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    Self-Organizing Microservices - Evaluating ContainerPilot on Mantl

    Recently I became interested in ContainerPilot - the idea of “self-aware and self-operating” containers promoted by Joyent. I decided to perform a few experiments to see how it behaves on top of Cisco...

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    Moving minimesos CI from Jenkins to Travis

    What would the process of updating the code and continuous integration environment look like in an ideal world?

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    Automated branding with the logo generator

    Automated branding At Container Solutions, we've been building Mesos Frameworks. All our frameworks can be found at mesosframeworks.com.

    Service discovery in minimesos using Consul

    At Container Solutions, we’ve been working hard on minimesos, our testing infrastructure for Mesos frameworks. To make it easier for frameworks to find their components, and for the Mesos master and a...

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    minimesos 0.8.0 - Weave Scope, Consul & Registrator support

    Today we released minimesos 0.8.0. You can install it using the usual installer command: curl -sSL https://minimesos.org/install | sh. The Docker images are available on Docker Hub and the jar is avai...

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    Terraform provider for Cobbler

    At Container Solutions we constantly push the boundaries of the tools we work with. While exploring programmable infrastructure we combine the available tools in new ways. Sometimes it works and somet...

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    Mesos framework overview: Mesos-starter, MesosFramework, Kibana and minimesos

    In the last few days my colleagues and I at Container Solutions have made major releases for several projects. We’ve been busy developing a range of products that are evolving into a suite of applicat...

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    minimesos 0.7.1 - Config file support and init command

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    Cobbler in a Docker Container

    For one of our projects we found ourselves in need of a PXE server. In order to make proper use of a PXE server you will quickly find you need to change settings in your DHCP server. So we figured we'...