Links:
Alkira: https://www.alkira.com/
TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part byLaunchDarkly. Take a look at what it takes to get your code into production. I’m going to just guess that it’s awful because it’s always awful. No one loves their deployment process. What if launching new features didn’t require you to do a full-on code and possibly infrastructure deploy? What if you could test on a small subset of users and then roll it back immediately if results aren’t what you expect? LaunchDarkly does exactly this. To learn more, visitlaunchdarkly.com and tell them Corey sent you, and watch for the wince.Corey: If your familiar with Cloud Custodian, you’ll love Stacklet. Which is made by the same people who made Cloud Custodian, but put something useful on top of it so you don’t have to be a need to be a YAML expert to work with it. They’re hosting a webinar called “Governance as Code: The Guardrails for Cloud at Scale” because its a new paradigm that enables organizations to use code to manage and automate various aspects of governance. If you’re interested in exploring this you should absolutely make it a point to sign up, because they’re going to have people who know what they’re talking about—just kidding they’re going to have me talking about this. Its doing to be on Thursday, July 22nd at 1pm Eastern. To sign up visit snark.cloud/stackletwebinar and I’ll talk to you on Thursday, July 22nd. Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I’m Corey Quinn. On this promoted episode, we’re returning to something I did a while back on the AWS Morning Brief. I took us on a twelve-week exploration of networking in the cloud and how that wound up impacting how companies do business. Today, my guest is cloud networking evangelist Rasam Tooloee, and he works over at a company called Alkira. Rasam, thanks for joining me.Rasam: Thank you for having me, Corey. Pleasure.Corey: So, let’s start with the obvious. What is a cloud networking evangelist? I’ve heard of people evangelizing all kinds of things, some of which make more sense than others, but this is the first evangelism title that actually made me sit up and say, “Ooh, this is relevant to my interests.”Rasam: That’s funny. A cloud networking evangelist, to me—you know, what I consider my charter is really helping our customers and prospective customers understand that networking the way they’re used to doing it historically, if you look at legacy networking and the way that networking has evolved, specifically in the cloud, is just not sufficiently agile; it’s not sufficiently natively enterprise-grade from a visibility and control and compliance perspective. And that there’s just a better way of doing networking for this cloud era that we’re in. And I find enterprises that I talk to every day struggle with the complexity associated with how to get their properties into the cloud. There are many of them have become natively multi-cloud just by default, you know, some through business imperatives and priorities, some through acquisitions, but ultimately in the context of networking, that has led to a whole lot of complexities that they grapple with, and the evangelist in me is looking to help them find the better options that are out there for them.Corey: In the earlier days, before I got into Cloud, I was deep into configuration management. And oh, we manage all of these systems via configuration drift detection, and every time they run, they remediate the drift, and it’s great. Cool, so how do we wind up managing the networking equipment? Well, there’s this thing called RANCID. It’s made out of some h