Cisco Simplifies On-Prem Kubernetes for Its HyperFlex HCI Customers
Summary
conference in Barcelona Tuesday by rolling out a plug-and-play Kubernetes software package for its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure stack and updates to Cisco management tools that help enterprise IT and application teams stay on the same page. Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration platform built by Google, is notoriously complicated and difficult to get up and running from scratch. The new maps allow IT teams to more easily monitor application and infrastructure health and performance, which in turn helps them proactively spot problems and troubleshoot. “Now, they have a common data set and common vocabulary, so when an app team sees an app running slow, the infrastructure team can see it too, and they can talk and take corrective action.” For example, AppDynamics’ visual map, called the “Experience Journey Map,” can show the journey consumers take on the front end of a hotel reservation site, from search suggestions to individual hotel descriptions and user profiles. The app teams can then drill down to find the cause, such as a virtual machine running out of memory, network congestion, or a failing server.