Ever since cloud computing took roots in the industry, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has gained tremendous traction mainly aided by the programmatic interfaces for managing the cloud resources and recipe based config management tools like Chef, Ansible, and others. This shift to treating infrastructure as code helped organizations embrace DevOps and streamline the consumption of […]
Pulumi Wants To Change The Way You Manage Application Infrastructure
Pulumi, a Seattle based startup, announced Series A funding and the release of Team Edition of their Multi Cloud App Deployment tool (see Techmeme discussion). Rishidot Research has already identified Pulumi’s approach as one of the three different approaches to cloud native platforms with Pulumi falling into Infrastructure as developer friendly code category. This funding […]
Autonomic Computing Will Happen Much Sooner Than You Expect
The term autonomic computing is nothing new. Ever since IBM used this as a marketing term in 2001, this term has been on the periphery of most people focussed on the future IT trends. Clearly, the term has been suffering from overzealous IBM marketing for a long time and, every time I bring this up […]
Three Approaches To Cloud Native Platforms
Cloud Native platforms, driven in large part by Kubernetes, is at the peak of the hype cycle and almost every enterprise we talk to have embraced or in the process of embracing such platforms. At Rishidot Research, we focus on finding patterns emerging from the enterprise users and share it with a larger audience. One […]