The Cloud Foundry user base and projects have expanded over the past year, adding members, users, and major components like the Container Runtime. In this episode, we catch up the CFF's Executive Director, Abby Kearns, on the Cloud Foundry ecosystem and the upcoming CF Summit. Also, Richard and Coté's tell you the sessions they're looking forward to and discuss when it's time to do the great pants to shorts switchover, plus Coté's seersucker collection.

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News

• Salesforce agrees to buy Mulesoft. No more sitting on the integration sidelines!

• Google ships a bunch of new cloud security services. Secure access, data protection, audit controls, and more. Fancy!

• Omnibus bill contains CLOUD Act, a win for tech and law enforcement. Trying to create greater clarity over US requests for data stored internationally.

• Toys'R'Us shutting down - some problems with PE and debt as well.

• Announcing general availability of Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Managed database options in the cloud keep expanding.

Interview

• CFF member companies.

• Container Runtime.

• CF Summit schedule.

• Top 5 talks Richard is looking forward to:

  • Operating PCF via Concourse. Or, How to Sleep More and Worry Less - Therese Stowell & Ryan Pei, Pivotal & Yuri Litvinovich, Scotiabank.

  • A Deep Dive into Modernization Patterns to Get Your Mission Critical Applications to the Cloud - Shaun Anderson, Pivotal.

  • Platform as Product - Clayton Hynfield, Kevin Mackett, Sean Keery, Pivotal, Kyle Campos, CSAA & Jai Schniepp, Liberty Mutual Insurance.

  • Accelerating Adoption of Cloud Foundry at Ultimate Software - Matthew Gunter, Pivotal & Nick Merino, Ultimate SW.

  • Enabling .NET Applications with Performance Monitoring and Management on Cloud Foundry - Dave Tillman, Pivotal.

• Coté's talks of interest:

  • "Transforming a Bank with a Highly-Opinionated Automated Release Pipeline" - Putting a pipeline in place is critical for all this, and I rarely hear stories of it.

  • "Cost of Delay - How PCF Helped Demonstrate the DoD Can't Afford Business as Usual" - There’s a lot of activity in the military, be much more to be modernized. For some reason, they’re talking about it. Most government work - as they note - takes years to get out the door for all the usual reasons. Seeing how they figure out getting five years down to 120 days would be useful for applying back to other large organizations.

  • "Why Do I Need Kubernetes When I Already Have Cloud Foundry?" - Yup. That’s what everyone wants to know. Plus, I don’t get to hear from the Germans much anymore. Also, from an IBM person: "How Cloud Foundry Compares with Kubernetes for Deployment of Cloud Native Java Applications."

• Also, the Alcatraz exhibit.

About the Author

Michael Coté works on the advocates team for VMware Tanzu. See @cote for more.

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