Hybrid Cloud Show
Industry professionals Aaron, Gary, Sean, and Shane talk about public cloud, private cloud, and everything in between.
Episodes
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 59
The one tool in our IT tool belt that we value the most. This is a short episode because producer Joe is having a summer break.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 58
Having recently moved house, Gary wonders how to reconfigure his homelab and network setup. Plus Shane is fed up with GitHub’s outages and formulates a plan to move away… somewhere…
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 57
It’s a Linux Dev Time style hot questions episode. Is “cloud native” more about where the workload is going or how you deploy it? What is a skill that is really important in your job that may surprise people? Is the cloud more or less secure than a company-controlled data centre or on-prem? Would you recommend what you do to your kids/nephews etc?
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 56
We get into some homelab updates. Sean has been consolidating hardware, Gary has been implementing high availability with Proxmox, and Shane has been working hard to get Home Assistant working with Kubernetes, as well as downloading YouTube videos.
Shane’s homelab
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 55
A recent attack shone a light on some of the problems with GitHub Actions, and CI/CD more generally. As tempting as it might be, going back to shell scripts probably isn’t the answer.
1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack
2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 54
Aaron and Shane share some thoughts about attending Kubecon, including the push for European sovereign cloud, how platform engineering might mitigate some of the problems AI is causing, the sense that Kubernetes is mature and boring in a good way now, and our concerns about scope creep.
Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 53
The ugliest and jankiest hacks we’ve put into prod, and a few of the worst things we’ve seen other people get away with.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 52
Gary is concerned that he might have dug himself into a hole of on-prem vendor lock-in, despite using open source software. Plus why you should have PiKVM type device in your toolkit.
PiKVM
GL.iNet Comet
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 51
We recently talked about backing up Shane’s homelab, but this time it’s the turn of enterprise backups. Risk management, cloud and hybrid environments, planning for realistic disaster scenarios, convincing the finance people what’s required, and more.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 50
Sean tells us about a recent catastrophe in his Kubernetes homelab (that’s really home prod). What went wrong, how did he fix it, and how can he avoid it happening again?
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 49
Why we have doubts about the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud, what it would take to build a proper European cloud that could compete with AWS, and why it’s such a difficult undertaking.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 48
Shane is worried about backups for his janky Kubernetes homelab. The rest of us advise him on exactly what to back up, how to go about picking an offsite backup location and setting it up, how best to back up databases, and more.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 47
What to consider when making a big move to a new technology for your on-prem or private cloud estate, for example when a provider suddenly hikes their subscription or license prices.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 46
What we love most about the cloud and cloud native technologies. This is a short episode because (producer) Joe is having a break for the Christmas period.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 45
How to connect your public environments across clouds and into your datacenter infrastructure – using official options, VPNs and new ideas like mTLS. Plus container networking, CNIs and other ways to plug extras into Kubernetes.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 44
Cloud security basics, some of the technical and compliance aspects, and why it ultimately comes down to a people problem.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 43
We dig into the recent major AWS outage, why a misconfiguration in one region called global issues, and whether there’s anything you can do to avoid being affected by a similar incident in the future.
Gary mentioned an AWS whitepaper.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 42
Shane has teething issues with his Kubernetes homelab, Sean ran a bootable containers workshop at Texas Linux Fest, and the case for enterprise rolling distros.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 41
Some examples of the technical debt we’ve seen in the cloud world, how to pay it back, avoiding it in the first place, and why a certain amount of tech debt is inevitable.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 40
How we got started in our tech careers, how and why we moved into the cloud, and why the cloud often makes more sense than on-prem.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 39
SMTP relays and observability, why we didn’t recommend Podman over Docker to a newcomer, and Gary gives us an update on his homelab.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 38
The first steps to move away from a “pets” mindset and towards automation and infrastructure as code, why we use a lot of abstraction at home, and how to use your homelab to improve your employment prospects. With guest host Joe Ressington from Late Night Linux.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 37
What exactly is platform engineering, and how does it differ from DevOps?
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 36
Shane gives us an update on his janky Kubernetes homelab. The storage is under control with ZFS, he’s got a decent switch, and everything is in Git – so maybe it isn’t that janky anymore.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 35
What to think about when picking a public cloud provider, and why it depends on the needs of your business. Free credits, billing complexity, available tools, small clouds vs the big three, hiring people with experience of particular cloud platforms, support, compliance, ease of repatriation, and more.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 34
How we access home environments from outside the home network while trying to stay secure using VPNs, Wireguard, overlay VPNs (like Tailscale and Nebula) and reverse proxies. Sean introduces us to Pangolin as an open source alternative middle-ground.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 33
How much observability and monitoring is really needed, the tooling people actually use (from Datadog and Grafana Cloud to open source options like Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo), and how to approach observability without overcomplicating things.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 32
After over 10 years of using Synology appliances for his backups, Gary has had enough of their shenanigans and needs to rethink his whole setup.
Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives
AOOSTAR NAS series
UGREEN NASync DXP2800 2-Bay Desktop NAS
Fractal Design Node 304 – Black – Mini Cube Compact Computer Case
TrueNAS Mini
 
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 31
When should you consider using a third-party management tool, rather than just the ones built into your cloud of choice?
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 30
Sean tells us about bootable containers and asks for our opinions on how he plans to use them with Kubernetes. He mentions Talos Linux.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 29
Aaron and Shane both recently had a bad experience when buying hard drives, the hardware we picked for our homelabs, why gigabit LANs aren’t quite cutting it anymore, an update on Shane’s janky Kubernetes setup, and more.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 28
With increasing numbers of organisations starting to seriously think about moving away from US-owned providers, we dig into the technical challenges of major cloud migrations.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 27
The best way to cope with a huge spike in traffic on a product launch day, and the most important public and private cloud technologies to learn.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 26
Shane tells us about the janky Kubernetes homelab that he’s building, and we all laugh at him.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 25
What the new Docker pull limits really mean and how to deal with them, and whether paying for 12 years of support for Kubernetes is a good idea.
Docker Hub pull usage and limits
Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 24
The best ways to implement geo-redundancy for containers and VMs using load balancers and Kubernetes, and moving 5TB of storage to the cloud.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 23
Is being cloud-first more about the target for your workloads, or more about mindset?
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 22
In this episode we discuss some challenges around using and testing lower environments, how to easily run integration tests using Testcontainers, and some of the pitfalls around using GitOps to deploy your applications.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 21
We reflect on what we have seen in the public and private cloud world in the last year, and look forward at what we expect to see in 2025.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 20
Red Hat donates a bunch of container tools to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and we are broadly positive about it. Plus some of our highlights from the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 conferences.
News/discussion
Red Hat to Contribute Comprehensive Container Tools Collection to Cloud Native Computing Foundation
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 day one: k
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 19
The most significant advances we’ve seen over the years in public and private cloud including mesh networking, serverless, microservices, event-driven architecture and design, message queuing, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 18
How worthwhile cloud certifications are, whether they really demonstrate much more than your ability to pass an exam, how they relate to real world experience, actually learning new technologies via certification, and why having too many certs can be a red flag. Plus Sean tells us about his trip to the recent Ubuntu Summit.
Sean’s post about the Ubuntu Summit
Ultra-small Ubuntu
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 17
What would be on our cloud tools wishlist to make our lives better? Consistent APIs and IAM across clouds, vulnerability information for dependencies that doesn’t depend on vendor data, more private compute, and more.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 16
How to be the change you wish to see in the workplace, how application architecture and infrastructure architecture are related, and if there are any real alternatives to Kubernetes for building a hybrid cloud.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 15
Do we ever consider the environmental impacts of our cloud computing, or do we just like to watch the world burn?
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 14
The pros and cons of smaller cloud providers when compared with the huge ones, and security best practices when you’re new to Kubernetes.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 13
What our cloud strategy would be if we were CTOs, how companies should weigh up SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, and trade off building vs buying.
Integrating the Ubuntu Snapshot Service into systems management and update tools
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 12
We often talk about working with cloud technologies, but how do we have fun with them?
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 11
How much Linux and traditional sysadmin knowledge do you need for a career in cloud computing?
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 10
In episode 8 we talked about how to get started with Kubernetes, and this time we cover the next steps: How to set up ingress and east-west networking, options for restricting access, and the best ways to integrate with your favourite cloud provider.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 09
We talk about infrastructure as code, what it is, what it isn’t, how it differs from configuration management, how to structure it, best practices to stay consistent between Dev/Test and Production, avoiding configuration drift, and some experiences trying to do infrastructure/configuration as code in a home lab.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 08
How best to get started with Kubernetes and whether it is better to start with a low-touch option like MicroK8s/K3s, using a cloud-managed Kubernetes from the outset, or set up everything yourself “the hard way”
Kubernetes The Hard Way
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 07
We get personal and explain our home IT setups, sharing tips on learning new technologies like networking and Kubernetes while keeping the family TV working, and consult on how to secure the root user of your cloud account.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 06
Google Cloud teaches us about eggs and baskets by losing a big customer’s data, and Microsoft’s carbon emissions are up significantly – probably because of AI. Plus compliance and best practices for hardening instances, web apps, and storage.
News/discussion
Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’
“Unprecedented”
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 05
We look at OpenShift from an external perspective, including how it works in a multi-cloud environment, how it abstracts cloud resources, when administrators and developers still need to understand what is happening beneath the abstraction, combining OpenShift with cloud-managed services, some of the downsides of OpenShift, and where people should start if they want to learn.
OpenShift
OKD
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 04
Why AWS changed its policy on charging for HTTP errors on S3 buckets, how Bluesky dealt with an explosion in popularity by moving to on-prem, IBM buys Hashicorp, and our thoughts on cloud governance.
News/discussion
How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
Jeff Barr responds on Twitter
Update: S3 engineers are working to make unauthorized requests that customers did not initiat
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 03
What “hybrid cloud” actually means to us. Where it works well, where it creates challenges, where the control plane should live, how to abstract differences between platforms to make workloads more suitable to be used in a hybrid setup, maintaining compliance across clouds, and guarding against security vulnerabilities in containerised dependencies.
Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 02
Redis is forked by cloud companies, how to manage modern cloud identity and access management, vendor lock-in for government cloud contracts, and cloud security best practices in the light of the xz vulnerability.
Plugs
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Shane’s platform engineering newsletter
News/discussion
Redis Adopts Dual Source
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 01
There’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Industry professionals Aaron, Gary, Sean, and Shane talk about public cloud, private cloud, and everything in between.
In this first episode: the big three public cloud providers have dropped egress fees, four years of lessons and regrets from running a startup, and avoiding surprise fees when learning cloud technologies with free tiers.
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