Day Two Cloud 073: AnsibleFest & HashiConf 2020 Announcements, Analysis & Awesomeness

Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks analyze the big announcements from two conferences the clouderati should care about: AnsibleFest and HashiConf Digital. Both of these were virtual events because there’s still an pandemic on, folks. Speaking of which, how do Ned and Ethan feel about virtual events? Not great, really. Slidewhipping the attendees in multi-day webinars seems to be how vendors are running their virtual conferences, and it ain’t workin’. Okay, neither AnsibleFest or HashiConf Digital were that bad. They really weren’t, and in fact, there were several interesting announcements from these events. Plus, OF COURSE, there is the excellent archive of free content available to folks that registered for the events, even if you register late just to get access. Our Amazing Sponsors strongDM – Click here to try it free for 14 days. That’s 2 weeks. It’s even an entire fortnight! Don’t know what strongDM is? They say, “strongDM provides a secure tunnel into databases and servers without exposing IP addresses, passwords, and other sensitive information.” Datadog – Click here and get a free nerdy Datadog t-shirt! Don’t know what Datadog is all about? They say, “Unified monitoring for metrics, traces, & logs. Accelerate development and reduce mean time to resolution with a single platform.” Thank you, most excellent sponsors of today’s episode. We Demand You Read All Of These Links We demand nothing, actually. But if you want to read them, here are links to many of the topics Ned and Ethan discussed in this episode. We hope it saves you some clicking around, because no one’s got time for that! * AnsibleFest * Best of Fest: AnsibleFest 2020 – Red Hat Inside Playbook Blog * Red Hat Expands Automation for Hybrid Clouds with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Integration for Red Hat OpenShift Environments – Red Hat Press Releases * Red Hat Accelerates Hybrid Cloud Automation with Catalog of Ready-to-Use, Certified and Supported Ansible Automation – Red Hat Press Releases * Getting Started With Ansible Content Collections – Red Hat Inside Playbook Blog * Ansible Automation Platform Certified Content – Red Hat Customer Portal * HashiConf Digital October 2020 * Announcing HashiCorp Boundary – HashiCorp Blog * Announcing HashiCorp WayPoint – HashiCorp Blog * Announcing HashiCorp Nomad 1.0 Beta – HashiCorp Blog * Running HashiCorp Vault on Azure Container Instance – Ned’s HashiConf Lighting Talk