Welcome to episode 276 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, our hosts Justin, Matthew, and Jonathan do a speedrun of OpenWorld news, talk about energy needs and the totally not controversial decision to reopen 3 Mile Island, a “managed” exodus from cloud, and Kubernetes news. As well as Amazon’s RTO we are calling “Elastic Commute”. All this and more, right now on The Cloud Pod.

• The Cloud Pod Hosts don’t own enough pants for five days a week
• IBM thinks it can contain the cost of K8s
• Microsoft loves nuclear energy
• The Cloudpod tries to give Oracle some love and still does not care
• The cloud pod goes nuclear on k8s costs
• Can IBM contain the costs of Kubernetes and Nuclear Power?
• Google takes on take over while microsoft takes on nuclear
• AWS Launches ‘Managed Exodus’: Streamline Your Talent Drain
• Introducing Amazon WorkForce Alienation: Scale Your Employee Discontent to the Cloud
• Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab: Now with Real-Time Resignation Prediction

01:08 IBM acquires Kubernetes cost optimization startup Kubecost

• IBM is quickly becoming the place where cloud cost companies go to assimilate? Or Die? Rebirthed mabe? Either way, it’s not a great place to end up.
• On Tuesday they announced the acquisition of Kubecost, a FinOps startup that helps teams monitor and optimize their K8 clusters, with a focus on efficiency – and ultimately cost.
• This acquisition follows the acquisitions of Apptio, Turbonomic, and Instana over the years.
• Kubecost is the company behind OpenCost; a vendor-neutral open source project that forms part of the core Kubecost commercial offering.
  • OpenCost is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundations cohort of sandbox projects.
• Kubecost is expected to be integrated into IBM’s FinOps Suite, which combines Cloudability and Turbonomic.
  • There is also speculation that it might make its way to OpenShift, too.

02:26 Jsutin- “…so KubeCost lives inside of Kubernetes, and basically has the ability to see how much CPU, how much memory they’re using, then calculate basically the price of the EC2 broken down into the different pods and services.”

05:03 Introducing OpenAI o1-preview

• Reasoning LLM’s have arrived this week. Dun Dun Dun…
• The idea behind reasoning models is to take more time to “think” before they respond to you.
• This allows them to reason through complex tasks. and solve harder problems than previous mod...