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Podcast – Ian Rae talks Cloud, Innovation, and Updates from Google Next 2018
Joining us this week is Ian Rae, CEO and Founder CloudOps who recorded the podcast during the Google Next conference in 2018.
Highlights
- 1 min 55 sec: Define Cloud from a CloudOps perspective
- Business Model and an Operations Model
- 3 min 59 sec: Update from Google Next 2018 event
- Google is the “Engineer’s Cloud”
- Google’s approach vs Amazon approach in feature design/release
- 9 min 55 sec: Early Amazon ~ no easy button
- Amazon educated the market as industry leader
- 12 min04 sec: What is the state of Hybrid? Do we need it?
- Complexity of systems leads to private, public as well as multiple cloud providers
- Open source enabled workloads to run on various clouds even if the cloud was not designed to support a type of workload
- Google’s strategy is around open source in the cloud
- 14 min 12 sec: IBM visibility in open source and cloud market
- Didn’t build cloud services (e.g. open a ticket to remap a VLAN)
- 16 min 40 sec: OpenStack tied to compete on service components
- Couldn’t compete without Product Managers to guide developers
- Missed last mile between technology and customer
- Didn’t want to take on the operational aspects of the customer
- 19 min 31 sec: Is innovation driven from listening to customers vs developers doing what they think is best?
- OpenStack is seen as legacy as customers look for Cloud Native Infrastructure
- OpenStack vs Kubernetes install time significance
- 22 min 44 sec: Google announcement of GKE for on-premises infrastructure
- Not really On-premise; more like Platform9 for OpenStack
- GKE solve end user experience and operational challenges to deliver it
- 26 min 07 sec: Edge IT replaces what is On-Premises IT
- Bullish on the future with Edge computing
- 27 min 27 sec: Who delivers control plane for edge?
- Recommends Open Source in control plan
- 28 min 29 sec: Current tech hides the infrastructure problems
- Someone still has to deal with the physical hardware
- 30 min 53 sec: Commercial driver for rapid Edge adoption
- 32 min 20 sec: CloudOps building software / next generation of BSS or OSS for telco
- Meet the needs of the cloud provider for flexibility in generating services with the ability to change the service backend provider
- Amazon is the new Win32
- 38 min 07 sec: Can customers install their own software? Will people buy software anymore?
- Compare payment models from Salesforce and Slack
- Google allowing customers to run their technology themselves of allow Google to manage it for you
- 40 min 43 sec: Wrap-Up
Podcast Guest: Ian Rae, CEO and Founder CloudOps
Ian Rae is the founder and CEO of CloudOps, a cloud computing consulting firm that provides multi-cloud solutions for software companies, enterprises and telecommunications providers. Ian is also the founder of cloud.ca, a Canadian cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) focused on data residency, privacy and security requirements. He is a partner at Year One Labs, a lean startup incubator, and is the founder of the Centre cloud.ca in Montreal. Prior to clouds, Ian was responsible for engineering at Coradiant, a leader in application performance management.
Podcast – Yves Boudreau on State of Edge Report and Edge vs Cloud
Joining us this week is Yves Boudreau from Ericsson for his 2nd Podcast appearance (1st Podcast) to talk about the new State of the Edge Report and the latest happenings in the Edge community.
Highlights
- Edge as an accelerant not having to wait until Edge is built completely
- Opportunity Cost using Edge as is; no time to wait
- Be Specific when Requesting Services
- Internet and Networks are Not Unlimited Pipes
- Interesting Use Cases for Edge – Augmented Reality, Drone, Cars, Batteries
- Cost savings of where the data processing is done
- Open Source software communities at the Edge
Topic Time (Minutes.Seconds)
Intro 0.0 – 1.22
State of the Edge Report 1.22 – 5.22 (STE Podcast) (https://www.stateoftheedge.com/)
Accessible Edge Environments 5.22 – 10.50 (Bulgaria)
Opportunity Cost and Missing Killer App 10.50 – 12.04
Edge Infrastructure as Cloud Development Paradigm 12.04 – 14.29
Elasticity Issues b/w Cloud and Edge 14.29 – 21.45
Innovators Dilemma for Cloud & Telcom 21.35 – 23.10
Favorite Use Cases for Infrastructure Edge 23.10 – 28.55 (Hanger Podcast)
Data Location and Data Sovereignty 28.55 – 31.03
Cost for Processing Power in Edge Devices 31.03 – 34.49 (SWIM.AI Podcast)
Free Software/ Open Source in Edge 34.49 – 46.58
Wrap Up 46.58 – END
Podcast Guest: Yves Boudreau, VP Partnership and Ecosystem Strategy
Mr. Boudreau is a 20 year veteran of the Digital, Telecom and Cable TV industries. From modest beginnings of one of the first cable broadband ISPs in Canada to the fast paced technology hub of Silicon Valley, Yves joined ERICSSON in 2011 as Vice President of Technical Sales Support and most recently has accepted a position as the VP of Partnerships and Ecosystem Strategy for the ERICSSON Unified Delivery Network. Previously, Mr. Boudreau has worked in R&D, Systems Engineering & Business Development for companies such as Com21 Inc., ARRIS Group (Cable), Imagine Communication (Video Compression) and Verivue Inc. (CDN). Yves now resides in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Josée and 3 children. Mr. Boudreau completed his undergraduate studies in Commerce @ Laurentian University and graduate studies in Information Technology Management @ Athabasca University. Yves currently also serves on the Board of Director of the Streaming Video Alliance (www.streamingvideoalliance.org)
Help OpenStack build more Open Infrastructure communities
Note: OpenStack voting is limited to community members – if you registered by the deadline, you will receive your unique ballot by email. You have 8 votes to distribute as you see fit.
I believe open infrastructure software is essential for our IT future.
Open source has been a critical platform for innovation and creating commercial value for our entire industry; however, we have to deliberately foster communities for open source activities that connect creators, users and sponsors. OpenStack has built exactly that for people interested in infrastructure and that is why I am excited to run for the Foundation Board again.
OpenStack is at a critical juncture in transitioning from a code focus to a community focus.
We must allow the OpenStack code to consolidate around a simple mission while the community explores adjacent spaces. It will be a confusing and challenging transition because we’ll have to create new spaces that leave part of the code behind – what we’d call the Innovator’s Dilemma inside of a single company. And, I don’t think OpenStack has a lot of time to figure this out.
That change requires both strong and collaborative leadership by people who know the community but are not too immersed in the code.
I am seeking community support for my return to the OpenStack Foundation Board. In the two years since I was on the board, I’ve worked in the Kubernetes community to support operators. While on the board, I fought hard to deliver testable interoperability (DefCore) and against expanding the project focus (Big Tent). As a start-up and open source founder, I bring a critical commercial balance to a community that is too easily dominated by large vendor interests.
Re-elected or not, I’m a committed member of the OpenStack community who is enthusiastically supporting the new initiatives by the Foundation. I believe strongly that our industry needs to sponsor and support open infrastructure. I also believe that dominate place for OpenStack IaaS code has changed and we also need to focus those efforts to be highly collaborative.
OpenStack cannot keep starting with “use our code” – we have to start with “let’s understand the challenges.” That’s how we’ll keep building an strong open infrastructure community.
If these ideas resonate with you, then please consider supporting me for the OpenStack board. If they don’t, please vote anyway! There are great candidates on the ballot again and voting supports the community.
2017 SRE & DevOps Influencers
Seems fitting to start 2018 by finally posting this list I started in May while working on my DevOpsDays “SRE vs DevOps” presentation, I pulled an SRE and DevOps reading list from some of my favorite authors. I quickly realized that the actual influencer list needed to be expanded some – additional and suggestions welcome. A list like this is never complete.
Offered WITHOUT ordering… I’m sorry if I missed someone! I’ll make it up by podcasting with them!
SRE & DevOps Focused
- Charity Majors @mipsytipsy has a funny and pragmatic take on SRE (I got to do a fun SRE video with Charity!) who is very engaged about monitoring.
- Susan Fowler @susanthesquark was early and eloquent about SRE job requirements and benefits. Lately, well known exposing BS in tech workplace diversity (pre #MeToo).
- Leslie Carr @lesliegeek has great insights based on real practice on the http://pony.repair blog.
- Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct talks about DevOps and challenges explaining IT
- Bridget Kromhout @bridgetkromhout ranges widely on dev process and is able to use modulo correctly in casual conversation
- Jessie Frazelle @jessfraz blogs about developer culture and impact of containers. A past Linux-on-the-Desktop fan, now enculturating at Microsoft.
- Dr Nicole Forsgren @nicolefv (DORA) delivers great DevOps and metrics presentations
- Erica Windisch @ewindisch seems to jump right to the new-new wave. Right now that means being deep-deep in Lambda at IOPipe.
- Kris Nova @kris__nova lives on the intersection of Kubernetes, Ops and Unicorns. Check out their Cloud Native Infrastructure with Justin Garrison @rothgar.
Developer, Open Source & Social Connectors
- Ashley McNamara @ashleymcnamara is the person who makes those awesome Golang stickers
- Lauren Cooney @lcooney builds great teams and products without apologies at Spark Labs (@sparklabsco).
- Sarah Novotny @sarahnovotny has just the right touch on Kubernetes community leadership – clearly not her first rodeo
- Amy Hermes @amyhermes runs influencer programs and makes it look effortless (which is scary hard to do)
- Swarna Podila @skpodila builds open communities using great discussion and engagement
- Edith Harbaugh @edith_h is building great software and can, more importantly, explain the process that makes it great.
- Rocky Grober @GroberRocky deserves a spotlight for working tirelessly on test, process and community in open source.
- Beth Cohen @bfcohen moves mountains in operations and cloud delivery.
- Gina Likins @linkqueen is an amazing combination of smart and persistent – really thinks deeply about technology, open source and engagement (Go Duke!).
- Gina Minks @gminks (another Austinite!) has great radar for interesting items and a spot on take about how they fit into current trends.
- Lisa-Marie Namphy @SWDevAngel brings together people for amazing discussions and then builds them into real communities.
- Liz Durst @lizdurst loves to get in the middle of the action with developer evangelism and doing a good job bringing Developer chops to IBM.
- Sarah Cooper @SMC_on_IoT is a IoT wizard helping Amazon with their IoT efforts
- Robyn Bergeron @robynbergeron always has an interesting take on open source, community, technology and the politics of those three things intersecting.
Completely non-technical, but have to shout out to my hard working author friends Heidi Joy Treadway @heiditretheway and Jennifer Willis @jenwillis.
December 1 – Weekly Recap of Digital Rebar, RackN, and Industry News
Welcome to the weekly post of the RackN blog recap of all things Digital Rebar, RackN, Edge Computing, and DevOps. If you have any ideas for this recap or would like to include content please contact us at info@rackn.com or tweet RackN (@rackngo)
Items of the Week
Industry News
- Hot IoT tech trends for 2018 : Network World
Edge computing, in the context of IoT, is the idea that you can actually do some of the computational work required by a system close to the endpoints instead of in a cloud or a data center. The intent is to minimize latency, which, according to Renaud, means that it’s going to be a hot trend in certain kinds of industrial IoT application.
Solution providers that have been hit hard by a data center hardware retreat are finding sales and profit growth by living on the edge—the network edge, that is.
- Five DevOps trends to watch out for : RCR Wireless News
DevOps — a term used to refer to the integration of software developers and operations teams — continues to spread like wildfire throughout the open networking ecosystem. The main idea behind DevOps is that by breaking down barriers between these two departments, market applications can be delivered faster with lower costs and better quality. Nevertheless, for all the advantages attached to DevOps, it is still a budding concept since it is primarily concerned with re-aligning the workforce with a variety of tools. The following, therefore, is a list of DevOps trends to keep an eye out for.
Digital Rebar
Our architectural plans for Digital Rebar are beyond big – they are for massive distributed scale. Not up, but out. We are designing for the case where we have common automation content packages distributed over 100,000 stand-alone sites (think 5G cell towers) that are not synchronously managed. In that case, there will be version drift between the endpoints and content. For example, we may need to patch an installation script quickly over a whole fleet but want to upgrade the endpoints more slowly.
- Digital Rebar Community Online Meetup – December 5th at 11:00am PST
Prior Meetup on November 21st Notes
RackN
Yesterday, AWS confirmed that it actually uses physical servers to run its cloud infrastructure and, gasp, no one was surprised. The actual news about the i3.metal instances by AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr shows that bare metal is being treated as just another AMI managed instance type (see also Geekwire, Techcrunch, Venture Beat). For AWS users, there’s no drama here because it’s an incremental add to processes they are already know well.
We are actively looking for feedback from customers and technologists before general availability of both RackN and the Terraform plug-in. It takes just a few minutes to get started and we offer direct engineering engagement on our community slack channel. Get started now by providing your email on our registration pagey so we can provide you all the necessary links.
L8ist Sh9y Podcast
Podcast Guest: Krishnan Subramanian, Rishidot Research
Founder and Chief Research Advisor, Infrastructure, Application Platforms and DevOps
UPCOMING EVENTS
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon : Dec 6 – 8 in Austin, TX
Event plans for the RackN and Digital Rebar team include 2 sessions and the RackN booth. We look forward to seeing you in Austin.
The RackN team is preparing for a series of upcoming events where they are speaking or just attending. If you are interested in meeting with them at these events please email info@rackn.com
- Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations Management and Data Center – Dec 4 – 7 Event Link
- CloudNativeCon + KubeCon – Dec 8 : Zero Configuration Pattern of Kubernetes on Bare Metal
Deep Thinking & Tech + Great Guests – L8ist Sh9y Podcast
I love great conversations about technology – especially ones where the answer is not very neatly settled into winners and losers (which is ALL of them in IT). I’m excited that RackN has (re)launched the L8ist Sh9y (aka Latest Shiny) podcast around this exact theme.
Please check out the deep and thoughtful discussion I just had with Mark Thiele (notes) of Apcera where we covered Mark’s thought on why public cloud will be under 20% of IT and culture issues head on.
Spoiler: we have David Linthicum coming next, SO SUBSCRIBE.
I’ve been a guest on some great podcasts (Cloudcast, gcOnDemand, Datanauts, IBM Dojo, HPE, Foodfight) and have deep respect for critical work they do in industry.
We feel there’s still room for deep discussions specifically around automated IT Operations in cloud, data center and edge; consequently, we’re branching out to start including deep interviews in addition to our initial stable of IT Ops deep technical topics like Terraform, Edge Computing, GartnerSYM review, Kubernetes and, of course, our own Digital Rebar.
Deep Thinking & Tech + Great Guests – L8ist Sh9y podcast relaunched
I love great conversations about technology – especially ones where the answer is not very neatly settled into winners and losers (which is ALL of them in IT). I’m excited that RackN has (re)launched the L8ist Sh9y (aka Latest Shiny) podcast around this exact theme.
Please check out the deep and thoughtful discussion I just had with Mark Thiele (notes) of Aperca where we covered Mark’s thought on why public cloud will be under 20% of IT and culture issues head on.
Spoiler: we have David Linthicum coming next, SO SUBSCRIBE.
I’ve been a guest on some great podcasts (Cloudcast, gcOnDemand, Datanauts, IBM Dojo, HPE, Foodfight) and have deep respect for critical work they do in industry.
We feel there’s still room for deep discussions specifically around automated IT Operations in cloud, data center and edge; consequently, we’re branching out to start including deep interviews in addition to our initial stable of IT Ops deep technical topics like Terraform, Edge Computing, GartnerSYM review, Kubernetes and, of course, our own Digital Rebar.
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Exploring the Edge Series: “Edge is NOT just Mini-Cloud”
While the RackN team and I have been heads down radically simplifying physical data center automation, I’ve still been tracking some key cloud infrastructure areas. One of the more interesting ones to me is Edge Infrastructure.
This once obscure topic has come front and center based on coming computing stress from home video, retail machine and distributed IoT. It’s clear that these are not solved from centralized data centers.
While I’m posting primarily on the RackN.com blog, I like to take time to bring critical items back to my personal blog as a collection. WARNIING: Some of these statements run counter to other industry. Please let me know what you think!
Don’t want to read? Here’s a summary podcast.
Post 1: OpenStack On Edge? 4 Ways Edge Is Distinct From Cloud
By far the largest issue of the Edge discussion was actually agreeing about what “edge” meant. It seemed as if every session had a 50% mandatory overhead in definitioning. Putting my usual operations spin on the problem, I choose to define edge infrastructure in data center management terms. Edge infrastructure has very distinct challenges compared to hyperscale data centers. Read article for the list...
Post 2: Edge Infrastructure Is Not Just Thousands Of Mini Clouds
Running each site as a mini-cloud is clearly not the right answer. There are multiple challenges here. First, any scale infrastructure problem must be solved at the physical layer first. Second, we must have tooling that brings repeatable, automation processes to that layer. It’s not sufficient to have deep control of a single site: we must be able to reliably distribute automation over thousands of sites with limited operational support and bandwidth. These requirements are outside the scope of cloud focused tools.
Post 3: Go CI/CD And Immutable Infrastructure For Edge Computing Management
If “cloudification” is not the solution then where should we look for management patterns? We believe that software development CI/CD and immutable infrastructure patterns are well suited to edge infrastructure use cases. We discussed this at a session at the OpenStack OpenDev Edge summit.
What do YOU think? This is an evolving topic and it’s time to engage in a healthy discussion.
Let’s DevOps IRL: my SRE postings on RackN!
I’m investing in these Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) discussions because I believe operations (and by extension DevOps) is facing a significant challenge in keeping up with development tooling. The links below have been getting a lot of interest on twitter and driving some good discussion.
Addressing this Ops debt is our primary mission at my company, RackN: we believe that integrated system level tooling is required. We also believe that new tools should not disrupt environments so we work very hard to adapt to requirements of individual sites.
SRE is urgent because it provides a pragmatic path and rationale for investment.
Even if you don’t agree with Google’s term or all their practices, I think fundamental concepts of system thinking, status/pay, automation investment and developer collaboration are essential. It should come as no surprise that these are all Lean/DevOps concepts; however, SRE has the pragmatic side of being a job function.
Here are some recent relevant discussions I’ve been having about SREs with links to both the audio and my text show notes.
- Cloud Cast about SRE concepts and decomposing Ops
- Datanauts deep dive about SRE based on the “DevOps vs SRE” talk from DevOpsDays Austin (original post)
- Charity Majors and I debate the SRE name and pay equity for Ops.
- Further Reading Podcasts
Of course, RackN is also doing a WEEKLY SRE update that captures general interest items. Check that out and subscribe.
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