Day Two DevOps
Episodes
Day Two Cloud 092: What AWS Lambda Is Good For
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast is a thorough introduction to AWS Lambda, which is AWS's serverless compute service. We discuss how Lamdba works, what i...
Day Two Cloud 091: BGP School For Cloud People
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On today's Day Two Cloud, Ethan Banks and Ned Bellavance dive into essentials about BGP including why it's so widely used, concepts such as the Autono...
Day Two Cloud 090: Hashicorp Vault For Beginners
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
HashiCorp Vault is a management tool that stores and controls access to sensitive data (passwords, certificates, API keys, and so on). Today's Day Two...
Day Two Cloud 089: Connect All The Cloud Things – AWS Networking In 2021
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Network engineer and AWS product manager Nick Matthews visits the Day Two Cloud podcast to talk about the newest cloud networking capabilities in AWS....
Day Two Cloud 088: The Tech Recruiter – Friend Or Foe?
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is Taylor Desseyn, Sr. Recruiter Advocate at Vaco. Taylor knows tech recruiting forwards and backwards. He gives us an insider's view of how...
Day Two Cloud 087: Inside The World Of A Technical Marketer
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Engineers are skeptical of vendor marketing, which is typically heavy on buzzwords and light on actual information. But technical marketing tries to c...
Day Two Cloud 086: AWS Succession – Does It Matter Who’s The Next CEO?
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
AWS needs a new CEO now that Andy Jassy has been tapped to run the Amazon mothership. Does the cloud giant need a high-powered, Type-A successor to dr...
Day Two Cloud 085: Hosting Your Infrastructure Code In The Cloud
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s say I host my Infrastructure as Code provisioning stuff locally. It works. It’s nearby. I feel in control. Are there good reasons I should m...
Day Two Cloud 084: So You Want To Be A Consultant
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud gets into consulting. How do you start? What does the job entail? Is it a good job to have? How do you build a client base? Ther...
Day Two Cloud 083: Should Cloud Be A Public Utility?
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Computing power is a vital part of modern life. Should access to that power be more equitably distributed? Is there a role for a public-utility-style ...
Day Two Cloud 082: You Don’t Need A Service Mesh
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast speaks with the creator of the Envoy proxy, Matt Klein, about the challenges of networking, load balancing, and service ...
Day Two Cloud 081: Abstractions Should Save Typing, Not Thinking
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud episode is part one of a two-part show on abstractions. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks riff on the idea that "Abstractions...
Day Two Cloud 080: Multi-Cloud Isn’t A Myth – We Have Proof
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is multi-cloud real? Some say no, but others know the reality of multi-cloud because they are living it every day. One such human is William Collins, ...
Day Two Cloud 079: Kubernetes Is Inevitable But Not Always Necessary
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There's a lot of hype and fanfare around Kubernetes, but on today's Day Two Cloud episode we'll cut through the hype with a guest who has enterprise e...
Day Two Cloud 078: Cloud Economics Are Ridiculous
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Corey Quinn stops by the Day Two Cloud podcast to explore the complicated world of understanding and managing cloud costs, CapEx vs OpEx, cloud lock-i...
Day Two Cloud 077: Why Kubernetes Is Wrong For You
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kubernetes seems like a shining paragon of Ops efficiency, but the reality of running it is quite different. Is your organization up to the task? Is K...
Day Two Cloud 076: A Curated KubeCon And CloudNativeCon Roundup
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On today's Day Two Cloud we review announcements and make our observations of the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America 2020 virtual event. That in...
Day Two Cloud 075: Operationalizing Your Hybrid Cloud With VMware vRealize (Sponsored)
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Consistency is key for your cloud operations team and your end users (be they employees, customers, or developers). On today's Day Two Cloud episode w...
Day Two Cloud 074: Why Is There Still Shadow IT?
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why are we talking about shadow IT in 2020? Didn't we DevOps shadow IT out of the picture? Turns out we didn't. All the initiatives and process change...
Day Two Cloud 073: AnsibleFest & HashiConf 2020 Announcements, Analysis & Awesomeness
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks analyze the big announcements from two conferences the clouderati should care about: AnsibleFest and HashiConf Digital....
Day Two Cloud 072: VMworld 2020 Analysis And Roundup – Project Monterey And More
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud covers the most interesting announcements and presentations from VMworld 2020, including Project Monterey and partnerships with...
Day Two Cloud 071: It’s Not Too Late To Make DevOps Work
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Technology is accelerating like crazy, with new tools, services, open-source projects, and processes. If you're trying to make DevOps work in your org...
Day Two Cloud 070: The State Of Multi-Cloud Networking
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's show is a vigorous discussion of multi-cloud networking. Our guest, networking expert Ivan Pepelnjak, brings a heavy dose of skepticism, nuanc...
Day Two Cloud 069: The Life Of A Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we talk with a real-live SRE, or Site Reliability Engineer, who works in an IT group that delivers applications using...
Day Two Cloud 068: Achieving Crucial Cloud Visibility With Riverbed (Sponsored)
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's show explores cloud visibility with sponsor Riverbed. Perhaps best known for its Steelhead WAN optimization appliances, Riverbed has a suite o...
Day Two Cloud 067: Choosing The Right Applications For The Cloud With SolarWinds (Sponsored)
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What apps belong in the cloud and which are better on premises? Dave Wagner, Senior Manager, Product Marketing at SolarWinds, joins Day Two Cloud to d...
Day Two Cloud 066: Cloud Computing At The Edge(s)
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Thiele joins the Day Two Cloud podcast to school us on all things edge. He argues that edge is more than a buzzword, with a specific set of oppor...
Day Two Cloud 065: Building Your Cloud On-Ramp With SD-WAN
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SD-WAN vendors offer a variety of mechanisms to connect end users to cloud applications while incorporating policy and performance requirements. Day T...
Day Two Cloud 064: Bringing Ansible Into A Windows Shop
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast makes the case for bringing Ansible into your Windows automation toolkit with guest Josh Duffney. Josh is an SRE, a Micr...
Day Two Cloud 063: The How And Why Of Migrating Databases To The Cloud
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Planning a database migration to the cloud? If you're going to do it right, prepare to dig in because you have many options and trade offs to consider...
Day Two Cloud 062: What Do Words Mean?
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Some words mean different things to different IT disciplines. And tech vendors often twist the meaning of technical terms to suit their own purposes. ...
Day Two Cloud 061: Using Public Cloud For Disaster Recovery
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Day Two Cloud podcast explores different approaches to using the public cloud for disaster recovery. We examine costs and benefits, discuss recove...
Day Two Cloud 060: Charting Global Internet Performance With ThousandEyes (Sponsored)
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What's really going on in the cloud? ThousandEyes, our sponsor for this episode, has just released its inaugural Internet Performance Report, which tr...
Day Two Cloud 059: Cloud Field Day Wrap-Up
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud is a smorgasbord of cloud-related vendor analysis courtesy of Cloud Field Day 8, where host Ned Bellavance and guest Adam Fisher...
Day Two Cloud 058: Using Curiosity And Mistakes To Advance Your Career
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud gets into career advancement with guest Sam Erskine. Curiosity is key, and the mistakes you make can actually lead to new knowle...
Day Two Cloud 057: See Your Data With Grafana
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Day Two Cloud gets into data visualization with the open-source Grafana project. Grafana helps you visualize, alert on, and query all kinds of data an...
Day Two Cloud 056: (Not) Streaming Telemetry
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Streaming telemetry is all the rage, but today's show dives into an architecture that forgoes streaming telemetry in favor of other options. We talk a...
Day Two Cloud 055: Securing Cloud Infrastructure And Applications
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Security is difficult and tricky, but we've got an amazing guest on today's Day Two Cloud podcast to help you improve your security posture and manage...
Day Two Cloud 054: Real Life VMware Cloud On AWS
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss the reality of running VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS with Adam Fisher, Cloud & DevOps Engineer at RoundTower. Adam's been deploying VMC on...
Day Two Cloud 053: Effectively Monitoring Cloud-Native Applications
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Monitoring is the topic for Day Two Cloud. Before you skip because you think it's boring, this conversation may change your mind. We dig into what's n...
Day Two Cloud 052: Moving Back Home From The Cloud
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud episode is a frank conversation about cloud migration, multicloud, cloud repatriation, and more. If you're here for rainbows and...
Day Two Cloud 051: Building And Running A Cloud User Group
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On Day Two Cloud we talk about how to start and participate in a cloud user group. We explore logistics, money, sponsors, a venue--in other words, the...
Day Two Cloud 050: Nerding Out On GitHub Actions With Chris Wahl
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast gets into the nerdy details of how an infrastructure professional can use GitHub Actions. Actions lets you chain togethe...
Day Two Cloud 049: The Gritty Details Of Designing And Running A Private Cloud
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On today's Day Two Cloud we tackle the practical aspects of private cloud, including designing the infrastructure and creating policies before you sta...
Day Two Cloud 048: Migrating Your Data Center To The Cloud
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you're thinking about migrating applications from your data center to the cloud, prepare to do a lot of planning. Today's Day Two Cloud podcast del...
Day Two Cloud 047: Highlights And Analysis From Cloud Field Day 7
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast storms into your podcast player with product news from VMware, SolarWinds, and startup Pensando. Ethan Banks attended a ...
Day Two Cloud 046: A Cloud Checkup During Covid-19 With ThousandEyes (Sponsored)
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Day Two Cloud dives into the health and performance of the global cloud during the pandemic. Sponsor ThousandEyes measures, collects, and reports on I...
Day Two Cloud 045: Tackling Multi-Cloud Challenges With An Actual Multi-Cloud Consumer
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We get the architectural nitty-gritty on a multi-cloud migration to Azure and Oracle Cloud on today's Day Two Cloud podcast. Guest Snehal Patel, Netwo...
Day Two Cloud 044: Dev+Ops, Ops+Dev
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Derek Campbell joins Day Two Cloud for a discussion about DevOps. Of course, DevOps has been discussed to death across the IT landscape, so we drill i...
Day Two Cloud 043: Git For Ops People
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Day Two Cloud dives into Git for operations people. Git is a version-control system used to track changes in software. If you've heard of it but aren'...
Day Two Cloud 042: AWS Networking Part 1: Performance
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Day Two Cloud, Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks answer listener questions about AWS Networking. They get into the nitty gritty on core AWS netw...
Day Two Cloud 041: Practical Automation In The Cloud And On Premises
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On today's Day Two Cloud, we discuss practical automation, including tools and tips to make automation work. In particular, we focus on deploying cons...
Day Two Cloud 040: Building And Operating A Private Cloud
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud delves into how and why to build a private cloud that functions as well as a public cloud. We examine the design and operational...