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Day Two DevOps
Join hosts Ned Bellavance and Kyler Middleton as they dive deep into the challenges of DevOps from the perspective of seasoned practitioners. You'll hear from expert guests—technical leaders, trainers, and consultants with years of hands-on experience—discussing the nuances of DevOps. From AWS to Azure, networking to security, automation to modern cloud environments, each weekly episode equips you with the insights to confidently address tech and business challenges such as resilience, cost…
Episodes
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Day Two Cloud 140: Troubleshooting Cloud Outages With End-To-End Visibility (Sponsored)
On today’s sponsored Day Two Cloud episode with Cisco ThousandEyes, we discuss how to monitor what’s broken in public cloud services. With the right…
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Day Two Cloud 139: Azure Bicep Is (Not) ARM
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast gets into Azure Bicep, a language that IT teams can use to deploy Azure resources in a consistent manner. While Bicep is…
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Day Two Cloud 138: Rethinking Logs And Analysis With vRealize Log Insight Cloud (Sponsored)
VMware is our sponsor today for a Day Two Cloud episode about logging. Specifically, we're talking about vRealize Log Insight Cloud. It’s not just about…
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Day Two Cloud 137: Automating Windows Container Builds
Today's Day Two Cloud gets into the weeds of a real-world project build around Windows containers. Windows containers? Yes, the goal was to run a particular…
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Day Two Cloud 136: The Role And Responsibilities Of A Kubernetes Operator (Sponsored)
Today on the Day Two Cloud podcast we examine the role and responsibilities of Kubernetes operators; that is, the humans in charge of running Kubernetes…
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Day Two Cloud 135: Infrastructure As Code Should Foster Infrastructure As Collaboration
On today's Day Two Cloud we examine why Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is about more than the just the tools that enable it. Guest Rob Hirschfeld puts forth the…
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Day Two Cloud 134: Simplifying Infrastructure Access With StrongDM (Sponsored)
Today's Day Two Cloud is a sponsored episode with StrongDM, which helps engineers and IT professionals get access to databases, servers, Kubernetes clusters…
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Day Two Cloud 133: Tips For Tech Interview Success
Today on the Day Two Cloud podcast we offer tips and advice for those on the job market, from finding new opportunities, building a professional network…
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Day Two Cloud 132: What Web3 Means For Infrastructure Engineers
Web3 is the term for an emerging technology movement that aims to create a more decentralized Internet and put more ownership in the hands of individual users…
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Day Two Cloud 131: Monitoring The Cloud From The Cloud
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast delves into issues about monitoring all the things, including the notion of monitoring the cloud...from the cloud. Ned Bellavance…
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Day Two Cloud 130: Getting Started With OpenShift For Kubernetes Orchestration
On today's Day Two Cloud we have a career conversation with Angela Andrews, a Solution Architect at Red Hat. Angela provides an introduction to OpenShift, a…
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Day Two Cloud 129: Practical Advice On Optimizing Cloud Costs
Optimizing cloud costs means more than looking at your bill and hunting down unused instances. It's about understanding the full lifecycle of cloud workloads…
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Day Two Cloud 128: DevOps’ing All The Things
Today is a deeply technical episode on DevOps, Azure, Docker, Terraform, and more. Our guest is Kyler Middleton, Principal DevOps Network Architect. Kyler is…
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Day Two Cloud 127: Avoiding Infrastructure As Code (IaC) Pitfalls
There are a lot of good things you can do with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automation, repeatability, and ease of operations and development. But there…
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Day Two Cloud 126: Azure Arc And Building A Hybrid Cloud
On today's Day Two Cloud, we dig into Azure Arc and the construction of hybrid clouds with guest Ben Weissman, a consultant, author, and Pluralsight creator.
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Day Two Cloud 125: Scanning Infrastructure-as-Code For Security Issues
It's always better to catch misconfigurations and security issues earlier in your pipeline rather than later. That's especially true for cloud services where a…
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Day Two Cloud 124: New Cloud Security Thinking
Today on Day Two Cloud, we talk about new ways of thinking about security for cloud. As organizations adopt cloud services, they're applying on-prem security…
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Day Two Cloud 123: Managing Multi-Cloud Applications And Infrastructure With vRealize Operations Cloud (Sponsored)
Welcome to Day Two Cloud, where the topic is visibility. Hybrid cloud visibility with a side of Kubernetes, to be specific. VMware has come alongside as…
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Day Two Cloud 122: Two Customer Journeys To VMware Cloud (Sponsored)
Ethan Banks and Ned Bellavance hosted a panel discussion at VMworld 2021 with two VMware customers using VMware Cloud---the University of Miami and Sterling…
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Day Two Cloud 121: Building Cool Things With GraphQL And AWS AppSync
Today's Day Two Cloud is a nerdy show on GraphQL and AWS AppSync and what you can do with these tools. Our guest is Amrut Patil, a senior software engineer…
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Day Two Cloud 120: Web Assembly, K8s Rivals, And Other Cloud Computing Trends
On today's Day Two Cloud we talk trends and predictions in cloud computing, including emerging technologies such as Web assembly, rivals to Kubernetes, and the…
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Day Two Cloud 119: Unifying Multi-Cloud Security With Valtix (Sponsored)
Ethan Banks & Ned Bellavance have a tech discussion with CEO Doug Murray and CTO Vishal Jain about multi-cloud security startup Valtix. Along the way, we…
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Day Two Cloud 118: Growing Your Open-Source Community
How does a company building a product from an open-source project get off the ground? How does it communicate its value, attract contributors, and develop a…
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Day Two Cloud 117: How Akamai Helped Transform IBM Cloud Console’s Architecture (Sponsored)
Today on the Day Two Cloud podcast we have a sponsored show with Akamai and a customer, IBM Cloud. When IBM rebuilt its Cloud Console from a monolithic…
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Day Two Cloud 116: Emotional Intelligence, Hard Conversations, And Other Essential Management Skills
Guest Shelley Benhoff stops by the Day Two Cloud podcast to discuss essential skills for moving into tech management, and how to decide if management is the…
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Day Two Cloud 115: Software-Defined Interconnects With Console Connect (Sponsored)
Today's Day Two Cloud sponsored episode dives into software-defined interconnects. The big idea is that you go up to a Web browser, click a few times, and now…
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Day Two Cloud 114: Successfully Transitioning From A Tech Role To Management
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast topic is about moving from a tech role into management. Is it a good idea? Why might you want to make the change? How can you do…
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Day Two Cloud 113: Multi-Cloud Network Visibility And Automation With Aviatrix (Sponsored)
Today's Day Two Cloud episode dives into multi-cloud networking with sponsor Aviatrix. Aviatrix offers a cloud network platform with a common data plane and…
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Day Two Cloud 112: Complex Multi-Cloud Networking
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast discusses the challenges of stitching together a fabric across more than one public cloud. How do you architect a fabric given…
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Day Two Cloud 111: Infrastructure As Software With Kris Nóva
Kris Nóva, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Twilio, claims that managing infrastructure using tools like Terraform isn't that far away from just writing…
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Day Two Cloud 110: Automation’s Unintended Consequences – The Bunny.net Outage Saga
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast walks through a massive outage that hit CDN provider Bunny.net. An automated update triggered cascading failures that essentially…
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Day Two Cloud 109: PacketFabric Wants To Make Networking As Easy As Cloud (Sponsored)
Today's sponsored Day Two Cloud episode talks WAN networking with PacketFabric. PacketFabric lets you provision point-to-point and hybrid cloud connectivity as…
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Day Two Cloud 108: Putting The Dev In DevOps
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast dives into Cloud Development Kits (CDKs). How do CDKs differ from tools such as Terraform? What are the selling points for CDKs…
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Day Two Cloud 107: Making The Management Mistake
Today on the Day Two Cloud podcast, Ethan and Ned discuss two new AWS courses from Ned, and then tell stories about the time they took management jobs they…
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Day Two Cloud 106: Towards A More Open Cloud
On today's Day Two Cloud we discuss the notion of open cloud. The premise is about reducing or minimizing costs of migrating from a public cloud. In theory…
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Day Two Cloud 105: How The Fly.io Cloud Brings Apps Closer To Users
Fly.io is a public cloud that can run your applications all over the world. The goal of Fly.io is to allow developers to self-service complicated…
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Day Two Cloud 104: Cloud Is No Escape From Your Data Center Dumpster Fire
IT and business leaders need to be more nuanced in their approach to the cloud. On today's Day Two Cloud podcast, guest Melissa Palmer discusses why cloud hype…
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Day Two Cloud 103: Scality ARTESCA Is More Than An Object Store (Sponsored)
On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we talk storage with sponsor Scality about its ARTESCA platform, cloud-native object storage for modern workloads. It…
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Day Two Cloud 102: Edge Cloud Isn’t Magic
Today we're talking Edge Cloud. Guest Alex Marcham has written a book on the subject and we'll get his take on edge infrastructure, what edge cloud is all…
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Day Two Cloud 101: Closing The Network/Cloud Gap Before You Fall In (Sponsored)
On today's episode, sponsored by BlueCat Networks, we examine the technology and human challenges that arise when you integrate on-prem and the public cloud…
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Day Two Cloud 100: Get To Know Crossplane: An Infrastructure Control Plane For K8s
Crossplane is an open-source project that plugs into Kubernetes to serve as a control plane that can run across multiple private and public clouds. It allows…
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Day Two Cloud 099: Can Cloud Computing Get Simpler?
We're a good ten years into public cloud as an industry, and cloud operations don't seem to be getting any simpler. Why is that? Is it a problem? If so, can…
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Day Two Cloud 098: Cloud Centers Of Excellence – Should You Have One?
A fractured cloud strategy causes headaches such as duplicated services, unnecessary costs, poor security controls, and other problems. A cloud center of…
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Day Two Cloud 097: Azure Cloud Networking Essentials
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast explores essential networking capabilities in Azure, including Virtual WAN, VPN gateways, availability zones, SSL termination…
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Day Two Cloud 096: Public Cloud Isn’t Wrong. You Are.
Today's Day Two Cloud is a wide-ranging discussion about the value of public cloud, a response to the growing backlash toward cloud cost and complexity, and…
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Day Two Cloud 095: Grappling With The Open Source Business Model
Today on Day Two Cloud we get into a whole lot of things. For example, what is IT's value in the age of cloud? How can IT figure out what's actually providing…
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Day Two Cloud 094: Essential Concepts Of Zero Trust
Today's Day Two Cloud episode aims to pick apart the marketing fluff around Zero Trust (there's a lot of it) to uncover a workable definition, discuss the…
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Day Two Cloud 093: Application Modernization With VMware (Sponsored)
Today’s Day Two Cloud tackles application modernization with sponsor VMware. As new application platforms such as containers and the public cloud take…
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Day Two Cloud 092: What AWS Lambda Is Good For
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast is a thorough introduction to AWS Lambda, which is AWS's serverless compute service. We discuss how Lamdba works, what it can do…
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Day Two Cloud 091: BGP School For Cloud People
On today's Day Two Cloud, Ethan Banks and Ned Bellavance dive into essentials about BGP including why it's so widely used, concepts such as the Autonomous…
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Day Two Cloud 090: Hashicorp Vault For Beginners
HashiCorp Vault is a management tool that stores and controls access to sensitive data (passwords, certificates, API keys, and so on). Today's Day Two Cloud is…
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Day Two Cloud 089: Connect All The Cloud Things – AWS Networking In 2021
Network engineer and AWS product manager Nick Matthews visits the Day Two Cloud podcast to talk about the newest cloud networking capabilities in AWS. We also…
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Day Two Cloud 088: The Tech Recruiter – Friend Or Foe?
Our guest is Taylor Desseyn, Sr. Recruiter Advocate at Vaco. Taylor knows tech recruiting forwards and backwards. He gives us an insider's view of how…
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Day Two Cloud 087: Inside The World Of A Technical Marketer
Engineers are skeptical of vendor marketing, which is typically heavy on buzzwords and light on actual information. But technical marketing tries to change…
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Day Two Cloud 086: AWS Succession – Does It Matter Who’s The Next CEO?
AWS needs a new CEO now that Andy Jassy has been tapped to run the Amazon mothership. Does the cloud giant need a high-powered, Type-A successor to drive AWS's…
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Day Two Cloud 085: Hosting Your Infrastructure Code In The Cloud
Let’s say I host my Infrastructure as Code provisioning stuff locally. It works. It’s nearby. I feel in control. Are there good reasons I should move that…
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Day Two Cloud 084: So You Want To Be A Consultant
Today's Day Two Cloud gets into consulting. How do you start? What does the job entail? Is it a good job to have? How do you build a client base? There are so…
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Day Two Cloud 083: Should Cloud Be A Public Utility?
Computing power is a vital part of modern life. Should access to that power be more equitably distributed? Is there a role for a public-utility-style cloud…
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Day Two Cloud 082: You Don’t Need A Service Mesh
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast speaks with the creator of the Envoy proxy, Matt Klein, about the challenges of networking, load balancing, and service discovery…
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Day Two Cloud 081: Abstractions Should Save Typing, Not Thinking
Today's Day Two Cloud episode is part one of a two-part show on abstractions. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks riff on the idea that "Abstractions are…