I was a delegate for Tech Field Day 22 going December 9th through the 11th of 2020. Red Hat was one of the presenters on December 10th, and they came to talk about two things: OpenShift for Developers and OpenShift at the Edge. Since I am no developer, my area of interest was in what Red Hat is doing at the Edge. We talked about some interesting architectural challenges and maybe got a hint of things to come. You can check out the event details here: https://techfieldday.com/appearance/red-hat-p...
Dec 15, 2020•12 min•Season 1Ep. 173
I was a delegate for Tech Field Day 22 going December 9th through the 11th of 2020. VMware present on the final day, December 11th, about their Cloud DR product, based on the acquisition of Datrium. Product market fit is a tricky thing, and it's something that VMware's Cloud DR team is working on. Their product certainly fits a specific type of customer. And if you're that customer, you'll be pleasantly surprised! If not, you will be a sad puppy. So is VMware Cloud DR good enough for you? Let's ...
Dec 12, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 172
I was a delegate for Tech Field Day 22 going December 9th through the 11th of 2020. Veeam presented on December10th, and there was a focus on disaster recover and mobility. I found the mobility conversation really interesting. What do I mean by mobility? Glad you asked! Let's chat about why you might want to have mobility as an option on your data protection software. You can check out the event details here: https://techfieldday.com/event/tfd22/ And here's my Twitter thread during the live even...
Dec 11, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 171
I was a delegate for Tech Field Day 22 going December 9th through the 11th of 2020. Commvault was the first presenter of the event, and they came out swinging for the fences. We looked at the updated Commvault Command Center, services offered through Metallic, and their software defined storage acquisition Hedvig. I had three big takeaways: Commvault is serious about adopting cloud Commvault is experiencing a SaaS/legacy tension with Me...
Dec 10, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 170
Terraform 0.14 is now GA and it brings with it a whole host of new features that I am excited about. Let's talk about a few of them including: Marking variables as sensitive Terraform providers lock file Support for future state file versions Concise diff renderer and terraform plan refresh Terraform console enhancements Full list of changes is here: https://github.com/hashicor...
Dec 09, 2020•14 min•Season 1Ep. 169
When you start to create technical content, it's usually spurred on by an issue you encountered or a discovery you want to share. You're feeling passionate about the tech, for better or worse. The best content out there is made by those who have a connection to the technology and not just a passing interest. How do you select which tech to talk about? And what if you pick the wrong one? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon:...
Dec 08, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 168
To help me focus and study for the CKA exam, I have started a public GitHub repository to function as a CKA study guide. Each week I will focus on working through the domains and objectives in the exam, and I will add them to the study guide. Hopefully, I will add some code examples as well. Others are welcome to contribute or just follow along! Repo here: https://github.com/ned1313/CKA-Study-Guide --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Dec 05, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 167
My goal was to get my Raspberry Pi 4 to PXE boot, and I failed. A lot. Like multiple times over the course of four hours. And that's normal. That's just how technology works. We tend to talk a lot about our successes and how awesome the things we do are, but not enough about failure. Well, here you go. A whole video that ends in my failure. Enjoy! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud W...
Dec 04, 2020•12 min•Season 1Ep. 166
There were a lot of announcements made at the day one re:Invent 2020 keynote, and they all followed the reinvent idea very closely. They also embraced the fact that not everything is going to move to AWS, and maybe it doesn't have to. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub:...
Dec 03, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 165
Here's a basic overview of what modules are and how to create one in Terraform. We'll also get into some best practices for creating modules, where you can publish them, and how to use existing modules. It's gonna be a hoot! https://github.com/ned1313/terraform-tuesdays https://leanpub.com/terraform-certified/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.c...
Dec 02, 2020•13 min•Season 1Ep. 164
Today I am joined by Larry Smith Jr., CTO of Aspec Core Services. Larry has been in the IT industry a long-time and recently started his own consulting company. We talk about the events that led up to that decision and how much work it takes to get a new company off the ground. Spoiler alert: It's more about the people than it is the technology. You can find Larry on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/mrlesmithjr ) and LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrlesmithjr/ ). And you can find out more a...
Dec 01, 2020•18 min•Season 1Ep. 163
The final objective in the Vault Certification is all about using the Transit Engine. In this video we'll go over how to enable the Transit engine, create and rotate keys, and encrypt/decrypt data. Vault certification guide: https://leanpub.com/vault-certified/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/autho...
Nov 28, 2020•15 min•Season 1Ep. 162
This is based off a viewer question I received via Twitter. They wanted to know about moving resources from one configuration to another when using remote state. How can they do this without recreating anything? Specifically, they have resources deployed in two regions of AWS, with the remote state being stored in a single S3 bucket. They would like to split the state file into two S3 buckets, each in the region associated with the resources. In this video, I will show how to do exactly that. He...
Nov 25, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 161
The best way to motivate myself is to set a goal or a date and plan towards it. It worked for my first marathon, my first half iron man, and most of the certifications I've achieved. Now I've signed up to take the CKA exam on January 22, 2021. Let's talk about why I chose to sign up for the exam, how I plan to prepare, and what my current skill set looks like. Study posts: Jamie Phillips: https://www.phillipsj.net/posts/my-cka-experience/ Chris Wahl: https://wahlnetwork.com/2020/10/02/certified-...
Nov 24, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 160
Rounding out the Vault Architecture objective, we are going to get into response wrapping and short-live, dynamically generated secrets. Vault certification guide: https://leanpub.com/vault-certified/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://github.com/ned1313...
Nov 21, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 159
Let's talk about PXE booting! Before we set anything up, it's important to get a grasp on the fundamentals. In this video I am going to cover DHCP, the DORA process, and how PXE and TFTP fit into the process. It'll be a hoot! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://...
Nov 20, 2020•12 min•Season 1Ep. 158
On the first day of KubeCon the thing I heard most clearly was that you don't need a Service Mesh. There were two panels, both of which had Matt Klein in them, that were talking about Service Mesh. The gist of the conversation was that Service Meshes are not quite ready yet. That they add tremendous complexity along with clear benefits, but those benefits are only realized by certain types of applications and organizations. I thought I would reiterate this a bit and compare it to the larger tech...
Nov 19, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 157
Terraform comes with a ton of functions, and often you might be unsure of how they work. Luckily, you can use a combination of terraform console and local values to test out every function they have. Terraform Tuesdays repo: https://github.com/ned1313/terraform-tuesdays Terraform certification guide: https://leanpub.com/terraform-certified/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website:...
Nov 18, 2020•12 min•Season 1Ep. 156
Today I am joined by Betty Junod, VP of Marketing at Solo.io. She shares her career history becoming an accidental marketing person, crafting words into stories and messages. The best piece of career advice she ever received had to do with the perception of time and planning for the long-term instead of constantly fretting with FOMO. You can find Betty on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/BettyJunod ) and LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/bettyjunod/ ). And you can find out more about Solo.io o...
Nov 17, 2020•12 min•Season 1Ep. 155
HashiCorp Vault doesn't require an agent, but there are some benefits to using their agent and secrets caching. We're going to get into those two objectives in this week's Vault Certification video. Vault certification guide: https://leanpub.com/vault-certified/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/auth...
Nov 14, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 154
After setting up my new lab gear, I discovered that my wireless router wasn't able to handle VLANs and NAT-P for the lab networks. Total bummer! That meant it was time to upgrade to a new router and get my layer 3 on. I ended up going with the Edge 10X router from Ubiquiti and it does not disappoint. Let's take a look at my updated network and the config on the Edge 10x router. EdgeRouter 10X: https://store.ui.com/collections/routing-switching/products/edgerouter-10x Patreon: https://www.patreon...
Nov 13, 2020•11 min
Intel has fallen on hard times. Their stock price is down, they can't seem to get chips out on time, and AMD is eating their lunch. What caused this precipitous fall? What is driving the market right now? And what can Intel do to get back on top? That's the topic for today's video. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://github.com/ned1313...
Nov 12, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 152
Terraform keeps it's view of the world in a state data, but what if you need to make changes to your configuration without impacting the real-world resources? Enter the mighty 'terraform state mv' command enabling you to do wonderous things like: Change the address of a resource in your config Move resources into a module Move resources into a new state file and config Shout out to VamsiB for suggesting this as a topic! You can find my ...
Nov 11, 2020•14 min•Season 1Ep. 151
This is the 150th video I've done for The Daily Check-In and I thought it was time to do a little introspection. Not that I'm trying to pat myself on the back for getting to 150 videos, it just seemed like an auspicious moment to consider the future of the channel and podcast. Which appeals most to you? 1. Increase quality and effort with a Patreon 2. Simplify and lower intricacy 3. Reduce output and improve quality Check out the Day Two Cloud po...
Nov 10, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 150
One of the many ways to run HashiCorp Vault is within containers. Typically you would do this with Kubernetes or ECS, but what if you were looking for a way to run Vault with a public endpoint for the lowest cost possible? Why not use containers on demand? Specifically, using Azure Container Instances. Today's check-in includes a lightning talk I did during HashiConf Digital 2020 outlining exactly how you could go about run Vault on ACI, using Azure Key Vault for auto-unseal and Azure Files for ...
Nov 07, 2020•16 min•Season 1Ep. 149
It wouldn't matter much that you can run ESXi on a Raspberry Pi if you couldn't also fire up some virtual machines on it as well. Let's take a look at firing up Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ARM edition on a virtual machine. Then we'll see if we can VMotion that VM from one RPi to another without shared storage. Finally, we'll check out deploying from a template, just like you would on regular ESXi. It's wicked awesome! Ubuntu ARM download: https://ubuntu.com/download/server/arm VMware Tools for Ubuntu on AR...
Nov 06, 2020•13 min•Season 1Ep. 148
What is my prediction for 2021? I think we will see the continued rise and expansion of disaggregated computing driven largely by Edge and alternative cloud providers. In this video, I'll get into why I think that and what other factors support that change.
Nov 05, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 147
Boundary is a new product from HashiCorp and in this video, we'll take a look at how you can deploy Boundary on Microsoft Azure with a reference architecture. In the next video, we will deploy the Boundary architecture in Azure using Terraform. And then we will add hosts and grant access to those hosts also using Terraform. Should be fun! Terraform Tuesday GitHub Repo: https://github.com/ned1313/terraform-tuesdays
Nov 04, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 146
Bobby Allen got on the cloud computing train back in 2012 and hasn't stopped moving! He's got some great advice for you about how to move your career forward, get great advice, and take proper care of yourself to avoid burnout. You can find him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ballen_clt His big three pieces of advice: Change Three things you can change: role, residence, and relationship Change one is hard, two is difficult, three is dangerous Relationships Listen to your partne...
Nov 02, 2020•15 min•Season 1Ep. 145
Angela Andrews is a Solutions Architect at Red Hat, a recovering sysadmin, and organizer of #PythonForAll. In this episode she shares some of the best advice she ever received, and they are super-pragmatic! - Learn how to do everything on the command line - Start your own blog to host original content You can find her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScooterPhoenix You can find Michelle Laverick on Twitter too...
Oct 28, 2020•14 min•Season 1Ep. 144
