Day Two Cloud 141: Developing Multicloud Fluency

Today’s Day Two Cloud is a discussion about how to build your multicloud fluency. That is, having knowledge of, and competence in, more than one cloud. The short answer? Learn to code. That’s the position of our guest, and he brings his justifications. Of course, “learn to code” is easy to say but harder to do, so we talk about skills development, where to go deep and where to go broad, how many clouds to learn, which tools and stacks to focus on, cloud-native vs. third-party infrastructure tools, plus advice and resources. Our guest is Forrest Brazeal, Head of Content at Google Cloud and a well-known industry blogger. Takeaways: Learn to code. Two clouds is the sweet spot. Go deep on your 1st cloud, broad on your 2nd. Sponsor: StrongDM StrongDM is secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. StrongDM proxies connections between your infrastructure and Sysadmins, giving your IT team auditable, policy-driven, IaC-configurable access to whatever they need, wherever they are. Find out more at StrongDM.com/packetpushers. Sponsor: ITProTV Start or grow your IT career with online training from ITProTV. From CompTIA to Cisco and Microsoft, ITProTV offers more than 5,800 hours of on-demand training. Courses are listed by category, certification, and job role. Day Two Cloud listeners can sign up and save 30% off all plans. Go to itpro.tv/daytwocloud and use promo code CLOUD to save 30%. Tech Bytes: Singtel On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, we discuss the importance of getting the underlay network architecture correct with sponsor Singtel. And we don’t mean just the circuits. We mean the management of the underlay as well. Show Links: Forrest Brazeal Blog @forrestbrazeal – Forrest on Twitter Cloud Resume Challenge Book – Forrest Brazeal Qwiklabs Welcome To Qwiklabs – YouTube Google Cloud Blog The multicloud gelatinous cube – Gartner Transcript: [00:00:01.090] – Ethan Sponsor StrongDM is secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. Strongdm proxies connections between your infrastructure and Sysadmins, giving your It team auditable, policy driven IEC configurable access to whatever they need, wherever they are. Find out [email protected] PacketPushers this episode of Day Two Cloud is brought to you in part by ITProTV Start or grow your It career with online It training from ITProTV, and we have a special offer for all you amazing Day Two Cloud listeners. Sign up and save 30% off all plans. [00:00:52.650] – Ned Welcome to Day Two Cloud. Today we’re talking about multi cloud fluency. What does that mean? It means having knowledge of more than one cloud. And our guest today is the one and only Forrest Brazeal. And he has some rather contentious things to say during the course of the episode. Ethan, what stuck out to you? [00:01:13.590] – Ethan You mean you set me up for that, man? Learn to code. Learn to code. [00:01:17.830] – Ned Yeah. [00:01:18.