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Michael Iatrou

Michael Iatrou

6 posts

Director, Field Engineering

Michael draws on more than 15 years of experience in design and implementation of mission critical services, across a spectrum of verticals. He is currently focusing in accelerating digital transformation for organizations, through cloud-native solutions.

Michael Iatrou
26 July 2022

Omnichannel Enablement: 4 technology success factors

Cloud and server Article

For retailers considering a transition to omnichannel, there are four key success factors to keep in mind. ...

Michael Iatrou
5 December 2018

Minimum viable Kubernetes

Cloud and server Article

The appeal of Kubernetes is universal. Application development, operations and infrastructure teams recognise diverse reasons for its immediate utility and growing potential — a testament of Kubernetes’ empathetic design. Web apps, galvanised by the 12 factor pattern as well as microservice-structured applications find a native habitat in ...

Michael Iatrou
3 May 2018

LXD Clusters: A Primer

Cloud and server Article

Since its inception, LXD has been striving to offer a fresh and intuitive user experience for machine containers. LXD instances can be managed over the network through a REST API and a single command line tool. For large scale LXD deployments, OpenStack has been the standard approach: using Nova LXD, lightweight containers replace traditi ...

Michael Iatrou
13 April 2018

On the road to lean infrastructure

Cloud and server Article

On April 24 2008, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron was released. That was a decade ago, when the modern cloud computing era was dawning: Amazon’s EC2 was still in beta, Google had just released the Google App Engine and the word “container” was dominating the plastics industry rather than IT. A lot has changed since ...

Michael Iatrou
26 January 2018

LXD: five easy pieces

Cloud and server Article

Machine containers, like LXD, proliferate in the datacenters: they provide a native control plane for OpenStack and a lightweight hypervisor for its tenants. LXD optimizes resource allocation and utilization for Kubernetes clusters, modernizes workload management in HPC infrastructure and streamlines lift and shift for legacy applications ...

Michael Iatrou
12 October 2017

Kubernetes the not so easy way

Cloud and server Article

A few years ago, the simplest method to deploy and operate Kubernetes on Ubuntu was with conjure-up. Whether the substrate is a public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) private virtualized environments (VMware) or bare metal, conjure-up will allow you to quickly install a fully functional, production-grade Kubernetes. But what if you wanted to ...