Hybrid Cloud Show
Episodes
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 55
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 54
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron and Shane share some thoughts about attending Kubecon, including the push for European sovereign cloud, how platform engineering might mitigate ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 53
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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. &nb...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 52
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 P...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 51
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We recently talked about backing up Shane’s homelab, but this time it’s the turn of enterprise backups. Risk management, cloud and hybrid ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 50
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 49
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 wh...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 48
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 offs...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 47
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 46
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 pe...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 45
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How to connect your public environments across clouds and into your datacenter infrastructure – using official options, VPNs and new ideas like ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 44
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cloud security basics, some of the technical and compliance aspects, and why it ultimately comes down to a people problem. ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 43
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 42
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shane has teething issues with his Kubernetes homelab, Sean ran a bootable containers workshop at Texas Linux Fest, and the case for enterprise rollin...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 41
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 40
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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. &nbs...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 39
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SMTP relays and observability, why we didn’t recommend Podman over Docker to a newcomer, and Gary gives us an update on his homelab. &nbs...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 38
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 37
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What exactly is platform engineering, and how does it differ from DevOps? Insta360 Go Ultra Insta360 have just launched th...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 36
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 35
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What to think about when picking a public cloud provider, and why it depends on the needs of your business. Free credits, billing complexity, availabl...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 34
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How we access home environments from outside the home network while trying to stay secure using VPNs, Wireguard, overlay VPNs (like Tailscale and Nebu...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 33
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How much observability and monitoring is really needed, the tooling people actually use (from Datadog and Grafana Cloud to open source options like Pr...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 32
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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.  ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 31
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When should you consider using a third-party management tool, rather than just the ones built into your cloud of choice? Send your quest...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 30
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sean tells us about bootable containers and asks for our opinions on how he plans to use them with Kubernetes. He mentions Talos Linux. ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 29
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 qui...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 28
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With increasing numbers of organisations starting to seriously think about moving away from US-owned providers, we dig into the technical challenges o...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 27
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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. &nbs...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 26
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shane tells us about the janky Kubernetes homelab that he’s building, and we all laugh at him. Send your ques...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 25
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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.  ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 24
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The best ways to implement geo-redundancy for containers and VMs using load balancers and Kubernetes, and moving 5TB of storage to the cloud. &...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 23
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is being cloud-first more about the target for your workloads, or more about mindset? Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow....
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 22
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss some challenges around using and testing lower environments, how to easily run integration tests using Testcontainers, and ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 21
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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. &nbs...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 20
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 19
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The most significant advances we’ve seen over the years in public and private cloud including mesh networking, serverless, microservices, event-...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 18
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How worthwhile cloud certifications are, whether they really demonstrate much more than your ability to pass an exam, how they relate to real world ex...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 17
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What would be on our cloud tools wishlist to make our lives better? Consistent APIs and IAM across clouds, vulnerability information for dependencies ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 16
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 15
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do we ever consider the environmental impacts of our cloud computing, or do we just like to watch the world burn? S...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 14
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The pros and cons of smaller cloud providers when compared with the huge ones, and security best practices when you’re new to Kubernetes. ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 13
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 12
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We often talk about working with cloud technologies, but how do we have fun with them? Send your questions and feedback to...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 11
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How much Linux and traditional sysadmin knowledge do you need for a career in cloud computing? Send your questions and feedback t...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 10
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 09
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about infrastructure as code, what it is, what it isn’t, how it differs from configuration management, how to structure it, best practic...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 08
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 07
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We get personal and explain our home IT setups, sharing tips on learning new technologies like networking and Kubernetes while keeping the family TV w...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 06
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Google Cloud teaches us about eggs and baskets by losing a big customer’s data, and Microsoft’s carbon emissions are up significantly R...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 05
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We look at OpenShift from an external perspective, including how it works in a multi-cloud environment, how it abstracts cloud resources, when adminis...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 04
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 03
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What “hybrid cloud” actually means to us. Where it works well, where it creates challenges, where the control plane should live, how to abstract d...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 02
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Redis is forked by cloud companies, how to manage modern cloud identity and access management, vendor lock-in for government cloud contracts, and clou...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 01
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Industry professionals Aaron, Gary, Sean, and Shane talk about public cloud, private cloud, a...