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Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by cmdlinecowboy »

iwontberude wrote: post #178
throwaway2037 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is Red Hat going after the acquisition by IBM? From my view, it is going well. The enterprise product (RHEL) is still excellent.

RHEL has had no significant investment to keep it from becoming irrelevant in the next five years. The datacenter and deployments of linux have changed so rapidly (mostly due to the new centralization and homogeneity of infrastructure investment) that RHELs niche is rapidly shrinking.

RHEL 10 beta has some interesting stuff in it. Running the OS itself as a container caught my eye.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by osigurdson »

thisisnotauser wrote: post #137
schmichael wrote: post #110

I joined HashiCorp in 2016 to work on Nomad and have been on the product ever since. Definitely a lot of feelings today. When I joined HashiCorp was maybe 50 people. Armon Dadgar personally onboarded us one at a time, and showed me how to use the coffee maker (remember to wash your own dishes!). There have been a lot of ups (IPO) and downs (BUSL), but the Nomad team and users have been the best I've ever gotten to wo…

I've had the incredible displeasure of having to maintain multiple massive legacy COTS systems that were once designed by promising startups and ultimately got bought by IBM. IBM turned every last one into the shittiest enterprise software trash you can imagine. Every IBM product I've ever used is universally reviled by every person I've met who also had to use it, without exaggeration in the slightest. If anything,…

Podman is pretty good.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by superjared »

schmichael wrote: post #110

I joined HashiCorp in 2016 to work on Nomad and have been on the product ever since. Definitely a lot of feelings today. When I joined HashiCorp was maybe 50 people. Armon Dadgar personally onboarded us one at a time, and showed me how to use the coffee maker (remember to wash your own dishes!). There have been a lot of ups (IPO) and downs (BUSL), but the Nomad team and users have been the best I've ever gotten to wo…

What a blessing to see your comment today. It's been a while. I hope this works in your favor, whatever that means.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by worthless-trash »

zzzeek wrote: post #134
linuxftw wrote: post #115

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There are no resources and opportunities after being acquired by IBM. I worked for Red Hat when they were acquired. Our former CEO was quickly shown the door. We were making so much profit, almost a $1B in quarterly revenue. I left not long after the acquisition. Not long after I left, they laid off a bunch of staff. No matter what they tell you, your day to day will not improve. For my area, it was mostly business a…

if you left right after the acquisition how can you even speak to what the experience has been?

I have found the experience very different than what the OP's experience is.

As you know the layoffs that happened were around the same time as the rest of the industry layoffs were happening (fashion firing), I don't feel like it had a significant effect on the culture.

I am fully remote though, and have been for 15 years.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by cpitman »

oso2k wrote: post #159
mroche wrote: post #149

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Former Hatter here (Solution Architect Q2 '21 -> Q4 '22). Other than the discussions that took place around moving the storage/business products and teams under IBM (and the recently announcement transfer of middleware), I wouldn't have expected engineering to do that much interfacing with IBM. At most, division leadership maybe (this is just personal speculation). Finance and Sales on the other hand... quite a bit m…

Red Hatter since 2016, first in Consulting, now in Sales. Oh the “synergy” rocket chat channel we had back then… Things have been changing, for sure. So has the industry. So have our customers. By and large, Red Hatters on the ground have fought hard to preserve the culture. I have many friends across Red Hat, many that transitioned to IBM (Storage, some Middleware). Folks still love being a part of Red Hat. On the t…

Every time you say rocket chat, I have to appear.

FWIW, the change at Red Hat has always been hard to separate between the forces of IBM and the reality of changing leadership. In a lot of ways those are intertwined because some of the new leadership came from IBM. Whatever change there was happened relatively gradually over many years.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by ddreier »

schmichael wrote: post #110

I joined HashiCorp in 2016 to work on Nomad and have been on the product ever since. Definitely a lot of feelings today. When I joined HashiCorp was maybe 50 people. Armon Dadgar personally onboarded us one at a time, and showed me how to use the coffee maker (remember to wash your own dishes!). There have been a lot of ups (IPO) and downs (BUSL), but the Nomad team and users have been the best I've ever gotten to wo…

Fairly large Nomad Enterprise user here, and I just want to say thanks for all of the work you and the team put in. I'm a big fan of Nomad and really appreciate the opportunities it has afforded me.

Regardless of the general sentiment, hoping for the best outcome for all of you.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by worthless-trash »

dralley wrote: post #157
xyst wrote: post #62

The consolidation of power and IP into just several tech companies is worrying to me. Having the misfortune of working at IBM for just a few months, IBM leadership will give it the RedHat treatment. The dinosaurs at IBM will shelve their IP, and sell it for parts. Maybe Bloodmoar will buy up the rest and squeeze whatever remaining profit from acquisition. If given the chance, just take the exit rather than trying to…

>IBM leadership will give it the RedHat treatment. The dinosaurs at IBM will shelve their IP, and sell it for parts. As someone working at Red Hat since before the acquisition, this does not match my experience of "the Red Hat treatment" even a little bit. I don't doubt that they've handled acquisitions badly in the past but they did a decent job leaving us alone.

Biggest change I've seen is the intranet page now has an option to use IBM's single sign on in addition to RH's single sign on.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by dralley »

iwontberude wrote: post #178
throwaway2037 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is Red Hat going after the acquisition by IBM? From my view, it is going well. The enterprise product (RHEL) is still excellent.

RHEL has had no significant investment to keep it from becoming irrelevant in the next five years. The datacenter and deployments of linux have changed so rapidly (mostly due to the new centralization and homogeneity of infrastructure investment) that RHELs niche is rapidly shrinking.

Image mode RHEL is a pretty significant investment.

Apart from that, in terms of keeping RHEL relevant, most of the attention is on making it easier to operate fleets at scale rather than the OS itself. Red Hat Insights, Image Builder, services in general, etc.

Those are the key things that would keep it competitive against Ubuntu, Debian, Alma, Oracle etc.

Re: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

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Post by dpkirchner »

anonfordays wrote: post #89
ants_everywhere wrote: post #85

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What happens if you forget the lifecycle annotations or put them in the wrong place or you accidentally delete them? Last time I checked it was data loss, but that was a few years ago.

"What happens if I turn a table saw on and start breakdancing on it?" Of course you're going to hurt yourself. If you didn't put lifecycle blocks on your production resources, you weren't organizationally mature enough to be using Terraform in production. Take an associate Terraform course, this specific topic is covered in it.

I'm not familiar with every lifecycle argument but I don't know of any that prevent resources being destroyed if they are removed from the tf file (what the parent was talking about). prevent_destroy, per docs, only applies as long as the resource is defined.

I think the only way to avoid accidentally destroying a resource is to refer to it somewhere else, like in a depends_on array. At least that would block the plan.

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