If you’d like something more tangible than a virtual cloud instance, there’s always (still!) bare metal. Tinkerbell is a project from Equinix Metal to manage bare metal servers at scale, and Gianluca Arbezzano is one of its maintainers. We talk stacks, racks and MACs.
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Chatter of the week

Episode 11, with Vic Iglesias
Vic lives here, but not here
Pokémon Go social distancing

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Episode 39


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Announcing Private Clusters on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)
Linkerd 2.10
The Money Section, with thanks to David Pait, guest of Episode 127

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Snyk raises $300m in Series E valuing company at $4.7 billion
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Links from the interview

PHP. and PHP in 2020
Turin
InfluxData
Episode 91, with Leonardo Di Donato
Dropbox’s exodus from Amazon
Equinix Metal

Packet acquired by Equinix


Tinkerbell
OpenCompute and Open19
Server terminology:

Next Unit of Computing (NUC)
Baseboard management controller (BMC)
Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
Floppy disks


DIY Board management control for an Intel NUC: power control
Tinkerbell services:

Tink
Boots
OSIE
Hook
Hegel
PB&J


OVH fire
How Tinkerbell Got Its Wings, including joining the CNCF
Tinkerbell community
Episode 136: Backstage, with Lee Mills and Matt Clarke
Gianluca Arbezzano on Twitter and on the web
Tinkerbell on Twitter