The Cloudcast #234 - 2015 WrapUp + 2016 Predictions

Aaron and Brian do their annual 2015 WrapUp show. They look at the most interesting shows, trends and topics from 2015, as well as making predictions for 2016.

Show Notes:
Krispy Kreme Challenge Donations

• Topic 1 - Is Public Cloud making any money?
• Topic 2 - Is Open Source Software making any money
• Topic 3 - Everything is becoming an integrated solution.
• Topic 4 - Bi-Modal vs. Tri-Modal IT
• Topic 5 - The continued rise of SaaS applications (and who manages them)
• Topic 6 - The continued rise of non-vendor companies recruiting developers

Show Stats and Interesting Facts 

• 60 Shows
 
• Official Podcast at Cloud Foundry Summit, MesosCon, LinuxCon, DockerCon, VelocityConf, OSCON
 
• Went over $5B in VC + M&A Funding for Guests
 

Most Popular Show(s) of 2015:

• Eps.200 (Future of Connected Cloud; Christian Reilly) 
 
• Eps.199 (Docker Security; Diogo & Nathan) 
• Eps.208 (DevOps; Nathan Harvey)
 

Aaron’s 2015 Predictions - From 2014 show 

• Container ecosystem is beginning to mature
 
• Docker needs to go through Trough of Disillusionment
 
• Skill Sets Changing - Blogging will become a lost art
 
• GitHub or “GetOut” - people need to learn GitHub - see 30 Days of Commitmas (GitHub learning)
 
• Existence of Bi-Modal IT - There is no migration path between the two.
 
• “Infrastructure as a Code” replaces “Software-Defined” terminology
 Infrastructure jobs will become the operations portion of DevOps (automate everything)
 

Brian’s 2015 Predictions - From 2014 show

• Containers, Containers, Containers - competition for Docker in containers (VMware, CoreOS, etc.)? Moved from Containers to Systems.

• Containers/Docker were mentioned everywhere (AWS, Tutum, Microsoft, DigitalOcean)
 
• VMware pushes that “containers need VMs”
 
• AWS is finally starting to understand the Enterprise; bundling/integrating services
 
• Nobody values Cloud Management software
 
• How do the VCs justify all this investment in companies that drive open-source projects?
 
• What happens to all the SaaS tools platforms on AWS, can they survive economically?
 

Our Grades on Various Topics/Companies/Themes

• OpenStack
 
• AWS
 
• Azure
 
• Google
 
• Cisco
 
• Other Public Clouds
 
• Private Cloud or Hybrid Cloud
 
• VMware
 
• Docker
 
• Cloud Foundry
 
• Open Source centric companies (CoreOS, Hashicorp, Mesosphere)
  
• Cluster-Management and Schedulers (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm)
 
• SaaS Applications
 

Brian’s 2016 Prediction Notes:

• We’ll continue to see big bets (legacy vendors) and big failures 
• Very curious to watch the open-source VMware-replacements (Hashicorp, CoreOS, Docker, etc.) monetize their business
 
• We’ll begin to hear about some IoT success stories
 

Aaron’s 2016 Prediction Notes: 
Industry Predictions:


• Docker Trough of Disillusionment will happen (push from last year) in favor of Open Standards
 
• We will consolidate down to a handful of large hardware and software vendors in one (Oracle, Cisco, Dell) and pr

The Cloudcast #233 - NATS - Cloud Native Infrastructure

Aaron and Brian talk with Larry McQueary - (@McQueary; Product Manager at Apcera for NATS.io Cloud Native Infrastructure) about messaging platforms for microservices and distributed applications, how they differ from Enterprise Service Bus and how IoT applications have new requirements on the backend systems.

Show Notes: 
- How NATS, a REST Alternative, Provides Messaging for Distributed Systems
http://thenewstack.io/nats-rest-alternative-provides-messaging-distributed-systems/

• Topic 1 - People know Apcera from previous shows and discussions about Platforms. NATS is part of Apcera's platform, but it's also an independent project. Help us understand how the two are connected and separate?
  
  
• Topic 2 - Let's talk about the basics of NATS? What's the difference between a message-bus and an enterprise-service-bus (or caching layers)?
  
  
• Topic 3 - What types of applications use NATS and what are some of the characteristics (or architecture) of NATS that make it so fast and scalable?
  
  
• Topic 4- Everybody is talking about mobile and IoT these days. We know about phones and sensors, but what do the back-end systems look like and how does this interact with NATS?
  
  
• Topic 5 - How would someone deploy NATS? It is something that is best in a private cloud environment because of the performance requirements, or could it also run in multi-tenant, shared public cloud environments?

The Cloudcast #232 - Docker Security Part Deux

Aaron talks to Cloudcast alum Diogo Monica and Nathan McCauley (@diogomonica and @nathanmccauley; Security Leads @Docker) about the focus on security at DeckerConEU, hardware signing of containers, the evolution and updates to Docker Notary and Trusted Registry, Project Nautilus and the security scanning of containers, and secret data in Docker Control Plane

Show Links:

• Thank you to Docker for having us as a media sponsor at Dockercon EU
• This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All
• Docker Blog
• The Cloudcast #199 - Docker Security

The Cloudcast #231 - Docker & Tutum Cloud

Aaron talks to Tutum Cloud's Borja Burgos (@borja_burgos) and Fernando Mayo (@FernandoMayo) about Docker's recent acquisition of Tutum Cloud, operational benefits of Tutum Cloud, future plans for Tutum, and how it will fit into the Docker ecosystem.

Show Links:

• Thank you to Docker for having us as a media sponsor at Dockercon EU
• This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All
• Docker Blog

The Cloudcast #230 - The Docker Ecosystem

Aaron talks to Nick Stinemates (@nickstinemates, VP Biz Dev @Docker) about Nick's life before business development, building a vibrant community around Docker, and how partners can co-exist within this new ecosystem.

Show Links:

• Thank you to Docker for having us as a media sponsor at Dockercon EU
• This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All
• Docker Blog

Topic 1 - You have a super interesting background. You’ve gone from the techie world to the dark side. Tell us about your journey to where you are today. What’s it like to be the “old guys around Docker” having been here over 2 years.

Topic 2 - The big announcement today was on Docker Universal Control Plane. It would appear with Trusted Registry Docker has created a place to store containers and then with Universal Control Plane a place to run containers. Is this a correct assessment? How do you see the next 12 months playing out for Docker customers? How does Tutum fit into this?

Topic 3 - What are the challenges you hear about most today as you work on technical alliances? Are you the one that got Ben on every stage at every keynote last year?

The Cloudcast #229 - Weaveworks and New Stack Architectures

Aaron talks to Alexis Richardson (@monadic, Co-founder and CEO @Weaveworks) about new container based architecture stacks and models, the state of Docker today and how to decipher this ever changing ecosystem

Show Links:

• Thank you to Docker for having us as a media sponsor at Dockercon EU
• This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All
• Weaveworks
• Weaveworks Github
• The Post-Amazon Challenge and the New Stack Model
• How To Detect, Map and Monitor Docker Containers with Weave Scope from Weaveworks

Topic 1 - Alexis, give us some background on yourself (RabbitMQ) as well as Weaveworks.

Topic 2 - What is your view of the Docker ecosystem today?

Topic 3 - Tell us about the state of networking in Docker today. This space is evolving quickly and has become a very hot market. What problems are you trying to solve that differentiates you from the others including SocketPlane (which has been absorbed into Docker). Isn’t the whole idea behind Weave is how to maintain your application and it’s networking without doing “unnatural acts” to get containers and networking to work together. How do the Weave products fit into this? Give us the decoder ring…  (more than Weave Net)

Topic 4 - How do CoreOS or Kubernetes figure into all of this?

The Cloudcast #228 - Rancher - Deploy and Orchestrate Containers

Aaron talks to Darren Shepherd (@ibuildthecloud, Co-founder and Chief Architect @Rancher Labs) about the move from IaaS and orchestration of virtual machines to containers. Topics include the transition from ephemeral to persistence, managing storage systems with Docker plugins and Rancher, managing vm’s inside containers the Google way, and lastly hypeconvergence comes to containers

Show Links:

• Thank you to Docker for having us as a media sponsor at Dockercon EU
• This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All
• The Cloudcast #195 - Farming Cloud Apps with Rancher
• Rancher Labs
• Rancher Persistent Data Services
• Rancher & Redapt Launch Hyperconverged

The Cloudcast #227 - Docker Networking and Project Calico

Aaron talks to Jon Berger (@jonberger0, Evangelist Project Calico, @projectcalico) about their pure Layer 3 approach to virtual networking and containers. We discuss the differences between Docker’s libnetwork overlay and Project Calico, the Docker 1.9 plugin architecture, policy managers, and design considerations for designing highly scalable and secure container based solutions

Show Links:

• Thank you to Docker for having us as a media sponsor at Dockercon EU
• This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All
• Project Calico

The Cloudcast #226 - Launching Spacecraft with Containers

Aaron talks with Dan Isla (@danisla, Data Scientist & Systems Engineer, Office of the CTO, Nasa’s JPL) about what it’s like to build spacecraft and use big data and container technologies to gain insight into trends to help make NASA more agile by building next generation systems. Topics include prototyping of new technologies, the advantages of containers, encapsulation of legacy applications in containers, and his insights into the Day 1 General Session announcements at DockerCon.

Show Links:

• Thank you to Docker for having us as a media sponsor at Dockercon EU
• This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All
• NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs
• JPL IT Data Science

The Cloudcast #225 - VMware and Containers

Aaron talks with Kit Colbert (@kitcolbert, VP & CTO Cloud Native Apps, VMware) at DockerCon EU about growing up in the VMware ecosystem and transferring skills to a cloud native apps world. Topics include VMware Integrated Containers, how the Docker and VMware tools fit together, evolution vs. revolution of operations, and future plans for VMware and containers.

Show Links:

• Thank you to Docker for having us as a media sponsor at Dockercon EU
• This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All
• VMware Cloud Native Apps Blog
• Wikibon Article on VMware

Topic 1 - I grew up in VMware virtualization and the associated ecosystem. As you speak to VMware customers about the transition to Cloud Native Apps, how have the discussions been going? It's a very different audience that VMware's usual buyer.

Topic 2 - Give us the basics of how the VMware Integrated Containers (VIC) elements align with Docker elements (machine, swarm, etc.).

Topic 3 - The Docker tools tend to be a natural fit for developers and VMware has always made great tools for Ops. Are people understanding where and how they should integrate vs. keeping functions separate?

Topic 4 - What is VMware’s plan around schedulers like Kubernetes and Mesos?

The Cloudcast #224 - Getting Started with Docker Toolbox

Aaron talks to John Willis (@botchagalupe, Director of Ecosystem Development) and Dave Tucker (@dave_tucker, Product Guy) about the Docker decoder ring to the new ecosystem and how to get started with the Docker Toolbox. In addition, we talk about multi-host networking, and immutable infrastructure and delivery with containers

Show Links:

• Thank you to Docker for having us as a media sponsor at Dockercon EU
• This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All

The Cloudcast #223 - Surprising Facts and Monitoring Docker

Aaron talks with Ilan Rabinovitch (@irabinovitch, Technical Community & Evangelism @Datadog) at DockerCon EU about his impressions from the Day 1 General Session, 8 Surprising Facts About Real Rocker Adoption, and the practical aspects of actually monitoring Docker at scale and the challenges we face today.

Show Links:

• Thank you to Docker for having us as a media sponsor at Dockercon EU
• This show sponsored by Intel Cloud For All
• 8 Surprising Facts About Real Docker Adoption
• Datadog Blog Series on Docker
• Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 Coming Soon

Topic 1 - We just left the Day One keynote. Thoughts about the state of Docker and the Docker ecosystem in general?

Topic 2 - There is a post from Datadog called 8 Surprising Facts About Real Docker Adoption. We’ll have a link in the show notes. It has gotten a lot of attention (was it mentioned in the keynote) and provides some great statistics around Docker. Which facts did you find most surprising as Datadog was developing the post? (For me: Larger Companies are the Early Adopters or the Stickiness of ⅔ that try it, adopt it)

Topic 3 - Let’s move on to Docker. There is a series of posts Datadog put up about Docker that are worth a read. What are the challenges to monitoring Docker? (short container life, lots of tear up and tear down) You talk about a “Twilight Zone” of monitoring in traditional applicatications that cover the vm and the app but leave the container as a gap. Standard metrics don’t work anymore, What are the new metrics?

The Cloudcast #222 - Microsoft Operations Management Suite

Brian talks with Jeremy Winter (Principle Group Program Manager @Microsoft) about the changing culture at Microsoft, the evolution of Hybrid Cloud management, OMS technology support and how Microsoft is listening to customers differently.*

• Microsoft OMS Announcement
• Microsoft OMS Homepage

• Jeremy on Channel 9

Topic 1 - Jeremy, you’ve been at Microsoft for a while and the company culture has been through a bunch of changes recently. Tell us about your background and what’s happening at Microsoft.

Topic 2 - Many people know Microsoft Systems Center, so where does OMS fit into the broader Microsoft management framework? How does this tie into recent announcements from Microsoft + Red Hat?

Topic 3 - Lots of new capabilities in OMS (Security, Automation, Logging, etc.), let's walk through what a customer's experience is like, especially across both private and public cloud environment

Topic 4 - Many technologists are struggling with the pace of technology change, especially with some of the advanced stuff that's trying to replicate the web-scale clouds (AWS, Azure, etc.). How does OMS help reduce some of that learning curve, and what are some of the individual tools that someone could remove/reduce by using OMS instead?

Topic 5 - In the OMS announcement, you talk about working closely with customers to build the experience. Tell us about how that process works and some of the feedback you got that wasn't expected?

DockerCon EU Day 2 Keynote "Live Blog"

This was a "Live Blog" from the keynote this morning. Took me a bit to get it somewhat cleaned up and get access out to post this.

Ben on stage:

Recap of Day 1:
- #dockercon - #2 worldwide trending item on Twitter yesterday
- Keynote (using the Power of AND as a theme)

- Lessons learned on the path to production: custom scripts rarely scale, developers do not adopt locked down platforms, end to end matters for both dev and ops, build management & orchestration enables portability
- Ben talking about “Containers as a Service” - Build (Docker Toolbox) -> Ship (Registry Service) -> Run (Control Plane)
- Call back to yesterday and four layers of solutions - talking about creating a solution as an end to end flow
- Interesting that Run is called out as a Control Plane (and references Tutum on the next slide)
- 20% of all content pulled from Docker Hub is “official images”, but what about all the others? You know you can trust an official image. Project Nautilus was brought out to address this other 80%.
- Showing output of a Project Nautilus scan on the screen. It breaks down line by line each library used in a container

Docker Automated Builds:
- Talking about Automated Builds - 60k automated builds per week, 300% growth since January 2015. Automated Builds 2.0 is a rearchitecture of the system to address time and quality issues.
- New Build System uses per-Repo Dedicated Builders (you don’t share a build queue with anybody else anymore), starting a fresh build environment every time. This increasing time of parallel builds as well as guaranteed quality of a clean environment.
- Dynamic Matching is the other feature. Static mapping used before (you had to manually tag your builds), dynamic matching allows for variable based builds and more flexibility in the system over time

Docker Tutum:
- Now talking about Run phase (using Tutum) - Tutum guys on stage
- What is Tutum? - a cloud that allows code to production rapidly
Demo Time:
Talking about code from laptop into production - SaaS demo from yesterday (voting app)
- What will happen? Modify a feature, image created via Docker Hub autobuild, Image deployed in Tutum
- Showing Tutum visualizer - shows a visual representation of the app (both dev version and production version)
- The production version is deployed across regions in AWS as well in a private datacenter (balanced across both)
- Before they make a change to the app, showing the automated build in Docker Hub connected to GitHub
- Now modifying the application, commit to git repo, push to remote repo
- Showing Docker Hub changes and dynamic changes reflected from git
- Docker Hub builds the image and redeploys the image to production in automated fashion
- Take Away: Push to git and the automated workflow takes care of everything else in the build and push
- Now - to push to production from staging, Tutum shows a visual representation of the containers being upgraded. Production is upgrading in a rolling fashion automatically. “One click upgrade to production"
- What about resiliency in production? What is we take down a datacenter in production?
- Using the Tutum interface, wipe out a datacenter, Tutm redeployed the containers in a different datacenter and scaled back up to support the load (was actually a really cool demo)

- 3DExperience Company customer story slide on the screen now
- Customer on stage - Talking about consistency between development and production, simplification of tools for dev and ops, ability to deploy on their cloud, and the scalability and increased high availability provided by moving to Docker containers. This is a sneak preview of the results they have achieved.
- Showing a video of their product called HomeByMe (online 3D modeling of home improvements and planning) fully running on the new system
- The system has gone from concept to production in less than a year

Docker Universal Control Plane:
Scott Johnston (SVP, Product) on stage now
- Asked for raised hands on DockerCon - the vast majority (probably 80-90%) are first time attendees
- Asked for show of hands of who can’t put data in the clouds or can’t put control planes in the cloudss
- Production in the Cloud? Not for everyone due to compliance and security
- quoted Adrian Cockcroft “speed is the market share"

- Developers will always find a way to go fast, it’s their job
- We want Agility and Portability WITH Control
- This starts at the app level - How doe we know which images to trust, who signed an image and when, how to automate, etc.
- To support this, Docker Content Trust ad Docker Trusted Registry are now in sync with each other
- What about the Run aspect of all of this? What about the control plane?
- ANNOUNCMENT: Docker Universal Control Plane
- This was Project Orca - Integrated Stack for application deployment
- Self-Service App Deploys & Updates, Provisioning & Config of Heterogeneous Clusters, LDAP/AD Integration with Docker Trusted Registry, Native Docker API’s and CLI, Monitoring, Logging.
- Completes the end to end aspect of Containers as a Service

DEMO of Docker Universal Control Plane
- login to Docker Trusted Registry
- sign the app with Docker Content Trust
- push the app to the registry - show the app has been signed
- Now how to push it out and deploy it
- Flip over to Docker Universal Control Plane and login
- control plane sits on top of Swarm and integrated with Native API (to use Compose, etc.)
- Use Docker Compose to run the app - The control plane gives access based on LDAP credentials
- Control Plane auto detects the new build and adds it into the control plane dashboard
- Shows how many resources are being consumed per account, ops dashboard basically
- Now scale up the app by adding more containers to the voting app (from command line)
- Now talking about secret management to control variables and info
- Showing that secrets are based on the access control groups in LDAP (production is locked down vs. dev which is wide open)
- Now redeploy of the app using the secret to use that vs. the environment variables
- Control Plane allows you to roll credentials incase they are compromised, now do a docker compose restart
- Restrart and they showed the password has been changed and rotated

Docker Trusted Registry 1.4 is GA and Docker Universal Control Plane is 1.0 Beta as of today

DockerCon EU Day 1 Keynote "Live Blog"

Going to try something new here on The Cloudcast. It's been a long time since I did a blog, I'm at Dockercon EU this week and there was some interest on Twitter to get more info out about the keynote. Wireless was down during the show so this is a "semi-Live Blog". Might be some typos in here and this is a brain dump as things happened during the keynote.

- About 1500 attendees at the event
- Ben (CEO) on stage:
- Ben talking about Docker public image and that it is perceived as “just a developer tool”, they are much more
- Docker is about building tools of mass innovation - quote by Solomon

Stats Time:
- Docker has nearly 2000 contributors to the Docker project, over 10,000 pull requests
- global metope communities highlighted - 215 groups, 63 countries
- Over 60,000 project on GitHub have Docker in the title
- State of the Project:
- 240k dockerized applications, 1.3billion Docker Hub pulls, 5.6M Docker Hub pulls per day
- Docker has evolved from a container technology into an entire ecosystem of tools
- Open Container Initiative - 35+ members, 253 github forks, 130 contributors
- Docker used for stateful as well as stateless apps - really started as stateless and is growing into the other
- Docker in production - (see the DataDog study, a lot of stats used from that) - 8 surprising facts about Docker Adoption (google it)
- Docker in Production means making Docker much better and more robust. Must be portable and good for dev as well as ops, Secure and Extensible

Docker Stack:
- Solomon (Founder/CTO) up on stage now:
- Solomon talking about the Internet (lots of upgrades, doesn’t go down, ultimate at scale system)
- The biggest obstacle right now is software walled gardens, it stands between an eager developer and the Internet
- Docker is building an open software layer to make the Internet programmable
- Solomon talking about the Docker Stack - 4 layers in a building is the example
- Layer 1 = Standards. Let’s get everyone to agree on a way to interoperate
- Layer 2 = Infrastructure. The “plumbing” that enables everything to happen
- Layer 3 = Dev Tools. A collection of tools to help developer experience the best it can be
- Layer 4 = Solutions. How do you solve real word problems? What is the final answer? This is solutions

Docker Quality:
What is left after you ship a feature, Quality is making a feature work every time, for every user - Quality is security, reliability, handling failures gracefully
- What has Docker been up to? Quality tools for developers...
- first up, usability of tools, Solomon admits they have been working on usability of tools. Talking about docker compose right now, it is the “developer entry point” into the ecosystem. It is the must use tool for developers. As of the last release, can now do “magical” service discovery, can now use a micro-service architecture without rewriting code, and can now build persistent services with volume management
- Working on making the “little things” better for developers (virtual box integration issues, UI glitches, low priority bugs, better error messages) - lots of unglamorous work
- Working up to a story and a demo. Story of a developer on the first day of work. How soon could be developing an application? - Simple as download the Docker Toolbox and run one command.

Docker Security:
- Solomon talking about “usable security” - developers care about usability, not security. They care about security, as long as it doesn’t affect usability, otherwise they will just find a way around it
- How to give developers usable security? How do we move beyond Docker Content Trust and Notary?
- Docker Content Trust + hardare crypto = the ability to survive almost any key compromise (double layer of protection provided so you can rotate keys and replace as needed as long as the root key is kept safe)
- Announcement: Docker and yubico - hardware crypto key for Docker Content Trust
(Demo of the product) - plug the hardware key into the laptop, enable Docker Content Trust, docker push to Docker Hub, touch the key (physically) to prove you are a human and this isn’t a “bot” or something malicious, enter a password, done.
- LOL - made a backup copy of his keys and then published to github public - not a good thing
- Security team rotated the private key to prevent a compromise, tried the demo again and of course it failed because of key rotation. Was actually a very entertaining demo
- Take Away: With the right tools, any developer can become a secure software publisher
- Isolation of a container in Linux was difficult because so many things “make” a container. Over time this has improved. The last two left are really seccomp and user namespace
- The last two have been tackled in the Swarm/Engine experimental builds
- Huge question with a lot of different answers - “Am I running vulnerable containers?"
- Announcement: Introducing Project Nautilus - Built-in container security analysis in Docker Hub - trigger an automated scan anytime a container is pushed to Docker Hub
- soft launch 2 months ago, over 74 millions pulls to date already scanned, self service coming soon
- Benefits of this approach - Detect vulnerabilities regardless of the Linux Distribution, discovery of new vulnerabilities in Linux distributions and collaborate with communities to fix them, developers can use their favorite package manger (probably not the one that shipped with the distro)
- Take away: You can be secure without lock in to a specific distro

Docker at Scale:
- Next topic and Demo - Swam at scale
- Took the demo (Day 1 app and scaled this up to 1000 nodes in Swarm) - Now using swarm bench to scale this up to 50k containers across 1000 nodes. Once they are up and running, Swarm scheduler balances them across the cluster - real time this was done in less than an hour.
Note: Swarm tested to 50k containers but that was a limitation of EC2 right now. They expect to have better numbers in the future. Docker is dedicated to making Swarm the most scalable and usable system in the industry

Disclaimer: The Cloudcast was a media sponsor of Dockercon EU

The Cloudcast #221 - Self-Improvement as a Service

Aaron, Brian and Amy Lewis talk with Srinivas Krishnamurti (@skrishna09; Founder/CEO of Zugata) about the VMware Mafia, being an EIR, the Zugata vision to make work-life better for individuals, the psychology of improving teamwork and the differences between building commercial software and SaaS services.

Show Notes

• Zugata Homepage - http://www.zugata.com/

• Srinivas’ Blog - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/re-imagining-performance-reviews-srinivas-krishnamurti


Topic 1 - You’re an alumni of the infamous VMware Mafia. Tell us about your background and why you decided to start Zugata. Also, let’s talk a little about the service.

Topic 2 - You obviously had a premise about how this might change the work environment, but what have you learned from early adopters of the service?

Topic 3 - How do you overcome that many people’s initial reaction to a tool like this is “privacy!, social engineering!, big brother! bullying!”

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about building a SaaS service and mobile experience. Your background is in package software. What are the biggest differences from a development perspective?

Topic 5 - Help us understand the basics of SaaS economics? Lots of services start for free, then attempt to convert to a freemium or fully-paid model. What are the milestones for new SaaS companies to consider?

Topic 6 - As a SaaS service, you not only need to think about customers, but also your underlying cloud platform. What’s the landscape from the cloud providers for SaaS companies (advantages, disadvantages, etc)?

The Cloudcast #220 - The World of Many Clouds

Aaron and Brian talk with Jonathan Donaldson (@jdonalds; VP/GM, Software Defined Infrastructure at Intel) about old times, how quickly the Cloud Computing market is evolving, the breadth of projects that the Intel SDI groups engages with, how to growth the number of clouds, and how Intel is addressing the IoT market.

• Intel Cloud for All 
• Intel Software Defined Infrastructure
• Jonathan’s Blog

Topic 1 - Aaron and I both have known you for many years, and worked with you in various other organizations, but give our listeners not only your background but the things you’re working on at Intel these days.

Topic 2 - The market is going pretty crazy these days as it relates to cloud - Dell/EMC merger and subsequent Virtustream announcement; HP getting out of public cloud (again); AWS announcing huge growth and new services; Rackspace becoming a service company for other clouds. Intel has pretty unique perspective. Help us see through all this cloudiness.

Topic 3 - A lot of us follow Nick Weaver (@lynxbat) and the stuff he’s interested in (container, scheduling frameworks, automation, etc.) and we see some of the investments that Intel makes (or maybe they are just partnerships). As a VP/GM, how do you think about strategy when so many dynamics (economics, technology) are changing so rapidly?

Topic 4 - The Cloud for All program is talking about “1000s of Clouds”. What do you think are the biggest areas that need to improve for that to happen, and are there some core applications that might accelerate this?

Topic 5 - We’re starting to see lots of companies announce IoT platforms (Salesforce, AWS, SAP, Dell, Cisco, etc.). IoT is a cloud play and a device play. Where does Intel and SDI see the state of IoT these days?

The Cloudcast #219 - DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015

Brian talks with Sam Fell (@samueldfell; Director of Product Marketing @ElectricCloud) about the DevOps Enterprise Summit, how Enterprise customers are different that startups, understanding the people/process side of DevOps and how Electric Cloud is making it easier to help Enterprise companies become more agile in deploying software.

Show Links:

• DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015
• DOES2015 Day 1 Recap
• DOES2015 Day 2 Recap
• Electric Cloud Homepage
• Electric Cloud ElectricFlow

Topic 1 - Tell us about your background and a little bit about Electric Cloud.

Topic 2 - We’re here at DevOps Enterprise Summit in San Francisco. It’s been a great week in terms of learning and real customer stories of transformation. What have been your biggest takeaways or insight from some of the talks?

Topic 3 - I’ve been doing some side research on the people and process part of companies transformation to DevOps and building/using Cloud Native applications. Certain patterns are beginning to emerge for me, but I’m curious on what you see from your customers.

Topic 4 - Electric Cloud announced ElectricFlow this week, a framework for automated deployments. Talk a little bit about the product and how it fits into the stories we heard about this week?

Topic 5 - We heard all week that DevOps is not about technology, but rather it’s about people and culture. But we know that technology plays a role. Are there things within the Electric Cloud platform that helps with those people elements, essentially shortcuts that can help make the people pieces be more successful?

The Cloudcast #218 - Learning from Blameless Post-Mortems

Brian talks with Dave Zwieback (@mindweather; Head of Engineering @NextBigSound) about his book “Beyond Blame”, the challenging cultures of web-scale and DevOps, understanding complex and chaotic systems and how to lead through problems.

Check out O-Reilly's new initiative: Learning Paths.

Show Links:
"Beyond Blame" book
Dave’s Blog - Simple Thoughts on Complex Systems

Topic 1 - Tell us about your background and the things you’re doing at NextBigSound.

Topic 2 - You’re at VelocityConf this week. What topics are you really interested in or focused on?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about your book “Beyond Blame”. What was the motivation to write it and why choose the storytelling model (similar to The Phoenix Project)?

Topic 4 - Is there a “journey to better post-mortems”  or “learning review” model, or is this an all-or-nothing approach?

Topic 5 - The book talks a lot about accountability, and there is an area where “accountability” is defined very differently than we tend to use it today (“blame”). It’s one thing to discuss empathy, because that’s not really taught in any formal courses or via team/group things (e.g. sports). How to you expand or redefine a well-understood concept?

The Cloudcast #217 - Platforms - Build, Buy or Rent

Aaron and Brian talk with Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout, Principal Technologist @pivotal, Co-Host @arresteddevops, @devopsdays Organizer.) about DevOps in practice, running Docker in production, building (or not) your own platform, AWS tools and where Docker fits with Cloud Native applications.

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Show Links:
Bridget's Blog
DevOps Days
Arrested DevOps Podcast

Topic 1 - Let's talk about your background in Operations, DevOps and now at Pivotal.

Topic 2 - How did you shift from working as a grumpy SysAdmin to developing DevOps skills? What types of things are you doing now in the Pivotal Cloud Foundry team?

Topic 3 - At OSCON 2015 you spoke about running Docker in production, from your time at DramaFever. Tell us about some of the things you learned and might do differently now?

Topic 4 - What advice do you have for people considering the build, buy, rent question for a next-gen application platform?

Topic 5 - What areas have you been focused on with your Arrested DevOps podcast?

The Cloudcast #216 - The Evolution of Cloud Operations

Brian talks with Mark Imbriaco (@markimbriaco; Co-founder & CEO at @OperableInc) about the state of Cloud operations, the changes to DevOps, the human challenges of web scale operations and opinionated PaaS platforms.

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Show Links:
Operable Homepage

Topic 1 - The last time we spoke, you were part of the operations team at GitHub. Some things have changed since then. What’s new in your world?

Topic 2 - What are the biggest changes that you’ve seen over the last 18 months that impact operations? How has DevOps continued to evolve?

Topic 3 - Topic 3 - How much have things changed that require operations to deal with things in real-time? How much gets automatically remediated?

Topic 4 - Topic 4 - What is most important to operations teams today?

Topic 5 - Topic 5 - Lots of new frameworks and new ways to build applications. Any guidance that you have from an operations perspective to development teams?

The Cloudcast #215 - Open Source in Europe

Brian talks with Rachel Roumeliotis (@rroumeliotis, Co-Chair of OSCON EU) about open-source in Europe, regional diversity, the evolution of open-source for application development and how to select speakers and topics for large events.

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Show Links:
OSCON Europe

Topic 1 - We’re a month away from OSCON EU, October 26-28 in Amsterdam. Give us the highlights. What’s new and cool?

Topic 2 - We’ve attended OSCON in Portland several times. It’s going through changes as interests change. What about OSCON in Europe. What is the overall vibe in Europe about Open Source? Does it vary widely by region?

Topic 3 - While you’re the event chair, your expertise is around Software Architecture. That track has a ton of really interesting topics - Distributed Patterns (Chaos), Microservices, Containers, etc.

Topic 4 - Lots of talk about software-eating-the-world. How much do you see open-source re-shaping infrastructure vs. re-shaping application development. Any favorite examples you’d like to share?

Topic 5 - Diversity at events is always a topic. Sometimes it’s gender, sometimes it’s culture. Europe is already fairly diverse, but as an OSCON leader, how are you able to influence this and find the right balance between technical insight and speaker/topic variety?

The Cloudcast #214 - Packaging DevOps Big and Small

Aaron and Nick Weaver (@lynxbat) talk to Jeff Dickey(@jeffdickey; Chief Innovation Officer @Redapt) about building Clouds and DevOps environments for both small and large customers and the real world challenges they face. Thank you to the Linux Foundation for hosting us as a media sponsor!

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• Topic 1 - This will be a quick follow up from our podcast at DockerCon, this has to be the fastest follow up ever on the show. We wanted to thank Rich for his great feedback and questions.
• Topic 2 - Let’s start at the start. What does a company like Redapt see when it has a customer engagement. What is a typical customer? What market? What application needs? How often do they deploy? What's the developer's environment?
• Topic 3 - When Redapt is proposing a solution, what is the "usual" target environment that Redapt tries to influence. Where have you seen success? Where have you “learned some lessons”?
• Topic 4 - What are the typical barriers to adoption and success/failure? How do customers handle cultural shifts? Can it be done?
• Topic 5 - If you had to label an industry or customer type that is the “poster child” for success, what would they look like? How long does it take most customers to get there?

The Cloudcast #213 - What is Immutable Infrastructure?

Brian talks with Subbu Allamaraju (@sallamar, Chief Engineer, Cloud & Platforms @ebay) about Cloud Computing in Seattle, immutable infrastructure, the P-D-M-R cycle, and understanding Durable and Declarative environments.

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Show Links:

• Lessons From Cloud Bunker
• Subbu Allamaraju - OpenStack Seattle 2015

Topic 1 - Let’s talk about your background. You’ve been part of some very well-known companies and large environments over the past decade

Topic 2 - Virtualization and cloud have introduced these terms that really we’re around previously - “ephemeral”, “immutable”. Let’s set a baseline for what those terms means.

Topic 3 - In your blog, you talk about this concept of a closed-loop “P-D-M-R cycle”.  Provision - Deploy - Monitor - Remediate. Then you talk about how this is a broken model; let’s explore that.

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about these concepts - “durable” and “declarative”. What does that mean and how is the technology around us starting to deliver that?

Topic 5 - You mention that IaaS isn’t dead, even though it’s currently made up of ephemeral elements (e.g. VMs, etc.). Do you see a distinction between the Durable/Declarative “layer” and the IaaS “layer” - who manages those resources?

The Cloudcast #212 - Big Data and Mesos

Description: Aaron and Nick Weaver (@lynxbat) talk with Derrick Harris (@derrickharris, Senior Research Analyst @mesosphere) about the latest in both the big data and cloud native apps using Mesos.

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Show Links:
The Data Center Show Podcast
SCALE Blog

Topic 1 - Many of us know you for the excellent work you did at GigaOm. How did you end up at Mesosphere and what are you working on these days?

Topic 2 - You write an excellent publication called “SCALE”, which is focused on large scale data centers and data analytics. What trends or new ideas are really interesting to you these days?

Topic 3 - Big Data is an area that you’ve covered for a while. The data science skills are really difficult to find. Are you seeing anything that’s making it easier for companies to engage big data technologies?

Topic 4 - Let’s get back to Mesosphere and Mesos. Is this a technology that we’ll see lots of customers using (large # of customers), or is it a smaller # of customers but with really large usage models?

Topic 5 - Sometimes we wonder about revenue models for companies that are based on open-source projects. Did you understand this when you were an independent analyst, and how do you view it differently now that you’re at a vendor?

The Cloudcast #211 - Mesosphere DCOS

Aaron talks with Ben Hindman (@benh; Co-creator of ApacheMesos, Founder of @mesosphere) about his time at Twitter, building Mesos, understanding problems at scale, how Mesos compares to Kubernetes, Mesosphere DCOS and the recent announcements with Microsoft.


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Links from the show:

• Dave Lester from Twitter/ApacheMesos on #155
• Understanding Mesos
• Kenneth Hui’s Series on Apache Mesos
• Microsoft / MesoSphere Announcement
• Thanks for the MesosCon folks for having us! - MesosCon Homepage

Topic 1 -  Give us some of your background and how you went from working on Apache Mesos at Twitter to becoming involved with Mesosphere?

Topic 2 - It’s been about a year since we talked about Mesos on the show. We’ve talked about Kubernetes a few times. Can you give us the basics of each of those technologies because sometimes people confuse them or think they are interchangeable or overlapping.

Topic 3 -  Let’s talk about Mesosphere and DCOS (Data Center Operating System). People talk about “durable and declarative” infrastructure for applications. How does DCOS accomplish this?

Topic 4 - Mesosphere includes not only systems and schedulers for the underlying container infrastructure, but also application-level schedulers. What are the differences, and how does a development team vs. an ops team interact with Mesosphere?

Topic 5 - What types of applications are you seeing Mesosphere customers running in this new environment? One thing we heard at VelocityConf was that there is work within Apache Mesos to look at adding support for stateful applications or stateful data - what’s the status of that?

The Cloudcast #210 - Open Source Foundations with Jim Zemlin

Description: Aaron talks with Jim Zemlin (@jzemlin, Executive Director Linux Foundation) about the continued rise of Open Source in our daily lives and necessary role of open source foundations. We also find out he has a favorite project!

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Announcements from LinuxCon:

• IO Visor Project
• Kinetic Open Storage Project
• Open Mainframe Project
• Open Container Initiative

Topic 1 - First question we have to ask about is foundations. What is changing in the market or with communities that we’ve seen so many get created in the last 12-18 months?

Topic 2 - Some people have said that foundations are becoming the new standards committees, which had a reputation for slowing down innovation. Does technology move so fast these days that we need to introduce some “governors” to pace it a little better, or do you have a different opinion?

Topic 3 -  We’re seeing more “traditional” companies get engaged with open source software, typically via the foundations. What guidance do you give their leadership, especially if open source isn't part of their core business model today?

Topic 4 -  The Linux Foundation is involved in so many interesting technologies. Without picking a favorite child, what areas or trends are really grabbing your attention these days?

The Cloudcast #209 - The Evolution of Private Cloud as a Service

Brian talks with Madhura Maskasky (@madhuramaskasky, Co-Founder/ VP Product @Platform9) about the evolution of Platform9, offloading the Private Cloud learning curve, SaaS management, and the intersection of VMware and OpenStack for customers.

Links from the show:

• Platform9 Website
• Madhura’s Bio
• Kenneth Hui's Platform9 Blog

Topic 1 - We had your Co-Founder, Sirish Raghuram, on the show back in August 2014 when you were just going out of stealth. Tell us about your background and some of the lessons the team learned in getting from Beta to GA and early customers.

Topic 2 - It’s nice to see the Cloud-Management-as-a-Service trend gain traction. How challenging has it been to get customers to understand the concept of on-premises hardware, but SaaS-based management?

Topic 3 - We often talk about companies like Uber or AirBnB, that have taken the concept of “asset-less” and make it very disruptive and successful in their specific industries. Platform9 has a similar concept, in that the customer still owns the equipment. How much economic flexibility do that give you as a company?  

Topic 4 - One of the things you’re announcing this week, as well as a new round of funding, is interoperability with VMware. As you talk to customers, what problems are they trying to solve by co-existing VMware and OpenStack? And what does “interoperability” mean?

Topic 5 - OpenStack is starting to explore how container technology might fit into that architecture. You’ve written about container standards before, having been through the OVF “standard” at VMware. Should customers care about container standards at this point, or is this mostly a vendor/community issue?

The Cloudcast #208 - Infrastructure as Code

Brian talks with Nathen Harvey (@nathenharvey, Community Manager @chef) about how he became a Community Manager, his passion for DevOps, The Food Fight podcast, the future of configuration management and the best first steps to developing the skills to build infrastructure-as-code at your company.

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Links from the show:

• Chef Homepage
• Learn Chef
• Nathen's Blog
• Nathen on GitHub
• The Food Fight Show (podcast)

Topic 1 - Tell us about your background and how you evolved into doing Community Management - and what does community management mean for a mix of open source and commercial “stuff”?

Topic 2 - We listen to Michael Ducy’s Goat Farm podcast, and hear a number of people from Chef speak at various events. It feels like what Chef is focused on is more about hands-on cultural change than technology. Is that a fair assessment of how it’s evolving?

Topic 3 - I heard you speak recently at a Triangle DevOps event about Infrastructure-as-Code, which is a big concept, but it’s grounded in actual technology. But that topic always gets wrapped up in DevOps and all these other analogies (Unicorn, Goats, etc..). Does that get old for you, or is it just the nature of working on stuff that’s trying to change 20yrs of previous habits and culture? 

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about config management. There’s this new believe/buzz that maybe Docker eliminates the needs for previous config-mgmt system. Why are we hearing that discussion, and what are the broader realities of config-mgmt (and Infrastructure as Code)?

Topic 5 - I feel like we have a big problem brewing, if this Cloud Native apps (Microservices, 12-Factor, etc.) stuff takes off, because a lot of the principles of DevOps are so foreign in today’s Ops teams. What do you recommend to people to get to learning and doing things “the right way” more quickly?

The Cloudcast #200 - The Future of Connected Clouds

Aaron and Brian talk to Christian Reilly (@reillyusa; CTO @Citrix) about the future. They discuss how far we are from availability and adoption of many of the systems laid out in a futuristic video. They discuss the challenges of modifying long-held social norms and adapting legal environments to adjust to new technology.

Links from the show:

• Citrix Future Video
• The Healthcare of Things
• 2020 Technology Landscape

Topic 1 - How much of this is entirely public cloud based vs. on-prem?
- Tesla - Large Screens - Business Stuff in the Cars [TODAY]
- Self Driving Cars
- 3D Holograms with Tablets - Displays
- Seamless Collaboration Handoffs
- What do we call the workable, flat workspaces?
- Movable / Interactive Apps within touch screens

Topic 2 - Seamless blending of business and personal information (eg. calendars) - Embedded Internet in the TV
- A Useful UI on the TV (touch screen) - or is this just a display?
- Wearable medical monitoring (“the patch”)
- Elimination of medical paperwork


Topic 3 - Google Glasses (wearable)
- Massively interactive 3D display
- Micro drones from the watch
- Collaboration Tables + Collaboration displays

The Periodic Table of DevOps Tools (by Xebia Labs)

Some things are so good that they just need to be shared. This interactive table (original) was created by Cloudcast alum XebiaLabs (Eps#182). It's not only a great way to represent all the tools that are being created, but it's clickable to give you more in-depth information on each item.

Nicely done, XebiaLabs team!

The Cloudcast #207 - Managing Shared Cloud Resources

Brian talks to Sumeet Singh (Founder/CEO @AppFormix) his background at Cisco and Microsoft, the challenges of shared infrastructure, how Appformix works across Docker and OpenStack, and what to expect from the start-up moving forward.

Links from the show:

• AppFormix Homepage
• AppFormix VC Funding

Topic 1 - Tell us about yourself and some background on AppFormix.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the core problem that AppFormix is trying to solve. Is this a public cloud problem, or does it also apply to private clouds?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the AppFormix technology. How does it work? How far does it extend across the infrastructure?

Topic 4 - How will the technology be packaged and go to market? How will customers engage with it?

Topic 5 - How will AppFormix work with other systems that collect/log/monitor information?

The Cloudcast #206 - Experience Building Large-Scale Clouds

Description: Aaron and Brian talk to Jeff Dickey (@jeffdickey; Chief Innovation Officer @Redapt) and John Griffith (@jdg_8, Software Engineer @SolidFire) about the evolution of Redapt, best practices for building large-scale clouds, comparing OpenStack to Docker communities and how the ecosystem is changing from Vendor to SP to VAR.

Links from the show:

• Redapt Homepage
• Jeff Dickey's Bio
• NextCast Podcasts
• Thanks for the Docker folks for having us! - DockerCon 2015 on YouTube

Topic 1 - Tell us about yourself and some background on Redapt.

Topic 1a - You both have OpenStack background. Why are you here at DockerCon?

Topic 2 - Aaron knows Redapt from his day job, but you really got on our radar the past few weeks with a bunch of announcements recently (eg CoreOS Fest + Tectonic). How did Redapt get involved with delivering solutions around these new Cloud Native frameworks?

Topic 3 - What you do is really a next-step in how companies are able to build or consume these new Cloud Native frameworks. How does Redapt go about pulling these systems together?

Topic 4 - We talked yesterday about your team. How do you keep the talent levels up to date on your team?

Topic 5 - Redapt is well-known in the cloud circles. What best practices can you take from your learnings and apply them to all these Enterprise and Mid-Market companies that want to do all the cool stuff we hear about here at DockerCon?

The Cloudcast #205 - AWS CloudMgmt-as-a-Service

Brian talks to Joel Davne (@woggenager, CEO of @cloudnexa) and MJ DiBerardino (CTO @cloudnexa) about the evolution of System Integrators, the evolving AWS ecosystem, Cloud Management -as-a-Service, and what types of applications customers are using with AWS.

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Links from the show:

• Cloudnexa Website
• Cloudnexa Automates AWS Provisioning with vNOC
• Cloudnexa on theCUBE at AWS:reInvent


Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your backgrounds and introduce the audience to Cloudnexa.   

Topic 2 - As public cloud was becoming more mainstream, a lot of people were saying that systems integrators (and maybe hosting providers) would go away. Talk about why you call Cloudnexa a “born in the cloud” company, and why your business models and technology are different than more traditional VAR/SI/Hosting models. 

Topic 3 - Aaron and I are big fans of Simon Wardley, who often talks about AWS having an advantage because they not only learn from their customers, but also from the AWS ecosystem. What are you learning from the AWS marketplace that the mainstream media isn’t discussing? 

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about vNOC. I’ve been saying for a while that Management-as-a-Service is hugely important, because too many companies can’t figure out how to operate a cloud - and most really shouldn’t be (costly, slow learning curve, wrong skills). 

Topic 5 - Whenever I read about Cloudnexa or hear you speak, the words “customer value” constantly come out. That goes from the service you offer to pricing models to migrations. Talk about how you think about that in this on-demand world. 

Topic 6 - The AWS ecosystem is very powerful and diverse - we’ve had many of the companies on the show. You do some unique things in how you partner with other AWS ecosystem companies. Give us some input about what that means from both a technical perspective and business perspective.

The Cloudcast #204 - NGINX for Docker and Microservices

Aaron and Brian talk to Sarah Novotny (@sarahnovotny) about her involvement in multiple open source communities, how L4-L7 services interact with containers, how NGINX interacts with multiple aspects of the Docker ecosystem and architectural patterns she is seeing with container deployments.

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Links from the show:

• NGINX Community
• NGINX Plus
• Thanks to the Docker folks for having us! - DockerCon 2015 on YouTube


Topic 1 - You are really well-connected and embedded in open source communities. Give us a little background on not only what you do at NGINX, but also OSCON and some other other communities you engage with. 

Topic 2 - Your talk this week is about “Interconnecting Your Containers at Scale”, and the abstract includes the word “stevedore”. I had to look it up, and it means “the person that loads and unloads cargo on a dock” (appropriate metaphor for DockerCon). Be honest, did you know that word before this talk? 

Topic 3 - NGINX makes a great load-balancer / proxy. It not only has to deal with dynamic scale and policies associated with apps, but it also maintains some amount of state. Let's dig into what that means with the ephemeral nature of containers. 

Topic 4 - We had breakfast the other day and you were telling me that many NGINX conversations are often less about the specific features/functionality and instead are more application-architecture. Give us some examples of what that means for Cloud Native applications, or uniqueness for containers? 

Topic 5 - Where are you seeing the important points of integration for NGINX? Is it at the container level, or higher-level services (eg. Swarm/Kubernetes/Mesos), or do you see more customized integrations with policy services or other application services?

The Cloudcast #203 - Docker Networking

Aaron and Brian talk to John Willis (@botchagulpe; VP of Customer Enablement @Docker) and Madhu Venugopal (@MadhuVenugopal, Sr.Director Networking @Docker) about the evolution from Socketplane to Docker Networking, the new plugin architecture in v1.7, who is the new Networking admin/ops and how to learn the container networking model.

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Links from the show:

• Docker Tutorials (video)
• DevOps Cafe (podcast)
• Docker Networking (updates in v1.7)
• Thanks for the Docker folks for having us! - DockerCon 2015 on YouTube

Topic 1 - We spoke with you just a few months ago, when you were working with Socketplane. What happened to those guys?

Topic 2 - Docker Networking has evolved into this concept/library called “libnetwork”. Help us understand the basic concepts of networking for Docker containers.

 Topic 3 - We sat through the Docker Networking tutorial yesterday. As old-timey networking guys, a lot of the terminology was very different - Sandbox, Endpoint, Network, Namespaces. What’s a good learning resource to help us connect the dots between the old and the new?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the new plugin architecture for Docker. This extends to many area, including Networking and Storage. What does this mean for a networking partner that can to plugin to Docker?

Topic 5 - Can you talk about the interactions between Docker Networking and of the Service Discovery frameworks (eg. etcd, Swarm, Consul, etc.)?

Topic 6 - We’ve heard that the container framework is essentially - Developers own inside the containers; Ops own outside the containers. Does that still hold true for how Docker Networking works?

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The Cloudcast #202 - DockerCon - Project 6 from Datawise.io

Aaron and Brian talk to Jeff Chou (CEO/Founder @DatawiseIO) and Luis Robles (CTO/Founder @DatawiseIO) about their system-level experience building Cisco UCS, the challenges of networking and storage for containers, Project 6, and a start-ups view on the Docker ecosystem and plugin architecture.

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• Project 6 GitHub
• Thanks for the Docker folks for having us! - DockerCon 2015 on YouTube

The Cloudcast #201 - DockerCon - Secure Hybrid Cloud OS with Apcera

Aaron and Brian talk to Josh Ellithorpe (@zquestz), Software Architect for Apcera's Hybrid Cloud Operating System and what it was like to blaze a trail prior to Docker and we dig deep into security and granularity policies in cloud native apps.

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Links from the show:

• Apcera Website
• Beyond Containers: Agility and Security in Docker Delivery on YouTube
• Thanks for the Docker folks for having us! - DockerCon 2015 on YouTube

Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

The Cloudcast #199 - Docker Security

Aaron and Brian talk to Diogo Monica and Nathan McCauley (@diogomonica and @nathanmccauley; Security Leads @Docker) about their security background at Square, Docker Notary, how security is evolving around containers, Docker best practices and tools, and how Docker is treating container security with Windows.

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Links from the show:

• Docker Notary
• Understanding Docker Security Best Practices
• Docker Bench Security (automate the security checks)

Topic 1 - Being “the Security Guys” at one of the hottest companies on the planet has to be on the more interesting jobs out there. Tell us about your background.

Topic 2 - A few months ago, there was some concerns about “container security”, and then Docker came out with a bunch of Best Practices. How quickly is security focus ramping up within Docker?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about Docker “Notary”. What is it, how does it work?

Topic 4 - Docker has a focus on developers - Solomon said this morning during the keynote, 
“Reinvent the Developers Toolbox - for Distributed Applications”. We were talking at lunch that Security isn’t top of mind for them.

Topic 5 - How does the Windows + Docker activities fit into this security framework?

Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

The Cloudcast #198 - Architecting Cloud Foundry

Aaron and Brian talk to Chip Childers (@chipchilders, VP of Technology @CloudFoundryOrg) about the current status of Cloud Foundry projects, how Microsoft .NET will be integrated, IaaS vs. PaaS, and the CF.org thinking about overall interoperability

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Topic 1 - From an overall project perspective, what grades would you give Cloud Foundry in terms of stability, core functionality, security, operations, etc?

Topic 2 - You were previously involved (directly/indirectly)with CloudStack. As you talk to people in the marketplace, how is it different discussing IaaS vs. PaaS.

Topic 3 - How much ability will you have to drive prioritization within sub-projects or new projects? (eg. Security vs. new Languages vs. Interop, etc.)

Topic 4 - What’s the CF.org way of thinking about interoperability?

Topic 5 - What guidance are you giving the teams in terms of expandability of Cloud Foundry? Architecturally, are there certain places you recommend over other places?

Topic 6 - Is there a place for integrating SaaS applications (monitoring, logging, etc.) into Cloud Foundry?

Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

The Cloudcast #197 - Tectonic Shifts at CoreOS

Aaron and talks to Brian ‘Redbeard’ Harrington  (@brianredbeard, Principal Architect, CoreOS) about beardliness, CoreOS Fest, Project “Tectonic” and the latest on the “appc” specification as it relates to container formats.

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Links from the show:

• APPC Spec Gains New Support
• CoreOS State of the Union, from CoreFest
• Brian’s talk at ContainerCamp (“Container days keynote: lessons learned from wearz, POSIX, and distributed computing”)
• Brian’s talk about “CoreOS Flannel”

Topic 1 - Besides being the Most Interesting Beard in the Cloud, give us some of your background?

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about CoreOS Fest - Give us a quick recap and some of the highlights for you

Topic 3 - Tell us about “Tectonic” - Commercial Kubernetes Platform

Topic 4 - What’s the latest on Application Container Specification (“appc”) - https://github.com/appc/spec. Do you think we’ll just see multiple container specs going forward (as we’ve seen with lots of technologies in the past), or is it possible that some will converge (or go away)?

Topic 5 - You’re a systems person. Help us connect the dots in the CoreOS stack - from OS to Container Spec (rkt) to Discovery (etcs) to Networking (flannel) to Schedulers (kubernetes)

Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

The Cloudcast #196 - Inside Cloud Foundry Operations

Aaron and Brian talk to Cornelia Davis (@cdavisafc; Cloud Foundry Platform Engineering at Pivotal) about her experience working on the Pivotal Web Services Operations Team, her experience as both a developer and operator and why she believes that Containers-alone aren't enough to build a PaaS platform.

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Links from the show:

• Competing with Software, It takes a Platform
• Cornelia's Blog at Pivotal
• Revelations from the Field - Life in the Operations Team

Topic 1 - You were a developer first. You write a great blog post on the benefits to operations as well as developers from PaaS. Can you elaborate?

Topic 2 - You spoke at the EMC {code} event at EMC World, what did you talk about what was your experience at the event?

Topic 3 - I liked in your presentation you had a slide on smoother effort, less risk. Tell us a little more about that concept and how it relates to running large operations at scale.

Topic 4 - You also mention containers aren’t enough. Tell us what you mean by that?

Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

The Cloudcast #195 - Farming Cloud Apps with Rancher

Aaron talks to Sheng Liang (@shengliang; Co-Founder/CEO of Rancher.io) & Shannon Williams (@smw355; Co-Founder/VP of Rancher.io) about their history at Cloud.com, building a full-solution stack around Docker, the tiny-OS market, and the tradeoffs between containers vs VMs.

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Links from the show:

• Rancher Labs Website

Topic 1 - You guys were behind the original Cloud.com and CloudStack technology. How’d you get to this point and what have you learned in the last 3-4 years?

Topic 2 - Let’s start with “Rancher” (or Rancher.io). It seems like it’s Cloudstack for Docker. How far does it extend - container scheduler? manage availability? plugin for 3rd-parties?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about RancherOS. A tiny-OS built specifically for containers. This is suddenly a crowded space (CoreOS, VMware Photon, RedHat Atomic, Canonical/Ubuntu Core). Do we really need another round of Linux OS wars, or fragmentation?

Topic 4 - You recently announced Rancher VM, which is KVM inside a container. Talk about the differences between running Containers in VMs and VMs in Containers? What are the trade-offs and benefits?

Topic 5 - Cloudstack has always been known as more complete (“a solution”) than OpenStack. Is that fundamentally the same approach you’re taking to managing containers with Rancher?

Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

The Cloudcast #194 - DevOps Down to the Rack Level

Aaron talks to Cole Crawford (CEO/Founder of Vapor.io, Founding executive director of Open Compute project and Co-founder of OpenStack) about momentum for Open Compute, rethinking how Data Center racks are designed, and the Vapor.io stack - OpenMist OS, Open DCRE and CORE.

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Links from the show:

• Vapor Homepage - http://www.vapor.io/

Topic 1 - Tell us about your background. It’s very extensive in both open source (software) and open hardware.

Topic 2 - The company is described as “the first hyper converged and truly data defined data center solution”. Please translate that for us :)

Topic 3 - For a small company, you have some large (conceptual) offerings - common hardware, rack-level provisioning, and this unique new rack model. Just how ambitious are you guys? (hardware with API’s!)

Topic 4 - OpenMist OS (just launched). Let’s talk about each of the core pieces - Open DCRE (Data Center Runtime Environment). Is this an open BMC (Board Management Controller)?

Topic 5 - Vapor CORE - This seems like RAID (Storage) meets BGP / HSRP (Networking) and compute scheduling (vCenter) all mashed together, with APIs to higher-level services (eg. Mesosphere or Docker)

Topic 6 - Vapor Chamber - at first glance, this seems like The Big Green Egg (grill) for data center equipment. Fair analogy?

Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

The Cloudcast #193 - Andy Weir Author of The Martian

Aaron and Brian talk to Andy Weir (@andyweirauthor), author of The Egg and The Martian. We cover the connection between Open Source Software and writing, Aaron gets geeky about the book, the latest on the upcoming movie, tips for new authors, and even talk a little bit about the Ready Player One universe.

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Links from the show:

• Andy's Website
• Andy's Keynote Talk at Cloud Foundry Summit
• The Martian Movie (November 2015)
• Lacero Short Story

Topic 1 - For those that aren’t familiar with The Martian, can you tell everyone a little bit about the book?

Topic 2 - The Martian been turned into a movie. I’ve read that you had a peek at the script. In the book there is a lot on internal dialog (no one to talk to on Mars), any insight into how this will be handled in the movie?

Topic 3 - Your book started out as a self published book. I read your AMA on Reddit, you recommend self publishing through Amazon as a great avenue for those starting out. What was the process like and any other suggestions for writers looking to break into the field?

Topic 4 - I’ve heard it took you a few years to write the book due to all the research involved. In your opinion, How close are we to being able to have a colony on Mars? What’s stopping us technology wise and where did you have to “fudge” a bit in the book?

Topic 5 - Another great book I’ve read recently is Ready Player One. You did a short story called Lacero based in the universe. It is a great short read and adds an amazing twist to the entire story. It’s really cool how such a short piece of work actually adds an amazing amount of depth to the original book. Where did the idea come from?

Topic 6 - What’s next?

Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

The Cloudcast #192 - Pets, Cattle & Chickens

Aaron and Brian talk to Bernard Golden (@, VP of Strategy, ActiveState) about the latest from ActiveState, Bernard's extensive writing experience, as how containers are changing the pets vs. cattle model.

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Links from the show:

• Why the Enterprise Needs Shadow IT to Succeed
• Bernard's Third Platform Article
• Pets, Cattle & Chickens?

Topic 1 - For those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - We spoke to Bart almost two years ago about ActiveState, I’m sure a lot has changed… What about containers? (Pets, Cattle, and Chickens blog)

Topic 2.5 - You’re latest article on CIO.com was very interesting. It was about why the Enterprise Needs Shadow IT. Can you tell everyone about it?

Topic 3 - You’ve been very open about your support of public cloud and AWS (you wrote the AWS for Dummies Book). What is your position these days now that you daily work is on the Platform side?

Topic 4 - Talk of growth on third platform going forward (your blog and IDC report), We’ve said many times on this podcast, starve the old, feed the new. How disruptive is third platform compared to traditional IT going forward?

Topic 5 - How and where does PaaS (or just platforms) fit into third platform(s) vs. just straight up microservices/12 factor apps/containers/etc. What are the benefits

Topic 6 - Finally, you worked for George Reese at Enstratus/Enstratius. Is he as grumpy is he is in public on Twitter?

Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

The Cloudcast #191 - Cloud Foundry + Netflix OSS

Brian talks to The Pivotal Gang - James Watters (@wattersjames, VP of Cloud Platform), Andrew Clay Shafer (@littleidea) and Michael Cote (@cote) about the latest from Pivotal, Enterprise adoption of PCF, and NetFlix OSS.

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Links from the show:

• Cloud Foundry Summit Sessions on YouTube
• Cloud Foundry Summit Session Slides 
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

The Cloudcast #190 - Live from Cloud Foundry Summit

Aaron and Brian talk to Richard Seroter (@rseroter, VP of Product CenturyLink) and Ed Saipetch (@edsai, CenturyLink Office of the CTO & Speaking in Tech Podcast) about the latest in both public and Private PaaS including Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AppFogV2, Iron Foundry, the evolution of Enterprises, and the differences between containers and PaaS

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Links from the show:

• Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• CenturyLink AppFogV2

The Cloudcast #189 - Containers + Data Persistence

Aaron and Brian talk to Clint Kitson (@clintonskitson; Developer Advocate - EMC {code}) about how containers and microservices deal with data persistence, as well as some of the work that he’s doing lately and what other projects are looking at for containers + data.

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Show Notes:

Clint’s Projects:

• GitHub Page - https://github.com/clintonskitson
• RexRay - https://github.com/emccode/rexray
• Dogged - https://github.com/emccode/dogged
• Arrowhead - https://github.com/emccode/arrowhead
• VagrantSpice - https://github.com/emccode/vagrantspice

Topic 1 - Give us a little bit of your background and what some of your focus areas are these days?

Topic 2 - You live in the Bay Area, but also attend events and talk to companies outside the Bay Area. Give us some perspective on how different those world are.

Topic 3 - People have heard of 12-Factor Apps and Microservices. Give us the basics of how they are different from “traditional apps”, especially in the context of using/storage/managing data.

Topic 4 - A while back, I asked you to start digging into the area of “data + containers”, because I wanted to better understand how these new application architectures would deal with persistent data.

Topic 5 - Tell us about some of the project you’re currently working on

Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

Win a Free Pass to O'Reilly Velocity Conference

The Cloudcast is excited to announce a new partnership of O'Reilly Media! To kick things off The Cloudcast and O'Reilly have one free pass to O'Reilly Velocity to give away! We're also allowing our listeners access to free O'Reilly eBooks. Other great offers coming soon.

Velocity Contest details:

• Velocity website: http://velocityconf.com/devops-web-performance-2015/
• Velocity Dates: 5/27-5/29 in Santa Clara, CA 
• Contest runs April 25th - May 2nd
• What cool project are you working on? Send us details to show@thecloudcast.net or @thecloudcastnet 
• Winner announced on May 3rd 
• Want to register for Velocity now? Use promo code 20CLOUD for 20% off! 
• Velocity Schedule: https://en.oreilly.com/devops­web­performance­2015/public/register?cmp=mp­webops­confreg­reg­vlca15_cloudcast_201504ct

NOTE: Contest only includes the pass to Velocity Conference. It does not provide any coverage for Travel or Expenses - you're on your own for that.

We look forward to hearing about what you have going on!

-Aaron & Brian

The Cloudcast #188 - The ContainerPocalyse Ahead

Aaron and Brian announce a new partnership of O'Reilly Media! To kick things off The Cloudcast and O'Reilly have one free pass to O'Reilly Velocity to give away! Other great offers coming soon. Contest details:

• Velocity website: http://velocityconf.com/devops-web-performance-2015/
• Velocity Dates: 5/27-5/29 in Santa Clara, CA 
• Contest runs 4/25-5/1 
• What cool project are you working on? Send an email with details to show@thecloudcast.net or @thecloudcastnet 
• Winner announced on 5/3 
• Want to register for Velocity now? Use promo code 20CLOUD for 20% off! 
• Velocity Schedule: https://en.oreilly.com/devops­web­performance­2015/public/register?cmp=mp­webops­confreg­reg­vlca15_cloudcast_201504ct 

Interested in Cloud Foundry Summit? We have a code for that as well! Use CFSCAST for 25% off!

• http://www.cfsummit.com/

Topic 1 - What have you been up to lately?

Topic 2 - Most interesting feedback you’ve gotten since we pivoted the focus of the show?

Topic 3 - What’s been the most interesting announcements, acquisitions, VC funding for you so far in 2015?

• AWS Earnings Announcement 
• Nebula goes out of business 
• Commercialized Kubernetes and Mesos (Mesosphere, Kismatic, CoreOS) 
• Docker’s Round D funding 
• VMware’s Container Announcement 
• Infrastructure funding levels vs. Software funding levels 
• Interesting Moves by Microsoft (Containers, Linux on Azure, etc.) 

Topic 4 - What’s been the most confusing or surprising announcement or move?

Topic 5 - We usually do end-of-year predictions, but stuff is moving so fast, maybe we should throw out 1 or 2 for the next 3-6 months?

Music Credit:Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

The Cloudcast #187 - API Performance Monitoring

Aaron talks to John Sheehan (@johnsheehan; CEO of Runscope - @runscope) about the differences between API and application development, testing, performance, and monitoring. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com) https://www.runscope.com/ https://www.runscope.com/community https://github.com/Runscope

Topic 1 - Briefly about your background on the company and team (John was at Twillio and IFTTT).

Topic 2 - How is API testing different than application testing? How is API Monitoring different from simple uptime monitoring? Who is a typical customer of Runscope, what types of challenges and tests are they solving for?

Topic 3 - Walk us thru how the testing works (you mention "no code needed") through the lifecycle of an application. What are some common problems across different platforms (browsers, OS) or different regions of the world?

Topic 4 - API versioning is a major headache. Anything you do to help simplify or manage that for customers? Don’t you still code as a CEO? Do you feel this pain?

Topic 5 - Runscope has a lot of community based projects (link in show notes). How did this come about and what advantages have you seen through the development of an API community?

Topic 6 - With so many APIs these days what's the best way to get started with API testing?

The Cloudcast #186 - Understanding the Cloud Foundry Foundation

Aaron and Brian talk to Sam Ramji (@sramji; President of Cloud Foundry Foundation) about his first 30 days on the job, engaging developer communities, open vs. commercial, branding and awareness of open source projects. - Cloud Foundry Foundation: http://cloudfoundry.org/index.html - Cloud Foundry Summit May 11-12: http://www.cfsummit.com/ - Use promo code CFSCAST for 25% off Cloud Foundry Summit! Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

Topic 1 - It’s been nearly two months on the new job. How are things going so far and where haven’t you been speaking - we seen pictures of you everywhere.

Topic 2 - What is Cloud Foundry these days? Sometimes I hear it called “modern middleware”, other times it’s a “platform for modern apps”, or times it’s “advanced container management”.

Topic 3 - Digging into the tech a little bit, Cloud Foundry used to be the platform and then there was BOSH, which was the CF deployment tool. Now there are a bunch of other subset projects, such as Lattice. How does the Foundation manage architectural discussions so this doesn’t turn into OpenStack?

Topic 4 - You’ve been around both open source communities and commercial ecosystems for a while. They’re difference, but similar in ways. Why do you think we’re seeing more projects go towards the Foundation model?

Topic 5 - What are the marketplace goals of the Cloud Foundry Foundation? Where are your boundaries to spread the word vs. moderating messages?

Topic 6 - You’ve built developer communities and ecosystems before. Is there a killer-app “type” or domain that you’re specifically focused on growing or you think will grow faster than others?

The Cloudcast #185 - Masters, Minions and Pods - Kubernetes 101

Brian talks to Patrick Reilly (@preillyme; CEO @kismatic) about the basics of Kubernetes, deploying and scheduling containers at scale, and how to learn more about distributed applications. Kismatic Website - http://kismatic.io/ Kismatic on GitHub - https://github.com/kismatic

• Kismatic Website - http://kismatic.io/
• Kismatic on GitHub - https://github.com/kismatic
• Kubernetes on GitHub - https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes
• Intro to Kubernetes (tutorial) - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-kubernetes
• Kubernetes homepage (Google) - http://kubernetes.io/

Topic 1 - Let’s talk a little bit about your background and why we asked you to come discuss Kubernetes tonight.

Topic 2 - We’re all familiar with Docker at this point, and generally familiar with the underlying container technologies. So where does Kubernetes fit in? (who runs it? what’s the input to the scheduler? what does it use to track resources at the host level? does it assume all machines are the same?)

Topic 2a - What makes Kubernetes easy to use and hard to use?

Topic 2b - Does it use/assume all the native container management tools, or does Kubernetes do some of that tool?

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through the basic concepts and suggested best practices around things like #apps/container, tagging and pods.

Topic 4 - Since Kubernetes came from Google, every just assumes it deals with scale well. But how does the scaling of that control plane work? Is it a single data-center view, multi-data center or smaller segments within a data-center?

Topic 5 - What Google-specific assumptions are built into Kubernetes that might not be broadly applicable to other companies?

Topic 6 - What are some of the common applications that companies use to get started with Kubernetes?

The Cloudcast #184 - Streaming Analytics for Distributed Applications

Aaron talks to Karthik Rau (@krrau; Founder/CEO of @SignalFx) about the launch of their advanced monitoring platform, doing streaming analytics for distributed applications, the new role of developers and the mindset of technology-centric business groups. Links: - SignalFx Website - https://signalfx.com/ - SignalFx REST API - https://support.signalfx.com/hc/en-us/articles/201270489 - TheNewStack covers SignalFx launch - http://thenewstack.io/signalfx-a-saas-to-monitor-apps-at-any-scale/ - Ben’s Blog - http://www.bhorowitz.com/the_past_and_future_of_systems_management Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

Projects of the Week - None this week

• SignalFx Website - https://signalfx.com/
• SignalFx REST API - https://support.signalfx.com/hc/en-us/articles/201270489
• TheNewStack covers SignalFx launch - http://thenewstack.io/signalfx-a-saas-to-monitor-apps-at-any-scale/
• Ben’s Blog - http://www.bhorowitz.com/the_past_and_future_of_systems_management

Topic 1 - Came out of Stealth recently (3/12), Give a quick overview of the company and the problem you are trying to solve… Given what SignalFx offers, it’s important to understand the people behind it. Let’s start with the background of the team - lots of large, webscale, distributed system background. [how much is “productizing lessons learned”?; how much is “the will be different in 5yrs”?]

Topic 2 - What does streaming analytics mean? Why do companies care about getting analytics faster? Why build an analytics engine to solve a monitoring problem?

Topic 3 - You mention (intro video) that you’re a company that builds services for distributed systems, which are run by product teams, not IT. You were previously at VMware. Can you talk about the different mindset those product teams have vs. IT teams, especially how SignalFx takes their ideas and feedback?

Topic 4 - Walk us through how your customers interact with your service? Where do metrics come from (app, message queue, etc)? How do you secure that API interaction? How are metrics different from logs or events?

Topic 5 - In the same vein as the shift from IT to the Product Groups, your co-founder mentions that Developers are closer to production than ever. What does that mean to the evolution of tools and overall psyche of application developers?

Topic 6 - You mention that SignalFx “double purposes as a Application Intelligence solution”. We’ve been watching lots of interesting SaaS applications  emerge that tend to have a more singular purpose (Logging, PerfMon, AppIntelligence, etc.). Are you hearing from customers that some consolidation of functions is needed?

The Cloudcast #183 - Container-Centric Application Deployments

Brian talks to Alexis Richardson (Founder @WeaveWorks) and Khash Sajadi (CEO @Cloud66) about their global DevOps as a Service platform and how they have interconnected it across 76 Data Centers. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

Topic 1 - It’s unusual for us to have guests from different companies, but your stories have commonality. But let’s talk about both of your backgrounds (and company backgrounds) first.

Topic 2 - When I was watching this video of Khash (Cloud 66) at this Hacker News meetup in London, it looked to me like a concept I call “unstructured PaaS”, which is sort of a DIY PaaS, with the best-of technologies.

Topic 3 - We’re curious to learn more about ContainerNet, that is the backbone for the container networking of Cloud66 (using Weave technology) and how it really works.

Topic 4 - Both of you are at the forefront of this transition of container-centric application deployments. Where do you see the maturity in the market and what are the next big opportunities?

Topic 5 - You both seem to believe in the model of modularity for these new architectures. Beyond “giving customers choice”, what are the big focus areas in building elements of these modular architectures?

Topic 6 - What are some of the tangible business advantages that you’ve heard from customers when it comes to choice and modularity in this container-centric application model?

The Cloudcast #182 - Moving DevOps Forward with CI/CD

Brian talks to TJ Randall (@TJRandall; VP System Engineering @XebiaLabs) about how customers work through changes to people/skills, process, financial modeling, internal communications and tools, as they migrate to more agile application development and utilize CI/CD methodology. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

The Cloudcast #181 - Investigating the ELK Stack

Aaron and Brian talk to Robyn Bergeron (@robynbergeron; Ops Advocate @Elasticsearch) about the various usage models of the ELK stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana), as well as the ElasticSearch developer community + Elastic{ON} event. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (www.nin.com)

The Cloudcast #180 - Understanding CoreOS Distributed Architecture

Aaron and Brian talk to Alex Polvi (@polvi; CEO of @CoreOSLinux) about the system architecture around CoreOS - containers, appc, etcd, quay.io, flannel, etc. They also talk about the challenges of distributed system applications and how CoreOS architecture aligns to solve those challenges in simple ways. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (www.nin.com)

New ByteSized DevOps Podcasts - Logging, Monitoring and Application State

A few weeks ago we introduced the ByteSized DevOps Podcast series. Initial feedback from the community was very strong, so we've decided to do some more. We plan to release a few every week or two. Let us know what topics you'd like to see covered.

Monitoring and Logging

Brian and Jonas Rosland (@virtualswede) discuss Logging and Monitoring systems and how they have evolved with open source projects and SaaS services. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (www.nin.com)

Stateful vs. Stateless Apps

Brian and Jonas Rosland (@virtualswede) talk about the key architectural and deployment differences between Stateful and Stateless Applications. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (www.nin.com)

The Cloudcast #179 - Managing Containers w/o a Tupperware Party

Aaron and Brian talk with Nick Weaver (@lynxbat; Director of Software Defined Infrastructure @ Intel) about competing container formats and runtimes, managing containers at scale, PaaS + containers, and how applications are adapting to live in a container-centric world. We also dive into the deep dark secrets of being on the Cloud Foundry Foundation board of directors. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (www.nin.com)

Krispy Kreme Challenge 2015

Once again, the best community in technology has come together for an outstanding cause. We want to thank all of our sponsors / donors for helping to raise $4125 for the NC Children's Hospital.

This is the 3rd year in a row that our community has been recognized as the largest donor. We've now raised nearly $15,000 to help children and their families struggling with life threatening diseases.

• 2013 - $4310
• 2014 - $5701
• 2015 - $4125

Aaron and Brian finished the dozen donuts and the five miles is 59m:30s, which is the first time they have completed the challenge in under 1hr! With age comes greater eating skills and superior athletic ability...apparently.

 

Introducing "ByteSized" DevOps Podcasts

Today we tried something a little different. As we've shifted the focus of the podcast to have more focus on SaaS, DevOps, Public Cloud and other topics, we've added number of new listeners (up 40% YoY). For many of them, these are new areas of technology. So we thought we'd add something new...

We're calling them "The Cloudcast - ByteSized", and they will be a series of ~ 10min podcasts that just cover the basics of a given topic or technology.

NOTE: We're still going to do (mostly) weekly shows in the normal formal as well. We'll just mix these in from time to time.

Here's the first batch. They should all be consumable independently, but we're also trying to loosely link them together.

You're the best audience in technology, so your feedback is greatly appreciated.

The Cloudcast #178 - DevOps Defined Networking with Socketplane

Aaron and Brian talk with John Willis (@botchagalupe, Founder/VP Customer Enablement @Socketplane) about DevOps, the Docker Ecosystem and what Socketplane is doing about SDN for Docker/Containers. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (www.nin.com)

The Cloudcast #177 - Operationalized OpenStack and NFV

Brian talks with Henrik Rosendahl (@hrosendahl, CEO of Akanda) about how Akanda spun out of Dreamhost, the NFV market, open-source and networking communities, and how much customers value OpenStack operational experience when looking at software. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (www.nin.com)

The Cloudcast #176 - Dev,Ops & VC Perspective on Modern Apps

Aaron and Brian talk to former Netflix Cloud Architect and current VC Adrian Cockcroft about how to properly position products/tools/services to Devs vs Ops, the role of open-source in accelerating adoption, how open-source companies can make money, and some tips and use-cases for getting DevOps adopted within the Enterprise. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

The Cloudcast #175 - Machine Data & DevOps

Aaron and Josh Atwell (@Josh_Atwell) talk with Hal Rottenberg (@halr9000, Developer Evangelist @Splunk) about how Machine Data is impacting IT operations, and integrating with modern DevOps teams. They also talk about how to empower developers with greater application knowledge from operational insight. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (www.nin.com)