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HA Troubleshooting [Tech Ops]

This episode of the TechOps series goes into high availability troubleshooting. Not just high availability, not just troubleshooting, but actually talking through what it takes to manage and maintain and fix HA systems. This is part of a longer discussion we’ve been having and so there’s some really interesting ideas in the middle of these discussions that I hope will shape your thinking as you build high availability systems, diagnostics and troubleshooting for people who are in high availability very complex environments.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/wM__4w1YIzZnhVdgLu…?utm_source=copy_url

References:
status.openai.com/incidents/ctrsv3lwd797\

Is 2025 even harder than we expected?

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: otter.ai/u/H6UvLC-r2zmBO9A5jf…?utm_source=copy_url

Reference: zenoh.io by ZettaScale

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Kubernetes on Prem vs Cloud

We step back in this episode of our Tech Ops series and talk about cloud self managed infrastructure and how you balance the competing concerns. We started from a report that RackN had commissioned talking about on premises Kubernetes, and mixing that into your IT infrastructure.

Can you have a cloud broker? Can you do multi cloud, some sort of tried and true topics for cloud consideration, but through a new filter and through this repatriation idea of mixing and matching your IT Infrastructure?

Transcript: otter.ai/u/FKGuQpV-5bQFVASAYD…?utm_source=copy_url

Resources:
store.repebble.com/
rackn.com/2025/03/18/ready-for…netes-on-bare-metal/
www.reuters.com/technology/cybers…ports-2025-03-18/
gabrielsimmer.com/blog/kubernetes-plus-oneplus

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DeepThink AI and Kubernetes

We springboard from DeepThinking AI and have a robust conversation about what impact DeepThink is having on the industry. We also discuss where we see things going into the dilemma of people building AI infrastructure and working to do that quickly, robustly and with strong governance. This is necessary to ensure that they can quickly update and manage that AI infrastructure that they’re spending so much money to build, and this leads into a broader conversation about virtualization, containers and open shift.

Recorded Jan 30, 2025

Transcript: otter.ai/u/79JxdYOiXUoSS44pYP…?utm_source=copy_url

Reference: www.perplexity.ai/search/provide-a…TQ6LJG_X0SlB5g#8

Writing Great Test Scripts [TechOps]

We deep dive into something seemingly very small, but with a lot of repercussions for how you manage and run a data center, and that is test scripts for servers.

As you’re going through a production cycle or a provisioning cycle, how do you test? What do you test? This topic was from a Reddit thread that we answered and then had a whole hour conversation about just how important and impactful this type of script is.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/Cb3yac8JHvlM2yqh72…?utm_source=copy_url

KubeVirt in the Enterprise

This is one of those fun conversations where we’re really diving not just into the tech but the enterprise consumption of the tech and how people are thinking about it. How does technology like Kubernetes evolve and get used in ways that the community is not thinking about and find a whole new path for adoption and commercialization?

If this is going on in your organization, we want to hear from you. We want you to be part of the conversation, because this is a really important transition point for the industry, for people questioning their VMware consumption, and for people looking to expand their Kubernetes footprints.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/nEzH4t1JDEa51fvQFc…?utm_source=copy_url

Why is adding LLM into an App so hard?

We talk about current events, the acquisition of data stacks and the closing of the HashiCorp acquisition by IBM. Later, we dive into the productivity of AI and what’s going on – are companies really getting the benefits that they expect from AI chat bot integrations and what the challenges are?

We touch base on a little bit of something more infrastructure focused, where I give a preview of work I’ve been doing on separating Kubernetes virtualization from Kubernetes development use cases, which is something that we will be talking about more in the future.

References:
www.windowscentral.com/software-apps…ind-a-paywall
www.ibm.com/new/announcements/i…ise-ai-applications
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioc3r70HNLM
www.linkedin.com/posts/dhinchclif…9498138624-jR2R/
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Gitops and Immutability [TechOps Series]

The cloud2030 Tech Ops series is an ongoing discussion for us to create what I think of as 200 level content for tech and operations leaders, exploring really complex, deep topics in a thoughtful way to really extend your knowledge base and capabilities in the data center and infrastructure space.

Today’s episode talks about gitops and immutability, and what we’re doing here is connecting together the operational concepts between controls and desired state communications and how that gets executed in infrastructure in an operations sense. Rather than a developer approach, this takes an operations approach. So if you are interested in how to manage immutability and what that means in infrastructure, this discussion is for you.

Virtualization in Containers (KubeVirt, OpenShift Virtualization)

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:
kubevirt.io/user-guide/architecture/
www.redhat.com/en/technologies/c…ft/virtualization

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