The battle between userspace networking and kernel networking has been ongoing since the dawn of high performance Data Plane Frameworks in 2010. With the transition of networking applications to the cloud-native paradigm, developers have had to weigh the benefits of...
If you missed the Red Hat NEXT! event back in September, or if you just want to refresh your memory on some of the amazing content that was presented there, here's a complete listing of all of the talks. Follow the links to see the recordings on the Red Hat Community...
Are you a CTO, CISO, CDO, or thought leader responsible for open source strategy for your company? If so, don’t miss out on Red Hat NEXT! This is Red Hat’s annual event for deep dives on all things Emerging Technologies, coming up on September 15th. This year’s...
Communication between distributed software components in a cloud-native application is an important and challenging aspect of cloud-native development. This post introduces a solution to that problem using Virtual Application Networks (VANs). A VAN can be set up...
In our previous blog, Managing application and data portability at scale with Rook-Ceph, we talked about some key features of Rook-Ceph mirroring and laid groundwork for future use case solutions and automation that could be enabled from this technology. This post...
During the last Kubecon North America in San Diego, a cross-vendor team of engineers from Red Hat and several other companies rolled a half-rack of servers and a self-made Faraday cage onto the keynote stage and demoed live a full 5G/4G network connected to two...
The Mass Open Cloud (MOC) is an open cloud exchange that provides compute resources to university researchers. The virtualization infrastructure is built on Red Hat OpenStack Platform, using Foreman for provisioning and Ceph for distributed storage. But the MOC has...
In this video from Red Hat Summit 2018, Red Hat Chief Technology Officer Chris Wright gives a view into the future direction of Red Hat technologies. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_LLAroJrJo&w=560&h=315] Chris begins with an overview of how Red...
The Superfluidity Project was a 33-month European (H2020) research project (July 2015–April 2018) aimed at achieving superfluidity on the Internet: the capability to instantiate services on-the-fly, run them anywhere in the network (core, aggregation, edge), and shift...
At the first signs of Spring, all Red Hatters turn at least one eye toward Red Hat Summit. Over the years, we’ve had many conversations with attendees about what kind of information and perspectives they’d like to hear at Summit. We learned that attendees appreciated...
Blockchain is everybody’s latest buzzword–right up there with AI and IoT–but what does it mean, and how is it relevant to the enterprise? The answer to those questions is likely “a lot,” but before we get to that, let’s define what a blockchain is–and isn’t. So What...
In the previous blog, my colleague David Bericat discussed why Internet of Things (IoT) architecture should be built with open source. One of the core components of end-to-end IoT architecture listed in that article was an intelligent IoT gateway that can process data...
In January of 2015, the Open vSwitch (OVS) team announced they planned to start a new project within OVS called OVN (Open Virtual Network). The timing could not have been better for me as I was looking around for a new project. I dove in with a goal of...
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is revolutionizing the telecommunications industry. That word, “revolution”, is often misused, but it is appropriate for the transformation of core network services from physical to virtual infrastructure. The transformation is...
Back in January 2016, Ansible delivered the first integration of network support into the Ansible 2.0 code base. The initial introduction of network support was originally conceived to help operators focus on being able to execute configuration changes on...