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On my way back I had two paperbacks that was purchased while I was in Austin attending the KubeCon 2017. Kubernetes Up & Running by Kelsey Hightower, Brendon Burns and Joe Beda - this is a special book as I managed to get their Autograph (got two copies one was sent to Colombo office with few other books). Started reading the book after I got on to the plane from LA and managed to finished reading with about 2hrs to land in Australia (in between I watched two movies too ;-) ) Yes I still need to try out many of the examples and possibly building a Pi Cluster in the summer. What did I like about the book? It was an easy read, I was surprised as to how Kelsey, Brendon and Joe managed to keep this book highly technical yet very easy to read and understand. The book covers the most of the key areas related to Kubernetes with detailed examples where possible. They didn't start the book jumping straight into Kubernetes, they had two chapters where they covered on...

It is nearly two years since I started writing about Docker, CoreOS (product CoreOS is now known as Container Linux) and Kubernetes. Wow, what I can say things have gone crazy mad. Both Docker and CoreOS having securing funding last year have made major inroads in to communities and enterprises around the world.  That said Kubernetes is one that is not a company has had the most attention in the last twelve months.  For obvious reasons Google was the first to put their public cloud support for Kubernetes, followed by Microsoft Azure and now I am hearing AWS is planning to do similar level of support (although nothing official from AWS yet). Hopefully something might come out of them as well. While both Docker and CoreOS are growing their business and keep contributing to the community some of the key achievements in the last 12 months were the announcements of donating runC, containerD, rkt etc to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ( https:...

About  few weeks back I started listening to AWS Tech Chat by Dr. Pete Stanski and Russell Nash on SoundCloud. They are solutions architects of AWS from Australia. Since started listening to their podcats I can now ignore the emails from AWS about their product launch notifications. They cover a most of these latest product updates and deep technical insights into AWS products and services. It is less marketing more technical (otherwise I wouldn't have listened to it). So far they are doing a great job, and if you haven't listened to it before I strongly suggest you give it a go and I am sure you will like it. You might also be able to crack some of the wording Dr. Pete use for URL (urrl) and AMI (amy). It is fun and interesting. I guess my question to Dr. Pete and Russ is when are you gents going to cover AWS Kubernetes offering? given Google and Microsoft are talking a lot about it these days (surprising to without annoying me).