Episode 223: What’s a Terraform?

Coté finally learns what HashiCorp does. Also, yellow rubber gloves.

Mood Board:

• Blur my foreground, that’s what I want.
• No Yodas
• Lot of rubber gloves in your youth?
• I have never really enjoyed a Steven King book.
• Maybe it’s for the Rip Van Winkle set
• You watch Netflix, you should watch more Netflix.
• I don’t need your recommendations, don’t tell me how to live my life.
• It was like a bunch of Duplo blocks in a junior high theater class.
• As someone said: teams is like a front-end to Sharepoint
• The screenshot they showed was kind of like Teams.
• Why can’t they make it 100% OK?
• You’ve got a big TV, put me on it!

Relevant to your interests

• Microsoft Teams vs. Zoom vs. Skype
• Does anyone really know what the deal is with this JEDI thing? - The Pentagon says it 'wishes to reconsider' the award to Microsoft of the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract
• HashiCorp - Vagrant sure is valuable!
  • HashiCorp Scores $175M Funding Round, $5B Valuation
  • Exclusive: DevOps unicorn HashiCorp could be valued at $5.25B in new round
• Rancher - EDGE, BABY!
  • Rancher Labs Raises $40 Million Series D Round to Accelerate Growth of Its Kubernetes Management Platform
  • Platform9 Announces Freedom for Kubernetes Users with New, 'Freedom' and 'Growth' SaaS-Managed Kubernetes Plans
• npm is joining GitHub - The GitHub Blog
  • Next Phase Montage
• CNCF starts new artifact hub - “pre-alpha stadium.”
• Using 6 Page and 2 Page Documents To Make Organizational Decisions
• Book review: The Real Deal - technology deal making in the 2020's
• Apple announces online-only WWDC 2020 due to coronavirus spread
• Righting a Wrong: IBM is a Leader in the Cloud...
• Trump Surprised Google With a Bogus Coronavirus Site Claim
• Google: G Suite now has 2 billion users
• Coronavirus quarantine enforced for all people entering Australia, lockdowns on the table
• Coronavirus Will Change How We Shop, Travel and Work for Years
• Microsoft Teams goes down just as Europe logs on to work remotely
• NSW govt pledges to introduce mandatory data breach reporting
• What’s in a Name? How Pivotal’s Products Are Being Renamed as Part of VMware Tanzu
• Announcing OpenShift Serverless 1.5.0 Tech Preview - A sneak peek of our GA
• Google indefinitely delays the digital version of its Cloud Next conference
• Microsoft starts a grand unification attempt with .NET 5
• Apple unveils new iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support in iPadOS
• Spectro Cloud Launches With $7.5 Million to Help Enterprises Realize the Promise of Kubernetes
• Not just video-conferencing apps taking a dive: IBM Cloud hit by partial Tuesday outage
• Ansible DevOps comes to the mainframe
• Mainframe Developers Get Boost From BMC Acquisition Of Compuware

Non Sense

• How Much Toilet Paper?! The Coronavirus Toilet Paper Calculator
• You can now get alcohol delivered with your food when you order from Texas restaurants, Gov. Abbott says

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Conferences, et. al.

• DevOpsDays Austin 2020 — Cancelled or Postponed.
• ChefConf 2020 June 2, All Digital.
• DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
• THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.

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• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

Recommendations

• Brandon: Devs on FX/Hulu .
  • A mind-bending, reality-warping conversation with John Higgs
• Matt Ray: KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money.
  • Tim Hartford’s Cautionary Tales podcast.
• Coté: Look Up.

Outro: “They’ll work until the very last minute,” Dune.