Eric Raisters on the CLC Security team joins Jonathan Townsend to talk all things security on the cloud and how the cloud handles new security measures, how CSPs develop their protocols, the merging of Security processes with DevOps culture and what role the customer plays in developing and maintaining security in a cloud-based environment.…

This podcast episode features Jessica Weber and Jonathan Townsend from the CLC Content Team based in STL talking to Jon Tait and Joe Pritzel of the Backup Team about Simple Backup Service, its key features, capabilities, service details, and other functionality-based elements.

On this Cloud Talk episode, the Content Team at CenturyLink Cloud talks about the team's roles and responsibilities within the CLC organization. The team works with a diverse range of platform teams to generate, edit, and curate documentation for internal and external consumption, education, and communication. The Content Team operates on a wide ar…

On this CenturyLink Cloud Podcast Principal Data Scientist, Ryan Kirk who’s based in the CenturyLink Cloud offices in Bellevue, Washington joins us to chat about the Internet of Things (IoT) and Capacity Planning. Ryan sheds some light on what he as his team are currently working on and what products, programs, and ideas are currently in use. Ryan …

Jon Townsend (Content Team) and Christine Parr (Relational DB Product Owner) talk about Relational Database while focusing on a. Our team is responsible for building out the database as a service product with a focus on relational database engines like: MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle. The team released its first database engine in late January of this yea…

We had a chance to sit down with Principal Engineer, Bob Stolzberg, who spoke about all things Ecosystem. One of Bob's main functions within the CenturyLink Cloud organizations is to work with other third party companies and vendors better known as 'partners' to integrate their technology with the platform at CenturyLink Cloud via automation to ult…

What is Docker Swarm and Docker Compose? Find out today by listening to Docker's Product Manager explain these new projects.

Docker is not the only Linux Container manager available. Recently, CoreOS launched their own project named Rocket which has some architecturally different approaches to managing containers. This week, we interview the brain behind Rocket to ask what is Rocket and why they built it.

Deis is a Platform as a Service that uses Docker and so it makes Docker application development very easy to use and very familiar if you know something like Heroku. It is very similar to a Heroku-like system. This week we brought Deis' founder back on the show to tell us about what's new including the latest changes to the public-facing APIs and f…

VirtKick wraps awkard virtualization technology in a convenient, usable panel. VirtKick does to open source what DigitalOcean did to SaaS. Simplicity and privacy are their core goals. The project is currently alpha and the code is on GitHub - https://github.com/virtkick

Wynn Netherland is a developer, an author, and all around geek. He currently works at GitHub on APIs and other things. He has co-authored or contributed to several books, including Sass and Compass in Action, Open Government, and ASP.NET Custom Controls.

What if your laptop asked you which core you would like to run Word in today? Sounds archaic, but that's the current state of the art with server infrastructure. You still have to pick with virtual machine you want to put your Rails app in. Florian Leibert's mission at Mesosphere is to create a smart infrastructure mesh that lets developers no long…

Cloud Foundry is one of the oldest and most mature open-source PaaS frameworks out there, and a lot has changed since last time you saw it. For example, Diego is a small Go scheduler that can use Docker independently of installing all of Cloud Foundry to get started. Listen to this week's episode to get a better sense of all that has changed since …

Will it scale? This is the guiding question for Pantheon (https://www.getpantheon.com/) CTO David Strauss, whose all-for-one-and-one-for-all improvements to web infrastructure have made the largest content sites in the world more scalable and secure, while saving developers thousands of hours in manual updates. Pantheon is a platform service for Dr…

You probably own at least a few O’Reilly books. You know, the ones with the animals on the cover? O’Reilly Media is well known to put out the highest quality technical books on the market. Does Docker not only change DevOps, but could it change the way we fundamentally learn technology? What does the future of technical books look like? With the ri…

How do you do databases with Docker? Or for that matter, how do you do anything that stores persistent data in Docker? Sure you can attach a volume container to your application container, but that doesn’t scale and it makes your container dependent on your host, which is not ideal if you have a multi-server Docker cluster.…

What is NPS and how do you use it to get critical feedback on whatever you are working on.

RedHat and specifically the OpenShift team was an early adopter of Docker technology. OpenShift Online 3 (the hosted service) and OpenShift Origin (the open-source part of OpenShift) of was recently released. This week we talked to Krishnan Subramanian (director of OpenShift Strategy @krishnan on twitter) and Clayton Coleman (lead engineer for Open…

This week we spoke to a leading member of the Docker community, James Turnbull. James is the VP of Services & Support at Docker and also the author of The Docker Book http://dockerbook.com He's the authoritative brain-to-pick when it comes to all things Docker.

Sandstorm.io uses Linux Containers but NOT Docker to make it super easy for you to deploy web-based apps like blogs and webmail. In this episode we will figure out why they don't use Docker, what they are going to do with the $50,000 they are crowdsourcing right now, and what the future of Linux Containers looks like without Docker.…

This week is special, we are talking with Lucas about the recent launch of Panamax and the $100,000 contest with Mac Pro giveaway.

I am proud to call Colin Humphreys, Founder of CloudCredo a friend of mine. I worked with him while building AppFog and now he has started his own company that does Cloud Foundry consulting and services, including bridging the gaps between Cloud Foundry and Docker. Because of Colin’s work, a couple weeks ago the Cloud Foundry team announced an offi…

Jeff Lindsay is one of the most prolific people in the Docker ecosystem. He not only wrote Dokku and contributed to Flynn, two of the most popular Docker PaaS technologies out there, but he is busy creating technologies right now that we are all likely to adopt within the next 6-12 months. Here are just a few of the questions I ask him in this week…

This week we discuss the future of Docker hosting with one of the pioneers in the Docker hosting space: Borja Burgos. Borja started Tutum, which is one of the world's first pure Linux Container hosters. For as little as $4/month you can get a Linux Container managed by Tutum. Here are just some of the questions from this week's interview: * Tell us…

This week we discuss the future of CI/CD with Shippable founder and CEO, Avi Cavale. * Tell us about your background * Tell us about Shippable and who should use it? * How is Shippable 2.5x Faster than other hosted CI/CD services? * How does Shippable use Docker? * How is Shippable different than Drone or Jenkins? * Why is Docker particularly well …

Tell us about your background Tell us about Docker and who should use it? Developers? Ops? Both? How is Docker different than Linux Containers? @mattapperson: What docker based host OS will go the distance? (CoreOS for example) Are Linux Containers going to replace Virtual Machines? Is Docker forever tied to Linux Containers or could it manage Virt…

The #1 request from CenturyLink Labs readers is to hear about real-life case studies about Docker in production. This week, we are honored to have a fantastic use-case example of Docker in the real world. Matt Butcher is currently head of Cloud Services at Revolv… a crazy-cool home automation hub (internet of things) startup. Think Nest for everyth…

This week, we are interviewing the leader of CoreOS, their CEO Alex Polvi and their CTO Brandon Philips. We got to ask them some great questions and learn a lot about the project. Tell us about your background Tell us about CoreOS Who should use CoreOS? How is CoreOS different than other minimal Linux distributions? How is web app development on Co…

This week, we are starting a new interview series as part of the CenturyLink Labs. We are going to try to keep these interviews short (30-40 mins) and packed with great content every week. Last week, we talked about Dies[1] and Flynn. This week, we are talking with the CTO of Deis, Gabriel Monroy. Here are the topics we cover this week with Gabriel…