Hybrid Cloud Show

Having recently moved house, Gary wonders how to reconfigure his homelab and network setup. Plus Shane is fed up with GitHub’s outages and formulates a plan to move away… somewhere…

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It’s a Linux Dev Time style hot questions episode. Is “cloud native” more about where the workload is going or how you deploy it? What is a skill that is really important in your job that may surprise people? Is the cloud more or less secure than a company-controlled data centre or on-prem?  Would you recommend what you do to your kids/nephews etc?

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We get into some homelab updates. Sean has been consolidating hardware, Gary has been implementing high availability with Proxmox, and Shane has been working hard to get Home Assistant working with Kubernetes, as well as downloading YouTube videos.

Shane’s homelab

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A recent attack shone a light on some of the problems with GitHub Actions, and CI/CD more generally. As tempting as it might be, going back to shell scripts probably isn’t the answer.

1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack

2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected

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Aaron and Shane share some thoughts about attending Kubecon, including the push for European sovereign cloud, how platform engineering might mitigate some of the problems AI is causing, the sense that Kubernetes is mature and boring in a good way now, and our concerns about scope creep.

Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group

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The ugliest and jankiest hacks we’ve put into prod, and a few of the worst things we’ve seen other people get away with.

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Gary is concerned that he might have dug himself into a hole of on-prem vendor lock-in, despite using open source software. Plus why you should have PiKVM type device in your toolkit.

PiKVM

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We recently talked about backing up Shane’s homelab, but this time it’s the turn of enterprise backups. Risk management, cloud and hybrid environments, planning for realistic disaster scenarios, convincing the finance people what’s required, and more.

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Sean tells us about a recent catastrophe in his Kubernetes homelab (that’s really home prod). What went wrong, how did he fix it, and how can he avoid it happening again?

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Why we have doubts about the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud, what it would take to build a proper European cloud that could compete with AWS, and why it’s such a difficult undertaking.

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