Episode Details

We discuss possible effects that the Trump presidency will have on the tech world. The ideas are more or less known, but the details and whether they'd be enacted are sketchy and unreliable. Before that, of course, we talk about containers.

This episode features Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

• Matt: Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
• Coté: Nov 16th - Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha, next week.
• Coté: Various dates - Pivotal Cloud Native Roadshows - Cincinnati - Nov 10; St. Louis - Nov 14; Hartford - Nov 16; Denver - Nov 18; New York - Nov 22; Los Angeles - Nov 28.

• Stateful applications for K8s, a shot at Mesos?
• Prometheus & etcd first examples (spark? hadoop?)
• This begs the broad question: so, what’s CoreOS’s business posture now?

• Those Microsoft folks will just put anything that looks tasty in their cloud - what a reversal from the Microsoft we grew up with.

• From this dude’s perspective: a failure of product management and stable releases.
• Bugs, documentation spotty, cleanup scripts, kernel support (Debian!?), aufs & overlay & overlay2, 7-hour outage with no post-mortem
• “Docker only moves forward and breaks things”
• “The docker hype is not only a technological liability any more, it has evolved into a sociological problem as well.”
• A retort… that mostly agrees
• “boring tech is what makes money” shiny tech makes resumes?

• Jay Lyman on the momemtum: “Mesosphere does not disclose its number of paying clients, but says it has dozens of large enterprise customers, its primary target. The company says its experience supporting software deployments in production is among its key differentiators, helped by the use of Apache Mesos by companies such as Twitter, Netflix, Airbnb, PayPal and Yelp, which was featured in a 451 User Deployment Report. Mesosphere says its focus is customer deployments of 500-1,000 nodes per day in production. It also says the bulk of its customers are licensees with professional services accounting for less than 10% of its clients, which tend to move to its subscription s