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KubeCon / CloudNativeCon Europe Virtual

Mon, 17 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This is the first day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe Virtual. Originally this event was planned for the end of March/ beginning of April in Amsterdam. I was really looking forward to it because Amsterdam is very near where I live. Because of covid-19 is wast decided to postpone the event and finally they made it a virtual event. Despite of the fact that it is now a virtual event I’m still happy that Kubecon + CloudNativeCon is being held. I think the CNCF, sponsors, speakers and everybody that is involved with creating this event deserve kudos for organising it. I’m ready to attend the sessions, visit the virtual booth’s and participate in this event. I will not be able to fully focus this whole week on KubeCon so I making choices in which sessions I will follow. During the conference I will share topics that interest me.

KubeCon | CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 part 2

Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:48:02 +0000

As I already explained in my earlier post, this was my first KubeCon | CloudNativeCon that I attended. What I liked about KubeCon was the diversity in sessions and that it was often a difficult choice per time slot which session to attend. For me this congress was next to attending sessions also about networking with vendors and other attendees. There were a lot of good opportunities and I spoke to a lot of people.

KubeCon / CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 part 1

Fri, 17 May 2019 08:38:52 +0000

This year I’m going to KubeCon | CloudNativeCon which is held in Barcelona from Monday, May 20, 2019 - Thursday, May 23. This is my first KubeCon and I’m really looking forward to the sessions and the meetings I have scheduled

Here is list of tips which kind of apply to every conference I have attended.

Wear comfortable shoes
Take a powerbank/ adapters with you
Build your agenda using the agenda builder
Leave time between session. You need time to process the information you get from different sessions
Take time to network with other attendees or vendors
Check the sponsors on the Sponsor showcase
Install the Sched app to have your schedule on your mobile
Enjoy the event :)

You can book your agenda via this link, https://kccnceu19.sched .com/ . Below is my schedule as it currently is within the app. I selected a session for every slot but that will not be doable as I have also meetings planned and like I said in my tips you should als to time to process the information and of course visit the booths of the sponsors. So this schedule will definitely change during the conference.

Containers Today 2018

Sun, 01 Jul 2018 13:00:27 +0000

On the 28th of June the event Containers Today was held in the Fokker Terminal in The Hague. This event was organized by Amazic and Lef Marketing. KPN ICT Consulting was one of the sponsors of this event, next to Docker, Amazic etc. A booth and a session were part of the sponsor package.

It was very nice weather and as a result of that sometimes a bit hot inside the building. The event was visited by around the 330 people and had a variety of sessions divided in three different tracks, Business, Operations and Developer. The event started with a keynote session by Bradley Wong, Director of Product Management within Docker. As part of Bradley’s presentation were some slides with numbers of Docker downloads, Docker Hub usage and also the number of job listings which included Docker knowledge as a requirement.

Containers Today announcement

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 12:22:36 +0000

On the 28th of June the event Containers Today is being organized by Amazic. My employer, KPN ICT Consulting is one of the gold sponsors of this event and I will be one of the speakers during one of the breakout sessions. Hope to see you there or on the booth. Containers Today - Experience the exciting world of containers While digitization is more important than ever before and many professionals work with an innovative portfolio to realize this progress - think of clouds, data centers and application architectures - progress is being countered at the same time by existing applications and related infrastructure (legacy). The solution? With container technology, you can run applications without depending on the underlying servers and software versions, both on-premise and in the cloud, managed and secured from a single platform. Do you want to know what containerization can mean for your organization? On June 28 a.s., we will talk about containerization in one day: how does your organization benefit from container technology? What is the difference between containerization and virtualization? How do you save costs? How do you manage a hybrid infrastructure and containers in the cloud? To answer all questions as well as possible, we divide the day into three different tracks: Business Track - Developer Track - Operations Track For whom On this day we expect more than 300 Dev / DevOp’s, ITDM’s, Architects, Project Managers, CTO’s & CIO’s. There is something for everybody

VMworld 2017 (Day 3)

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 07:49:47 +0000

Yesterday was the third and last day of VMworld 2017 Europe. I had two sessions scheduled. Both were VMware Cloud on AWS related. First session was: Protecting Virtual Machines in VMware Cloud on AWS.

In this session, VMware and Dell EMC also presented their capabilities for this subject. Interesting solutions in which you see the added value of AWS as an endpoint for storing backups on S3 for instance. My second session was VMware Cloud on AWS: An Architectural and Operational Deep Dive. This session was about the architecture of the environment, the vCenter permissions of the customer and how the host remediation process on AWS works. After the sessions I had lunch and had a last quick walk over the solution exchange. Before I went to the airport I spend time on filling out the surveys that I had not processed. If I summarize my visit to VMworld 2017, I think it has been an interesting event. My focus in the sessions was mostly with VMware Cloud on AWS. I had some nice discussions with employees of VMware, peers and vendors and I have gotten a lot of useful info. For me the highlights were:

VMworld 2017 Europe (day 2)

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 07:14:03 +0000

Today I decided to not go to the general session but instead follow it on the big screen in the VMvillage. This gives you the possibility to get coffee during the keynote :). The keynote started with Pat Gelsinger, Sanjay Poonen and Ray O’Farell answering questions that the VMworld attendees could submit yesterday. After that Ray O’Farrel, Chris Wolf and Purnima Padmanabhan went more into depth about VMware HCX, Wavefront, NSX-T, VMware Pulse IoT Center and Functions as a Service (FaaS). After the keynote I attended two sessions. Both were around VMware Cloud on AWS. The last two sessions, Service Overview for VMware Cloud on AWS and VMware Cloud on AWS: A Technical Deep Dive, were really interesting. The first session was focussed on service, the support and separation of the responsibilities between the customer and VMware. They also showed the online support that was available for this product and the automatic actions that VMware takes to keep the customer environment healthy. The second session showed in more detail the components that made the VMware Cloud on AWS product. The session touched on compute, storage, networking and security. After the sessions I went back to the solution exchange and visited several booths and also spent time on networking with the vendors, colleagues and other attendees. In the evening I went to the VMware Customer Appreciation Party featuring the Kaiser Chiefs. I think it was without a doubt the best band and the VMworld party.

VMworld 2017 Europe (day 1)

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 06:30:23 +0000

For me VMworld already started on Monday with the Partner Exchange and the TAM day. It started today with the keynote by, amongst other speakers, Pat Gelsinger and Sanjay Poonen. They talked about the strategy for VMware. Pat was saying that tech was breaking out of tech. Alan Renouf was, together with Pat Gelsinger, a way of managing your environment via VR. Following announcements were done:

VMware Integrated Open Stack 4.0
vSphere Integrated Containers 1.2
VMware HCX

After the keynote I had no session scheduled so I made a short visit to the solution exchange. Lot of interesting vendors and of course also the usual suspects. Also got some of the swag from some vendors.

VMworld Partner Exchange

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:31:28 +0000

Today VMworld 2017 started for me. Yesterday I flew in to Barcelona and got my badge and the backpack with, amongst other things, the water bottle and the shirt. Today is the partner exchange and the tam day. I had only sessins in the partner track scheduled. My first two sessions were about VMware Cloud on AWS. The first session was less technical but the second session went into more depth about the technology behind VMware Cloud on AWS. After that I attended the general partner sessions. Amongst the speakers there were Pat Gelsinger, Maurizio Carli, Ross Brown and Brandon Sweeney. The told us about the strategy and the partner organisation. After the keynote it was time for lunch. While not everybody who will be attending VMworld was already there, it was still very crowded.

VMworld 2017 Europe

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:05:31 +0000

This year VMworld Europe will again be held in Barcelona, but unlike previous years it will not be in October but already in the second week of September. Just as last year, my employer made it possible for me to attend VMworld Europe. I have to finalize my schedule but as it available, I already started planning which sessions I would like to attend. When I have finalized my schedule I will also post it here. As my interest are shifting to the public cloud, I’m really looking forward to the session around VMware on AWS. So mostly my schedule will filled with that as there are many sessions around VMware on AWS. Next to that I’m still interested in devops and container related sessions. Interesting links: VMworld parties, gathering and events Sneak peek VMworld bag Content builder VMworld Europe First-Timer’s Guide to VMworld

VMworld 2016 Day 3, be_Tomorrow

Thu, 20 Oct 2016 16:00:28 +0000

Today is the last day of VMworld 2016 Europe. It has been an interesting congress with a lot of topics and also a lot of ways to get information. The last day of VMworld is always the Thursday and you see already of the attendees leaving as they travel back home. The venue gets quieter by the hour. This last days I had three interesting sessions scheduled:

Your Open-Source Datacenter
VM’s and Containers: Extending Docker to vCloud Air
Introducing VMware Cloud Foundation

Your Open-Source Datacenter, was a session given by two enthusiastic guys, David Lloyd and Ramon Tarnavski. They talked about the advantages of Source:

VMworld 2016 Day 1, be_Tomorrow

Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:36:23 +0000

Today is the first day of VMworld 2016. The day starts with the general keynote session. First speaker during the general session was Jean-Pierre Brulard, general manager EMEA. He started with some statistics. This VMworld there are 10k attendees, 300 sessions. This is the first time that VMworld and a AirWatch connect are held together. The second speaker was Pat Gelsinger,CEO. Pat spoke about the world in which you control nothing but are in charge. This is a good base for the hybrid cloud. Pat talked about Digital transformation, which is according to him the new buzzword. He said he rather used Digital Business as also legacy applications are still there. Pat also announced vSphere 6.5 and VSAN 6.5. After that Pat talked about the cross cloud architecture. Part of it is the cross cloud service consisting of two parts, Cloud Foundation and a set of SAAS applications which will become available in 2017. These SAAS applications will offer you cloud control over your cross cloud environment. Pat also addressed the AWS announcement. More details below in this post and other posts to come. After the general session I did a quick walk around at the Solution Exchange which also openend today. After that I went for an early lunch because I didn’t want to miss the session VMware Cloud on AWS. Last week AWS and VMware announced this new partnership. This partnership was also mentioned during the keynote and also yesterday during Partner sessions. VMware Cloud on AWS gives customers the possibility to run their workloads in the cloud with a lot of the benefits that AWS has to offer. One of the benefits is elastic drs, which causes in times of shortage of resources to automatic provision an extra host. This includes cpu, memory and storage. VMware Cloud is based on vSphere 6.5, NSX and VSAN.VMware Cloud will be managed and operated by VMware people on AWS hardware. This new service will be available mid 2017 starting with the Oregon location. After that all other AWS locations will follow. Not all information is yet public available but more information will follow in the coming months. I think this offering helps a lot of customer in their decision for moving forward with their current environment to the cloud. For more information about VMware Cloud, you can also visit http://www.mindjudo.nl. The last session of the day is From Zero to VMware Photon Platform. VMware also made announcements around Photon Platform. Photon Platform now supports Kubernetes next to Cloud foundry. Photon Platform also support now VSAN and NSX. VSAN is not required as local storage is needed. Shared storage is only needed for storing of the images that are used by the environment. Photon Platform uses vSphere as a base but doesn’t use functionality like drs and ha.This kind of functionality should be taken care of by the application itself. Photon is primarily a command line driven environment but there is also a basic guide available. If you want to try Photon Platform you can download it here .

VMworld 2016 Day 2, be_Tomorrow

Wed, 19 Oct 2016 08:00:00 +0000

Today was the second day of VMworld, which started with the general session. First speaker was Sanjay Poonen. Sanjay talked about the digital transformation that is already happening in healthcare and education and how the vision of VMware fits in this. After that Sanjay spoke about Workspace One. VMware Workspace ONE is a simple and secure enterprise platform that delivers and manages any app on any device by integrating identity, application and enterprise mobility management. It is available as a cloud service or for on-premises deployment. Ray ‘o Farrel was the second speaker on stage. His main topic was SDDC and the components it consists of within VMware, vSphere, VSAN, NSX and vRealize . He focused first on vSphere 6.5 and all the new features it offers. More info can be found here. Yan Bing Lee came on stage to talk about VSAN 6.5 and the new features it offers but also what was in the beta for successor of the just released version. More information on what is new in VSAN 6.5 can be found here and on the site of Duncan Epping. After Yan Bing, Rajiv Ramaswami came on stage to talk about NSX and the challenges that NSX helps to address. These challenges are around security, automation and application continuity. Last speaker of the general session was Kit Colbert. Kit talked about Photon Platform. Photon Platform delivers core IaaS capabilities including VMs, Networks, and Persistent Disks on-demand to developers. Resources are provisioned quickly and reliably, supporting the needs of devops tools that programmatically allocate resources at scale. Photon Platform enables you to deliver Kubernetes as a Service to multiple tenants from a single shared pool of hardware. Each tenant gets access to API, CLI and GUI tools which allow them to provision dedicated Kubernetes clusters on the fly. Users get a dedicated kubernetes cluster with strong isolation from other tenants. Photon Platform automates the provisioning and high availability of these clusters, automatically replacing failed nodes with no human intervention.The Kubernetes service will become available in Q4 of 2016. VMware will offer end to end support for Kubernetes running on Photon Platform. I will post more on Cloud Native Applications and specific Photon Platform in other post. After the general session I attended two other session. First session was VMware Cloud on AWS - a Closer Look . In this session the technical background behind VMware Cloud on AWS. Important takeaways of this sessions are:

AWS Enterprise Summit

Mon, 26 Sep 2016 08:12:51 +0000

Last Tuesday, I was together with two colleagues at the AWS Enterprise summit in the World Forum in The Hague. This was for me the second AWS summit that I attended. The event started with a keynote from Ian Massingham, Chief Evangelist (EMEA), AWS. Ian spoke about the impact that cloud has on enterprise IT. After the keynote, there was a plenary session by Hans Koolen, Senior Director, Philips IT Global Services. He posed the statement that a private cloud doesn’t exist.