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Gitlab is also currently reporting issues with GCE. I'm unable to push to their network right now. Looks like all three major cloud platforms are experiencing

Gitlab is also currently reporting issues with GCE. I'm unable to push to their network right now. Looks like all three major cloud platforms are experiencing problems right now. Could be internet related? https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services

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- heybrendan 7y ago
  Huh? I did not have to look very long to find evidence [1] of rather sobering issues with IBM "Cloud". In fact, that article reported IBM as dead last in the 2018 Gartner's Magic Quadrant ranking of IaaS cloud offerings. What are you trying to say exactly? And why should customers turn their attention to IBM? [1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/04/ibm_cloud_outage/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/04/ibm_cloud_outage/
  - vmh1928 7y ago
    So you provide as evidence an article from July of last year?
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    - colanderman 7y ago
      Your comments come off as unvarnished self-promotion, which is generally frowned upon here.
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        jackfraser 7y ago
        I think it's good to hear someone talking about it. I've never used it - perhaps I have the impression that it's not even something I could just go sign up for with a credit card and start using as a non-business entity. But, I see things like https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/terraform-provider-ibm https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/terraform-provider-ibm exist, so it must be at least reasonably usable. What's a reason why someone would consider this over the big three, besides sweetheart deals for big customers?
        solotronics 7y ago
        One of the cooler things to me is you can order an actual physical server and its entirely only yours. It gets the same infrastructure and care we give everything else but you own and control it entirely. You can select the specific components you want or select a common build that we keep prebuilt for "fast provision". These prebuilt ones are sitting ready for booting via IPMI/BOOTP so with a few clicks you can get a baremetal server thats only yours in a few minutes. You can totally lock us out of it in every way if you want to. Also, the portions of the network where this happens is not an "overlay network" so that translates to extremely predictable latency and jitter characteristics that are actually better than the others can provide. Game companies especially like this but the downside is decreased flexibility because of course its a physical server somewhere so your responsible for managing any container or VM you choose on it. We of course have container and VM and many other things as services as well.
        nixgeek 7y ago
        Which is great and all, if done properly. Was this fixed properly? What’s the IBM equivalent to AWS’ Nitro or GCP’s Titan? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/26/ibm_softlayer_server_security/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/26/ibm_softlayer_serve...
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    - heybrendan 7y ago
      You didn't [make me upset]. I'm also looking forward to see what Red Hat is capable of with IBM's resources. Thanks for clarifying.
    - lima 7y ago
      Competition is good and I didn't know IBM had a bare metal offering. (you might want to put some sort of contact method in your profile in case people want to reach out to you)
    - kiallmacinnes 7y ago
      > All the IBM Cloud core engineering teams are based in the US which I strongly agree with. Have a nice day! All US based really is not a selling point. As a European, I wouldn't bet my company (if I had one ;)) on a provider who's engineers are all in a TZ 5-8 hours different from me.
- LoSboccacc 7y ago
  the sev1 messages in my inbox currently begs to differ. there's no issue maybe with the dns at this very moment but the platform is thoroughly fucked up
  - solotronics 7y ago
    I am one of the senior Engineers and would be glad to go over anything you want to talk about if you would like me to contact you.
    - LoSboccacc 7y ago
      well, talking would not even be cathartic, but if you want to look into the annoying things: everything is labeled severity 1. I've had three dozen of them in the last two months. only 2 of them were actually severity 1 when seen from my point of view, most of the other had impact on part of the infra I don't use or datacenter we don't have res, so filtering relevant messages would be a good start. (that's not to say the other sev 1 were mislabeled, but we keep our cloud services integration to a minimum precisely to avoid these interruption from failing dependencies.) but what is really annoying is that when one actual sev 1 that requires machine reboots happens (we had 3 in two years, so not even that bad), there's no way to manually anticipate the reboot ourselves to perform a staggered reload.
- cheeze 7y ago
  If there were problems, would anybody notice? On a more serious note it's cool to see how far the IBM cloud has come (terrible name, but oh well) but they still seem a few years behind the major players

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heybrendan 7y ago
Huh? I did not have to look very long to find evidence [1] of rather sobering issues with IBM "Cloud". In fact, that article reported IBM as dead last in the 2018 Gartner's Magic Quadrant ranking of IaaS cloud offerings. What are you trying to say exactly? And why should customers turn their attention to IBM? [1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/04/ibm_cloud_outage/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/04/ibm_cloud_outage/
- vmh1928 7y ago
  So you provide as evidence an article from July of last year?
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  - colanderman 7y ago
    Your comments come off as unvarnished self-promotion, which is generally frowned upon here.
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      - jackfraser 7y ago
        I think it's good to hear someone talking about it. I've never used it - perhaps I have the impression that it's not even something I could just go sign up for with a credit card and start using as a non-business entity. But, I see things like https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/terraform-provider-ibm https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/terraform-provider-ibm exist, so it must be at least reasonably usable. What's a reason why someone would consider this over the big three, besides sweetheart deals for big customers?
        solotronics 7y ago
        One of the cooler things to me is you can order an actual physical server and its entirely only yours. It gets the same infrastructure and care we give everything else but you own and control it entirely. You can select the specific components you want or select a common build that we keep prebuilt for "fast provision". These prebuilt ones are sitting ready for booting via IPMI/BOOTP so with a few clicks you can get a baremetal server thats only yours in a few minutes. You can totally lock us out of it in every way if you want to. Also, the portions of the network where this happens is not an "overlay network" so that translates to extremely predictable latency and jitter characteristics that are actually better than the others can provide. Game companies especially like this but the downside is decreased flexibility because of course its a physical server somewhere so your responsible for managing any container or VM you choose on it. We of course have container and VM and many other things as services as well.
        nixgeek 7y ago
        Which is great and all, if done properly. Was this fixed properly? What’s the IBM equivalent to AWS’ Nitro or GCP’s Titan? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/26/ibm_softlayer_server_security/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/26/ibm_softlayer_serve...
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  - heybrendan 7y ago
    You didn't [make me upset]. I'm also looking forward to see what Red Hat is capable of with IBM's resources. Thanks for clarifying.
  - lima 7y ago
    Competition is good and I didn't know IBM had a bare metal offering. (you might want to put some sort of contact method in your profile in case people want to reach out to you)
  - kiallmacinnes 7y ago
    > All the IBM Cloud core engineering teams are based in the US which I strongly agree with. Have a nice day! All US based really is not a selling point. As a European, I wouldn't bet my company (if I had one ;)) on a provider who's engineers are all in a TZ 5-8 hours different from me.
LoSboccacc 7y ago
the sev1 messages in my inbox currently begs to differ. there's no issue maybe with the dns at this very moment but the platform is thoroughly fucked up
- solotronics 7y ago
  I am one of the senior Engineers and would be glad to go over anything you want to talk about if you would like me to contact you.
  - LoSboccacc 7y ago
    well, talking would not even be cathartic, but if you want to look into the annoying things: everything is labeled severity 1. I've had three dozen of them in the last two months. only 2 of them were actually severity 1 when seen from my point of view, most of the other had impact on part of the infra I don't use or datacenter we don't have res, so filtering relevant messages would be a good start. (that's not to say the other sev 1 were mislabeled, but we keep our cloud services integration to a minimum precisely to avoid these interruption from failing dependencies.) but what is really annoying is that when one actual sev 1 that requires machine reboots happens (we had 3 in two years, so not even that bad), there's no way to manually anticipate the reboot ourselves to perform a staggered reload.
cheeze 7y ago
If there were problems, would anybody notice? On a more serious note it's cool to see how far the IBM cloud has come (terrible name, but oh well) but they still seem a few years behind the major players