Episode 93: Cloud Rules Everything Around Me - Red Hat, Moby, Docker CEO, and Halo Effect’ing The First Cloud Wars

There's much news in the container world with DockerCon and Red Hat having had conferences, plus Docker gets a new CEO. We also do a hindsight analysis of what wrong with the losers of the Cloud Wars. And, as always, recommendations from the three of us.

Mid-roll

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• Matt: ChefConf May 22-24

Matt Ray’s APAC Biz Travel Fun

• 5 different airlines in a month.
• Emirates is the best.
• This is why we can’t have nice things - American Airlines raises pay.

Red Hat.

• Some cloud stuff we need to read-on more.
• Check out Coté's summary of a recent Brian Gracely post on the OpenShift momentum.

Cloud Rules Everything Around Me

• As summarized by Derrick (via CNBC:
  • AWS brought in $3.66 billion in revenue, which was up 42 percent from last year. However, year-over-year growth dropped from last year’s first quarter.
  • Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” unit, which includes Azure, grew 11 percent, to $6.8 billion. Microsoft doesn’t break out Azure revenue specifically, but said Azure saw a 93 percent increase in revenue over last year.
  • Google Cloud is buried somewhere in “Other Bets” on Alphabet earnings, a segment that grew 50 percent to $3.1 billion.
• What’s the Halo Effect on this? It’s easy to blame the big vendors for shying away from public cloud but it was some scary shit, business-case wise, back in 2008.
• Verizon sells cloud stuff to IBM.

Docker is now Moby, wait what?

• LinuxKit - the host OS, where you run the containers.
• “Moby is recommended for anyone who wants to assemble a container-based system”
• Moby = open source development
• Docker CE = free product release based on Moby
• Docker EE = commercial product release based on Docker EE
• Moby is the name of the upstream umbrella project supervising the open source pieces that are used to build Docker, which is now the commercial-focused product Docker CE/EE
• Letter about Mobyan-open-letter-to-docker-about-moby/
• Moby is Fedora, Docker is like RHEL, Eclipse, Genuitec.
• Coté’s Notebook on Moby and such
• Coté's Notebook on Docker's new CEO.

BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. EngineYard done!

• Press Release
• A snarky Tweet
• Another Press Release
• Jay Lyman at 451: “It generated revenue of about $36m in 2016.” - I seem to recall that EngineYard would report on revenue.

“Native” Windows Server Support for Docker

• Link
• “Linux containers running natively on Windows Server through our Hyper-V isolation technology”

Sysdig Docker Usage Report 2017

• Link 1
• Link 2
• Always fun to read “real” numbers
• 10 containers/host and Kubernetes out in front

Microsoft and the NSA Exploits Leak

• Link
• Patch your servers and run modern versions people.

Amazon’s Coming to Australia

• Link
• “The moment Australian retailers have dreaded is here. “

Intel Drops out of OpenStack Innovation Center

• Link
• 30 Rackers moving internally, Intel is still participating within OpenStack

Huawei Want to Enter the Cloud Fray

• Link
• Everybody wants a piece of AWS

Microsoft buys Deis

• Coté’s notebook on the topic.

Oracle Buys Wercker

• Link
• “container lifecycle management” - foundation for a container PaaS if you tie it to the StackEngine acquisition?

How Many Data Centers Needed World-Wide

• Link
• Deep cut from James Hamilton, AWS Datacenter guru
• Re: Oracle “if you assume the big three are spending roughly equally, how can $1.7B compete with more than $10B when it comes to serving customers?”
• “2+1 redundancy is cheaper than 1+1 and, when there are 3 facilities, a single facility can experience a fault without eliminating all redundancy from the system. Consequently, whenever AWS goes into a new region, it’s usual that three new facilities be opened rather than just one with some racks on different power domains.”
• “latency is not the prime driver of very large numbers of regions”
• “being close to population centers and major communications hubs matters to most operators more than cooling costs”

Canonical/Ubuntu priorities

• Link
• Dropping Unity desktop and phone stuff in favor of desktop, cloud & IOT

BrickerBot Bricks Unsecured IOT Devices

• Link
• “BrickerBot the work of a vigilante?”

OmniTI Shutting Down OmniOS Development

• Link
• Open source Solaris-compatible clone
• “OmniTI will be suspending active development of OmniOS”

Apple makes GarageBand, iMovie and iWork free

• Link
• MacOS and IOS!
• Keynote is the best, why not open source for an attempt at cross-platform?

Recommendations

• Brandon: S-town podcast, some background from the creator.
• Matt Ray: Google Translate video realtime AR stuff.
• Coté: The Big Sleep.