!!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

The TerraForm fork, now known as the OpenTofu project, is our first topic in today’s episode. We discuss what's going on with that, the challenges, as well as the potential pressures from HashiCorp that created this whole situation.

How do we get experts to recover their authority and how do we look at organizations like that? We have about 20 minutes of really involved conversation about the book, Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols, from the previous podcast. If you haven't heard our first part of the conversation, I suggest you go back and listen to our full Death of Expertise podcast.

We cover two topics, one of them short term and one of them long term. So it’s a nice, balanced industry discussion around what the fork means, what its impacts are and a little bit of recap. There's some really spicy opinions around 32 minutes in if you want to jump forward, we resume our discussion about death of expertise.


Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/zGUYDP6DynzxPBNLM9dcePneb7Q?utm_source=copy_url
Photo by lil artsy: https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-about-to-catch-four-dices-1111597/

Tofu vs a Death of Expertise

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

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