VMware / Lightboards - Cloud Native Fundamentals

In this lightboard session, Steve Tegeler analyzes the layers in an IT organization in the on-prem model starting at the datacenter and working up to developer abstractions, and explains the clear contracts between each of the layers.

In this lightboard session, Steve Tegeler walks through four important Developer Abstractions in a sofware defined data center: Infrastructure as a Service, Docker API, Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry, and talked about the corresponding VMware products in each category.

VMware Staff Engineer Fabio Rapposelli goes through a deep dive of the technical differences between Containers and Virtual Machines.

Here's a great high level practical comparison between Virtual Machines and Containers.

For more information, please visit the VMware Enterprise PKS website: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmware-enterprise-pks

This video will guide you through the basics on persistent container storage with project Hatchway (vmware.github.io/hatchway)

For more information on VMware's Kubernetes based solutions, please visit VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) website:
https://cloud.vmware.com/pivotal-container-service

Creating a great internal IT organization is a collaborative effort that needs sponsorship at each step of the way across different IT silos from the physical infrastructure layer all the way up to the application development layer. And understanding the different needs of consumers and providers at each technology silo is the key.

In this lightboard talk, Steve Tegeler takes you through an analysis of IT technology silos and talks about what the consumers and providers of each silo care about.

For more information, please visit the VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps website:
https://cloud.vmware.com/cloud-native-apps