A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
On the 24th of May we attended the “Storage & Data Analytics – Swiss 2018” day which was organized at the Seedamm Plaza in Pfäffikon SZ. Our interest and expertise at the ICCLab for innovative solutions in the area of Cloud Storage motivated us to join the event with the aim to exchange expertise with […]
KubeCon / CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 took place at the shiny Bella Center of Copenhagen on May 2 – 4, 2018. Here at ICCLab/SPLab we use extensively Kubernetes / CNCF technologies both in teaching and research, but we had one extra reason for being there this year: our friends and colleagues from Rapyuta Robotics (RR) were […]
Applications are increasingly delivered for cloud deployment as set of composite artefacts such as containers. The composition descriptions vary widely: There are Docker compose files, Vamp blueprints, Kubernetes descriptors, OpenShift service instance templates, and more. Ideally, taking these compositions and deploying them somewhere would always work. In practice, it is more complex than that. Commercial […]
In the context of the FINEXT project, we have been reviewing Rancher as a tool to support easy deployment of FIWARE components. (Our colleagues in the project have more experience with this tool – we’re still climbing the learning curve). Here are a few observations relating to Rancher. The primary problem that Rancher solves is […]
The goal of the Cloud Robotics initiative of the SPLab is to ease the integration of Cloud Computing and Robotics workloads. One of the first things we need to sort out is how to leverage different networking models available on the cloud to support these mixed workloads. In this blog post we’ll see one little […]
CERN Openstack (super) User Story CERN is looking for answers to the fundamental questions concerning creation of the Universe and true to its nature, its a a big data challenge. With the historical run of LHC in 2013, their archive now contains ~100PB (with additional 27PB/year) at ~11 000 servers with ~75000 disk drives and ~45 000 […]
In this post we take a look at Kubernetes and help you setup a Kubernetes Cluster on your existing OpenStack Cloud using its Orchestration Service Heat. This Kubernetes Cluster should only be used as a Proof of Concept. Technology involved: Kubernetes: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes CoreOS: https://coreos.com/ etcd: https://github.com/coreos/etcd fleet: https://github.com/coreos/fleet flannel: https://github.com/coreos/flannel kube-register: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kube-register The Heat Template used in this Post is available on […]