We dive deep into the technical details of BootC - a Red Hat-led technology that uses container-like definitions to describe machine boot processes. BootC is an important development, especially as companies embrace containers and seek a unified approach to machine configuration. 

RackN CTO, Greg Althaus, provides an in-depth overview of how BootC works, its key capabilities, and the potential benefits and challenges for operations teams. They explore topics like BootC's relationship to containers, the concept of immutability, different deployment methods, and the operational considerations around managing BootC at scale.

This conversation offers a balanced, non-Red Hat perspective on BootC, highlighting both its technical merits and the significant operational work required to successfully adopt and integrate it. Listeners will come away with a nuanced understanding of this emerging technology and the factors organizations should weigh as they evaluate BootC for their infrastructure.

BootC created Bare Metal Containers [TechOps]

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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 

Virtualization in Containers (KubeVirt, OpenShift Virtualization)

We review 2025 predictions today and dig into why I think this year is going to be both boring and terrifying for a lot of enterprise IT leaders. That, of course, spans Amazon, Reinvent storage, VMware, AI, and Agentic AI - we run the gamut on what is coming and why this is actually going to be a very challenging year.

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/H6UvLC-r2zmBO9A5jffUkhnjr5o?utm_source=copy_url

Reference: https://zenoh.io by ZettaScale


Is 2025 even harder than we expected?

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

Everyone gardens...we'll almost.  If you live in an apartment and have house plants, you're a gardener!  When you have limited space, or you want to keep your plants from spreading, like certain herbs, container gardening is the way to go.  Andre Viette talks about planting with containers and share tips on growing everything from flowers to vegetables in containers!

In the Garden with Andre Viette is a call in radio show, live Saturday mornings between 8-11 a.m.  To ask Andre a question, call 540-433-9782.  Listen to the show on www.rocktownnow.com.

In the Garden with Andre Viette - Container Gardening - 5/10/25-Hour 3

In episode 14 of Open Source Ready, special guests Mike McQuaid and John Britton join Brian and John to share the story of Workbrew. They unpack their journey in the developer tools space, the evolution of Homebrew, the inspiration behind Workbrew, and their perspectives on the future of developer environments.

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Open Source Ready - Ep. #14, The Workbrew Story with Mike McQuaid and John Britton

It’s not about storage alone. Shipping containers in Sydney are revolutionizing the way businesses are conducted. Sydney businesses are increasingly adopting containers as pop-up stores, cafes, and offices. Visit - https://www.tigershippingcontainers.com.au/shipping-containers-sydney-nsw/

How Shipping Containers in Sydney Are Changing Storage and Logistics

Every year, Lloyd’s List publishes a list of the world’s Top 100 container ports.

And to mark the release of this year’s ranking, we’re taking a deep dive in this week’s episode to understand the key trends seen across the container sector last year, and work out what the rest of the year has in store.

In a year defined by disruption, the world’s leading container ports still managed to increase their throughput by 8% - a sharp turnaround from some of the sluggish growth we’ve become accustomed to in recent years.

The geopolitical upheaval shipping has had to deal with in the last 18 months has clearly created some winners, as well as some losers that continue to suffer at the hands of Red Sea rerouting and tariff wars.

To download the Lloyd’s List Top 100 Ports report, visit www.lloydslist.com/one-hundred-container-ports-2025, where you can see the full list of rankings as well access the data behind it, including regional and country-level analysis.

Joining Joshua on this week's podcast are: 

Linton Nightingale, deputy editor, Lloyd's List 

Eleanor Hadland, senior ports and terminals analyst, Drewry

The Top 100 Container Ports: 2024’s winners and losers

Heavybit is the leading early-stage investor in enterprise infrastructure. Since 2013, we've helped launch and scale visionary technical startups—from DevSecOps and feature flagging to AI code generation and beyond. We go hands-on from day 0, backing founders as they turn code into companies and build the future of software from the bottom up to the top down.

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