Tag: templates

Robust DevOps practice necessitates modular and automatic construction of software and infrastructure. At Skytap, we leverage our own customer-facing services to construct a delivery pipeline that allows engineers in operations, test, and development to collaborate at every point of the software delivery lifecycle (SDLC). We ultimately deliver working clones of our production environment that can […]

Skytap recently announced the availability of a ready-to-deploy Kubernetes Cluster template in the Skytap public template library. This template is pre-configured to deploy a Kubernetes Cluster consisting of a Kubernetes master node and two Kubernetes slave nodes. The template is also pre-configured to deploy an example Kubernetes application onto the cluster nodes. Kubernetes Kubernetes is […]

Skytap recently announced the availability of the Mesosphere Technology Stack template in the Skytap Public Template Library. The Mesosphere Technology Stack is a framework for developers and system admins to build out self-healing, fault-tolerant and scalable solutions on top of Apache Mesos.  You can find out more about Mesosphere at http://mesosphere.io. This template allows you […]

On August 28, 2013, Skytap announced the availability of the Cloud Foundry v2 template in the Skytap Cloud Public Template Library. This template includes the following virtual machines: A Cloud Foundry v2 node preconfigured with the Cloud Foundry v2 command line interface (CLI), a defined organization, spaces, domain, and a running application. A Cloud Foundry […]

​Templates are the starting point for all new configurations within Skytap Cloud. Think of them as ‘read-only blueprints’ for configurations. A template can be as simple as a single virtual machine, or as complex as an environment with dozens of virtual machines and multiple networks. Every Skytap customer has access to a variety of public […]

As we pass the midpoint of 2013, we’re revisiting the most popular content on the Skytap blog. Across the cloud computing industry as a whole, people wrote about things like why application development is better in the cloud, the different value propositions of public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions, and the variety of concerns relating […]

In this entry of the User Support series, we’ll take a look at the Cloudera Hadoop Public Template. You can find information on all Skytap public templates by navigating to https://cloud.skytap.com/docs/index.php/Skytap_Public_Templates or by clicking on the ‘Skytap Public Templates’ link from the Help Wiki Sidebar (shown below). Cloudera Hadoop is easy to install, 100% open […]

In the April 2013 release of Skytap Cloud, we announced the availability of the public beta Skytap Cloud command line interface (CLI). Documentation for the Skytap Cloud CLI is installed along with the Skytap Cloud CLI itself, but I’ll run through the basics and offer a few tips in this blog post. Using the CLI […]

Building integration packs often requires that partners work closely to bring their products together. However, trying to get both parties together on a schedule can be tricky. Any hiccups along the way can quickly evolve from a few hours of lost time into a seriously long delay, which equals a ton of time in lost […]

We recently added a couple of new templates to the Skytap Cloud public template library. The first template is a new Windows 8 Enterprise x64. This is an x64 template to go along with our Windows 8 32-bit template. So while you may have been waiting around to see what’s what before trying Windows 8, […]