Episode 12 – Red Hat to Docker – hold my beer / Google accuses Microsoft of unfair practices in Azure cloud unit / Google’s State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization report

Red Hat to Docker - hold my beer.

Google accuses Microsoft of unfair practices in Azure cloud unit

Google’s State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization report

A podcast recommendation



Red Hat to Docker - hold my beer.

In episode 7 I talked a little bit about the mishaps in communication that Docker had when they announced a switch to the subscription model. Corporate communications are hard, especially in the open source world. So now Red Hat has been in the news recently due to some communication missteps, as I am going to call them.



Google accuses Microsoft of unfair practices in Azure cloud unit

It kind of always was obvious, but now Google made an official complaint. It goes something like this: “Hey, it’s kind of unfair that we need to pay a license fee to Microsoft for a VM running Windows on Google Cloud, but on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft does not need to pay itself a license fee. So my customer ends up paying more for Windows here than they do on Azure”. Duh.I guess. But also - isn’t giving away free things always the strategy MSFT deploys?



Google’s State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization report

Google published an interesting report on K8s cost optimization, aptly named” State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization”. It provides insights and best practices to the Kubernetes community about running cost-efficient clusters in the public cloud without compromising the performance or reliability of their workloads.



https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/21/google-accuses-microsoft-of-anticompetitive-practices-in-azure-cloud.html

https://packetpushers.net/podcast/network-break-433-nvidia-melds-switches-dpus-for-ai-networking-fabric-ftc-says-amazon-ring-employee-spied-on-female-customers/