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This is not how I wanted things to end. I’ve been dealing with an elbow injury for a while. I finally went to the doctor’s to figure out what was going on. That became the least of my worries shortly thereafter. I’ve been diagnosed with yet another ailment. This time it’s my heart 🫀. I’m under explicit doctor’s orders to cut stressors out and do things that bring me more joy. Basically, I need to stop doing so much. Writing a newsletter is like working under a constant deadline. DevOps’ish is many hours of extra work every week. I walk on a razor’s edge to continue managing it as an independent brand while working a full-time day job at a major cloud provider. DevOps’ish turned into a second job and income stream years ago. At the very least, I’ve proven I can do it (which means I could always do it again). Every Q4 (October), I ponder long and hard about continuing DevOps’ish. It was a topic of discussion at KubeCon with my close friends. Before I got the doctor’s order, I had decided to put DevOps’ish into hiatus mode at the end of the year. It has been an excellent six-year run. I’ve learned a lot, and I hope you have too. But, in light of this recent news, I have to idle the newsletter immediately. ...

Side Note: I have no doubt that Twitter is going to unban people that really shouldn’t be for national security reasons. With that in mind, I’ve consolidated my Mastodon presence on the Mastodon server hachyderm.io so please follow me there @ChrisShort! Also, Happy birthday, Max! My youngest’s birthday is today. Stay awesome, buddy! Let me be abundantly clear. I had a great KubeCon. It was rough physically, though, as I’ll explain. Seeing Ihor come on stage was the inspiration I needed FOR SURE. It was a negative in my “keynotes from the hotel room strategy,” though. I am truly sad I couldn’t say hello to more people and help folks more. Please DM me on the platform of your choosing. Let’s get you booked into the podcast schedule or a Zoom or phone call. Every KubeCon, I tell myself, “Take Wednesday completely off, and you’ll make it through the whole thing.” Every time, I fail. This past Wednesday wound up being the busiest day. I also over-extend myself to do more during KubeCon than anyone else could; this habit dies now. ...

Side note: I’m out of spoons some weeks and don’t write an intro. I’m not going to apologize for that. Last week’s newsletter wasn’t my best, but I make up for it this week. It’s all about the long haul. Feel free to hit reply anytime. One of the more useful things I created this week was with the help of fellow Amazonian, Tom “Spot” Calloway. Spot asked me, as a local, to suggest to him some great restaurants here in Detroit. I sat down with a list of the top 200 Detroit restaurants and pointed out all the ones I’d enjoyed over the years. Spot looked at that list and said, “We should make a doc about this.” I said, “We should make it publicly available and share it,” because people were DM’ing me asking the exact same questions. Spot put great care into curating most of the data. Please feel free to reference the KubeCon Detroit Food and Drink Suggestions should you need to pick a place for dinner one night this week. It has been crowdsourced from locals and packed with all the necessary information to make a decision. If you’re looking for a party to go to, check out this unofficial list of KubeCon NA 2022 Parties ...

The DevOps’ish Podcast The DevOps’ish Podcast is off this week. Join us next Monday, October 17th, 10 AM ET/14:00 UTC (iCal and Google Calendar). Join the Twitter Space to participate LIVE! Bring some friends along too! Subscribe to the DevOps’ish Podcast via your podcasting software of choice so you can listen on Mondays on your lunch break or ride home. O’Reilly Book on Observability Engineering—Get Yours Free from Honeycomb! Manage complex cloud-native systems, improve customer experiences, and build & run better software using Honeycomb. Get your FREE copy of our new O’Reilly book and register for our Authors’ Cut Series to discuss key concepts. Events Editor’s note: If your event would suit the DevOps’ish audience, please let me know! Kubernetes Contributor Summit North American 2022 October 24, 2022 at KubeCon The Summit will have a healthy mix of content tailored to active contributors. To conclude the summit, we’ll end with Contributor Social with games and refreshments. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Detroit 2022 OCTOBER 24 – 28, 2022 ...

Last week, I shared out the notes I took from an Open Space suggestion I made at DevOpsDays Chicago, “Container Conundrum: Pain points around containers.” The premise was trying to figure out where people are struggling with managing containers and the applications in them in their environments. My friend Ed Vielmetti joined in as well. I want to stress that no one else in the room identified their employer (nor would I have recorded that data or anything that could lead me to it), so your trade secrets are pretty safe. I learned quite a bit, so I’ll share more details here. Kubernetes Everywhere Everyone in the room was using Kubernetes. The participants were using no other container orchestrators. This shows that Kubernetes adoption grew tremendously in the three years since the last time I was at a DevOpsDays Chicago in person. One pair of folks in the Open Space were building artisanal vanilla Kubernetes clusters by hand across multiple clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure, and IBM Cloud). But my notes indicate we’re not hitting on all cylinders with Kubernetes yet. I’ll explain further. ...