Episode Details

...Statler and Waldorf talk with Fozzie
...What's the "OpsOps" of DevOps?.
...Never say you're going to spend $1bn on anything

What exactly is DevOps? We dare to discuss that at first and then get into Amazon's new managed hosting offering. There's some new container news with containerd from DockerInc land, and some little notes on Azure's features and Cisco's InterCloud shutting down. Also, we find out which Muppet each of us would be played by in The Muppets Take Over Software Defined Talk.

• Coté: Come see me January 10th in Phoenix, 5:30pm at the Galvanize Office. Free parking!
• Coté: check out my interview with Tony at Home Depot about their first year being cloud native, on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. They went from 0 to ~150 apps in their first year. Like, real, business critical apps that you probably end up interacting with (pro tools, paint), plus internal facing apps.

• The Doc Martin shoes: Hickmire. Thanks to Chris Short.

• App dev vs. IT service delivery.
• DevOps Kung Fu, Adam Jacob's talk on the inclusion of everyone in the org chart in DevOps
• What is DevOps without Dev? Is there OpsOps?

• Amazon will manage your shit now, with real live peoples
• "This is actually a thing. It's called managed cloud."
• "This is actually a thing. It's called managed cloud." - this is a good example of the more subtle way of "paying off analysts." More like: changing their minds.
• "Designed for the Fortune 1000 and the Global 2000, this service is designed to accelerate cloud adoption"
• AKA "We're eating our partners" AKA "RACKSPACE: YOU'RE UP!"
• Coté: Is this like a service desk and a runbook for spinning up AWS stuff? Plus actual AMZN staff to "manage" the infrastructure like patching and such right?
• Coté: I was just talking with someone yesterday who's mission was "optimize how we do IT without me telling you what I want to do with IT." That is: lower costs and give us the ability to do whatever we may want in the future in under a year's planning/effort.
• Bezos doesn't like meetings without a memo
• http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5851aebfca7f0c24018b5b6f-2400/ap16349721408436.jpg

• Damn, that's a monstrous URL
• GPUs, HANA, Media Services, Machine Deep Learning, Data Lake, Single-instance virtual machines
• Coté: I hear data is a thing. And AI.

• Coté's audition for an ElReg headline writer: Cloud InterRUPPTED