There’s a lot of container and kubernetes news this week what with KubeCon. We discuss some highlights from there, including Google’s gVisor project, angling to make life more secure in cloud native land. We then discuss Red Hat’s Operators, Chef, and related ways to package up applications and related configuration for deployment onto cloud platforms. Plus, once again, we finally solve how to calendar better.

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Housekeeping

• Make sure to subscribe to the CashedOut.coffee podcast if you like Coté shit.

Week’s wunderkammer

• Calendaring - Coté uses BusyCal, anything better? I can’t get behind that Fantastical as I want full visual, not that weird listing thing. Am I wrong?
• Avengers corner: Avengers: Infinity War: Marvel’s Superhero Hair Is Full of Secrets: “To put it in a nutshell, the shorter the hair, the more precarious a character’s relationship with traditional femininity.”

Relevant to your interests

Kube news and Kubecon announcements

• The Top Challenges Kubernetes Users Face with Deployment
• Updated CNCF Landscape Slide. Serveless is now on its own slide.
• Google, Oracle and others announce new developments at Kubernetes Conference | Computing
• Oracle Adds New Support for Open Serverless Standards to Fn Project and Key Kubernetes Features to Oracle Container Engine
• Now that Kubernetes has won, DigitalOcean takes a late dip in K8s
• Updated CNCF Landscape Slide. Serveless is now on its own slide.
• Google Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring helps developers find problems in Kubernetes apps
• Google open sources gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime
  • Kata Containers/CLEAR Linux
  • VMware’s project Photon
• Cloud 66 Introduces The Complete Container Delivery Pipeline
• CNCF, Oracle Boost Serverless Standardization Efforts
• Product Updates: Habitat goes to KubeCon EU! - Chef Blog
• Red Hat Releases a Framework to Easily Package Applications for Kubernetes
• Red Hat Launches All-In-One Data Center Storage Solution

Oh, Snap! Blockchain is not a big deal

• The Best VPN Service
• You Are Not Google – Bradfield
• The Built to Adapt Benchmark Will Help Companies Set a New Course - #NotMyTech.
• Maybe blockchain is not such a big deal: ““In its annual survey of IT leaders, the analyst firm found that just 1 per cent are already using blockchain and only 8 per cent plan to experiment with it in the short term…. In contrast, a third of the 293 respondents said they had no interest in blockchain, and a further 43 per cent said they had no action planned but the tech was "on the radar" – hardly surprising given that it's thrown into just about every product announcement going.”
• Snap Inc. again shows why it should not have become a public company
  • "Spiegel's performance on the conference call underscored the folly of giving an untested entrepreneur unassailable control over a company."
  • "Sounding like a bargain-basement knock-off of Mark Zuckerberg
• Spotify stock plunges after reporting earnings for the first time # Nonsense
• Texas teen reveals secret to 'free' H-E-B doughnuts you already know
• Sorry, millennials. The average age of a successful entrepreneur is a lot older than you think.
• 'Holy grail' of guns made: Company sells $4.5M pistols made from 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite
• Python could be lurking in Austin Lake Hills neighborhood

Conferences, et. al.

• May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
• May 16 to 17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong
• May 22 to 25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.
• June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking at Voxxed Days, Singapore.
• Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote.

SDT news & hype

• Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
• Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
• Join us in Slack.
• Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
• Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too!

Recommendations

• Brandon: When Wolves Bite
• Matt Ray: Slack Themes.
• Coté: Noodle bar at Cathy loung in Hong Kong - “The Wing, Business” in terminal 1 by gates 2, 3, and 4. IT, the new movie. The book - meh?

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