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Month: June 2023

Episode 12 – Red Hat to Docker – hold my beer / Google accuses Microsoft of unfair practices in Azure cloud unit / Google’s State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization report

Red Hat to Docker – hold my beer.
Google accuses Microsoft of unfair practices in Azure cloud unit
Google’s State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization report
A podcast recommendation

Red Hat to Docker – hold my beer.
In episode 7 I talked a little bit about the mishaps in communication that Docker had when they announced a switch to the subscription model. Corporate communications are hard, especially in the open source world. So now Red Hat has been in the news recently due to some communication missteps, as I am going to call them.

Google accuses Microsoft of unfair practices in Azure cloud unit
It kind of always was obvious, but now Google made an official complaint. It goes something like this: “Hey, it’s kind of unfair that we need to pay a license fee to Microsoft for a VM running Windows on Google Cloud, but on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft does not need to pay itself a license fee. So my customer ends up paying more for Windows here than they do on Azure”. Duh.I guess. But also – isn’t giving away free things always the strategy MSFT deploys?

Google’s State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization report
Google published an interesting report on K8s cost optimization, aptly named” State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization”. It provides insights and best practices to the Kubernetes community about running cost-efficient clusters in the public cloud without compromising the performance or reliability of their workloads.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/21/google-accuses-microsoft-of-anticompetitive-practices-in-azure-cloud.html
https://packetpushers.net/podcast/network-break-433-nvidia-melds-switches-dpus-for-ai-networking-fabric-ftc-says-amazon-ring-employee-spied-on-female-customers/

Episode 11 – K8sGPT — SRE superpowers through AI – KubeVirt – running VMs on Kubernetes – Microsoft releases its own Linux distribution for Azure

K8sGPT — SRE superpowers through AI

I am not sure if you heard, but AI is definitely the current thing. I think it was just today that I read that 92% of developers love the assistance that AI can give them.

KubeVirt – running VMs on Kubernetes

Containers, containers, containers!!! I am trying to speak this in Steve Ballmer’s voice, but nothing quite compares to the sweat-drenched level of enthusiasm when Ballmer fired up the crows. I was thinking of cloning his voice and having him say containers instead, but the thought of it creeped even me out.

Microsoft releases its own Linux distribution for Azure

You might have heard of CBL Mariner, the Linux distribution from Microsoft. It’s been the test balloon from Microsoft to hone in on the requirements of MSFT and build up a practice of building a Linux distribution that’s optimized for the cloud.

A podcast recommendation

Give a listen to “The art of manliness”, The Art of Manliness is a one-stop resource for actionable advice that covers every aspect of a man’s life: character, career, relationships, fitness, style, skills, and much more. Through weekly podcasts and articles, AoM tackles subjects from the philosophical and serious to the practical and fun.

https://docs.k8sgpt.ai/getting-started/getting-started/
https://anaisurl.com/k8sgpt-full-tutorial/
https://killercoda.com/matthisholleville/scenario/k8sgpt-cli
Fabian Deutsch, and Andrew Burden | KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2023
https://charlesarea.medium.com/how-to-integrate-legacy-vms-into-container-pipelines-on-kubernetes-with-kubevirt-555137fb3f4a
https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/e84dd80a-f3bb-4d3d-978e-ffd811e3bfe1?source=sessions
https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/knowledge-of-men/podcast-904-how-emerson-can-help-you-become-a-stoic-nonconformist/