Untangling Cloud Infrastructure with Cory o’Daniel - EMx 168

In this episode the panel chats with Cory o’Daniel which is one of the founders of massdriver.cloud (https://www.massdriver.cloud/) where they try to give teams the tools to deploy production-ready, best-practice, and secure cloud infrastructure. The panel talks about the the various options for running software in the cloud - from SAAS providers, like Heroku, to full-fledged cloud providers like AWS - and the tradeoffs these options introduce for the average developer. They go over Cory’s history and how he experienced the pains of some of these trade-offs himself which prompted him to create Massdriver. They also explore which parts of Massdriver are powered by Elixir, and which not. Sponsors Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Links massdriver.cloud (https://www.massdriver.cloud/) localstack.cloud - Simulate cloud components locally for testing (https://localstack.cloud/) Kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io/) What is a Kubernetes operator? (Article) (https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/containers/what-is-a-kubernetes-operator) Kubernetes - Custom Resources (Documentation) (https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/api-extension/custom-resources/) Kubernetes in Action (Book) (https://www.manning.com/books/kubernetes-in-action) crossplane - Kubernetes add-on to provision cloud infrastructure through Kubernetes (https://crossplane.io/) GitHub - absinthe-graphql/absinthe: The GraphQL toolkit for Elixir (https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe) kitchen.ci - Test your “infrastructure as code” configuration (https://kitchen.ci/) Picks Allen- Basecamp (Product) (https://basecamp.com/) Cory- Naps! Take naps! Cory- June.so (Product) (https://june.so/) Sascha- Overcooked 2 (Game) (https://www.team17.com/games/overcooked-2/) Sascha- Kubernetes in Action (Book) (https://www.manning.com/books/kubernetes-in-action) Special Guest: Cory O’Daniel.