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

News of the week

Flux moves to incubation in the CNCF
NetApp Astra goes GA; more information
Fairwinds introduces Saffire
Cosign, by Dan Lorenc
- Episode 39
Komodor beta and swag offer
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
- Docker takes $23m in Series “B” funding to get ship done
- Aqua Security takes $135m in Series E at $1b valuation
- Snyk raises $300m in Series E valuing company at $4.7 billion
- Tetrate raises $40m Series B
Is Crossplane the Infrastructure LLVM? by Daniel Mangum
- Episode 141

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

Tinkerbell, with Gianluca Arbezzano

Kubernetes Podcast from Google