know if there is anything I am missing.

Cloud Native Apps Team

  • Official Blog Announcement: Cloud-Native Apps: Making the Developer a First-Class User of the Datacenter
  • Official Twitter: @cloudnativeapps
  • Follow Cloud Native Apps members on Twitter using this CNA List: https://twitter.com/lamw/lists/vmware-cloud-native-apps1
  • VMware Open Source GitHub: http://vmware.github.io/

 Photon

vmware-photon
Photon is an open-source lightweight Linux container host runtime optimized for running containers optimized for VMware’s hypervisor.

  • VMware Official Blog Announcement: http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/introducing-photon/
  • YouTube Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA6flb7otNg
  • Github: https://vmware.github.io/photon/
    • Instructions to deploy on vSphere 5.5 & 6.0
    • Instructions to deploy on Workstation/Fusion
    • Instructions to deploy on vCloud Air
    • Instructions to deploy on Google Compute Engine
  • Twitter: @vmwarephoton
  • VMTN Community Forum: https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/devops/project-photon
  • Google Group for Developers: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vmware-photon-dev
  • Google Group for Announcements: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vmware-photon-announce
  • FAQ: https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions

 Lightwave

vmware-lightwave
Lightwave is an open-source container identity and access control solution.

  • VMware Official Blog Announcement: http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/introducing-lightwave
  • YouTube Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWmE_Rl3ELc
  • Github: https://vmware.github.io/lightwave/
  • Twitter: @vmwarelightwave
  • VMTN Community Forum: https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/devops/project-lightwave

Partner Integration News:

  • CoreOS - VMware Ships rkt and Supports App Container Spec
  • HashiCorp - Vagrant Up and Running with VMware’s Project Photon
  • Mesosphere - We’re tackling container security at scale with VMware
  • Pivotal - Lattice – Container Clustering Simplified

Community Blog Articles

  • Josh Gray - Introducing VMware Project Photon
  • Andrew Mauro - VMware cloud-native applications vision
  • Vladan SEGET - VMware Cloud-Native Applications: Lightwave, Photon and more…
  • Forbes - VMware Introduces New Open Source Projects To Enable The Microservices Future
  • Chris Mutcher - Thoughts on the VMware Project Photon Announcement
  • Eric Wright - Fire Photon Torpedoes! Getting Started with VMware Photon Linux
  • The Register - VMware fires Photon torpedo – a homegrown Linux for microservices
  • Virtualization Review  - VMware Launches Two Open Source Container Projects
  • TechRepublic - New VMware open-source tools make Docker safe for the enterprise
  • ComputerWorld - VMware preps its virtualization stack for Docker
  • InformationWeek - VMware Rides Container Wave With Open Source Projects
  • ITWorld - VMware prepares its virtualization stack for Docker
  • SDX Central - VMware Creates Its Own Linux OS for Containers
  • MartijnBaeck - Project Photon and Lightwave, the start of a new VMware era
  • Scott Lowe - Running Photon on Fusion via Vagrant
  • Anthony Spiteri - VMware Photon: vCloud Air Network Deployment
  • Melissa Palmer - Lightwave and Photon Measured from a Rocket, VMware Enhances Cloud-Native Apps
  • Jacob Ludriks - Trying out Docker with VMWare Photon and Docker CLI for Windows
  • Romain Decker - Getting Started with VMware Project Photon

Categories // Automation, Cloud Native, Docker Tags // cloud native apps, container, DevOps, LightWave, Photon

List of VMware CLIs, SDKs & DevOps Tools

01.05.2015 by William Lam // 1 Comment

A frequent question that I get asked from customers and new developers that are looking to get started with VMware Automation is what CLIs (command-line interfaces) or SDKs (programing/scripting specific languages) are available for them to use? I know it is not always easy to find out what is available on the VMware.com website and some times I even have trouble browsing for all the right information as it is located in many different places. I figure it would be helpful not only for myself but also for others if I put together a list of the various VMware CLIs, SDKs and even some of the new DevOps Tools that VMware has been working on that are available to our customers/developers and partners. I have also included a couple of community tools that I think are pretty interesting. If there are others that you think I should add to the list, feel free and leave a comment.

Note: This is by no means a comprehensive list of every single VMware product/toolkit as there are many many more, including gated SDKs specifically for our partner eco-system. For more details on those API/SDKs, be sure to check out the VMware Developer Center.

UPDATE (4/20) - VMware now has an Open Source page on Github http://vmware.github.io/

VMware Cloud Native Apps:

  • VMware Photon
  • VMware Lightwave

VMware DevOps Tools:

  • VMware Docker Machine
  • VMware boot2docker
  • Packer vmware-ovf post processor
  • open-vmdk
  • Vagrant plugin for Photon

vCloud Air:

  • CLIs
    • RaaS (Recovery as a Service) CLI
    • vCloud Air CLI
  • SDKs
    • vCloud Air SDK for Go
    • vCloud Air SDK for Python
  • DevOps Tools
    • Vagrant vCloud Air Provider

vCloud Director:

  • CLIs
    • vCloud Director Tenant and Provider PowerCLI
  • SDKs
    • vCloud Director SDK for .NET
    • vCloud Director SDK for Java
    • vCloud Director SDK for PHP
  • DevOps Tools
    • Vagrant vCloud Director Provider

vSphere:

  • CLIs
    • govc CLI
    • vSphere CLI
    • vSphere PowerCLI
    • vSphere RVC CLI
    • vSphere ovftool CLI
    • vSphere PVC CLI
  • SDKs
    • vSphere SDK for .NET
    • vSphere SDK for Go (govmomi)
    • vSphere SDK for Java
    • vSphere SDK for Perl
    • vSphere SDK for Python (pyvmomi)
    • vSphere SDK for Ruby (rbvmomi)
    • vSphere SDK for JavaScript
    • VSAN Management SDK for .NET
    • VSAN Management SDK for Java
    • VSAN Management SDK for Python
    • VSAN Management SDK for Ruby
  • DevOps Tools
    • VMware Library Puppet Module
    • VMware vCNS Puppet Module
    • VMware vCenter Server Appliance Puppet Module
    • VMware vCenter Server Puppet Module
    • Vagrant Rbvmomi Provider
    • Vagrant vCenter Server Provider

vRealize Management Suite:

  • CLIs
    • vRealize Cloud Client CLI
    • vRealize Automation Center CLI
  • SDKs
    • vRealize Automation SDK for Java
    • vReazlie Orchestrator Plug-In SDK

VMware Community Tools:

  • Vagrant vCenter Simulator Provider
  • Docker Plugin for VMware vRealize Orchestrator
  • VMware VIX API in Go
  • vcloud-tools

Categories // Automation, Cloud Native, vCloud Air, vRealize Suite, vSphere Tags // api, cli, DevOps, Docker, Packer, sdk, Vagrant

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