Cloud Foundry Advisory Board Meeting - 2014 June

Hi sherly, Check out the latest blog by ActiveState: Cloud Foundry Advisory Board Meeting - 2014 June The Cloud Foundry Community Advisory Board started the session focussing on the Cloud Foundry Summit held in San Francisco earlier this month. Overall, the feedback about the conference was very positive. Cornelia Davis summed it up best, "The conference was really great...the energy was tremendous. The tidal wave that you could feel from the momentum around Cloud Foundry and the Cloud foundry community was palpable there." A big thank you to everyone who organized the event! Other items discussed in the meeting included voting on various projects to be moved to/from the incubator, an update on the activities of the different open source project teams, Diego and the next Cloud Foundry release. Cloud Foundry Summit 2014 The CAB meeting opened a discussion around the summit and in obtaining feedback about what could be improved for next next time. Overall, everyone felt that it was a great conference with more than 900 people in attendance over the three days. This was a bigger number than last year's and is a testament to the growing interest in the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. Read More   Follow us:   1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada | Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133     www.activestate.com If you don't want to receive emails regarding the ActiveState blog, please click here.

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Two Factors to Docker's Success

Hi sherly, Check out the latest blog by ActiveState's Cloud Solution Architect, Ho Ming Li:  Two Factors to Docker's Success I recently attended DockerCon 2014, the first Docker conference hosted by Docker Inc. The atmosphere was vibrant with lots of contributors and partners in the community actively participating. This conference had it all -- filled with exciting demonstrations, significant announcements, educational sessions, and lots of meaningful discussions around containerization technologies. Thanks for having us. It was my pleasure to be a part of the first Docker conference and I look forward to the next DockerCon. With that quick impression of the conference, let's turn our attention to what I learned from this inspiring conference, and ultimately, my thoughts on Docker.  Read More Ho Ming Li is a Cloud Solution Architect at ActiveState. He has diverse experience in the software industry with past roles in development, quality assurance, release management, and professional services. With education in both technology and businesses, he aspires to be a tech guy with business sense, aiming to deliver business solutions through awesome tech products. When he is not in front of a computer, he plays a variety of sports and enjoys the outdoors.   Follow us:   1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada | Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133     www.activestate.com If you don't want to receive emails regarding the ActiveState blog, please click here.

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Stackato and Lessons Learned with Cloud Foundry

Hi sherly, Check out the latest blog by ActiveState's CTO, Jeff Hobbs: Stackato and Lessons Learned with Cloud Foundry Here are the slides from my Cloud Foundry Summit 2014 presentation: Stackato and the Lessons Learned with Cloud Foundry. Below are some of the topics I discussed: What is Stackato? The Path to Stackato "Forking" with Cloud Foundry The Stackato 3 Architecture Merging Changes How Stackato Adds Value for Managers, Admins and Developers A Preview into What's Next Open Source Contributions Dogfooding Customer Happiness And due to Stackato's success in the market...yes, we are hiring! View Slides Jeff Hobbs is our CTO & VP, Engineering and oversees all ActiveState product development including our cloud solutions. Though he's responsible for leading and fostering our talented development team, Jeff is a coder at heart! He is passionate about technologies that just work, making the lives of developers easier. His current obsession is making Stackato the best private PaaS platform for developers: using any language, any infrastructure, and leveraging open source - so that applications just deploy and scale in any cloud.   Follow us:   1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada | Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133     www.activestate.com If you don't want to receive emails regarding the ActiveState blog, please click here.

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libswarm: Docker Orchestration Announced

Hi sherly, Check out the latest blog by ActiveState's Technology Evangelist, Phil Whelan: libswarm: Docker Orchestration Announced A year ago Docker was announced. Thanks to our 3 plus years experience working with Linux containers, ActiveState could clearly see its potential and understand Solomon Hykes' vision for the future of containerization. We wasted no time making Docker part of Stackato. Back in May 2013 I had interviewed Solomon Hykes to get the low-down on what Docker was. Now, exactly one year later, Solomon agreed to sit down with me to explain what he describes as “the second lego brick” - libswarm... Read More Phil Whelan is a Technology Evangelist at ActiveState and has worked for many years building cloud solutions. You can find Phil on Twitter at @philwhln, where you can ask him any questions about Stackato. Alternatively, email philw@activestate.com   Follow us:   1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada | Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133     www.activestate.com If you don't want to receive emails regarding the ActiveState blog, please click here.

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Stackato 3.0, Deploying a Private Docker Registry, CIO's Guide to PaaS

Hi sherly, Welcome to our January newsletter. Here's what's new at ActiveState: Latest Blog Posts Upcoming Events at ActiveState New Resources for Stackato Happy coding, The ActiveState Team Latest Blog Posts Deploying your own Private Docker Registry by Matthew Fisher This blog post shows how you can deploy your own private Docker Registry behind your firewall with SSL encryption and HTTP authentication.  Cloud Foundry Orgs and Spaces in Stackato 3.0 by Troy Topnik Stackato 3.0 uses the new Organizations and Spaces permission model developed in Cloud Foundry v2, adding tremendous flexibility and fine-grained control over who gets to do what on a PaaS. Learn more about how Orgs and Spaces can help streamline your process. PaaS: Service Orchestration Vs Container Orchestration by Phil Whelan In this blog, Phil Whelan looks at the differences between Service Orchestration and Container Orchestration and if PaaS is truly dead. Highly Distributed Ruby Rspec Test by Phil Whelan In part one of the series, Phil identifies and touches upon running tests in a highly distributed manner and how it increases developer productivity. Check Out More Blog Posts >   Upcoming Events Webinars:  What’s New in Stackato v3.0: The Platform for the Agile Enterprise Thu, Jan 30, 2014 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST In this webinar, Ho Ming Li, Cloud Engineer and John Wetherill, Developer Evangelist, will show you what's new in Stackato v3.0. Learn more how Stackato leverages Cloud Foundry and Docker, incorporates buildpack support, and how Developers and Operations staff can improve communication with the Activity Stream. Register today. Events: We will be exhibiting at SCALE12x at Los Angeles from the 21 to 23 Feb! Come drop by Booth 91 and say "Hi!" or for a live demo of Stackato (and I know you wanna grab some free awesome swag). Looking to attend? For a limited time, enter discount code: ACTIV when registering for the event and enjoy a 40% discount! Hope to see you there!   Resources Featured Webinars: Modern Application Development Using Stackato and Nebula featuring Phil Whelan, Developer Evangelist, ActiveState and Gabriel Hurley, Platform Team Manager, Nebula Continuous Delivery with Jenkins and Stackato featuring Ho Ming Li, Cloud Engineer, ActiveState and John Wetherill, Developer Evangelist, ActiveState New Datasheets: Cloud Security with Stackato Organizations moving to the cloud need to understand the security at each layer of the cloud stack. The security associated with your private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is just as important as the security associated with your infrastructure. Stackato has been architected with security as the primary focus to protect your applications from being breached and bringing down your cloud completely. How Stackato works with your IaaS By moving to the cloud, your IT and development teams can streamline the processes involved in developing, deploying, and managing applications. The result is improved productivity so you can get your applications to market faster. Continous Delivery:The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Component Deploying smaller changes to your application on a continual basis allows organizations to be more agile. While Stackato is not a continuous integration (CI) tool, it is one of the components that make continuous delivery easier to implement in your organization.  New Whitepaper: CIO's Guide to Platform-as-a-Service Learn how to optimize the application development process and accelerate the time to market with a Private PaaS.   Keep up with the latest information about Stackato and ActiveState

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Stackato 3.0 Beta released; Get a Komodo IDE T-shirt

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Hi sherly, Welcome to our November newsletter. Here's what's new at ActiveState: Press Release: ActiveState’s Stackato v3.0 PaaS Builds on the Best of Open Source to Drive Innovation Naughty or Nice, it doesn't matter! Get free swag with Komodo IDE Webinar: Continuous Delivery with Jenkins and Stackato Latest Blog Posts: The Quest for a DevOps Culture: Communication is Key, DevOps Days Vancouver 2013 Retrospective & A Technical Look At Stackato v3.0-beta Happy coding, The ActiveState Team Press Release: ActiveState's Stackato v3.0 PaaS Builds on the Best of Open Source to Drive Innovation ActiveState®  has announced the beta release of Stackato v3.0. The new release is based on Cloud Foundry v2, uses Docker for application containers, includes an Activity Stream for developer collaboration and change visibility, and has deeper integration with both CloudStack and OpenStack. The general Stackato architecture remains the same, but is now based on Cloud Foundry v2 which has been significantly modified for better performance, reliability, and scalability. This release ensures compatibility with the broad Cloud Foundry ecosystem moving forward and incorporates features that were demanded by Stackato’s growing list of Fortune 500 customers.  Read More Naughty or Nice, it doesn't matter! Get free swag with Komodo IDE We are spreading some holiday cheer this season! Buy a new license of Komodo IDE or Perl/Tcl Pro Studio and get a FREE Komodo t-shirt and laptop stickers. If you are already a Komodo user, refer a friend and both of you get a FREE Komodo t-shirt and laptop stickers on the house.  Show your Komodo pride! Buy online at our store or click here for more information.   Webinar: Continuous Delivery with Jenkins and Stackato Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 Time: 10 am PDT / 1 pm EDT (45 min) Presenters: John Wetherill, Developer Evangelist, ActiveState Ho Ming Li, Cloud Engineer, ActiveState Continuous delivery give organizations a competitive edge since it allows for more agile application deployment to meet the needs of their end users. However, less than one-third of respondents reported that their development team uses continuous integration processes on a daily basis. While it can be a struggle to achieve continuous delivery due to corporate culture or general workflow issues between Dev and IT Operations, there are some specific tools available to help make it a reality.   Join Ho Ming Li, Cloud Engineer and John Wetherill, Developer Evangelist for a live 45 minute presentation on continuous delivery using Jenkins, an open-source continuous integration server, and Stackato, a private PaaS by ActiveState. In this webinar we will discuss and demonstrate: What is continuous integration, delivery and deployment and why is it important? What are some continuous integration tools available? How to use Jenkins for scheduled deployments and how it can work with Stackato. Seats are limited. Register today! New Releases: Komodo IDE 8.5.3 Stackato 3.0 Beta ActiveTcl 8.5.15 and 8.6.1 Coming Soon: Perl Dev Kit (PDK) 9.3 ActiveTcl 8.5.16   Latest Blogs The Quest for a DevOps Culture: Communication is Key by Matthew Fisher, Junior Product Manager DevOps Days Vancouver 2013 Retrospective by Phil Whelan, Developer Evangelist A Technical Look At Stackato v3.0-beta by Phil Whelan, Developer Evangelist Debugging Node.js Applications in Stackato by Ho Ming Li, Cloud Engineer ActiveState Released Stackato v3.0 Beta Today (Based on Cloud Foundry v2, Docker, More)! by Brent Smithurst, Vice President of Product Management & Marketing Read more on our Blog 1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada | www.activestate.com Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133

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