Justin Santa Barbara’s blog

Last time, I posted about building an ACI (Application Container Image) using OS packages, and in particularhow I was using this to build a Java base image.
The reason for wanting a Java base image was - of course - to run Java applications. In particular,I wanted to be able to do this direct from Maven, which is (still) the dominant build tool for Java....

Containers are the new frontier of application packaging, as witnessed by the rise of Docker. Dockerpopularized the idea of using containers, combining simple command line tooling with a central imagerepository for easy sharing of images. Now that containers...

Things I learned from the panamax.io competition
Panamax.io is a new piece of open source software, from CenturyLink. Really,it’s from Lucas Carlson and the team behind PHPFog/AppFog. Centurylink is a fairly traditionaltelecoms company that has been buying into cloud by snapping up some interesting...

I’m building a set of open-source cloud data-stores, blogging all the way.
In our last episode, we created a block store, exposed over iSCSI. We also added a native protocol buffers client to our key-value store.
One thing I really want to add is encryption. I’ve always been wary of storing data on the cloud; it’s not really a “post-Snowden” thing, asa determined enough attacker can always get access to data. Rather it’s about limiting exposure and defense-in...