Talking the Future of Tech
Today we dive deep into the mystery of Kubernetes installation, specifically OpenShift installation. We help explain why Kubernetes installs look so weird compared to traditional operations, install processes, and where are the playbooks? Where are the scripts? Are the runbooks describing all the steps you need to take? All of it seems to be missing, and in this podcast, we explain why.
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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?
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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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We dive deep into the technical details of BootC – a Red Hat-led technology that uses container-like definitions to describe machine boot processes. BootC is an important development, especially as companies embrace containers and seek a unified approach to machine configuration.
RackN CTO, Greg Althaus, provides an in-depth overview of how BootC works, its key capabilities, and the potential benefits and challenges for operations teams. They explore topics like BootC’s relationship to containers, the concept of immutability, different deployment methods, and the operational considerations around managing BootC at scale.
This conversation offers a balanced, non-Red Hat perspective on BootC, highlighting both its technical merits and the significant operational work required to successfully adopt and integrate it. Listeners will come away with a nuanced understanding of this emerging technology and the factors organizations should weigh as they evaluate BootC for their infrastructure.
We explore the UEFI certificate issue in which secure boot is potentially compromised. Certificates that are included in most UEFI BIOSes have been compromised in ways that could easily be used as an attack vector, a very significant flaw and something that should be on your purview and radar to fix and patch.
We’re going to talk about what the issue is, why it’s important, how secure boot works, and what you can do to mitigate this problem in your own infrastructure. An important episode for anybody running or managing desktops, data centers or any infrastructure of any type.
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Is hardware going to be innovative and change? Brian Cantrell brings up oxide computing and some of their design motivation.
Today we discuss our skepticism about some of his points, as well as the impacts for cloud distributed Compute hardware design mainframes, cloud, repatriation, and a whole bunch of topics about next generation thinking in Compute infrastructure management and applications.
We are officially starting our cloud2030 book group and I hope you will join us – we are going to be reading Data Cartels by Sara Landon, followed by Investments Unlimited by John Willis and crew.
Book Clubs Links:
May 4 > Data Cartels www.amazon.com/Data-Cartels-Comp…ion/dp/1503633713
Early July >
www.amazon.com/Investments-Unlim…tal/dp/1950508536
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Welcome to the final L8istSh9y Podcast for 2017 with a recap of Rob Hirschfeld’s predictions for 2017 (2016 Infrastructure Revolt makes 2017 the “year of the IT Escape Clause”) as well as a look ahead into 2018. Key topics covered in the podcast:
Hybrid is Reality; How do I Cope with it?
Site Reliability Engineering; People are Just Doing it
Bare Metal to Immutable Images
Virtualization Decline with Bare Metal Growth
2018 is not the Year of Serverless
Edge Computing Still Not Ready for Prime Time
OpenStack Foundation as Open Infrastructure Group