Cloud computing accelerates innovation by providing ubiquitous access to computing resources at a click of a button. However enterprises are weary of the costs associated with public cloud, especially as their usage grows.

In my previous post, I described how you can deploy containers on your laptop using Nirmata and boot2docker. While deploying containers on your laptop is great for dev/test, you may want to deploy containers on your cloud resources as your application moves through your deployment pipeline. Nirmata makes this extremely easy via its policy based orchestration. The same application can be deployed on your laptop or on any of the supported clouds without any changes.

If you are using boot2docker on MacOS, it is now easier than ever to deploy containerized applications on your laptop using Nirmata. You can be up and running in less than five minutes. In this post, I will describe the steps.

Check out the Microservices and DevOps content at Cisco Live 2015!

Nirmata is pleased to announce new features and improvements to our solution. Our focus has been on resiliency and state management:

Over the last few years, I've spent quite a bit of time learning and discussing DevOps, as well as putting into practice DevOps principles and values. I’ve read several articles that provide detailed descriptions of what DevOps is, and what DevOps is not. Most of these talk about moving development and operations teams closer together, the cultural changes involved, etc. But none of these provided me with a simple and satisfying definition for DevOps.

Microservices is a new software architecture and delivery paradigm, where applications are composed of several small runtime services.