October 19, 2016

VMware Adds Support for Kubernetes

At the VMworld 2016 Europe event, the big news was that VMware now supports Kubernetes container management on its Photon platform. “With Kubernetes as a service on top of Photon, the Photon Controller is able to spin up the necessary virtual machines and disks to build a dedicated Kubernetes cluster

Read All Text From a File

There are a number of ways to read all content from a text file. The function below uses only VB6’s features to do that. Public Function ReadAll(ByVal FilePath As String) As StringDim FileNumber As LongDim Result As String If FilePath “” Then If Dir(FilePath) “” Then FileNumber = FreeFile Open

Container Wars: Docker vs. Rkt

Containers are making inroads into the mainstream. Many large organizations and startups deploy their software using containers and many other experiment with the technology or plan to do it. When talking about containers, Docker is the 800-pound gorilla. The recent awareness and popularity of containers for deploying complicated systems (often