First question came from my guy Jason who's been a team keeping clean patron for 12 days. I appreciate you Jason He said I have a question for you. Do you think the whole running backs not getting paid the lima is the Ravens fault? whoof So the market for running backs is are the Ravens to blame? Let's see what he had to say the Ravens led the league Almost every single season with Russian yards and we do it with three backs and a quarterback We find guys off the street and undrafted and they produce annually has this opened other teams eyes and saying they don't need a First or second round at running back or need to sign a high-priced running back like Barclay or Elliott, etc It's crazy Ravens have had Alex Collins Tarence West Buck Allen Justin Forsett Gus Edwards Mark Ingram Latavius Murray Devontae Freeman Levy on bail and had success with nearly all of them Did the Ravens kill the running back bail Cal? Oh That is a really really good question for real now and Initially when I read the first part is it the Ravens fault for the the running back market being where it is right now? initially, I think no, it's just the market the market is the market, but When you put it like that, I guess Ravens can't be to blame for some of that because Yeah, like you explained the Ravens been they've been doing this They've been doing this with running backs and whatnot bringing different guys in and yeah, like you mentioned having success with them like really and That's something right there, and it ain't just all been high draft picks. I obviously JK Dobbins was a high draft picking second round pick Ray Rice was a second round pick But Ravens ain't been like throwing old high draft picks at running backs like that I mean the next highest was what a Justice Hill. He was a fourth round pick But Gus Edwards almost had a stack almost had a thousand yards Justin four set he got over the Alex Collins Like and then other guys that you named on the list have been significant contributed to Mark Ingram And he well, he did he when did he get draft? I don't even remember what draft pick he was but he was more like kind of high-profile name respected name around the league when the Ravens signed him But The Ravens they've been they've been doing it. They'll bring guys in and they'll get production out of them And it's a beautiful thing and then I think we've almost um Feel like maybe we as fans we may almost take that for granted a bit like we might because There'd be a lot of times when Raven may bring in somebody I and we could be thinking oh, who is that where they come from and then boom They just they end up going off. I know that for sure happened with me with a Alice Collins for sure when they got him from the Seahawks I think they signed him from the practice squad from the Seahawks. I was like Alice Collins Anything about him? Well, let's see then this dude River dancing in the end zone every week I'm like, okay. Let's go and then um Gus Edwards Gus Edwards when they signed him. I thought that uh, I Thought that uh, Mark Thompson that same year. I thought he was gonna make the roster over Gus Edwards And they were Gus. I was I was like, oh, okay. Let's see and boom Gus that was been balling ever since when he plays So, yeah, Ray Ravens got something they got something and I do think that especially because when people think about Ravens They think about their offense the first thing they think about it They're Russian often well most of the time the first thing they think about it. They're Russian Well, the first thing thing about is Lamar then the next thing they think about it They're Russian offense like oh boy them Ravens. They could run that ball But then you talk about a well, who's their lead back? Then you got everybody looking around And some may want to say JK Dobbins, but it's really not JK Dobbins. It's really whoever's back there. Whoever's getting the ball So yeah, I do think the Ravens they share some of the blame in the running back market being what the running back market is especially it's too because They haven't really paid out a significant money and then I mean you can say that about enough teams Well, they really pay significant money to run it back since Ray Rice That's Ray Rice. They just really have been dishing out money like that They gave marketing room a three-year five minute. I mean 15 million dollar deals or five mil per They gave Gus L was before they reworked it this offseason They gave Gus L was the same deal like a three-year five million dollar three and 15 million dollar deal. I mean, excuse me So like that's they ain't been paying no big money to running backs like that So, yeah, they they definitely share some of the blame not all of it But a good little portion because you know the league be watching teams be watching and they see stuff It's it's there. It says a copycat league. They see row Ravens brought in that guy And he would he didn't work like that what he brought in him and he worked like that. Oh, man Okay, we could do the same thing because it's cheaper But he also said thanks for reading hope you have a wonderful season Good luck and good things come to good people have a feeling you are going to be seeing a lot of good things Sooner then later. Hey, I hope so Jason. I appreciate that a lot though, man. I am There have been some times and I don't mean to like get sidetracked a bit, but um They have been sometimes and sometimes it happens, uh, it's just my own Maybe getting in my own head and just be thinking about stuff Sometimes I'd be thinking like man. Um, I wonder when Like when stuff is really gonna start happening that that's on my own because I y'all know I Appreciate it when other people be looking at cuz other people look out big time They look they look out big time, but um, sometimes I just be wondering like, huh? When is it gonna be something that's me But I try not to dwell on that too much because I am I am grateful don't don't think I ain't grateful for just Where the channel isn't again, it's still small channel But I am very grateful for everybody that's a part of them grateful for all y'all grateful for just Team keeping clean as a whole friends family and so many people that we done met over the years So many people that done supported over the years some new supported old support everything Cuz it makes a big difference. It makes a huge huge huge difference But sometimes I just be wondering like man, I'll be looking around I'll be seeing stuff like man like When is something gonna pop off for us? But again, I try not to get in that thinking too much Cuz I don't really think it's really healthy like And again, I just I don't want to and I know it sounds ungrateful I think saying that out loud it sounds ungrateful, but I don't mean for it to sound ungrateful But I just I just want to be like just want to be super Super real with y'all just super transparent transparent So that that's what be going through my head sometimes like man, I'll be just looking around. Hey, we're like How come I come I never get to do that. I ain't never get to do this or da da da da So we're working we're trying but um Whatever gonna happen gonna happen and whenever it's gonna happen That's when it'll be and if something is gonna happen cool if something's not gonna happen That's cool, too I'm appreciative of everything and everybody that everything that has happened for sure because again, it's like None of this none of all of this is just me alone. It's us like for it. It's us This team keep it clean Just so many great people Who just really really look out and really really look out When people like when people like consider you for stuff You gotta appreciate that man. You really got to when people are willing to invite you into their space You gotta be super appreciative of that because they ain't gonna do that Ain't nobody got to do that. They ain't got to be on that. They'd be like now I'm doing this for myself. I'm keeping this for myself. It's only gonna be me And it's some people that do that and that's fine but it's other people that like when they like willing to have us with them or Whatever it is Appreciate that a lot man. And and people have done that they gonna way out of their way So thank you to y'all. Thank you for sure, man But yeah, I just I appreciate that I appreciate this I appreciate that comment at the end of your question Jason so so thank you very very much for that next question No, we got a little side track with that last one came from my guy Harold who's been a patron for 10 days Appreciated here. He said what's up in gravy? How's it going? Hope you and the family. Oh, well, we're doing pretty good, man I appreciate it. Sorry. I've been away from the team keeping clean family been so busy at work in the oil field here in Texas Hey, get that bread man. Get that bread and you working in over. I knew you getting bread for real But anyway, he said just wanted to ask are we completely out of the hunt for the Andre Hopkins? Thanks for taking the question and take care, brother. Appreciate it. Um Like what Completely out the hunt Mmm, I would I would not say yes, but it's highly unlikely You know Ravens are very loaded and why I receive it and I mean y'all know me I wouldn't mind them adding more at all But I cannot say that the Ravens are completely out the hunt until the Andre Hopkins is actually signed by somebody So, I mean if people could say oh Ravens are uninterested Ravens ain't checking for the Andre Hopkins Ravens Don't want to they don't want the Andre Hopkins, but until he's officially signed by somebody You you can't say anybody's out Well, except for the Cardinals, but besides the Cardinals then it's like no, I like no So I would not say that they are completely out of the hunt for the Andre How while it may not be likely there's still a small small chance Like a dream You to take keep it clean you see my boy he like out of made it Well, that's my homie ain't that right engraving right engraving


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So last week I showed you how to make the perfect scallops. It starts out by getting them nice and dry. Now what I didn't show you was the absolute best thing that we did and that was the very last step and I didn't show you in last week's video. So I'm gonna remake this whole video and show you exactly how to do it. Some of your scallops might have this little extra piece of meat on there. That's actually called the foot. It's a really tough piece of the scallop. It's actually what connects it to the shell and we're just gonna get rid of that. Also, one of the most important things is let these sit out and let them get room temperature for about an hour.  Now it's time for the seasoning. That's right, seasoning. That's the blue top. We're gonna give the scallops a generous sprinkle. Now I already know what you're thinking. Dan, why wouldn't you just put more salt in the seasoning? Well, there's only 50 milligrams of sodium in the seasoning so it's more flavor. We add a little salt to the scallops because we like that a little bit extra salt. All right, pat that in, flip them over. Another sprinkle of kosher salt and a generous coating of the seasoning. Pat it in and get all that extra seasoning that's stuck on the cutting board. Now we're ready. Get you a cast iron pan. We're gonna heat it up to a high temperature.  I like to use the unsalted carry-go butter. All right, it's been about three minutes. It's nice and hot. Once you start to see that smoke, if you can't see the smoke, I'll show you. It's nice and hot. Now we're gonna go in with our grapeseed oil. It's great for high heat cooking, about two tablespoons. Now we go right in with our scallops. It's been exactly 90 seconds.  Add your carry-go butter. Turn the heat off.  Put it right on the butter. That took about 30 seconds. Now we simply turn the pan and start the base for the next 60 seconds. One last scoop. All right, it's been exactly 90 seconds. Take them straight out of the pan onto our plate. Give you a couple little scoops of the butter right over the top. Last step, you must have a lemon. Squeeze right over the top. Now, see what I didn't do last time is put the butter over the top. I just did the squeeze of lemon. It was still amazing. But when the camera guy said, hey, put the butter over it, it took it to a whole new level.  Everything about that is absolutely perfect. Hope you enjoyed the video. Leave a like. Hit that follow button. We'll see you next time. Keep sprinkling, my friends. Mm. Mm, mm, mm, mm. Hold on. It was just pointed out to me that I need to try something. A little primo. Okay, it just keeps getting better.


Hey Virgo, welcome back to the channel. This is Kelly from House of Virgo. I'm going to do your love rating here for the end of January into the end of February, so a little bit of January, a little bit of February, mostly February. Let's see what the love messages are for you. If you are new to my channel, please smash that like, subscribe, and share button. If you don't, well, if you want to share, I would greatly appreciate that. And yes, welcome to all my new members and yeah, just be mindful. It's a general reading, so some of the messages may or may not resonate, take with it, sleeve the rest. Also, personal reading links are below in the description box. All right, and you guys, don't forget you can follow me on Facebook. The link is or the address is right above there at the top of the video and also in the description box. Okay, so Virgo, let's start off. We're going to use the love oracle, Romance Angel's messages and see what's coming out for Virgo, sun, moon, rising, Arvina's. Okay, forgiving and learning. All right, that's kind of a thing for you, Virgo. Letting go of the past so that you can have more love in your present moment. So this is, you know, Virgo, it's just really like get yourself in a position of forgiving and learn from something, learn the lessons. Don't stress about anything. It just feels like a letting go. I feel like you guys have been getting this message a lot lately, like there's just something here that you've got to just put it behind you. Okay, you also have honeymoon. So enjoying the bliss of holiday time together. And I feel like in order to have a beautiful, whether it's a holiday or just some type of like connection with someone to really enjoy each other, it's about letting go of mistakes and things that might have happened in the past. So let me see what else is going on here. I feel like somebody here also like it's two people letting go of the past and just getting together and just enjoying the bliss, you know, why we fell in love in the first place, what think like kind of bringing things back to how they used to be the good in the like all the good. All right, and you also have making the effort. So Virgo, it looks like someone's definitely going to try to make an effort to let go of the past, forgive could be you another person, both of you to forgive and try to like have a new like a new connection or start something up here beautifully. Great love is worth taking the steps. You're got it to take. So it's beautiful, especially with February being the month of love. Yeah, I feel like someone is trying to put their burdens and basically the burdens behind them, they've come to the end of some kind of struggle. There might have been somebody who was like fighting you or fighting a relationship or not trying to like it just was to there was too much struggle, maybe too many problems, feeling like a burden, just feeling stressed and exhausted. And so, you know, 10 is always just like pretty much the ending of that coming to the end of the struggle. Okay, so all right, we just heard. Yeah, the star pop out here. Okay, Aquarius energy. So you could be connecting with an Aquarius Virgo. Wow, with the 10 of cups. Yeah, I feel like somebody wants to heal something here with you. A lovely, beautiful connection that may have had some struggle or some issues in it. It's like, okay, can we just put this behind us and try to have something new here? The star is like a very healing and it's like revelation. It's like being hopeful about having that 10 of cups energy running away together. That's that honeymoon card. So I feel like somebody here wants to sneak away from, you know, indecision or, you know, make a compromise.  Can we just cuddle and just, you know, have these good feelings and try to get back to that and, you know, forget about the struggles and the problems just for a moment and just try to heal a relationship through our love for one another and the healing that star energy. It's like a miracle and having faith. Okay, so now for some of you, this is definitely going to be within Aquarius, I feel. And whether that's their sun, moon, rising or Venus, if, you know, if you know their sun, but you don't know their, their natal chart, they're coming across with this Aquarian energy here of like healing, okay, and renewal, renewing a relationship, trying to make things better. Okay, because you've got cups, you've got wands and you've got swords so far. So the intellect, the physical and the emotional, you don't have any pentacle energy. Okay, but that doesn't mean it won't show up. So let me see what else is going on here. Also healing from some deception or if there was like betrayal or a cheating thing or something like that.  No, they're not, they're just trying to like keep what they have and just keep doing what they're doing. I mean, one time, okay, and people make mistakes, like I get it, but like two, three, four times, then that's intentional. So, you know, this reading is not for you if you have someone who's been like on the prowl for quite some time and you keep forgiving them. You can forgive, but you got to learn and just keep it moving. Right? So I think you guys know that. All right, let me see here. What else is going on? I just feel like somebody wants to sneak away and spend some time with you. That somebody's coming your way to try to make the effort. Oh, yeah, there's a lot of physical attraction that this person has for you. And they're waiting to hear from you. I'm hearing or to connect with you. Okay, they're waiting, whether it's to hear from you or connect with you. It's just that this person's like curious, they're, they're in wonderment with the three of wands. I feel like this person is like, are you guys at a distance or they're just, they're going like, I feel like this person, if this is a connection, like in real life, I feel like this person, they either go to the coffee shop you guys went to waiting for you to walk in or they go to the place where you both were connecting. You don't go there anymore, but I feel like this person goes there still, whether that's like virtual or it's physical, like in the 3d, whatever it is. I feel like this, you have not left this person in their, their senses. And I feel like this person with the night wands is just very passionate about you. Okay, well, hello, King of Swords always showing up in these ratings, right? Every time. Okay, it could be Aquarius, like I said, Gemini, Libra. This person is like very, being very strategic with showing up or going to the, they're waiting to catch a glimpse of you or waiting to see you looking for you. I feel like they're looking for you. They're all up in their head though, about you. They want to talk to you. And that's what they want to talk about. Like, you know, let's, can we put this behind us? Can we try to have like a new start here? A new beginning, that kind of energy. Yeah, the night of Swords energy. Oh my goodness. I'm picking up strong Aquarius vibes, you guys. Strong Aquarius vibes, like I don't even know. And some Gemini. Okay, so yeah, wherever this person's, like, I don't even know if that's their sun, their moon, their rising, whatever it might be. Okay. Oh yeah. So gosh, Virgo, like this person is definitely in a position of like, no longer noncommittal. That's just the strong message that I'm getting here. I feel like this, there was somebody here who was just kind of living their life in fantasy land for the longest time. And now they're ready to take action and make change.  They're giving me pedestal, but I don't like it like that. It feels more like priority and make the relationship a priority. Okay. So if they weren't someone who was just living in La La Land or fantasy mode, if you ghosted or you just kind of disappeared on them, I feel like this person wants to put an end to that and see where you are and try to find you and connect with you in some way. It's really interesting. So this is like going forward. Okay. So it might not resonate for you right now because it might not be happening right now, but I feel like going forward, this energy will play out. I definitely see connecting with one another, holiday bliss. You know, I know Valentine's Day is not technically a holiday, I don't think, but it is a celebratory day, a day of love.  Definitely communication. Like they have a lot to say. What does this person want to tell Virgo? Oh man. Yeah. Two cups. Like you two are meant for each other. I feel like they're energy. And by the way, I'm going to be wearing pink from now through the end of February. I feel like this person definitely feels a connection with you. There's a romantic connection. This card can be about proposal of some sort. And I know you had that yesterday, even marriage. But this is like like minded individuals. I feel like when this person sees you or they look at you, they see themselves.  So I feel like this is definitely this person wanting to connect with you, whether that's like sitting across from each other or sharing drinks or having coffee together or definitely like heal the energy. You see the caduceus there? That's definitely like, could be a Leo for some of you, they're just saying, but far away from home though. Look at the house in the background on the hill there. So this is like either you're both far away from home where you connect, there might be a travel situation where you meet somewhere or meet in the middle for sure. Because that's what this card is about. Yeah, let me see how this person feels about you Virgo. Like what are their feelings? Okay. Wow. Like I feel like this person, I feel like they want to open up and tell you like everything. They want to have that conversation. They want to learn more about you too. There's some things about you that they don't know or that you have not revealed. And I feel like this person wants to understand more about you, but they feel like they hurt you. They do.  So, but they definitely feel like you're kind of standoffish with them, you know, at this time or we'll be feeling that way going forward. Let me see how else does this person feel about Virgo. Okay. They feel like you're going to like slice and dice their head off for sure. Wow Virgo. That's how they feel towards you. I don't know if that's how you feel towards them, but let me see what else their feelings are towards you. Okay. Yeah, they feel like that things could change. They feel like you must be my lucky star. Yeah, definitely. There's this like they feel so lucky to have known you or they feel so lucky to have you in their life or have a connection with you even if that connection is broken. They just feel very lucky for even you to have interest in them. Okay. Let me see. I don't know what's happening. Why this energy is playing out right now. I don't know if there's a catalyst that's made this happen, but there was some kind of struggle that ended or something came to an end. Okay. We have Libran energy. So pretty much a lot of the signs are showing up. Cancer, Taurus, Scorpio energy. Yeah. I feel like this person wants to bring things back into balance. I mean, as far as their emotions, yeah, very deep feelings. Now we have the King of Cups. I mean, this person like seriously has deep love for you, but the King of Cups never shows their feelings. Neither does the King of Swords. You know, they don't generally, so they both have feelings, but the King of Cups feelings are deep and sometimes just completely hidden like you would never know. King of Cups wears a poker face, has a mask. It just does not reveal. You see all that water down there underneath? They're like a volcano under the water. Deep, tumultuous, chaotic, sometimes emotions. They feel things very deeply, very heavy vibration. The King of Swords does feel things, but shares things by way of intellect, communication. You can tell if a King of Swords or male or female energy, remember that. You can tell, by the way, they talk. You know, like King of Swords will always give you good advice or try to bring clarity or try to help you with things by advice and communication, and that's their way of caring. King of Cups will show their way of caring by being supportive as far as nurturing and showing healing support and empathy and tolerance. But again, whoever this person is, whatever their son's sign, whatever their sign is, they just keep, they're in isolation. They keep things very deeply hidden. So I feel like this person has been thinking very deeply about how they feel about you, and I feel like they're really in love with you or just they just love you. That's it. Okay, yeah, three swords reversed. So yeah, they want to heal this relationship. They want to heal the heart. This is recovery after some kind of break or argument. This could be an apology. So there's definitely energy of some kind of an apology coming forward from this person, especially. You might begin to feel this energy happening, or it might start happening from the time you're listening to this video throughout January, the rest of January, but also definitely in February. Okay, wait, they just said hidden oracle messages. So hold on. Let me see. Hidden oracle message hidden or hidden truth oracle messages for Virgo. This person's feelings for Virgo. Okay. It was my fault, but I blamed you. Okay. So this person is definitely taking accountability for their role in a relationship, not putting all the blame on you. Lessons learned. Lessons definitely being learned here on their end. And I'm sure on yours, but we will take a look at you in just a minute. Let me see. Hidden truth oracle dropping. Okay, you speak to me through music. So there might be a musical connection or they are getting some kind of musical download from you. And sometimes I stay awake thinking about you. So yeah, I feel like you're on this person's mind subconsciously and consciously. Okay, let me see. I feel like this person leaves in bed and they keep themselves awake on purpose to dream about you. I mean, it's so sweet. They keep themselves awake on purpose to think about you, like to imagine what things could be like and how all things could go. Let me see what else. Oh, we had an avalanche of emotions here. I know that I crossed the line with you.  They love you. Definitely. And I think I said that that you don't know how hard it was to let you go. They wish they treated you better and they want to be more than just friends. So if this person kind of gave you the vibe or told you, let's just be friends or can we just be friends? I mean, I think that was bull. I feel like this person definitely wants more than that and probably lied as well. I do feel like they want more than that with you. Let me see you Virgo. What are your emotions towards this person? Okay. You just wish that they would just come forward and do what needs to be done, express their love for you, like be bold and courageous and make that offer. I feel like you do love this person deep down, but it might be buried under some stuff. I feel like this person, like Virgo, the way you view them as a winner for sure, someone that's admirable or someone that you look at and you see, they might have like a lot of recognition surrounding them in some way. But I feel like you view them as someone who is very capable and courageous and bold in a lot of areas of their life. And yeah, I feel like if I feel like your thought process is if they feel that they're so lucky to have you and this connection and all, why don't they come forward and show that? You know what I mean? Because Virgo, I kind of feel like you're just like, yeah, well, you are lucky. But Virgo, I kind of feel like in some way with the six of cups in the reverse. Yeah, you're stuck on this devil energy that occurred or the toxicity that occurred in this relationship. And I feel like that's why the forgiving and learning card came out because there's something here like you've got to let that go, right? You need to like lance the toxicity from your blood. That's really the strongest thing because I do feel like some things, like I said, if there was cheating or betrayal with the seven of swords or dishonesty or sometimes running away, like in order for something to work here, despite how somebody feels like you have to forgive in order to have a new start. It's not, it's not like it takes two to tango. That's kind of how I feel. Capricorn energy there. Aries, Sagittarius, okay.  This person, there's a mysteriousness about them. They have like some kind of hidden thing or you might think that they hide stuff. And I think with the aid of swords in the reverse, you're kind of like, you know, free yourself from, like you say to this person, okay, they're just giving me August 11th. The energy is like, please, you want this person to free themselves from their hidden insecurities. Like this person has insecurities that you intuitively know about and you're aware of. And maybe because this person kind of masks, they don't really show that that much. They kind of front a little bit. But you want them to be able to trust you so that they can like open up to you and tell you like what's really going on.  And we also have cancer, Pisces, I might be repeating signs, Scorpio. I feel like with the aid of swords, so the aid of swords basically is like this person is like a self-sabotage or they imprison themselves with their thoughts. And I feel like they get like really stuck and lost and they go deep with that sometimes and they mask and they hide it and they don't let, you know, what they're thinking or, you know, what they're they're intuiting or what's going on within them. So it's a little bit of a mystery and a puzzle.  I just wish you would just just give me the puzzle piece so I can finish this shit, finish this puzzle out, right? I don't know. It's just a weird energy. Like you want to put an end to this and you want this person, like you hope for sure with part of this healing is that they're going to open up and, you know, reveal something to you, okay? Like reveal what's going on deep inside them, you know, like how you have this like, you want them to be hopeful and escape from this, I don't know, oppression or something. I feel like they do it to themselves, you know? And just remember, you guys, this definitely can just relate to a family member or a friend. It doesn't necessarily have to be a love thing, okay? But let me just see what the future holds here, what the future holds in this relationship, what to expect, because I do feel like this person wants to try to get back or get back in the comfort zone with you and like be physically, like just the physical affection and intimacy and love for a romantic relationship. All right, what does the future hold for Virgo and this person going forward? Future energies going forward for Virgo. Hmm, maybe Spirit doesn't want you to know. Oh, okay. So, all right. It's going to take a while for the healing to happen. Let me just say that the ace of cups reversed, okay? So there isn't going to be any new love with anybody else at this, you know, in the next three months, or at least through February, I feel like the healing is going to be slow, right? So it's going to feel like it's kind of almost like a delay of some sort. The healing is going to be slow and the communication going forward with this person, they just told me somebody is pulling away from looking at or searching. Somebody's pulling away from searching for something, searching for answers and just letting the, you know, the process unfold the way it's supposed to be naturally. So as far as like this relationship goes, you know, the ace of cups, whether it's upright or in reverse, when it shows up in a reading, it's a very positive card. It just means that there's a process, a little bit of a delay. There's a process here of, you know, going through maybe a depressive period going forward and then the healing can take place. Like the healing is not going to happen if you're already healed. You know what I mean? Like, you have to like have some kind of wound in order to heal. So it's a slow healing, but it feels like it's going to move forward. And, you know, if there was some kind of cut or whether that's literally or figuratively or something happened or there was an argument or nastiness like that's done with, and now the future looks good with these two cards in reverse, I know some tower readers would be like, I don't even like that makes no sense, but it does to me because it feels to me like the healing is going to start happening. It's going to be a slow, slow progress, okay, towards, yeah, that new beginning. Definitely. And look, the tower is in the reverse, which is a really great sign, okay, because it's like there's security now. Disaster will be averted now because we're on the uptake here with the healing card with, again, the star card. So I mean, it looks like it, it's like on the mend, okay, but I feel like this person wants to be on the mend with you and they want to, I don't know, there's there's so much healing and physical touch. And I'm not just talking about, you know, the, the acts as far as like under the covers or anything like that, I feel like it's more along the lines of like physical touch, the vibrations, the senses brings the healing, you know, because when you're, when people are angry with each other upside with each other, they don't want to kiss, they don't want to hug. It's more like get away for me or there's anger, they're just frustrated and they don't want to be in somebody's presence. But the fact that this person wants to have some type of physical touching or kissing, it's that they, they want you, they want you to be next to them. They want to feel you and, and just feel that love energy, okay. So things are looking, at least we'll be looking up. And I do feel like in February, there's going to be this opportunity to heal a relationship in a very positive way. And there might be something around some kind of holiday thing. And I'm just thinking, I mean, you've got Valentine's Day on February 14th. And then, I mean, I don't know that there's any other holiday in February. It could be somebody's birthday, spending time. If this person's in Aquarius, they might have like end of January, February birthday, and there's a getting like you guys will come together. Okay, play hard, find time to laugh, goof off and enjoy each other. Very good. Okay. Addiction affecting the relationship. So there might have been some type of addiction that interfered in the relationship. But look, you've got go slow, take time to get to know each other. This friendship is leading to more. So you guys, you know, it might be an energy you might tell this person or they might say, you know, I do want to be with you. Let's go slow. Let's try to reestablish our foundation as friends and rebuild. So it's a very positive message, I feel for you. All right, let me take a look at Chinese signs. So we're going to get into like features, Chinese signs, all that stuff. All right, you guys, see what this Chinese sign of this person or of you or both of you or may not be any of you. So take that with a grain of salt. Okay, so you have the snake and you have the rooster. Okay, we have the rabbit. We're in the year of the rabbit right now. You have the ox. Okay, year of the dragon, year of the monkey, year of the rat. Okay, rabbit again. Could be two rabbits, ox again, two oxes, rooster again, two roosters. Okay, year of the tiger. So that could be you, it could be your person, could be both of you or none. Okay, so just take that, like I said, as it resonates, it doesn't mean that it's not your reading if I didn't call a Chinese sign. Let me do the features. What are the features, physical features of you or this person? Try to narrow it down a little bit here, physical features of Virgo and this person. I'm going to get them a good shuffle. Okay, somebody is bald. Okay, somebody wears glasses. Okay, somebody is short. All right, somebody's got a mohawk and it looks like I don't, a gauge, maybe they are, they have a gauge. Okay, somebody's got very short hair. Although her hair doesn't look short. It could have like very short layers. Okay, there's someone here who's plus size. Okay, and also slender. So it could be you and this person or one of you. Okay, we've got someone here who has brown hair and also someone with long hair. All right, I'm going to do one more because these are way too many. All right, we also have someone here who's very tall. Okay, you know what? They said two more. Okay, someone with blue eyes and someone with hazel eyes. I feel like the hazel eyes keep coming up and also curly hair. I said two more and I went and did a few more. Okay, so let's see. These are interesting messages Virgo because every day they change.  We end on something and then it goes then the next episode is finishing of that ending. And other times it's like completely different and I know it might throw some of you off where you're like so confused. Listen, you have to just understand that every day is going to be something different and sometimes it may not be that continuation. Sometimes it may not be that message. So it's going to go to something else. Okay, I don't know if that makes sense with you but it's always it's like when you watch the news every day there's always something new that might happen. Let me see what your moon pie messages are here. What else does Virgo need to know at the end of January into February 2023? Okay, toxic city. Something's got a hold of you. Breaking the chain seems impossible. Take it one day at a time. Healing doesn't happen overnight. Face your fears. Pray for guidance and ask to be lifted up. This is a time of deep struggle but know that you're not alone. Okay, so some of you I feel like there might be an addiction or an obsession that either you or another person is trying to let go of. It's just an energy of trying to get healthy really. It could be for some of you it's really like changing your diet or breaking some bad habits. Some of you have been doing that for maybe your New Year's resolution. You made a plan to break some bad habits and stuff like that and you're still working on that and I think that's awesome and keep it going. Don't quit because even when you have like even if you have a setback here and there just know that's not a failure. Know that's part of the process of achievement. So don't give up just because you have a setback or you hit a speed bump. Also, I just saw a card flip out. Oh, here it is. Okay, spiritual principles, traditional roles bring structure and help aid you on your path. What are your spiritual beliefs, Ferco? Will you conform? What path are you on to lead you into where you'd like to go? Oh, okay. So you've got a loving older female who's in your life at this time or will be showing up. She's very supportive and very and cares very much about your mental, emotional, physical well-being. She comes with a lot of healing energy. She might be healing herself. You also have an emotional wish that's being granted during this time period as well. Okay, so this feels like something that makes your heart happy, something you've been wishing for or praying about is going to come in February. Okay, so whatever that means for you and you also have standard ground. All right. Some of you have some situations that are happening in your life now and going forward that you're going to need to stand up for yourself for a go. And the message here is whatever that is for you, if it's not happening now or it shows up, you make sure that you like stand up for yourself. You have to be your own personal advocate for yourself. You're also going to receive a loan that's going to be offered to you as well. Okay, and a no-win situation is actually going to have a victory. Okay, so a situation that you might feel like it's like there's no winning in this. It's not a win for either one. Actually, it's going to turn around. Okay, I feel like there's going to be joy and happiness and the win is going to come for either you or you and another person. Wow. Okay, this just was in the deck upright. Wealth, health, and abundance. So yeah, Virgo, it looks like, you know, definitely in this month and going forward, there's going to be like things are just going, like you're going to have access to your abundance for sure, removing all those blocks and whenever you're looking to achieve in your life or your goals that you have set for yourself, you're going to come into them. You will. And I feel like just by the end of the month of February, you're going to be able to look back and see, wow, look how far I've come and the things that I was worrying about really actually are working out. There's renewal again. My gosh. Reviewing the past with compassion and forgiveness. Time to head in a new direction. Clarity on your life purpose. In your heart, you know what to do. Okay. I just heard the name Jax. Jax, okay. Let's see. And also someone's name starts with a C and then they just said Jacinda. So we have JC. Maybe Jesus Christ coming into your life. JC. Okay. Let's see what else. All right. Virgo, plan carefully before taking any action going forward. But once you plan and you get it together, then get going. And there's also a guardian angel or someone who watches over you, Virgo. Oh, they just gave me the name Candy. And now they're saying Kyle. Candy. I don't know if it's with a K or a C and Kyle. Okay. Oh, refocus your thoughts, Virgo. That's the strongest message here. Don't allow worry to grow out of proportion to your situation. Okay. You have unfounded fears. Expecting the worst creates self-fulfilling prophecies. So this is manifesting positive energy, manifesting positive thoughts. That's a practice I feel that you might need to get into. Okay. I see what name is coming up here with. Okay. I just heard the name Asia, ASIA or AZIA and Hakim. Okay. Last one. All right. Do you have a cure egg? Coffee cure egg? Somebody has a cure egg. And maybe it broke. You need to go get another one. I'm just hearing. There's something to do with a coffee cure egg. I don't, that's not a name. Well, it is an ASA pronoun. I guess, is that a pronoun? Cure egg. I think it's, maybe it's the last name. I don't know. That's what I might talk about. So some of you also might be seeing a counselor or thinking about seeing a counselor and the last name of the counselor. I don't know if their first name is Kenneth or Ken. Or maybe the last name is Kenneth. I'm just hearing. Okay. Male or female. Ken or Kenneth. All right. There's something here about a counselor that seems to be very important. Or it could be a teacher also or a professor. Or it's a, it's a relationship, like a romantic relationship with someone by that name, like Kenneth. Okay. Let me see. Do I have any, yeah, I'm going to get some charms. We haven't done the charms. Let's see what the charm messages are here for you. Okay. Oh, we've got a key. Have a horse. Maybe you're the horse. Okay. Or somebody rides horses or there's something, some connection to horses. This is power. This is all about power. And I feel like this is you Virgo. Either there's a powerful relationship that's being renewed or it's an energy of like self-empowerment. Okay. Something that you might be embarking on at this time in your life or continuing on with self-empowerment. And also this key. Okay. They just told me somebody's got a profile picture that's like not a picture. It's actually like a silhouette. They're just, they're just showing me the silhouette. And also I'm seeing the little Snapchat ghost. So there might be something on Snapchat or connected to a Snapchat app that holds the key to your heart. I don't know what that means. It's something on Snapchat. Oh, okay. Now they're just saying something to do with location services on Snapchat. I don't know if you have, if you use that app, if your location services are showing. I don't know if that's like you don't care about that or you do care about that. I'm not sure. They're just saying like that's the key. Location services on social media. Like wherever there's somebody, wherever someone has a profile picture that shows a silhouette or and something to do with location services connected to, I guess it would be an online thing or media thing. And also, so you've got pink. So pink lips, pink lips. Okay.  We're not going any further than that. Maybe it's just lipstick or somebody's name is Mackenzie. I know I'm not really sure. I just got Mackenzie, but there's definitely some pink lip action happening in February. Hey, Hala. All right, you guys, so I'm going to leave you reading there. That was fun. I hope you liked that. I hope you enjoyed that. Do follow me on Facebook, Kellyanne Rose 8. The link is in the description box below. It's also up top here that you can see it. I'm pretty active on there. And also you guys can send me stars on there right 99 cents for like 100 stars, put stars on the videos because I am doing reels now and I'm trying to incorporate more like messages in the reels. So you can also get extra messages there. So definitely check that out. You can also become a member of my channel where for 999 a month is 33 cents a day. You can get early access to the videos. Okay. So you'll see them before anybody else. And yeah, that's pretty much it. Just wait for February. I will be doing a special discounted personal readings for February for the month of love. So keep your eyes peeled if you want to get a reading with me and it will be pretty discounted pretty well. So you'll be able to just grab what you need. All right, you guys love you very much, my Virgo family. And I will see you all back here tomorrow for your weekend. Love reading. All right, take care.


Alright, hello everyone. Welcome to the Rook intro and step deep dive talk for KubeCon North America. Here we are virtual again. Happy to be with you. I am Travis Nielsen, one of the maintainers on the Rook project since it's beginning. I work for Red Hat and happy to be here with Sebastian. Hello, virtual KubeCon. I'm Sebastian Han. I work with Travis as one of the Rook maintainers and also work for Red Hat. Thanks and also to answer questions, we'll have Blaine Gardner and Alexander Trost, other Rook maintainers. Alright, first big announcement. Rook is graduated. We are very excited about this. We've been working hard on this for the last few years. Just a little history here. So Rook did get initially inducted as a sandbox project back almost three years ago in January 2018. He progressed to incubation in September of that same year and then graduated now in October just this last month. So thank you, a big thank you to the Rook community, CNCF committee, Rook maintainers and everyone involved. It has been a wonderful journey. We're grateful for your support and look forward to continued growth in the project with that support. So what does this mean? To get to graduated. It really means that we have a lot of large scale production deployments out there. We know people are using it to store their critical data in production environments. And this is, it's a great evidence of that. We went through a security review by the third party that CNCF helped us coordinate. And maybe the third point is that really Rook is an open project. It's not only open source, but the governance around the project says that, Hey, this is this is vendor neutral. We have multiple companies contributing and expected to contribute so that it stays or remains a project that is useful to the whole community and not vendor driven. So again, thanks to for all your support. We've had a great journey to get. All right, let's get started on, you know, what, what are we talking about? What is Rook? What is that address? What, what are issues with storage and Kubernetes? Well, Kubernetes is traditionally a platform, of course to manage your distributed apps. And those apps have been stateless for the most part. If you want storage, you rely on external to the cluster storage that's not portable, you have to figure out how to deploy it. You have maybe you have a reliance on a cloud provider to give you that managed storage. And quickly you get into a vendor lock in if you're using cloud storage. If you're managing that storage, okay, you have to, you know, day two operations at once you've set it up, you've got to upgrade it, you've got to manage it, make sure it stays reliable. So all of those are challenges that that everyone has with any stateful applications in Kubernetes. So here's where it comes in. We saw this as a real challenge with Kubernetes and we wanted to address it and kind of solve this problem for the community. So Rook really does have the goal of making storage available inside your Kubernetes cluster. It's not something external. It's something that's deployed as any other application in your Kubernetes cluster. It's managed with Kubernetes operators and CRDs, just like any other application. And because it's driven with operators, the deployment of the storage platform is automated. So deploying it, configuring it, upgrading it, you get to decide how it's deployed through the CRDs and other settings, but ultimately Rook manages all of the headaches of that day two management while day one as well to get installed. And once you have deployed Rook, now you can consume the storage just like any other Kubernetes storage with storage classes with persistent volume claims. So bring the storage platform inside Kubernetes is the point. Rook is open source with an Apache 20 license. So it is. So what storage are we talking about here? We have several different storage providers in Rook at different levels of progression. So Ceph is our stable storage provider. It's been in since the start of the project. Since then, we've added other storage providers as well to expand the storage platform. NFS, Cassandra, UiDB, CockroachDB. These are still in alpha and we're always looking for community involvement to help grow those. We do have one storage provider that is deprecated. So EdgeFS, the owners of EdgeFS are working on a replacement for it. The timeline of that I'm not aware of, but that's why it's deprecated since something new will be coming. All right. So kind of overall project. How big is Rook? Where is it? So version 1.5 is our latest release. At least it will be as of TubeCon. I have November 2020. We will have that release out. As far as how popular project is, all the GitHub stars, downloads, going on 200 million downloads now for our containers. About 300 contributors now on the GitHub project.  So thanks again to the community. These are just a few of the stats that show how much it is growing. Okay. So Rook and Ceph. If we're getting into the Ceph portion of this, what does it mean to bring Ceph into Kubernetes? That's what Rook will do. Rook will bring the Ceph storage layer into Kubernetes that make it work well. So what is Ceph? If you're not familiar with it, Ceph is another open source project, but it is a software-defined storage solution that provides block, shared file system, and object storage that is S3 compliant. So these are really the three building blocks of any storage system that you'll find out there. And Ceph has them all in one system. No need for deploying one solution for block and another one for object or file system. Ceph provides all of those types of storage together. So early in the project, we really saw Ceph as being a reliable platform. It's been around for a long time. We just wanted to bring it to Kubernetes. So how did we bring it to Kubernetes? Think of it as having three different layers in the system where Rook is really the operator in Kubernetes that owns the management of Ceph. So the deployment of it, the upgrading of Ceph, like Rook manages the configuration of Ceph. If you're familiar with Ceph, you know that it is kind of a complicated system to deploy as distributed storage. So Rook takes a lot of that complexity out of it and manages it for you. Second layer now, we've got the Ceph CSI driver. So the CSI driver, just like any other storage platform in Kubernetes, will provision and then mount the storage into your app pod. So this is how you consume the Ceph storage once you have Rook installed. And then finally, the third layer is the data layer. So when you are reading and writing data to the cluster, Ceph is purely the one that is responding to that layer. And there is no Rook management code in the data path. It's just Ceph at the data layer. So you really get performance, high performance storage at that layer. All right, so let's look at some pictures of what these layers look like. So for the first layer with Rook, so this is a picture trying to show that, okay, we've got a single cluster with three nodes. So each of these black boxes is a node in your Kubernetes cluster. And each of these nodes is running pods that run different types of demons. So in the center, center node here, we've got the Rook operator pod. And of course, that that's the management layer that's going to manage everything else. So this operator pod is going to deploy Ceph and the CSI driver depending on what settings and how you tell it to be configured. Okay, so these blue pods are really core Rook pods that are providing the management layer. The discovery pod is discovering what storage is available on each node. So Rook knows how to deploy the Ceph demons. The green pods are CSI drivers. So on each node, you need a CSI driver that will mount the storage. And then the red pods are all the Ceph demons. So there are quite a number of Ceph demons that provide that data layer. The Mons and the OSDs are backed by local storage on the node. So that's very important for Ceph to have that local storage. Anyway, Rook deploys all these pods for you and does that management at the Kubernetes resource layer, creating deployments pod services. Okay, so now at the next layer, we got CSI provisioning. So this is the picture of how your application can request storage from the CSI driver. So if we start on the left here, we've got an application that needs block storage. Okay, so you create persistent volume claim, usually with read, write once access. Okay, so that when you create that claim, the request goes to the storage class, which is which uses fRBD that Rook sets up for you. And then the CSI driver will mount that that's fRBD storage into your application pod. Something very similar happens for shared file system, where you've got two applications who need to share the file system. So they both have their persistent volume claims. And the request goes to the storage class. And then this CSI driver for the shared file system mounts that storage. Okay, now the third type of storage we've got with Ceph is object with the S3 endpoint. Now, this, this is different, but we have exposed it in a way that will be consistent with as consistent as it can be with block and file storage. Okay, so the, if you want object storage, really what you want is a bucket. So you can read, write objects to the bucket. And so we create a bucket claim, which requests that storage from the storage class crafted for object storage. And we have a bucket provisioner then that actually creates a bucket in Ceph, the Ceph object storage and provides that back to the application. All right, so that gives us all three types of storage at the provisioning. Now what does it look like at the data path? You've installed Rook at layer one, you've got the CSI driver with your storage mounted at layer two. Now your application just needs to write and read data to the, to the cluster. So again, your application, it's already got the volume mounted. And there is the Ceph RBD kernel driver then that will take care of writing to the Ceph cluster for you. And that driver will, it knows how to connect to the different Ceph daemons, the Mons and OSDs and manager to make that, that write that data to the cluster. Again, at the file system, shared file system layer connect to the MDS daemon in Ceph, which manages the, you know, the locks and the file system semantics and the S3 client then connects to the RDW endpoint, which then writes the objects into the Ceph cluster. Hopefully we're good there after layer three, then you've set up Rook and now you can write to the cluster. So what does it take to get started? This is, you know, I'm sure it sounds like a complex system, but really to get started with Rook, we try to make it as simple as possible. And installing Ceph has never been this simple, really. There are three steps for installing Ceph through Rook. The first thing is, well, you need to set up authorization or RBAC in Kubernetes. So you say, Kukut will create common.yaml. And next you need to run the operator. And so you create the operator. That gets the Rook operator running, but now the operator, you have to tell it how to deploy Ceph. So now we've got what we call the cluster, Ceph cluster CR. And you can see a picture of that on the right here, where you tell Rook how to deploy Ceph. You tell it, well, what version of Ceph do you want to deploy? And do you want Ceph Octopus or do you want, which is V15, or do you want an earlier version, Ceph Nautilus, which would be V14? And you can choose what do you want, the latest version or a previous version of Ceph. So you can choose when to update the Ceph version. And then some others. There are many, many settings here. We're just showing a few of them. How many mons, how to deploy the storage. That is the basic cluster. Once you've created these three, these three manifests, you will have a basic Ceph cluster up and running in Rook. As a side note, there's also a Helm chart we have that will simplify these first two steps and we're working on Helm charts for our other CRs going forward. So let's assume Rook is set up now with Ceph. What does it take to consume that storage? Just like any other storage platform, first of all, the admin has to create the storage class. After the admin creates the storage class, the application requests that storage with the PVC and then you create your application pod that will mount that volume. So here on the right, we've just got an example pod that shows the PVC that's going to be mounted into this demo web server. And really, if you've done any storage in Kubernetes before, this should be very familiar. It's the same pattern that you used to plug in any other storage provider outside of Rook either. Okay, and now I'll hand off to Sebastian to talk more about key features and everything in Ceph. Okay, thanks Travis. Now let's dive into some of the key features of Rook. So first environments, Rook Ceph is capable of deploying Ceph in terminal environments. So bring your own hardware. If you have your own infrastructure and you want to work on premise, then this scenario is for you. We also support deploying Rook Ceph into the cloud with various cloud providers. So if your entire infrastructure relies on the cloud and everything is running there already, then you can consume storage through Rook inside the cloud environment. But first, you might ask yourself, why would you run Ceph in the cloud? So basically it's all about consistency, because Kubernetes has been adopted by all the major cloud providers today, then it is fairly easy to run any cloud native application as part of any cloud providers available out there.  For instance, the limitation of PVs you can attach to a given node. Let's assume that we're in a cloud environment and obviously we have supervisors and those supervisors typically have a limitation in a number of disks that can be attached to a given virtual machine. And typically that limit is around 30, which means that if you're looking at providing dynamic provisioning to applications, then you might be limited by the number of VMs times the number of PVs you can attach to it. If you do run Rook in the cloud though, Rook will be running inside virtual machines. And because we will be attaching devices, then we use our own technology to provide dynamic provisioning, then we can scale up to thousands and thousands of PVs instead of that 30 limitation by virtual machine. And not only we bypass that limitation, but also because we are aggregating storage, then we're providing much, much better performance overall. If you were to use a single disk, which is typically attached to a storage class, which essentially represents the flavor of storage, then that flavor would have IOPS as well as throughput limitations. So for a given application, you will be limited to what that flavor can provide. Or if you use RookSeth, because as I said, again, we are aggregating many PVs, then we're providing much, much better performance out of the box. We have configurable cluster topologies. Seth is really amazing as being topology or Seth knows and because it's being told to where it is running and in what kind of topology it is running on. Rook can support that. So it really allows you to deploy a cluster and define what your topology is. So if you run Seth, RookSeth inside a data center and then you have multiple rooms, multiple racks and multiple nodes, then we can easily build such topology by assigning label to nodes. And all of that will be reflected as part of Seth. By doing so, you're increasing data availability and resiliency because you're spreading it across different field domains. And again, those domains can be nodes, racks, rooms, and even across zones between different data centers if you want to stretch your cluster. Seth CSI driver. So from the very beginning, Rook once CSI was released and the spec was released, we started to collaborate with the Seth CSI team to integrate as much as possible. So just like Travis mentioned, we support a large variety of dynamic provisioning modes, RWRWX and ROX, and this for both block and fast system interfaces. Rook, the latest release of Rook 15 ships with the latest version of the Seth CSI driver, which now supports volume expansion and has better feature supports, snapshots and clones. We still do support the Flakes driver, but it has really limited support and we really encourage everybody to switch to using the Seth CSI spec. Upgrading is automated. Typically, upgrades are some kind of a tedious process. And it is really making administrators nervous, especially when it comes to storage. You'll always be wondering, okay, if something goes wrong, will I be losing data? First, this cannot really happen with Seth. And also, one of the good things about Seth is, from the very beginning, it has proven to be super robust at performing upgrades. It's one of the few storage solutions, not to say software most of the time, that can upgrade in a rolling fashion with no downtime and while providing a service. So Seth is already really good at it. And with Rook, we really took that further to the next level by aggregating collecting all the operational knowledge that is needed to do upgrades, and we embedded all of that logic into Rook. So to that Rook, it is really easy as just changing the image in the spec of the deployment file of the operator to a date through the Seth cluster, then it's as easy as changing the Seth image version into the cluster CR. And Rook will handle all the details when it comes to the upgrade internally, going nodes by nodes and making sure they're all recovering and being upgraded and backfitting properly, and then go to the other one. So upgrades made easy, basically. Ex-nucleicester connection. So this is a really popular scenario and we have introduced it in the 1.3 release cycle. And the use case is quite simple because not everything is about green field environments. You already have clusters out there, up and running, which are maybe standalone clusters providing object storage, or you might have Seth clusters providing block for, let's say, OpenStack, for example. You're ready to run applications on Kubernetes, but you're not really ready to move all of that storage because it is difficult and it's challenging to do to Kubernetes. So you want to keep your cluster, which was deployed by whatever tool can be, can be defensible, can be Rook as well, if you want. The goal is to, from your Kubernetes cluster, you deploy Rook and then with a few details, you connect to the external cluster. And then once the connection is established, we're really into this consumer-production relationship where Rook is at this point only consuming the external storage, getting all the connection details and passing them to CSI so that we can provide persistent storage to containers. But that is the only thing we do. We don't get into the business of managing nodes and things like this when we are in external mode. So we just consume the storage that is available to us. ObjectPocket provisioning. So just like Travis mentioned earlier, when we were showing the topology of the storage interfaces are supported by RookSeth, we mentioned the objectPocket claim. And again, this is quite simple. As a user, the only thing I care about is because I'm developing NS3 compliant application. I just want to have a bucket with a few policies on that bucket. And I want to be able to consume that bucket, storing data and retrieving data. And that's all I care about. So in a similar fashion of claiming for block or file, then I want to claim for a bucket. And for that, we have embedded for quite a while now the lib bucket provisioning. But because we really wanted to have it in a more native slash native Kubernetes way, there was an effort upstream to implement a cozy interface, which is similar to CSI but for container object. And it is really the CSI equivalent of object. So the CAP, the Kubernetes announcement proposal, was merged upstream. And now we will be able to, vendors will be able to integrate their object solution through a native Kubernetes interface, which is really great. So we just released Rook15 and we're super excited because we have a bunch of features and it's probably one of the most feature rich release we have ever delivered. So first is encryption with KMS support. During the one full cycle, we introduced encryption for OSDs on PVCs and we were storing encryption keys into Kubernetes secrets. So we all know that Kubernetes secrets are not so secret and secure because they're just merely a base 64 hash value of your value. To move that to the next level, we have introduced support for KMS. And the first one we have introduced is hash equal volt, which is really popular. And now we not only deploy encrypted OSDs, but we store those secret keys inside volt. And volt as a key management service will manage all the keys for us. And in this really secure fashion, in a really secure environment, all the connections to volt are TLS encrypted. And today we only support the token base authentication. In the future, we are planning on supporting the Kubernetes native authentication and obviously much more KMS as well. Mirroring of block data. This one is really interesting because we have been having support for bootstrapping RBD mirror demons for a while, but we never got into the business of configuring mirroring between two sites automatically. And now it's possible with Rook 1.5. Just to get a step back a little bit, step by design is strongly consistent. Meaning that whenever a client writes a data, then it has to wait for all the replicas to be written so that the writing is acknowledged. And because to that, it makes difficult to stretch stuff between regions, for example, because of the latencies. And that won't be really practical. So as a solution for that, the Rook team has the RBD mirror demon so that we can replicate block devices asynchronously between clusters. Now you can have two Kubernetes environments and connect each other. And all the block devices, so the PVCs will be replicated. Obviously this works along with steps TSI and work is still moving ahead to improve that support. So now we do support automatic configuration of peers. And where peer is basically a site. Last but not least, the stretch Kubernetes cluster, which is essentially one cluster that is stretched, one Kubernetes cluster that is stretched across different zones. So the use case typically is that I have two data centers, but I only have two. I don't have three data centers, which will be really ideal. But I only have two. And because SAP is a core base, election base, we need to have some core resolution when we do certain operations in order to maintain the stability of the cluster. So if we had three sites, then it would be really easy. We would have each month on one side and done because I only have two. And my first site is really limited. It can be a VM running on the cloud or, or it can be in the admin desk, something like this. We have to have a solution for SAP to work a bit smoothly with latencies, with high latencies basically. And we implemented this new mode in MOOC. So now you can have a stretched Kubernetes cluster and an arbiter zone, which will only contain one month to resolve quorum and act as a member of the quorum and perform elections and pursue decision making. All of the other zones will have storage available. And I guess that's it for today. So it is really easy to get involved as soon as you reach group.io, then you will have links to everywhere, basically, the doc, the Slack channel and how to contribute, obviously, on GitHub. Thank you for your attention. Thanks for being here today. It was a pleasure talking with everybody. And hopefully we will see everybody in person next time. Have a good day and stay safe. Bye-bye. Yes, thank you. It's been great to be with you. Hopefully you've learned a little bit about Rook and we hope to see you in the Rook Slack or other community. Thanks.


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Welcome, everyone, to this talk about 10 years of DevOps that are being today by Karthik Gaikwad. We're glad to have him join us today. Without further delay, I hand it over to you, Karthik. Thanks, Hari. And thank you, everybody, for coming to my talk. Good evening. This is a quick talk on 10 years of DevOps. See? So quick agenda. We'll go through a history of DevOps, some of the significance of that, what the evolution has been, so kind of where we are today. And then the most important part of this talk is five practical learnings that you can take back to your own work or your own place of work, so you can kind of use some ideas that I have in here. So my name is Karthik Gaikwad. I am the head of cloud-native engineering at a company called Verica that does chaos engineering for Kubernetes and also for Kafka, so kind of interested in that space. My history is I used to work at a lot of large enterprises, a lot of startups as well. Been in industry for a while, and I just like to build things, so that's kind of where I come from. And I also like to teach and build community. So I live in Austin, Texas, and I help run DevOps Days Austin container days at our local meetup called Cloud Austin. I'm also the chair for the all-day DevOps track, for the cloud-native track for the all-day DevOps conference, and you might have seen my LinkedIn Learning author or LinkedIn Learning stuff at Learning Kubernetes. And so let's get into the heart of things, right? Let's do a quick history of DevOps. Most folks have probably heard of this before, but DevOps kind of began in 2008 at the Agile conference where Andrew Clay Shaffer was talking about this idea of Agile infrastructure. And Patrick Debois attended the birds of feather, and he was really interested in understanding what Andrew's thoughts were. And then sure enough, it's a random thing that you kind of do at the conference, and so Andrew didn't come to that. But later on, they talked at the conference, and they were really interested in the ideas of operations and development topics and how they kind of come together. Also, in 2009, John Olsba had the famous 10 Deploys for Day of Presentation at Flickr, and everybody in the audience was really kind of wondering, like, wow, they're actually deploying an application to production, not just one time every day, but 10 times. That's pretty amazing. But what is DevOps really? So there's many definitions. Everybody argues about a definition, but a practical one that I really like is DevOps is the practice of operations and development engineers participating together in the entire service lifecycle from design through development process, and then finally, production support. So this is from the Agile Admin blog, the thing for what is DevOps. The other way people really like to describe DevOps is using the pillars. So I think Botchical Loop on Twitter came up with this, which is the idea of comms or clams, culture, automation, lean measurement, and sharing. The five different pillars of it. And at least like when 10 years ago when this was pitched, that was the intention. That was where people were coming from. That was the mindset. But what has it really evolved to today is probably what we're more interested in. And so today, if you kind of look at DevOps in general, out of the five pillars, it feels like automation and measurement are the two most primary things that everybody talks about when they say DevOps.  Oh, I work on the automation part. So I use puppet or I use terraform or something. And then the other thing they might say is we are very heavily into measuring all the things. And so out of the five pillars, automation and measurement have definitely gone past culture, lean, and sharing. So a question that also comes up is like, how come everything seems like I thought the whole point of all of this was culture, what happened along the way? And so I put some Dilbert comics in here because I know it's Dilbert as old school, but I still like to read Dilbert a lot. And so we're all engineers. And DevOps is more of an engineering thing than a business thing at this point. And so ideas of automation, ideas of measurement are easier problems to solve than people problem. So this thing talks about why did the pick a vendor or whatever. But just from an engineering mindset, it ends up being an easier thing to solve. Also, organization culture is hard to quantify. So you might work at different companies. And every company has a different kind of culture from a large-scale organization kind of thing or large-scale organization. So you're not only trying to influence one person, you're trying to influence a whole organization. So it ends up being a tricky kind of problem to solve. And sometimes when we're faced with hard problems, we try and pick battles that we can win. And so a battle of automation and measurement might be a simpler battle to take on versus trying to challenge a organizational culture, you might not know where to start and how to go about that. And also change is hard, right? So we are all wanting change in our organizations. And we're all wanting to do things in a different way. But actually getting to that way might be really difficult. There's a lot of inertia. There's a lot of processes that might have been put into place for one reason and could have evolved into something completely different and now no one really likes it. But regardless of all the reasons, the way to change might end up actually becoming pretty hard to do. So to summarize, our DevOps definition has changed. And we now kind of focus on specific subset of colors. And one thing, and this might be a personal opinion, but I think one of the problems that we have forgotten is that with the idea of DevOps, there was operations and development coming together and working hand in hand. And it's more of a people problem than really an alignment kind of issue. So this is, I put the slide in here as a joke, kind of slide, but today like most companies are trying to sell you like a solution for DevOps. So it's DevOps in a box, basically. So where do we go from here? I've been in industry for a little while and a lot of folks in the past, you know, and there's no harm in this, you know, where do we start? Because in the US, most companies might be doing, having this idea of DevOps and, you know, might be doing it in a specific way, but the world is not just US centric, it's the whole world. And some parts of the world is to try to understand, you know, okay, where do we start from a transformation point of view and you know, where do we start? So let's talk about that real quick. A couple of recommendations that I give is, you know, first, if you're coming from an engineering perspective or if you're on the business side and trying to understand what, how engineering is kind of doing things on their end, you know, talk to the business folks. So, you know, your companies, you know, I might really like Kubernetes, right? But my company is not a Kubernetes company, it's actually doing something else. So business is not stopped. So it's important to understand the business perspective of all of the engineering stuff that we do. It might be very different and then the business always wants to go faster. So one thing that they look for for a partner from the engineering side is like, hey, can we actually push code out faster? So, you know, from the Dora state of the, state of DevOps report from last year, you know, companies that were high performing or 46 times more had 46 times more frequent code employees. And, you know, they were 2700 times faster to recover from instance and things like that. All of those things need engineering kind of work, but they're actually, you know, business initiatives and they're partnered with business and they're not like an isolated thing. Also, if you're, you know, trying to, if you're on the engineering side and you're trying to like come up with a modernization strategy, DevOps should be one of the plays that you have from a modernization perspective. So I put this chart in here, you know, when I first started in industry, Agile was really big. We still built, you know, three tier applications. Like for me it was three tier, but it's really end tier. Virtual servers were a thing. And then actually my first company that I started at, we had our own data centers worldwide. You know, today, from a development point of view, we're talking about DevOps. We are talking about microservice from an application point of view. We're talking about containers and packaging things inside of containers when we're shipping products. And most of the world has started to evolve to cloud if not already evolved from an infrastructure point of view. So if you're thinking about, well, where do I, you know, bring DevOps into this picture? It kind of falls into not just the DevOps portion over here but really all of the things across the right. So, you know, you do need to kind of have a strategy to go into microservices to, you know, run containers or even go to the cloud. It's very different from running infrastructure in your own data center. So to kind of like summarize the last two points that I've made, it's really all about alignment. So it's important to have alignment between the technical folks in your organization and the business folks in your organization because I made this mistake really early on where from a technical point of view, we were like, okay, yeah, we should really use DevOps because we need to be able to deploy, you know, multiple times in a day, make that easy and all of that. And then we delivered a solution but the business was like, well, we don't release. Daily, we release once every three years.  So that's kind of less learned for me personally and also alignment from a technical team perspective because from a technical point of view, all of us have really good ideas and we want to do things in specific ways. So it's important to bring alignment between internally in your team and even in your like organization. So, you know, when I worked at large enterprises like Oracle, we had to bring alignment not just in my technical team but also in our whole like cloud division. So that's alignment stuff is really important. And don't forget that at its heart, DevOps is a people problem. So in order to effectively introduce DevOps into your organization, you need to keep your teams actually working together. So I put this picture of, you know, this is actually an interesting story to read about folks, the Amish folks actually building a house. Like everybody has their own tasks and they're kind of working on, you know, building a house like the Roofer guys know exactly how to build a roof. The guys inside know how to build, you know, the side of the house and some of the guys that are doing the framing are really good at framing but they're kind of all working together in order to, you know, build that house in a timely manner. So let's take a quick stab at kind of where DevOps is today, what we're going from a future trends perspective. One of the things that I think we hear a lot today is, you know, DevOps is becoming, we're not hiring DevOps engineers, we're hiring SREs and it feels like we took some paint, we had this DevOps poster, we repainted it and made it SRE but really SRE is a subset of DevOps. So, you know, make sure that if you're in an organization and you had operations people and you're trying to rebrand, you know, you might rebrand into SRE that's totally okay but make sure you're actually thinking about the entire comms life cycle. So, you know, it's culture automation, measurement sharing, SRE in this perspective might be the importance of it is, you know, available to the latency performance, et cetera. But, you know, the mindset has to be kind of a DevOps mindset. Cloud native is also becoming a big thing.  But, you know, if you're trying to break it down most of it is kind of based on Kubernetes and container technology. It has a really rich landscape and a huge community if you've ever been to KubeCon. I know KubeCon India happened earlier this year. Does one last year as well. And I think there was, you know, 3,000 people or something came to that. But the drawback of having a big community is it can become, you know, very complicated to navigate. So, this is actually the old chart for all of the different projects in the CNCF and different products in the CNCF. It's barely hard to read. Whenever I look at this, you know, I turn into my two-year-old who screams a lot. And so I think the analogy is like, yeah, it's impossible to read everything in here. So it is kind of like a scary thought kind of coming into it. There are some easy ways we can talk more about that in my, I have another presentation coming up in a couple of days and we'll talk more about making this a little bit more digestible. But, you know, it's a journey. Serverless is also becoming a big thing. There are some companies that have gone directly from cloud-native or instead of cloud-native, they skipped over into serverless. So it's a brand new execution model where if you're just running everything in the cloud, the provider manages your resources and you are responsible for just your code. And also observability is becoming a big thing too where this is more applications that become more distributed. So in the past, everything would run machine.  So the idea of observability is to understand like system behavior from system outputs. So inputs and outputs. So, you know, how well the internal states of the system can be inferred from, you know, external outputs. So this is kind of like an idea that's come along, it's come a long way, but it's required because we're going into a more distributed world these days. And also, yeah, like we, that's a new era in testing security and database. It feels like everybody is shifting left and trying to do the thing that DevOps did a few years ago. So there's like new ideas and Dev Test Ops and Dev Psych Ops and, you know, Dev DV Ops. My only recommendation that's on this is, you know, there's, these are groups that historically were outside looking in. So instead of saying, oh no, this, you know, Dev Psych Ops is a terrible idea, don't do it. And, you know, that might be DevOps itself, like welcome them in and try and figure out how you can align together. So let's do five key takeaways. I think I have a minute left. So I think it'll work pretty well. So these are, these are my opinions and like five takeaways from this presentation. I would really recommend, you know, to me DevOps is all about collaboration. So make sure you understand what the other side is doing in your company. So we're all partners in this. So it's not like one person is kind of working on something specific. Understand your business.  So you, it's important for you to actually understand what your business is doing. We're not, you know, just there to maintain a specific instance of Vox. It's important that you're, you know, you're actually responsible for your business. If you're a technical person, use architecture to your advantage. Sometimes when you were deep into these squabbles inside of our companies, you know, you can actually bring out an architecture diagram and try and get everybody aligned. I use this trick a lot in, you know, where I work. How does this map back to architecture? It works out really well. Always be learning. One thing about, you know, or like I put the corollary in here or you might have to get it, find a new job.  So always be learning like DevOps, cloud native, all those things have like new ideas coming into place. So it gives you a greater opportunity to be learning new things or how to improve on process. And finally, you know, be empathetic, especially with this pandemic right now, you know, work from home and, you know, people having kids and everything. I feel like technology will always be there, but people might not. So it's important to be empathetic to your teammates, your organization, the folks that you work with, folks you work for. Because I feel like we're kind of all solving problems together, so it's important to understand the human aspect of things. So I think that's the presentation that I had. Thanks again, Karthik. This was very, very useful.