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 [email protected] 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)