Episode 76: Convergental and the battle for the new stack

With a new integration between Kubernetes and VMware, we once again discuss what exactly the battle of the new stack is and how companies could be angling to make money off it. Also, mole and recommendations.

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With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

Mid-roll

• Oct 25th - Matt at AWS North Sydney.
• Nov 2nd - Pivotal Kansas City roadshow, Coté’ll be there.
• Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.

Show notes

• If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording.

VMware doing Kubernetes

• VMware's post, and a product page.
• Photon platform is VMware’s container-play, trying to leverage the VMware ecosystem (vSAN & NSX stuff)
• The New Stack coverage

BONUS LINKS, not covered in the show Ubuntu 16.10

• Canonical’s doing Kubernetes too

AWS & Government

• Debunking FUD and using AWS in (Australian) government

Randy Bias Leaves EMC

• OpenStack advocate/critic, Pets vs. Cattle
• 2 years to the day after the Cloudscaling acquisition Heading to… Juniper

Cisco is AWS Skeptical

• Good luck with that

What $50 buys You at Huaqianbei

• Fascinating article, I hadn’t realized how ridiculously cheap everything had gotten

Recommendations

• Brandon: Accused Podcast.
• Matt: Song Exploder podcast and the Tobacco album “Sweatbox Dynasty”
• Coté: Kirkland brushed khaki pants. Also, espadrilles from that store in BCN, La Manual Alpargatera. Apple Live Photos.