If you’d like something more tangible than a virtual cloud instance, there’s always (still!) bare metal. Tinkerbell is a project from Equinix Metal to manage bare metal servers at scale, and Gianluca Arbezzano is one of its maintainers. We talk stacks, racks and MACs.

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Chatter of the week

• Episode 11, with Vic Iglesias
• Vic lives here, but not here
• Pokémon Go social distancing

News of the week

• Flux moves to incubation in the CNCF
• NetApp Astra goes GA; more information
• Fairwinds introduces Saffire
• Cosign, by Dan Lorenc
  • Episode 39
• Komodor beta and swag offer
• Announcing Private Clusters on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)
• Linkerd 2.10
• The Money Section, with thanks to David Pait, guest of Episode 127
  • Docker takes $23m in Series “B” funding to get ship done
  • Aqua Security takes $135m in Series E at $1b valuation
  • Snyk raises $300m in Series E valuing company at $4.7 billion
  • Tetrate raises $40m Series B
• Is Crossplane the Infrastructure LLVM? by Daniel Mangum
  • Episode 141

Links from the interview

• PHP. and PHP in 2020
• Turin
• InfluxData
• Episode 91, with Leonardo Di Donato
• Dropbox’s exodus from Amazon
• Equinix Metal
  • Packet acquired by Equinix
• Tinkerbell
• OpenCompute and Open19
• Server terminology:
  • Next Unit of Computing (NUC)
  • Baseboard management controller (BMC)
  • Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
  • Floppy disks
• DIY Board management control for an Intel NUC: power control
• Tinkerbell services:
  • Tink
  • Boots
  • OSIE
  • Hook
  • Hegel
  • PB&J
• OVH fire
• How Tinkerbell Got Its Wings, including joining the CNCF
• Tinkerbell community
• Episode 136: Backstage, with Lee Mills and Matt Clarke
• Gianluca Arbezzano on Twitter and on the web
• Tinkerbell on Twitter