Virtual Stack
Emre Girici
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Virtual Stack is a podcast about the glorious world of Enterprise IT. On this show, we discuss networking, virtualisation, cloud and all things software-defined.
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May 25, 2022
44 - Virtual Stack - eBPF and its Use Cases
eBPF is one of the most interesting emerging technologies in the area of observability, networking and security. On the 44th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, Moustafa Harbi (Sr. Technical Account Manager at Red Hat) and I have a chat about this technology and its use cases in today's enterprise IT industry.
Show Notes:
* 00:00 - Intros
* 01:30 - What's eBPF in a nutshell?
* 06:40 - What can eBPF offer us?
* 12:30 - In what language or on what framework do we write eBPF code?
* 14:20 - What are the use cases of eBPF in an enterprise setting?
* 21:30 - Do eBPF programs create any load on system CPU or memory?
* 23:00 - How do we use eBPF on an enterprise-wide scale?
* 24:45 - What's Cilium and what's its relationship with eBPF?
* 30:30 - What do you think about the future of eBPF and Cilium? Can they change the way we do networking?
* 35:00 - How can we start learning about eBPF?
* 39:00 - Closing notes
Links:
* eBPF project
* Cilium project
* BCC (BPF Compiler Collection) GitHub page
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Apr 27, 2022
43 - Virtual Stack - Network Automation
On the 43rd episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Sean Cavanaugh (Senior Principal Technical Marketing Manager - Ansible Automation Platform, at Red Hat) and we discuss all things network automation. If you'd like to hear about main use cases, common obstacles and the solution you need (spoiler alert: Ansible :)), this episode is for you.
Show notes:
* 01:00 - Intros
* 07:30 - Some of the biggest changes in networking in the last few years
* 18:30 - Main use cases for network automation
* 31:00 - Key benefits of Ansible
* 36:00 - Common obstacles on the journey to automation
* 41:30 - Closing notes
Links:
* Red Hat Ansible Automation YouTube Channel
* Ansible Automation Platform Self-Paced Labs
* Sean's Twitter
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Mar 25, 2022
42 - Virtual Stack - Company as Code
On the 42th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Gil Hoffer (co-founder & CTO at Salto) and we discuss about their solution of automating the configuration of SaaS applications, which they describe as company-as-code.
Can we manage and operate our business applications the same way as our CI/CD pipelines and IT infrastructure? Answers are on this episode.
Show notes:
* Intros: 00:00
* What's Salto? 01:30
* What can be automated by Salto on some typical applications? 06:00
* How do you make sure Salto works with many SaaS applications and keep up with their changes? 14:00
* What made you design an automation language instead of using something like YAML or XML? 17:15
* What types of companies benefit from the company-as-code approach? 19:55
* Who are the main buyers? What business benefits do they get? 22:10
* What are the main obstacles that organisations encounter when adopting company-as-code? 26:10
* How can customers test the solution? 32:30
* Closing notes: 34:30 Links:
* Salto: Company-as-Code - Blog article on Salto.io
* Salto on GitHub
* Gil on Twitter
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Mar 1, 2022
41- Virtual Stack - MicroShift
On the 41st episode, Nick Barcet (Sr. Director Technology Strategy, Office of the CTO at Red Hat) joins me on the show we talk about MicroShift, an open source project of optimizing OpenShift for edge/small form factor use cases. We also talk about how Red Hat looks into emerging technology projects. Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Links:
* Nick's twitter
* MicroShift
* MicroShift blog post Red Hat Emerging Technologies portal
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Feb 15, 2022
40 - Virtual Stack - 2022 Tech Trends
Virtual Stack Podcast is back after a 10 months long hiatus! On the 40th episode of the show, I'm joined by a fellow Red Hatter and the co-host of the The Cloudcast, Brian Gracely.
With Brian, we look into several technology trends such as cloud computing, web3, security then we discuss what to expect in 2022 and beyond.
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Show notes:
1:30: Intros
6:00: Cloud computing
20:30: web3 and Metaverse
27:45: Security
33:15: Tech investors and VC funding
39:45: Future of work and great resignation.
47:30: Closing notes
Links:
Brian's twitter.
The Cloudcast: Web, Twitter.
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Apr 29, 2021
39 - Virtual Stack - Core Kubernetes
Chris Love and Jay Vyas's book "Core Kubernetes" is about to hit the shelves around July this year via Manning Publications. Chris joined me on the 39th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast and we discussed about all things Kubernetes: learning, common challenges of running in production and the exciting future of K8S. I have free eBook codes for this book and you’ll get one if you’re one of the first 5 people to share my LinkedIn and Twitter posts with your network. Besides that, you can use the code “podstack20” for a 40% discount on all Manning Publications products (use this link).
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Links:
* Core Kubernetes
* Twitter: Chris, Jay
* Lionkube
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Mar 17, 2021
38 - Virtual Stack - Learn K8S in a Month of Lunches
Learning Kubernetes can be a great boost for your career, and you might be wondering where to start and what resources to use. Elton Stoneman joined me on the 38th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast and talked about his new book "Learn Kubernetes in a Month of Lunches", his journey of learning K8S and his views about the future of K8S.
I have free eBook codes for this book and you’ll get one if you’re one of the first 5 people to share my LinkedIn and Twitter posts with your network. Besides that, you can use the code “podstack20” for a 40% discount on all Manning Publications products.
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Links:
* Learn Kubernetes in a Month of Lunches
* Twitter
* Elton's Blog
* Elton's Pluralsight profile Show notes:
* 02:00 - Intro about the book and Elton's background
* 08:45 - How does the approach for learning K8S change for different personas, e.g. infra teams, dev teams, security teams?
* 15:15 - How would you learn K8S if you were to start from scratch today?
* 22:45 - How do you see the adoption trends and future of K8S?
* 27:00 - In the future, are we still going to need to learn how K8S works under the hood, or will we just use it as a service
* 32:00 - Closing notes
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Nov 20, 2020
37 - Virtual Stack - AI as a Service
Virtual Stack Podcast is back after a long break! On the 37th episode of the show, I'm joined by the authors of the book "AI as a Service", Peter Elger (CEO, fourTheorem) and Eoin Shanaghy (CTO, fourTheorem).
No need to mention the importance of the role that AI/ML play in digital transformation. With the incredible speed of evolution of cloud computing, it's now much easier to adopt cloud-based solutions rather than building everything by yourself. Peter and Eoin's book explain the AI as a Service with real world examples.
I have free eBook codes for this book and you’ll get one if you’re one of the first 5 people to share my LinkedIn and Twitter posts with your network. Besides that, you can use the code “podstack20” for a 40% discount on all Manning Publications products.
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Show Notes:
* 02:00 - Intro
* 08:30 - Current cloud landscape and definition of AI/ML and Serverless
* 17:30 - Who can benefit the most from reading the book?
* 19:45 - What are the main use cases for AIaaS and which industries can benefit the most?
* 21:30 - When do you recommend using AIaaS versus DIY, or vice versa?
* 27:00 - How would you build a web application using AIaaS and Serverless technologies? What are the architectural building blocks and public cloud services?
* 36:00 - How can we be more effective and efficient while using AIaaS?
* 41:00 - Recommendations for further learning and closing notes
Links:
* Peter and Eoin's book: "AI as a Service"
* Peter's Twitter
* Eoin's Twitter
* SLIC Starter: A complete starter project from fourTheorem for production-grade serverless applications on AWS.
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Jul 16, 2020
36 - Virtual Stack - Elastic Infrastructure for AI/ML workloads with vSphere Bitfusion
vSphere Bitfusion delivers elastic infrastructure for AI/ML workloads by creating pools of hardware accelerator resources, such as GPUs. VMware has acquired Bitfusion in late-2019 and it has been recently announced that Bitfusion will be an integrated feature of vSphere 7.0.
On the 36th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Mike Adams (Sr. Director Cloud Platform Product Marketing at VMware) and we discuss about vSphere Bitfusion, its technology and use cases.
You can reach out to Mike on Twitter and LinkedIn, and you can learn more about vSphere Bitfusion via AskBitfusion@vmware.com mailer.
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Show Notes:
* 01:00 - Intro
* 02:00 - Intro to Bitfusion and their technology
* 05:30 - Relationship between GPU technology and AI/ML applications
* 08:30 - How can we use Bitfusion, is it now a part of vSphere? How’s pricing and packaging?
* 12:30 - The architecture and components of the solution
* 15:00 - What’s CUDA and what’s its relationship with Bitfusion technology?
* 19:15 - What about Kubernetes workloads and Bitfusion?
* 21:45 - What are some of the use cases/verticals that can benefit from Bitfusion technology?
* 30:15 - Usage of FPGA and custom ASICs with Bitfusion.
* 32:30 - Closing notes
Links:
* Hardware Acceleration with vSphere Bitfusion
* Announcing vSphere Bitfusion – Elastic Infrastructure for AI/ML Workloads
* VMware Blogs on AI/ML
* VMware’s AI/ML direction and Hardware Acceleration with vSphere Bitfusion
* VMware Kubernetes Integration with Bitfusion
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Jun 24, 2020
35 - Virtual Stack - Employee Experience, Pandemic and the "New Workplace"
On the 35th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by David Burton (Director, Colleague Experience & Technology - EMEA at VMware) and we discuss about how VMware uses its own technologies to create the best employee experience. We also touch base on the new definition of workplace in enterprises after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Show notes:
* 01:00 - Intro
* 02:00 - What’s employee experience, why does it matter?
* 05:30 - What sets the difference between companies that can and cannot identify customer needs and set the right experience. What are they doing right or wrong?
* 08:45 - How did VMware define the colleague expectations in different areas, like, on boarding, remote working, learning and development?
* 11:20 - How will the pandemic will effect the employee experience going forward?
* 20:30 - What’s the technology stack used in VMware’s employee experience solution.
* 24:30 - Closing notes
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May 29, 2020
34 - Virtual Stack - What's cooking in vRNI kitchen?
Virtual Stack podcast is back with its 34th episode! On this episode, I'm joined by Martijn Smit (Sr. Technical Marketing Architect at VMware) and we dive into the newest features of vRealize Network Insight, such as flow-based app discovery, support for VeloCloud SD-WAN, AWS, Azure and more.
Martijn's book, "vRealize Network Insight Cookbook" will be available very soon. You can follow his website networkinsightbook.com to get notified once it's out there. Besides that, you can follow Martijn on Twitter (@smitmartijn).
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
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Apr 1, 2020
33 - Virtual Stack - AWS Security
On the 33rd episode of Virtual Stack, I’m joined by Dylan Shields (Software Engineer at Google) and we talk about his upcoming book called AWS Security. In our discussion, we touch on many points; such as the security governance on public clouds, security services on AWS, best practices for networking/VPC, IAM and continuous monitoring.
Dylan’s book will be published by Manning Publications in Autumn 2020. I have free eBook codes for this book and you’ll get one if you’re one of the first 5 people to share my LinkedIn and Twitter posts with your network.
Besides that, you can use the code “podstack20” for a 40% discount on all Manning Publications products.
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Links:
* Dylan's book: "AWS Security"
* AWS Well Architected Framework Whitepapers
*…
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Mar 23, 2020
32 - Virtual Stack - What's Low-Code Development?
On the 32nd episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Kenneth Reilly (CTO at LevelUP) and we talk about Low-Code Development.
Low-Code (often referred to as No-Code) development platforms provide an environment where programmers create their application software through graphical user interfaces and configuration instead of traditional computer programming. While this brings many benefits, especially speed and agility in prototyping and enabling a broader range of users with software development skills, some developers question if low-code is fit for large-scale or mission critical applications.
You can reach out to Kenneth on LinkedIn, Twitter and Medium.
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Links:
* What is Low-Code Development? - Kenneth's Medium article on Low-Code.
* Low-Code Development Platform -…
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Feb 6, 2020
31 - Virtual Stack - Modern Digital Workspace
Digital Workspace is increasingly becoming a strategic IT priority for enterprises, since it's directly related to employee experience and productivity. On the other hand, security and privacy are becoming even more important in parallel with BYOD and mobile working.
On the 31st episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Adam Matthews, Digital Workspace Solution Engineer at VMware, and we discuss about Digital Workspace, employee experience and VMware's Workspace ONE solution.
You can reach out to Adam and follow his work on Twitter (@AdamPMatthews) and his blog.
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Links:
* VMware TestDrive: https://www.vmwdemo.com/
* https://whatisworkspaceone.com/
* https://techzone.vmware.com/
* https://blog.eucse.com/author/matthewsa/
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Jan 17, 2020
30 - Virtual Stack - VMware Tanzu and Project Pacific
Back in August 2019, Pat Gelsinger and Joe Beda were on stage at VMworld US to announce VMware Tanzu and Project Pacific, the products and solutions that are designed to change the way customers build, run and manage their Kubernetes based applications.
On the 30th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Scott Lowe (Staff Kubernetes Architect at VMware, author, blogger and fellow podcaster) and we discuss about these recent announcements and check under the hood. Hope you enjoy the show.
You can reach out to Scott and follow his work on his blog and Twitter. Scott hosts a popular podcast called Full Stack Journey and he’s also contributing to the KubeAcademy initiative.
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Links:
* Live announcement at VMworld US (33:00 - 43:00)
* Project Pacific product page…
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Jan 7, 2020
29 - Virtual Stack - Work/Life Balance in IT Industry
Finding the perfect balance between work and life has always been a trouble, especially for those in the IT sector. IT and many other industries adore productivity, tie your work output to your salary and even your professional status. In the race of maintaining a good work output, we occasionally forget having interests outside of work, our families, relationships and hobbies, and this work-life imbalance often ends up with anxiety, stress, and even depression and burn-out.
Joining me on the 29th episode of the podcast today is Amy Lewis (Director of NSX Product Marketing at VMware) and we talk about work-life balance in IT sector. Why it’s so challenging to maintain it, what causes the imbalance and what are some tips, tricks and life-hacks that we can apply in our lives to maintain a healthy balance work and life.
You can reach out to Amy via Twitter (@CommsNinja) and LinkedIn. She will be launching a new podcast with a group of four called Nerd Herd, so stay tuned for t…
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Dec 19, 2019
28 - Virtual Stack - NSX-T 2.5 and NSX Intelligence
Analytics in the data centre can be challenge since many solutions tend to send extensive packet data and telemetry to disparate centralised engines, which can increase cost and complexity. NSX Intelligence is a new solution that has been announced with NSX-T 2.5 and it’s designed to remediate this challenge. It is a distributed analytics engine that provides detailed application topology visualisation, automated security policy recommendations, continuous monitoring of every flow, and an audit trail of security policies.
On the 28th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Dumlu Timuralp (NSX Lead Solution Engineer at VMware) and we talk about the new features announced on NSX-T 2.5, especially NSX Intelligence. You can reach out to Dumlu via LinkedIn and Twitter, and follow his work via Medium and Github.
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more.
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Dec 2, 2019
27 - Virtual Stack - VMware NSX Distributed IDS/IPS
On the 27th episode of the show, I’m joined by Stijn Vanveerdeghem, Senior Technical Product Manager at VMware.
Distributed IPS/IDS (Intrusion Prevention and Detection System) on NSX-T was one of the biggest announcements at VMworld 2019 Europe. Stijn is the Technical Product Manager behind this feature and he took the time to explain us what VMware is bringing to the security market and what are the distinctive benefits that customers can gain from using this feature.
You can reach out to Stijn via LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stijnvanv/).
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more.
Hope you enjoy the show. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Show notes:
* 02:00 - Intro
* 04:45 - What did VMware announce in VMworld 2019 Europe?
* 07:50 - What is IPS/IDS and what is the difference between IDS/IPS and a Firewall and N…
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Oct 14, 2019
26 - Virtual Stack - Managed Cloud chat with Liquid Web
On the 26th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Kelly Goolsby, Director of Enterprise Sales and Solution Architecture at Liquid Web and we talk about a variety of topics; cloud computing, hybrid-clouds, migrating to cloud and Liquid Web's services in this domain.
Liquid Web is a company focusing on managed hosting as well as managed VMware Private Clouds, and Kelly has a lot of experience with cloud use cases, cloud TCO and migration to cloud. You can reach out to Kelly via Twitter (@kgool) and LinkedIn. Liquid Web's website is https://www.liquidweb.com.
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more.
Hope you enjoy the show. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Show Notes:
* 04:30 - What trends do you see in cloud market today?
* 08:30 - Top 3 benefits of moving to cloud
* 12:00 - What are the main cloud use cases?
* 16:15 - What does Liq…
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Oct 2, 2019
25 - Virtual Stack - Journey to Multi-Cloud Management
On the 25th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Martijn Baecke, Cloud Management Technologist at VMware, and we discuss the Journey to Multi-cloud Management. We tried to fit this big topic in less than one hour and we touched on many points, such as the evolution towards SDDC and Private Clouds, the rise of Public Clouds, cloud native applications and finally the paradigm shift into multi-cloud.
The rise for multi-cloud is creating new needs, like consistent automation and operations, and we discuss what VMware offers to cover these needs. You can reach out to Martijn via Twitter (@baecke) and his personal blog: http://thinkcloud.nl/
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more.
Hope you enjoy the show. As usual, feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Links:
* Martijn's post on VMware Blogs: Journey Towards Multi-Cloud Management
* Martijn's Lightboar…
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Sep 20, 2019
24 - Virtual Stack - VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud 101
On the 24th episode of the show, I'm joined by Rohan Naggi Sr. Technical Product Manager at VMware, and we discuss about VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud.
SD-WAN is a booming market and it's promising to solve many challenges of traditional WAN solutions. There are tens of vendors in this market and VeloCloud has been one of the noteworthy ones since the beginning. VeloCloud has been acquired by VMware in 2017, and it's currently part of the Network and Security Business Unit.
We discuss many topics with Rohan, including the need for SD-WAN and why VeloCloud, then we look under the hood and discuss the architectural components of the solution. If you're looking for a primer on this topic, the level on this episode will be great for you. You can reach out to Rohan via Twitter (@lifeboy) and LinkedIn.
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Sep 13, 2019
Virtual Stack - Hybrid-cloud chat with Faction
Virtual Stack Podcast is 1 year old! Thanks for your interest and support so far. Here’s to many many years and episodes!
On the 23rd episode of the show, I’m joined by Matt Wallace, CTO of Faction. Faction is a multi-cloud platform as a service provider and one of the first partners of VMware around the VMware Cloud on AWS solution. You should see their 2019 VMware Cloud on AWS Market Survey, which will shed some light on hybrid cloud adoption and challenges in the market.
With Matt, we discuss many topics, such as Faction’s hybrid and multi-cloud solutions, benefits for the customers, some customer references and trends in the market towards cloud technology and customer adoption.
You can reach out to Matt via Twitter (@mattwallace) and LinkedIn. You can also follow Faction via Twitter (@factioninc) and their website. They announce free webinars on their website, which I can recommend you to follow.
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Aug 30, 2019
Virtual Stack - VMworld US 2019
I’m back with the 22nd episode of Virtual Stack after a long break. This will be a solo flight without any guests and I’ll be talking about the news and announcements from the VMworld US 2019 that took place this week.
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more.
Hope you enjoy the show. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Links:
What’s New at VMworld 2019
General Sessions at VMworld 2019
VMware Tanzu Completes the Modern Applications Picture
Project Pacific: Kubernetes to the Core
Introducing Project Pacific
VMware Unveils Innovations Across Its Industry-Leading Workspace ONE Platform to Help Organizations Grow, Expand and Transform Their Business
Announcing VMware vRealize Automation 8.0
Announcing VMware vRealize Operations 8.0
vRealize Network Insight 5.0: Expanding Network Visibility to the Branch
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Jun 3, 2019
Virtual Stack - VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
VMware Cloud on AWS has proven that IT infrastructure with VMware SDDC stack atop can be ordered as a cloud service; in a scalable, smooth and agile manner. But what about the scenarios where you need to have that compute power on-premises? Enter VMware Cloud on Dell EMC!
On the 21st episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, Adam Bohle (Lead Cloud Specialist Systems Engineer at VMware) and I discuss about VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, which has just been announced at Dell Technologies World in March. This is an Edge-as-a-Service solution, which will bring VMware SDDC stack on top of Dell EMC’s VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure as a cloud service.
You can reach out to Adam via Twitter and LinkedIn.
Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more.
Hope you enjoy the show. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Show Notes:
* 02:00 - Intro
* 04:30 - What is VMC on Dell EMC and wh…
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May 24, 2019
Virtual Stack - What's new on vRealize Network Insight 4.1?
On the 20th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Martijn Smit and we geek out on the recently announced vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) 4.1. This release brings lots of new features, such as, Container Visibility and Security, Application Discovery and Visibility and many more!
You can reach out to Martijn via Twitter (@smitmartijn). You can also follow his work on his blog (lostdomain.org) and VMware Blogs.
Hope you enjoy the show. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Show Notes:
* 01:30 - Intros
* 05:30 - Quick highlights of vRNI 4.1
* 09:30 - Application discovery and visibility feature
* 19:00 - Container security and visibility feature
* 31:45 - F5 Load Balancer support
* 33:45 - NSX-T 2.4 and Policy Manager support
* 36:30 - How can we can our hands on vRNI?
* 38:00 - What are the license tiers? Any difference between the on-premise and SaaS versions?
* 42:30 - Closing notes
Links:
* vRN…
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May 9, 2019
Virtual Stack - AI, ML and the Self-Driving Data Center
AI (Artificial Intelligence), ML (Machine Learning) and DL (Deep Learning) are some of the hottest IT buzzwords of our time. If you’re working in tech industry, chances are that you hear or read something about them almost every day. It looks like they are the answer to every question, and the solution to every problem, including wars and global hunger.
AI/ML is used in self-driving cars, but what about self-driving, self-optimising data centers? On the 19th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Greg Burk, Senior Staff Architect at VMware, and we discuss about AI, ML, and their use cases in today’s Enterprise IT, especially Self-Driving and Self-Optimizing Data Centers.
Hope you enjoy the show. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Show Notes:
* 02:00 - Intro
* 05:10 - What’s AI (Artificial Intelligence), ML (Machine Learning) and DL (Deep Learning)?
* 12:00 - AI/ML is not a new technology, what caused the…
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Apr 19, 2019
Virtual Stack - How to Improve Communication Skills
Do you ever get stressed about giving speech, even though you know the subject by heart? Or have hard time expressing your knowledge and delivering your message effectively on a blog post? The answer is yes for many people, including me. Good news; all of these are skills that you can develop with some practice and attention.
Amy Lewis, Director of Influence Marketing at VMware, joins me on the 18th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, and shares her knowledge and tips for improving communication skills for engineers.
You can reach Amy on Twitter (@commsninja), and also don’t forget to check her podcasts: Tech Confessions and The Geek Whisperers.
Hope you enjoy the show. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Show Notes:
* 01:00 Intro
* 08:00 Working as an Influence Marketing Director
* 24:00 Some advice on giving speech in front of audience, either 10 people or 1000 people
* 37:30 What tricks can improve technical blo…
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Apr 11, 2019
Virtual Stack - What's new on NSX-T 2.4?
On the 17th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Dumlu Timuralp (NSX Sr. Systems Engineer at VMware) and we take on the challenge of squeezing all the new features of NSX-T 2.4 into a 45-minute podcast!
NSX is VMware’s flagship software-defined data center networking and security solution. I was already surprised by the amount of new features and enhancements introduced in the last 1-1.5 years, but NSX-T 2.4 has totally exceeded every release that came before. On this episode, we try to summarise the new features and focus on the key areas; intelligent operations, security, networking and more.
Great to have Dumlu on the show for the 2nd time. You can reach out to him via LinkedIn and Twitter, and expect to listen to him on his next appearance soon.
Hope you enjoy the show. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Show Notes:
02:00 - Intro
05:45 - Intelligent Operations: Management cluster, Installation & upgrade en…
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Mar 29, 2019
16 - Virtual Stack - VMware Certifications
On the 16th episode of the Virtual Stack podcast, I’m joined by Karl Childs, Sr. Manager in the VMware Certification Development team. We start our conversation talking about the latest VMware announcement on re-certification, then we talk about the present and future of VMware certifications.
You can reach out to Karl via Twitter (@karlchilds).
Hope you enjoy the show. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech
Show Notes:
00:10 - Intro
10:00 - What important announcement has been recently made by VMware, what was the reason behind it.
17:30 - How’s VMware Certification program staying up to date with new technologies and product releases?
23:30 - Are there any new VMware certification tracks we can expect?
29:30 - What do you think about the changes in the certification education landscape?
37:10 - Do you see any changes to the certification experience in the future? If yes, what will change?
40:15 - Closing n…
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Mar 2, 2019
15 - Virtual Stack - What's Service Mesh?
With the rise of cloud-native architectures built on containers distributed microservices, developers are encountering challenges with visibility, management, and control of these new applications. The Service Mesh concept was created to address and overcome these challenges.
On the 15th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Mark Schweighardt, Director of Product Marketing in the Network & Security Business Unit (NSBU) of VMware. Together with Mike, we discuss about the Service Mesh concept, cloud-native applications, Istio/Envoy, and VMware’s upcoming Service Mesh solution, VMware NSX Service Mesh.
You can reach out to Mark via LinkedIn.
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Show notes
* 00:45 - Intro
* 02:30 - Where are we in the journey from monolithic to cloud native apps
* 06:00 - Why are the customers migrating to cloud native approach
* 11:00 - What’s Se…
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Feb 20, 2019
14 - Virtual Stack - "Ensuring good vs. chasing bad": VMware AppDefense
On the 14th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Christoph Buschbeck from VMware and we talk about AppDefense, VMware’s data centre endpoint security solution that embeds threat detection and response into the virtualisation layer. We look into the Enterprise IT Security landscape of today, what’s working well, what can be improved, and why we should be "ensuring good" vs. "chasing bad”.
You can reach out to Christoph via LinkedIn and Twitter (@cbuschbeck).
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Show Notes:
* 01:30 - Intro
* 03:30 - AppDefense in a nutshell
* 06:00 - “Goldilocks” zone and what’s not working well on the current Enterprise IT security approach
* 15:00 - AppDefense architecture
* 29:45 - What’s the “manifest file", how does AppDefense capture the intended state of an app?
* 45:10 - Future of AppDefense, Integration with NSX, Adaptive Micro-segmentation…
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Jan 10, 2019
13 - Virtual Stack - The Journey from Network Engineer to Startup CEO
On the 13th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, Dimitar (Mitko) Vasilev joined me to talk about his journey from a Network Engineer to a Startup CEO. On this slightly longer episode, Mitko explains his journey starting from university, Cisco, his first startup - OA Digital, and his current endeavour - Data Mining Platform. We talked about several personal, inter-personal and technical aspects of building your own startup, which I believe you’ll find interesting as much as I did.
You can reach out to Mitko on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitkovasilev/), Twitter (@iotcoi) and mitko@dataminingplatform.com. Mitko will soon start his own podcast called “Day 0” so keep an eye on that as well.
Hope you enjoy the show. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter, LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Show notes:
Intro:
* 02:10 - University, first jobs and Cisco.
* 09:50 - Cisco openBerlin
* 19:30 - Story of OA Digital
* 25:20 - Story of Data Minin…
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Jan 3, 2019
12 - Virtual Stack - What's new on vRNI 4.0
Happy new year! On the 12th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, Martijn (@smitmartijn) and I will be talking about vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) version 4.0. vRNI 4.0 has been released on December 20th and it’s full of cool new features and enhancements.
This is not a vRNI 101 episode, but in a nutshell, vRNI is VMware’s security and network visibility tool that helps customers plan application security and migration, optimise and troubleshoot virtual and physical networks, and manage & scale NSX environments.
Hope you enjoy the show. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter, LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Show notes:
* 05:30 - Why do you need vRNI? Main use cases?
* 11:40 - New features on vRNI 4.0.
* 15:15 - VMware Cloud on AWS support.
* 22:40 - Support for Cisco ACI, ASA, F5 Big-IP, sFlow and more.
* 29:35 - NSX-T support enhancements.
* 34:51 - Configuring static/dynamic baselines and thresholds.
* 38:30 - Scalability, performance and usability enhancemen…
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Dec 10, 2018
11 - Virtual Stack - VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX)
If you're working in networking, or Enterprise IT in general, chances are that you are pursuing or have pursued at least one technical certification track. Almost every leading vendor has certifications tracks, so does VMware.
Today on the 11th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, we will discuss about the top-tier certification of VMware: VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX). I'll be joined by two experts who has already passed this certification: Marco van Baggum (VCDX-DCV #223), SDDC Architect at ITQ and Johan van Amersfoort (VCDX-DTM #238), EUC Architect at ITQ. We discuss about both technical and non-technical aspects of this touch certification.
Hope you enjoy the show. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter, LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech.
Show notes:
* Guests:
* Marco van Baggum (@vMBaggum,vMBaggum.nl)
* Johan van Amersfoort (@vhojan, vHojan.nl)
* Offical VCDX Directory
* VCDX Certification Page
* VCDX Discussion Forums on VMware Technology Network
* Boo…
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Nov 23, 2018
10 - Virtual Stack - Software Defined Storage and Intro to vSAN
On the 10th episode of Virtual Stack, Stijn Depril (@sdepril - vSAN Specialist SE Benelux at VMware) and I talk about vSAN, VMware's Software Defined Storage (or as some will call, hyper-converged) solution.
Stijn is active on social media, and don't forget to check his blog at vmuskeeters.com and YouTube channel.
Some important links that we mentioned on the show:
* VMware Compatibility Guide
* vSAN ReadyNodes Configurator
* VMware Cloud on AWS roadmap on storage technologies
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Nov 16, 2018
09 - Virtual Stack - NSX Cloud 101
In today's Enterprise IT world, most of the organisations use services of at least one public cloud provider. This brings many advantages like agility, but it creates new challenges such as loss of visibility across clouds and inconsistent network and security policies. NSX Cloud is the tool that can help you to achieve operational consistency in a multi-cloud world.
On this episode, I'm joined by Dumlu Timuralp (https://twitter.com/dumlutimuralp) and we discuss about NSX Cloud. Here are some links that can give you further info on this subject:
NSX Cloud product page: https://www.vmware.com/products/nsx-cloud.html
Lightboard session on NSX Cloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAZ3stc_kHw
Introduction to NSX Cloud Breakout session from VMworld US 2018: https://videos.vmworld.com/global/2018/videoplayer/22575.
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Nov 8, 2018
08 - Virtual Stack - VMworld Europe 2018 Recap
VMworld Europe 2018 was a blast. On this brief episode, I talk about the highlights of the event from my perspective. Here are the links to some of the stuff I talk about on the show:
VMware Blog - Event Recap: https://blogs.vmware.com/vmworld/2018/11/vmworld-2018-europe-recap.html
Day 1: https://blogs.vmware.com/vmworld/2018/11/vmworld-2018-europe-day-1-recap.html
Day 2: https://blogs.vmware.com/vmworld/2018/11/vmworld-2018-europe-day-2-recap.html
Heptio blog post about the acquisition: https://blog.heptio.com/heptio-will-be-joining-forces-with-vmware-on-a-shared-cloud-native-mission-b01225b1bc9e.
Kubernetes Steering Commitee: https://github.com/kubernetes/steering
VMworld On-demand Video Library: https://videos.vmworld.com/global/2018
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Oct 19, 2018
07 - Virtual Stack - VMware Cloud on AWS
On this show, Gilles Chekroun and I talk about VMware Cloud on AWS. Gilles is a Lead SE for VMC on AWS in VMware and he has tons knowledge and experience on cloud and networking in general.
But on this short episode, we dip our feet in the use cases for hybrid cloud and why VMC on AWS can be a good solution the enterprises. Follow the show because we will definitely revisit this topic and see what's under the hood of VMC on AWS.
Don't forget to check Gilles' personal blog at gilles.cloud. There you can find his great demo where he's using Alexa to fully automate an SDDC deployment on VMC on AWS!
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Oct 12, 2018
06 - Virtual Stack - vExpert Program
Martijn (@smitmartijn, and soon: @vnetworkguy) is my first repeat host, and on this episode we talk about the VMware vExpert program.
VMware vExpert is an honorary title that VMware grants to individuals for advocating the VMware's products and solutions. With Martijn, we discuss the program in detail, what the benefits are, what you need to do to be granted with the vExpert title, and more.
Read more on: https://vexpert.vmware.com/.
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Oct 4, 2018
05 - Virtual Stack - Micro-segmentation 101
Security is a hot topic in Enterprise IT and it will always stay like that. There are several new methods and approaches to optimise security and micro-segmentation is one of those. On this episode, I'm joined by Robert Kloosterhuis (@thefluffysysop, http://thefluffyadmin.net/) and we enter the world of micro-segmentation. We talk about distributed firewall capabilities of NSX, best practices and tools.
Here are some great content if you'd like to dig deeper in this subject.
Security with NSX Data Center
VMware NSX Micro-segmentation Day 1
VMware NSX Micro-segmentation Day 2
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Sep 28, 2018
04 - Virtual Stack - What's SD-WAN and why do you need it?
SD-WAN (Software Defined Wide Area Network) is a hot topic these days. On this episode, I give a brief overview of what SD-WAN is. I also talk about the challenges seen on branch networking today and how SD-WAN can help us.
Check this free e-book: http://www.velocloud.com/sd-wan-resources/white-papers/software-defined-wan-for-dummies.
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Sep 20, 2018
03 - Virtual Stack - Software Skills for Network Engineers
Today on this episode, I'm joined by Martijn Smit (@smitmartijn) and we discuss about why network engineers should invest their time in honing their software development and scripting skills. Then we go into discussing what are the tools and methods for doing this.
Here are the links to the resources we mentioned on the show:
Udacity - Learn to Code (Nanodegree program)
PowerShell: Getting Started (by Michael Bender)
PowerNSX
Using Ansible for Network Automation (YouTube)
Ansible IOS_Config Module: Part 1 Configuring Cisco Routers with simple commands (YouTube)
VMware {code}
Network to Code
Hope you all enjoy this show. Feel free to reach me on @emregirici on Twitter or https://www.linkedin.com/in/emregirici/ to share your comments, feedbacks or requests.
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Sep 11, 2018
02 - Virtual Stack - VMworld US news
On this episode, I talked about some of the interesting announcements at VMworld US that took place in August 26-30 in Las Vegas.
I focused mainly on the NSBU (Network and Security Business Unit) news, such as, new updates on NSX-T, NSX Cloud, vRNI, but also the collaboration with Arista. There has also been a few interesting "Tech Preview" announcements, and I've briefly talked about them.
Here are some of the links where you can find more information on announcements that I've talked about:
What's New at VMworld 2018
NSX Portfolio Realizing the Virtual Cloud Network for Customers
Arista Introduces Secure Cloud Networking
Adaptive Micro-segmentation – Built-in Application Security from the Network to the Workload
VMware NSX Helps Customers Build a Virtual Cloud Network to Connect and Protect Apps, Data, and Users Across Cloud Environments
VMware Announces Intent to Acquire CloudHealth Technologies, a Global Platform for Multi-Cloud Operations
Taking Innovation to New and Un…
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Sep 6, 2018
01 - Virtual Stack - Pilot
Here is the 1st episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast!
This short episode includes a quick introduction of myself, why am I making this podcast and what my content is going to be.
Enjoy!
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emregirici/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/emregirici
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