cloud/edge computing

!!WARNING: DEEP SYSADMIN CUTS AHEAD!!

Back in the early 2000s, if you were a sysadmin that had to set up desktops or servers, you probably used Norton Ghost to create images.

When virtualization became big, that process moved to creating VM templates.

But there was still often a lot of manual intervention in these tasks - password setting, BIOS updates, vCenter installations and more. As the IT world moves more and more towards automating software tasks, what about automating infrastructure provisioning? Sure, there's cloud, but what if you're still on-prem?

This week, Rob Hirschfeld of RackN joins us to discuss how RackN helps automate the previously un-automate-able.

Episode 367 - Infrastructure Automation with RackN

We dive into Shoshana Zuboff’s book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Full of amazing insights, predictions and really insightful work, you can literally scan every page and read something fascinating. You don't need the book to follow today’s discussion. 

We start by watching Apple's new iPad ad before we dive into the book, and I highly recommend that you watch it as well, link in the show notes. It's a good tie into the surveillance capitalism discussion and I think you will enjoy our commentary about it.

References:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152236/apple-ipad-pro-commercial-artists-ai
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541758005/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Y-bm0QL3Vnfjcy4hgmTIiqkUpNU?utm_source=copy_url

Surveillance Capitalism [Book Club]

In this podcast, Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and Co-founder of RackN talks with Stephen Spector, HPE Cloud Evangelist about the latest interest in Ansible and how Digital Rebar Provisioning leverages the tool for next generation provisioning of the modern datacenter.

Ansible and Digital Rebar : Partners in Provisioning

Joining us this week is Erica Windisch, Founder/CTO at IOpipe, a high fidelity metrics and monitoring service which allows you to see inside AWS Lambda functions for better insights into the daily operations and development of severless applications.       

 Highlights
•	Intro of AWS Lambda and IOpipe 
•	Discussion of Observability and Opaqueness of Serverless 
•	Edge Computing Definition and Vision 
•	End of Operating Systems and Abstraction Boundaries

Erica Windisch on Observability of Serverless, Edge Computing, and Abstraction Boundaries

Joining us this week is Jordan Rinke, Principal Software Engineer, Walmart Labs. Jordan offers his views on various technologies and open source projects as it relates to the scale and connectivity issues faced by Walmart.  

 Highlights
•	Technical Gaps in Kubernetes Technologies and Installer Issues
•	Tooling and Orchestration Focus for Kubernetes and Other Tools
•	Core OS Model for Bootstrapping Kubernetes
•	Discussion on Immutability: Middle Ground for Jordan
•	Edge Computing – Emerging markets lead to disconnected edge sites
•	Data location challenges in edge and cloud services 
•	Skills issues for medium sized clusters

Jordan Rinke on Open Source, Kubernetes, & Edge Computing

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Erica Windisch on Observability of Serverless, Edge Computing, and Abstraction Boundaries

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