I’d love to see someone provide a turnkey managed bare metal container platform, complete with L4 / L7 routing. I haven’t heard if oxide has a container play, and I suspect it may require virtualization based on their choice of host OS.
By "L4 / L7 routing" do you mean specifically something that works like Amazon's Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer for Kubernetes? And by "turnkey managed" you mean, you """just""" """configure""" """IP addresses""" and it """all just works"""?
You can certainly install Ubuntu on a very powerful machine with a WAN interface (e.g., a NIC connected to a residential cable internet connection). Then, use something like k0s to provision other bare metal workers. Those three steps, and you've got a "bare metal container platform." You don't need a "LoadBalancer", you can specify that nginx-controller runs on the host network of specifically the machine with the WAN interface and configure its service's external IP to the WAN IP, and now you support Ingress.
But how do you imagine having multiple LoadBalancer resources without multiple IPs? And how do you imagine having multiple IPs without ARIN? The turnkey challenging part is the public IPv4 addresses, not the platform.
> You don't need a "LoadBalancer", you can specify that nginx-controller runs on the host network of specifically the machine with the WAN interface and configure its service's external IP to the WAN IP, and now you support Ingress.
And if you need to service that machine or it goes down?
> But how do you imagine having multiple LoadBalancer resources without multiple IPs? And how do you imagine having multiple IPs without ARIN?
Most colos/transit providers will happily lend you their IPs
I do think if you cut ALL meetings, you may miss out on some important relationship building stuff that is helpful when necessary conflict arises. Formalizing business requirement gathering may help reduce conflict, which is great, but you inevitably will have some.
That said, I don’t think meetings are a good way to build relationships or trust, and there are more efficient and enjoyable ways to do that!
If in person, at least go for a walk, get some food together, talk about hobbies, etc. Give some freedom to “waste time” just getting to know people, especially if the relationships will come in handy later! If you kill unnecessary meetings, you should have plenty of time for this!
People need down time to de-stress, and to recharge, but meetings are not the way.
No 1 says you have to have the meeting in the meeting room. You could do it in a cafe or elsewhere. Not everything has to be so strict. Depends on your team and environment.
