If I Ruled VMware...
or atleast for a day
By: Kendrick Coleman | @KendrickColeman
The Shift...The Way I See It
2010: The VMware Knowledge Cram
2012: Private Cloud & Automation
2014: Application Portability
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so... where do you want that LUN provisioned?
What Happens When The Developers Are In Charge?
Disruption is easier than ever
- public cloud is the new datacenter
- open-source software allows speed to market
- community is the new tech support
- the overall cost is much cheaper
Every industry is impacted
The New Customer Experience
- free access to software
- can run it anywhere
- working within 30 minutes
- integrated with existing tool sets
- active support communites (GitHub, StackOverflow)
What do we have today?
Every VMware product is a pet (except ESXi)
The loss of vCenter is detrimental
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There hasn't been an easily consumable API... until v6
Caters to P2 and Pet applications
How did we get here?
vCenter is built on a combo of 20+ Languages
Rapid growth & adoption which means production
- What is it like working as an engineer at VMware? source: Quora
- long product cycles
- huge codebase
- maintenance burden
- saying "customers" instead of "users"
- high expectations for release quality
- typical ↻ source control, code reviews, QA, & bug database
Docker + VMware
== Better Together || Containers without Compromise
...you sure about that? more like a necessity
(source: VentureBeat)
The Threat Is Real...
Open-Source Software is ruling the eco-system...not licenses
“If VMware released ESXi today, it would have been open source.” --Adrian Cockcroft thecloudcast
The Threat Is Real...
VMware was the only game in town then OSS & competitive offerings such as Hyper-V & KVM added pressure
The reality is... the cattle don't need VMware
WWKD
- Open Source ESXi
- new avenues of innovation
- wider-spread adoption
- xen, hyper-v, kvm killer
because... VMware sued in Hamburg, Germany court for failure to comply with the GPL on Linux 3/5/15
WWKD
- Follow Open Database Standards
- Follow vCVA with PostgreSQL
- nice extensions like JSON, GIS, OLAP, Full Text Indexing
- more standards compliant & open than mySQL
- can be a NoSQL store & message queue
- move away... far away from microsoft dependencies
- look towards the NoSQL route like mongodb or cassandra
- scale
- memory-cache
- write later
WWKD
- Integrate a Container Management Project...fast
WWKD
- Refactor it all into 12-factor apps
- if it can't run in a container, start over
- microservice architecture
- horizontal scalability
WWKD
- Make Containers 1st Class Citizens in vCloud Air
- CoreOS & Project Atomic in the Public Catalog
- reduce friction with container deployment
- reduce friction with externally facing containers
“The book about how developers took over the world”
thank you
By: Kendrick Coleman | @KendrickColeman