The Cloudcast #205 - AWS CloudMgmt-as-a-Service

The Cloudcast #175 - Machine Data & DevOps

The Cloudcast #173 - Hashicorp Atlas - Framework for Cloud Automation

The Cloudcast #165 - DevOps Automation as a Service

StackStorm - http://stackstorm.com/

• http://stackstorm.com/2014/10/07/dont-call-comeback-part-1/

• http://stackstorm.com/2014/10/08/dont-call-comeback-part-2-2/

• OpenSource & DevOps Movement into Infrastructure.next. Presentation given in an OpenStack vs. VMware context but great non technology analogies and lessons to learn: http://www.slideshare.net/StackStorm/scale-12x-openstack-vs-vmware-a-system?qid=33438ad7-a263-4164-9ceb-9b6021dd2af5&v=default

• Monitoring, Remediation, Automation (even mention ChatOps): http://www.slideshare.net/StackStorm/stackstorm-devops-automation-webinar?qid=33438ad7-a263-4164-9ceb-9b6021dd2af5&v=default&b=&from_search=1

Topic 1 - Tonight is interesting because we are pulling in pieces from a bunch of previous podcasts and past guest topics. We have spoken about the many emerging trends and use cases in DevOps, but a big problem has been how do you put all the pieces together. You hear about Jenkins, Docker, OpenStack, PagerDuty, Loggly, AWS, etc. A lot of moving pieces that we have to integrate together and then actually operate efficiently.

Let’s start at the start, what is the concept of Automation as a Service and what problem are we trying to solve?

Topic 2 - Quote from Blog: "because developers are in charge that every single API must be a first class citizen. They determine whether your API is inadequate very quickly. If you treat your APIs badly by deprecating them suddenly and without warning, you are essentially slapping developers that use your APIs in the face." - Very true. There is a presentation your company did on OpenStack vs. VMware and the idea of closed vs. open with some great analogies to history and advancements in efficient. How does AaaS help developers?

Topic 3 - Third Wave in IT. You present a potential framework:

1. Docker automating tracking of all dependencies for an environment while providing efficient and very fast to deploy containers; 
2. Jenkins automating QA testing; 
3. OpenStack and Docker orienting orchestration solutions 
4. Monitoring 
5. StackStorm and others are focusing on automation as a service - Remediation through automation?

Topic 4 - Is AaaS the “glue” between a bunch of existing projects and frameworks to create an automation workflow through change management, remote execution? Not trying to replace Docker, Salt, Ansible, Chef, OpenStack, Jenkins, New Relic? Aren’t all these integrations points a nightmare? Is this an on-prem product, cloud offering?

Topic 5 - You mention machine learning and artificial intelligence. This sounds a bit like what VMturbo tries to do at the hypervisor level. In discussion with them I know getting people flipping the bit that enables full automation makes some folks uncomfortable. They start to think of SkyNet in Terminator and the machines taking over the world. Thoughts?

The Cloudcast #160 - The State of The Cloudcast - MidYear 2014

The Cloudcast #157 - Automating Data Center Scale Infrastructure

The Cloudcast #140 – More DevOps, Less Snowflakes

The Cloudcast - #95 - Ansible - Next Generation DevOps Tools

Links

AnsibleWorks - http://www.ansibleworks.com/

Topic 1 – Michael, you’ve got a very interesting background.  First off, you’re a Raleigh person, not a Silicon Valley guy.  You “grew up” at Red Hat and prior to Ansible you created Cobbler and even have some patents to your name in this space. Give everyone a little background.

Topic 2 - For those that aren’t familiar with Cobbler, what is it and why did you invent it?

Topic 3 – Let’s move on to Ansible, I attended your session today (my impressions).  What is Ansible and why AnsibleWorks?  Probably the first question you get, why Ansible and not Puppet/Chef?  Seems to be Configuration Management, App Delivery & CI (Continuous Integration or Delivery) all in one? Infrastructure as code - rPath and Bronto?  What is AnsibleWorks AWX?

Topic 4 – You were just on FLOSS Weekly and you are speaking here at OSCON, The product is under a GPL license.  does that differentiate you in the market?

Topic 5 - Technical Details - No Agent, talks SSH and can be written in anything that returns JSON?

The Cloudcast - Eps.59 - Who's Your Puppet Master

Profile of Luke Kanies

Topic 1 - Highlights from the PuppetConf Opening Keynote:

• Community, Community, Community
• Buzz around the company reminds me of VMware in the early days
• fail fast, move quickly, make mistakes, learn - Most big companies don’t do that
• Puppet Certification

Topic 2 - Puppet is one of the tools that is often mentioned as being central to the DevOps movement. We are we with DevOps in the industry at this point? How well understood is it, where is it most widely used, and what are the next big hurdles to overcome? 

Topic 3 - Often times you’ll hear people say “Chef or Puppet” when talking about aspects of automation. Like most toolsets, people tend to have their favorites and various reasons why they prefer one vs. another.
(a) Why do you hear that people choose Puppet vs. other toolsets?

Questions from Twitter:

1. “@mfdii: (Michael Ducy) did he really cuss out Mark Zuckerberg for going with @opscode chef?”

The Cloudcast - Eps.49 - Application Automation and Enterprise PaaS

The Cloudcast - Eps.33 - "DevOps - One Year Later" + Show Notes

The Cloudcast - Eps.22 - "Live From CA World With Andi Mann" + Show Notes

Date: November 13, 2011
Guest: Andi Mann, VP of Strategic Solutions @ CA Technologies (Blog: http://pleasediscuss.com/andimann/ & Twitter: http://twitter.com/andimann)

Q: Our “Big Bosses” just co-presented at the Opening keynote (CA Technologies CEO Bill McCracken, Michael Capellas for VCE,  and Vivek Kundra, the first CIO of the U.S. federal government), What did you think and what can we expect at CA World this week?

Q: VCE and CA announced a partnership earlier this year, what are some of the highlights of the program?

Q: What are your thoughts on public, private, hybrid and if a customer is new to the environment, where do they start?

Q: Earlier this year you co-authored Visible Ops Private Cloud: From Virtualization to Private Cloud in 4 Practical Steps.  Tell us a little about the book and the feedback you’ve received to date.  You mention it is a book for “doers” and not just “thinkers”, What did you mean by that?

Q: You repeatedly mention, Design Services, Not Systems!

Q: I have to mention the term Virtual Stall, Steve Kaplan at INX (now Presidio) gives you credit for the phrase in one of our first episodes.  Do you still see Virtual Stall?

The Cloudcast - Eps.18 - "vCloud Director and vCloud Security" + Show Notes

Date: August 29, 2011

Guests:

• Mike Foley (@mikefoley, RSA Virtualization Evangelist - VMware vExpert, http://www.yelof.com/)
• Chris Colotti (@ccolotti, Consulting Architect for the VMware vCloud Delivery Services - http://www.chriscolotti.us/)

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Episode 9 - "The Greatest Chad's World Ever Sold" + show notes

Episode 9 - "The Greatest Chad's World ever Sold"
Date: May 5, 2011
Guests: Chad Sakac (@sakacc; Virtual Geek blog) & Nick Weaver (@lynxbat; Nikapedia blog)

Episode 3 - "President of the Private Cloud" - show notes

The Cloudcast (.net) - Episode 3 - “President of the Private Cloud”
Date: February 28, 2011
Guest: Christian Reilly (@reillyusa) - The Loose Couple Blog (http://blog.theloosecouple.com/)