What’s a Terraform?
Episode 223 · March 19th, 2020 · 1 hr 13 mins
About this Episode
Coté finally learns what HashiCorp does. Also, yellow rubber gloves.
Mood Board:
- Blur my foreground, that’s what I want.
 - No Yodas
 - Lot of rubber gloves in your youth?
 - I have never really enjoyed a Steven King book.
 - Maybe it’s for the Rip Van Winkle set
 - You watch Netflix, you should watch more Netflix.
 - I don’t need your recommendations, don’t tell me how to live my life.
 - It was like a bunch of Duplo blocks in a junior high theater class.
 - As someone said: teams is like a front-end to Sharepoint
 - The screenshot they showed was kind of like Teams.
 - Why can’t they make it 100% OK?
 - You’ve got a big TV, put me on it!
 
Relevant to your interests
- Microsoft Teams vs. Zoom vs. Skype
 - Does anyone really know what the deal is with this JEDI thing? - The Pentagon says it 'wishes to reconsider' the award to Microsoft of the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract
 - HashiCorp - Vagrant sure is valuable!
 - Rancher - EDGE, BABY!
 - npm is joining GitHub - The GitHub Blog
 - CNCF starts new artifact hub - “pre-alpha stadium.”
 - Using 6 Page and 2 Page Documents To Make Organizational Decisions
 - Book review: The Real Deal - technology deal making in the 2020's
 - Apple announces online-only WWDC 2020 due to coronavirus spread
 - Righting a Wrong: IBM is a Leader in the Cloud...
 - Trump Surprised Google With a Bogus Coronavirus Site Claim
 - Google: G Suite now has 2 billion users
 - Coronavirus quarantine enforced for all people entering Australia, lockdowns on the table
 - Coronavirus Will Change How We Shop, Travel and Work for Years
 - Microsoft Teams goes down just as Europe logs on to work remotely
 - NSW govt pledges to introduce mandatory data breach reporting
 - What’s in a Name? How Pivotal’s Products Are Being Renamed as Part of VMware Tanzu
 - Announcing OpenShift Serverless 1.5.0 Tech Preview - A sneak peek of our GA
 - Google indefinitely delays the digital version of its Cloud Next conference
 - Microsoft starts a grand unification attempt with .NET 5
 - Apple unveils new iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support in iPadOS
 - Spectro Cloud Launches With $7.5 Million to Help Enterprises Realize the Promise of Kubernetes
 - Not just video-conferencing apps taking a dive: IBM Cloud hit by partial Tuesday outage
 - Ansible DevOps comes to the mainframe
 - Mainframe Developers Get Boost From BMC Acquisition Of Compuware
 
Non Sense
- How Much Toilet Paper?! The Coronavirus Toilet Paper Calculator
 - You can now get alcohol delivered with your food when you order from Texas restaurants, Gov. Abbott says
 
Sponsors
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Conferences, et. al.
- DevOpsDays Austin 2020 — Cancelled or Postponed.
 - ChefConf 2020 June 2, All Digital.
 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
 - THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.
 
SDT news & hype
- Join us in Slack.
 - Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
 - Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
 - Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
 - Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
 - Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
 
Recommendations
- Brandon: Devs on FX/Hulu .
 - Matt Ray: KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money.
 - Coté: Look Up.
 
Outro: “They’ll work until the very last minute,” Dune.