Aaron and Brian talk with Nigel Poulton (@nigelpoulton, Author and International Man of Tech Knowledge) about the evolution of the container ecosystem, the maturity of container technology, Docker's announcement of Kubernetes support and what's next, and how IT professionals are learning about containerizing applications. Show Links: Nigel Poulton’s Blog The Kubernetes Book Docker Fundamentals (Course) Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm...and the Winner is…? Cloudcast Eps. 269 - Nigel discuss...
Nov 09, 2017•31 min
Brian and Tyler Britten talk Julius Volz (@juliusvolz, @PrometheusIO co-founder, promcon.io founder) about the evolution of Prometheus monitoring, from v1.0 to v2.0. We discuss the updated features and scalability, as well as best practices, lessons learned in production, and how Prometheus might interact with emerging projects such as Istio, Envoy and Linkerd. Show Links: Prometheus (homepage) PromCon and PromCon Videos Prometheus v1.0 on The Cloudcast (v1.0 launch) Introduction to Prometheus o...
Nov 02, 2017•22 min
Brian talks with Kenneth Hui (@kenhuiny, Technical Marketing Engineer) and Andrew Miller (@andriven, Technical Marketing Manager) at @Rubrik about how Cloud Data Management is changing with the evolution of distributed systems and the use of the public cloud. Show Links: Rubrik Website Rubrik Blog Why Rubrik? (whiteboard) Rubrik raises $180M in VC funding (April 2017) [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your favorite podcast p...
Oct 27, 2017•30 min
Brian talks with Ryan Brown (@ryan_sb, Sr. Software Engineer @Ansible, Author of ServerlessCode) about the overall state of the Serverless community after the recent ServerlessConf 2017 NYC, the breadth of focus areas for developers and business, the ways to integrate serverless into existing applications, and areas for newbies to the space to get started. Show Links: ServerlessCode Managing Serverless Framework with Ansible Slides from Ryan's talk Ben Kehoe’s “DiffOps” [PODCAST] @PodCTL - ...
Oct 20, 2017•39 min
Brian talks with Jay Chapel (@parkmycloudjay, Co-Founder/CEO of ParkMyCloud) about the complexity of cloud pricing models, how IT and DevOps teams view spending differently, how to integrate monitoring and automation, and who is critical to making buying decisions in the cloud. Show Links: ParkMyCloud Website ParkMyCloud Blog Per Second Billing for AWS EC2 and EBS Per Second Billing for Google Cloud [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn...
Oct 12, 2017•26 min
Brian talks with Tanya Selvog (@AWSNewbie, Jr. Web-Developer, Full-Stack Developer in training) about how new(er) engineers are learning skills, engaging with learning communities, and adapting to a changing job market for software developers. Show Links: 100 Days of Learning AWS My First Alexa Skill AWS Newbies Meetup - Austin, TX Code Newbie Women Who Code General Assembly’s Web Developer Immersive Course [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher ...
Oct 05, 2017•23 min
Aaron talks with Shannon Williams (@smw355, Co-Founder Rancher Labs) about the state of the container ecosystem, the evolution of Rancher, and the explosive growth of Kubernetes. Show Links: Rancher Labs Website Comparing Docker Swarm and Kubernetes whitepaper [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your favorite podcast players [SERVERLESS] ServerlessConf in NYC (Oct. 8-11). 20% Discount on all passes [A CLOUD GURU] Get The Cloud...
Sep 28, 2017•28 min
Brian talks with Alex Williams (@alexwilliams, Founder of The New Stack) about the evolution of Cloud-Native technologies, the challenges of trying to keep up with rapid change, making sense of data that explains the industry, and how to stay connected to the communities of people driving the technology changes. Show Links: The New Stack (homepage) Docker & Kubernetes eBooks The New Stack Podcasts The New Stack Videos [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google P...
Sep 22, 2017•30 min
Brian talks with Jason McGee (@jrmcgee, VP & CTO IBM Cloud) about the origin of the Istio project, the challenges of large project teams, how Istio helps application teams, and the evolution of cloud-native application frameworks on Kubernetes. Show Links: Istio Framework Istio on GitHub Boston Istio Meetup [PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your favorite podcast players [SERVERLESS] ServerlessConf in NYC (Oct. 8-11). 20%...
Sep 14, 2017•21 min
Brian talks with Chen Goldberg (@GoldbergChen, Director of Engineering, Container Engine & Kubernetes) and Mark Mandel (@Neurotic, Developer Advocate, Co-Host Google Cloud Platform podcast) at Google.about the state of Kubernetes maturity, how Google manages cloud services and open-source projects, Developers perspectives on Kubernetes, "boring" applications, Kubernetes Federation, and trends around Kubernetes community participation. Show Links: [Podcast] @PodCTL - Containers | Ku...
Sep 07, 2017•28 min
Aaron and Brian talk about the new partnership with A Cloud Guru, as well as a 2017 Mid-Year update around all things cloud - VMworld ecosystem, Serverless Ecosystem, Kubernetes for All, etc.. Show Links: [Podcast] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes - RSS Feed , iTunes , Google Play , Stitcher , TuneIn and all your favorite podcast players [Serverless] ServerlessConf in NYC (Oct. 8-11). 20% Discount on all passes [A CLOUD GURU] Get The Cloudcast Alexa Skill [A CLOUD GURU] DISCOUNT: Serverless for...
Sep 01, 2017•38 min
Brian talks with Seth Vargo (@sethvargo, Director of Technical Advocacy @HashiCorp) about the evolving security footprint of modern applications, the increasing needs for secrets management with microservices, the challenges of managing encryption, how to maintain highly available environments, and the evolution of Pittsburgh as a tech city. Show Links: [Donations for Hurricane Harvey, Houston Flood Victims] Red Cross Buy Necessary Items, via Amazon, for Hurricane Harvey Victims Use code “PCCLOU...
Aug 30, 2017•31 min
Brian talks with Keith Townsend (@ctoadvisor, The CTO Advisor) and Stu Miniman (@stu, Wikibon | theCUBE) about the upcoming VMworld 2017 event, VMware’s relevance in a cloud-centric world, the Dell merger 2yrs later and the advice they would give Michael Dell or Pat Gelsinger. Show Links: [The Register] It's a small VMworld after all – life in the shadow of re:Invent Silicon Angle TV - theCUBE [Stu] Wikibon [Keith] The CTO Advisor (and guest host of theCUBE at VMworld) Keith’s preview of VM...
Aug 25, 2017•39 min
Brian talks with Amy Lewis (@commsninja), John Troyer (@jtroyer) and Matthew Broberg (@mjbrender) from the Geek Whisperers podcast (@geek-whisperers) about the closing of their podcast/community, the evolution of cloud careers, and lessons learned from community interaction. Show Links: PodCTL - Brian's new Containers | Kubernetes podcast [Podcast] The Geek Whisperers [Amy’s (new) Podcast] - Speaking in Tech [John’s Business] - Tech Reckoning [Matt’s Job] - Sensu Interested in ServerlessCon...
Aug 16, 2017•36 min
Aaron and Brian talk with Thurupathan Vijayakumar ( @ThuruTweets , Solutions Architect | Developer | Microsoft Azure MVP) about cloud deployments in Asia, the business drivers for using public cloud services, the challenges of data sovereignty, and how companies are managing their organizations to align to microservices. Show Links: Thuru's Book - Practical Azure Application Development: A Step-by-Step Approach to Build Feature-Rich Cloud-Ready Solutions Thuru’s Blog Interested in Serverles...
Aug 11, 2017•31 min
Aaron and Brian talk with Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig, Cloud Economist/Last Week with AWS) about the complexity of AWS bills, the rapid expansion of AWS services, the challenges of “best practices” and the biggest AWS trends and mistakes. Show Links: Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos [DISCOUNT] Start Serverless Skills Bundle (4 courses) - (only $49 instead of $79) [FREE] Alexa Development for Absol...
Aug 04, 2017•30 min
NOTE: Sorry about the patchy audio quality in spots on this episode, we didn't notice until we edited the show that both Adam's and Aaron's connections weren't the best this time. We cleaned it up the best we could. Thanks for listening! Aaron and Brian talk with Adam Johnson (@adjohn, CO-Founder/CEO of @IOpipe)about the momentum of Serverless, the challenge of identify performance bottlenecks, if NoOps is real or not, how APMs have to evolve in a Serverless world. Show Links...
Jul 28, 2017•26 min
Brian talks with Robyn Bergeron (@robynbergeron, @Ansible Community Architect) about managing large OSS projects, how teams adopt DevOps culture and tools, the role of Containers with Ansible, the spread of OSS operations tools, and the role of automation with Serverless. Show Links: Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos [DISCOUNT] Start Serverless Skills Bundle (4 courses) - (only $49 instead of $...
Jul 17, 2017•34 min
Aaron and Brian talk with Bernard Golden (@bernardgolden, CEO of Navica) about the future of the cloud computing marketplace, the expected rates of growths and areas that could impact forecasts positively or negatively. Show Links: Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos [DISCOUNT] Start Serverless Skills Bundle (4 courses) - (only $49 instead of $79) [FREE] Alexa Development for Absolute Beginners B...
Jun 30, 2017•27 min
Brian talks with Thomas Munn (@symgryph, Principal IoT Security Researcher at Cree Lighting) about the challenges of moving from manufacturing to software, planning for IoT-scale deployments, securing millions of devices, and how Ansible and Azure Cloud help solve scaling challenges. Show Links: Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos [DISCOUNT] Start Serverless Skills Bundle (4 courses) - (only $49 ...
Jun 23, 2017•35 min
Brian talks with Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle, Founder/CEO of @RackN) about the concepts of SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), the challenges of maintaining infrastructure software, emerging tools and the next-generation of operations. Show Links: Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos [DISCOUNT] Start Serverless Skills Bundle (4 courses) - (only $49 instead of $79) [FREE] Alexa Development for Absolut...
Jun 15, 2017•37 min
Aaron and Brian talk about the evolution of Cloud Computing over that past 6+ years - The pace of change, the impact of open source and foundations, the critical elements of public cloud, and what has been a surprise. Show Links: Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos [DISCOUNT] Start Serverless Skills Bundle (4 courses) - (only $49 instead of $79) [FREE] Alexa Development for Absolute Beginners Sho...
Jun 09, 2017•39 min
Brian talks with Kolton Andrus (@KoltonAndrus, CEO of @GremlinInc) about his background at Amazon and Netflix, the discipline of Chaos Engineering, the challenges of breaking things in production, and Gremlin Inc’s approach to building better applications and systems. Show Links: Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos [DISCOUNT] Start Serverless Skills Bundle (4 courses) - (only $49 instead of $79) ...
May 26, 2017•21 min
Brian talks with William Morgan (@wm, Founder/CEO of @buoyantio) about his background at Twitter, an introduction to Linkerd and the concept of Service Mesh, how Linkerd compares to other application logic, and the role of foundations (e.g. CNCF) vs. communities. Show Links: Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos [DISCOUNT] Start Serverless Skills Bundle (4 courses) - (only $49 instead of $79) [FREE...
May 18, 2017•28 min
Aaron talks with Matt Weagle ( @mweagle , Startup Entrepreneur and creator of the Go Sparta framework for AWS Lambda) about the origins of serverless, the state of the community, why so many developers attend and what he's solving with the Go Sparta framework for AWS Lambda. Show Links: Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos [DISCOUNT] Start Serverless Skills Bundle (4 courses) - (only $49 inst...
May 13, 2017•12 min
Aaron and Brian talk with Paul Johnston ( @PaulDJohnston , Serverless Consultant, CTO @Movivo) about running a company entirely on serverless, the on-going benefits of not maintaining servers, new application patterns with events, and what he wants to see from serverless in the future. Show Links: Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos [DISCOUNT] Start Serverless Skills Bundle (4 courses) - (only $4...
May 11, 2017•18 min
Aaron talks with Dave Cahill ( @dcahill8 , VP Sale and Marketing, Bonsai) about Enterprise/Industrial AI and emerging use cases. Topics include understanding various forms of AI, developer integration, and where and how AI will fit. Show Links: Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos [DISCOUNT] Start Serverless Skills Bundle (4 courses) - (only $49 instead of $79) [FREE] Alexa Development for Absolut...
May 07, 2017•27 min
Aaron talks with Jason McGee ( @jrmcgee , VP & CTO IBM Cloud) about IBM OpenWhisk and Bluemix. Topics include event driven vs. FaaS, on-prem solutions, open source, use cases and early adoption. Recorded at ServerlessConf in Austin . (Sorry for the background noise, we had to record outside) Show Links: Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos Videos from past ServerlessConf events [DISCOUNT] Star...
May 02, 2017•14 min
Aaron and Brian talk with Chris Anderson ( @crandycodes , PM for Azure Functions) and Yochay Kiriaty ( @yochayk , PM for Azure Functions) about Azure Functions and platform integrations from ServerlessConf in Austin . (Sorry for the background noise, we had to record outside) Show Links: Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos Videos from past ServerlessConf events [DISCOUNT] Start Serverless Skills ...
Apr 30, 2017•18 min
Aaron and Brian review KubeCon 2017 (Berlin), DockerCon 2017 (Austin) and Aaron’s trip to Seattle to learn more about Azure Functions. They also read a bunch of sponsor ads for sponsors they don't have. Use offer code CLOUDCAST to get awesome discounts and free stuff (or not). Show Links: Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Videos Microsoft Azure Functions Triggers a...
Apr 21, 2017•45 min