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I don't think there is a killer use case for 5G yet, but I don't mind. I think the performance improvements alone are worth it. It's hard to predict the future, and while often there are points of diminishing returns in technology (which maybe Apple is experiencing right now) I'm personally not sure we are there yet in terms of speeds and availability of computing power for cellular networks.

Because the OpenStack control plane is made up of many (some required, some optional) services that are basically Python daemons. It makes sense to run them in containers and manage their life cycle...which means it makes perfect sense (to me, and others) to run openstack as an application managed by k8s.

You don't have to use a distro. There are well tested puppet modules, which you could make into your own "distro", as well as openstack-ansible and kolla, and openstack-helm which uses helm to deploy openstack. There is also StarlingX. There is no kubeadm like system however, though I'm not sure how many people will really use kubeadm in prod.

Is it complex? Yes. Is it more complex than k8s? Probably. However, are there multiple open source distros outside of RDO (which is not actually a distro and is instead packaging--see tripleo for a distro like solution based on RDO). MaaS is not an OpenStack distro; it's a way to manage baremetal nodes that OpenStack is then deployed onto using other Canonical related tools. That said, selecting a way to deploy and manage openstack is complex, but the same with k8s.

I think they are quite different solutions, and each benefits from the other. Further, they also tend to run into the same concerns at the about the same time in their life time, eg. concerns around complexity.

I agree, I'm not sure the virtual kubelet concept is a great idea overall. It sounds good on the surface, but most of the time these kind of abstractions do more harm then good, as far as I'm concerned. But, I could be wrong. :)

I think it's easy to dismiss Toronto, but the quality of life items you listed are absolutely correct, as far as I'm concerned. If only housing weren't so expensive and we had a better transit system.

A previous poster made the point of not having a major top tier tech firm with an HQ here as well. It's an interesting point I haven't thought of. I know MS is building a new big office. Google is planning a pretty large build via sidewalk labs. I need to do some research.

I concur. It's very weird. You could go to some kind of blockchain related event every week.

+1 to that. There is so much good food here it's amazing. Though driving to get it can be a huge pain.

Thanks. I agree, there is some kind of vendetta. However, messing with Toronto's economy could have disastrous effects. I guess we'll see how it plays out. :)

I agree with everything you've said, and that first sentence is a killer, but I don't quite get the "picked apart by the province" part. Could you expand on that a bit?

I think Calgary is a good choice for a place to live in Canada.

However, I don't agree that the meetups in Toronto show legacy technology thinking. I just went to a meetup at Shopify on Istio. Just Istio. Google and Microsoft have big presences. Shopify is a huge company on the cutting edge of tech. And there are tons of smaller startups that are doing great work, pushing the boundaries. There is also a lot of AI work going on as well. I don't completely get Blockchain, but Toronto has gone crazy for it.

Edited to indicate Toronto meetups.

I would say this comment is accurate. I just moved to Toronto. The cost of housing is obnoxious and makes the overall cost of living extremely high, and unfortunately salaries don't make up for it. There is no doubt about that. And of course the traffic is horrible.

However, Toronto has everything Canada has to offer in terms of big city life. It's got the hustle of a global big city. It's has amazing food and entertainment. If you live in Canada and like big, global cities, then there's not much choice.

Oh this is really interesting. I'm doing some work with Dokku so this could be a helpful add-on.

I'm surprised this isn't getting more press. Shaw in Alberta has been having problems all day, not sure if it is because of this but I would hazard a guess that it is.

I really like this idea. Now just need to figure out something to setup to use it...

I remember initially looking at the saltstack docs and deciding, like the author of the post, that they were extremely dense at first glance. It's interesting to read that after he'd used salt for a while the dense documentation was useful.

I am using it, works great. I tried a couple other similar services and they were slightly more complicated than I wanted--packagecloud is simple and straightforward. Also I like the clean design of the site.

Edmonton, AB, Canada, Remote||Relocation||Local, Full time

SysAdmin/DevOps: openstack, docker, golang, python, storage, virtualization, information security, object storage

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I'm interested in the DevOps paradigm and working somewhere that I can learn from people who know a lot more than I do. :) Local and remote work would be preferred, but would also relocate for a great opportunity.

I feel like the ability to job hop like this will be in fairly small, concentrated geographic areas. In areas that aren't as concentrated it'll end up being pretty hard to do this.

Edmonton, AB, Canada, Remote||Relocation||Local, Full time

SysAdmin/DevOps: openstack, docker, python, storage, virtualization, information security, object storage

Resume: http://serverascode.com/2011/04/10/resume.html

Contact: curtis@serverascode.com

I'm interested in the DevOps paradigm and working somewhere that I can learn from people who know a lot more than I do. :) Local and remote work would be preferred, but would also relocate for a great opportunity.

Not sure, I've not heard of UDDI before. Mostly I mean, in a really general sense, that servers come up and become part of a cluster or group of systems providing a service.

Interesting. I definitely think service discovery and such are going to become a lot more popular in the near future.

I just setup a linked in account recently. Felt like I didn't have much choice.

I do wonder a bit about the pollen service. Seems to have it's positives and negatives.

I've been working on an project called Swiftacular that uses Ansible to deploy OpenStack Swift to Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 6, and Ubuntu 14.04.

https://github.com/curtisgithub/swiftacular

My experience has been that organizations that want you to work there make it apparent. Otherwise I would think that staying somewhere that makes a last ditch effort is not a good idea, unless it's some massive company that has this wicked small department that is doing cool stuff and they move you there. Otherwise, organizations who don't want you just don't want you, even if they think they do.

I like this idea, but next time I move I'm going to try to make sure I'm a nice 30 min bike ride from work. Right now I'm 12 min away, which is too close and too easy.

I don't think I have the stamina to go through a process like this. I'm not saying it's bad process, just I don't think I could quite get through all of it.

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