Industry professionals Aaron, Gary, Sean, and Shane talk about public cloud, private cloud, and everything in between.
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Shane wants to make his homelab less janky so needs to decide on how to split up his compute and storage, plus some of the KVM over IP devices we own and how we use them. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
The biggest homelab mistakes we’ve made, and what we learned from them. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
It’s another hot questions episode! Tech we’d use if we rebuilt everything from scratch, career advice to our past selves, how much of our jobs we could do from our phone, and the qualities we’ve seen in great managers. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Is the industry now better or worse than when we got into it? Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
The one tool in our IT tool belt that we value the most. This is a short episode because producer Joe is having a summer break. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Having recently moved house, Gary wonders how to reconfigure his homelab and network setup. Plus Shane is fed up with GitHub’s outages and formulates a plan to move away… somewhere… Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
It’s a Linux Dev Time style hot questions episode. Is “cloud native” more about where the workload is going or how you deploy it? What is a skill that is really important in your job that may surprise people? Is the cloud more or less secure than a company-controlled data centre or on-prem? Would you recommend what you do to your kids/nephews etc? Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
We get into some homelab updates. Sean has been consolidating hardware, Gary has been implementing high availability with Proxmox, and Shane has been working hard to get Home Assistant working with Kubernetes, as well as downloading YouTube videos. Shane’s homelab Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
A recent attack shone a light on some of the problems with GitHub Actions, and CI/CD more generally. As tempting as it might be, going back to shell scripts probably isn’t the answer. 1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack 2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Aaron and Shane share some thoughts about attending Kubecon, including the push for European sovereign cloud, how platform engineering might mitigate some of the problems AI is causing, the sense that Kubernetes is mature and boring in a good way now, and our concerns about scope creep. Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
The ugliest and jankiest hacks we’ve put into prod, and a few of the worst things we’ve seen other people get away with. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Gary is concerned that he might have dug himself into a hole of on-prem vendor lock-in, despite using open source software. Plus why you should have PiKVM type device in your toolkit. PiKVM GL.iNet Comet HelloFresh Go to HelloFresh.com/hcs10fm to Get 10 free meals + a FREE Zwilling Knife (a $144.99 value) on your third box. Offer valid while supplies last. Free meals applied as discount on first box, new subscribers only, varies by plan. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
We recently talked about backing up Shane’s homelab, but this time it’s the turn of enterprise backups. Risk management, cloud and hybrid environments, planning for realistic disaster scenarios, convincing the finance people what’s required, and more. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Sean tells us about a recent catastrophe in his Kubernetes homelab (that’s really home prod). What went wrong, how did he fix it, and how can he avoid it happening again? HelloFresh Go to HelloFresh.com/hcs10fm to Get 10 free meals + a FREE Zwilling Knife (a $144.99 value) on your third box. Offer valid while supplies last. Free meals applied as discount on first box, new subscribers only, varies by plan. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Why we have doubts about the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud, what it would take to build a proper European cloud that could compete with AWS, and why it’s such a difficult undertaking. Antigravity A1 The Antigravity A1 is the world’s first all-in-one 8K 360 drone. It’s a real game-changer. You get full immersive flight with the goggles, intuitive controls, and endless creative freedom in editing. If you’re thinking about buying a drone, make it this one. Learn more at antigravity.tech HelloFresh Go to HelloFresh.com/hcs10fm to Get 10 free meals + a FREE Zwilling Knife (a $144.99 value) on yo
Shane is worried about backups for his janky Kubernetes homelab. The rest of us advise him on exactly what to back up, how to go about picking an offsite backup location and setting it up, how best to back up databases, and more. Antigravity A1 The Antigravity A1 is the world’s first all-in-one 8K 360 drone. It’s a real game-changer. You get full immersive flight with the goggles, intuitive controls, and endless creative freedom in editing. If you’re thinking about buying a drone, make it this one. Learn more at antigravity.tech Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early epis
What to consider when making a big move to a new technology for your on-prem or private cloud estate, for example when a provider suddenly hikes their subscription or license prices. Antigravity A1 The Antigravity A1 is the world’s first all-in-one 8K 360 drone. It’s a real game-changer. You get full immersive flight with the goggles, intuitive controls, and endless creative freedom in editing. If you’re thinking about buying a drone, make it this one. Learn more at antigravity.tech Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
What we love most about the cloud and cloud native technologies. This is a short episode because (producer) Joe is having a break for the Christmas period. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
How to connect your public environments across clouds and into your datacenter infrastructure – using official options, VPNs and new ideas like mTLS. Plus container networking, CNIs and other ways to plug extras into Kubernetes. Antigravity A1 The Antigravity A1 is the world’s first all-in-one 8K 360 drone. It’s a real game-changer. You get full immersive flight with the goggles, intuitive controls, and endless creative freedom in editing. If you’re thinking about buying a drone, make it this one. Learn more at antigravity.tech Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episo
Cloud security basics, some of the technical and compliance aspects, and why it ultimately comes down to a people problem. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
We dig into the recent major AWS outage, why a misconfiguration in one region called global issues, and whether there’s anything you can do to avoid being affected by a similar incident in the future. Gary mentioned an AWS whitepaper. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Shane has teething issues with his Kubernetes homelab, Sean ran a bootable containers workshop at Texas Linux Fest, and the case for enterprise rolling distros. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Some examples of the technical debt we’ve seen in the cloud world, how to pay it back, avoiding it in the first place, and why a certain amount of tech debt is inevitable. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
How we got started in our tech careers, how and why we moved into the cloud, and why the cloud often makes more sense than on-prem. Insta360 Go Ultra Insta360 have just launched their brand-new pocket camera, the GO Ultra. To get free Sticky Tabs with it go to store.insta360.com and use the promo code “hybridcloud”, available for the first 30 purchases only. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
SMTP relays and observability, why we didn’t recommend Podman over Docker to a newcomer, and Gary gives us an update on his homelab. Insta360 Go Ultra Insta360 have just launched their brand-new pocket camera, the GO Ultra. To get free Sticky Tabs with it go to store.insta360.com and use the promo code “hybridcloud”, available for the first 30 purchases only. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
