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This post is part of the “Mesosphere DC/OS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between” multiple blog post series. In the previous posta for this series, I looked at the following topics:

Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware and everything between – Architecture and CI/CD Flow

Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware and everything between – Security & Docker Engine Installation

Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between – SSH Authorized Keys

Now that we have the Docker engine up and running and all of our network & security related configurations in place, it’s time to get the DC/OS cluster rolling on top of VMware vSphere. This is the first major milestone in our entire platform setup. Let’s get moving…

Since this is not a “DC/OS Deep Dive” series, I will not go into much details on DCOS components, but I will provide relevant info on why things the way they are.

Before diving into the installation steps, I highly recommend going over to DCOS Node Types and Network KBs.

For our vSphere DCOS cluster deployment, I will not deploy public agent nodes. To understand why, we need to go back and review the CI/CD flow.

As you remember, in our flow, the “production containers” stops at the DCOS cluster deployed on vSphere. The reason for not deploying public nodes (think of them as your DMZ deployed hosts) is customer requirement to have the production containers available only from corporate LAN or via VPN. Later on, the plan is to provide internet access via the corporate load balancer but to keep things nice and simple, we will deploy only the private agents.

The agent nodes are responsible for hosting your Docker containers and for this deployment, we will have 3 of those.

Read more about all the details around DC/OS 1.9 deployment on top of VMware vSphere on my blog.
Quelle: Azure

13. Juli 2017

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IBM and Automation Anywhere: A new partnership to reinvent business process

As the digital economy continues to grow and evolve, some companies face the challenge of managing increasingly complex business processes that involve massive amounts of data. The growth of the digital economy connects people and organizations in new ways. But it has also generated repetitive tasks like requiring employees to manually enter data. Companies need a way to more efficiently process and manage data so that employees can spend more time on truly value-added parts of their job.
Today, we’re excited to announce a new partnership that helps IBM do just that. We’re teaming up with Automation Anywhere, the market leader in robotic process automation, to help companies like yours digitize their operations and drive new efficiencies across business processes. How? We’re bringing a set of tools to the table that automate and simplify data-intensive tasks within processes managed by IBM’s process management software.
Through our collaboration, we aim to help companies free their employees to focus on more meaningful aspects of their jobs. We want your processes to work for you—not the other way around.
Why now?
Today, knowledge workers spend far too much of their time doing “swivel chair” integration by copying and entering data across disjointed systems. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) automates these repetitive tasks. When RPA is used in conjunction with business process management (BPM) and IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM), we can reduce the level of investment needed to automate a process while maintaining total visibility of the process. What’s more, you can bring software bots into any critical business processes, regardless of the new or heritage systems that are included. Importantly, you can integrate all of the elements—including people, systems and bots—into one seamless process.
What this means for our clients
Say you run a bank. Your employees deal with thousands of complicated forms every day to open new accounts. This requires accuracy, time and effort. Our new solution could help in two ways. IBM’s process management software could help manage the broader process of opening accounts, while Automation Anywhere’s bots could pull information from different sources to help fill out the forms more quickly and accurately. Immense opportunity can be created when robots seamlessly help your employees do their work or perform tasks alongside them. This level of collaboration can shorten project lifecycle times, accelerate time-to-value for automation investments and boost ROI.
Interested in learning more? Join us on August 2nd 2017, at 12:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) to hear more about this exciting new partnership. In the broadcast you can learn:

Why your peers are adopting RPA and why you should too
New opportunities for automation and how you can take advantage of them
How to integrate RPA into a broader process transformation strategy

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