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November 02, 2017Episode 110: s/private cloud/hybrid cloud/ig
This week, if you can stand it, we talk about why kubernetes won (no solid conclusions are reached), the announcement around Cisco and Google, and IBM’s new private cloud stack, “IBM Cloud Private.”
This week’s exegesis
The Corporate Podcast, plus EBC’ing - sign-up and listen!
Last week we looked at The Lone Wolf Analyst, by way of Ben Thompson.
This week in kubernetes
Why did kubernetes win? (Nerds like to tinker, Google brand? Did the rest of us just need to buy more native advertising in The New Stack?)
Cisco and Google
Not really sure what this Cisco/Google thing is. What does Cisco bring to the table?
“Cisco's HyperFlex platform that includes management tools to enforce security and other policies as applications and services are released with greater frequency.”
Private cloud bundling of kubernetes, Istio, all the great cloud natives.
"This is what we hear customers ask for," Diane Greene.
Big picture: what’s Google’s goal here? Is it really as simple as “on-ramp?”
Even bigger picture: how did it kubernetes win?
IBM’s private cloud stack
So, is the “Blue Mix” brand out the mix?
IBM page: “Overview of IBM Cloud Private.” Another announcement overview.
“Is built on the latest versions of Kubernetes and Docker” - what that mean?
Jeffrey Burt: “IBM Cloud Private can run on a variety of infrastructures, including the vendor’s own mainframe and Power systems, its hyperconverged infrastructure that runs Nutanix software, and IBM Storage’s Spectrum Access solution. In addition, it can run on systems from Dell EMC, Lenovo, Cisco Systems and NetApp, and can be deployed by such VMware, Canonical and other OpenStack distributions as well as bare-metal systems. The private cloud platform also includes such developer services for data analytics as Db2, Db2 Warehouse, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, developer tools like Netcool, UrbanCode, and Cloud Brokerage and open-source management software such as Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, and ElasticSearch.”
Chris Mellor, The Register:
All the great middleware now in (Docker) containers: “IBM has provided containerised versions of WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty, MQ, and DB2, plus Microservice Builder as software bundle components. For example, Cloud Private for Application Modernization provides Cloud Private capabilities plus WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, MQ Advanced, API Connect Professional, DB2 Direct Advanced and Urban Code Deploy.”
Value-prop’in! “The standout aim is to help legacy apps transition to a more cloud-native style of construction and operation so that they can run inside a public cloud-like environment on-premises – private cloud – and connect to and/or be integrated with public clouds in some fashion. The destination in IBM's view, of the evolution of legacy apps is the hybrid cloud with private cloud as a stepping stone.”
The white papers also mention “regulated industries” and the like.
Goin’ for that enterprise cloud, hey, boy.
Also: Coté’s highlights, brief coverage from Tom Krazit at GeekWire.
An oral history of “bursting”: from 2010 to 2017.
Congress now follows you
Kind of a dick move to not send the CEOs.
Holy Shit! “Revealing exactly what was smeared all over the internet during the 2016 elections would, we reckon, be like opening Pandora's box: it would allow citizens to join the dots between Kremlin-crafted lies, the gradual acceptance of those lies online, the discussion and even promotion of said lies on mainstream news networks, resulting in, presumably, dozens of clips of senators responding with indignation about made-up information. In short, everyone is going to look like a chump if it turns out everything argued over last year was based on nothing but Kremlin-devised myths and urban legends. Rumors, in other words, designed to destabilize American politics and perhaps install a preferred candidate in the White House.”
Looks like my rep has been keeping up on Ben Thompson: ‘Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) asked: "Why should you be treated any differently to the press?" All three California outfits responded with a version of the fact that they are "platforms" and not publishers, that their content is user-created, and that they protect people's right to free speech and expression. Cornyn made it clear he was not persuaded. "They may be a distinction lost on most of us," he said.’
Speaking of…Ben nails the analysis:
“Facebook served [an estimated] 276 million unique ads per quarter, and my entire point was the same as Kennedy’s: there is no way that Facebook could ever review every ad, much less investigate who is behind them, without completely ruining their revenue model.”
‘What this hearing highlighted, though, is the degree to which the position of Facebook in particular has become more tenuous. The fact of the matter is that Facebook (and Google) is more powerful than any entity we have seen before. Magnifying the problem is that, over the last year, Facebook has decided to “take responsibility”, and what is that but a commitment to exercise their control over what people see?’
Tech industry doesn’t think/care about the effects of their products
https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/925828976882282496
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show
MongoIPO
Don’t hate if you have options.
## Australasian technology update - what’s the long-term plan at Atlassian?
"Revenue climbed 41.7% year over year to $193.8 million.”
Things are going well down under.
Well, they do spend as much on R&D as sales & marketing. Compare to Mongo, which is 1:2 or so.
Misc
Using the Correct Tool for the Job written by J Asghar
- Monetizing The Hot Dog - I’m sure the VC stockholders are ecstatic about this development
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack.
Mid-roll & Conferences
Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray
The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something!
Coté’s junk:
Innotech Microservices Conference, Austin, 11/16/2017.
SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Coté and many others speaking.
Matt’s on the Road!
November 6-7 - AgileNZ
November 10 - Microsoft Open Source Roadshow
Recommendations
Matt Ray: Kevin Shields/Brian Eno collaboration, “Only Once Away My Son.”
Brandon: Mindhunter and Netflix Skip Intro
Coté: Programmed Inequality.
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54 min
October 20, 2017Episode 109: I’m getting Kubernetes Stockholm syndrome
Docker’s now into kubernetes, being the last major vendor outside of Amazon to latch the orchestration framework into its strategy. Yup, as usual, it’s pretty much just kubernetes business yappin’.
This week’s exegesis
We’ll be looking at The Four this week in the exegesis podcast. Coté is vacillating between upset and ¯_(ツ)_/¯
$1 Class-action settlements
Got my Apple iBooks pay-day!
It was $1.14.
For $1.14, I don’t think any sort of crime was committed. Coffee costs triple that (double if you shop around). Sounds like a big waste of time and money.
Did I ever tell you about that refund gift card from T-Mobile I got? For 3 cents? What the fuck I do with that?
Soon we’ll all bow to kubernetes
Docker adds in support, official web-page with burger and brief value-props, and over at The New Stack.
Now we can all just start The Battle of Death by a Thousand Value-props. E.g., hittin’ up that security angle hard-core, talking about easily migrate-n-save for existing apps.
Dave Bartoletti, Forrester: ‘said it's clear that Kubernetes has won at the orchestration layer. "There's too much mindshare around it," he said in a phone interview with The Register. "There are too many developers who just want this.”’…”Bartoletti said he expects vendors will try to move up the stack by providing security, integration, workflow, and managed services. He said Docker now will be free to focus on trying to be the best container platform for enterprises.”
Looks like Bartoletti was the analyst sent around, he shows up in other coverage.
Derrick Harris’s take: “The problem is that it’s difficult to make enterprise sales when users want open source at the lower layers and to pay (real money, at least) at layers they deem more strategic. If that’s Kubernetes, then Docker either needs to support it commercially, or let someone else take all the revenue from the orchestration layer up while Docker keeps on spending money to keep the free part of the puzzle chugging. By supporting Kubernetes as part of Docker Enterprise, it now can make the argument that nobody understands containers better than Docker does, and there’s now no real reason to not pay for its enterprise version.”
MTA IN DA HIZ-OUSE!
“We’ve seen 100 percent success rate for applications that meet our criteria across hundreds of Java and .NET applications. Customers are able to see these results in five days or less.
“Johnston added that some customers are able to double the release frequency of their software and cut total cost of ownership by 50 percent.”
Snoopy on that shit: “MetLife applied this modernization pattern in one day to their Java application. They were able to look across their portfolio and identify 600 other applications that fit this pattern, for a 66 percent savings on total cost of ownership. That nets out to millions of dollars at MetLife. They have over 6,000 applications they want to apply this to.”
Meanwhile, earlier this month, more for the whale: “[Docker] has been putting together a $75 million funding round, which would bring the total amount of money raised by the company to $255 million.”
IBM Wins the Cloud
That revenue!
Hopefully IBM figures it out.
Tech people
Coté’s Register column this month is on “the skills gap,” hiring in tech.
Coincidently, there’s also a story on The Olds in tech.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
Misc.
Brandon’s favorite chart updated.
Oracle says don’t do custom IT.
One of the better recordings of Coté’s talk is up, from DevOpsDays Kansas City.
Red Hat likely to be a $3bn company soon - 24 years in the making. Open source is hella hard.
Ben on MongoDB S1: “This is the key to understanding SaaS companies: the first year is hugely negative because of sales costs, but future years are hugely profitable because the customer doesn’t go anywhere.” SaaS businesses are subscription businesses, profits in the out-years.
This week in Azure Stack
Dell has some info out on the SKUs and such.
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack.
Mid-roll & Conferences
Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray
The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something!
Coté’s junk:
Solarwinds THWACKcamp, all online Oct 18th and 19th. DevOps panel on Oct 19th, noon central. http://thwackcamp.com.
All Day DevOps, Oct 24th - Coté is speaking, 2:45pm central.
Fedscoop Digital Transformation Summit, in DC Oct 26th. Meetup the night before on EA & DevOps.
SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Coté and many others speaking.
Matt’s on the Road!
October 25-26/27-28 DevOps Days Singapore/PowerShell Asia
November 6-7 - AgileNZ
Recommendations
Brandon: Machine Learning.
Matt Ray: Roseheaven, Utopia.
Coté: now that it’s getting cooler: Patagonia Men's Merlow Wool 1/4-Zip Sweater. I have two!
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52 min
October 12, 2017 Episode 108: FIXED! MOLLE all the dongles, DevOps snipe hunting, Docker (claims it) cuts cost by 50%
Has everyone gone kubernetes crazy? It seems like most buyers and sellers at least want it as an option and are, if you prefer the word, capitulating to supporting it. In past weeks most all vendors - even Oracle! - have announced support and road-maps for using Google’s container orchestrator in their cloud-native stacks. Also, Chef and Puppet have new suites of tools, Docker sets its sites clearly on reducing VMware costs, and there’s some new momentum stats on the Cloud Foundry ecosystem.
Do people actually do the DEV-ops?
DevOps sounds cool, but, SREs?
See discussion over on Coté Show (http://www.cote.show/40).
Chef launches Habitat Builder SaaS
Habitat Builder for the People (https://www.habitat.sh/blog/2017/10/Habitat-Builder-for-the-People/)
Adam Jacob’s commentary (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/917417673960644608)
James Governor’s take (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/10/10/whats-on-your-plate-twelve-factortraditional-hybid-apps-and-habitat/)
TNS coverage (https://thenewstack.io/chef-launches-saas-version-habitat-build/), plus, bold muscle-t choice! Celebrate it!
We all succumbing to the cloud-native, even Oracle
JavaEE off the Eclipse, to be more modular (again).
Some deep kubernetes talk (https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/10/04/oracle-emulates-google-aws-cloud/).
Chef (https://blog.chef.io/2017/10/09/habitat-builder-fastest-path-code-cloud-native/) and Puppet (http://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/300093676/puppet-launches-barrage-of-products-to-enable-new-age-of-software-automation-and-devops.htm) and Pivotal and insert company here supporting kubernetes.
CF Summit EU
Round-up press release (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/third-annual-cloud-foundry-european-summit-begins-today-in-basel/) - mostly more on kubernetes in the Cloud Foundry world (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cloud-foundry-launches-container-runtime-default-container-deployment-method-cloud-foundry-using-kubernetes-bosh/). Some Istio mentioning, adding legitimacy to that effort; see Istio discussion in episode #96 (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/96).
James “my flight got canceled” Governor coverage (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/10/11/some-thoughts-on-cloud-foundry-summit/):
“enterprises now account for more than 40% of Cloud Foundry’s membership”
“Kubernetes too is seeing plenty of tyre kicking, but nowhere near the level of enterprise commitment [to Cloud Foundry] at this point.”
“54% of Cloud Foundry target Amazon Web Services as a platform, that 40% of users are targeting VMware vSphere certainly [i]s” - I assume this is across all distros and OSS, which makes sense. In Pivotal land, it’s mostly on on-premises VMware, last I checked.
Habitat and Cloud Foundry (http://https://blog.chef.io/2017/10/11/running-habitat-apps-cloud-foundry/)
Programming Languages and Code Quality
Large-scale overview of GitHub projects, their languages and their bug reports (https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/10/221326-a-large-scale-study-of-programming-languages-and-code-quality-in-github/fulltext?imm_mid=0f7103cmp=em-prog-na-na-newsltr_20171007)
“The data indicates that functional languages are better than procedural languages; it suggests that disallowing implicit type conversion is better than allowing it; that static typing is better than dynamic; and that managed memory usage is better than unmanaged. Further, that the defect proneness of languages in general is not associated with software domains.”
Docker as a cost-cutter
Their CEO says you can slash costs by 50% (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/300093681/docker-ceo-steve-singh-on-the-vmware-relationship-security-and-the-opportunities-around-containers-for-partners.htm/pgno/0/3).
Meg Whitman says it’s more like 40% (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/data-center/300093601/hpe-ceo-meg-whitman-on-upcoming-changes-to-field-compensation-the-impact-of-dell-on-hpes-vmware-relationship-and-why-hardware-still-matters-in-the-software-defined-era.htm/pgno/0/15).
But partners make $7 off of every $1 of Docker spend (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/300093681/docker-ceo-steve-singh-on-the-vmware-relationship-security-and-the-opportunities-around-containers-for-partners.htm/pgno/0/5) - does that math work? Scenario:
I used to pay $2 for VMware (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/300093681/docker-ceo-steve-singh-on-the-vmware-relationship-security-and-the-opportunities-around-containers-for-partners.htm/pgno/0/4), now I pay $1 for Docker (50% reduction).
But it costs me $7 to get there, giving me a one time payment of net $8, and, hopefully, just $1 a year after that? (Never mind opex vs. capex GAAP-crap.)
So, then: after 4+ years I’ll start saving money? (with VMware, I would have paid $2/yr., so $8 total, and with Docker over that four year period I pay $8 first year, $1 next three years, so $11 total - hrmm..where’s Excel when you need it?)
Follow-up from 2011: so, Docker really is about replacing VMware…?
Overall, this
1 hr
October 04, 2017 WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Just another kubernetes article
This week, we look at an article from Susan Hall at The New Stack. Susan is a solid reporter, so looking at her piece allows us to discuss the world and machination of the tech press, what it’s like to brief them, and our imagination of what it’s like to be a tech reporter.
See the much more detailed notes on this piece.
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1 hr 5 min
September 25, 2017 Episode 107: Live from DevOpsDays Kansas City!
Live from DevOpsDays Kansas City! Coté moderates a panel of speakers from the event. We discuss how widely DevOps is actually practiced, mentoring and filling the tech pipeline, security, and other topics, including Kansas City BBQ.
The guests: @ChloeCondon, @wickett, @kantrn, and Julie Stark. Plus, of course, @cote.
The audio quality is a little weird, so sorry about that.
39 min
September 22, 2017Episode 106: Is “observability” just “instrumentation”? Or, monitoring sucks? No, you suck.
The DevOps kids have decided to come up with a new term “observability.” We get to the bottom of the WTF barrel on what that is - it sounds like a good word-project. Also, there’s a spate of kubernetes news, as always, and some interesting acquisitions. Plus, a micro-iOS 11 review.
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack.
Is “observability” just “instrumentation”?
Write-up from Cindy Sridharan.
This guy: “Thinking directionally, Monitoring is the passive collection of Metrics, logs, etc. about a system, while Observability is the active dissemination of information from the system. Looking at it another way, from the external ‘supervisor’ perspective, I monitor you, but you make yourself Observable.”
So, yes: if developers actually make their code monitorable and manageable…easy street! It’s a good detailing of that important part of DevOps.
Cloud Native Java has a good example with the default “observability” attributes for apps, and then an overview of Zipkin tracing.
Weekly k8s News
Heptio gets funding, now “has raised $33.5 million in funding to date.”
I think we’ll cover this press release in a WP episode.
Also, something called “StackPointCloud” now with the Istio.
Mesosphere adding K8s support - “Guagenti also noted that he believes that Mesosphere is currently a leader in the container space, both in terms of the number of containers its users run in production and in terms of revenue (though the company sadly didn’t share any numbers).”
"I think it’s fair to call Kubernetes the de facto standard for how enterprises will do container orchestration,” Derrick Harris.
Is Kubernetes Repeating OpenStack’s Mistakes? - Boris throwing bombs
Meanwhile, an abstract of a containers penetration study, from RedMonk: "Docker, is running at 71% across Fortune 100 companies. Kubernetes usage is running in some form at 54%, and Cloud Foundry usage is at 50%”
This update from the Cloud Foundry Foundation is a little more, er, “responsible” in pointing out flaws. Instead it just says there’s lots of growth and tire-kicking: 2016/2017 y/y shows those evaluating containers went up from 31% to 42%, while “using” ticked up a tad from 22% to 25%, n=540.
Oracle’s in the CNCF club! K8s on Oracle Linux, K8s for Oracle Public Cloud. “At this point, there really can’t be any doubt that Kubernetes is winning the container orchestration wars, given that virtually every major player is now backing the project, both financially and with code contributions.”
James checks in on Red Hat.
Acquisitions & more!
Rackspace acquires Datapipe “The reason we’re buying them is that we want to extend our leadership in multi-cloud services,” Rackspace chief strategy officer Matt Bradley told me. “It’s a sign and signal that we’re going for it.” Bradley expects that the combined company will make Rackspace the largest private cloud player and the largest managed hosting service.
Datadog acquires Logmatic.io to add log management to its cloud monitoring platform
Puppet Acquires Distelli, known for their Kubernetes dashboard.
Jay Lyman at 451.
Sizing Puppet: “The company has grown to more than 500 employees, and has estimated annual revenue in the $100m range.”
Coverage from Susan Hall: “What we haven’t had up to this point is all the requisite automation for moving infrastructure code and application code through any kind of automated delivery lifecycle” and now they gots that. https://thenewstack.io/puppet-will-extend-infrastructure-automation-capabilities-distelli-acquisition/
“In May, the company launched its Kubernetes dashboard K8S. It allows users to connect repositories, build images from source, then deploy them to that Kubernetes cluster. You can also set up automated pipelines to push images from one cluster to another, promote software from test/dev to prod, quickly roll back and do all this in the context of one or more Kubernetes clusters… The Kubernetes service is offered as a hosted service or in an on-prem version. It provides notifications through Slack.”
Google pays $1.1 billion for HTC team and non-exclusive IP license
Security Corner
The Apple Effect? — Why BMW might get rid of car keys
Don’t blame Apache — EQUIFAX OFFICIALLY HAS NO EXCUSE
Is there anything to do here? Setup layers of credit cards? Require Touch ID (etc.) approval of all financial decisions and transactions in your “account”? Food & Safety like inspectors for security?
Hackers respond to Face ID on the iPhone X
iOS 11
Coté has been running the beta. It seems fine.
There’s the usual Re-arrangement of how some gestures work that’s jarring at first, but after using it for awhile, you forget what they even are.
The extra control center stuff is nice.
The Files.app is interesting, but not too featureful.
The new photo formats are annoying because, you know, non-Apple things need to support it (which they seem to?)
Bonus Links
Coté gives up on defining DevOps, and more
Interview about DevOpsDays Auckland.
Is Solaris dead yet?
Strongly confirmed rumors that Oracle is shutting it down.
This guy has written a big Solaris-brain to Linux-brain manifesto/guide, plus: “[n]owadays, Sun is a cobweb-covered sign at the Facebook Menlo Park campus, kept as a warning to the next generation.” SICK BURN!
Layoffs and more: “In particular, that employees who had given their careers to the company were told of their termination via a pre-recorded call — “robo-RIF’d” in the words of one employee — is both despicable and cowardly.”
HPE
We Can See The New Hewlett Clearly Now, Says CEO Whitman - AI in storage arrays, Docker in OneView.
Clearly?
Making money.
They bought CTP!?
Selling hardware to cloud providers is rough.
Huawei
New board.
Microsoft app support.
We can all agree on food
Someone has to pay attention to this real world stuff.
This Tiny Country Feeds the World
More on VMware/AWS
The possible failures in the partnership - sort of an odd article in that the larger point is “maybe it won’t work.”
Meanwhile, Matt Asay does some loopty-loops on it all.
JEE
Code put in github.
They’re giving it over to the Eclipse Foundation. Probably a good idea.
VMware’s OpenStack
Little report form 451.
“Going forward, users pay a onetime $995-per-CPU socket license fee, in addition to ongoing support.”
Recommendations
Brandon: Prophets of Rage.
Matt:
American Gods, the TV show.
Zero History: finale(?) to William Gibson’s Blue Ant trilogy
LOT: a subscription-based service which distributes a basic set of clothing, footwear, essential self-care products, accessories, and media content.
Engineering the End of Fashion
Coté:
Rick & Morty.
These cultural guides are fucking awesome! See America, Australia, and Latvia (no one sang at the meals I was at!).
Cardenal Mendoza, brandy de jerez. And, you know, cognac/brandy in general - be a fucking adult already, you damn kids.
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1 hr
September 01, 2017 WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Kubernetes container landscapes from Forrester Gartner
This week we look at a recent Forrester paper, “Navigate The Kubernetes Ecosystem,” by Charlie Dai and Dave Bartoletti from June 23rd, 2017 ($499 MSRP). See Charlie’s blog post on the paper, too. Also, because we’re good boys, we added some bonus reading, a similar paper from Gartner.
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1 hr 3 min
August 31, 2017 Episode 105: Kubernetes Rules Everything Around Me, VMworld, Pivotal Container Service
It’s VMworld this week, so there’s fresh news from the Dell Technologies universe to sort through. VMware releases it’s SDDC on AWS scheme and Pivotal announces its container service/stack, Pivotal Container Service (PKS). We discuss both, including a meandering overview of what PKS is and some theory about what enterprises actually want with all that VMware in public cloud. Also, the tragic story of airline and hotel upgrades, like pearls to tired business travelers.
Misc.
Australia is bigger than France (http://imgur.com/z02XGzQ). Checks out (http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/how-big-is-texas-compared-to-other-land-masses/).
Coté got the SSSS TSA search. What fun!
Now you can buy kubernetes from Dell
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIlS4bPUQAEcO6Y.jpg:small
VMware/Pivotal/Google make a kubo distro (https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/2017/08/29/vmware-pivotal-container-service/). Uses BOSH, NSX, and kubo to setup clusters. Will run on vSphere and Google Cloud, promises to work with other Google Cloud services, be continuously updated to be compatible with GCE containers. Also, VMware storage services and comparability with VMware systems management tools.
El Reg coverage (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/30/google_vmware_and_pivotal_team_for_onpremises_kubernetes/), and also from The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/pivotal-container-service-hard-wires-cloud-foundry-kubo-google-cloud/).
TPM (https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/08/29/vmwares-platform-revolves-around-esxi-except-cant/): “The private PKS stack will use vSAN for storage, vRealize Automation for orchestration and governance, vCloud Director for provisioning, and vRealize Operations for monitoring. (So, in theory, one could run the PKS stack on the AWS cloud slices that VMware has partnered with Amazon to create, effectively creating a clone of GKE to run on AWS bare metal iron. . . .)”
More laundry listing of the parts from Google (https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/vmware-and-pivotal-launch-new-hybrid-kubernetes-solution-optimized-gcp/), that is, Google Cloud services you can use in a PKS environment: BigQuery, Bigtable, Spanner, Storage, SQL, Pub/Sub, Vision API, Speech API, Natural Language API, Translate API.
A list of capabilities (https://twitter.com/cloudnativeapps/status/902674269125042176) from Cornelia’s(?) talk, and what BOSH does (https://twitter.com/cloudnativeapps/status/902607633168818176) (and, thus, does in k8 management).
Use it for (https://pivotal.io/pks): “PKS™ is ideal for workloads like Spark and ElasticSearch, and when you need access to infrastructure primitives. Further, use PKS for apps that require specific co-location of container instances, and for those that need multiple port binds.”
The Pod affinity thing here is for when you want to run multiple things grouped together, like with Spark, Elastic Search, etc. where you the different things go together.
More value-props’ing (https://twitter.com/cloudnativeapps/status/902606759176486912):
i.e., kubernetes on it’s own is hard.
As Ramji points out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HErHINvyIA), PKS means you’ll get a consistent, standardized kubernetes/container technology across the Dell Technologies portfolio.
Watters lays it out (https://twitter.com/wattersjames/status/902571713057001472).
Positioning: guidance seems to be that PKS is mostly for large organizations, “enterprises.”
PKS to GA in 2017Q4, pricing then too.
Diagram here (http://www.techrepublic.com/article/vmware-partners-with-pivotal-google-cloud-to-launch-kubernetes-based-container-service/):.
Some vendor exec story-time here (http://social.techcrunch.com/2017/08/29/pivotal-vmware-google-partner-on-container-project/), and Pivotal blog post (https://content.pivotal.io/announcements/introducing-pivotal-container-service-pks-the-simple-way-to-bring-kubernetes-to-enterprise-customers).
So, you can run PCF and PKS side-by-side (https://twitter.com/cloudnativeapps/status/903048428581560320).
See longer explanation from Chad Sakac (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2017/08/vmworld-2017-pivotal-container-services-pks.html):
“historically, [Dell Technologies’] point of view on the container/cluster manager abstraction ecosystem wasn’t clear”
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_57F3D537859409EDBA712760195C49AEF69FA177BC08164311E795F7016DE1F9_1504121396993_PCF+ERT+and+PKS.png
See also this pro'er diagram (https://twitter.com/cote/status/903344343003664386).
Lots of emphasize on a unified, compatible approach/GTM: “We now have a Cloud Native/Digital Transformation stack where there is a SINGLE target we are furiously running towards now as VMware, Pivotal, and Dell EMC – no mis-alignment, no differences in PoV. “
Market context: (https://cote.io/2017/06/02/451s-container-orchestration-usage-survey-notebook/)
You may recall Coté’s summary of the CoreOS commissioned 451 survey (https://cote.io/2017/06/02/451s-container-orchestration-usage-survey-notebook/), which linked to a 2016(?) Gartner survey (https://www.gartner.com/document/3574617) where 18% of respondents had containers in production, with 4% being “significant production”
That CoreOS/451 survey (https://cote.io/2017/06/02/451s-container-orchestration-usage-survey-notebook/) had a very important footnote: the survey respondents were already running containers already. It was more about which container orchestration platforms they liked.
It was hard to do conclusive ranking of container orchestrators since people were using multiple ones. But, if you lump together CoreOS’s kubernetes distro with generic kubernetes, kubernetes wins out over Docker Swarm, 49% vs. 36%.
Meanwhile (https://www.gartner.com/document/3782167): “By 2020, 50%+ of global enterprises will be running containerized applications in production, up from 20% today.”
RedMonk’s “developers are the kingmakers” theory (https://thenewkingmakers.com/), more (http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/09/09/the-new-kingmakers/).
SDDC on VMware
Run the VMware stack on AWS, out of beta (http://www.eweek.com/virtualization/vmware-goes-ga-with-its-development-cloud-on-aws): “For the IT and software development sectors, the deal means that VMware mainstays such as all its software-defined data center ware—vCenter, NSX, vSphere, VSAN and others—will run on AWS instead of VMware's own cloud.”
Pricing (http://searchaws.techtarget.com/news/450425287/Enterprises-weigh-VMware-Cloud-on-AWS-as-vendors-pivot-cloud-strategies)?
”The three-year contract costs $109,366 per host, which would save about 50% compared to the on-demand hourly billing rate, according to VMware. Another program can cut costs by up 25% based on their on-premises VMware product licenses, as long as those on-premises products remain active…. There are separate charges for IP and data transfers, as the standard AWS egress fees still apply. Each host has 2 CPUs, 36 cores, 72 hyper-threads, 512 GiB RAM and local flash storage.” - ”the estimated total cost of ownership for VMware Cloud on AWS is up to $0.09 per VM per hour, according to VMware”
More pricing info (https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/08/29/vmwares-platform-revolves-around-esxi-except-cant/) from TPM: “The base on demand price for this server is $8.3681 per hour, which works out to around $6,109 per month.”
Cloud-context, from Derrick Harris (http://news.architecht.io/issues/but-does-aws-really-need-vmware-71628): “Look at the companies’ most-recent fiscal years—2016—during which VMware grew about 9 percent to just over $7 billion in revenue, while AWS grew about 45 percent to more than $12.2 billion in revenue (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-posts-3-5b-revenue-47-last-year/). It’s on pace for about $16 billion in revenue in 2017.”
And, more from Derrick (http://news.architecht.io/issues/but-does-aws-really-need-vmware-71628) on public cloud companies ever elusive quest to grab on-premises workloads and revenue: “There will continue to be a lot of big workloads running inside company data centers. If AWS and Google really want a shot at owning them, they’ll probably need to get their hands (and code) a little dirty by going to where those applications live and showing there’s a better way of doing things.”
It makes you wonder if a strategy for public cloud companies going behind-the-firewall is just wishful projection on the on-premise set’s part. 451 surveys a predicting (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=93256type=misalertid=678contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2utm_source=sendgridutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=market-insightutm_content=newsletterutm_term=93256-Featured+Data%3A+By+2019%2C+60%25+of+IT+workloads+will+run+in+the+cloud) that by 2019, 60% of work-loads will run on cloud technologies (across public, hosted, and private), with under 25% on private cloud (hosted/managed and on-premises).
VMworld, in general
Round-up of news (http://www.zdnet.com/article/vmworld-2017-everything-you-need-to-know-about-vmwares-hybrid-cloud-strategy/) from Larry Dignan - lot’s of security stuff, of which Coté has no clue. And, of course, the VDI/desktop stuff. It’s like the old Project Octopus era vision of VMware.
Delving into VMware financials (https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/08/29/vmwares-platform-revolves-around-esxi-except-cant/), and some product portfolio strategy typing.
VIO, VMware’s OpenStack distro has a few production users, but, “for the most part customers are deploying it for their development and test environments, where programmers want to embrace OpenStack and the IT managers want to keep everything on a VMware substrate”
VIO pricing: “The other thing that is new with VIO 4.0 is that i
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August 25, 2017Episode 104: “When I go to the grocery store, I just buy the bananas” - Amazon/Whole Goods, J(2)EE, building your own kubernetes stack
Come Monday, we’ll see what full-on “digital transformation” looks like when Amazon fully owns Whole Foods. Also, Oracle is looking to move JEE to a foundation, closing out a long era of Java stewardship: how will “open source” like this work in a mature market? We also discuss the trend of private equity buying tech firms and GitHib’s write-up of building their own platform with kubernetes and series of small bash scripts.
Traveling to China
Coté is a terrible work-trip tourist.
AA 263, DFW to PEK, seat 19K. Exit row seat is good, but the front part of the airplane looked good too (rows 8 to 13?).
Pack some breakfast tacos.
This VPN situation is a mess, rather, I didn’t prepare correctly. Sometimes Cloak works, sometimes it doesn’t. LTE seems better than hotel wifi, but the speeds are high.
Amazon Whole Foods update
All done on Monday, August 28th. See NY Times article as well.
John Mackey interview.
Cheaper private label (I think they were top three or five sold in US).
Return items in Amazon lockers.
Cheaper groceries is cool, but for us, the interesting/instructive things to watch will be how Whole Foods goes full on digital transformation (or, even more eyebrow raising, does not!).
Will they move everything to AWS?
true Omni-channel and digital madness.
Alexa: ”You look fat in that t-shirt, Michael, would you like me to order you some organic kale smoothies from Whole Foods?”
Also, the potential for a culture clash seems high.
As a side-effect, expect grocers to be trying out new computer stuff more, and observe their experience. How will the razor thin margin set cope with Amazon who’s been consistently rewarded for loosing money?
Walmart and Google Hub thing, Andrew on the AI winter.
The Undying J(2)EE
Oracle looking to open source it, move it to a foundation.
This worked out relativly OK for Java proper. It was hella weird, though, and I’m not sure the OSS version ever gained traction: maybe for, like, whatever Google, AWS, and Azure’s JRE is.
Using this as a competitive ¯_(ツ)_/¯ is dicey, most people who compete here do open core themselves…so you can’t really say it’s bad; and if Oracle’s goal is to move it away from Oracle, you can’t say that Oracle is mismanaging it, etc.
John Waters’ round-up of opinions, pretty predictable.
Steve Yegge’s Kotlin Writeup, The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2017.
Kubernetes at GitHub
Just a few bash scripts, eh? Here, hold my beer.
Real world discussion about moving one of their most popular services to Kubernetes. Sounds like the real deal, but there are a few bumps in the road.
# PE to do 25% of tech M&A
At least the analysis confirms this notion.
That said, the underlying numbers are weird: “Between direct acquisitions and deals done by portfolio companies, PE firms are on pace to purchase roughly 900 tech companies in 2017.”
Who exactly are these 900 tech companies?
Speaking of, a PE firm bought ThoughtWorks.
ICO stuff, Coté is confused.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
Alibaba Dwarfs Amazon
That’s a lot of revenue growth.
Not on the cloud computing side yet, but definitely on the retail side.
Coté: what’s the deal with Alipay being so hard to setup for Yankees? They really, really want a bankcard. Also, I don’t speak Chinese.
Rescuing Open Source from Failed Startups
bet365 buying and open sourcing Basho stuff.
“It is our intention to open source all of Basho's products and all of the source code that they have been working on."Hi
See previously RethinkDB by the CNCF
Pivotal news - build pipelines
Concourse is out, see also CRN coverage.
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack.
Mid-roll
Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray
NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville, $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting - October 17th and 18th, 2017.
NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Kansas City, September 21st and 22nd.
Use the code SDT2017 when you register.
PLUS we have one free ticket to give away. So, we need to figure out how to do that.
Coté speaking at DevOps Riga, also will be at DevOpsDays London and Devoxx Belgium.
Coté will also be at Devoxx Belgium, Nov 6th and 10th, in Antwerp. The train station there is nutty-balls awesome, y’all.
The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something!
SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration.
Matt’s on the Road!
August 30th - AWS Australian Public Sector Summit
September 15-16 - DevOpsDays Bangalore
September 20 - Azure Sydney Meetup
October 3-4 - DevOpsDays New Zealand
October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group
November 6-7 - AgileNZ
Andrew will be at DevOpsDays Singapore (so will Matt) October 25-26, and a few other places. He doesn’t want to make platinum.
Recommendations
Brandon: TRUECar.
Matt Ray: Baby Driver.
Coté: Taco Deli. Michael Christmas,
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August 17, 2017Episode 103: AI is no longer limited by the garbage that is UNIX
AWS plods on with new capabilities, this time with an AI and enterprise app migration focus, plus, AI: is it actually a thing? We also discuss Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing and how HPC fits into cloud, also what exactly HPC is and how you measure vibrations passing through a human torso. But most importantly, we’re joined by Andrew Clay Shafer in this episode, standing in for Brandon.
Removing rebel-slaver memorials
Good job, Old Bay land. There’s more cities too on the case too.
You like white papers? We got white papers
Four new Pivotal white papers: CI/CD, microservices, PCI (wake up! wake up!), and The Scary Clam (BOSH).
We discuss them with the co-author of all of them on this week’s Pivotal Conversations.
Also, check out the Members only podcast if you like white papers, which you probably do, because you’re listening to this bullshit.
Amazon Summit NYC
There was some Amazon event this week. Anything happen?
Machine learning, and such. Deep dive blog post.
Interview with Amazon exec, Matt Wood.
AI Winter.
Maths.
Also,
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