August 28, 2023

225: The Cloud Pod Proclaims: Merry Google Next Eve!

33 minutes

Google Next Eve!

Welcome episode 225 of The CloudPod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan are your hosts this week as we discuss all things Google Next! We talk schedule offerings, make our predictions about announcements, and prepare to be generally wrong about everything. Also – do you like stickers? Everyone likes stickers! Be on the lookout for us, and maybe you can have one.

Titles we almost went with this week:

None! Google Next is the next big thing, so of course it’s the title.

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Pre-Show

01:23 Following up on some HashiCorp News:

HashiCorp updates licensing FAQ based on community questions

Hashicorp has responded in their FAQ to some of the concerns we brought up when we talked about them moving to the BSL license in our last show.

Question: Can I host the HashiCorp products as a service internal to my organization?

Answer: Yes. The terms of the BSL allow for all non-production and production usage, except for providing competitive offerings to third parties that embed or host our software. Hosting the products for your internal use of your organization is permitted. HashiCorp considers an organization as including all of its affiliates. This means one division can host a HashiCorp product for use by another internal division.

Q: What is a “competitive offering” under the HashiCorp BSL license?

A: A “competitive offering” is a product that is sold to third parties, including through paid support arrangements, that significantly overlaps the capabilities of a HashiCorp commercial product. For example, this definition would include hosting or embedding Terraform as part of a solution that is sold competitively against our commercial versions of Terraform. By contrast, products that are not sold or supported on a paid basis are always allowed under the HashiCorp BSL license because they are not considered competitive.

Q: What does the term “embedded” mean under the HashiCorp BSL license?

A: Under the HashiCorp BSL license, the term “embedded” means including the source code or object code, including executable binaries, from a HashiCorp product in a competitive product. “Embedded” also means packaging the competitive product in such a way that the HashiCorp product must be accessed or downloaded for the competitive product to operate.

Q: What if HashiCorp releases a new product or feature in the future that makes my project competitive?

A: If HashiCorp creates an offering in the future that is competitive with a product you are already offering in production, your continued use of the hosted or embedded HashiCorp product will not be considered a violation of the HashiCorp BSL license.

03:43 Ryan – “I think this is the right response, right? And I know that I’m probably in the minority of being sort of appeased by this in the community; because I think that the torches and pitchforks will not go away. But what this does is allow – if there’s any kind

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