vBrownBag: Recent Episodes
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Join Jenn Bergstrom and the vBrownBag crew for a deep dive into chaos engineering for machine learning and AI models. Discover how deliberate failure injection can improve system resilience, explore real-world experiments on AI model vulnerabilities, and learn why testing for failure is critical in today’s fast-moving AI landscape. Whether you’re an engineer, data scientist, or tech leader, this conversation is packed with practical insights, cautionary tales, and a touch of humor.
ChaosEngineering #MachineLearning #AI #vBrownBag #AIOps #ModelResilience #TechTalk
Chapters:
- 00:00 – Introduction & vBrownBag Welcome
- 02:45 – What Is Chaos Engineering?
- 10:45 – Netflix, Chaos Monkey, and the Origins
- 16:40 – Chaos Engineering for AI & ML Models
- 27:00 – Non-Determinism in LLMs and Testing Challenges
- 46:00 – Organizational Adoption & Q&A
Resources:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-bergstrom/
https://amzn.to/44JBw5D - "Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems"
https://amzn.to/4l3fFMi - "Chaos Engineering: Site reliability through controlled disruption"
https://amzn.to/4kiqY1W - "Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice"
https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/
In this episode we talk to Rizel Scarlett - Tech Lead at Block. She talks about vibe coding, MCPs, how to do it right, and then a live demo! Join us for excellent insights & fun!
- 00:00 - Intro
- 07:05 - What is "vibe coding"?
- 13:34 - The Problem
- 15:22 - Enter MCPs
- 28:42 - Live Demo!
- 31:07 - The Dark Side
- 32:35 - How to be responsible
How to find Rizel:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rizel-bobb-semple/
Rizel's links:
https://block.github.io/goose/
Unlock the power of generative AI for cloud architecture! In this vBrownBag episode, Alex Kearns demonstrates how to build a well-architected review crew using agentic AI, AWS Bedrock, and open-source tools. Learn to automate AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews, leverage knowledge bases, and see a live demo analyzing CloudFormation templates. Whether you're a cloud consultant or developer, discover practical ways to scale best practices and save time with GenAI.
cloud #AWS #AI #GenerativeAI #WellArchitected #vBrownBag #CloudComputing #DevOps
Chapters:
- 00:00 – Introduction & Guest Welcom
- 04:00 – Alex’s Cloud & AI Journey
- 17:00 – Building the GenAI Review Crew
- 34:00 – Live Demo: Automated Well-Architected Review
- 53:00 – Q&A & Future of AI in Cloud Architecture
Resources:
In this episode we talk to Justin Garrison - Head of Product at Sidero Labs, the makers of Talos! The Talos distro is a reimagining of Linux for distributed systems like Kubernetes. Talos strips away everything unnecessary—no shell, no SSH, no package manager—leaving just what you need to run K8s clusters. All system management is done through a secure API, eliminating configuration drift and reducing your attack surface with a read-only filesystem.
- 00:00 - Intro
- 06:25 - New AI business ideas!
- 11:51 - What does "API Driven Linux" mean?
How to find Justin:
justingarrison.com
Justin's links:
Talos: https://www.talos.dev/
Getting started: https://www.talos.dev/v1.10/introduction/quickstart/
The tech landscape is evolving faster than ever! Even if you've been in a traditional Ops role, knowing "how developers do" is essential knowledge. In this talk Andrew Fawcett, Heroku VP of Developer Relations will talk with us about how YOU can evolve your career and your development game using AI the RIGHT way.
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- 00:00 - Intro
- 02:05 - The AI tools we're currently playing with
- 07:26 - A Time of Change
- 17:45 - Things to know when using AI Agents
- 25:46 - Demo time + adding memory and tasks lists via rules in Cursor
- 38:00 - AI can be expensive, watch out for these gotchas
- 34:21 - The AI skills in demand today!
- 40:30 - Q&A
How to find Andrew:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyfawcett/
Andrews' links:
Cursor rules for creating task lists - https://playbooks.com/rules/task-lists
Cursor rules for adding memory to your app - https://playbooks.com/rules/memory
Tutorial Repo - https://github.com/heroku-examples/heroku-dotnet-notepad
Mike Fiedler, PyPI Safety and Security Engineer for the Python Software Foundation, joins the vBrownBag to talk about risks of software supply chain insecurity, and the concrete actions that software consumers & producers can take to make their software safer.
Chapters:
- 02:12 Introducing Mike
- 07:20 What is software supply chain security?
- 08:45 Recent examples of software supply chain compromises
- 12:15 How do we prevent compromises in open source software?
- 18:57 Software consumers & software producers in the software supply chain
- 21:32 Recommended practices for software consumers
- 42:40 Recommended practices for software producers
- 50:15 Where to find Mike, and audience questions
Resources:
https://lnk.bio/miketheman
https://blog.pypi.org
We’re excited to welcome Faye Ellis — Pluralsight instructor, AWS Hero, and one of my favorite people to learn from!
In this session, Faye shares inexpensive and accessible ways you can start learning about Foundation Models (FMs), Large Language Models (LLMs), and AI. Whether you’re just starting your AI journey or looking for practical experiments without a huge investment, this episode is packed with actionable insights. Faye also shares the top AI skills needed in 2025!
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- 00:00 - Intro
- 02:03 - The AI tools we're playing with
- 08:15 - What is Amazon Bedrock?
- 15:22 - AWS SDK for Python (boto3)
- 16:23 - The Converse API
- 29:39 - Demo time!
- 32:56 - QR Code to tutorial and code base
- 34:21 - The AI skills in demand today!
- 37:58 - Q&A
How to find Faye:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fayeellis/
Bluesky: @faye-ellis.bsky.social
Faye's links:
Tutorial - https://bit.ly/converse-faye
Code - https://bit.ly/converse-demo-code
Whitney Lee is a well-known figure in cloud computing. She is an international keynote speaker, the host of several successful streaming shows, and a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador. But here’s the wild part: Whitney wrote her first line of code EVER when she was almost 40 years old, only 6 years ago 🤯 🥳
In this inspiring episode we talk to Whitney about her journey, her learning techniques & recommendations, and how YOU can use them to level up!
- 00:00 - Intro
- 07:30 - Who is Whitney?
- 11:20 - The pre-tech years
- 15:50 - Getting into tech
- 27:50 - Getting into advocacy
- 38:10 - Learning in public
- 56:00 - How to go far in your career (and life!)
How to find Whitney:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitneylee/
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wiggitywhitney
Whitney's links & recommendations:
Anki learning tool - https://apps.ankiweb.net/
Fluent Forever book - https://amzn.to/44CfQsv
Range book - https://amzn.to/4itJQKr
Yufa Li is a Fullstack Software Engineer who has been freelancing for years! In this episode we get into ALL the questions: What was her journey like? What are the ups and downs of freelancing? What works, what doesn't, what you should charge, EVERYTHING!
- 00:00 - Intro
- 08:00 - Let's talk about freelancing
- 12:00 - Freelance Statistics 2025
- 14:30 - The Pros
- 21:30 - The Cons
- 29:00 - How to get started freelancing!
- 37:50 - Q&A
- 39:15 - Use a dedicated business account
How to find Yufa:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yufa-li/
Her blog: https://the-zen-programmer.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Amanda Ruzza is a DevOps Engineer, world famous Jass Bassist, and a Services Architect at Datadog! in this episode she shares how she ‘migrated’ traditional music studying techniques into learning Cloud and all things tech related!
"Study is fun and it’s all about falling in love with the journey 📚🎶🎼 "
- 00:00 - Intro
- 19:03 - Study Techniques for Busy Humans
- 20:21 - Figure out your WHY
- 24:30 - Define your non-negotiables
- 25:15 - Assess your Learning Style
- 28:01 - Your schedule
- 30:25 - Create a plan
- 31:43 - Execute the plan
- 39:27 - Iterate
- 40:31 - Make it fun!
How to find Amanda:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandaruzza/
Link to her deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bt3_Bk7y7xAZinARANhP1Fl8AEb7NA46LFMRYZQF-6c/edit
Amanda's favorite resources:
AWS Power Hour on Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/aws
AWS Workshops - https://workshops.aws/
AWS - FAQ’s and Official AWS Blogs - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/
DevOps -
Anton Putra’s YouTube Channel - all things Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS
https://www.youtube.com/antonputra
DevOps toolkit - all things Kubernetes, Open Source tools and Linux
https://www.youtube.com/c/DevOpsToolkit
Terraform/Vault - Hashicorp Tutorials
https://developer.hashicorp.com/tutorials
Terraform - Ned in the Cloud’s YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/c/NedintheCloud
Nana’s YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@TechWorldwithNana
Ansible and Linux - Learn Linux TV Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@LearnLinuxTV
On-Prem and Networking - Network Chuck YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@NetworkChuck
Python - Cory Schafer’s YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@coreyms
DevOps - Spacelift Blog - all things Terraform and Kubernetes
https://spacelift.io/blog
Terraform - Mattias Fjellstrom’s Blog
https://mattias.engineer/
Mark Tinderholt, Azure architect and author of the book "Mastering Terraform", joins the vBrownBag to talk about his top 5 Azure automation mistakes to avoid. Learn how to approach complex automation tasks and how to solve them, all while maintaining your sanity. 🥳
Chapters:
- 00:00 Introductions
- 07:06 Big Mistake #1: Boiling the ocean
- 17:39 Big Mistake #2: The Cloud Shotgun
- 23:29 Big Mistake #3: Deploying by hand
- 28:50 Big Mistake #4: Security last
- 35:16 Big Mistake #5: The one person band
Resources:
https://www.udemy.com/course/terraform-101-azure-edition/?couponCode=B715AFF362472841EE02
https://amzn.to/4j52lFS
https://www.youtube.com/@azure-terraformer
"As You Wish" by Cary Elwes
Du'An Lightfoot, AWS Developer Advocate, joins the vBrownBag crew to talk about how he went from frustrated tinkerer to confident builder. He'll demonstrate his actual workflow, and live-code a project using nothing but vibes and Amazon Q Developer. Come see how and why anyone with ideas can now be a developer.
Chapters:
- 00:00 Introductions
- 02:49 What is vibe coding?
- 03:42 The importance of our foundational knowledge
- 07:12 Getting a high-level overview of your project
- 10:53 Digging deeper into specific implementations
- 17:30 Amazon Q Developer builds a website from scratch
- 25:22 Amazon Q Developer deploys the website to AWS
- 34:11 Documenting what it did
- 49:45 How Q Developer works
Resources:
https://twitter.com/@labeveryday
https://www.linkedin.com/in/duanlightfoot
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/code-security-scanning-with-amazon-q-developer/
https://x.com/KanikaTolver/status/1902488505109848176
Robby Stahl, technical account manager at Platform9, joins the vBrownBag crew to vJailbreak, an open source tool that automates VM migration from VMware ESXi to KVM.
Chapters:
- 00:00 Robby & Damian banter
- 04:49 What is vJailbreak?
- 10:06 vJailbreak on GitHub
- 13:45 A demo is attempted, but the demo gods do not approve
- 22:00 A video of the demo is attempted, but the video gods do not approve
- 23:40 Robby shares some successful customer anecdotes
- 34:12 Philosophizing ensues
Resources:
https://github.com/platform9/vjailbreak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seThilJ5ujM&list=PLUqDmxY3RncV-_mzIgL3P29Jssri7Y052&index=5
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robby-stahl/
Matthew Bonig, chief cloud architect at Defiance Digital, and co-author of the AWS CDK book, joins the vBrownBag crew to talk about leveraging observability & AI in software development.
Chapters:
- 00:00 Roger, Damian, and Matthew have a bit of a chit-chat
- 03:27 Introducing Matthew👏
- 08:14 The importance of observability in software development
- 10:40 Some real-world examples
- 34:17 Going beyond AI chatbots in software development
- 45:49 Using IDEs with AI built-in
Resources:
https://matthewbonig.com
https://thecdkbook.com
https://matthewbonig.sidkik.app
Aaron Hunter, AWS principal developer advocate, joins the vBrownBag crew to discuss general tips on preparing for certifications, the AWS AI/ML certification catalog, and great tools YOU can use to help pass an AWS AI/ML certification.
Chapters:
- 00:00 Sean, the prodigal son, returns! There is much rejoicing across the lands! 🥳
- 07:32 Introducing Aaron 👏
- 08:55 Let's talk about the different ways folks learn
- 13:32 Some tips on how to prepare for a certification
- 14:55 Reflecting on the right certification path for yourself 🤔
- 15:44 Understanding that certifications aren't the end of learning
- 22:32 What do you do if you don't pass a certification the first time?
- 26:04 Advice for folks that are exploring a new career or a career shift 🚀
- 33:23 Exploring the AWS AI/ML certification catalog
- 37:37 Exploring AWS Skillbuilder and AWS Workshops
Resources:
https://aaronshunter.com/
https://bit.ly/examprepmls
https://bit.ly/examprepmla
https://bit.ly/examprepaif
https://bit.ly/examprepclf
Kyler Middleton joins Chris and Damian to talk about her free and open-source generative AI solution for the enterprise.
The second link below includes a free 30 day subscription to Substack. You have Kyler's express permission to cancel on the last free day. 😊
Also, I (Damian) forgot that we were doing chapters in these show notes. Sorry!
Chapters:
- 00:00 Shenanigans ensue
- 04:20 Introducing Kyler! 👏
- 07:12 Let's talk about her genAI Slack bot
- 20:53 Kyler points her Slack bot at her Confluence
- 22:10 How Kyler improved her Slack bot with re-ranking 🤖
Resources:
https://www.letsdodevops.com/p/lets-do-devops-building-an-azure
https://www.letsdodevops.com/vbrownbag
https://bsky.app/profile/kymidd.bsky.social
Ashley Lyon joins Shala, Chris, and Damian for an entertaining yet insightful discussion about impostor syndrome, getting past being afraid of The Worst Thing Happening, and more.
Resources:
https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/129099/how-to-know-if-i-am-a-real-developer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleylyon1/
Damien Burks is the Founder of the DevSec Blueprint: "a comprehensive, free, and open-source learning guide designed to equip you with the essential skills and knowledge needed to transition into DevSecOps or grow within your DevSecOps career."! In this episode he walks us through the blueprint, his inspiration for creating it, and how to get started!
- 00:00 - Intro
- 04:27 - About The DevSec Blueprit
- 09:04 - Pre-requisites
- 23:34 - The Blueprint
- 38:00 - DevSecOps projects
How to find Damien:
Website: https://www.devsecblueprint.com/
Twitter: @damienjburks
Bluesky: @damienjburks.bsky.social
GitHub: https://github.com/damienjburks
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damienjburks/
AWS Community Builder and Software/Platform Engineer Ervin Szilágyi joins us today to talk about his project: creating a BlueSky Bot (for good, not evil 😂). Join us as he walks through the build process, his architectural decision making, and some lessons he learned along the way!
- 00:00 - Intro
- 04:02 - About BlueSky
- 10:05 - How the bot works
- 29:27 - AI challenges detecting service deprecations
- 37:05 - Overcoming AI limitations
How to find Ervin:
Website: https://ervinszilagyi.dev/
Bluesky: @ervinszilagyi.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/Ernyoke
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/szilagyiervin/
Show Resources:
Website: https://ervinszilagyi.dev/articles/how-to-build-a-bluesky-rss-like-bot-with-aws-lambda-and-terraform.html
Every year AWS Hero Peter Sankauskas creates the AWS Survey. In it we can see trends for the various services: what's hot, what's not 🤣 Join us for the 2025 AWS Survey where we review findings from years past and make some predictions about what we'll see in 2025! P.S. Do the survey!!! https://answersforaws.com/survey/
- 00:00 - Intro
- 03:05 - What is the AWS Survey?
- 26:33 - Let's do the survey!
How to find Peter:
Bluesky: @pas256.bsky.social
GitHub: https://github.com/pas256
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petersankauskas/
Show Resources:
Website: https://answersforaws.com/survey/
Welcome to the New Year and the first episode of the year: We are excited to be talking with Developer Advocate Jessican Deen about GitHub Actions and how you can use them to automate your workflows!
- 00:00 - Intro
- 05:49 - What are we going to talk about?
- 08:23 - Reusable Workflows
- 14:21 - Job Summaries
- 18:45 - Matrix Jobs
- 34:58 - Artifact Attestations
- 41:47 - OIDC
- 50:47 - Additional Resources
How to find Jessica:
Twitter: @jldeen
Bluesky: @jldeen.dev
Website: jessicadeen.com
GitHub: github.com/jldeen
Show Resources:
Keylight CLI: github.com/jldeen/keylight-cli
Excalidraw: https://excalidraw.com/
Learn GitHub Actions: https://github.com/features/actions
Actions Marketplace: https://github.com/marketplace?type=actions
GitHub Actions Docs: https://docs.github.com/en/actions
Andrew Brown joins Shala, Chris, and Damian for a re:Invent re:cap of their favorite announcements, tips on how to attend re:Invent, and more.
Resources:
https://genai.cloudprojectbootcamp.com/
https://www.exampro.co/
https://x.com/andrewbrown
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-wc-brown/
What better way to learn about Machine Learning than with an AWS Machine Learning Hero???
Join us as we talk with Cyril Bandolo about the best ways to learn about this exciting new field!
- 00:00 - Intro
- 08:20 - What is serverless?
- 16:00 - What is Machine Learning?
- 18:38 - ML vs GenAI vs DL
- 31:35 - Path #1!
- 33:34 - Path #2!
- 38:06 - Path #3!
Resources:
Twitter: @BandoloCyril
Bluesky: @cyrilbandolo
YouTube Channel: @datasciencewithcyril
Serverless ML Course: https://training.serverlessguru.com/courses/serverless-machine-learning
AWS Hero Linda Mohamed joins the vBrownBag to show us how she uses Amazon Q to scale community engagement (also a sneak peek for her AWS ReInvent 2024 session!)
- 00:00 Intros and chit-chat
- 09:05 Linda is a juggler, and Damian is fascinated by juggling math 🤣
- 12:30 Building an AI application with Amazon Q, and the learning curve of building an AI app
- 16:30 Introducing the AWS Community Helper app
- 16:45 AI process 😊 vs manual process 😤
- 19:00 High-level app workflow
- 29:45 Architecture diagram of identifying dates
- 39:04 Linda's AI voice clone & AI video avatar
- 45:40 Demo of Linda's AI video avatar
Resources:
https://www.youtube.com/@mrs_lee_g
https://thejugglingcompany.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELvedTUcjPo&t=6s
https://registration.awsevents.com/flow/awsevents/reinvent24/public/page/catalog?search.sessiontypes=sessionType_breakoutSession&search=%22Linda%20Mohamed%22
Jeramiah Dooley joins the vBrownBag to discuss his experience at and insights from GitHub Universe 2024, and explores the transition from individual contributor to people manager. Great career tips inside!
- 00:53 Introducing Jeramiah Dooley
- 07:11 Experiencing GitHub Universe 2024
- 22:06 Interesting announcements @ GitHub Universe 2024
- 39:30 Jeramiah's journey from IC to manager
- 43:00 The hardest moment in Jeramiah's career
- 58:57 Jeramiah's thoughts on the ideal manager communication style
Resources:
https://gh.io/badger
https://gh.io/spark-signup
https://bsky.app/profile/jeramiah.net
Aaron Miller joins the vBrownBag to discuss the human side of DevOps, HumanOps, a recap of an AWS event in London, and his experience in the AWS New Voices program.
- 02:56 Introducing Aaron Miller
- 11:42 Aaron's quest to understand DevOps
- 13:00 What DevOps is all about
- 23:12 People, tools, and processes
- 36:10 What is HumanOps?
- 37:30 The five HumanOps principles
- 38:25 Recap of AWS London re:Inforce re:Cap
Resources:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/devops-guidance/the-devops-sagas.html
https://github.com/HumanOps/HumanOps
AWS Hero, CTO, & long time friend of the show Calvin stops in to help make developers lives easier! 🥰 In this episode he walks us through scaf a project he's created to build kubernetes based environments to enable django devs to (1) get up and running quickly (2) provide a similar environment across local, dev, and prod and much much more.
- 00:00 - Intro
- 04:15 - Six Feet Up???
- 07:55 - Why we started building this
- 17:17 - Why Kubernetes? ☸️
- 38:00 - Live Demo 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤣
Resources:
Calvin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/calvinhp/
scaf repo - https://github.com/sixfeetup/scaf
presentation - https://github.com/sixfeetup/2024_PyOhio_MasteringtheZenofDevExperience
Damien Burks joins the vBrownBag to demo a solution he architected & uses Terraform & GenAI to accelerate his content creation
- 01:10 Call to action! Who's hiring? Let us know and we'll promote 🚀
- 04:50 Introducing Damien Burks
- 08:05 Level set: What is Terraform and what's it used for?
- 11:55 Problem statement & Damien's solution, the Personal Blogging Assistant
- 26:00 Let's dive into the code! 🏊
- 32:30 Deploying the Personal Blogging Assistant & demo
- 38:40 Using the GCP console
Resources:
https://x.com/damienjburks
https://www.devsecblueprint.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@damienjburks
JJ Asghar shares his thoughts on IBM TechXchange & InstructLab with Chris Williams
Resources:
https://x.com/jjasghar
Keith Townsend (Futurum Group & The CTO Advisor) shares his thoughts on IBM TechXchange with Chris Williams
Resources:
https://x.com/CTOAdvisor
Microsoft technologist Kevin Evans explores the general trend of technology maturation, certifications for aspiring cloud solutions architects, his thoughts on near-future changes for existing cloud solution architects, and more.
- 00:00 Welcome and a detour into homelabs
- 05:33 Kevin's role at Microsoft and technology maturation
- 10:48 Damian's wife sets off the smoke alarms 🤣(sorry!)
- 14:10 What's next for cloud solution architects?
- 32:15 Certifications for aspiring cloud solution architects
- 46:30 Kevin's advice for existing cloud solution architects
Resources:
https://x.com/TheKevinEvans
https://www.youtube.com/@Code-To-Cloud
https://codetocloud.io/
AWS Hero Vivek Raja goes beyond the GenAI hype and explores AWS AI/ML offerings, AI ethics, and more.
- 04:05 Introducing Vivek 👋
- 11:54 Exploring the technology hype cycle
- 20:50 Considering computer vision, as an example of the hype cycle
- 25:06 Where is Gen AI in the hype cycle?
- 29:50 AWS & GenAI
- 32:29 Rediscovering AWS AI/ML services 🔍
- 55:44 AWS Sagemaker Studio demo
- 72:20 Navigating risks & ethical considerations with AI 🤔
Resources:
https://x.com/meetvivekraja
https://kaggle.com
Related videos:
https://youtu.be/eiEZ24-ztHY
https://youtu.be/o7u25U1swIs
Andrew Brown presents a roadmap for understanding generative AI that covers the learning journey from getting started with GenAI, to prompt engineering, learning through use cases, and more.
- 04:25 Starting the GenAI journey 🧑💻
- 08:15 Prompt engineering
- 10:00 Workbenches & playgrounds
- 14:50 Types of LLM models
- 35:00 Approaching AI learning with a use case 📋
- 42:44 Models as a service
- 47:45 LLM development tools 🧑🎓
- 53:00 Understanding GenAI hardware
Resources:
https://www.youtube.com/@ExamProChannel
https://www.exampro.co/
https://x.com/andrewbrown
https://github.com/omenking
Related videos:
https://youtu.be/zyphIEt55lE
https://youtu.be/zG2outSenlg
In this episode of the vBrownBag, Damian does a deep dive on getting started with PowerShell on AWS Lambda. He covers setting up a development environment, packaging & publishing PowerShell on Lambda, lessons learned, and more!
- 00:28 A quick overview of PowerShell & AWS Lambda 💪
- 01:07 Anatomy of a PowerShell Lambda function
- 01:35 Setting up a development environment
- 03:00 AWSLambdaPSCore modules
- 03:42 Packaging a PowerShell module
- 04:19 Handling the handler
- 05:14 Publishing your PowerShell Lambda function 🚀
- 05:42 Understanding the AWS Lambda filesystem
Resources:
https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/AWSLambdaPSCore
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/8.0
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell?view=powershell-7.4
https://code.visualstudio.com/download
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
In this episode of the vBrownBag, Shala demonstrates how & why she uses Hashicorp Terraform (for her day job!) to stand up proof of concept tests on AWS far faster than what is possible in the console.
- 00:00 Intro
1:37 Shala walks us through her GitLab repo 💪
5:23 We're discussing DevOps, y'all
- 10:52 Shala explains why she started using Terraform for proof of concept testing
- 13:00 Using Terraform to create AWS CloudWatch alerts
- 19:30 Creating specific error types in AWS CloudWatch
- 25:40 Using Terraform to create AWS S3 buckets & Lambda functions
- 27:20 Creating pipelines in GitLab to refresh & deploy AWS ECS environments 🚀
Resources:
https://registry.terraform.io/
In this episode of the vBrownBag, Damian does a deeper dive into the Meatgrinder, showing how the different AWS services interact, how the process logs to CloudWatch, and more!
- 00:00 Intro
1:20 The AWS Services that power the Meatgrinder 💪
1:51 AWS S3
2:18 AWS EventBridge
2:50 AWS Step Functions
4:10 PowerShell on Lambda & Step Functions interaction 🕺💃
7:05 Python Lamba function
7:33 Logging success in AWS CloudWatch 🚀
Resources:
https://vbrownbag.com
https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/
https://damiankarlson.com/2024/04/21/whats-in-the-bag-behind-the-scenes-at-vbrownbag-com/
In this episode of the vBrownBag, a host is a guest! Damian does a deep dive into the vBrownBag Meatgrinder, an event-driven automation solution built with AWS Serverless that powers the show behind the scenes. Meatgrinder uses AWS S3, Event Bridge, Step Functions, Lambda, and Cloud Watch and handles post-production automation of vBrownBag content. We'll talk about the design decisions made while architecting the solution, and lessons learned along the way.
- 00:00 Intro and so much banter!
- 10:14 We actually start talking about the topic 🤣
- 17:13 Orchestrating Meatgrinder with AWS Step Functions
- 30:00 Managing state in an event-driven architecture
- 31:40 Showing off the Lambda functions
- 36:00 Meatgrinder logging with Cloud Watch
- 40:33 Solving the biggest technical challenges 🔥
Resources:
https://vbrownbag.com
https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/
https://damiankarlson.com/2024/04/21/whats-in-the-bag-behind-the-scenes-at-vbrownbag-com/
Riaan Nolan is a HashiCorp Ambassador that has developed Hashiqube, a DevOps development lab that runs all HashiCorp products. Hashiqube has a Docker daemon inside meaning we can run containers inside Hashiqube using Kubernetes (Minikube) or Nomad or Docker run. It runs all Hashicorp products: Vault, Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Waypoint, Boundary, Vagrant, Packer and Sentinel.
It also runs a host of other popular Open Source DevOps/DevSecOps applications (Minikube, Ansible AWX Tower, Traefik etc.) showcasing how simple integration with Hashicorp products can result in tangible learnings and benefits for all its users.
In this episode, we'll explore HashiQube on GitHub CodeSpaces.
- 00:00 Introductions
- 02:00 Introducing HashiQube 🔥
- 05:20 HashiQube demo
- 07:20 Hashicorp Vault on HashiQube
- 12:00 An overview of HashiQube integrations
- 21:10 @mistwire deploys HashiQube on-demand 🙌
- 34:45 What's next for HashiQube 🚀
Resources:
https://hashiqube.com/
https://riaannolan.com/
https://github.com/star3am
https://github.com/star3am/hashiqube
Reuven Lerner has been using Python for 30 years and teaching it for over 20. Join us as we talk about "How to sort anything with Python". This is sure to be a fun & interesting show as we learn more about Python with Reuven.
- 00:00 - Intro
- 03:00 - How to sort anything💡
- 03:32 - Why is sorting important?
- 04:27 - Python's list sort method
- 06:45 - Python's sorted function
- 10:00 - Sorting strings 🤖
- 11:49 - Sorting anything with sorted 🚀
- 32:38 - Summary & conclusion
Resources:
https://x.com/reuvenmlerner
https://lernerpython.com
https://www.bambooweekly.com
https://practiceyourpython.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THv-m8niDho (All about decorators)
Sr. Software Engineer Kat Morgan has been in the IaC and software space for a long time and she has opinions! Join us as we talk about the shifting landscape of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AI, Programming Languages (cough cough Python) and how Orchestration is changing!
- 00:00 - Intro
- 03:20 - Kat's mad libs idea 💡
- 06:38 - Problem scenario
- 24:15 - Pragmatic honesty and internest "issues" 😅
- 30:40 - Obligatory AI deepdive 🤖
- 44:20 - Our learning workflows (what work for us)
Resources:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/usrbinkat/
https://github.com/usrbinkat
https://x.com/usrbinkat
We've been anticipating this one 🥰 InstructLab is a model-agnostic open source AI project that facilitates contributions to LLMs! In this episode, IBM DA JJ Asghar talks about InstructLab and Open Source AI! JJ walks us through how to setup and train models locally so that you too can AI 🤖😂
- 00:00 - Intro
- 04:41 - What is InstructLab?
- 17:35 - Taking a look
- 21:40 - Live demo!
Resources:
InstructLab workshop - https://ibm.github.io/opensource-ai-workshop
The whitepaper - https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/X9W4O6BM
InstructLab site - https://instructlab.ai/
InstructLab repo - https://github.com/instructlab
In this episode, AWS Support Engineer Deepti Trivedi talks about how she gamified her AWS certification process and how she leveraged that process to get her AWS Solutions Architect Professional cert!
- 00:00 - Intro
- 01:25 - A Story of Procrastination
- 09:48 -
- 22:20 -
Resources:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepti-s-trivedi/
https://aws.amazon.com/training/digital/aws-cloud-quest/
https://skillbuilder.aws/
In this episode, VP of Cloud and Data Solutions Jenn Bergstrom talks with us about multi-cloud! It's an often used phrase, but what does it really mean? She defines what multi-cloud is, what are both good and bad uses cases, and says "it depends" a lot! Join us for this extra funny episode 🤣
- 00:00 - Intro
- 05:03 - What is multi-cloud?
- 09:48 - "It depends" 😂
- 22:20 - The dread spectre of Compliance & Governance™
Resources:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-bergstrom/
In this episode, Ben Dalton talks with us about VPCs: How you should connect them, why you should connect them, and which services are best in which use cases!
- 00:00 - Intro
- 03:20 - What is VPC Peering?
- 06:38 - Problem scenario
- 12:45 - When to use other options
- 18:47 - Conclusion
- 20:48 - Q&A
Resources:
https://github.com/b-dalton
https://medium.com/@b-dalton/using-vpc-peering-to-enable-private-inter-vpc-communication-a5c0f52150b9
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In this episode, the vBrownBag crew gets into something that we've all been thinking about but very few folks are addressing out loud. The impact of the tech layoffs, how we're all being affected, and what you can do if you've been affected.
In this episode, Suresh Madhu, Lead Architect for Pure Storage, walks us through new innovations in the Pure Storage Disaster Recovery portfolio & gives us a live demo of the Pure Protect DRaaS platform!
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Chapters
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 01:33 - The landscape today
- 07:46 - Data Resiliency Strategies
- 12:21 - What is Pure Protect // DRaaS?
- 23:03 - Solution Overview // DRaaS for vSphere to AWS Native
- 50:24 - Live Demo!
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Resources
https://www.purestorage.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/suresh-madhu-9544181/
In this episode, join Morgan Willis, Principal Cloud Technologist from AWS, as she guides you through mastering your AWS Cloud skills. 🚀
- 00:00 Introduction 👋
- 04:00 Why Learn AWS Cloud? 🌥️
- 07:27 Types of AWS Certifications 📜
- 22:48 4 Steps for Exam Preparation 📚
- 29:13 Top Learning Resources 🛠️
- 51:53 The Importance of Hands-On Practice 🧑💻
- 55:22 General Tips for Success 🥳
Resources:
AWS Certification information: https://aws.amazon.com/certification/
AWS Skill Builder: skillbuilder.aws
AWS courses on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/aws
Game based learning on AWS Skill Builder: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-game-training-cloud-skills
AWS Training Live twitch show: https://www.twitch.tv/awstraininglive
AWS Educate: https://www.awseducate.com/
AWS Blogs: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/
AWS Well-Architected: https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/
AWS Prescriptive Guidance: https://aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/
AWS Cloud Institute: https://aws.amazon.com/training/aws-cloud-institute/
AWS Builder Labs: https://aws.amazon.com/training/digital/aws-builder-labs/
Hands-on tutorials: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/hands-on/
AWS Workshops: https://workshops.aws/
AWS Cloud Technical Essentials: https://www.coursera.org/learn/aws-cloud-technical-essentials
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials: https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/learn/course/external/view/elearning/134/aws-cloud-practitioner-essentials?lacp=tile&tile=dt
AWS Quick Starts: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/
The Amazon Builders Library: https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/
🔍 Dive into the fascinating world of Generative AI with Du'An Lightfoot, Developer Advocate at AWS. In this episode Du'An provides a comprehensive overview of the cutting-edge technologies shaping our future
💡 Understand the basics of Generative AI, explore the complexities of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAGs), and Large Language Models (LLMs). Du'An then takes us through a live demo of AWS Bedrock, showcasing its capabilities and explaining exactly how to leverage the different models and agents.
🧑💻 Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a developer eager to expand your AI knowledge, or just curious about the potential of artificial intelligence, this episode is for you! us to discover how Generative AI can enhance your projects and possibly transform your approach to technology.
🚀 Subscribe for more insightful talks and become a part of our tech-savvy community. Hit the bell icon to stay updated with all our latest content. Let's embark on this AI journey together!
- 00:00 Intro
- 03:14 Generative AI Overview
- 20:58 AWS Bedrock in action!
- 39:26 What is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)?
- 56:36 All the QR codes to learn more!
Join Bruno Schaatsbergen, DevRel Manager at HashiCorp, in this detailed walkthrough of Terraform 1.8's new feature: Provider Defined Functions!🔍 What you'll learn:- Introduction to Provider Defined Functions: Discover what Provider Defined Functions are and why they're a game-changer for your DevOps workflows.- Using Provider Defined Functions: Step-by-step instructions on how to implement these functions within your Terraform configurations.- Building Your Own Functions: Tips and tricks on crafting custom functions.0:00 - Intro01:25 - What are they?4:50 - How to use them!19:56 - The Terraform Plugin Framework
Star Trek puns incoming! Red Alert!Join Mark Tinderholt as he captains a journey through the uncharted territories of Azure with Terraform in 'Terraforming Azure: Boldly Going Beyond 'azurerm'. This talk offers an overview of the landscape of Terraforming Azure, including the innovative and lesser-known features available in Azure, showcasing how Terraform can be utilized beyond the traditional 'azurerm' provider. Explore new frontiers in cloud infrastructure and discover how to leverage the expansive Terraform world of Azure. Chapters:00:00 - Intro04:53 - azurerm08:34 - azuread12:48 - azurerm_template_deployment14:39 - azapi22:32 - Kubernetes & Helm34:25 - Minecraft!39:54 - modulesResources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/marktinderholt/GitHub AT-AT Module: https://registry.terraform.io/modules/markti/azure-terraformer/github/latestAzure DevOps AT-AT Module: https://registry.terraform.io/modules/markti/azure-terraformer/azuredevops/latestMinecraft Automation Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsOrrjBMkLaRXWri2EvqLAUKWJI7TH0kH
For almost 10-years now, future-focused datacenter teams have been trying to evolve to more cloud-like operating model. Some of us have succeeded, some of use have failed. During this fun-filled, example-heavy session, Pure Storage Solutions Architect Tristan Todd will share patterns of failure, patterns of success, some practical examples, and recipes for success on how organizations have succeeded in realizing success in adapting to a cloud ops model. And, of course, Tristan will highlight how Pure is helping Customer with real transformation.Chapters00:00 - Intro02:49 - The Problems08:53 - What are Cloud Service Models16:46 - Cloud Ops Diagram20:54 - 5 tenets of Cloud Ops Model success32:17 - What are vVols?45:00 - Q&AResources:https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/vvols-and-your-cloud-operating-model-with-tristan-todd/267115907Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
Dive into the future of healthcare with AWS Hero Danielle Heberling as she unveils the transformative power of AWS Serverless services in streamlining electronic health records. In this insightful presentation, Danielle sheds light on the previously cumbersome medical record updating process and demonstrates how AWS Serverless tools like Lambda and EventBridge are revolutionizing the way medical assistants manage records. Get ready for a deep dive into the intersection of technology and healthcare efficiency. 🔍 #AWS #Serverless #HealthcareInnovation #EHR #DanielleHeberling #TechTalk Chapters0:00 Intro2:00 Who is Danielle?5:30 Disclaimers!9:33 The Problem23:43 REST API26:50 The Sync43:10 EventBridge Scheduler48:20 The Future54:50 ConclusionResources:https://danielleheberling.xyz/https://github.com/deeheber https://www.linkedin.com/in/deeheber/Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
AWS Hero and Senior Software Engineer Danielle Heberling joins us to talk about AWS Serverless in the modern healthcare space!
Join us in this insightful interview with AWS Hero and ExamPro CEO, Andrew Brown, as he unravels the secrets of navigating the 2024 job market. 🌟 Discover Andrew's proven strategies for successful job searching and learn the critical missteps to avoid in your career journey. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting out, this episode is packed with invaluable advice direct from an industry leader. #CareerDevelopment #JobHunting #AWSHero #AndrewBrown #2024JobMarket #CareerTipsWhat you'll learn:Key trends in the 2024 job landscapeTop techniques for effective job searchingCommon mistakes in job hunting and how to avoid themDon't forget to subscribe for more exclusive interviews and career insights!Chapters:00:00 - Intro9:26 - What not to do14:00 - Getting experience even if you can't get a job17:25 - Finding local startups in your area21:15 - The Clone Wars!22:40 - Dispelling myths31:40 - Using social networks34:22 - HackathonsIntro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
In this episode we chat with AWS Hero & Principal Engineer at CustomInk Ken Collins about the future of AI: where your company or technology might lie & what you need to do NOW to make sure you still have a job. He's been working on a project that leverages Lambda & Bedrock and he wants to show it off! Chapters:00:00 Intro08:45 The WINS Framework11:00 AI Agents & Automation candidates22:35 Real-World AI Agent Example41:20 Bedrock learnings & resourcesResources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/metaskills/https://twitter.com/metaskills https://speakerdeck.com/metaskills/real-world-ai-automation-with-lambda-and-bedrockhttps://dev.to/aws-heroes/rags-to-riches-part-1-generative-ai-retrieval-4pd7https://hbr.org/2023/09/where-should-your-company-start-with-genaihttps://blog.langchain.dev/openais-bet-on-a-cognitive-architecture/https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/resources/Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
Bob Belderbos is a Software Developer, Python Coach, Mentor, Trainer, & Entrepreneur! In this Developer Career Coaching interview we talk about what developers should be learning when they are at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. We also get into how to use AI to become a better programmer at all levels!!Chapters:00:00 - Intro02:00 - Who is Bob?05:20 - Chris triggers Shala with C++ comments :-D06:40 - Why did Bob get into coaching? 10:00 - What kind/type of students? 16:30 - Tutorial Paralysis & the real world is messy20:30 - Beginner Advice23:00 - What other skills does a beginner need to pick up?27:00 - Intermediate Advice35:00 - Keep a "Wins" file & overcoming Impostor Syndrome37:00 - Advanced Advice41:15 - How to best leverage AI43:45 - Why soft skills are (still) so important47:30 - Python book recommendations50:30 - When do you know you've leveled up? Resources:https://pybites.circle.so/https://codechalleng.es/PDI Program: https://pybit.es/pybites-developer-init/PDM Program: https://pybit.es/catalogue/the-pdm-program/https://pybit.es/https://form.jotform.com/233191638982062https://github.com/PyBites-Open-Sourcehttps://www.beekeeperstudio.io/What would you want to ask a Developer Career Coach?#developer #coaching #projects Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
Want to be a part of the State of AWS 2024? DO THE SURVEY!!https://answersforaws.com/survey/ In this episode, Pete walks us through the 2024 version of his annual AWS Survey and we review his findings from last year!#aws #survey #findingsIntro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
Join our Livestream as we talk to Bob Belderbos - Co-Founder of PyBites, Software Developer | Python Coach | Mentor | Trainer & Entrepreneur! In this episode we talk about how do level up your career regardless if you are just getting into coding or have been in it for years! Bob also has fantastic advice for how each level can use AI to help them without hurting them in the long run! Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
In this episode we have a panel chat with Flo Nicholas, AI Lawyer! We discuss the ramifications of technology in general and AI in particular on the legal profession. What are the things she's seeing as a lawyer that we will need to be aware of in the coming 'age of AI', and much much more! Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nonboringlawyer/https://www.deidirective.com/ #AI #lawyer #AILawyer #legal #AILegal Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
Johannes Koch is an AWS Devtools Hero and Senior Engineer for FICO. In this episode we talk about AWS CodeCatalyst, the new Q service, and do a live demo of having Generative AI "help" us code! Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-koch-353b2158/ YT https://www.youtube.com/@cicdonawsblog https://www.lockhead.infoYT on Vision for Blueprints https://youtu.be/Yb6-Kab9IcM?si=L7QvUXVj_uSq4-S8YT on building blueprints https://youtu.be/V3QJ0DtN9NU?si=-33SvQkOgQQnwqi_builders introduction for Sean - https://youtu.be/elj3X4h96tc?si=cJnu5R0G4cXWII14#aws #codecatalyst #developer #tools Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This interactive workshop, led by Suzanne Guzman, is designed for novice ChatGPT users who seek to leverage AI Powered Prompt Engineering in their businesses or projects. Drawing on her diverse background in the military, education, and business consulting, and insights from her book "AI Empowered", Suzanne will guide participants through the foundational elements of prompt engineering. Attendees will explore the roles AI can play in various scenarios, learn how to define tasks for AI effectively, understand the importance of format in prompt construction, and discover best practices for prompt engineering. This workshop is a unique opportunity to enhance your skills in navigating AI tools, ensuring that you can harness the full potential of AI in your professional endeavors.Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzannelguzman/ Her book: http://tinyurl.com/2pzca63j #AI #Prompt #engineeringIntro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
Jackie Kazil is Director of GIS Solutions at Bana Solutions and a core contributor for the Mesa Python project. In this episode she talks about agent based training, contributing to an open source project, and the road to her PhD!resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackiekazil/ https://github.com/projectmesa/mesahttps://ncase.me/polygons/https://edgesimpy.github.io/https://www.levenez.com/lang/Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Taylor is a Sr. AWS Heroes Program Manager at AWSJoin us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorjacobsen/https://twitter.com/taylorjacobsenIntro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! John is a Principal DevOps Engineer at DNANexusJoin us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jvaws/https://twitter.com/jvusa Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Mike is the PyPI Safety & Security Engineer at the Python Software Foundation (PSF)Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/miketheman/https://hachyderm.io/@miketheman Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Lilian is a Enterprise Solutions Architect at Sargento Foods Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilian-shulika-tata-phd/Link to her book: https://a.co/d/9zDeP7wIntro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Linda is a Principal Consultant - Head of AWS at EBCONT Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-mohamed/https://twitter.com/linda_mhmd Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Michael Cade is a Global Field CTO at Veeam Software Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcade1/https://github.com/MichaelCade/90DaysOfDevOps https://twitter.com/MichaelCade1Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ostertag/https://twitter.com/OsterjourIntro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Vanessa is a Sr. Manager at EquinixJoin us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Luc is Principal Engineer at PostNLJoin us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/donkersgoed/https://twitter.com/donkersgood Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Faye Ellis is a Principal AWS Training Architect at Pluralsight Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Maciej Lelusz is CEO of evoila Poland Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://evoila.com/pl/https://www.linkedin.com/in/maciejlelusz/Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Linda Haviv is a Developer Advocate at AWS!Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindahaviv/https://lindavivah.com/Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Chris Farris is a Cloud Security Consultant at Fooli Media. Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcfarris/https://twitter.com/jcfarrisIntro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Anahit is a Lead Cloud Software Engineer at Solita.Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/anahit-pogosova/https://twitter.com/anahit_fi https://www.solita.fi/ Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://getampt.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremydaly/ https://twitter.com/jeremy_dalyIntro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-fisher-nc/https://twitter.com/bonzovtIntro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/hoegertn/Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/petersankauskas/https://twitter.com/pas256Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://twitter.com/mattbonighttps://thecdkbook.com/https://matthewbonig.com/ Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/giftedlane/https://twitter.com/GiftedLanehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qpgVCE35WQ1_ga9Gy1FSgIntro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://loige.co/https://twitter.com/loigehttps://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/luciano-mammino/Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
Sai Gunaranjan is a Cloud Architect and experience cloud migrator! In this episode we go over several things you should do, and several things you shouldn't! This episode is jam packed with many nuggets of wisdom so bring your notepad & buckle up! Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:https://sixfeetup.com/ https://twitter.com/calvinhpIntro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/merrittbaer/https://www.lacework.com/https://twitter.com/MerrittBaer#reinvent #ciso #awsreinvent Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on! Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!Resources:AJhttps://aaronstuyvenberg.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-stuyvenberg/ AJ's re:Invent talkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EDNcPvR45w #awsreinvent #aws #threequestions Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
Terraform On A Dime: Building Azure Infrastructure on a Shoestring BudgetMark is a Principal Azure Cloud Architect at Microsoft. In this episode he walks through the benefits of creating and spinning up your application using Azure functions and Terraform, then gives us a live demo of his process! Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/marktinderholt/ https://www.youtube.com/@azure-terraformerhttps://twitter.com/MarkTinderholthttps://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-github-actions/about-billing-for-github-actionshttps://github.com/markti/azure-serverless-demo#terraform #infrastructure #budget #azure #cloud Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This episode we do some Cloud Therapy - Bring Your Own Burnout!- Career Advice- How to spot burnout & what we do to prevent it- Ideas for future episodes- What we want to learn in 2024- Reading recommendationsAndrew Brown is CEO of ExamProShala Warner is a DevOps Cloud Engineer for WWTRoger White is Principal FSA for CDWSean Doyle is a Senior Solutions Engineer at HashiCorpChris Williams is the Developer Relations Mgr for HashiCorp00:00:00 Introduction00:03:07 The Guests00:05:47 What's Coming in future Talks00:10:16 BYOB#cloud #therapy #burnout #panel #bringyourown #BYOB Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-wc-brown/https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisfwilliams/https://www.linkedin.com/in/giftedlane/https://www.linkedin.com/in/securityphreak/https://www.linkedin.com/in/seandoyle88/ https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/rubber-duck-debugging/https://mlh.io/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_HabitWhat would you add to a 2nd edition of Cloud Therapy? Let us know! Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
Chris May is a Python Consultant, Trainer, & Author: In this episode he discusses best practices & methods for refactoring your Python code. When you should, when you shouldn't, and gives us a step by step example of how to do it! Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/1chrismay/https://fosstodon.org/@_chrismay https://twitter.com/_ChrisMayhttps://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day https://everydaysuperpowers.dev/resources/python-refactoring-toolkit/ https://everydaysuperpowers.dev
Ben Keheo is an AWS Serverless Hero & retired vacuum cleaner salesman! In this episode we talk about Infrastructure as Code: where we came from, how we got here, and Ben's vision for it's future! Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben11kehoe/https://twitter.com/ben11kehoehttps://mastodon.cloud/@ben11kehoe Intro music attribution: MaxKoMusic(Future Technology)Denys Kyshchuk (Halloween Background)
Want to learn how you can start Using ChatGPT to Earn? Shala Warner is co-host of vBrownBag & a DevOps engineer for WWT. In this episode she walks through her process of using ChatGPT as a "Content Coach" to help her create her social media content as GiftedLane! Resources:https://events.giftedlane.com/linkshttps://www.twitch.tv/giftedlanehttps://chat.openai.com/https://excalidraw.com/https://www.mediakits.com/#chatgpt #ai #content #coach Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
"Just because someone is good at coding doesn't mean they are going to be a good technical leader"Liz Martin-Strong is a Professional Services Director at Effectual. In this episode she talks about what it takes to be a good software engineer, a good software engineering manager, AND a good manager overall. Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizmartin4/https://www.effectual.com/ Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
Ayodele Odubela is an AI Policy Advisor, a Data Science expert, and an educator in responsible AI! In this episode her and Roger discuss the role of security and ethics in the realm of AI. They discuss what "Responsible AI" really means and what we need to do to make sure this new tool humanity has is used with accountability.Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayodeleodubela/https://twitter.com/ayodele_odubelaIntro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
Ready to have Fun with Terraform? Kalen Arndt is a triple VCDX & Staff Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp! In this episode we went through best practices for Terraform module development and a LIVE DEMO!Resources:https://twitter.com/kalenarndthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kalenarndt/https://registry.terraform.io/ #funwith #terraform #vcdx #hashicorp #livedemo Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
Kalen Arndt is a triple VCDX & Staff Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp! In this episode we went through best practices for Terraform module development and a LIVE DEMO!Resources:https://twitter.com/kalenarndthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kalenarndt/https://registry.terraform.io/
Brian Okken is author of 'Python Testing with Pytest', host/co-host of Python Bytes, Python People, and Test & Code (whew!!). In this episode we get into Pytest: Using Tests basics, and why you shouldn't be afraid of starting small, and excellent hair care tips (unrelated to pytest)! Resources:https://fosstodon.org/@brianokkenhttps://pythontest.comhttps://pythonpeoplefmhttps://pythonbytes.fm/#Pytest #usingtests #experiments #testcode #coding #python Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
Michael Kennedy is host of Talk Python To Me & an instructor. This episode is basically an hour long LIVE DEMO where we talk about using Web Data in Python both with and without an API !!Resources:https://fosstodon.org/@mkennedyhttps://training.talkpython.fmhttps://talkpython.fmhttps://pythonbytes.fm #python #webdata #api #talkpython #livedemo #usingwebdata Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
With the latest release in the statistics on the CNCF projects, it is evident that Opentelemetry is the recent trend in the developer community. It involves following standards about how to enable a single pane of glass to allow for tracing in the world of decentralized architectures, This Session will be focused on the open telemetry features in the Cloud realm and how AWS helps us to enable this inside the production workloads.Resources:- Twitter: https://twitter.com/AritraNag4- Blogpost: https://medium.com/nordcloud-engineering/a-song-of-decentralization-and-observability-dance-with-open-telemetry-ec2c4d7006cf- Github repository:ttps://github.com/aritnag/opentelemetry-config-agent
Eric Matthes is author of the best selling book Python Crash Course. In this episode he discusses the why of software testing and then walks us through a live coding example to create tests for a text editor he created!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-matthes-598765205/https://nostarch.com/python-crash-course-3rd-editionhttps://ehmatthes.github.io/pcc_3e/https://mostlypython.substack.com/https://github.com/ehmatthes/django-simple-deployhttps://django-simple-deploy.readthedocs.iohttps://github.com/initialcommit-com/git-simhttps://github.com/ehmatthes/whimbrelhttps://pypi.org/project/pexpect/http://learngrandstaff.com/https://automationpanda.com/2018/08/01/the-testing-pyramid/
Sean Tibor is a Sr. Cloud Engineer at Mondelez International and host of the Teaching Python Podcast! In this episode he discusses tools, lessons learned and best practices for using Terraform in a serverless environment!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/seantibor/https://twitter.com/smtiborhttps://serverless.tf/https://github.com/antonbabenko/serverless.tfhttps://docs.powertools.aws.dev/lambda/python/latest/https://docs.python.org/3/https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fluent-python-2nd/9781492056348/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH2GP6Lydj8
Rosemary Wang is a Senior Developer Advocate at HashiCorp and author of "Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices: With examples in Python and Terraform"! In this episode she discusses tools, lessons learned and best practices for testing Terraform!Resources:https://joatmon08.github.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemarywang/https://twitter.com/joatmon08https://tinyurl.com/rosemary-iac
Hila Fish is a Sr. DevOps Engineer at Wix, a HashiCorp Ambassador, and an AWS Community Builder(Whew!)! In this episode she discusses best practices for deploying Terraform at scale!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/hila-fish/https://twitter.com/Hilafish1https://bit.ly/3QwhL7thttps://docs.aws.amazon.com/tag-editor/latest/userguide/tagging.htmlhttps://bit.ly/3D9NfNyhttps://bit.ly/3RQyUtChttps://bit.ly/3TWoV80https://bit.ly/3Brt7Fphttps://bit.ly/3KZUQjGhttps://bit.ly/3U8xJYz
Having talked to a lot of builders (Community Builders, AWS engineers, ...) world wide there is a pattern of new projects being started without proper CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) in mind which later results in decreased developer productivity.Starting with the value flow of developer experience and DevSecOps best practices we are going to use Amazon CodeCatalyst to kick off a project development while keeping in mind developer productivity. The session incorporates findings and learnings from the conversations with builders.Resources:https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/cicd-pipeline/https://github.com/Lock128/cicdonaws-example-projectshttps://pipelines.devops.aws.dev/application-pipeline/ri-codecatalyst-pipeline/https://codecatalyst.aws/explore
Mike Fiedler is a PyPI maintainer and Code Gardener and in this episode we talk about how to contribute to open source software (OSS)! We learn how to start easy, contribute effectively, and the best ways to get started! Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/miketheman/https://twitter.com/mikefiedlerhttps://choosealicense.com/https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-examplehttps://www.codetriage.com/https://goodfirstissue.dev/https://opensource.com/https://hacktoberfest.com/
Britton Johnson is a Staff Solution Engineer at VMware and in this episode we talk about the new security and advanced threat protection features in NSX 4.1! Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/britton-johnson-05872959/https://twitter.com/vcixnv
Britton Johnson is Staff Solution Engineer at VMware and in this episode we start a 4 part series talking about NSX 4.1! In part 1 we talk about core components and capabilities. Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/britton-johnson-05872959/https://twitter.com/vcixnv
Britton Johnson is Staff Solution Engineer at VMware and in this episode we start a 4 part series talking about NSX 4.1! In part 1 we talk about core components and capabilities. Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/britton-johnson-05872959/https://twitter.com/vcixnv
Lahiru Hewawasam is Security Engineer for ExpressVPN and an AWS Community Builder. In this episode he talks about architectural best practices when building a data lake dedicated to security concerns. Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardfan1126/https://twitter.com/richardfan1126
Old friend of the show Scott Lowe is Principal Technical Content Engineer at Pulumi and in this episode he talks about the value of infrastructure as code (IaC) and gives us a LIVE DEMO! Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottslowe/https://twitter.com/scott_lowe
Renaldi Gondosubroto is a developer advocate for cloud security as well as an AWS Community Builder and joins us today with his talk Once More Into the Breach, establishing a secure coding culture in an era of continuous threats. Renaldi is a software development, enjoys ethical hacking, and enjoys sharing his knowledge and insights at conferences and events. Today's discussion will look at setting security goals, understanding the need for Zero Trust, how to establish secure coding as a culture, and looking into example case studies on how to achieve this.Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaldigondosubroto/?originalSubdomain=auhttps://twitter.com/Renaldig
Chris Colotti is Principal Solutions Architect at Cohesity and in this episode: We all run some kind of self hosted apps, and we’ve probably been accessing them remotely in similar ways, but there’s a new much more secure and easy way to access all these self hosted applications using CloudFlare Tunnels and CloudFlare Access which is FREE!Resources:https://chriscolotti.us/technology/how-to-add-cloudflare-access-to-tunnels/https://www.linkedin.com/in/lahiru962/https://twitter.com/ccolotti
Lahiru Hewawasam is Global Cyber Security Operations Lean at Axiata Digital Labs and in this episode we talk about zero trust architecture within AWS cloud! Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/lahiru962/https://twitter.com/LahiruHewaa
Rob Hirschfeld is CEO of RackN and in this episode we go through the pros and cons of Terraform and how to leverage it for use in Multiple clouds! Resources:Infrastructure as Code at Enterprise Scale� > https://youtu.be/bmPCSsAMayw� Building templates from scratch >� https://youtu.be/EfJ0d9pr16kDigital Rebar playlist >� https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXPBeIrpXjfigvrXEQIJxXmFdTHqobooHhttps://fosstodon.org/@zehicle@hachyderm.io https://twitter.com/zehicle
Ken Collins is an AWS Serverless Hero and a Staff Engineer for Custom Ink and in this episode he takes us through software design patterns, kubernetes, and AWS Lambda!Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/metaskills/
Fafa, aka, Python King, will show us how to build a simple to-do checklist application with Python.Although this could seem like a simple thing to do, it will be an easy way to introduce you into some tools and resources needed to build an application in Python using Django and Bulma CSSResources:https://github.com/UffaModey
Fafa, aka, Python King, will show us how to build a simple to-do checklist application with Python.Although this could seem like a simple thing to do, it will be an easy way to introduce you into some tools and resources needed to build an application in Python using Django and Bulma CSSResources:https://github.com/UffaModey
Chrisi Kazakov is Senior Software Engineer for WWT and in this episode we talk about a "fun little side project" that she is doing where she's creating a program that helps PEOPLE IN SPACE select the correct tool to be 3-D printed faster in a "stressful environment" (like... the air is leaving the space capsule!) Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-tragesser/
Jad El-Zein (https://twitter.com/virtualjad) shares how he adopted a new hobby of woodworking during COVID lockdown. Hear all of Jad's lessons learned, tips and tricks, and favorite resources.Resources:https://www.mfgtray.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Fraction-Decimal-Conversion.pdfhttps://www.sketchup.com/https://www.youtube.com/c/Bourbonmothdecorhttps://www.youtube.com/thewoodwhispererhttps://www.youtube.com/c/FishersShophttps://www.youtube.com/c/darbinorvarhttps://www.youtube.com/c/JaredAndCassyhttps://www.youtube.com/c/Fixthisbuildthathttps://www.youtube.com/c/TylerG1https://www.youtube.com/c/SharaWoodshopDiarieshttps://www.youtube.com/c/KatzMosesWoodworkingShop
Ben Sier (https://twitter.com/DataReload) and Heath Johnson (https://twitter.com/heathbarj) give updates on the latest version of the VMware Cloud Foundation Lab Constructor (VLC). Run the entire VMware SDDC stack in your home or work lab and deploy it with automation!Resources:https://github.com/jsenicka/holodeck-standardhttp://tiny.cc/getVLChttp://tiny.cc/getVLCSlackhttps://datareload.com/https://github.com/Heathbarj/HCX-Multisite-Deployment
Tonight we are again joined by Dwayne McDaniel (@mcdwayne) who will be helping us explore what Git Metrics can tell you about your team. In this interesting talk, Dwayne helps us align DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics to metrics that can be discovered in your git environments. With this data, we can measure and discover insights that may help in closing gaps in inefficiencies in our release cyclesDwayne has been working as a Developer Relations professional since 2016 and has been involved in the wider tech community since 2005. He loves sharing his knowledge by giving talks and he has done so at over a hundred events all over the world. Dwayne currently lives in Chicago and outside of tech he loves karaoke, seeing live music, and doing improv.Resources:https://itrevolution.com/accelerate-bookhttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/announcing-dora-2021-accelerate-state-of-devops-reporthttps://linearb.io/blog/git-analytics/https://www.gitkraken.com/gitkon/dora-metricshttps://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/dora/metrics.htmlhttps://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/strategic-marketing/devops-metrics/
CEO of ExamPro and AWS Hero, Andrew Brown walks us through how to study for an AWS exam, where you should get started, and what you should do after you pass! He also provides insight into which track you should follow based upon which job you are aspiring to get!Resources:https://www.exampro.co/https://twitter.com/andrewbrownhttps://www.slideshare.net/ChrisWilliams33/what-i-wish-i-knew-about-aws-certification-2022
Data Scientist at World Wide Technology, Leah Ellis-Clemons gives an overview of the specific considerations for implementing machine learning models in Python in real time including OpenCV and Multiprocessing... She gives us a live demonstration of her code as well!Resources:https://github.com/LEllisClemons/Lego_Detector_Realtimehttps://www.kaggle.com/code/databeru/classify-bricks-compare-transfer-learning-model/notebook https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/joosthazelzet/lego-brick-images https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-ellis-clemons-6230aa68/https://www.udemy.com/course/python-for-computer-vision-with-opencv-and-deep-learning/
Tonight we are joined by Dwayne McDaniel (@mcdwayne) who will be helping us Demystify Git. We will journey into the .git folder, and take a look at how git really operates under the hood, a little bit of history on git, and exciting new features of git, as well as some lesser known features that will improve your git workflow.Dwayne has been working as a Developer Relations professional since 2016 and has been involved in the wider tech community since 2005. He loves sharing his knowledge by giving talks and he has done so at over a hundred events all over the world. Dwayne currently lives in Chicago and outside of tech he loves karaoke, seeing live music, and doing improv.How to get out of bad Git Situations: https://ohshitgit.com/Git latest release, including sparse index/checkout: https://github.blog/2022-06-27-highlights-from-git-2-37/Continuous Integration by Martin Fowler: https://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.htmlHow to use Git Worktree https://youtu.be/s4BTvj1ZVLMHow to use Git Bisect https://youtu.be/z-AkSXDqodcGit-scm website and documentation - https://git-scm.com/Pro Git book - https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2Visual Git Cheat Sheet - https://ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.htmlGitKraken Learn Git pages - https://www.gitkraken.com/learn/gitGit GUIs -GitKraken Client - https://www.gitkraken.com/git-client Git-scm page of GUI clients - https://git-scm.com/downloads/guisOnline Git Courses -Codecademy - https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-gitLearnGitBranching - https://learngitbranching.js.org/Git - the simple guide - http://up1.github.io/git-guide/index.html
Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, Shannon Kuehn (@shankuehn) walks us through a brilliant introduction on what a APIs are, REST vs SOAP vs XML, and how YOU can start using them straight away!Resources:https://twitter.com/shankuehnhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonkuehn/https://425show.comhttps://www.postman.com/
Tonight will be talking with Diamond Jorsling (@EngineeredCurlz) covering OpenShift; what it is, why it is awesome, and how it compares to vanilla Kubernetes. Diamond is an SRE who focuses on DevSecOps. She works with all things RedHat, AWS, CI/CD, and Containers. She currently works with Microsoft focusing on RedHat Openshift. She provides an overview of Openshift in this episode, its architecture, how it integrates with Kubernetes, and we also dive deep into how you can get access to an OpenShift sandbox to get familiar with the distribution.Resources:https://developers.redhat.com/developer-sandbox/get-startedhttps://cloud.redhat.com/blog/red-hat-chose-kubernetes-openshifthttps://developer.ibm.com/conferences/build-smart-on-kubernetes/
Principal Software Engineer in Serverless Kristi Perreault (@kperreault95) gives us a master class with "Squeaky Clean Code: How to develop and adopt better coding practices" where we learn how to be thoughtful with our coding design and processes. We really enjoyed this session!! Resources:https://twitter.com/kperreault95https://kristiperreault.medium.com/
Roger White (https://twitter.com/rogerkwhite1) shares his experience with the AWS security black belt program, what is it, and why it's good to become involved!Resources:https://awssecworkshops.com/workshops/https://aws.amazon.com/partners/programs/
Solution Architect Nathan Farrar (@nfarroar) gives us a deep dive into Azure networking. What works, pitfalls to beware of, and how to design a redundant, scalable, enterprise grade network!Resources:https://twitter.com/nfarroarhttps://farroar.com/
AWS Hero Rob Koch (@robcube) gives us an introduction to Kubernetes, AWS EKS, K8s best practices and tons of live demo fun that you can do at home!Resources:https://twitter.com/robcubehttps://github.com/robcube https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-amazon-eks-distro/
Vivek Raja @VivekRaja007 https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/vivek-raja/ presented a very cool session for #vBrownbag. He made AWS Rekognition easy to understand and walked us through how to begin, and even shared the repo where he has the code he showed in the live demo https://github.com/Vivek0712/aws-reskill-ai-services
In this fantastic episode, AWS Hero and Community Builder Luc van Donkersgoed (@donkersgood) gives us a view into how his company has incorporated integration testing into their serverless AWS environments!Resources:https://twitter.com/donkersgoodhttps://bitesizedserverless.com/
Chris Scott (@ccsdevio) comes on to talk about all things AWS Cost Optimization! We learn about the AWS costing structure, best practices, how to setup AWS Lambdas to monitor cost, and a little bit about impostor syndrome!
Resources: https://twitter.com/ccsdevio https://github.com/ccsdevio/saferAWS
AWS Hero Brian Tarbox (@btarbox) comes on to talk about all things AWS Alexa! How to make an Alexa app (a 'skill'), how to make in-skill purchasing options, and how to retire early off all that money!
Resources: https://twitter.com/btarbox https://briantarbox.org/
David Sol delivered an excellent presentation on how organizations can become ready for the paradigm shift to cloud. He gave us 3 stories that are easy to remember and transmit important lessons.
You can find David online at https://twitter.com/soldavidcloud . Look forward to more presentations by David in our vBrownbagLATAMs channel as well!
Shala Warner (@giftedlane) Cloud Engineer for WWT, comes onto the show to discuss her transition from networking to cloud, her learning process and how she's doing it!
Resources: https://twitter.com/giftedlane https://www.twitch.tv/giftedlane https://www.wwt.com/
He gave us all the links and was even nice enough to organize them through slide:
Here is a link to my PPT if anyone in the audience wants a copy. Here are also all the URLs in my deck that can be added to the YT description.
Deck: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vxih5casvo04rrl/vBB%20Laser%20Guided%20Cat%20Bot%202022-03-30.pptx?dl=0 Cat Bot Blog Post: Laser-Guided Autonomous Cat Bot | IT in Context (faucher.net) http://blog.faucher.net/2020/01/laser-guided-autonomous-cat-bot.html
Slide 2: https://jetbot.org/master/getting_started.html https://github.com/dusty-nv/jetson-inference https://colab.research.google.com/#scrollTo=P-H6Lw1vyNNd https://www.kaggle.com/paoloripamonti/twitter-sentiment-analysis Darknet: Open Source Neural Networks in C (pjreddie.com) https://pjreddie.com/darknet/
Slide 5: https://github.com/NVIDIA-AI-IOT/jetbot/blob/master/notebooks/collision_avoidance/live_demo.ipynb Third Person High Res CatBot - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO1Ur3doiE4&t=7s
Slide 6: NVIDIA: https://github.com/dusty-nv/jetson-inference Google Colab: Tensorflow for Beginners: https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/docs/blob/master/site/en/tutorials/quickstart/beginner.ipynb Darknet: Darknet: Open Source Neural Networks in C (pjreddie.com) https://pjreddie.com/darknet/ Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/paoloripamonti/twitter-sentiment-analysis
Slide 7: https://towardsdatascience.com/clearing-the-confusion-ai-vs-machine-learning-vs-deep-learning-differences-fce69b21d5eb
Slide 8: TensorFlow Tutorial for Beginners: Your Gateway to Building Machine Learning Models (simplilearn.com) TensorFlow Hidden Layer: Hidden Layer Definition | DeepAI How does a Neural Network learn? https://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/12/how-do-neural-networks-learn.html
Slide 9: https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/docs/blob/master/site/en/tutorials/quickstart/beginner.ipynb
Slide 10: Image Retraining (TF2) https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/hub/blob/master/examples/colab/tf2_image_retraining.ipynb
Slide 11: Darknet: Open Source Neural Networks in C (pjreddie.com) https://pjreddie.com/darknet/ ./darknet detect cfg/yolov3.cfg yolov3.weights times_square.jpg Train a custom classifier Train a Classifier on CIFAR-10 (pjreddie.com) https://pjreddie.com/darknet/train-cifar/
Slide 12: CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets (toronto.edu) https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kriz/cifar.html Slide 13: Chickens Recognized by Name (While Eating Spaghetti) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHzRhhJoYQY&t=65s Slide 14: Cloud AutoML Custom Machine Learning Models | Google Cloud https://cloud.google.com/automl
Tonight will be talking with Kristi Perreault (@kperreault95) covering Serverless DevOps, and how to scale a Serverless First initiative inside of your organization. Kristi is a Senior Software Engineer in Serverless Enablement and Development at Liberty Mutual Insurance, and the conversation we will be having tonight dives into what she and her team have been working on. In addition, we will explore guidance, lessons learned, and advice for your organization as it relates to scaling and enabling teams adopting and innovating with serverless.
Kristi holds a Masters Degree in Electrical and Computer engineering, is a member and advocate for Women Who Code, as well as an AWS Community Builder member! So sit back, relax, and get ready to dive into how to scale a Serverless First Initiative with vBrownBag and Kristi.
Resources: https://www.womenwhocode.com/ https://twitter.com/kperreault95 https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristi-perreault/ https://kristiperreault.medium.com/
On the 7th birthday of AWS Lambda, Matt Morgan (https://twitter.com/NullishCoalesce) will help you stop hugging your bare metal and get into the serves mindset. To view all the slides covered in this talk, use the link to Matt's blog below!
Resources: https://mattmorgan.cloud/ https://mattmorgan.cloud/appearances#vbrownbag https://docs.aws.amazon.com/step-functions/latest/dg/concepts-amazon-states-language.html
Tonight will be talking with Earl Dodd covering an introduction to HPC, or High Performance Computing, in the cloud. Earl J. Dodd is World Wide Technology’s Global HPC Business Practice Leader for HPC. He provides HPC and Supercomputing strategy, technology enablement, business development, and marketing and sales support to WWT’s global enterprises and governments. He helps to achieve a customer’s desired Return on Investment by leveraging HPC technology, extreme data in motion, and the Cloud utilizing secure ultra-scale architectures and collaboration environments.
Earl has over 43 years of experience in HPC and Supercomputing and has helped and led commercial enterprises, professional organizations, and government positions. Earl is also a frequent speaker and expert panelist at national and international trade shows, conferences, and marketing events. A couple of fun facts about Earl is that he is a Sci-Fi nut and applied to Mars One (made the 2nd cut before closing the door) and recently applied to dearMoon (not heading to orbit yet … bummer).
Earl's core competencies revolve around extreme-scale computing, HPC, HPDA (High Performance Data Analytics), AI/ML, and Cyber Security as it relates to HPC and HPDA. As such, we should have a very interesting conversation ahead and cant wait to dive in.
Resources: Edge to Core to Cloud: How HPC & AI Spans this Diverse Technology Ecosystem https://www.wwt.com/event/6112ea3bc54099008accc555
HPC + AI Convergence: Data Systems that Perform & Learn https://www.wwt.com/event/6112e8c44de0b50083fd3e46
High Performance Computing (HPC) Cloud Introductory Briefing https://www.wwt.com/briefing/high-performance-computing-hpc-cloud-introductory
WWT Delivers High Performance Computing (HPC) Now https://www.wwt.com/article/wwt-delivers-high-performance-computing-hpc-now
Tim Banks (@elchefe) Principal Cloud Economist for the Duckbill Group, comes onto the show to discuss cloud spend, cost optimization, and engineering best practices!
Resources: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/ https://twitter.com/elchefe
Kuberenetes, CKA, Containers Katarina Brookfield (https://twitter.com/mrsbrookfield) continues our series covering the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. Kat covers the troubleshooting domain of the exam with lots of hands on examples! Troubleshooting of nodes and pods are both on the agenda! Resources: http://advecti.io/ http://advecti.io/2021/my-cka-exam-experience-and-tips/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/home/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/cheatsheet/
Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) stops by for a post AWS re:Invent visit to do a live question and answer session with the audience!
Resources: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/ https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig https://www.youtube.com/c/amazonwebservices/featured
Jessica Garson presents "Getting Started With Python Visualizations" Jessica Garson is a senior developer advocate for twitter as well as a musician who creates her sound with python! In this episode she live codes how to quickly stand up a data visualization using Python & the Twitter API!
Resources: https://twitter.com/jessicagarson https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/getting-started https://dev.to/twitterdev/getting-started-with-data-visualization-with-dash-and-recent-search-counts-22jn https://getting-started-with-dash.herokuapp.com/ https://twittercommunity.com/
Marino Wijay (https://twitter.com/virtualized6ix) continues our Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam prep series with part 2 of the networking domain. Discussion includes the exam blueprint, services review, CNI review, CoreDNS, and Ingress
Resources:
http://civo.com http://istio.io https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/dns-pod-service/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/network/customize-hosts-file-for-pods/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubectl/kubectl-commands#-em-ingress-em- https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/ingress-minikube/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/dns-debugging-resolution/
Marino Wijay presents "CKA Episode 5: Networking Part 1" Marino Wijay is a Field Engineer at a super secret startup. He could tell you the name of it... but then he'd have to kill you. In this talk he goes into the networking aspects of Kubernetes that you will need to understand to sit and pass your Certified Kubernetes Administrator examination.
Resources: https://twitter.com/virtualized6ix https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/tools/kubeadm/high-availability/#steps-for-the-rest-of-the-control-plane-nodes https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/tc-docs/certification/tips-cka-and-ckad https://killer.sh/ https://www.katacoda.com/
David Espejo (https://twitter.com/DavidMirror) continues our CKA exam prep series with an overview of storage concepts and constructs.
Resources: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-storage https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes/
Continuing with our series, in this video will the cover the "Workloads and Scheduling" domain for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam. In episode 4, we are going to be talking with Walid Shaari (@walidshaar) about Workloads and Scheduling. Walid is a cloud-native advocate #RedHatAccelerator, and #AWSContainerHero. He also holds the CKA, CKAD, and CKS certifications which can give you an overview of the experience he has within Kubernetes. We will see the different topics within this domain, practice with some questions and even tricks that will help you within the exam.
Resources:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/cheatsheet/ https://github.com/walidshaari/Kubernetes-Certified-Administrator https://github.com/walidshaari/vmug-cka
Tonight will be a continuation of our Certified Kubernetes Administrator series, where we are covering the major domains of the exam. In episode 3, we are going to be talking with Tyler Hatton (@tlrhtn) about Cluster Configuration. Tyler is an automation SME and focuses on assisting traditional IT organizations to adopt SRE/DevOps principles. He also holds the CKA, CKAD, and CKS certifications, so you are in amazing hands for this talk! Stay tuned for tips and tricks for the exam, a way to spin up Kubernetes clusters quickly and easily for studying, and an overview of managing a K8S cluster with kubectl, RBAC, namespaces, and more.
Resources: https://twitter.com/tlrhtn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-hatton/ https://katacoda.com/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/cheatsheet/ https://kubernetes.io/releases/version-skew-policy/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/kubeadm/kubeadm-upgrade/ https://www.udemy.com/course/certified-kubernetes-administrator-with-practice-tests/ https://killer.sh/cka
Nathan Bennett (https://twitter.com/vNathanBennett) continues our series covering the Certified @Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. Nathan covered cluster installation methods, demoed an actual installation on a Raspberry Pi, and chatted about the latest Ted Lasso episode.
Resources: Nate's blog on this stuff: https://nerdynate.life/2021/03/14/learning-k8s-on-pi-kubeadm/
Kubernetes.io kubeadm installation: https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/tools/kubeadm/install-kubeadm/
vRA stuff: https://vmguru.com/2020/06/kubernetes-as-a-service/ https://vmwarelab.org/2020/02/14/vsphere-customization-with-cloud-init-while-using-vrealize-automation-8-or-cloud/ https://gitlab.com/NathanBennett/k8s
Udemy course that will definitely get you past the CKA: https://www.udemy.com/course/certified-kubernetes-administrator-with-practice-tests/
David Espejo (@davidmirror) kicks off the first episode in our Kubernetes series covering the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. David has been in the IT industry for over 12 years and has recently obtained his CKA. He discusses the exam format, why teams should consider the use of Kubernetes and dives into the various components of the Kuberentes Cluster Architecture! David also supports Project Octant, a tool that helps developers understand how applications run on a Kubernetes cluster
Resources: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/components https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-basics/explore/explore-intro https://kind.sigs.k8s.io https://cilium.io/blog/2019/12/18/how-to-debug-dns-issues-in-k8s
Leon Stigter (https://twitter.com/retgits) walks through the "why" of serverless and shares a demo of using Knative and use cases with tools like VMware's Event Broker Appliance for automation.
Resources: https://flings.vmware.com/vmware-event-broker-appliance https://knative.dev/
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) caps off our NSX-T update series with an overview of migrations strategies for current NSX-V customers. NSX-V will be going EOL in early 2022, nearly 10 years after the acquisition of Nicira and birth of NSX! Get the info you need to continue using NSX in it's new, improved, mutli-cloud version, NSX-T!
Joe Onisick presents "Reverse IT Career: Engaged!" Joe Onisick has been in the IT biz for a long time. This year he decided to sell his house in CA, move to Wyoming, and take up ranching! A lot of folks in the IT world TALK about "going back to a simpler life", but Joe actually did it! In this episode we ask him all the questions about why he decided to do this & what his experience has been so far!
Resources: https://twitter.com/JoeOnisick https://transformationcontinuum.com/
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our NSX-T update series with an overview of the VCAP-NV exam. Britton covers overall exam structure and breaks it down by requirements, assumptions, constraints, and risks/physical, conceptual, logical design
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our NSX-T series on vBrownBag for NSX-T 3.1. Details on Advanced Thread Protection capabilities such as Lastline, Advance Thread, IDPS, and Security are covered as well as some great industry resources.
Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) returns to the show to talk about Pydantic, a Python library that works with data validation and settings management using Python type annotations. Michael joined us previously to discuss Python's async and await implementations and we are excited to have him back to dive more into all things Python. Michael is a Python and MongoDB enthusiast, has two amazing Python podcasts (Talk Python to Me and Python Bytes), is a trainer, entrepeneur and a Python Software Foundation Fellow. On his website training.talkpython.fm, you can find training videos on Python, DevOps, Front End development and API creation, and more! If you are a beginner just jumping into Python, or even an advanced Pythonista, we highly recommend following Michael and checking out his podcasts and websites. Enjoy the show!
Resources: https://talkpython.fm/ https://training.talkpython.fm/ https://pythonbytes.fm/ https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-3_Iw6KNCw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SJ26Q_8Hxc https://github.com/mikeckennedy https://www.python.org/psf/members/
Laurie Capozza (@lauriepcapo) tells us 5 lessons she learned in her career in IT from hands on support all the way to CIO, and we even snuck in some commentary on how COVID has re-inforced these views.
You can continue the conversation on Twitter https://twitter.com/lauriepcapo or read her amazing blog https://capozza.io/about-laurie/
Christina Warren presents "Switching Careers and Taking on New Challenges Without Drowning in Self Doubt" Christina Warren is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. In this talk we discuss the good, bad, & the ugly of career changes with some tips she picked up along the way to deal with the dreaded imposter syndrome!
Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filmgirl/ http://christina.is/ https://github.com/filmgirl
Caitlyn Greffly presents "From Technically Challenged to Happy (and Paid) Dev!" Caitlyn Greffly went from a non-technical background to become a software engineer. In this talk we discuss her path: what made her pick coding, why she attended a bootcamp (as opposed to learning on her own or traditional schooling), and what things surprised her. We also talk about her new book "The Bootcampers Companion" coming out in September!
Resources: https://twitter.com/thecaitcode https://caitlyngreffly.com/ https://github.com/greffly
Shannon Kuehn presents "Accelerate Your Journey to Cloud with Azure VMware Solution" Shannon Kuehn is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. In this talk Shannon talks about cloud migrations, Azure VMware Solution, and the who-what-when-where-why of using AVS in your cloud migration strategy!
Resources: AVS Overview - https://azure.microsoft.com/services/azure-vmware/ AVS Documentation - https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-vmware/ Azure VMware Solution Videos - https://tinyurl.com/yal7r33d VMware Ports and Protocols - https://ports.vmware.com VMware HCX Documentation - http://vmw.re/hcxdocs VMware HCX Release Notes - http://vmw.re/hcxrn Azure Migrate Documentation - https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/migrate/migrate-services-overview VMware HOL: http://hol.pub/avs Microsoft Learn Module: https://aka.ms/learn-avs1
Ned Bellavance (@Ned1313) sits down with us for an discussion about Terraform, the latest from Hashiconf, tips and tricks for using Terraform for automating your infrastructure, and more. Ned is a Hashicorp Ambassador, a Microsoft MVP, and a Pluralsight author. He currently hosts and cohosts podasts such as Day Two Cloud, Buffer Overflow, and The Daily Check in. He also hosts a YouTube video every Tuesday called Terraform Tuesdays, where he talks about Terraform in detail, performs demos of the tool, and provides a repository to all of the code used in his demonstrations.
Resources: https://nedinthecloud.com/podcasts/ https://nedinthecloud.com https://www.youtube.com/c/NedintheCloud https://t.co/RbSOSD2uVf?amp=1 https://github.com/ned1313/terraform-tuesdays https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance
Are you Interested in a career in data engineering and trying to figure out what it's all about? Elliott Cordo, AWS Data Hero and Head of Data at Capsule, will walk you through data engineering, from definitions to specific components of a well-architected data platform.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliott-cordo-a8543857/
Vinnie Ramirez presents "Cisco Intersight Service for HashiCorp Terraform" Vinnie Ramirez is Solutions Architect at Hashicorp. In this talk Vinnie walks us through the Terraform OSS and Enterprise product and how they are different. Then he goes into the architecture of the Cisco Intersight Service and how it can integrate with Terraform to streamline and automate the provisioning process in your datacenter!
Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-ramirez-b94a7462/ https://www.terraform.io/ https://www.hashicorp.com/ https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/cloud-systems-management/intersight/nb-06-intersight-terraf-ser-aag-cte-en.html
Nick Fritcsh (https://twitter.com/nfritsch) shares an update on VMware Skyline. Nick shares product features, use cases, and even dives into a demo of the product. Best of all, it's free for VMware customers with active support! Resources: https://skyline.vmware.com/get-started https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/55928 https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/71071?lang=en_US&queryTerm=71071
Sean Doyle (@cloudosmotic) presents "Fun with AWS Step Functions". Sean Doyle is a Principal Cloud Architect with over 20 years in the IT industry ranging from Systems Engineering to Automation and DevOps. Sean also held the titles of AWS Partner Ambassador and AWS Partner AI/ML Blackbelt. In this episode, Sean provides an overview of the AWS Step Functions service, the various use cases that they can potentially be used for, as well as a demonstration of using AWS Step Functions for a serverless ETL Workflow to prepare data for Machine Learning.
Resources: https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/faqs/ https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/use-cases/ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/step-functions/latest/dg/sample-project-express-selective-checkpointing.html#sample-project-express-selective https://docs.aws.amazon.com/step-functions/latest/dg/sample-lambda-orchestration.html#sample-lambda-orchestration-create https://github.com/awslabs/aws-data-wrangler
Sean discusses lessons he's learned from his middle school students and how parallels can be drawn to the IT Security world.
Resources: https://www.teachingpython.fm/ https://barbaraoakley.com/ https://thenextweb.com/news/weather-apps-are-secretly-selling-your-location-data-to-the-highest-bidder https://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder-ebook/dp/B005HG4W9W https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0083DJXCM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1925
Microsoft SQL can perform really well on virtualized infrastructure if tuned properly. It can also perform really poorly if you don't know what to tune or what to watch out for. David Klee (https://twitter.com/kleegeek) shares best practices and his favorite tips and tricks to troubleshoot and tune MS SQL on VMware vSphere and other hypervisors.
Resources: https://www.davidklee.net/ https://www.heraflux.com/ https://www.sqlibrium.com/ https://www.hfxte.ch/perfmon
Denis Dyack (@Denis_Dyack) discusses how he and his team at Apocalypse Studios were able to take their game development virtual overnight using AWS tools.
Resources: https://apocalypse333.com/ https://deadhaussonata.com/
Denis Dyack (@Denis_Dyack) presents "How To Get Into The Video Game Industry" Denis Dyack is the Founder and CEO of Apocalypse Studios. He has been making video games for decades and has an extensive list of fantastic games to his credit. His studio evangelizes using a cloud-first approach in game development and partners with AWS Game Tech to move the medium of the games industry forward. In this talk Denis walks through the process of defining "what is a good game" and techniques for getting into the industry. He also debuts some new art from his latest game!!
Resources: https://apocalypse333.com/ https://deadhaussonata.com/
Chase Douglas (https://twitter.com/txase) CTO at Stakery, shares best practices for Serverless applications using IaC as code and CI/CD.
Tim Davis (@vtimd) presents "Automating the lifecycle of Infrastructure as Code from Deploy to Destroy!" In this presentation, Tim Davis walks us through the process of defining what are stable vs dynamic cloud infrastructures and why you want to use the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) lifecycle. He then does a live demo of the Env0 product and walks us through the entire process!
Resources: https://www.env0.com/ https://www.terraform.io/ https://github.com/
Joe Onisick (@joeonisick) presents "Sales Skills for Technical Types" Joe is a self described polarizing technologist and consummate bullshit artist :-)
That being said, this presentation is no bs! In it he talks about why everyone in tech is also really in sales. This talk is repleat with tips and tricks on how to level up your sales game to help move your career forward, regardless of your role!
Resources: https://www.hbr.com https://www.lifehack.org/577203/the-purpose-listening-understand-not-reply https://transformationcontinuum.com/
Christophe Limpalair (@christophelimp) presents "Getting Started in Cybersecurity" Christophe has worked on several online training platforms including Linux Academy. Recently he founded Cybr.com, a learning platform for cybersecurity. Here he talks about his recommendations for learning about and getting into the various different fields within the realm of cybersecurity.
Resources: https://cybr.com https://cybr.com/blog/ https://www.beautiful.ai/player/-MUUEEAeaLVT55LRYDbH https://hackthebox.eu
Hiroko Nishimura (@hirokonishimura) presents "Ms.Hiro to AWS Hero: From Special Eduation Teacher to AWS Hero" Hiroko came from a non-technical background and wanted to get into AWS. Here she talks about her tips and recommendations for learning IT jargon when you are starting from zero technical background.
Resources: https://hiroko.io https://hirokonishimura.com https://awsnewbies.com/ https://introtoaws.com/
David Ball (@davidjasonball) presents "Amazon AppStream: Netflix for Virtual Desktops" Learn about the AWS AppStream service and get hands on experience with a live demo.
Resources: http://virtualbonzo.com/ https://https://aws.amazon.com/appstream2/
Ayodele Odubela (@DataSciBae) presents "How to Start Doing Data Science" Ayodele gives us an intro into data science. What it is and what you need to know if you want to get into the field.
Code for 25% off her new book: VBROWNBAG
Resources: https://ayodeleodubela.com https://bit.ly/DS4A_AYO https://www2.slideshare.net/AyodeleROdubela/how-to-start-doing-data-science-240762610
Dan Pallone (@danpallone) presents "Kubernetes in Amazon: Why you should use EKS" Get the what,when,where,why, and who of AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) with Dan Pallone.
Resources: https://aws.amazon.com/eks/ https://www.eksworkshop.com/
Jeramiah Dooley (@jdooley_clt) presents "Admin to Advocacy: How'd you do that?" Jeramiah gives us an intro into developer and cloud advocacy roles. What it is and what you need to know if you want to get into the field.
Resources: http://jeramiah.net/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/
Greg Bates (@pensrule82) shows us how to supercharge our reporting skills and going past manual Excel reports with an introduction to PowerBI, and how he leverages different data sources such as a custom excel inventory sheet, vRops reports and WSUS patching database data to create reports that help him in his job as an IT infrastructure manager
Resources: https://www.vgregbates.com/2020/02/asset-management-with-power-bi-and-vrops.html
Matt Crape (@MattThatITGuy) gave us a good introduction to Kubernetes by guiding us through building a simple K8s lab using K3s and Linux VMs. He explained basic concepts, used some of the recommended exercises and listed some of the resources that can be used to continue learning.
All his code is available in GitHub: https://github.com/mattthatitguy
Sean Hicks (@SeanHicks77) presents "VMware Anywhere - VMware on X" What kind of cool stuff can you do when you combine VMware and your favorite public cloud?
Resources: https://vmc.vmware.com/ https://www.wwt.com/atc
Frances Wong @frances_wong on twitter shows the study guide she did for the VCP -NV based on NSX-T 2.4. She goes deep into her preparation, resources, material and even taking the test remotely. If you used her guide, let her know!
Resources: https://virtually2cents.com/nsx-t-2-4-study-guide-support/ https://www.vmware.com/education-services/certification/vcp-nv-nsxt-2019-exam.html
Bob Plankers (https://twitter.com/plankers) continues our vSphere7 series with a look at new security features and guidance in vSphere 7. Resources: https://twitter.com/vSphereSecurity https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories.html https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Validated-Design/services/introduction-to-security-and-compliance/ https://github.com/vmware/dod-compliance-and-automation
Mike Foley (https://twitter.com/mikefoley) continues our vSphere 7 series with a look at vCenter 7 with Kubernetes. Mike walks through some of the architecture and workflows of administering Kubernetes on vSphere 7. Resources:
Mike Foley's Blogs: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/author/mike_foley
Micheal West's Blogs: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/author/michaelwest
vSphere 7 Hands-on Labs: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/06/announcing-the-vsphere-7-hands-on-labs.html
sNigel Hickey (https://twitter.com/vCenterNerd) kicks off our vSphere 7 series with a look at vCenter 7 server. Nigel will highlight both improvements to existing features as well as some new goodies! Resources: vSphere 7 blog - http://vmw.re/vsphere7 vSphere Upgrade Center - https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/upgrade-center.html
Paul Mancuso (https://twitter.com/pmancuso) dives into the how and why of design decisions when deploying VMware NSX over Cisco ACI and other data center fabrics.
Heath Johnson (@heathbarj) presents on an amazing, quick way to spin up your VCF homelab!
Resources: For obtaining VLC: http://tiny.cc/getVLC
Joining the VLC Support : http://tiny.cc/getVLCSlack
Matt Just @H1_TEK_matt gives an excellent update on What's new with vRealize Network Insight, both for on-premises and cloud hosted versions. He spends the majority of the episode showing the platform's capabilities in a live demo, which is always appreciated. You can read more about Network Insight in the official VMware blog https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/tag/vrealize-network-insight/ and you can follow Matt on Twitter for even more insight.
Kevin Tebear (https://twitter.com/ktebear) continues our series on VMware Cloud Foundation with a deeper look at the architecture and some details on new features in version 4.0 Resources: vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-poster vmware.com/go/vcfhol vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-community vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-faq
VMware, HCX
In this vBrownbag EMEA session, Bilal and Chris will give us an overall view about HCX and it will finish with a live demonstration of a migration.
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our series on VMware NSX-T with a quick look at NSX Cloud before diving into the multiple use cases for VMware HCX Resources: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmware-hcx https://labs.hol.vmware.com HOL-2081-01-HBD-VMware HCX - Getting Started with Cross-Cloud Mobility https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=VMware+HCX https://cloud.vmware.com/community/hybrid-cloud-extension/ https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-HCX/index.html
VMware
Heath Johnson (https://twitter.com/heathbarj) gives us an introduction to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), shows a few demos, and gives us a sneak peek of the newest version of VCF 4.0
Resources: vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-poster vmware.com/go/vcfhol vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-community vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-faq
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our series on NSX-T Data Center with a look at Security and Distributed Firewall. Britton dives deeper into the security features of the platform and shows us how security rules are evaluated. We also got a peek at vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) #NSX #VMware #Education
Resources: https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=nsxt https://labs.hol.vmware.com/ HOL-2026-91-NET - VMware NSX-T Distributed Firewall Lightning Lab
A new crop of VMware vExpert PROs were awarded and we had some of them participate in a roundtable talking about what the program is about and how it helps others who aspire to get the vExpert award. Here's the announcement and their twitter accounts:
https://blogs.vmware.com/vexpert/2020/04/07/vexpert-2020-sub-program-awards/
https://twitter.com/vtimd https://twitter.com/MattThatITGuy https://twitter.com/gsxesx https://twitter.com/jhoughes https://twitter.com/arielsanchezmor
Blog posts with tips for getting awarded vExpert https://www.42u.ca/2019/06/09/four-things-to-do-when-applying-for-vexpert/ http://www.vbrain.info/2019/07/17/vexpert-application-tips-and-tricks/ https://hcidiver.com/datacenter/i-need-vexpert-advice-tips-i-was-rejected-again-for-vexpert-should-i-just-give-up/ http://www.itgaiden.com/being-a-vexpert/ http://blogs.arielsanchezmora.com/post/vexpert-2019---my-tips-to-help-your-approval-odds/
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our series on NSX-T Data Center with a look at Routing and Switching. Britton gives us a deeper dive into the logical constructs within NSX-T as well as some topology examples and guidance on design. #NSX #VMware #Education
Resources: https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-37591 https://labs.hol.vmware.com/ HOL-2026-01-NET - VMware NSX-T: Getting Started - Module 3 Logical Routing https://www.livefire.solutions/ - Training for VMware partners
Michael, William and PK join us to discuss how VEBA enables event based automation for vSphere. Every VI Admin knows that little toolbar in vCenter Server showing the Tasks and Events happening in their environment. This is commonly used to track progress of an operation and can also be used for auditing purposes. However, did you know you can do so much more with these events? Imagine if you can trigger specific actions based on a particular event, e.g. "VM powered on" or "Host in Maintenance". And we are not talking about sending an email using the default vCenter Actions here. What if you could do something more interesting by leveraging these events, like sync'ing with Git repos, scanning a VM for vulnerabilities, automatically allocating a DNS entry from your IPAM system or send a Slack update using a scalable event-driven workflow, with minimal code required, in any language you like? Resources: vmwarecode.slack.com #vcenter-event-broker-appliance dl-veba@vmware.com - email feedback and ideas github.com/vmware-samples/vcenter-event-broker-appliance
VMware, VMware Network Virtualization
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) begins our series on NSX-T with a look at the overall platform and its capabilities as well as resources for exam preparation and general learning.
Resources: https://nsx.techzone.vmware.com/ https://www.dpdk.org
Nick Scuola (nscuola) give us a great rundown of tips and habits that technical engineers can utilize to enable themselves to skill up and truly drive their careers Resources: https://spookysolutions.com/2019/10/11/tips-habits-grit-what-successful-engineers-do-to-advance-their-careers/ https://spookysolutions.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/nick-scuola-tips-habits-grit-what-successful-engineers-do-to-advance-their-careers.pptx https://spookysolutions.com/2015/03/17/how-to-be-an-awesome-it-professional/
Jason McMinn (@vm_jmcminn) will lead a discussion around Azure & AWS, where we'll cover some basics, pitfalls and the things we didn't know that we didn't know about Azure & AWS.
VMware, Security
Benedikt Frenzel (@BenediktFrenzel) joins us to discuss how the Lookup Service works and how to fix Trust Anchor mismatches. Resources:
Michael Herman (@MikeHerman) continues our Python For DevOps series how to use Python, Docker, and AWS Fargate to run a Flask microservice! It's a lot of knowledge in 46 minutes to hang on tight!
Resources: https://gitlab.com/testdriven/flask-tdd-docker/tree/aws-fargate https://testdriven.io/courses/tdd-flask/ https://testdriven.io/ https://realpython.com/ https://mherman.org/ https://github.com/mjhea0
Eric Matthes (@ehmatthes), author of the best seller Python Crash Course, continues our Python For DevOps series, shares baby pics of himself, and does a live coding exercise using the requests module and threading!
Resources: https://ehmatthes.github.io/pcc_2e https://ehmatthes.github.io https://nostarch.com/pythoncrashcourse2e
Tom Burge (@vcixninja) continues our Python For DevOps series with a look at vRA Cloud, VMware CodeStream, & Flask
Resources: https://github.com/tomburge/dice-data-collector https://github.com/tomburge/ https://tomburge.org/
Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy), host of the Talk Python To Me Podcast (@TalkPython) continues our Python For DevOps series with a presentation on how to use the async and await keywords to increase performance!
Resources: https://github.com/mikeckennedy/async-await-jetbrains-webcast https://github.com/mikeckennedy/wakeup https://training.talkpython.fm/ https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
Paul Everitt (@paulweveritt) continues our Python For DevOps series with a fantastic presentation on how to debug your code using a visual interface, and he uses a video game to demonstrate!
Resources: https://github.com/pauleveritt/visual_debugging
Katie Kodes (@KatieKodes) continues our Python For DevOps series with an amazing discussion on methods for using Python and the Pandas Library to more easily get to the data you need!
Resources: https://katiekodes.com/vbb19 https://repl.it https://codebunk.com/ https://katiekodes.com/setup-python-windows-anaconda https://jvns.ca/blog/good-questions
Kyle Ruddy (@kmruddy) continues our Python For DevOps series and discusses the differences in the Python & PowerShell languages, focused towards those using PowerShell Resources: https://www.kmruddy.com https://github.com/kmruddy
Ali Spittel (@ASpittel) continues our Python For DevOps series and discusses how to get practical with your code Resources: https://www.alispit.tel/ https://dev.to/aspittel https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/every-time-you-build-a-to-do-list-app-a-puppy-dies-505b54637a5d/
Sean Tibor & Kelly Schuster-Paredes (@smtibor @kellyPared) continue our Python For DevOps series and discuss methods for learning more effectively, increasing retention, and stuffing more info into your head!
Resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19hVYKQKMAOv6wN5lgu6tVh3G3xJndgd2mMqqxIRtzcs/edit https://realpython.com/ https://codechalleng.es/ https://codecombat.com/ https://www.fast.ai/ https://nostarch.com/pythoncrashcourse2e https://nostarch.com/automatestuff https://www.youtube.com/user/sentdex https://pybit.es/special-100days.html https://www.udemy.com/the-modern-python3-bootcamp/
Chrissy Wainwright (@cdw9) continues our Python For DevOps series and shows us how to use the built in debugger to step through our code!
Resources: https://www.slideshare.net/cdw9/debugging-with-pdb https://pymotw.com/3/pdb/ https://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2014/in-depth-pdb.html
Keith Thompson continues our Python for DevOps series and shows us one of his upcoming projects that he's written as an instructor for LinuxAcademy.com
Resources: linuxacademy.com coderjourney.com
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https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT infrastructure and we help other people in the IT industry to better their carreers by educating. Most frequent activity is producing the vBrownBag podcast. vBrownBag also attends global conferences to produce TechTalks and theater sessions.
About vBrownBag Podcasts
The vBrownBag crew host podcasts where community members present on topics that will help others in the community. Some podcast series are aimed at helping people achieve certifications. Other podcasts help community members learn an entirely new subject area. We also cover areas like storage or automation. The podcast has been running weekly since 2010.
vBrownBag TechTalks
The vBrownBag crew love IT conferences, the only place where we actually see each other, the awesome people who are our presenters and the community members who follow the podcast. The conferences are also a great place to generate some more community learning content.
More about vBrownBag: https://vbrownbag.com/brownbags/what-is-vbrownbag/
Chris Arceneaux (@chris_arceneaux) continues our Python For DevOps series and discusses how to use the CI/CD platforms Travis CI & Gitlab
Resources: https://www.arsano.ninja/ https://github.com/carceneaux/travis-ci-python-demo https://github.com/carceneaux/gitlab-ci-python-demo
About vBrownBag
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Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag
https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT infrastructure and we help other people in the IT industry to better their carreers by educating. Most frequent activity is producing the vBrownBag podcast. vBrownBag also attends global conferences to produce TechTalks and theater sessions.
About vBrownBag Podcasts
The vBrownBag crew host podcasts where community members present on topics that will help others in the community. Some podcast series are aimed at helping people achieve certifications. Other podcasts help community members learn an entirely new subject area. We also cover areas like storage or automation. The podcast has been running weekly since 2010.
vBrownBag TechTalks
The vBrownBag crew love IT conferences, the only place where we actually see each other, the awesome people who are our presenters and the community members who follow the podcast. The conferences are also a great place to generate some more community learning content.
More about vBrownBag: https://vbrownbag.com/brownbags/what-is-vbrownbag/
Gabe Maentz, fellow long time vCommunity and member and co-founder of vBrisket gives us a "speed-dating" introduction of all the more famous HashiCorp tools: Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Vault and Consul. He ties it all in really nicely in his demos by using the https://nifi.apache.org/ OSS application and an AWS backend.
He regularly blogs at http://www.maentz.net/ and you can follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/gmaentz
As a conclusion to our 2019 Azure series, Phoummala Schmitt discusses how Microsoft takes the pain out of Azure governance using policies and blueprints.
Reach Phoummala at twitter.com/ExchangeGoddess or by email at ExchangeGoddess @ microsoft.com
All Azure Governance documentation can be found at http://aka.ms/cloudgovernance
All links from the show are available at https://www.theurlist.com/rsfrnha
Join us to look at how one of the fundamental tasks every admin has to handle works in Azure. Weâ??ll cover the basics about how and when to scale, options for VMs and App Services, show the new Azure Front Door load balancing service, and see how Azure data center layout impacts resiliency. Weâ??ll also look behind the curtain and share some of the automation that was used to stand up all of the demos themselves, just to show how many different ways there are to operationalize the work that needs to be done.
Thomas Maurer returns to the Azure series to discuss Windows Server 2019 and its hybrid cloud functionality.
The Microsoft TechCommunity blog is at ITOpsTalk.com
Thomas is on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/ThomasMaurer
Thomas's website is www.thomasmaurer.ch
Join this session for the best of Windows Server 2019, about the new innovation and improvements of Windows Server and Windows Admin Center. Learn how Microsoft enhances the SDDC feature like Hyper-V, Storage and Networking and get the most out of the new Azure Hybrid Cloud Integration and Container features. Youâ??ll get an overview about the new, exciting improvements that are in Windows Server and how theyâ??ll improve your day-to-day job.
Phoummala Schmidt joins vBrownbag to discuss options for End of Life for Windows Server 2008 and SQL 2008
Reach out to Phommala Schmidt on twitter at https;//www.twitter.com/ExchangeGoddess
Visit the End of Support resource center: www.microsoft.com/2008-eos
Thomas Maurer joins vBrownbag to discuss Azure Stack and Azure Stack HCI.
To learn more check out the following links aka.ms/tm-azs aka.ms/tm-azs-hci aka.ms/azops-azs
Kunal Batra (@kunal732) continues our Python for DevOps series and we learn how to create Lambda functions, troubleshoot AWS Rekognition, and find out if Chris Williams is really Chris Williams!
John Dias joins vBrownbag to discuss compliance and remediation with vRealize Operations and vRealize Orchestrator
Cody De Arkland joins us to discuss building Caspyr, a friendly python sdk to control VMware Cloud Automation Services.
Randall Hunt (@jrhunt) continues our Python for DevOps series and we learn how to troubleshoot, import Boto3, and use AWS Rekognition!
Alex Linck (@alex_linck) continues our Python For DevOps series with an excellent introduction to unit testing and why you should be doing during before you write your production code!
Reilly Chase continues our series on PythonForDevOps!
resources: https://github.com/reillychase https://www.twitch.tv/reillychase https://shipstreams.com https://pynet.twb-tech.com/blog/automation/netmiko.html http://www.paramiko.org/
Chris Plankey talks about using CI/CD & Boto3 on AWS to bring your Python to the next level in this continuation of the Python for DevOps series!
Resources: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/using-branches https://docs.pylint.org/en/1.9/tutorial.html https://bitbucket.org/plankey/python-code-standards/src/master/ https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/index.html https://bitbucket.org/plankey/boto3-lambda/src/master/ https://bitbucket.org/plankey/boto3-serverless-aurora-clusters/src/master/
@calvinhp brings the knowledge in this fantastic continuation of the Python for DevOps series!
Resources: https://github.com/calvinhp/2019_AWS_Boto3_vBrownBag
Gina Bueno (@ginrubu) continues the vBrownBag #PythonForDevOps series with simple automation processes that she uses in her day-to-day!
Gina's code example repo: https://github.com/ginathegenius/vbrownbag-demo
Resource recommendations: https://www.codecademy.com/ https://codingbat.com/python https://learnpythonthehardway.org/
Lucy Wyman and Alex Dreyer join us to introduce Puppet Bolt.
Lucy is on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/LucyCWyman
The bolt project is available at https://github.com/puppetlabs/bolt
The demo from this vBrownbag presentation is available at https://github.com/puppetlabs/brownbag-demo/
Official documentation is available at https://puppet.com/docs/bolt/latest/bolt.html
The Bolt Slack Channel is #Bolt on https://puppetcommunity.slack.com
A Hands on Lab for Tasks is available at https://github.com/puppetlabs/tasks-hands-on-lab#puppet-tasks-hands-on-lab
A Puppet Bolt learning VM is available at https://learn.puppet.com/course/puppet-orchestration-bolt-and-tasks
To join the TestPilots program email testpilots AT puppet dot com
In this edition of vBrownBag we hosted vExpert Charles Adams https://twitter.com/whitehattechs who has made his career as a backup engineer. He has lessons learned from managing several large backup solutions in multi-site companies and he has delivered his talks in 3 Usercons in the US in 2018.
We had the opportunity to host him and record his talk for the internetz. Enjoy and send any questions to him via Twitter or on his blog http://www.whitehattechs.com/
Chris Williams kicks off the Python 4 DevOps series discussing the basics
Resources: Automate the Boring Stuff by Al Sweigart https://www.twitter.com/AlSweigart Modern Python 3 Bootcamp (Colt Steele) - Udemy Python for Everybody - py4e.com https://www.twitter.com/drchuck Python Crash Course (Eric Matthes) https://www.twitter.com/ehmatthes https://www.codecombat.com docs.python.org/3/tutorial wiki.python.org/main/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers Talk Python to Me podcast https://www.twitter.com/mkennedy pythontutor.com
Konrad Clapa @clapa_konrad) kicks off the new EMEA vBrownbag series around Google Cloud Platform and how to start learning it for the various GCP certifications (GCP)
Fresh off the announcement that VMware has nominated a new batch of Office of the CTO Ambassadors, one of our vBrownBag crew that received this award (Ariel Sanchez, @arielsanchezmor) hosts program heavyweight Jodi Shely @rytalws as she explains what this initiative is and how it helps the overall VMware community and its customers.
Cody, Grant and Jon join us to talk about VMware Cloud Automation Services
Cody is on twitter https://www.twitter.com/Codydearkland Grant is on twitter https://www.twitter.com/grantorchard Jon is on twitter https://www.twitter.com/vaficionado
JJ Asghar introduces Inspec-VMware and demonstrates security as code with Inspec.
Reach out to JJ at twitter.com/jjasghar
The Inspec project's website is www.inspec.io
You can find the Inspec-VMware code at https://github.com/inspec/inspec-vmware
JJ's examples are at https://github.com/jjasghar/inspec-vmware-example
Ariel Sanchez Mora joins vBrownbag to discuss updates to the open source vDocumentation software.
Find Ariel at https://twitter.com/arielsanchezmor
About vBrownBag
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https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT infrastructure and we help other people in the IT industry to better their carreers by educating. Most frequent activity is producing the vBrownBag podcast. vBrownBag also attends global conferences to produce TechTalks and theater sessions.
About vBrownBag Podcasts
The vBrownBag crew host podcasts where community members present on topics that will help others in the community. Some podcast series are aimed at helping people achieve certifications. Other podcasts help community members learn an entirely new subject area. We also cover areas like storage or automation. The podcast has been running weekly since 2010.
vBrownBag TechTalks
The vBrownBag crew love IT conferences, the only place where we actually see each other, the awesome people who are our presenters and the community members who follow the podcast. The conferences are also a great place to generate some more community learning content.
More about vBrownBag: https://vbrownbag.com/brownbags/what-is-vbrownbag/
vBrownBag US - VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager IT Devops w Bryan Halter (@pilotBryan)
Ariel Sanchez Mora walks us through using Ansible and vSphere from Zero to Useful.
Follow Ariel on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/arielsanchezmor
Chris Arceneaux presents Automating vSphere with Ansible and Gitlab CI. In the show we discussion Gitlab CI and how it can use Docker to run Ansible as a service which then gathers information out of vSphere. All code is executed live and utilizes open source and free licensing for Gitlab, Docker, and Ansible.
Chris can be found on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/chris_arceneaux Check out all code from the demo at https://www.GitLab.com/carceneaux Chris's Blog is https://www.arsano.ninja/
Ben Di Qual adds to our Azure series with a demonstration on Azure Monitoring and Operations. We take a look at the Azure dashboard and monitoring capabilities, both overall and within specific application stacks.
If you'd like to ask Ben Questions, reach out to him on Twitter @bendiq.
Mark Morowczynski joins the Microsoft Azure series to talk about Azure Active Directory
Have questions? as Mark on Twitter at https://twitter.com/markmorow
Nick Colyer and Cooper Lutz continue the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals series with Azure Automation with ARM and Terraform.
Find Nick on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/vNickC Find Cooper on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/lutz_cooper
Cooper blogs at https://cooperscloud.tech/
https://skylinesacademy.com Skyline Academy has a great offer for vBrownbag Viewers. Purchase an Azure 70-533 Certification course for 50% retail price. Enter promo code VBROWNBAG50
Eric DeBord joins us for the Azure series discussing App Services.
Eric is a contributor at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azureedu
Questions? Hit Eric up on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/ewdebord
Mike Nelson joins the Azure Foundation series to walk through troubleshooting an Azure environment.
You can find Mike on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/nelmedia
http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest-for-aws https://azurespeedtest.azurewebsites.net/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/templates/azure-resource-optimization-toolkit/
Bryan Woodworth joins the Azure Fundamentals series to discuss Networking Fundamentals with a live whiteboard session.
Connect with Bryan on linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invite-sent/bryan-woodworth-4a9aa39
Nick Colyer and Karl Rautenstrauch continue the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals series with Azure Storage.
Find Nick on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/vNickC Find Karl on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/Kloud_Karl
https://skylinesacademy.com Skyline Academy has a great offer for vBrownbag Viewers. Purchase an Azure 70-533 Certification course for 50% retail price. Enter promo code VBROWNBAG50
In this show-and-tell, interview style vBrownBag we have the pleasure of hearing from Johan van Amersfoort and his co-author Marco van Baggum on the upcoming book "The VDI Design Guide". Read more about the book here https://vhojan.nl/category/vdi-design-guide/
You can follow the realted twitter accounts for news and interaction with the authors themselves! The VDI Design Guide @vdidesignguide Johan van Amersfoort @vhojan Marco van Baggum @vMBaggum
Ben Di Qual (@bendiq) introduces Microsoft Azure and lets us know how to get started
The Azure documents can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/
Jase McCarty joins us to discuss what's new with vSAN 6.7.
Contact Jase with any questions or feedback at www.twitter.com/jasemccarty
vsan assessment https://www.vmware.com/products/hyper-converged-infrastructure/assessment.html
storage hub https://storagehub.vmware.com/
documentation portal https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSAN/index.html
HOLs https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=vsan-18-hol
Phoummala Schmitt and Theresa Miller discuss data protection in Office 365
You can find Phoummala online at https://exchangegoddess.com/ and on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/ExchangeGoddess
You can find Theresa online at https://24x7itconnection.com/ and on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/24x7ITConnect
Niran Even-Chen (twitter.com/NiranEC) joins us to talk about NSX-T and Cloud Native Applications (CNA). Watch as he proves that they work together like peanut butter and jelly.
The video includes 3 live demos!
Nigel Hickey joins us to talk about upgrading to vSphere 6.7.
Contact Nigel on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/vCenterNerd
End of General Support for vSphere 5.5 notice: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/51491 VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2006028 Supported and depreciated topologies: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147672 Update sequence for vSphere 6.5: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147289 vSphere Upgrade ebook: http://www.vmw.re/vsphere-upgrade-ebook vspherecentral.vmware.com http://www.vmw.re/65upgradetool http://www.vmware.com/go/vsphere65playlist
Mike Foley (@MikeFoley) discusses the new security features of vSphere 6.7
3:38 - ESXi and TPM 2.0 14:30 - Windows 10 & 2016 Security Features Support 35:15 - VM Encryption in HTML5 UI 40:06 - vSphere 6.7 Security Resources
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/05/vsphere-6-7-security-media-resources.html
Jad El-Zein and Cody De Arkland continue their discussion of Custom Forms in a hands on deep dive.
Jad wrote a detailed implementation guide for vRA. It is available at http://www.virtualjad.com/2017/02/vra-7-2-detailed-implementation-video-guide.html
vRA Customizing Blueprint Request Forms Documentation https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/7.4/com.vmware.vra.prepare.use.doc/GUID-7906CCD5-38D3-4ECA-BFE4-8A1BC690FD74.html
Cody De Arkland (@codydearkland) & Jad El-Zein (@virtualjad) present one of vRealize Automation 7.4's newest features: Custom Forms.
Cody's Overview Blog: https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2018/05/xaas-machine-provisioning.html
Chip Zoller's Drop Down List blog: http://www.sovsystems.com/drop-down-lists-in-vrealize-automation-from-static-to-dynamic-to-external/
vRA Customizing Blueprint Request Forms Documentation https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/7.4/com.vmware.vra.prepare.use.doc/GUID-7906CCD5-38D3-4ECA-BFE4-8A1BC690FD74.html
Kyle Ruddy (@kmruddy) joins us to discuss and demo what's new with the vSphere 6.7 APIs.
The best way to reach Kyle for question is twitter DM https://www.twitter.com/kmruddy
Have a feature request? Post it to https://powercli.ideas.aha.io/ and they will look into it!
CloudFormation, OpWorks and Elastic Beanstalk
In the fourth video in our series on studying for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Konrad Clapa (@clapa_konrad) talks about AWS CloudFormation, OpsWorks and Elastic Beanstalk.
John Studarus (@john_studarus) joins us to talk about Deploying OpenStack on ARM processors.
Github Project: https://github.com/WorksOnArm
High Performance Computing with AWS
In the third video in our series on studying for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Rick Crisci (@vrick31) goes into the things you'll need to know about EC2 instances, Resource Groups, Placement Groups, HPC, and CloudWatch Alarms!
Disaster Recovery with AWS
In the second video in our series on studying for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Rick Crisci (@vrick31) goes into the things you'll need to know about Disaster Recovery and the AWS services needed for a solid DR plan!
Joshua Stenhouse (@joshuastenhouse) walks us through a step by step tutorial consuming vSphere REST APIs using PowerShell.
Get the script on the blog https://virtuallysober.com/2018/01/04/introduction-to-powershell-rest-api-authentication/
Alastair walks through the process of deploying the Druva Phoenix backup product on his vSphere cluster and backing up some VMs. Once the backup is complete, it is time to restore some files and a whole VM. All with only 30 minutes of effort. In the next episode, the VMs will be backed up to AWS for DR and then recovered into EC2 instances. These Druva Challenge episodes are sponsored by Druva.
Thom Greene continues the "From Zero to Useful" series as he walks through configuration, design, and deployment of vRealize Operations Manager. Once configured, we dive into performing a health check of a virtual machine.
Links from the show can be found at www.thomgreene.com/vrops
Thom's blog: www.thomgreene.com Github.com/tbgree00 twitter: @tbgree00
Brett Johnson introduces the concept of infrastructure as code, CD/CD pipeline, and Git best practices.
Git Resources: Commitmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlY_hqvCmqY&list=PL2rC-8e38bUXloBOYChAl0EcbbuVjbE3t Git Documentation: https://git-scm.com/doc
Grant Orchard demonstrates using Terraform to deploy VMware VMs as code. He starts simple then introduces variables and shows how to deploy a complete application stack leveraging Terraform modules.
Check out Grant's blog series at https://grantorchard.com/infrastructure-as-code-vsphere-admin-part1/ Follow Grant on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/GrantOrchard
3:00 - Brief introduction to Terraform 16:00 - Dependency Resolution/graphviz 19:00 - Variables 34:00 - Provisioners 48:00 - Remote State 56:00 - Recommended Reading
Tony Reeves joins us to close out the 2018 Home Lab series for vBrownbag. We look into methods to assemble gear, using NFR, trial, and free licenses to add more services into your home lab, and modernizing publicly available scripts to work with vSphere 6.5.
Raphael Soeiro (@raphaelsoeiro) joins us to talk about becoming certified on Google Cloud Platform. The GCP Cloud Architect certification tests your knowledge of the google cloud product set and also common sense architectural scenarios.
Raphael introduces us to the wide world of GCP certification and describes all the resources available to become certified and prove your ability as a GCP Cloud Architect.
Britton Johnson (@vcixnv) joins us to show off his Hybrid Homelab
Check his work out at www.gigabrit.com
Steve Tilkens talks about why he created a homelab, what went into it, and demos the entire environment
Check out Steve's blog at http://www.tilkens.com and the entry about his home lab at http://www.tilkens.com/2017/08/home-lab-introduction-part-i-hardware-overview/
His lab nodes were purchased at wiredzone.com
More information about the DellEMC Unity VSA can be found at https://www.emc.com/products-solutions/trial-software-download/unity-vsa.htm
Josh Stenhouse joins the vBrownBag panel to discuss his 3 node hyperconverged homelab.
Check out the Homelab 2.0 blog at https://virtuallysober.com/2018/02/01/introducing-the-hyperconverged-home-lab-v2-0/
Greg Swift joins us to discuss using Terraform to manage Github users. Please excuse our technical difficulties with the live demo. The documents are uploaded to Github and a recorded demo will follow. Links: https://github.com/github-as-code https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/managing-github-with-terraform https://www.terraform.io/docs/
We continue the Month of Howard Marks with a history of the hard disk drive. Curious about the anatomy of a drive? Want to know where SCSI comes from? Watch to learn this and more.
You can find Howard on twitter @DeepStorageNet and visit www.deepstorage.net for more storage needs.
We kick off the Month of Howard Marks with a deep dive into the history of RAID. Watch and learn about the history of RAID, parity, and the benefits and drawbacks of each RAID level.
you can find Howard on twitter @DeepStorageNet and visit www.deepstorage.net
Konrad and Brian guide vRO and vRA administrators and developers through many of their lessons learned
Byron walks us through what a Github repo is and what makes a good repo. His example repo is here: https://github.com/byronschaller/anatomy-of-a-repo
It's beginning to look a lot like Commitmas on vBrownbag. Byron Schaller discusses using Git to trigger CI/CD events.
Ivaylo Ivanov gives an introduction to the Runecast APIs and provides a live demo
1:30 Introductions and Intro to Runecast 4:40 Why and how to use Runecast API 7:00 Live Demo
github.com/ivgivanov for code samples go to runecast.biz/register for a 15 day free trial
Anthony Chow (@vCloudernBeer) discuss OAuth2 and creates an OAuth2 website live!
Want to create your own OAuth2 live demo? Follow the tutorial here: https://www.ory.am/run-oauth2-server-open-source-api-security.html
Lior Kamrat giving an introduction to Infrastructure as Code using Packer and Terraform
Michael Gasch taking a closer look at Kubernetes following up from the overview session
Vic Camacho and Voung Pham deep dive into vSAN encryption using HyTrust KeyControl
0:00 Introductions 3:10 VSAN encryption introduction and terminologies 7:28 Overview of adding a KMS and initial setup 9:30 Difference between VSAN encryption and SED drives 13:30 Re-key, design, operational considerations 21:34 Use Cases (VM encryption vs VSAN encryption) 25:10 Day 2 considerations and KMS server availability 32:15 Learning resources 36:03 DEMO!! 53:50 wrap-up and one last thing: vxRAIL applicability
Rebecca Fitzhugh continues the API Zero to Hero series by deep diving into the Rubrik API
Kyle Ruddy discusses consuming PowerShell APIs
Link to pull request: https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-rest/pull/16
Link to Kyle's Script resources: https://github.com/kmruddy/Powershell/tree/master/vBB_PoSh_API_10252017
KyleRuddyFacts
A vBrownBag â??speed-roundâ? where we saw how much Kubernetes, OpenFaas, and vSphere API's we could cram into!
We take an empty vSphere Integrated OpenStack Kubernetes cluster, and deploy OpenFaaS on it. In itâ??s normal state, it deploys to single node, behind a port. Traditional Docker configuration.
From there, we set the replicas to a higher number - and show the cluster automatically expand to more nodes. Thats cool - but really just gives us 4 different IPs to hit for a service; so we be changed it to a LoadBalancer and watched as VIOK deployed an NSX LoadBalancer for the cluster. From there, we deployed the OpenFaaS functions, and demonstrated hitting on premises APIâ??s with the platform.
After hitting it with some load, showed how OpenFaaS scales to support the load. For the grand finale we exposed the lab to the internet and allowed the listeners to bomb the API in an attempt to crash Cody's lab. They were unsuccessful and OpenFaaS scaled to over 40 pods to handle the load!
Bhavin Shah, a VMware specialist for the AppDefense security product announced in VMworld 2017, does a deep-dive on architecture and a live demo!
This recording was done live in the 2017 NY/NJ UserCon - there will be some background noise :)
Follow him on twitter https://twitter.com/ABhavin
We talk with Clay Magourk and Navin Thandi of Oracle about the new Oracle cloud and the development of Ravello Systems products since their acquisition by Oracle.
Chris Wahl from Rubrik kicks off the API Zero to Hero series with an introduction to RESTful APIs.
Kenny Garreau discusses Docker Swarm to provide clustering, HA, and scheduling services.
Cody De Arkland talks about building integration for VMware with Amazon Echo using VMware's APIs.
Using Python, Flask, NodeJS, Echo Skills, and Visual Studio Code.
In this Docker 101 episode, Kenny Garreau provides you with the basics on Docker and containers.
The CTO Advisor, Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor on Twitter) joins the vBrownBag to discuss serverless infrastructure.
Show Notes: - Intro (3:35) - But wait, there are servers! (4:20) - Developer needs (5:05) - Decision points (19:30) - Event driven computing (21:40) - Code overview (29:25) - Available solutions (40:20) - Hybrid Concerns (46:15) - On-Premises solutions (51:20) - Hybrid options (52:10) - Close Out (1:04:00)
Cody De Arkland is back with a vengeance to wrap up the unintended VIC trilogy. As you can/have seen in part two many of the demos did not go as intended (not the worst thing to happen from a learning perspective by the way).
In this episode, Cody "fixed the glitch" with the demos - enjoy!
VCAP6-DCV Design Objective 3.5 Determine Virtual Machine Configuration for a vSphere 6.x Physical Design with Mike Burkhart (@vMikeB)
Cody De Arkland, in part two aims to show you how to administer vSphere Integrated Containers, but runs into some challenges. This episode has been posted in the spirit of learning through trial and error.
Interviewing for a job is tough. It's the equivalent of deciding if you want to get married during the first date.
In this episode, Rebecca Fitzhugh (mock) interviews Thom Greene to help you understand interviewing strategies.
Cody De Arkland shows you how to install and configure VMware Integrated Containers (VIC).
vBrownBag EMEA - VCAP6-DCV Design Objective 2.2 � Map Service Dependencies with Rebecca Fitzhugh @RebeccaFitzhugh
Tim Davis wraps up the mini NSX ninja series discussing Edge Gateways (ESG) and Distributed Firewall (DFW).
Show Notes About vBrownBag - Edge Integrated Network Services (3:00) - Edge network palcement - (4:50) - Edge Summary (6:00) - Edge vs Distributed Firewall (10:30) - Edge Sizing (11:30) - Interface based routing (12:40) - Edge Load Balancer (14:20) - Site to Site and User VPN (17:00) - Edge HA (19:50) - Distribted Firewall Features and Overview (23:30) - DFW Policy Enforcement (29:30) - DFW Data Path (30:20) - Policy Rule Objects (33:40) - DFW Management (36:00) - DFW Sections (38:00) - Object fields (39:20) - NSX-V Design Basics (44:00)
Tim Davis talks VMware NSX switching and routing in this #vBrownBag episode.
Show Notes: - VXLAN logical switching with NSX (1:45) - VXLAN protocol overview (6:40) - VDS and VXLAN (11:10) - Traffic flow on VXLAN backed VDCS (14:00) - VLXAN for NSX system architecture (22:30) - Cluster preparation (23:25) - NSX replication modes (24:20) - NSX logical routing (29:50)
About vBrownBag
https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT infrastructure and we help other people in the IT industry to better their carreers by educating. Most frequent activity is producing the vBrownBag podcast. vBrownBag also attends global conferences to produce TechTalks and theater sessions.
More about vBrownBag: https://vbrownbag.com/brownbags/what-is-vbrownbag/
Tim Davis from VMware kicks off the mini-NSX ninja series with a focus on the components used by NSX to enable virtual networking.
Show notes: - Network virtualization (2:35) - Without network virtualization (3:27) - Data center virtualization (4:10) - Operational model of a VM (4:49) - Demo - NSX and vRA (6:04) - Multi-tier networks (7:58) - Virtual switching (8:36 - 21:24) - Security services and policies (21:41 - 31:47) - Component overview (37:49) - NSX components (40:00) - NSX Manager (43:29) - NSX Controller (44:17) - Controller roles (44:56) - User world agents (49:35) - NSX vSwitch and NSX Edge (50:00) - Deployment (51:00)
About vBrownBag
https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT infrastructure and we help other people in the IT industry to better their carreers by educating. Most frequent activity is producing the vBrownBag podcast. vBrownBag also attends global conferences to produce TechTalks and theater sessions.
More about vBrownBag: https://vbrownbag.com/brownbags/what-is-vbrownbag/
vBrownBag EMEA VCAP-DCV Objective 3.2 - Create a vSphere 6.x Physical Network Design from an Existing Logical Design with Tim Davis, Face of #vExpertNSX
vBrownBag EMEA - VCAP6-DVC Objective 2.7 - Build Security Requirements into a vSphere 6.x Logical Design with Larus Hjartarson
Keith Townsend, @CTOAdvisor on Twitter, presents Domain 6.0 of the Amazon AWS Certified SysOps Administrator exam.
Show Notes: - Blueprint review (3:27) - Additional training resources (7:20) - Shared responsibility (9:53) - Audits and compliance (20:10) - Governance (22:00) - Identity and Access Management - IAM (34:12) - Demo (35:30) - S3 Encryption and Access (52:41)
Eric Santelices covers domain 4.0 of the Amazon AWS Certified SysOps Administrator exam blueprint, deployment and provisioning.
vBrownBag EMEA - VCAP6-DCV Design Objective 2.4 with Jason Grierson @JasonTweet7889 and Ron Wedel @FD_Hauza
Please see the slides in Jason's blog post which include links to the resources used to make this presentation.
http://vmusketeers.com/2017/03/29/vcap-dcv-design-vbrownbag-section-2-4/
As always, reach out to the presenters on twitter to let them know you appreciate their content!
Tim Carr discusses the objectives for Domain 3.0 of the Amazon AWS Certified SysOps Administrator exam, covering analysis.
- What are we going to cover (3:49)
- Disclaimer - AWS is constantly changing! (6:05)
- Exam tips (7:35)
- Examples (11:04)
- EC2 Status Checks (13:00)
- EC2 Auto Scaling Scheduling (18:13)
- EC2 Placement Groups (21:18)
- EC2 Initial Placement (24:16)
- EBS Performance (25:48)
- RDS (28:51)
- Mutli-AZ vs Read Repliaca Databases (32:45)
- Route 53 Policies (39:20)
- ELB Pre-warming (42:17)
- Instance Networking Bottlenecks (43:30)
- Networking Security Groups & NACL (44:40)
- VPC Configuration Scenarios (49:06)
Originally published by https://vbrownbag.com
vBrownBag EMEA - Cloud Native Applications Photon & Photon Controller w Cormac Hogan (@cormacjhogan)
Recorded in July 2016, mislayed until now!
Bryan Krausen discusses the objectives for Domain 2.0 of the Amazon AWS Certified SysOps Administrator exam, covering high availability, elasticity, and fault tolerance.
- Scalability; Scaling Up (3:00)
- Scale Up; Pros and Cons (4:30)
- Scalability; Scaling Out (7:20)
- Scale Out; Pros and Cons (8:50)
- How to Scale Out (13:00)
- Elasticity (13:41)
- Fault Tolerance (17:53)
- Availability Zones and Regions (19:00)
- Fault Tolerance w EC2 using ELB & AutoScaling (23:50)
- Fault Tolerance S3 (28:00)
- Fault Tolerance Networking (30:40)
- Fault Tolerance RDS (35:40)
- HA vs Cost (40:00)
Bryan Krausen discusses the objectives for Domain 2.0 of the Amazon AWS Certified SysOps Administrator exam, covering high availability, elasticity, and fault tolerance. - Scalability; Scaling Up (3:00) - Scale Up; Pros and Cons (4:30) - Scalability; Scaling Out (7:20) - Scale Out; Pros and Cons (8:50) - How to Scale Out (13:00) - Elasticity (13:41) - Fault Tolerance (17:53) - Availability Zones and Regions (19:00) - Fault Tolerance w EC2 using ELB & AutoScaling (23:50) - Fault Tolerance S3 (28:00) - Fault Tolerance Networking (30:40) - Fault Tolerance RDS (35:40) - HA vs Cost (40:00)
Jase McCarty discuss vSAN sizing and design considerations
- Traditional storage solutions (2:10)
- VMware vSAN storage (2:45)
- vSAN objects and components (4:25)
- vSAN vs traditional storage (6:30)
- Next gen hardware (8:00)
- Boot devices (9:50)
- Storage controllers (11:20)
- Controller pass-through (HBA mode) (15:00)
- Hybrid vs All-Flash Architecture (16:43)
- Hybrid flash sizing (30:20)
- All-Flash sizing (31:15)
- Caching guidelines (32:00)
- HDD support (33:12)
- Disk groups (34:50)
- Compute (37:10)
- Network myths (41:25)
- vSAN and networking (46:27)
- vSAN Network Troubleshooting, & Hardware Monitoring (50:51)
vBrownBag US vSphere Validated Designs ep1 with Ryan Johnson @tenthirtyam and Nick Marshall @nickmarshall9
Kyle Ruddy talks about what's new with PowerCLI 6.5 @kmruddy
- What is PowerCLI (2:55)
- VMware PowerCLI - what's in a name! (4:40)
- Module based (6:35)
- Cross vCenter vMotion with PowerCLI (8:40)
- DEMO! Cross vCenter vMotion (11:45)
- PowerCLI for vSAN & Storage (15:30)
- DEMO! PowerCLI for vSAN (16:45)
- Improved virtual disk management (22:30)
- VVOL Replication (23:50)
- PowerCLI for Horizon View (24:40)
- Accessing vSphere Automation API in PowerCLI (29:10)
- Other PowerCLI Resources (32:30)
- PowerCLI Community Repository (38:00)
- PowerCLI Flings (41:00)
- PowerCLI Core (46:57)
- PowerCLI Poster (48:20)
vBrownBag EMEA - VCAP6-DVCV Design Objective 1.3 with Rebecca Fitzhugh @RebeccaFitzhugh
We continue the What's New in vSphere 6.5 vBrownBag series with Matthew Meyer, discussing new features in availability, and resource management features.
Show Notes: Availability and Resource Management Features for vSphere 6.5
Presenter: Matthew Meyer Twitter: @mattdemeyer
- Proactive HA (2:35)
- Quarantine Mode (3:44)
- HA Restart Priorities (11:58)
- HA Orchestrated Restart (13:15)
- VM Groups (19:15)
- Simplified Admission Control (20:45)
- Fault Tolerance (34:00)
- DRS Additional Options (38:40)
- Network Aware DRS (44:30)
vBrownBag US - Whats new in vSphere 6.5 - vCenter Server Appliance with Emad Younis @emad_younis
vBrownBag EMEA - VCAP6-DCV Design Objectiove 1.1 with Jason Grierson @JasonTweet7889 and Gregg Robertson @GreggRobertson5
vBrownBag US -Whats new in vSphere 6.5 - Overview of vSphere and vCenter with Adam Eckerle @eck79
vBrownBag US - Writing a good README.md file for your Git repo with Mike Marseglia @mmars
vBrownBag US - Curating a group of people that build tools together #Commitmas with Matthew Brender @mjbrender
vBrownBag US - Forking public work, committing to it, managing the PR process #Commitmas with Safia Abdalla @captainsafia
vBrownBag US - Lessons Learning Writing the DevOps Hand Book with Gene Kim @realgenekim
vBrownBag EMEA - VCAP6-CMA Design Section 1 - Create a vRealize Automation Conceptual Design - Frank B�¼chsel @fbuechsel
vBrownBag US - SAP HANA on VSAN with Keith Townsend @ctoadvisor and Rawlinson Rivera @punchingclouds
Keith Townsend, @CTOAdvisor on Twitter, joins the vBrownBag to discuss the path to becoming an architect.
Objectives - Identify the appropriate techniques and methods using AWS technologies â?? Configure AMIâ??s and launch instances across AWS infrastructure â?? Configure services to support compliance requirements in the cloud â?? Configure IAM policies and best practices â?? Identify & Configure Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, and OpsWorks for appropriate use cases
Objectives - Recognize and implement secure practices for optimum cloud deployment and maintenance â?? AWS shared responsibility model, AWS administration and security services, AWS CloudTrail â?? Ingress vs. egress filtering, and which AWS services and features fit â?? CloudWatch Logs
vBrownBag US - AWS SA Associate - Domain 1 Part 5 with Alastair Cooke @DemitasseNZ
Objectives - Elasticity and scalability â?? Auto Scaling â?? SQS â?? Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) â?? Cloud Front
vBrownBag US AWS SA Associate - Domain 1 Part 4 with Christopher Williams @mistwire
Designing highly available, cost-efficent, fault-toleration, scalable systems Objectives - Hybrid IT architectures â?? Direct Connect â?? Storage Gateway â?? VPC â?? Directory Services
vBrownBag US - AWS SA Associate - Domain 1 Part 3 with Timothy Patterson @awschamp
Designing highly available, cost efficient, fault tolerant, scalable systems.
vBrownBag US - AWS SA Associate - Domain 1 Part 2 with Timmy Carr @timmycarr
Designing highly available, cost efficient, fault tolerant, scalable systems