Episode 223: What’s a Terraform? - a podcast by Software Defined Talk LLC

Coté finally learns what HashiCorp does. Also, yellow rubber gloves.
Mood Board:Blur my foreground, that’s what I want.
No YodasLot of rubber gloves in your youth?
I have never really enjoyed a Steven King book.Maybe it’s for the Rip Van Winkle set
You watch Netflix, you should watch more Netflix.I don’t need your recommendations, don’t tell me how to live my life.
It was like a bunch of Duplo blocks in a junior high theater class.As someone said: teams is like a front-end to Sharepoint
The screenshot they showed was kind of like Teams.Why can’t they make it 100% OK?
You’ve got a big TV, put me on it!Relevant to your interests
Microsoft Teams vs. Zoom vs. SkypeDoes anyone really know what the deal is with this JEDI thing? - The Pentagon says it 'wishes to reconsider' the award to Microsoft of the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/pentagon-reconsider-jedi-microsoft-amazon-web-services-2020-3?r=US&IR=T)
HashiCorp - Vagrant sure is valuable!HashiCorp Scores $175M Funding Round, $5B Valuation (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/hashicorp-scores-175m-funding-round-5b-valuation/2020/03/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral)
Exclusive: DevOps unicorn HashiCorp could be valued at $5.25B in new round (https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/devops-company-hashicorp-seeks-525b-valuation-in-new-round)Rancher - EDGE, BABY!
Rancher Labs Raises $40 Million Series D Round to Accelerate Growth of Its Kubernetes Management Platform (https://rancher.com/press/rancher-labs-raises-series-d-fundraising-to-accelerate-growth-of-kubernetes-management-platform)Platform9 Announces Freedom for Kubernetes Users with New, 'Freedom' and 'Growth' SaaS-Managed Kubernetes Plans (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/platform9-announces-freedom-for-kubernetes-users-with-new-freedom-and-growth-saas-managed-kubernetes-plans-301025164.html)
npm is joining GitHub - The GitHub Blog (https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/)Next Phase Montage (https://blog.npmjs.org/post/612764866888007680/next-phase-montage?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=84796364&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_EuORWSkYIHmS8nqMc0WCk8B2JPOcD3eOpqljJX0aaD_hQpOJ2QucYIFMw8Z8vsLz1_j2JZjRSHbvrbZVXqW2h80901EglStEJDlhLyQmH1NcjGSk&_hsmi=84796364)
CNCF starts new artifact hub (https://devclass.com/2020/03/12/cncf-starts-new-artifact-hub/) - “pre-alpha stadium.”Using 6 Page and 2 Page Documents To Make Organizational Decisions (https://medium.com/@inowland/using-6-page-and-2-page-documents-to-make-organizational-decisions-3216badde909)
Book review: The Real Deal - technology deal making in the 2020's (https://diginomica.com/book-review-real-deal-technology-deal-making-2020s)Apple announces online-only WWDC 2020 due to coronavirus spread (https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21175785/wwdc-2020-online-only-apple-keynote-announced-coronavirus)
Righting a Wrong: IBM is a Leader in the Cloud... (http://blog.enterprisemanagement.com/righting-a-wrong-ibm-is-a-leader-in-the-cloud)Trump Surprised Google With a Bogus Coronavirus Site Claim (https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-donald-trump-google-website/)
Google: G Suite now has 2 billion users (https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-g-suite-now-has-2-billion-users/)Coronavirus quarantine enforced for all people entering Australia, lockdowns on the table (https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-15/coronavirus-covid19-self-isolation-announced-for-australia/12057772?pfmredir=sm)
Coronavirus Will Change How We Shop, Travel and Work for Years (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/coronavirus-will-change-how-we-shop-travel-and-work-for-years)Microsoft Teams goes down just as Europe logs on to work remotely (https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/16/21181300/microsoft-teams-down-outage-europe-remote-working-coronavirus?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter)
NSW govt pledges to introduce mandatory data breach reporting (https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nsw-govt-pledges-to-introduce-mandatory-data-breach-reporting-539109)What’s in a Name? How Pivotal’s Products Are Being Renamed as Part of VMware Tanzu (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/pivotal-platform-vmware-tanzu)
Announcing OpenShift Serverless 1.5.0 Tech Preview - A sneak peek of our GA (https://blog.openshift.com/announcing-openshift-serverless-1-5-0-tech-preview-a-sneak-peek-of-our-ga/)Google indefinitely delays the digital version of its Cloud Next conference (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/3/17/21183701/google-cloud-next-delay-indefinitely-coronavirus-digital-event-postponed)
Microsoft starts a grand unification attempt with .NET 5 (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/17/dotnet_5_preview_1/)Apple unveils new iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support in iPadOS (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/03/apple-unveils-new-ipad-pro-with-lidar-scanner-and-trackpad-support-in-ipados/)
Spectro Cloud Launches With $7.5 Million to Help Enterprises Realize the Promise of Kubernetes (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/03/17/2002043/0/en/Spectro-Cloud-Launches-With-7-5-Million-to-Help-Enterprises-Realize-the-Promise-of-Kubernetes.html)Not just video-conferencing apps taking a dive: IBM Cloud hit by partial Tuesday outage (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/17/ibm_cloud_tuesday_partial_outage/)
Ansible DevOps comes to the mainframe (https://www.zdnet.com/article/ansible-devops-comes-to-the-mainframe/)Mainframe Developers Get Boost From BMC Acquisition Of Compuware (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/mainframe-developers-get-boost-from-bmc-acquisition-of-compuware/)
Non SenseHow Much Toilet Paper?! The Coronavirus Toilet Paper Calculator (https://howmuchtoiletpaper.com/)
You can now get alcohol delivered with your food when you order from Texas restaurants, Gov. Abbott says (https://www.click2houston.com/news/politics/2020/03/19/you-can-get-alcohol-delivered-with-your-food-when-you-order-from-texas-restaurants-gov-abbott-says/)Sponsors
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Outro: “They’ll work until the very last minute,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmRv1De7Hjs&t=231s) Dune.

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