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Microsoft will ship it’s private cloud stack, Azure Stack, in September. Will this work? Will people buy it? What could you even put in that cloud? You can feel that pull people have towards private cloud, so we’re looking forward to what happens. On a related topic, by our reckoning, kubernetes to small to have already fallen. Also: the elusive Baltimore accent, Oracle and containers, and recommendations. Meta, follow-up, etc. Where does Matt Ray find all these stories? Patreon for this thing - 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. SDT Slack “Not all ‘guys.’” Mid-roll This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs. If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply, and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews, it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email jobs@casper.com and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs. Also, get $50 off mattresses with the code: horraymattray End-roll DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. SpringDays - Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) The Register’s conference in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open - submit something! Matt: July 20th - DevOps Sydney July 25th - DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ August 1st - Sydney Chef Meetup August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group Up there in New England What is the Baltimore accent? Watching The Keepers, and it’s reminding me of John Water movies, but I can’t figure out the patterns of the accent. Season three of The Wire has samples. Oracle Enters the OCI-runtime with Railcar - Oracle, the dark-horse of The Container Wars Link Rust! Also Smith and Sidecar Oracle requires joint copyright assignment though… Azure Stack, coming in September Charges by consumption - how MIPS-y! “Compute charges start at .8 cents per virtual CPU per hour and go up from there, while storage starts at .6 cents per GB per hour. Those charges will be included in customers’ invoices for their overall use of Microsoft’s public cloud platform.” Hardware via partners: “The exact pricing for Azure Stack hardware, including support contracts, will be up to each individual manufacturer. Microsoft is working with Dell EMC, Lenovo, HPE, Cisco, and Huawei to make the hardware available, and the first machines should be available in September.” IDC estimates private cloud HW at $34bn or so runrate (based on 3Q2016 estimates), with 8% q/q growth. So, not too shabby there. This doesn’t include software, Microsoft’s take. Scott Guthrie: “We talked to lots of customers who said, please don’t do that [allow so much customization that it's hard to debug problems]. The model we came up with instead was to work with a large spectrum of hardware providers, HP, Dell, Lenovo, Cisco and Huawei. Those are the five largest server manufacturers in the world. They will have systems that start with three nodes, not massive big purchases, that you can unbox and plug in. And have a fully working cloud in a day or two. Regardless of whom you call, we own the whole solution.” Pivotal Cloud Foundry will run on it Microsoft has a rocky road of delivering on private cloud. But, I’d wager the get it this time. We discussed this on the most recent Pivotal Conversations, along with other delightful ephemera. K8s Days May Be Numbered Matt Asay strikes again! Funny how OpenStack is now a cautionary tale. See Coté’s weasly, non-position on OpenStack in his May Register column. I thought Cote’ was going to write this one up? (see below) “Whitepaper review” a la The Weeds! You have to be careful how you read that 451 survey. On Asay’s 71%, Coté wrote: On that note, it’s easy to misread the widely quoted finding of “[n]early three-quarters (71 percent) of respondents indicated they are using Kubernetes” as meaning only Kubernetes. Actually, people are using many of them at once. The report clarifies this: “The fact that almost 75% of organizations reported using Kubernetes while the same group also reported significant use of other container management and orchestration software is evidence of a mixed market.” Read: they’re trying everything. Nothing has won yet. Proving Asay’s point, but also defanging his link-bait lead. “It seem far-fetched that Kubernetes could be heading for a fall” - there is no fall to be had because ascension hasn’t yet begin. The core base of 201 people are organizations already using containers, so it doesn’t include organizations not using containers. In a broader survey (where, presumably, not every enterprise was already using containers), of 300+ enterprises, production container use was: 19% in initial production, 8% were in broad production implementation. This isn’t to say there hasn’t been huge growth in this space, but it’s the huge growth of small numbers. This survey (though sponsored by CoreOS - I’m always suspicious of sponsored surveys, having worked on them myself!) is definitely worth paying attention to (as well as ongoing 451 and Gartner work here). Just make sure you read it right and don’t get too excited. See Coté’s Notebook for more. (Related: I’ve been thinking we should do special, “paid members only” [in Patreon?] “whitepaper review” episodes. Because, let’s be honest: only people who liked us enough to pay would be interested in that.) Alright, now some vendor-sports: So, can a vendor be successful if they “chase” the standards? Do you need to be in OpenWhisk, and OCI shit to operate in this space? Do you need to be Java EE compliant? There may be no money in OSS, but maybe it’s the kingmaker, to steal O’Grady’s line. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. Could Facebook run on AWS? Lots of fun speculation with sizes of services and numbers of servers. From now on, this is the only content to send to people asking about running private cloud. “In the real world it clearly wouldn’t make sense for Facebook to migrate over to AWS.“ First of all... As John Willis would say, “I wanna be Ashlee Vance when I grow up.” Look at that guy: he’s kickin’ it no undershirt with the button-up style. Writes for Bloomberg, and only let’s just enough sass through in his tone to keep his broad, concise appeal but still have style that harkens back to his Register days. And he wrote that Elon Musk book. CASH MONEY! Second: “serverless is someone else’s server” manifest in 3D Third, a lot of people ask me, “Coté, how do I get a job like yours?” Writing a lot of posts like this is one answer. Thriving in a “Post AWS World” Link “Why You Can Have the Advantages and Still Not Win” Touches on some of the previous conversations of anti-trust, how do you operate with a Goliath in your market? Distributions are Becoming Irrelevant Link “The distribution users are, for most of the biggest projects, sysadmins.” Nice history of how developers and distros have long been at odds. Coté: I recall reading this. Did I get the summary right? gems show that people will subvert the gate-keeper of being in the distro, thus, there is no power of a distro: people will just assemble whatever they want. Docker x10’s this. Linux distro people fight too much and are, sort of, bags of dicks that are making the evolution of distros slow and further irrelevant. Hey, guys, “can’t we all just get along?” Future of Serverless? Link - that’s a helluva headline.. Who can take on Lambda? OpenWhisk on K8s? IBM Backing off OpenStack? “Seemingly unable to innovate, IBM allegedly retreats from its OpenStack plans” Lots of BlueBoxers coming back on the market DevOps Insights from RightRelevance Wut? Echo chambers exist, but some folks and events cut through “flocks” IBM/Compuware stuff feels anomalous to me OpenBSD with Randomized Kernels When you really care about security… Recommendations Brandon: Oasis Supersonic Matt Ray: Veep. Also: Visualization of sorting algorithms, it’s hypnotic Coté: thigh and leg chicken, BONELESS!, at CostCo. Enterprise Architecture as Strategy book - old (2006), but really, the topic doesn’t seemed to have change much, despite DevOps &shit. Sponsored By:Casper: Casper is looking for some good, senior SREs. If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply, and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. 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Without advertising, there would be no capitalism, and, if you’re not constantly afraid of the DoJ knocking at your door, you’re probably doing it wrong. Those are two whacky theories about advertising and antitrust, at least. With Matt Ray on vacation, Brandon and Coté talk about The Attention Merchants and the recent Google EU antitrust ruling. We also discuss several other books, and how to talk to non-tech people at parties. Surprisingly, no container talk! Mid-roll This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs. If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply, and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews, it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email jobs@casper.com and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs. End-roll DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. SpringDays - Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Matt July 25th - DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ August 1st - Sydney Chef Meetup August 1st August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community August 3rd October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group October 11 Show Links The Drunk & Retired Reboot, Charles and Coté return...every two weeks. Attention Merchants, Chaos Monkeys. Slate Monet podcast, #163. Recommendations Brandon: Apple Airpods Coté: Fixing iPad screens, fixin’ to try ATX Cell Repair.

Looks like we’ll be getting cheaper organic food what with Amazon buying Whole Foods. What exactly is the strategy at play here, though? Other than the obvious thing of doing online groceries, how is Amazon advantaged here such that others (like Wal-mart), can’t simply do this themselves. We go over these questions and how they related to M&A in general. Plus recommendations and some podcast meta talk. Mid-roll This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs. If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply, and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews, it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email jobs@casper.com and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs. LOOK, MA! I PUT IN DATES! DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). SpringDays - Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Matt will be at: DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ Sydney Chef Meetup August 1st Auckland AWS User Community August 3rd Brisbane Azure User Group October 11 Podcast meta-talk Podcasts.app to be able to track what you listen to. Just paying for podcasts. $220m+ estimated TAM. We have a Casper ad! Amazon Buys Whole Foods This was not covered in the Mary Meeker slide-fest. Coté’s notebook on the topic. Stratechery on WF Acquisition Exponent Podcast What exactly are the barriers to entry here for other grocery stores. The business: online, and just the grocery store on it’s own...plus the 460+ physical stores for other goods? Barriers to entry, Amazon buyers (Whole Foods looks good now?), culture clash?, HEB love, private label BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode. Gartner Magic Quadrant for IAAS is Here! Larry D. Once again, what a change from way back when: CRN The Register Johnny Leadgen can get a copy. On Oracle: “Gartner warns potential customers to be cautious of high-pressure sales tactics.” How Microsoft Is Shifting Focus to Open Source Link “Chef is used to manage thousands of nodes internally across Azure, Office 365 and Bing.” Amazon Eyeing Slack? Link “Buying Slack would help Seattle-based Amazon bolster its enterprise services as it seeks to compete with rivals like Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.” Walmart Buys Bonobo I’ve got a Bonobo suit I really like. They had ModCloth and some others. Their M&A strategy has really shifted of late. Walmart Sez Get Off the AWS Finally a reason for multi-cloud BigCo’s gonna bully that supply-chain. What’s Wrong with Jenkins? Jenkins is the Nagios of CI/CD “No toolchain is perfect, but you can achieve software delivery perfection (or something close to it, at least) when you implement the right culture.” Tools don’t substitute culture. Oracle’s Swinging For the Fences (and missing) Link “He was also unwilling for Specsavers to become a guinea pig for Oracle's cloud.” Ubuntu Mobile Post Mortem Not much strategy… Serverless and the Death of DevOps Link Spoiler: “DevOps is the ultimate reactive, or event-driven, tech use case. It’s not going anywhere” State of DevOps 2017 Report Johnny Leadgen to the rescue! Commercial Open Source Software Companies Link A bit of sourcing on the numbers would be valuable Glad Chef’s not on the list, wouldn’t want to comment on the numbers Cloud Foundry Summit A whole mess of videos! 121 of them. Heptio Out of Stealth Mode with K8s Management Tool TheNewStack covere Official page File under “It didn’t already do that. I see.” Not sure this qualifies as “coming out of stealth”, everyone knows they work on open source K8s. I’m not seeing a monetization strategy yet beyond support & training. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but they raised $8.5 for their A-round BMC Software Exploring Merging with CA STOP THE PRESSES! TERRIBLE MEETS TERRIBLE? So far, no confirmation, but: “While the two companies were once dominant in the systems management industry, the analyst notes that CA and BMC have 7.5% and 8% share respectively as of FY16 which combined would put them on a near even footing with IBM, the largest vendor, at 15%.” “There are also many other vendors in the market including MSFT (7%) and NOW (5%) so anti trust concerns should not be an issue.” High Level Kubernetes Overview Link “Basically Kubernetes is a distributed system that runs programs (well, containers) on computers. You tell it what to run, and it schedules it onto your machines.” More on Service Meshes From James Governor, RedMonk Recommendations Brandon: The Scholar and the Drop Out podcast; Coté’s add-on: Karl Lagerfella’s day, no exercise and long night-shirts. Matt: Commando: Johnny Ramone’s Autobiography Coté: Gulf Shores, Alabama; Hillbilly Elegy and “The Dead Pig Collector.” Sponsored By:Casper: Casper is looking for some good, senior SREs. If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply, and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews, it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email jobs@casper.com and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs. Also, use the code horraymattray for $50 off purchasing Casper mattresses! Promo Code: horraymattray

The cat-nip of Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report is out this week so we discuss the highlights which leads to a sudden discussion of what an Amazon private cloud product would look like. Then, with a raft of new container related news we sort out what CoreOS is doing with their Tectonic managed service, what Heptio is (the Mirantis of Kubernetes?), and then a deep dive into the newly announced Istio which seems to be looking to create a yaml-based(!) standard for microservices configuration and policy and, then, the actual code for managing it all. Also, an extensive analysis of a hot-dog display, which is either basting itself or putting on some condiment-hair. Alternate Titles I've seen this hot-dog before. I’ve been doing this since dickity-4 I’m sticking with the Mary Meeker slides, you nerds go figure it out Mid-roll Pivotal Cloud-native workshop in DC, June 7th. LOOK, MA! I PUT IN DATES! DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017. 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays SpringDays.io Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff Chicago (May 30th to 31st) New York (June 20th to 21st) Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Hot-dog guy in Japan Zoom in on that little fellow. Internet Trends 2017 300 plus slides of charts Computes! Coté’s notebook, summary of summary: Google and Facebook make a lot of ad money. The Kids like using smart phones, the olds like using traditional telephones. One of them will die sooner. Voice, image recognition, etc. China is pretty much a mature market, and it’s huge. India has potential, but doing business there is hard and you need more Internet in a pocket rollout. The public/private cloud debate is still far from over. But, AWS, Microsoft, and Google have pretty much won. Bonus: there’s surprisingly little funding and exits this year. Would Amazon sell some private clouds? Isotoner and Hephaestus - All the new container orchestration poop Coté: Catching up on all this week's container poop & as always, my first reaction is “oh, I thought the existing stuff did all that already..so." Managed service for Tectonic as a Service - so, keeping your Kubernates cluster software updated? Presumably enforcing config, etc? However, not all done, still working on the complete solution. But, there’s an etcd thing ‘As a first step, Tectonic 1.6.4 will offer the distributed etcd key-value data store as a fully managed cloud service. “It’s the logical one to offer first because it is everything else gets built on it,” Polvi explained. The data store “guarantees that data is in a consistent state for very specific operations,” he said, referring to how etcd can be essential for operations such as database migrations.’ Another etcd description: “etcd is a clustered database that prizes consistency above partition tolerance… Interestingly, at Google, chubby is most frequently accessed using an abstracted File interface that works across local files, object stores, etc. The highly consistent nature, however, provides for strict ordering of writes and allows clients to do atomic updates of a set of values. So, you need locks for - dun-dun-dun! - transactions! Queue JP lecturing me in 2002. Then there’s Istio: Istio?! Whao! Check out the exec-pitch: “ Istio gives CIOs a powerful tool to enforce security, policy and compliance requirements across the enterprise.” And Google: “Through the Open Service Broker model CIOs can define a catalog of services which may be used within their enterprise and auditing tools to enforce compliance.” I love their idea of what a CIO does. “An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices“ SDN++ overlay for container orchestrators from Google, IBM & Lyft - once you control the network with the “data plane,” you add in the “control plane” which allows you to control the flow and shit of the actual microservices. Tackling the “new problems emerge due to the sheer number of services that exist in a larger system. Problems that had to be solved once for a monolith, like security, load balancing, monitoring, and rate limiting need to be handled for each service.” And, you know, all the agnostic, multi-cloud, open stuff. Thankfully, they didn’t use a bunch of garbage, nonsense names for things. Let’s look at the docs (BTW, can you kids start just putting out PDFs instead of only these auto-generated from markdown web pages?): First of all, these are good docs. Monkey-patching for the container era: “You add Istio support to services by deploying a special sidecar proxy throughout your environment that intercepts all network communication between microservices, configured and managed using Istio’s control plane functionality.” The future! Where we all shall live! “Istio currently only supports service deployment on Kubernetes, though other environments will be supported in future versions.” Problems being solved, aka, “ways you must be this tall to ride the microservices ride”: “Its requirements can include discovery, load balancing, failure recovery, metrics, and monitoring, and often more complex operational requirements such as A/B testing, canary releases, rate limiting, access control, and end-to-end authentication.” Also: Traffic Management, Observability, Policy Enforcement, Service Identity and Security. Does it have the part where it reboots/fixes failed services for you? So: you monkey-patch all this shit in (er, sorry, “sidecar”), which controls the network with SDN shit, Istio-Manager + Envoy does all your load-balancing/circuit breaker/canary/AB shit, service discovery/registry, service versioning (i.e., running n+1 different versions of code - always a pretty cool feature), configuring “routes,” what connects to what, I don’t think it provides a service registry/discover service? Maybe just a waffer thin API (“a platform-agnostic service discovery interface”)? Question: what does this look like in your code? The thing 12 factor-style passes a configuration into your actual code. Here, you’re adding a bunch of name/value pairs (which can be nested) and also translating them to the name/value pairs that your code is expecting...on an HTTP call? Executing a command in your container? As ENV vars? And then, I think you finally get ahold of the network to reply back with some HTML, JSON, or some sort of HTTP request by ., So, big questions, aka, Coté mental breakdown that only Matt Ray can cure: Er...so this all really is a replacement for the VMware stack, right? And OpenStack? Or do you still need those. What the fuck is all this stuff? It just installs the Docker image on a server? And then handles multi-zone replication, and making sure config drift is handles (bringing up failed nodes, too)? So, it’s just cheaper and more transparent than VMware? What’s the set of shit one needs? Ubuntu, Moby Engine (?), Moby command line tools, etcd? Actuality kubernetes code? What’s Swarm do? And then there’s monitoring, which according to Whiskey Charity, is all shit, right? Where’ my fucking chart on this shit? Please write two page memo for the BoD by 2pm today. Meanwhile: Oracle’s cool with it, “WTF is a microservice”, compared to SOA/ESB and RESTful, and James Governor tries to explain it all. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode. Rackspace Buys Enterprise Apps Management TriCore Link New CEO and biggest acquisition, I thought they were quieting down with the PE Red Hat buys Codenvy Codenvy sets up your developer environments, and has team stuff. Red Hat is really after the developer market. TaskTop has a good chance of being acquired in this climate. Pour one out from BMC/StreamStep. Notes from Carl Lehmann report at 451: In-browser IDE and devtool chain(?) for OpenShift.io, based on Eclipse Che “Founded in 2013, San Francisco-based Codenvy raised $10m in January of that year, and used a portion of its funds to buy its initial codebase from eXo Platform, which had developed the eXo Cloud IDE in-browser coding suite to support its social and collaboration applications.” “The company's suite works with developer tools like subversion and git, CloudBees, Jenkins, Docker, MongoDB, Cloud Foundry, Maven and ant, as well as PaaS and IaaS offerings such as Heroku, Google AppEngine, Red Hat OpenShift and AWS.” Check out the Dell Sputnik call-out: “Rivals to Codenvy include cloud-based development suites Eclipse Orion (open source), Cloud9 IDE and Nitrous.IO. There are other 'cloud IDEs,' including Codeanywhere, CodeRun Studio, Neutron Drive and ShiftEdit. On the developer environment configuration front, Pivotal created and open-sourced a developer and OS X laptop configuration tool called Workstation, and now Sprout. Dell's Project Sputnik is seeking to address similar build environment standup productivity challenges.” Uber back in Austin Is that a thing? Amazon Hiring Old Folks (Like Me) Anecdotes are the singular of data? More Tech Against Texas’ Discriminatory Laws Lords of Tech sign a thing “In addition to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook, the letter was signed by Amazon CEO Jeff Wilke, IBM Chairman Ginni Rometty, Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The leaders of Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Silicon Labs, Celanese Corp., GSD&M, Salesforce and Gearbox Software also signed the letter.” “Peeing is not political” - recap of the history of the bathroom bill. Still doesn’t really address “is there actually a problem here, backed up with citations.” Without such coverage, it’s hard to understand (and therefore figure out and react to) the hillbilly’s side on this beyond: "It's just common sense and common decency — we don't want men in women's, ladies' rooms." It also highlights the huge, social divide between “city folk” and the hillbillies. A lot more from TheNewStack. ChefConf Retrospective ICYMI Competing in Public Cloud is Crazy Expensive Link Tracks the CAPEX spend over the years for MS, Google and Amazon A Year of Google & Apple Maps Link Comprehensive drill-down into the mapping changes made by Google and the smaller moves by Apple. Probably not content for conversation, but whoa. FAA Flight Delay Tracking Check the map, fool Recommendations Brandon: Beauty of A Bad Idea — with Walker & Company's Tristan Matt: Arrested DevOps #84 Old Geeks Yell At Cloud With Andrew Clay Shafer & Bryan Cantrill Epic rants. Also, Bryan Cantrill sounds like Bob Odenkirk Enjoying Westworld and everything Brandon recommended months ago Coté: Butternut-squash hash. Sponsored By:Pivotal: Pivotal Cloud-Native Strategy Workshop, in DC, June 7th. Promo Code: FREEDevOpsDays: DevOpsDays MSP: get 20% off registration with the code SDT. Promo Code: SDT

Live-to-tape from ChefConf 2017, in Austin, we talk about what's going on in Chef land now, esp. in relation to compliance/policy and Habitat. We also discuss the Texas bathroom bill and Matt Ray's latest trip report on international travel. There's an important update on Coté's bean position as well. See the video recording, if you're into that kind of thing. Mid-roll Pivotal Cloud-native workshop in DC, June 7th. DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017. 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays SpringDays.io Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff Chicago (May 30th to 31st) New York (June 20th to 21st) Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) No more beans, now on that fruit shit Paleo French Cuisine Stuck in that low 190’s weight zone for over a long time: International Travel Trip Report Matt’s Ray’s international travel experience as Platinum. Traveling as a vegetarian. What’s the plan for all the free booze? Bring a flask... Why Do They Keep Messing With Texas? The Hillbillies are obsessed with bathrooms It's really depressing how aggressively stupid Texas is sometimes. I don't blame anyone avoiding it. Coté’s notebook on the topic ChefConf! Round-up from The New Stack More “Continuous automation, when you do it right, is a bridge between your current environment and where you need to go in the future” Chef 13, InSpec cloud profiles, Habitat build service Consolidating under less brands? Configuring the stuff that goes in the containers: “now includes capabilities for security and compliance checking, as well as the ability to further automate the process of assembling and updating container-based applications.” BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode. Mirantis getting out of the (pure) OpenStack game So...Coté was right?! “announced that it will end-of-life Mirantis OpenStack support in September 2019” “it’s important to distinguish between popularity and value. Popular kids in high school aren’t always the ones that end up driving a Ferrari when adults. It’s true that OpenStack is no longer the popular kid; Kubernetes is — and customers often like to go with what’s popular.” - Mirantis CMO Boris Renski Getting out of VIM Link “In the last year, How to exit the Vim editor has made up about .005% of question traffic: that is, one out of every 20,000 visits to Stack Overflow questions. That means during peak traffic hours on weekdays, there are about 80 people per hour that need help getting out of Vim.” What’s up with Ukraine? Amazon in Charts SDT catnip Recommendations Matt: Seveneves by Neil Stephenson, almost hesitant to recommend this one given Cote’s reaction to previous books. Containers “Containers is an 8-part audio documentary about how global trade has transformed the economy and ourselves.” Coté: The Elephant in the Room. My Register column on OpenStack Coté Show podcast - subscribe already! Anti-recommendation: Outcast of the Islands. Brandon: Everybody Lies book. Matt: TrackMeNot, search fuzzer. Sponsored By:DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays MSP: get 20% off registration with the code SDT. Promo Code: SDTPivotal: Cloud Foundry Summit is the premier event for enterprise app developers. Want to focus on innovation and streamline your development pipeline? Summit 2017 will make you an expert in microservices and continuous delivery in your language or framework of choice. Fast-track yourself and your business with the quickest way to deliver apps. Promo Code: cfsv17cotePivotal: Pivotal Cloud-Native Strategy Workshop, in DC, June 7th. Promo Code: FREE

In a too rare spate of social commentary, we start talking about the price of hipster avocados in Australia and US health insurance. With one of our favorite analysts moving over the enterprise side, we talk about what it'd be like going through that door. We then wrap up talking about Canonical's IPO talk, related OpenStack market discussion, and then use CyberArk's acquisition of Conjur to discuss the state of privileges access management (PAM). We end, as always, with recommendations, including some CostCo discussion. See the full show notes at http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/94 Mid-roll DevOpsDays MSP, July 25th to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017. 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays SpringDays.io Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff Chicago (May 30th to 31st) New York (June 20th to 21st) Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Matt: ChefConf May 22-24 NEXT WEEK! The news from Australia Y'all gotta get your avocado pricing under control. $1.50 for a large one is about the ceiling 'roind here. As ever, the first step of your life-plan should be to become independently wealthy in your early 20s. Go work in a coal-mine otherwise. Also, pro-tip: if you're rich, your default position on social commentary should generally by STFU. Matt needs a driver's license Health-insurance choices HSA is probably a good idea. Better get a FAX machine. This is a trigger issue for Coté, beware. Donnie Berkholz at Carlson Wagonlit He Tweetered it: "to help them with their DevOps journey." He's a VP! - exec level #AchievementUnlocked He says: " With an all-new CEO and CPO/CTO, we're making a major pivot to become a software company focused on travel, rather than a travel agency with some apps." It'll be fun to see (hopefully!) what his group actually procures, uses, and does. He's already on that "welcome to enterprise software" shit: "Current status: Hating on vendors that don't publicly post pricing." Conference, travel, expenses? - like Concur/Amex travel? I recall using them for a lot of travel in the analyst days. Checks out: "Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company reported $23 billion in total transaction values[2] in 2016 and recorded almost 59 million transactions. The company has over 18,000 employees across nearly 150 countries." Their owner, Carlson (yes, of hotel fame, but also used to own things like TGI Friday's [from 1975 to 2014]) is in MN. But then the hotels were bought by a Chinese group, HNA? So now, Carlson Group is mostly just Wagonlit? Canonical Eying an IPO? Coté's notebook on the topic. Link: "in the last year, Ubuntu cloud growth had been 70 percent on the private cloud and 90 percent on the public cloud." In particular, "Ubuntu has been gaining more customers on the big five public clouds." 5? Still, there is "no timeline for the IPO." First, Shuttleworth wants all parts of the slimmed down Canonical to be profitable. Then "we will take a round of investment." After that, Canonical will go public. The S1 filing is going to be fascinating. Mirantis still into OpenStack, Coté was straigh-up wrong: "The new platform allows users to deploy multiple Kubernetes clusters side-by-side with OpenStack — or separately." CyberArk Buys Conjur "DevOps" is used 19 times in the press release. Coté: so, is this like "vault" type stuff in cloud-native land? Coté talked with a CyberArk SE at DevOpsDays Austin, they had a booth! 451 report from Garrett Bekker: "privileged access management (PAM)" "Conjur [founded in 2013] marks CyberArk's third acquisition, following the 2015 pickups of endpoint security vendor Cybertinel for an undisclosed sum and Windows least privileged management and application whitelisting firm Viewfinity for $30m. CyberArk paid $42m in cash and we estimate a multiple slightly north of 10x trailing revenue, potentially boosted by a competitive bid. Once the transaction closes, 20 Conjur employees will join CyberArk." Conjur's "three core products are Privileged Access Management for managing 'secrets' such as SSH keys, Dynamic Traffic Authorization for controlling and brokering access to resources, and Compliance Monitoring for real-time reporting." Founded in 1999, CyberArk "went public in September 2014 and is currently valued at about $1.7bn, with 2016 revenue of $216m." JJ on avoiding SSH, Coté Show #21. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in the show. GNU GPL Stands Up In Court Keith Collins, Quartz write-up. Appears willful, embedding GPL software implicitly accepts the license. It's over: "Ghostscript—an interpreter for the PostScript language and the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)." It has dual-licensing, a la MySQL and friends. "Hancom issued a motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that the company didn't sign anything, so the license wasn't a real contract." "[Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley] denied the motion, and in doing so, set the precedent that licenses like the GNU GPL can be treated like legal contracts, and developers can legitimately sue when those contracts are breached." This has come up for Artifex as well, back in 2008. Not sure what this lawyer-cant is, but: "A few aspects of the decision are of particular interest to the open source community. For example, Hancom argued that Artifex could not plead breach of contract for violation of GPL and could not request specific performance of the terms of GPL. Hancom also argued that copyright damages were not available because the GPL grants royalty-free rights." More: "Here, in denying a motion to dismiss, the District Court only holds that the claims may proceed on the theories enunciated by Artifex, not necessarily that they will ultimately succeed." More history and context from Kieren McCarthy, at The Register, which Coté didn't really read. DevOpsDays Austin Recap? Coté's main talk ("Not Actually a DevOps Talk"), and then Ignite (not up yet, but here's slides). Also, a rare chance to see me setting up for a talk, with all the cord shit and all. Nicole Forsgren's slides Kelsey Hightower's talk, very personal and a great story. Videos are sort of up, just not cut-up. WannaCry Windows XP still? Realish-time twitter bot watching ransomware payments into the BitCoin accounts. Find it with InSpec and fix it. Linux in the Microsoft Store - Pigs seen flying over Redmond "Straightening" Out the Moby Story Coté: at the end of this, it seems like a pretty small deal to normals, only vendors should care…? From Lee Calcote at TheNewStack. ## Rackspace + Dell EMC Doing OpenStack Partnership Recommendations Brandon: Nobel Sandwich, in Austin, esp. breakfast/brunch. Freakonomics episode: "Why is my life so hard" Matt: Catastrophe Season 3 - profane, realistic comedy with Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan (Amazon/BBC) Fuzzes search engines to prevent them from profiling you. Coté: Early on use, but, Google Photos - the XKCD perspective](https://xkcd.com/1832/) on photo management. Coté's Apple photo management rant in episode 22 of the Coté Show. Also, butterfly your CostCo chicken breasts (eating just one half, or both) and cook to about 150-155 degrees, letting it heat up to 165 on the plate. Much better than figuring out the wicked problem of cooking a full, thick breast. Sponsored By:DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays MSP: get 20% off registration with the code SDT. Promo Code: SDTPivotal: Cloud Foundry Summit is the premier event for enterprise app developers. Want to focus on innovation and streamline your development pipeline? Summit 2017 will make you an expert in microservices and continuous delivery in your language or framework of choice. Fast-track yourself and your business with the quickest way to deliver apps. Promo Code: cfsv17cotePivotal: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays in ATL, NYC, and Chicago. Get 50% w/code SpringDays_HalfOff: SpringDays.io in Chicago (May 30th to 31st), New York (June 20th to 21st), and Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Promo Code: SpringDays_HalfOffChef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.

There's much news in the container world with DockerCon and Red Hat having had conferences, plus Docker gets a new CEO. We also do a hindsight analysis of what wrong with the losers of the Cloud Wars. And, as always, recommendations from the three of us. Mid-roll Coté: CF Summit 2017 - 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays in ATL, NYC, and Chicago. Get 50% w/code SpringDays_HalfOff: SpringDays.io in Chicago (May 30th to 31st), New York (June 20th to 21st), and Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Coté: OSCON Expo Plus discount: I wanted to present to you a Free Expo hall Plus Pass for OSCON coming to Austin May 10/11. You get way more than just a pass to the expo, it also covers three full-day events: TensorFlow Day, InnerSource Day, and our Open Container Summit. If you are interested, you can use the code AUSTIN at checkout. You can see the entirety of what is offered here. Matt: ChefConf May 22-24 Matt Ray’s APAC Biz Travel Fun 5 different airlines in a month. Emirates is the best. This is why we can’t have nice things - American Airlines raises pay. Red Hat. Some cloud stuff we need to read-on more. Check out Coté's summary of a recent Brian Gracely post on the OpenShift momentum. Cloud Rules Everything Around Me As summarized by Derrick (via CNBC: AWS brought in $3.66 billion in revenue, which was up 42 percent from last year. However, year-over-year growth dropped from last year’s first quarter. Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” unit, which includes Azure, grew 11 percent, to $6.8 billion. Microsoft doesn’t break out Azure revenue specifically, but said Azure saw a 93 percent increase in revenue over last year. Google Cloud is buried somewhere in “Other Bets” on Alphabet earnings, a segment that grew 50 percent to $3.1 billion. What’s the Halo Effect on this? It’s easy to blame the big vendors for shying away from public cloud but it was some scary shit, business-case wise, back in 2008. Verizon sells cloud stuff to IBM. Docker is now Moby, wait what? LinuxKit - the host OS, where you run the containers. “Moby is recommended for anyone who wants to assemble a container-based system” Moby = open source development Docker CE = free product release based on Moby Docker EE = commercial product release based on Docker EE Moby is the name of the upstream umbrella project supervising the open source pieces that are used to build Docker, which is now the commercial-focused product Docker CE/EE Letter about Mobyan-open-letter-to-docker-about-moby/ Moby is Fedora, Docker is like RHEL, Eclipse, Genuitec. Coté’s Notebook on Moby and such Coté's Notebook on Docker's new CEO. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. EngineYard done! Press Release A snarky Tweet Another Press Release Jay Lyman at 451: “It generated revenue of about $36m in 2016.” - I seem to recall that EngineYard would report on revenue. “Native” Windows Server Support for Docker Link “Linux containers running natively on Windows Server through our Hyper-V isolation technology” Sysdig Docker Usage Report 2017 Link 1 Link 2 Always fun to read “real” numbers 10 containers/host and Kubernetes out in front Microsoft and the NSA Exploits Leak Link Patch your servers and run modern versions people. Amazon’s Coming to Australia Link “The moment Australian retailers have dreaded is here. “ Intel Drops out of OpenStack Innovation Center Link 30 Rackers moving internally, Intel is still participating within OpenStack Huawei Want to Enter the Cloud Fray Link Everybody wants a piece of AWS Microsoft buys Deis Coté’s notebook on the topic. Oracle Buys Wercker Link “container lifecycle management” - foundation for a container PaaS if you tie it to the StackEngine acquisition? How Many Data Centers Needed World-Wide Link Deep cut from James Hamilton, AWS Datacenter guru Re: Oracle “if you assume the big three are spending roughly equally, how can $1.7B compete with more than $10B when it comes to serving customers?” “2+1 redundancy is cheaper than 1+1 and, when there are 3 facilities, a single facility can experience a fault without eliminating all redundancy from the system. Consequently, whenever AWS goes into a new region, it’s usual that three new facilities be opened rather than just one with some racks on different power domains.” “latency is not the prime driver of very large numbers of regions” “being close to population centers and major communications hubs matters to most operators more than cooling costs” Canonical/Ubuntu priorities Link Dropping Unity desktop and phone stuff in favor of desktop, cloud & IOT BrickerBot Bricks Unsecured IOT Devices Link “BrickerBot the work of a vigilante?” OmniTI Shutting Down OmniOS Development Link Open source Solaris-compatible clone “OmniTI will be suspending active development of OmniOS” Apple makes GarageBand, iMovie and iWork free Link MacOS and IOS! Keynote is the best, why not open source for an attempt at cross-platform? Recommendations Brandon: S-town podcast, some background from the creator. Matt Ray: Google Translate video realtime AR stuff. Coté: The Big Sleep. Sponsored By:Pivotal: Cloud Foundry Summit is the premier event for enterprise app developers. Want to focus on innovation and streamline your development pipeline? Summit 2017 will make you an expert in microservices and continuous delivery in your language or framework of choice. Fast-track yourself and your business with the quickest way to deliver apps. Promo Code: cfsv17cotePivotal: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays in ATL, NYC, and Chicago. Get 50% w/code SpringDays_HalfOff: SpringDays.io in Chicago (May 30th to 31st), New York (June 20th to 21st), and Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Promo Code: SpringDays_HalfOffBuckets of Fun: OSCON Expo Plus discount - I wanted to present to you a Free Expo hall Plus Pass for OSCON coming to Austin May 10/11. You get way more than just a pass to the expo, it also covers three full-day events: TensorFlow Day, InnerSource Day, and our Open Container Summit. If you are interested, you can use the code AUSTIN at checkout. You can see the entirety of what is offered here. Promo Code: AUSTINChef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.

Having something to sell is always key to a profitable business. We explore this life-hack of the business world in discussion Twitter and then Amazon licensing Thursday night football. There's also some brief talk of Akamai buying SOASTA, Cloudera filing to IPO, and the lost dichotomy of agent/agentless. Mid-roll Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017. 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Cloud Native Roadshows, with Pivotal and Google Cloud: Boston, Chicago, MSP, Atlanta, DC, Charlotte, Detroit, Toronto, St. Louis, Paris, London, Munich, Stuttgart, Dallas, Denver, LA, Seattle, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Seoul, Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore. Coté: my big old how to cloud strategy paper is out, find the link at cote.io/cloud2. LEAD-GEN YERSELF! Matt: DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th Hands on Habitat Tokyo April 26th Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th ChefConf May 22-24 Boothing Wearing the t-shirt. Success criteria for boothing. Don't speak Spanish in Japan. Sponsoring the coffee. Oracle NOT Buying Accenture From Business Insider "The Accenture rumour is completely untrue. Never even considered it. Completely made up." Coté round-up, small as it is. Amazon streaming NFL 10 Thursday night games, CBS or NBC broadcasts streamed Ben Thompson on bundling, sports and bundling. Chef 13 is coming April 10th Client only, server stays on 12 Time-Series Data In Google SRE book. Now you can actually do something with it. Akamai Buys SOASTA Monitoring acquisition SOASTA is testing right? A commercial district of some synthetic user testing thing? "Through SOASTA solutions, Akamai customers will then be able to test optimizations at scale prior to deployment and validate the business impact of those optimizations once they are live in production. The result is a comprehensive set of cloud-based performance and business outcome optimization." Maybe Brandon can tell us the context/issues (good and bad) for synthetic web transaction monitoring from the SiteAngel days. Cloudera Going Public Link, Link 2 Revenue: $261.0 million in the year ending Jan. 31, up from $166.0 million a year ago Net loss: $187.32 million, narrower than the $203.14 million from a year ago (cut ~$16m in spending). Analysis from Brenon at 451, esp. comparing to HortonWorks. BONUS LINKS! VMware offloading vCloud Air To OVH, a France-based hosting company expanding into the US Seems complicated Another story. Rackspace done with OpenStack as an AWS defense Now back to the classics Still on that private cloud thing: "What we are learning is the world doesn't need another public cloud, so OpenStack is shifting from and going private cloud." Yahoo/AOL to be called "Oath" Link First there was Yahoo + Alibaba as "Altaba", now there is "Yahoo + AOL" as "Oath". Clearly this is corporate trolling at this point. DellEMC financials Link Backstory on Python moving to GitHub Link "But what ended up happening is nearly none of those volunteers stuck around." Recommendations Matt: anti-recommendation: macOS 10.12.4. Broke USB headset. BOO!! Coté: AUKEY USB Wall Charger, ULTRA COMPACT Dual Port 2.4A Output & Foldable Plug for iPhone iPad Samsung & Others - go ahead and buy two. Also, always bring one of those car adaptors thingies on trips for those broke-ass, Trans-Atlantic flights. Brandon: The Undoing Project Freakonomics Episode on the book. Sponsored By:DevOpsDays: DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th - Matt will be there.Chef: Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th - The team from Chef is on the road helping people learn about Chef for Windows & Habitat. We will be in Singapore for a Hands-on with Chef and Hands-on with Habitat workshop. We would love to catch-up with you to hear about your continuous automation efforts while we are in town, too.Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st. Pivotal: Cloud Foundry Summit is the premier event for enterprise app developers. Want to focus on innovation and streamline your development pipeline? Summit 2017 will make you an expert in microservices and continuous delivery in your language or framework of choice. Fast-track yourself and your business with the quickest way to deliver apps. Promo Code: cfsv17cotePivotal: Come hear how Pivotal and Google are helping your organization improve how it does software with their combined, cloud-native approach. Free with demo's, PowerPoints, and meals included! Cities: Boston, Chicago, MSP, Atlanta, DC, Charlotte, Detroit, Toronto, St. Louis, Paris, London, Munich, Stuttgart, Dallas, Denver, LA, Seattle, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Seoul, Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore.Pivotal: A cloud-native organization's goal is to provide its business with an effective, sustainable means of innovating. This eBook shares cloud-native practices and technologies to fully automate the application stack infrastructure layers. It's not just about technology, though. 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We discuss the continual rise of Kubernetes, with Amazon as seemingly the main hold-out. This leads to a not-too-painful discussion of the stat of open source, at least how companies are using it tactically. Then we close out discussing the rumor that Oracle is considering buying Accenture and how the enterprise software plus services model seems to be panning out. Mid-roll Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017 - 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote. Also: DrunkAndRetired reboot, hopefully. Matt: AWS Summit Sydney next week DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th Hands on Habitat Tokyo April 26th Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th ChefConf May 22-24 ChefConf 2017 Teaser, early-bird pricing through March 31st Brandon Try Contextual Sync New Meetup - Microservices Austin. EBay Replaces native OpenStack Container Manager with Kubernetes-based one Still OpenStack though Link "It elected to roll its own Kubernetes-based solution for container management in OpenStack rather than try to improve Magnum." ¯_(ツ)_/¯ "It's not clear if Tess.io can or will be released as open source" - what's the point of open sourcing something if a vendor isn't going to make it more accessible for consumption? Do they really expect anyone else to use something built for Ebay by Ebay and find use? Rip out Magnum in OpenStack and toss it in there? I'm always skeptical about adoption when I hear about non-software companies open sourcing a big project. -Matt There can only be one Netflix. A software company that just happens to be an auction company. What's the deal with OSS now? Companies open sourcing software for the sake of open sourcing it...but not for a revenue reason. Is open source about tactically creating standards? Pivotal can deploy k8 with BOSH, thus manage it and such Blog post on it, in alpha. Rackspace Replacing Docker-based CaaS Carina with Kubernetes Get Carina EOL IBM InterConnect BlueMix Container Services And a vulnerability scanner! How do IBM and others (ie. Oracle) regain mindshare with a "me-too" approach? Will Smith?!? Peyton Manning previously. Remember Bill Clinton at DellWorld? Coté's Analyst-hack: Watch keynotes from your hotel room. containerd & rkt donated to the CNCF Something was contributed More... Boring part of the stack commoditized & foundationed "Container-D or Contai-Nerd" is the real question "contaiNERD" - GET IT?!?!! Oracle Eyeing Accenture From The Register Everybody wants to be IBM Global Services Coté'd tl;dr: financial aside (which I don't know), probably makes sense. While we might bemoan EDS and GBS downsizing, there's endless money in the "solution" sales (tech + meatware). And - I'm sure the deal decks are saying - with SaaS penetration at 20-30%, there's a shit-ton of churn in IT in the next 10-20 years, all requiring services. Most importantly, the G2000 and governments will want to hire "trusted" brands, like Accenture, to help them. On the other hand, maybe that goofy Accenture touch screen in ORD will now be a way to touch-screen up Oracle wares: God help us. HP EDS, IBM GBS, Dell Services (Perot), etc. "Accenture has a market cap of $77.5bn, and shareholders will expect a premium offer." HPE Services and CSC, it's a thing. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. Chef Survey 2017 Results Analysis, Infographic Reads really well if you imagine bullet points as spinning newspaper headlines: "Workloads are increasing faster than headcount" More: "61% are automating infrastructure, 30% are automating compliance, and only 27% are automating container management." "Of those users, 73% wait to assess compliance after development work has begun and new features have been implemented. 59% assess compliance once code is already running in production, possibly resulting in additional rework as change is re-architected to meet Information Security standards." On the one hand, this is a bummer. On the other hand: "hey, you 59% lot: you call yourself auditors?" Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs "Containers on the other hand are not real things" Down in the weeds on containers vs. everything else SoundCloud I don't understand it Newsletters! Monitoring Love. Last Week in AWS. Recommendations Coté: Google SRE book, and the Google SRE/CRE podcast with Coté and Andrew Sahfer. Also: The Economist Espresso app. Anti-recommendation, the "Southern Carbonara Recipe" at the Le Méridien Dallas By The Galleria by the Galleria. It's like a cheesecake with spaghetti and fried chicken tenders. Brandon: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Homo Deus Ezra Klein interview with Yuval Harari. Matt: New Spoon album Hot Thoughts Radiolab Presents: More Perfect, a Brandon retro-recommendation. Floppy Drive Orchestra: Beat It Fighting Johnny Leadgen and Mailinator Cover-art from You Had One Job. Sponsored By:Pivotal: Cloud Foundry Summit is the premier event for enterprise app developers. Want to focus on innovation and streamline your development pipeline? Summit 2017 will make you an expert in microservices and continuous delivery in your language or framework of choice. Fast-track yourself and your business with the quickest way to deliver apps. Promo Code: cfsv17coteChef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st. Chef: AWS User Group Sydney - AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate, Matt Ray giving a talk there.DevOpsDays: DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th - Matt will be there.Chef: Hands on with Habitat - Tokyo - Chef recently announced a new open source framework for application automation, Habitat. We are embarking on a tour of cities around the world to provide you with hands-on experience with the project. The workshops are free to attend – we’d love for you to join us.Chef: Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th - The team from Chef is on the road helping people learn about Chef for Windows & Habitat. We will be in Singapore for a Hands-on with Chef and Hands-on with Habitat workshop. We would love to catch-up with you to hear about your continuous automation efforts while we are in town, too.IBM: An open source, real-time, continuous data sync service for web, IoT, and mobile.Buckets of Fun: Microservices Austin Meetup - This is a technical meetup ( technical referring to content ( recruiters don't waste your time ) ); in an ideal world each meeting will have code involved. Whether that be on the development side or operations side depends on the subject matter. But my "hope" is that every meetup produces some positive outcome. Whether that being a person choosing to present has a feedback loop outside of their bias coworkers or just having general feedback.

While it's unknown how much time you should let your kids play Minecraft, it's equally unclear at the moment who'll win the second cloud wars. Between Google, Azure, AWS, and all the others, how companies differentiate themselves and what customers will buy on isn't sorted just yet. We discuss Google Next, Pivotal's momentum announcement, and serious theories for Okta IPO'ing. Pardon the shoddily formatted show notes below, Coté was in a hurry to get to Spring Break. Google NEXT Competing on features? Or just pricing and brand? The "complete solution." Richard summarizes announcements More from Google... Cheaper, faster, more data centers Google Cloud Dataprep for cleaning up data for ingestion Cloud Opinion's Keynote Day 1 "Differentiation from other cloud providers — "we are Google, damn it" isn't working too well" Hangouts to take on Slack? This space is getting crowded Customers: Snapchat, Evernote, Disney, Coca Cola, Home Depot, Whirlpool. Hosted container builder service Pivotal was the Google partner of the year! Mid-roll Coté at a Meetup next Tuesday, March 21st, in DFW. "Digital transformation in the streets." Hopefully some new material from my ImpossibleDevOps writing. Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017. 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Matt: DevOps Melbourne March 28th Talking Compliance as Code DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th ChefConf May 22-24 ChefConf 2017 Teaser, early-bird pricing through March 31st Pivotal: we make money, cause we have paying customers "over $270 million in bookings in one year" Previous years: 2015: In 2015Q3 "Pivotal Cloud Foundry has crossed $100 million in annual bookings run-rate" 2014: "In less than a year, Pivotal Cloud Foundry has booked ~$40 million in software sales" In addition to customers mentioned there, see some more testimonials in John Allwright's post. Okta files to go public S1 filed. I don't get it. This is going to be a disaster. Whatever the fantasy running SFDC and MSFT running identity. BONUS LINKS! Five AI Startup Predictions for 2017 Link "Pure hype trends will reveal themselves to have no fundamentals behind them" <- GOLD Bots go bust Deep learning goes commodity AI is cleantech 2.0 for VCs MLaaS dies a second death Full stack vertical AI startups actually work Facebook Bots are failing. Enterprise product management The Enterprise Ready SaaS Feature Guides Coté summarizes Brandon's rant. USAF locks in with Oracle "consolidates the 745,768 Oracle licenses already in use" $293,247,466 with Mythics, Inc. US Immigration's "Code Test"? I'd fail this. Recommendations Coté: The Art of Business Value - I haven't even finished this yet and it's already fantastic. Also, I added most all of the DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast to archive.org. As Matt Ray used to say it's "better than half the stuff out there." Also: Patriot in Amazon Video. Brandon: Missing Richard Simmons podcast. Matt: Tripit Pro's Seat Tracker While reading James Clear's post on Reading Comprehension Strategies he linked to his Book Summaries which are amazing good. I really like this idea, have to try to implement it for myself Hypnotic video of global earthquake data Sponsored By:Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st. Chef: DevOps Meetup, Melbourne March 28th - Come see Matt Ray talking "Compliance as Code."Pivotal: Cloud Foundry Summit is the premier event for enterprise app developers. Want to focus on innovation and streamline your development pipeline? Summit 2017 will make you an expert in microservices and continuous delivery in your language or framework of choice. Fast-track yourself and your business with the quickest way to deliver apps. Promo Code: cfsv17coteDevOpsDays: DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th - Matt will be there.Chef: Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th - The team from Chef is on the road helping people learn about Chef for Windows & Habitat. We will be in Singapore for a Hands-on with Chef and Hands-on with Habitat workshop. We would love to catch-up with you to hear about your continuous automation efforts while we are in town, too.