This episode of the TechOps series goes into high availability troubleshooting. Not just high availability, not just troubleshooting, but actually talking through what it takes to manage and maintain and fix HA systems. This is part of a longer discussion we've been having and so there's some really interesting ideas in the middle of these discussions that I hope will shape your thinking as you build high availability systems, diagnostics and troubleshooting for people who are in high availability very complex environments.

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/wM__4w1YIzZnhVdgLuXLsDDu0Ng?utm_source=copy_url

References:
https://status.openai.com/incidents/ctrsv3lwd797\


HA Troubleshooting [Tech Ops]

In this episode, we dive deeper into the new architectural trends for infrastructure designers in this coming decade, which is a transition from virtualization platforms first like VMware into containerized platforms first. But this time, we talk through the use of virtualization in containerized systems - keeping VMs but with what changes are necessary to make a containerized virtualization platform dominant instead of a virtualized virtualization platform.

Reference: 
https://kubevirt.io/user-guide/architecture/
https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift/virtualization 

Container Driven Architecture

In this episode, we continue our dive into the changing architecture of IT infrastructure and look at how containers and container platforms are changing. We also look at the fundamental nature of what people want to buy, accelerated by VMware Broadcom, making virtualization platforms much less attractive, and the shifting landscape here. This is work that is based on a presentation that I've been giving around the shift towards open shift virtualization and Kubernetes in general.

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/BnYKzI0zzOLqqWi45vck9gMwsDk?utm_source=copy_url

DevOps Lunch and Learn focuses on home labbing versus enterprise use cases and why it is so tricky to satisfy the home user with enterprise products. This really is a dilemma because we love to see more crossover and we're going to talk about why.

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/CgO1zVnY5wDFgRNb7XpdUNyIgr0?utm_source=copy_url


Lab Toys vs Enterprise Products

NOTE: It appears that the Trump administration decided to allow nVidia chips... even so, this is a very interesting discussion.

We discuss whether or not AI export controls work, but we take a really interesting twist because what we talk about is manufacturing. What we talk about is innovation, and it's not whether or not you can control AI chips, but what does it actually take to build innovative product? That's where we really have challenges on export and controls. There's military manufacturing and goods, and that's part of what this AI embargo is about. We really talk about how challenging it is to actually build truly innovative manufacturing and what the barriers are.

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/k6Thp-TOfwKc_RjXHCnTd7tdepc?utm_source=copy_url



Do Export Controls work for AI?

In this episode, we talk about how to use AI and agentic AI specifically to rethink log collection and analysis, and find and solve really difficult problems generally. There's a bit of a build up and understanding how we got there will help you appreciate the conversation.

Resources:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24americas/presentation/cruz

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/P-p1tfjPhD4lbX8cy6pjRb_icQ0?utm_source=copy_url

Using AI for Complex IT Problems

We discuss whether or not AI export controls work, but we take a really interesting twist because what we talk about is manufacturing. What we talk about is innovation, and it's not whether or not you can control AI chips, but what does it actually take to build innovative product? That's where we really have challenges on export and controls. There's military manufacturing and goods, and that's part of what this AI embargo is about. We really talk about how challenging it is to actually build truly innovative manufacturing and what the barriers are.

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/k6Thp-TOfwKc_RjXHCnTd7tdepc?utm_source=copy_url

AI Export Controls Work?

Today we dive deep into the mystery of Kubernetes installation, specifically OpenShift installation. We help explain why Kubernetes installs look so weird compared to traditional operations, install processes, and where are the playbooks? Where are the scripts? Are the runbooks describing all the steps you need to take? All of it seems to be missing, and in this podcast, we explain why.

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/J802BlcVs3K_OU8B5K5pnQ9fAq8?utm_source=copy_url


OpenShift Install

In this episode we dive into the practice of recapturing gear from data centers and how it can be used in the secondary market and the ramifications for that market. What started off as a tangent ended up as a rabbit hole  rewarding conversation!

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/QR43ePMfKLNrxH1bZo0Ik8YyKo0?utm_source=copy_url 

Secondary Markets for Infrastructure

In this episode, we talk about scale and the hard realities of system failure in large tech operations. We explore why rare failures become common at scale, and what it takes to build systems that can handle that pressure. From predictive diagnostics to component redundancy, we share practical insights on keeping high-performance and AI infrastructure resilient. This is not theory, it is grounded in real-world lessons from managing complex environments and learning how to plan, isolate, and adapt when things go wrong.

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/X8JYiADfPPLEfQ-ggexAP5P_jGc?utm_source=copy_url 

20250819 TechOps Scaling Challenges

An excellent source for industry thought leadership in Edge Computing, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Open Source base on discussions at.the2030.cloud

New tracks tagged #Cloud2030