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.

Interested in the O'Reilly OSCON? 

• Want a chance at a free pass for OSCON? Send us your interesting journey in Open Source to show@thecloudcast.net by Friday July 10th and we'll pick a winner!
• Want to register for OSCON now? Use promo code 20CLOUD for 20% off
• Check out the OSCON Schedule
• Free eBook from O'Reilly Media for Cloudcast Listeners!
• Check out an excerpt from the upcoming Docker Cookbook

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.

Interested in the O'Reilly OSCON? 

• Want a chance at a free pass for OSCON? Send us your interesting journey in Open Source to show@thecloudcast.net by Friday July 10th and we'll pick a winner!
• Want to register for OSCON now? Use promo code 20CLOUD for 20% off
• Check out the OSCON Schedule
• Free eBook from O'Reilly Media for Cloudcast Listeners!
• Check out an excerpt from the upcoming Docker Cookbook

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.

Interested in the O'Reilly OSCON? 

• Want a chance at a free pass for OSCON? Send us your interesting journey in Open Source to show@thecloudcast.net by Friday July 10th and we'll pick a winner!
• Want to register for OSCON now? Use promo code 20CLOUD for 20% off
• Check out the OSCON Schedule
• Free eBook from O'Reilly Media for Cloudcast Listeners!
• Check out an excerpt from the upcoming Docker Cookbook

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?