cloud2030

General topics of interest: learning DevOps, and tech roadmaps, and how to build up to skills, infrastructure pipelines, release management, and more. These are topics that we want to dig into over the next several months. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/WZPhi8R_Uev2Ltc69RC6kl8eepI Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-graffiti-on-building-2600116/

How will we secure infrastructure in the future? Why is so hard to get security taken seriously? Because it's a supply chain problem. a vendor problem, AND a customer problem. We have to solve this because it threatens to undermine very fabrics of what we've been building together. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/O3DTK6VPhYdSOc7HxbrzFwYElxk Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/child-sipping-from-pipe-graffiti-2103127/

We go DEEPLY into the practice of image base (aka immutable) deployment. Image based deployment is when we building infrastructure by cloning systems. That means actually writing the system image directly to disk. We typically start a VM, where it's already on the disk, and then clone that to an existing system. Transcription: https://otter.ai/u/rOrf9VJ8lSOXkjLcRpfAd8R26SI Image: Photo by Lidia Riehman from Pexels [ID 5713996]

We started with the idea of what should our infrastructure be if we were going to get the perfect thing, the ideal thing and then work backwards? We focused in on home and industrial uses. That led us into the way we think about building technology. Transciption: https://otter.ai/u/KcUBUZvpOqXYlY-onF48OFZ7gSA Photo by Matheus Natan from Pexels [ID 3689875]

All about security, zero trust data, and shared homomorphic security. If those terms mean something to you, you will find our conversation fascinating. And if they don't, you better be listening, because these are really important concepts that come together for how we will secure data in the future. And we really believe that these are transformative technologies that challenge the current status quo. Transcript https://otter.ai/u/yd3zfHMXZ-eE9QUuTYDIIojhT0s Photo by cottonbro from Pexels [ID 8088682]

We went deep into vendors, specifically Red Hat. So if you like vendor gossip and speculation then you'll love this. We talked about Red Hat, IBM, Oracle, a couple other vendors of note and speculated on their strategy. Transcript https://otter.ai/u/L_uP42EK4AVjVmDxERD3f0V-2Yw Photo by Anna Shvets from Pexels [ID 4587991]

Is there a Jevons Paradox of Complexity? We started by asking key questions like: How much complexity is too much? How do we measure it? What's the business risk? DId we make complexity cheaper or just hide it away? Is there a price to be paid for building incredibly complex systems? We answered these and more in the reference of business concerns and the business value. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/WfbSCL5GUiXCoSpFqe8DsTqxzw4 Photo by Ekrulila from Pexels [ID 2218344]

How Service Mesh works and why they're important. Towards the end, we start talking about the rationale and whys and hows of the architecture. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/OPEKGyWT6iDjMLVQlHZeKVWkh_I Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels [ID 5422821]

James Urquhart joins the DevOps lunch for an impromptu discussion about the importance of Flow Architecture. You will learn a lot about how flow architecture work and why they are important to infrastructure and application design. This is a great follow-up to our 1x1 interview with him on an earlier episode.

The RackN team goes behind the scenes describing the many ways that we've worked with customers to automated VMware deployments from the bare metal up.