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:
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• 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