VM Admin vs Container Admin

Published: Aug. 30, 2018, 4 a.m.

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Show Overview: Brian and Tyler talk about how the day-to-day tasks of a VM Admin would change if they adopted Containers in their environment.
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Show Notes:

Let\u2019s put ourselves in the shoes of a virtualization admin. How would we transition their day-to-day activities from VMs to Containers?

Topic 1 - What does the virtualization infrastructure/platform vs. container infrastructure/platform consist of?

  • Control Plane\xa0
  • Content Repository
  • Data Plane (Hosts, OS, Apps)\xa0
  • Networking, Storage, Management, Logging, Monitoring

Topic 2 - How do we get an application onto each platform, and how are resources provisioned?

  • Network\xa0
  • Storage \xa0
  • Security\xa0
  • Backups\xa0
  • What is automated (by default vs. tooling)\xa0
  • Availability (models)

Topic 3 - Who is responsible for the different aspects of the application once it\u2019s running?

Topic 4 - What are the biggest differences or misperceptions between the environments?

  • Stateful vs. Stateless apps\xa0
  • Automated (integrated) vs. Manual tasks\xa0
  • Patching

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