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Month: January 2023

Episode 3 – Azure goes down, Mirantis buys Shipa and 37signal’s cloud repatriation

FAA makes some process adjustments to prevent another meltdown

Reuters reports that Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen wrote in a letter dated Friday that the agency has made a change in the system to prevent a corrupt file from damaging a backup database.

Most of Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure goes down 

Microsoft customers experienced an outage that lasted unusually long and was unusually wide spread. https://status.azure.com/en-us/status/history/
Between 07:05 UTC and 12:43 UTC on 25 January 2023, customers experienced issues with networking connectivity impacting Azure regions, Microsoft 365, Power Platform and Azure Government cloud.

Mirantis buys Shipa

https://www.mirantis.com/blog/shipa-joins-mirantis-to-help-build-the-future-of-application-management
When 50% of Fortune 100 companies are using a company’s product you know something is up with said company. Lens is the most popular integrated development environment (IDE) for Kubernetes. Any Kubernetes, whether stock K8, K3, K0,  EKS, AKS, GKE, Minikube, Rancher, OpenShift. It does it all. 

37signal’s CEO repatriates from the cloud

Oh what fun we have with Jason Fried! He must be such a delight to work with and for when one third of the company resigned after a company all-hands with him. Maybe he’s easily triggered or he just had a bad day or two. Who knows. Or it could be that he’s quite a character.

Episode 2 – SWA or FAA – Chose your modernization disaster

The FAA came to a complete ground stop on Wednesday, January 11, when a critical system failed and had to be restarted, causing an outage that delayed 1300 flights and caused 100 cancellations.

Ransomware is the bane of the existence of our times. IBM pegs the cost of an average cyberattack at $4.3M. You can download the IBM report at https://www.ibm.com/reports/data-breach This breach however is going to go well over $4M as the entire business line was eliminated. Rackspace did something that I thought was unimaginable. They threw in the towel.

The Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift is a great platform for learning and experimenting with OpenShift. Because OpenShift is built on Kubernetes, the sandbox is also a great platform for learning and experimenting with Kubernetes. You can go to the Sandbox and learn about a practical implementation

Part 2 of our cloud from scratch: Using KVM to virtualize a three node K8 cluster using OpenShift

Podcasts I recommend

https://kubernetespodcast.com has new hosts as of a few episodes (as of late 2022). Has luminaries from the K8 community as well as Googlers as guests. Typically fun to listen to and always something new to learn. Was a bit more fun with Craig Box but change is good! 😉

The Azure podcast.

This is not an “official” Microsoft podcast, but plenty of Microsofties are working on this. It’s in-depth and also fun to listen to. I’ve been following for years. https://azpodcast.azurewebsites.net

The official AWS podcast

This podcast is not like the others. Why? The format. The “update shows” are a run-down of all AWS news that fits within the time. Those are the least interesting in my view, but also you hear about stuff you otherwise probably wouldn’t. So I listen to those to keep an eye on things.

Devops and Docker

This one deals with … You guessed it. Devops and Docker. Always interesting guests and great ideas. One of my favorites!