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

Published: May 3, 2017, 10 p.m.

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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.

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Mid-roll

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Matt Ray\\u2019s APAC Biz Travel Fun

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  • 5 different airlines in a month.
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  • Emirates is the best.
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  • This is why we can\\u2019t have nice things - American Airlines raises pay.
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Red Hat.

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Cloud Rules Everything Around Me

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    • 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\\u2019s first quarter.
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    • Microsoft\\u2019s \\u201cIntelligent Cloud\\u201d unit, which includes Azure, grew 11 percent, to $6.8 billion. Microsoft doesn\\u2019t break out Azure revenue specifically, but said Azure saw a 93 percent increase in revenue over last year.
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    • Google Cloud is buried somewhere in \\u201cOther Bets\\u201d on Alphabet earnings, a segment that grew 50 percent to $3.1 billion.
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  • What\\u2019s the Halo Effect on this? It\\u2019s easy to blame the big vendors for shying away from public cloud but it was some scary shit, business-case wise, back in 2008.
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  • Verizon sells cloud stuff to IBM.
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Docker is now Moby, wait what?

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  • LinuxKit - the host OS, where you run the containers.
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  • \\u201cMoby is recommended for anyone who wants to assemble a container-based system\\u201d
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  • Moby = open source development
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  • Docker CE = free product release based on Moby
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  • Docker EE = commercial product release based on Docker EE
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  • 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
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  • Letter about Mobyan-open-letter-to-docker-about-moby/
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  • Moby is Fedora, Docker is like RHEL, Eclipse, Genuitec.
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  • Cot\\xe9\\u2019s Notebook on Moby and such
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  • Cot\\xe9\'s Notebook on Docker\'s new CEO.
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BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.

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EngineYard done!

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\\u201cNative\\u201d Windows Server Support for Docker

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  • \\u201cLinux containers running natively on Windows Server through our Hyper-V isolation technology\\u201d
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Sysdig Docker Usage Report 2017

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  • Always fun to read \\u201creal\\u201d numbers
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  • 10 containers/host and Kubernetes out in front
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Microsoft and the NSA Exploits Leak

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  • Patch your servers and run modern versions people.
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Amazon\\u2019s Coming to Australia

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  • \\u201cThe moment Australian retailers have dreaded is here. \\u201c
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Intel Drops out of OpenStack Innovation Center

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  • 30 Rackers moving internally, Intel is still participating within OpenStack
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Huawei Want to Enter the Cloud Fray

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  • Everybody wants a piece of AWS
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Microsoft buys Deis

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Oracle Buys Wercker

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  • \\u201ccontainer lifecycle management\\u201d - foundation for a container PaaS if you tie it to the StackEngine acquisition?
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How Many Data Centers Needed World-Wide

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  • Deep cut from James Hamilton, AWS Datacenter guru
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  • Re: Oracle \\u201cif you assume the big three are spending roughly equally, how can $1.7B compete with more than $10B when it comes to serving customers?\\u201d
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  • \\u201c2+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\\u2019s usual that three new facilities be opened rather than just one with some racks on different power domains.\\u201d
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  • \\u201clatency is not the prime driver of very large numbers of regions\\u201d
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  • \\u201cbeing close to population centers and major communications hubs matters to most operators more than cooling costs\\u201d
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Canonical/Ubuntu priorities

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  • Dropping Unity desktop and phone stuff in favor of desktop, cloud & IOT
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BrickerBot Bricks Unsecured IOT Devices

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  • \\u201cBrickerBot the work of a vigilante?\\u201d
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OmniTI Shutting Down OmniOS Development

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  • Open source Solaris-compatible clone
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  • \\u201cOmniTI will be suspending active development of OmniOS\\u201d
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Apple makes GarageBand, iMovie and iWork free

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

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