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The Cloudcast #195 - Farming Cloud Apps with Rancher Jun 13, 2015

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Aaron talks to Sheng Liang (@shengliang; Co-Founder/CEO of Rancher.io) & Shannon Williams (@smw355; Co-Founder/VP of Rancher.io) about their history at Cloud.com, building a full-solution stack around Docker, the tiny-OS market, and the tradeoffs between containers vs VMs.

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Rancher Labs Website

Topic 1 - You guys were behind the original Cloud.com and CloudStack technology. How’d you get to this point and what have you learned in the last 3-4 years?
Topic 2 - Let’s start with “Rancher” (or Rancher.io). It seems like it’s Cloudstack for Docker. How far does it extend - container scheduler? manage availability? plugin for 3rd-parties?
Topic 3 - Let’s talk about RancherOS. A tiny-OS built specifically for containers. This is suddenly a crowded space (CoreOS, VMware Photon, RedHat Atomic, Canonical/Ubuntu Core). Do we really need another round of Linux OS wars, or fragmentation?
Topic 4 - You recently announced Rancher VM, which is KVM inside a container. Talk about the differences between running Containers in VMs and VMs in Containers? What are the trade-offs and benefits?
Topic 5 - Cloudstack has always been known as more complete (“a solution”) than OpenStack. Is that fundamentally the same approach you’re taking to managing containers with Rancher?
Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

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The Cloudcast #194 - DevOps Down to the Rack Level Jun 10, 2015

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Aaron talks to Cole Crawford (CEO/Founder of Vapor.io, Founding executive director of Open Compute project and Co-founder of OpenStack) about momentum for Open Compute, rethinking how Data Center racks are designed, and the Vapor.io stack - OpenMist OS, Open DCRE and CORE.

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Vapor Homepage - http://www.vapor.io/

Topic 1 - Tell us about your background. It’s very extensive in both open source (software) and open hardware.
Topic 2 - The company is described as “the first hyper converged and truly data defined data center solution”. Please translate that for us :)
Topic 3 - For a small company, you have some large (conceptual) offerings - common hardware, rack-level provisioning, and this unique new rack model. Just how ambitious are you guys? (hardware with API’s!)
Topic 4 - OpenMist OS (just launched). Let’s talk about each of the core pieces - Open DCRE (Data Center Runtime Environment). Is this an open BMC (Board Management Controller)?
Topic 5 - Vapor CORE - This seems like RAID (Storage) meets BGP / HSRP (Networking) and compute scheduling (vCenter) all mashed together, with APIs to higher-level services (eg. Mesosphere or Docker)
Topic 6 - Vapor Chamber - at first glance, this seems like The Big Green Egg (grill) for data center equipment. Fair analogy?
Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

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The Cloudcast #193 - Andy Weir, Author of "The Martian" Jun 06, 2015

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Aaron and Brian talk to Andy Weir (@andyweirauthor), author of The Egg and The Martian. We cover the connection between Open Source Software and writing, Aaron gets geeky about the book, the latest on the upcoming movie, tips for new authors, and even talk a little bit about the Ready Player One universe.

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Andy's Website
Andy's Keynote Talk at Cloud Foundry Summit
The Martian Movie (November 2015)
Lacero Short Story

Topic 1 - For those that aren’t familiar with The Martian, can you tell everyone a little bit about the book?
Topic 2 - The Martian been turned into a movie. I’ve read that you had a peek at the script. In the book there is a lot on internal dialog (no one to talk to on Mars), any insight into how this will be handled in the movie?
Topic 3 - Your book started out as a self published book. I read your AMA on Reddit, you recommend self publishing through Amazon as a great avenue for those starting out. What was the process like and any other suggestions for writers looking to break into the field?
Topic 4 - I’ve heard it took you a few years to write the book due to all the research involved. In your opinion, How close are we to being able to have a colony on Mars? What’s stopping us technology wise and where did you have to “fudge” a bit in the book?
Topic 5 - Another great book I’ve read recently is Ready Player One. You did a short story called Lacero based in the universe. It is a great short read and adds an amazing twist to the entire story. It’s really cool how such a short piece of work actually adds an amazing amount of depth to the original book. Where did the idea come from?
Topic 6 - What’s next?
Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

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The Cloudcast #192 - Pets, Cattle & Chickens May 28, 2015

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Aaron and Brian talk to Bernard Golden (@, VP of Strategy, ActiveState) about the latest from ActiveState, Bernard's extensive writing experience, as how containers are changing the pets vs. cattle model.

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Topic 1 - For those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a brief introduction.
Topic 2 - We spoke to Bart almost two years ago about ActiveState, I’m sure a lot has changed… What about containers? (Pets, Cattle, and Chickens blog)
Topic 2.5 - You’re latest article on CIO.com was very interesting. It was about why the Enterprise Needs Shadow IT. Can you tell everyone about it?
Topic 3 - You’ve been very open about your support of public cloud and AWS (you wrote the AWS for Dummies Book). What is your position these days now that you daily work is on the Platform side?
Topic 4 - Talk of growth on third platform going forward (your blog and IDC report), We’ve said many times on this podcast, starve the old, feed the new. How disruptive is third platform compared to traditional IT going forward?
Topic 5 - How and where does PaaS (or just platforms) fit into third platform(s) vs. just straight up microservices/12 factor apps/containers/etc. What are the benefits
Topic 6 - Finally, you worked for George Reese at Enstratus/Enstratius. Is he as grumpy is he is in public on Twitter?
Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

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The Cloudcast #191 - Cloud Foundry + Netflix OSS May 24, 2015

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Brian talks to The Pivotal Gang - James Watters (@wattersjames, VP of Cloud Platform), Andrew Clay Shafer (@littleidea) and Michael Cote (@cote) about the latest from Pivotal, Enterprise adoption of PCF, and NetFlix OSS.

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The Cloudcast #190 - Live from Cloud Foundry Summit May 19, 2015

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Aaron and Brian talk to Richard Seroter (@rseroter, VP of Product CenturyLink) and Ed Saipetch (@edsai, CenturyLink Office of the CTO & Speaking in Tech Podcast) about the latest in both public and Private PaaS including Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AppFogV2, Iron Foundry, the evolution of Enterprises, and the differences between containers and PaaS

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The Cloudcast #189 - Containers + Data Persistence May 01, 2015

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Aaron and Brian talk to Clint Kitson (@clintonskitson; Developer Advocate - EMC {code}) about how containers and microservices deal with data persistence, as well as some of the work that he’s doing lately and what other projects are looking at for containers + data.

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Clint’s Projects:

GitHub Page - https://github.com/clintonskitson
RexRay - https://github.com/emccode/rexray
Dogged - https://github.com/emccode/dogged
Arrowhead - https://github.com/emccode/arrowhead
VagrantSpice - https://github.com/emccode/vagrantspice

Topic 1 - Give us a little bit of your background and what some of your focus areas are these days?
Topic 2 - You live in the Bay Area, but also attend events and talk to companies outside the Bay Area. Give us some perspective on how different those world are.
Topic 3 - People have heard of 12-Factor Apps and Microservices. Give us the basics of how they are different from “traditional apps”, especially in the context of using/storage/managing data.
Topic 4 - A while back, I asked you to start digging into the area of “data + containers”, because I wanted to better understand how these new application architectures would deal with persistent data.
Topic 5 - Tell us about some of the project you’re currently working on
Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

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The Cloudcast #188 - The ContainerPocalyse Ahead Apr 25, 2015

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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 show@thecloudcast.net or @thecloudcastnet
Winner announced on 5/3
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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)

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The Cloudcast #187 - API Performance Monitoring Apr 17, 2015

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Aaron talks to John Sheehan (@johnsheehan; CEO of Runscope - @runscope) about the differences between API and application development, testing, performance, and monitoring. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com) https://www.runscope.com/ https://www.runscope.com/community https://github.com/Runscope

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The Cloudcast #186 - Understanding the Cloud Foundry Foundation Apr 12, 2015

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Aaron and Brian talk to Sam Ramji (@sramji; President of Cloud Foundry Foundation) about his first 30 days on the job, engaging developer communities, open vs. commercial, branding and awareness of open source projects. - Cloud Foundry Foundation: http://cloudfoundry.org/index.html - Cloud Foundry Summit May 11-12: http://www.cfsummit.com/ - Use promo code CFSCAST for 25% off Cloud Foundry Summit! Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

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