Episode 91: The Cloud Pod Hashi’s it out

10/21/20 • 74 min

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team acknowledges the very real issue of canine confusion as a result of everyone wearing face masks.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
Cloud Academy, which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform.

This week’s highlights

Amazon is in the Halloween spirit with its tricky new feature.
Google is solving a potentially nonexistent problem for retailers.
Microsoft is sending Azure into spaaaaaaaaaaace to power satellite projects.

General News: All About Hash(iconf)

HashiCorp Consul is now available in public beta while Vault is available in private beta. We’re hesitant to trust anything from HashiCorp.
Terraform 0.14 is now available in beta and includes feature improvements in security, visibility and stability. Justin looks forward to the upgrade that breaks everything later this year.
HashiCorp Consul 1.9 introduces new service mesh visualization tools. Pretty minor but cool!
HashiCorp launches Boundary for simple and secure remote access based on trusted identity. We see huge potential in this.
HashiCorp launches Waypoint, a new open source project that provides developers a consistent workflow. These types of announcements are a dagger through Ryan’s heart.
HashiCorp introduces Consul Terraform Sync, a new tool for automating network infrastructure. Really powerful but really packed in a way we don’t understand.

Amazon Web Services: Handy

Amazon launches Cloudwatch Synthetics Recorder, a Chrome browser extension, to help monitor endpoints and APIs. We hope this does better than others we’ve tried in the past.
Amazon announces better cost-performance for Amazon Relational Database Service databases. Has some rough edges but once you overco

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team acknowledges the very real issue of canine confusion as a result of everyone wearing face masks.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
Cloud Academy, which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform.

This week’s highlights

Amazon is in the Halloween spirit with its tricky new feature.
Google is solving a potentially nonexistent problem for retailers.
Microsoft is sending Azure into spaaaaaaaaaaace to power satellite projects.

General News: All About Hash(iconf)

HashiCorp Consul is now available in public beta while Vault is available in private beta. We’re hesitant to trust anything from HashiCorp.
Terraform 0.14 is now available in beta and includes feature improvements in security, visibility and stability. Justin looks forward to the upgrade that breaks everything later this year.
HashiCorp Consul 1.9 introduces new service mesh visualization tools. Pretty minor but cool!
HashiCorp launches Boundary for simple and secure remote access based on trusted identity. We see huge potential in this.
HashiCorp launches Waypoint, a new open source project that provides developers a consistent workflow. These types of announcements are a dagger through Ryan’s heart.
HashiCorp introduces Consul Terraform Sync, a new tool for automating network infrastructure. Really powerful but really packed in a way we don’t understand.

Amazon Web Services: Handy

Amazon launches Cloudwatch Synthetics Recorder, a Chrome browser extension, to help monitor endpoints and APIs. We hope this does better than others we’ve tried in the past.
Amazon announces better cost-performance for Amazon Relational Database Service databases. Has some rough edges but once you overco

Previous Episode

Episode 90: The Cloud Pod gets a NanoDegree on podcasting

On The Cloud Pod this week, Peter turns into an old man in his yard, yelling at cloud providers.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
Cloud Academy, which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform.

This week’s highlights

The big cloud providers must not tell lies about their cloud customers.
Google keeps us guessing if features will survive after the Preview.
Microsoft launches the world’s smallest Machine Learning degree.

General News: An Expensive Gimmick

Microsoft, AWS and others boast of exclusive cloud customers that aren’t actually exclusive to them. At the end of the day, being “all in” is a gimmick.
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. announced it’s adding four new cloud security modules to Prisma Cloud. All for the low, low price of a lot of money.
Red Hat, Inc. ties Ansible automation to Kubernetes cluster management to improve automation in cloud-native infrastructure. The only thing that’s going to make Kubernetes easier to manage is a whole bunch of Ansible catalogues and code that you don’t understand.
Spinnaker-as-a-service startup Armory raises $40M in new funding. This makes us all cranky — these giant one-stop solutions are not the answer.

Amazon Web Services: Strangely Quiet

Amazon EventBridge now supports Dead Letter Queues, making event-driven applications more resilient. We love this!
Amazon EKS now officially supports Kubernetes version 1.18. We’re taking bets on when version 1.19 comes out.

Google Cloud Platform: Apply Sunscreen

Google announces that all new GCP products will launch in Preview or General Ava

Next Episode

Episode 92: The Cloud Pod is first in, first out

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses the conspiracy theory surrounding media coverage of daylight savings and continues counting down to re:Invent.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
Cloud Academy, which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform.

This week’s highlights

Amazon sells a whole bunch of stuff on its website.
Google is nosy and wants people to know what files you’ve been looking at.
Azure wants people to think more with its new knowledge center.

Amazon Web Services: Getting Excited for re:Invent

Jeff Barr shares how AWS helped to make Prime Day a reality for its customers. Congratulations to the Amazon Ops and Dev teams for this amazing feat.
AWS Global Accelerator announces the ability to override destination ports used to route traffic to an application endpoint. Pretty neat!
AWS is launching AWS Distro for Open Telemetry in preview. We’re excited to see what this builds out to become.
AWS launches fully managed publishing/subscribing messaging service enabling message delivery to a large number of subscribers. This is great and we already have use cases for this.
Amazon introduces the AWS Load Balancer Controller to simplify operations and save costs — a huge win for anyone using EKS today.
AWS CloudFormation now supports increased limits on five service quotas. Sounds good unless you’re trying to make smaller CloudFormation templates.

Google Cloud Platform: A Bit Confused

GCP is introducing new Scale-in controls for Compute Engine, to prevent the autoscaler from reducing a managed instance group size too far. We’re a bit confused by the term “Scale-in.”
GCP improves security and governance in PostgreSQL with Cloud SQL. Great for companies that are highly audited.
Google updates Firebase with new emulator and data analysis tools. Really great stuff!

Azure: Busy Building Services It Promised For JEDI

Microsoft announces multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway in public preview. Some of these are amazing!
Azure introduces the Knowledge center to simplify access to pre-loaded sample data. That electrical smell is the Team’s synapses firing on this one.
Azure has announced that it will establish its first