Recent Posts by Jon Reeve

One of Oracle's top 10 predictions for developers in 2019 was that developers will need to partner with a platform engineer, which will emerge as a key new role for cloud native development.  Recent conversations with Enterprise customers have reinforced this, and it is becoming clear that a separation of concerns is emerging for those delivering production applications on top of Kubernetes infrastructure.  The application developers building the containerized apps driven by...

It’s been just over a year since we announced the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) and Registry (OCIR) offerings, foundational pieces in Oracle’s cloud for developing, deploying, and running container native applications. With KubeCon upon us, it’s a good time to consider not only how Oracle’s cloud offerings have evolved, but also the macro challenges facing Kubernetes and managed Kubernetes offerings, as they target deeper adoption by...

As Kubernetes adoption grows across major cloud providers, it's interesting to compare Kubernetes itself to the concept of an operating system. According to Wikipedia, an operating system is defined as “system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.” Abstractly, this isn't so different from the current model of Kubernetes running on top of a cloud provider, servicing applications that are built to run...

Today at Oracle OpenWorld, we announced early adopter availability of the Oracle Container Native Application Development platform – a big step forward for developers and DevOps teams who are building, deploying and operating container native microservices and serverless applications.  Key foundational pieces of this platform are the Oracle Container Engine and the Oracle Container Registry Service – a managed Kubernetes and Docker registry service respectively.  As we...

Seems that everywhere you turn these days – someone’s talking about Kubernetes.  With recent research indicating 71% of enterprises using Kubernetes to manage their containers, Kubernetes has essentially become the de lingua franca of container management and orchestration – some might even go as far to say of the cloud itself…  Today we’re pleased to announce the “Terraform Kubernetes Installer”, an open source Terraform template for easily standing up a Kubernetes Cluster...

Containers, Containers Everywhere But Not a Drop to Drink! Since we've announced the availability of commercial images on the Docker Store, we have been getting some questions on how to pull and deploy a Store image with Oracle Container Cloud Service.  It's very easy to do this in just 5 steps. If you want to try this out, get an Oracle Cloud account right now. Step 1 First, log into the Docker Store with your Docker account, and go to the page of the image you want to deploy...

In our recent 2017 Developer Predictions, we predicted that containers will become more popular than VMs.It seems like everywhere you turn today, someone is talking about containers. If you’ve been to a developer meetup recently, it seems like pretty much every topic on the agenda has something to do with containers or Docker, the company that brought Linux-based containers back into the limelight. And not without good reason. According to Docker’s own survey of technology...