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June 29, 2018Episode 139: “Docker? Never heard of ‘em.”
Why would a company buy Docker? With “near triple digit revenue,” perhaps there’s a good business model to match the interest in free, but, in turn, why would an acquirer want to pay for free? We speculate wildly, and without spreadsheets. Also, lots of people have been funded, there’s a new bundle of kubernetes releases, and we discuss t-shirts.
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Important nonsense
What does it mean when you wear Thrasher t-shirt?
Follow-up: duffel bags, they work. One got unzipped slightly, so probably should zip-tie the zippers.
Texas’ Favorite Grocery Store HEB Opens Taco Restaurant
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available - More Regions and New Features
Relevant to your interests
You’ve got Money!
Splunk to Acquire Software Problem-Solver VictorOps for $120 Million
The IPOs keep coming: The search company Elastic has filed to go public
BuildGroup Raises $330 Million of Permanent Capital to Build Great Software
DevOps automation leader Puppet lands $42M funding round
Puppet raises $42M led by Cisco as its DevOps automation platform passes 40,000 businesses
CloudBees raises $62M for its DevOps platform
Software considered hard
Why software giants are failing
What really is the difference between “maintenance” and SaaS models?
The problem with assigning value (and, thus, price) to any piece of software/IT.
So then, what did Microsoft get right? (And did they?)
Also, more on Oracle’s financials.
DigitalOcean taps Citrix Systems vet to be new CEO
Serverless Impacts on Business, Process and Culture
“What we are seeing with customers is that tech is coming up the hype curve pretty quickly,” said Sharples. “Microservices was a pretty quick climb, and serverless is in steeper than that.”
Hot-take: “Wow, just replace each instance of ‘serverless’ with ‘rails,’ and you have a great mid-2000s moment.”
Realtime follow-up: does this mean that Wardley is now DHH?
WTF? The data behind Microsoft's surprising open source track record
“Microsoft may have a mixed history with open source, but today the company is demonstrating some impressive traction when it comes to open source community contributions. If we are to judge the company on its recent actions, the data shows what Satya Nadella said in his announcement about Microsoft being “all in on open source” is more than just words.”
Microsoft starts outlining its Visual Studio 2019 plans
Docker Depot
Docker seeks Golden State burnish for cloud container expansion
Docker CEO Steve Singh says container company is approaching “triple digit” millions in bookings
DockerCon Takeaways
8 surprising facts about real Docker adoption
## Kubernetes Korner
Introducing VMware Kubernetes Engine™ (VKE) - VMware Cloud Community, and in The Register.
EKS vs. ECS: orchestrating containers on AWS
The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available - More Regions and New Features
Meanwhile, time for “a scheduled maintenance window”: 1.11 is out.
DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018.
Conferences, et. al.
June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam - come get a sticker!
Also at some World Cup things in Cologne and Munich, email if you’re a VP type and interested.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too!
Recommendations
Brandon: The North Face Base Camp Duffel Large, Waboba Water Skipping Ball.
Matt: Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu.
Coté: BOOMIVERSE. Somehow I missed this album last year. GRIND AND STACK! (Props, as they used to say, to my old friend, Mason, for pointing it out to me. Get your super-fast Internet in SF from him!) Also, I can certify that the Courtney Barnett album is good.
1 hr 6 min
June 07, 2018Episode 138: 8 Duffle bags, some permitted food enhancer and, GitHub goes to Redmond
GItHub got bought so we breakdown what it all means for devs and open source. Matt Ray offers expert tips on relocating your family aboard as Coté prepares to move to Amsterdam. Finally, we announced the first live in person Software Defined Talk meetup in July somewhere in Austin. Don’t miss it.
GitHub got bought
Price: $7.5bn in stock. Getting Microsoft stock now is probably good, should have good growth over next 3 to five years (the golden handcuff period, etc.).
See the overview deck from Microsoft.
Very qualitative, not much (or any) business case numbers stuff.
Will “operate independently,” Microsoft’s Nat Friedman to be CEO of GitHub, reporting up to Scott Guthrie.
Does this imply Microsoft will be moving OSS stuff to the GitHub business?
How does this fit with TFS, whatever “Sourcesafe” is now? Coté has no idea about the current state of that business, esp. w/r/t to git. Slides say there’s be the usual seamless integration in VisualStudio, also some marketplace thing additions (presumably, pull in GitHub repos).
Don’t forget the private cloud version of GitHub, plus using it for cloud native/DevOps config storage and release management stuff.
Microsoft’s blog post, GitHub’s blog post.
Google Was Bidding Against Microsoft For GitHub, Report Says | CRN Mobile
# Kubernetes Korner
Four years after release of Kubernetes 1.0, it has come a long way
Enterprise hits and misses - AI hits the curve, SAP subverts the two-speed enterprise
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DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018.
Conferences, et. al.
June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam - come get a sticker!
Also at some World Cup things in Cologne and Munich, email if you’re a VP type and interested.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
The Software Defined Talk Meetup
Would you come to a three hour SDT event in July in Austin, TX? Email [email protected] and he will add you to the invite.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too!
Recommendations
Brandon: New York Times Crossword App
Matt: Killing Eve
Coté: that Singaporian soup mix (Song Fa bak kut teh). What are “permitted food enhancer (E621),” though?
photo credit
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Datadog Free Trial: This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial today!
53 min
June 01, 2018Episode 137: “I didn’t choose the Immortan Joe life-style, it chose me.”
There’s a new IaaS magic quadrant out that we finally take a look at. Plus, with some nerd-fighting in the kubernetes world, we discuss the point of all these blinking cursors.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt
This week Datadog also wants you to know about their upcoming conference DashCon, in NYC on July 11th-12th. You can register to attend at https://www.dashcon.io/sdt use the discount code DASHSDT and save 20%.
DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018.
Follow up
Did Matt watch The Tick? (Spoiler alert: no.)
Relevant to your interests
BA now part of TSA Pre. Can show up later for that AUS→LHR flight. It’s hard to find where to enter this: on individual flights?
Annual Meeker Slide Fest: recording, slides.
Cloud is a six-horse race, and three of those have been lapped
State Of The Kubernetes Ecosystem
Kubernetes won - so now what?
Google Cloud Platform breaks into leader category in Gartner's Magic Quadrant. The Full Gartner MQ. Register coverage.
IDC survey on digital transformation says organizations are motivated to get more “productivity” and be more competitive, among other survey findings. And, as always, “the biggest barriers are people oriented.” Get the Infor sponsored PDF if you’re into this kind of thing.
Infrastructure software is back! Also, Amazon’s DB has huge growth.
“Full Life-cycle Developers” at Netflix
Like SRE, but “platform ops.”
Which is to say, something like, “shallow DevOps.”
“Netflix created centralized teams (e.g., Cloud Platform, Performance & Reliability Engineering, Engineering Tools) with the mission of developing common tooling and infrastructure to solve problems that every development team has. Empowered with these tools in hand, development teams can focus on solving problems within their specific product domain.”
“As additional tooling needs arise, centralized teams assess whether the needs are common across multiple dev teams. When they are, collaborations ensue. Sometimes these local needs are too specific to warrant centralized investment. In that case the development team decides if their need is important enough for them to solve on their own.”
“we arrived at a model where a development team, equipped with amazing developer productivity tools, is responsible for the full software life cycle: design, development, test, deploy, operate, and support”…but not the infrastructure, common middleware and services, and “platform” that they run on. Just like SRE, eh? Which the post says.
Use of the roads seems optional, and sometimes challenging to recruit for: ‘Netflix has a “paved road” set of tools and practices that are formally supported by centralized teams. We don’t mandate adoption of those paved roads but encourage adoption by ensuring that development and operations using those technologies is a far better experience than not using them. The downside of our approach is that the ideal of “every team using every feature in every tool for their most important needs” is near impossible to achieve. Realizing the returns on investment for our centralized teams’ solutions requires effort, alignment, and ongoing adaptations.’
Coté had dinner with Netflix tools engineer many years ago where they described exactly this.
Question: what exactly is DevOps (now) anyways? Is it too expansive to be useful as a phrase, and instead a buffet of thought technologies?
BMC changes PE hands:
Brenon@451: “Terms of the BMC secondary weren't released. However, early reports indicated that the price paid by the syndicate for BMC and the price received for BMC [$6.9bn five years ago] weren't radically different.”
Same: “the software vendor that says it posts revenue of $2bn each year.”
The reporters are like “I got no idea what the fuck these people do”: “Houston-based BMC builds various types of software solutions for businesses looking to manage and streamline their information.”
“BMC has about 6,000 employees in 30 countries, according to its website.”
“BMC has more than $5 billion in debt outstanding, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.”
Annual Meeker Slide Fest: recording, slides. Reports that the decks are getting more concise.
Kubernetes Korner
PodCTL #37 covers Helm and other deployment schemes - Very responsible Coté hasn’t listened to it yet.
Nerd fight on forking:
Asay: “Enterprises want stuff that works. As much as we in the open source world chatter and fret about vendor lockin, enterprises have demonstrated a remarkable ability to shrug off that concern and buy deeply into Microsoft, Oracle, and, yes, Red Hat’s OpenShift.”
Question: how close are we to going OpenStack on all this? Is that even a helpful question, or just trolling?
“Kubernetes has, in fact, already lost the war to serverless,” James Governor.
By the time you hear this, Coté will have finally given a Kubernetes talk.
The State Of The Kubernetes Ecosystem:
Overview of all the (vendor) players.
“A Forrester study found that 66% of organizations who adopted containers experienced accelerated developers efficiency, while 75% of companies achieved a moderate to significant increase in application deployment speed.”
“According to predictions from 451 Research, the market is set to grow from $762 million in 2016 to $2.7 billion by 2020”
Important nonsense
BA now part of TSA Pre. Can show up later for that AUS→LHR flight. Although, it’s hard to find where to enter this. Perhaps it’s ticket-by-ticket.
# Conferences, et. al.
June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking at Voxxed Days, Singapore.
June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam - come get a sticker!
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
Listener Feedback
Gabriel from Puerto Rico got a sticker
Daniel had a sticker sent all they way to South Austin
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too!
Recommendations
Brandon: Station Eleven. Zone 1.
Matt: The Terror, still.
Coté: American Airline’s software. Compared to others like BA, Cathey, Korean Air, Thai Air. Also, Star Trek: Discovery. Star Trek: Voyager is pretty good plane TV fodder. That Neelix guy needs to calm the fuck down though with his space-mullet.
Sponsored By:
Datadog Free Trial: This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial today!
DevOpsDays: Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Promo Code: SDT2018
49 min
May 25, 2018Episode 136: That time Matt didn’t eat for 24 hours, or, #chefconf 2018
“Packaging,” let’s talk about it - still your beating heart, dear listeners! We discuss the news, eats, and entertainment from ChefConf and then dip into the news from the OpenStack summit. As we meander between those two we also talk about kubernetes Helm, packaging, and how Docker is (they say) going to save you $50m in computer costs.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt
This week Datadog also wants you to know about their upcoming conference DashCon, in NYC on July 11th-12th. You can register to attend at https://www.dashcon.io/sdt use the discount code DASHSDT and save 20%.
DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018.
Follow-up
If you’re lucky enough to have access, check out Hammond & Rymer’s Jan 2018 report on serverless, it’s amazingly good and helpful.
#chefconf
Chef Automate 2.0:
Don’t worry, it’s been rewritten in Go.
Scott Carey: “with the release of Chef Automate 2.0 during Chef Conf in Chicago this week, the company is focusing on building a platform on these three pillars: infrastructure, apps and compliance, setting the company up for wherever the future takes it.”
CEO’s keynote summary.
On-prem Habitat Builder.
Chef Workstation.
Matt tells you how suck out some InSpec stuff from Terraform.
How CapitalOne uses Chef:
“[M]ore than 15,000 nodes for dev, QA, and production environments, all hosted on AWS”
They like public cloud (quote from 2017 article): “About 40 percent of our production workload is on AWS now. At 40 percent we are larger than Netflix on the AWS footprint, it's huge. We are not running a hybrid model - our focus is everything on cloud. There are data centre-based applications being transformed, re-written, re-engineered, thrown out, to get to cloud."
Also, WTF is Helm? See: this talk from Amy Chen is really good, and this other one.
OpenStack Summit
So, it’s still NFV heavy with existing enterprise deploys? Plus, Mirantis us pushing for a CI/CD focus?
Haven’t read the survey yet.
Brief Register coverage: VMwware updates, AT&T and others donate some code, Solarwinds adds in some more support.
VMware likes NFV: ‘VMware is targeting the telecom industry with this release. Gabriele Di Piazza, VMware Telco NFV Business Unit's VP of products and solutions, said in a statement, "VMware Integrated OpenStack 5 will enable customers to achieve the massive scale required to power Telco and private clouds globally, and address NFV and edge computing use cases as telecom networks evolve towards 5G."’
Shuttleworth gonna Shuttleworth: “If you want OpenStack and Kubernetes support with vendor independence at a low price, Canonical is your company. If you prefer a partner, which offers a soup-to-nuts stack, but at a higher price, look to Red Hat. And, of course, if you're already wedded to VMware, you've made your choice. There's room for all these approaches to the 21st century cloud and containers.”
Over on TechCrunch, in his layup, Frederic Lardinois paints a picture of the current Story of OpenStack.
“That current state produces fewer flashy headlines, but every survey, both from the Foundation itself and third-party analysts, show that the number of users — and their OpenStack clouds — continues to grow.”
Mirantis, after $200m in funding, refocusing(?) on CI/CD with Spinnaker support, “shrunk from almost 1,000 employees to 450 today, but as Mirantis CEO and co-founder Boris Renski told me, it’s now cash-flow positive.”
Boris: “I think that Spinnaker should become part of the Foundation. That’s the opportunity and I think it should focus 150 percent of their energy on that before it builds its own thing and before [Spinnaker] goes off to the CNCF as yet another project.”
Caroline Donnelly covers the quest to become a more general foundation for infrastructure stuff, started in 2015 with “The Big Tent” positioning.
Side-note: Donnely’s and Lardinois’s articles are good example of doing good tech journalism (I mean, I always like more charts and TAM’s, but they don’t really do that over art Oath - could have also gotten a paragraph of “the kubernetes threat” backed up by usage momentum surveys - but, hey! - pretty good all around.).
Relevant to your interests
Coté’s three methods of dealing with grumpy people when you’re digital transforming and DevOps’ing all the things, the The Register.
All these GDPR emails. Oh for fuck’s sake! (Cf. Jon Collins interview.)
What does Terraform do again? When is that company going to be acquired?
Can IT finally deliver innovation without busting its own budget? Docker's CEO says yes.
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst On How He Plans To Win The Container Market.
Docker, Inc. still on that cost take-out strategy:
“What we’re seeing at companies like MetLife or Northern Trust is they’re taking their app and infrastructure management cost, and cutting it in half. Let’s say that you can cut 50 million dollars out of your app and infrastructure management cost, which by the way, some of our customers are at. That’s 50 million dollars you can go spend on innovation. That’s not going to the CEO and saying look, I need another hundred million dollars in my budget. That’s freeing up 50-100 million dollars of your existing budget.”
Bro. So the message is “Docker will cut $50m [annually?] out of your IT budget.” $12.5m a quarter in extra cash? That kind of shit could make quarterly numbers. Could that even be real? Bruh.
Salesforce.com, Inc. CRM: MuleSoft, Revisited - Mule “application integration revenue could quickly scale to $1B+” over next 2 to 3 years.
Google Cloud Platform breaks into leader category in Gartner's Magic Quadrant.
Google reps breath a sigh of relief.
Weekly “get off my lawn” segment, monitoring corner edition
Sensu overvu.
Flat vs. hierarchical - You’ll always end up with a reverse tree, complete with those little plus signs at each leaf to expand what’s under it.
Important nonsense
Daily Deal: Nope Portable Sound Microphone Blockers 2-Pack
Conferences, et. al.
May 29th, 2018 - Coté speaking at DevOps meetup in Seoul.
May 31st, 2018 - Coté speaking at DevOps Singapore Meetup.
June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking at Voxxed Days, Singapore.
June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam - come get a sticker!
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too!
Recommendations
Brandon: Deadpool 2.
Matt: The Terror AMC mini-series.
Coté: PodCTL podcast, e.g., episode #35; Madam Mam’s Yum Green Bean dish; Tasty Meats Paul’s cold open style.
Sponsored By:
Datadog Free Trial: This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial today!
DevOpsDays: Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Promo Code: SDT2018
59 min
May 18, 2018Episode 135: Coté's magical, mystery mortgage application workflow, or, "serverless: WTAFF?!"
We discuss recent kubernetes news, London, and whatever the hell "serverless" is.
If you’re lucky enough to have access, check out Hammond & Rymer’s Jan 2018 report on serverless, it’s amazingly good and helpful.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt This week Datadog wants you to know about their upcoming conference DashCon, in NYC on July 11th-12th. You can register to attend at https://www.dashcon.io/
DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018
Relevant to your interests
Upbound emerges from stealth, raises $9M from GV to build a multicloud platform on Kubernetes
Another thing k8s doesn’t do…I guess? “The eight-person Seattle-based startup plans to build a platform that will let Kubernetes users interested in multicloud deployments build services that scale across multiple public clouds and help those companies deploy their applications across those environments.”
DC/OS for all the DC/OS’es. It’s DC/OS’es all the way down.
(I’m glad they linked to the wikipedia definition for “lingua franca.”)
As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wake
This about 1/3 of what a good, internal strategy memo would be. Needs market-sizing, forecasts, and, well, more numbers. If it also said what action to take, you’d have most of it there.
Is K8s Too Complicated?
AWS Won Serverless – now all your software are kinda belong to them
You know what old Jack Burton always says in a time like this: “I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE HELL THAT MEANS!”
"We can't be more than one to two years from Amazon hitting that 2 per cent of the serverless (i.e. platform) market. Which means, if you're going to counter play then NOW (not six months later) is the time to be dropping $5 to $10bn on that counter play."
See also…
Serverless is going to crush Kubernetes (but only in a theoretical world which doesn’t actually exist) - oh boy…
CoreOS Is New Linux, Not A RHEL Classic Killer: ‘Importantly, the OpenShift platform cloud software, which included Red Hat’s own implementation of the Kubernetes container controller, will be deployable on either the full-on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in pets mode or the minimalist Red Hat CoreOS in cattle mode. But it will be using the Tectonic version of the Kubernetes controller going forward as well as integrating the Prometheus monitoring tool and etcd for storing telemetry. Gracely tells The Next Platform that the implementation of Kubernetes had outside dependencies such as the CloudForms hybrid cloud management tool (formerly ManageIQ) and was not “native” to Kubernetes in the same way that Tectonic is, meaning free of outside dependenies.’
Developer Advocate Wars / Arms Race - outward and inner…kingmakers
Google now says controversial AI voice calling system will identify itself to humans - that sort of defeats the whole point.
Important nonsense
Long, loooooong MAN!
Conferences, et. al.
May 22 to 25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.
June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking at Voxxed Days, Singapore.
Also, Coté doing some meetups in Korea (May 29th) and Singapore (May 31st), URLs pending.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote.
Listener Feedback
Colin from Scotland got a sticker. Says he always learns something and enjoys the banter. Tells us to “Keep up the excellent work!”
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too!
Recommendations
Brandon: Costco Passport Photos.
Coté: Pors-Ela international travel adaptor thing.
Sponsored By:
DevOpsDays: Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Promo Code: SDT2018
Datadog Free Trial: This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial today!
1 hr 29 min
May 11, 2018Episode 134: “Hardly enough diggities”
Conference season is upon us so we recap all the announcements from Google I/O and Microsoft Build. We also discuss the Mesosphere funding and attempt to deceiver what exactly they are doing with DC/OS. Finally, we have recommendations for Mother’s Day gifts, making kid lunches and some talk of the Lego Millennium Falcon.
Relevant to your interests
Mesosphere Scores $125M in Funding to Target IoT, Geo Expansion more coverage from George Leopold.
Twitter signs for Google cloud at list price of about $10m a month
Oath to Use More AWS Cloud as It Expands Video Play
Microsoft Build 2018: Top Five Takeaways from Jeffery Hammond at Forrester
RedHat OpenShift running on Azure Stack and Azure, partnership.
See also the RedHat/IBM partnership along the same lines, plus nifty history of the two collaborating.
Miniature ponies!
CoreOS folded into Red Hat product suite, the old “reverse integration.”
The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2018
15 Google I/O announcements.
Serverless Survey: +77% Delivery Speed, 4 Dev Workdays/Mo Saved & -26% AWS Monthly Bill
Related, Serverless to take over like space carpets.
Azure at Microsoft Build Announcements| Microsoft Azure
JEDI mind tricks: Brakes slammed on Pentagon's multibillion cloud deal
AWS numbers reveal extent of Aussie growth
IBM bans all removable storage, for all staff, everywhere
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DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
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Nonsense
Google Duplex making an appointment on the phone
Lego Millennium Falcon, enterprise edition.
Conferences, et. al.
NEXT WEEK! May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
May 16 to 17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong
May 22 to 25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.
June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking at Voxxed Days, Singapore.
June 7th, 2018 - DC Cloud Native Meetup, “Beyond ‘Survival is Not Mandatory.’”
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
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Recommendations
Matt Ray: New phone, Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact.
Brandon: Postal Service - Against All Odds & A Quiet Place
Coté: Chasing Hillary, Amy Chozick.
Photo Credit Bridget Kromhout
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1 hr 6 min
May 04, 2018Episode 133: If only there was some way to automate software deploys, hopefully with yaml…?
There’s a lot of container and kubernetes news this week what with KubeCon. We discuss some highlights from there, including Google’s gVisor project, angling to make life more secure in cloud native land. We then discuss Red Hat’s Operators, Chef, and related ways to package up applications and related configuration for deployment onto cloud platforms. Plus, once again, we finally solve how to calendar better.
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DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018
Housekeeping
Make sure to subscribe to the CashedOut.coffee podcast if you like Coté shit.
Week’s wunderkammer
Calendaring - Coté uses BusyCal, anything better? I can’t get behind that Fantastical as I want full visual, not that weird listing thing. Am I wrong?
Avengers corner: Avengers: Infinity War: Marvel’s Superhero Hair Is Full of Secrets: “To put it in a nutshell, the shorter the hair, the more precarious a character’s relationship with traditional femininity.”
Relevant to your interests
Kube news and Kubecon announcements
The Top Challenges Kubernetes Users Face with Deployment
Updated CNCF Landscape Slide. Serveless is now on its own slide.
Google, Oracle and others announce new developments at Kubernetes Conference | Computing
Oracle Adds New Support for Open Serverless Standards to Fn Project and Key Kubernetes Features to Oracle Container Engine
Now that Kubernetes has won, DigitalOcean takes a late dip in K8s
Updated CNCF Landscape Slide. Serveless is now on its own slide.
Google Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring helps developers find problems in Kubernetes apps
Google open sources gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime
Kata Containers/CLEAR Linux
VMware’s project Photon
Cloud 66 Introduces The Complete Container Delivery Pipeline
CNCF, Oracle Boost Serverless Standardization Efforts
Product Updates: Habitat goes to KubeCon EU! - Chef Blog
Red Hat Releases a Framework to Easily Package Applications for Kubernetes
Red Hat Launches All-In-One Data Center Storage Solution
Oh, Snap! Blockchain is not a big deal
The Best VPN Service
You Are Not Google – Bradfield
The Built to Adapt Benchmark Will Help Companies Set a New Course
- #NotMyTech.
Maybe blockchain is not such a big deal: ““In its annual survey of IT leaders, the analyst firm found that just 1 per cent are already using blockchain and only 8 per cent plan to experiment with it in the short term…. In contrast, a third of the 293 respondents said they had no interest in blockchain, and a further 43 per cent said they had no action planned but the tech was "on the radar" – hardly surprising given that it's thrown into just about every product announcement going.”
Snap Inc. again shows why it should not have become a public company
"Spiegel's performance on the conference call underscored the folly of giving an untested entrepreneur unassailable control over a company."
"Sounding like a bargain-basement knock-off of Mark Zuckerberg
Spotify stock plunges after reporting earnings for the first time
# Nonsense
Texas teen reveals secret to 'free' H-E-B doughnuts you already know
Sorry, millennials. The average age of a successful entrepreneur is a lot older than you think.
'Holy grail' of guns made: Company sells $4.5M pistols made from 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite
Python could be lurking in Austin Lake Hills neighborhood
Conferences, et. al.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
May 16 to 17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong
May 22 to 25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.
June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking at Voxxed Days, Singapore.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too!
Recommendations
Brandon: When Wolves Bite
Matt Ray: Slack Themes.
Coté: Noodle bar at Cathy loung in Hong Kong - “The Wing, Business” in terminal 1 by gates 2, 3, and 4. IT, the new movie. The book - meh?
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DevOpsDays: Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Promo Code: SDT2018
1 hr 13 min
April 30, 2018Episode 132: Capturing dumpling juice, the Pentagon selects AWS, & Thor
Eating dumplings, it turns out, is more complicated than just sticking them in your dumpling hole, as Coté found out in Bangkok thanks to a Singaporean friend. We’re live-to-tape from DevOpsDays Jakarta this episode, just Coté and Matt Ray. We discuss the Pentagon’s stubbornness of (seemingly) picking just one cloud provider for their major cloud project and then have an oddly lengthy discussion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt
Datadog wants you to know they monitor all kinds of data about Amazon EC2 instances. You can try it out by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt.
Week’s wunderkammer
SmugMug buys flickr - Coté can’t download all his photos.
DevOpsDays Jakarta, 2018.
Relevant to your interests
US military says “get of my lawn, you kids” to AWS mono-usage
‘Rival contractors complain that the winner-take-all approach favors Amazon.com Inc., the biggest supplier of cloud services. But Pentagon officials made clear they have little patience for continuing debate over the issue. In response to a question on the “rationale for a single award for this contract,” the answer posted was blunt: “This rationale is not going to be published at this time.”’
More: “It was a decision the department made based on its needs, so adding context there doesn’t benefit us.”
But, actually, it’s just one pick for now: “The contract, known as JEDI -- for the the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud Program -- won’t prevent the Defense Department from working with other cloud vendors in the future.” IBM doth protest too much?
Check out Bloomberg’s layman’s definition of cloud: “Cloud services -- in which computing power and storage are hosted in remote data centers run by a third-party company rather than on-site in locally owned machines -- can make it easier for large organizations to move and integrate data across different platforms, quickly expand the data storage it needs based on usage and make system-wide security upgrades to software.” Not too shabby, and it thankfully doesn’t mention THE CYBER.
Conferences, et. al.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
May 16-17, 2018 - Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong
May 22-25, 2018 - ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.
June 1st, 2018 - Coté at Voxxed Days, Singapore.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too!
Listener Feedback
Icinga is the Nagios fork, so says Shaun.
Recommendations
Coté: Coté doesn’t remember what he recommended.
Matt: Aphex Twin’s Cheetah EP
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DevOpsDays: Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Promo Code: SDT2018
1 hr 6 min
April 20, 2018Episode 131: How to eat (Hill Country) BBQ, plus, PE in systems management
It’s hard to be a medium sized systems management (“monitoring”) company: you either have to niche it out and exit early, or go big. With some recent funding and PE activity in that area, Brandon and Coté discuss that. Also, a detailed HOWTO on eating Texas BBQ.
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This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt
Datadog wants you to know they monitor all kinds of data about Amazon EC2 instances. You can try it out by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt.
Housekeeping
Listen to Brandon and Satish talk about product management on Software Defined Interviews.
Make sure to subscribe to the CashedOut.coffee podcast if you like Coté shit.
Week’s wunderkammer
New MacBook Pro:
The touchbar is pretty cool. I do keep hitting “back” because I’m used to resting my fingers on that part of the keyboard. Whatever.
The speakers are very nice too, like the iPad Pro.
Migrate Utility is either easy to screw up or not fully baked.
Dropbox gets a little confused with how long something will take.
USB-C: I’m just here so I don’t get fined.
How to eat (Hill Country) BBQ
Order a plate - two meats (always brisket if it's your first time, then lady's choice), beans, Cole slaw. I’d skip the bread, but load up on onions, and pickles if they’re you’re thing
Eat all the BBQ.
Eat with your fingers.
Don't put sugar on your meat.
Don’t tell people how to eat BBQ, or argue about dry rubs and sauce. Just eat.
Relevant to your interests
HCL buys into hybrid data management with majority stake in Actian:
451: “Actian is being acquired in an all-cash deal valued at $330m by a JV in which HCL Technologies owns 80% and Sumeru Equity Partners the remaining 20%”
451: “Actian told us in March [of 2018?] that revenue was back up to more than $100m while headcount totaled approximately 300." They also own Pervasive (including Data Junction for ETL/integration soup-to-nuts), y’all: “In 2013, Pervasive Software was acquired by Actian Corporation for $161.9 million. Actian had initially made offers in August 2012 starting at $154 million 30% higher than its shares traded at the time.”
Vista buys Logic Monitor from Providence. Meanwhile, AppDynamics seems fine.
Sensu raises $10M to build a robust monitoring system for all your different operations.
Microsoft’s Linux Distro, for Azure Sphere - IoT, edge device stuff: an edge device in every home, office, street corner, etc. More from El Reg.
Announcing Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0.
Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud.
Database decisions: AWS has changed the game for IT.
The Platform Matters More Than Ever, The Operating System Less So
For the first time ever, Microsoft will distribute its own version of Linux.
OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong.
After Months of Development, B3i's Blockchain Prototype Is Ready for Testing.
Nonsense
KITECH Dual Arm Robot: using scissors.
A sea of Mark Zuckerberg cutouts has taken over the Capitol lawn.
Conferences, et. al.
April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta - Matt is keynoting, and Coté will be speaking too.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
May 16-17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong
May 22-25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too!
Listener Feedback
Jonathan from Denver says we are the best and we sent him a sticker
Jody was binging the Software Defined Talk backlog and asked for a sticker
Recommendations
Brandon: Killers of the Flower Moon and Travis Country Texas Online Property Tax Appeal.
Coté: The Grand barbershop, Austin - they got all the whatnots. Also, Stiles Switch: this is how a beef rib is supposed to be.
Sponsored By:
Datadog Free Trial: This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial today!
DevOpsDays: Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Promo Code: SDT2018
55 min
April 12, 2018 Episode 130: CROSS-OVER BONUS! Christopher Luciano on Kubernetes & Istio - Software Defined Interviews
Why does kubernetes even exist, why don’t existing things work just as well for it? And then what kind of applications can you run on it, at least following the original intentions. Once we sort that out, we talk about the same for Istio. We also discuss hospital IT and how large companies like IBM decide which open source projects to work on.
Also, Coté helps you turn eating sugar-encrusted pecans into a Buddhist moment.
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1 hr 30 min

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