Published: Sept. 22, 2017, 2 a.m.

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The DevOps kids have decided to come up with a new term \\u201cobservability.\\u201d We get to the bottom of the WTF barrel on what that is - it sounds like a good word-project. Also, there\\u2019s a spate of kubernetes news, as always, and some interesting acquisitions. Plus, a micro-iOS 11 review.

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Meta, follow-up, etc.

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• Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it\\u2019s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
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• Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there.
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• Join us all in the SDT Slack.
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Is \\u201cobservability\\u201d just \\u201cinstrumentation\\u201d?

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• Write-up from Cindy Sridharan.
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• This guy: \\u201cThinking directionally, Monitoring is the passive collection of Metrics, logs, etc. about a system, while Observability is the active dissemination of information from the system. Looking at it another way, from the external \\u2018supervisor\\u2019 perspective, I monitor you, but you make yourself Observable.\\u201d
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• So, yes: if developers actually make their code monitorable and manageable\\u2026easy street! It\\u2019s a good detailing of that important part of DevOps.
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• Cloud Native Java has a good example with the default \\u201cobservability\\u201d attributes for apps, and then an overview of Zipkin tracing.
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Weekly k8s News

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• Heptio gets funding, now \\u201chas raised $33.5 million in funding to date.\\u201d\\n\\n
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  • I think we\\u2019ll cover this press release in a WP episode.
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• Also, something called \\u201cStackPointCloud\\u201d now with the Istio.
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• Mesosphere adding K8s support - \\u201cGuagenti also noted that he believes that Mesosphere is currently a leader in the container space, both in terms of the number of containers its users run in production and in terms of revenue (though the company sadly didn\\u2019t share any numbers).\\u201d
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• "I think it\\u2019s fair to call Kubernetes the de facto standard for how enterprises will do container orchestration,\\u201d Derrick Harris.
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• Is Kubernetes Repeating OpenStack\\u2019s Mistakes? - Boris throwing bombs
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• Meanwhile, an abstract of a containers penetration study, from RedMonk: "Docker, is running at 71% across Fortune 100 companies. Kubernetes usage is running in some form at 54%, and Cloud Foundry usage is at 50%\\u201d
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• This update from the Cloud Foundry Foundation is a little more, er, \\u201cresponsible\\u201d in pointing out flaws. Instead it just says there\\u2019s lots of growth and tire-kicking: 2016/2017 y/y shows those evaluating containers went up from 31% to 42%, while \\u201cusing\\u201d ticked up a tad from 22% to 25%, n=540.
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• Oracle\\u2019s in the CNCF club! K8s on Oracle Linux, K8s for Oracle Public Cloud. \\u201cAt this point, there really can\\u2019t be any doubt that Kubernetes is winning the container orchestration wars, given that virtually every major player is now backing the project, both financially and with code contributions.\\u201d
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• James checks in on Red Hat.\\n
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Acquisitions & more!

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• Rackspace acquires Datapipe \\u201cThe reason we\\u2019re buying them is that we want to extend our leadership in multi-cloud services,\\u201d Rackspace chief strategy officer Matt Bradley told me. \\u201cIt\\u2019s a sign and signal that we\\u2019re going for it.\\u201d Bradley expects that the combined company will make Rackspace the largest private cloud player and the largest managed hosting service.
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• Datadog acquires Logmatic.io to add log management to its cloud monitoring platform
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• Puppet Acquires Distelli, known for their Kubernetes dashboard.\\n\\n
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  • Jay Lyman at 451.
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  • Sizing Puppet: \\u201cThe company has grown to more than 500 employees, and has estimated annual revenue in the $100m range.\\u201d
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  • Coverage from Susan Hall: \\u201cWhat we haven\\u2019t had up to this point is all the requisite automation for moving infrastructure code and application code through any kind of automated delivery lifecycle\\u201d and now they gots that. https://thenewstack.io/puppet-will-extend-infrastructure-automation-capabilities-distelli-acquisition/
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  • \\u201cIn May, the company launched its Kubernetes dashboard K8S. It allows users to connect repositories, build images from source, then deploy them to that Kubernetes cluster. You can also set up automated pipelines to push images from one cluster to another, promote software from test/dev to prod, quickly roll back and do all this in the context of one or more Kubernetes clusters\\u2026 The Kubernetes service is offered as a hosted service or in an on-prem version. It provides notifications through Slack.\\u201d
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• Google pays $1.1 billion for HTC team and non-exclusive IP license
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Security Corner

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• The Apple Effect? \\u2014 Why BMW might get rid of car keys
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• Don\\u2019t blame Apache \\u2014 EQUIFAX OFFICIALLY HAS NO EXCUSE
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• Is there anything to do here? Setup layers of credit cards? Require Touch ID (etc.) approval of all financial decisions and transactions in your \\u201caccount\\u201d? Food & Safety like inspectors for security?
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• Hackers respond to Face ID on the iPhone X
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iOS 11

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• Cot\\xe9 has been running the beta. It seems fine.
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• There\\u2019s the usual Re-arrangement of how some gestures work that\\u2019s jarring at first, but after using it for awhile, you forget what they even are.
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• The extra control center stuff is nice.
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• The Files.app is interesting, but not too featureful.
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• The new photo formats are annoying because, you know, non-Apple things need to support it (which they seem to?)
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Bonus Links

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Cot\\xe9 gives up on defining DevOps, and more

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• Interview about DevOpsDays Auckland.\\n
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Is Solaris dead yet?

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• Strongly confirmed rumors that Oracle is shutting it down.
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• This guy has written a big Solaris-brain to Linux-brain manifesto/guide, plus: \\u201c[n]owadays, Sun is a cobweb-covered sign at the Facebook Menlo Park campus, kept as a warning to the next generation.\\u201d SICK BURN!
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• Layoffs and more: \\u201cIn particular, that employees who had given their careers to the company were told of their termination via a pre-recorded call \\u2014 \\u201crobo-RIF\\u2019d\\u201d in the words of one employee \\u2014 is both despicable and cowardly.\\u201d
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HPE

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• We Can See The New Hewlett Clearly Now, Says CEO Whitman - AI in storage arrays, Docker in OneView.
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• Clearly?
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• Making money.
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• They bought CTP!?
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• Selling hardware to cloud providers is rough.
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Huawei

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• New board.
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• Microsoft app support.
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We can all agree on food

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• Someone has to pay attention to this real world stuff.
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• This Tiny Country Feeds the World
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More on VMware/AWS

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• The possible failures in the partnership - sort of an odd article in that the larger point is \\u201cmaybe it won\\u2019t work.\\u201d
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• Meanwhile, Matt Asay does some loopty-loops on it all.
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JEE

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• Code put in github.
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• They\\u2019re giving it over to the Eclipse Foundation. Probably a good idea.
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VMware\\u2019s OpenStack

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• Little report form 451.
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• \\u201cGoing forward, users pay a onetime $995-per-CPU socket license fee, in addition to ongoing support.\\u201d
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Recommendations

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Brandon: Prophets of Rage.

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Matt:

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• American Gods, the TV show.
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• Zero History: finale(?) to William Gibson\\u2019s Blue Ant trilogy
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• LOT: a subscription-based service which distributes a basic set of clothing, footwear, essential self-care products, accessories, and media content.
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• Engineering the End of Fashion
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Cot\\xe9:

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• Rick & Morty.
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• These cultural guides are fucking awesome! See America, Australia, and Latvia (no one sang at the meals I was at!).
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• Cardenal Mendoza, brandy de jerez. And, you know, cognac/brandy in general - be a fucking adult already, you damn kids.
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