officially entered 2022 I mean we've been in 2022 for three months now, but I'm saying in as far as the NFL calendar goes the 2022 NFL season I started It's begun and now it has begun with a bang as free agents are going to their brand new teams on the start of The brand new league year. Hello everyone Welcome to a brand new episode of time to football. My name is the son con The host of this channel that we like to call time to Football glad you guys are able to join us on this wonderful amazing marvelous beautiful Wednesday morning. I say beautiful. It's a little bit gloomy outside right now with Hearing on the East Coast at least is kind of raining But if you guys are joining us whether you wake up right in early 8 a.m. On the West Coast or you're kind of You know a couple hours in and you already want to go ahead and clock out of your work day We're glad that you're able to take a little bit of a break and at least join us For this episode of time to football as we've got a lot of things to cover as far as free agency goes What we're going to be doing on this episode of time to football? Listen, we're just going to go on air We're just going to talk about the free agents the big name free agents I have signed with new teams and they kind of go in depth on on a few of them as well as mention some teams that have Picked up on the most underrated free agents which we're going to be talking about here in just a bit as well as get you guys covered with the Deshaun Watson news and what's going on and with everything in regards to a potential trade between the Houston Texans and Four other teams that are in the running and landing Deshaun Watson three of them being in the NFC south As you guys are joining us as we've got Ronnie joining us from Marshall Islands. Good. Good evening from Marshall Islands Yeah, I totally know where that is I 100% Absolutely know where that is But i'm glad that you're joining us from the islands. I'm in island boy. Okay. I'll stop that that thing is that trend is over That trend is over now. It's uh, what's on tiktok now butterfly in the sky You know that trend Like the sun in the space and they were like butterfly in the sky That's a trend right now Tiktok man tiktok's odd Um, hey, you want to speak of trends?  It's some fashion show some fashion show That he went to And his outfit was at the best let me see if I could pull it up It wasn't the greatest But hey, you know what if you're rich get money fashion fashion is where it's at deondra hopkins blend ciaga man Yes, I am taking away time so uh I could show you this because this was messed up man I could not believe it Oh, I can't find a full alpha of them, but uh Golly, man. I was like dude.  Anyways, I can't find it But I'll show you blint ciaga what this is. So they had some sort of fashion show apparently do check this out Ah What? Hey fashion What are you doing?  Anderson in the matrix Oh my gosh. What is this? What is going on all this is just over the top Fashion has evolved from convenience to inconvenience How does that keep me warm in a snow storm?   I'm just scrolling through this right now Golly Frickin a man. I thought that was deandre hopkins for a sec Yeah, man. What is this stuff? I don't know. They're all the same dude. What's the difference? Are you selling this? Because no one's gonna buy it Screw fashion dude screw fashion Freaking hate it Anyways, glad you guys are able to join us and you guys are tuning in as we are talking about free agency Let's go ahead and tune in with free agency I think I've got a list pulled up of The top free agents that have signed thus far. Let's go ahead and get into that real quick But yeah, leave a comments down below. Let me know what your thoughts are on fashion number one number two Which free agents going to these brand new teams? Are you looking forward to seeing the most play in 2022? Let's first talk talk about the the players that have been signed and then we'll get into the top remaining players that have yet to be signed which by the way, I'll go ahead and Get into The news I'm getting notifications on my phone by the way So if I seem distracted it's because the nfl is you know sending out notifications like for instance The browns re-signed anthony walker just now to a one-year Five million dollar deal which seems to be a pretty good deal In that instance. Um, all right, so let's go ahead and get into the The free agents the top free agents that have signed thus far All right, so off the market right now. We've got jc jackson probably the top free agents It was up there with jc jackson and toron armstead as far as who's going to be the top free agent that's going to get signed and jc jackson the cornerback of the Former new England Patriots. This is former team now. He goes to the la chargers on a five-year 82.5 million dollar deal and I think that this actually ends up being a great ad for For the chargers because you you look at the secondary that they have with the chargers You've already got asante samio lined up there. You've got a jc jackson. Listen, you've also got a top corner And kc hayward there as well This is a good move by the chargers and the chargers defense as a whole has improved heavily You add jc jackson five-year 82.5 million dollar deal perfect Bolster that secondary that's already great asante samio was one of the more underrated cornerbacks From last season You've also got a very good corner in the name of kc hayward there as well And then they just boosted their defensive line Which we're going to be talking about in just a bit when we talk about Sebastian joseph day joey bossa has already been a key piece in that defensive line They signed austin johnson or was that austin jackson? I think it's austin johnson if i'm not mistaken And then you trade for cleo mac on top of that. That's the biggest news for the chargers defense as well Derwin james is there if he can stay healthy. This chargers defense has immediately become a top 10 defense without question arguably a top five defense That could help catapult them and push them into the playoff race. This chargers defense watch out for them They have added some new key pieces some very thought out amazing players That have added this chargers defense and i'm looking forward to seeing this chargers defense play in 2022 jc jackson off the market You've got carlton davis actually a very talented defensive back. He's he's actually not that bad and is Pretty evident when he went down with an injury that buccany was secondary just suffered He finally resigns with the damper bay buccany was on a three-year 45 million dollar deal. Let's talk about marcus williams for a bit. So marcus williams kind of took advantage of the market here for the baltimore ravens the baltimore ravens were in desperate need of some secondary help and talented defensive back you could Say that he's one of the better safeties in the nfl Well, he took advantage of the market and said hey ravens.  Maybe you know outside of marcus peters five-year 70 million dollar deal for marcus williams signing as the baltimore ravens Starting safety. So I like the deal a lot I think like I said, he might have taken advantage of the ravens Knowing that hey, you were terrible So you're gonna have to sign me to a lot of money and the ravens kind of bent they bent They're like, yes, we'll give you whatever you need to get In order for you to be a key piece for this defense. So marcus williams is being added to this, uh raven secondary A menial augba has resigned with a miami dolphins on a four-year 65.4 million dollar deal Uh branded sheriff. Okay. So I came out with like a little youtube short Which you can go back to this youtube channel watch talking about the jaguars offense Which we'll talk about a little bit more when we talk about christian kirk, but uh In the instance of brandon sheriff. We were talking about he comes from the commanders to the jaguars Bolstering that offensive line the jaguars already franchise tag cam robinson And now you have the chance to draft evan kneel with the first pick overall that offensive line will be filled with studs On top of the receivers and the tight ends that they sign in the offense, which we'll talk about in just a second But now we're gonna focus in on randy greggory. Okay, so if you didn't know about the news about randy greggory He kind of went down the route of yes, I agree with the cowboys that i'm gonna be signing and resigning for less money But let me go ahead and change my mind and go with the denver broncos put a little bit of all The old josh mcdaniel's on everyone changes mine last minute after agreeing to terms five years 70 million dollar deal For randy greggory to be an elite pass rusher for the denver broncos This is huge It's actually for the denver broncos eliminates the chances of maybe Potentially bring it back von miller because they were interested in von miller. They needed some edge rush help randy greggory is going to be somewhat of a replacement for that potential need and so randy greggory is coming into this broncos defense Knowing that russell wilson is a quarterback knowing that the broncos are just a few key pieces away From being a very good team a super bowl contending team randy greggory is one of those key pieces In helping that broncos team reach that contention for a potential super bowl So greggory is off the market A devondra cambell. Okay, so as a falcons fan this kind of hurts Devondra cambell has been very good for a very long time But it seems like it ended up being like A step above and to the next level with the green bay packers I mean, what was he? It was like a first team all-pro of unamount mistaken or a second team something like that But devondra cambell Elites elite for the green bay packers last year and the packers Resigned him to a five-year deal for 50 million dollars Previously with the land of falcons and the arizona cardinals Some other names that we've got hassan reddick. We'll we'll talk about him in just a bit Let me go ahead and just breezed over him. Joe note boom resigns with the rams teddy bridge water Signs a deal with the miami dolphins To be too took a by loa's backup, but that's okay. That's okay. Like he Could have maybe waited out for maybe the seahawks Maybe the in and out was cold.  That is pretty good for him. Marcus may for the new york saints on a three-year $28.5 million deal. Where is this cap space coming from for the saints? Where's this cap space coming from? I'm gonna see honestly thinking about this I'm like marcus may resign or signs with the new york saints at safety on a big deal I'm thinking to myself. Do they even have cap space to go after to sean watson at that point? Do that I don't know what to talk about to sean watson just a bit russell gauge with the tampa bay buccaneers That's actually a big move for the bucks to finally find their wide receiver three After a franchise tag and chris godwin. Mike evans is coming back and tony brown We all know about him not going to be working out, but russell gauge Definitely is going to be a good wide receiver three for the bucks Um, breezing through this right now. Let's talk about christian kirk for a bit So this jaguar's offense, uh, we we kind of talked about, uh, Brainish sheriff in that offensive line, but christian kirk signs a four-year 72 Million dollar deal that's up to 84 million dollars. So guaranteed 72 million dollars like that's Maybe it's less guaranteed if I don't I don't want to be, um, providing false information But it's up to 84 million dollars based off of incentives and things of that nature So the jaguar's offense, okay, you lose dj shark and free agency I get that like you can't resign everyone. All right. Well, you lose a wide receiver Maybe you're thinking about resigning another wide receiver assigning a wide receiver and free agency for less money Because I'm thinking to myself you got rid of dj shark because you couldn't afford it Or so we thought uh, so they have the money to add in christian kirk and I'm thinking to myself What is the difference between christian kirk? and dj shark I mean they probably like they probably have different playing styles But like what can there's a guy that I follow uh on tiktok Which you should check them out thio ash nfl if you haven't heard about them What are the bigger influencer type people for the nfo out there? He said something about christian kirk. He said what is difference about christian kirk? that Well, what makes christian kirk different than marvin jones pretty much What is something that christian kirk can do that marvin jones cannot do? I was like man, that's a good point It's a very good point because you already signed marvin jones last year to a pretty big contract and now you sign christian kirk I mean if anything you'd want a big body wide receiver. Maybe trade for amari cooper Maybe I don't know that he already we signed with him los angeles chargers, but if mike williams at the free agent market Potentially that could have been a signing that you could assign for that much money But christian kirk regardless signs and the jacksville jaguars Have added christian kirk on top of zay jones as well at the wide receiver position zay jones. I think was like three year 30 million dollar deal It's been a lot of money and then also big news that we heard this morning Darius williams the former ram steve. It's a back signed with the jacksville jaguars as well three year 39 million dollars Again, i'm checking my phone just because i'm i'm constantly just getting news left and right uh the jets Not much going on there. It's in regards to eddie paniero But yeah, darius williams like i mentioned signed with the jaguars now evan ingram if we want to continue that route of the jacksville jaguars one year nine million dollar deal You could say that's a lot of money, but we're forgetting that ingram first round talent athletic as hell And had one of the best rookie seasons by a tight end ever I don't want to say ever maybe in like recent years But evan ingram is a big add for them. Um, you guys are contending to uh, Tune into the chat. So let's go ahead and just take a little bit of a break and interact with the guys This is what this live show is about um Melee saying uh, not bashing l. O bashing not cool. Oh man.  I'm done with that um What iMask is a trend lol. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know man. I don't know probably somebody's been watching batman too much something in the way Hmm Rashad penny is still available out there, which I've been talked about He is the best freezer running back now that james connor Is off the market and I am saying that over lennar for net. I am saying that over cordero patterson. It is Rashad Penny, I think you resign if I'm not mistaken with the seattle sea I don't think he did. I don't think he did. I think the seahawks Get or had an interest in resigning rashad penny. Let me go ahead and pull this up Because there's just a lot of news to keep up with um contract. Let's go ahead here to rashad penny contract um Yeah, he's still free agent Still a free agent so All right, we'll we'll tune in with him and see what happens later on Rodney saying divante reunite with car prediction go raiders make some moves, please Yeah, fresno state fresno state in the house. So uh dare car and divante adams would be a pretty good deal but I think The only way that divante adams can move on it would take a lot It would take a lot because they franchise tagged him and they reportedly this is according to uh, jordan schultz Is an nfl insider out there on twitter? um That they reportedly offered divante adams 23 million dollars a year And he turned it down man That's brutal That's brutal for the packers That means deandre or divante adams wants a deal that's closer to maybe to like deandre hopkins who's making 27 million dollars a year So it's going to take a lot for the packers to eventually trade him because if they trade him divante adams might do the same thing We're like, hey I'm traded, but I'm still making the same amount of money like I want to make more money I'm just going to continue to hold out so They're going to have to we rework some sort of deal But divante adams could be a good Good good trade option, I guess for the raiders Roger saying I think it's hilarious. Washington went from 70 to 1 down to 75 to 1 to make the super bowl After signing wins. Yes. Yes. You know I'm actually thinking about this for a second. Uh, and this is a knock towards karson wence or anything like that I don't really knock players under too much but um The colts the colts are in this position right now Sean Landry, I think Sean Landry is watching right now. Yeah, you're commenting right now. Um We were texting back and forth and he texted me a video by rich eisen that was like After karson wence was traded from the colts to the commanders Someone brought up on a rich eisen show like hey, what about matt ryan and then rich eisen was just like Matt ryan to the colts Wow Wow, and I'm watching this video. I'm like Okay, yeah, like why why why? Why is it a wow? Why is it a wow?  He just said That's insane. Wow. If that were to happen. Wow Wow, and I'm thinking myself and everybody in the comments were like, man, that's smart. That's smart They traded away karson wence because production did not match cap space The money that they were paying them. So if you trade for matt ryan an older quarterback That maybe he might be a little bit more productive. I don't know But it's still like the same amount of money a lot of freaking money That you're only gonna get for like a year or two years Why is that a good deal? So I'm thinking to myself like matt ryan Jimmy groppolo even dude jimmy groppolo would be like 50 50 the same as karson wence What's the difference? Hey, what's the difference? At this point, they just got to wait till the second round to draft someone because they don't have a first round pick So the colter and a little bit of a pickle. Uh jc you're tuning in you're giving your thoughts A lot. Chargers are spending like crazy while they have a qb on his rookie deal. Yes. Yes, they are for sure, but If they can make it happen because they're they're very adamant on maybe we're a super bowl contender Uh, they can get it done. I think that rookie deal the the reason you mentioned that like it's actually a pretty good reason On why you should just you should be spending now before just in her they're gonna sign him to a long-term extension probably the next year or two Uh Marcus williams did more than take advantage of the market.   I'll go ahead and show this Graphic again, but um, yeah, Marcus williams five years 70 million dollar deal, man Oh my goodness the ravens are desperate the ravens were destroyed and listen the ravens also were not too bad of a team Um outside of their secondary. So, you know, I think their final record was eight and nine if i'm not mistaken Maybe nine and eight. I'd have to look that up again. Um, but Yeah, so if you just add in key pieces on the secondary you're you're back in it uh But yeah, the owner should fire the defensive coordinator if you have to spend that much of your salary on a safety Yeah, I think they already fired the defensive coordinator and their new defensive coordinator should be fired again. I guess Sean tuned in and saying sad to see Us lose marcus williams. Glad to see him get his payday with bought more. We signed marcus may yes from the jets Who is going to be a productive player so interested to see how he fits in our defense? Yeah, marcus may has been a very underrated player for so long. I like marcus may a lot um And you guys are are condemning to uh Tune in give your opinions. Uh jc saying kirk has never had a thousand yard season. This is gross Yeah, if you guys are just now tuning in I'll go ahead and put up that graphic of christian kirk again For your 84 million dollar deal for for christian kirk and trevor laurence in his new weapon I I understand that he can stretch the field like no other and maybe when diodra hopkins was out for the arizona cardinals He looked great as a wide receiver one Uh 84 million dollars, man if you have a cap space in you can get it done Whatever sure spend whatever you need to do, but I mean at that point I would just resign dj shark But I guess they weren't adamant on on on dj shark. He weren't big on him um jc saying ask giants fans how they feel about ingram. Yeah drops a little bit of uh a little bit too many passes But a lot of that might have to do with uh Timing and bad quarterback play. I don't know. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt I I like ingram. Let's see what potential he has. Uh, but yeah, you guys they're just now tuning in I encourage you guys to continue to comment down below Leave your opinions and everything. Uh, I'd love to interact with the guys just now As I was doing right here Going back to the free agents and again this show is just like renaming the free agents who have signed just like a recap That's really not really too much structure going on here Lincoln tomlinson, uh, has signed with the new york jets He was I guess one of the early offensive linemen to sign on monday or agree to terms to sign And so he signed a three-year 40 million dollar deal Connor williams as well Again, like that defensive that offensive line of the miami dolphins Which we're going to be talking about in just a bit when we talk about our underrated players Connor williams is a big step up for the miami dolphins Alex kappa. Hey dude. Hey Tampering No, no, I wasn't tampering. Oh, yep. Uh tampering Dude 12 o'clock 12 o'clock eastern standard time monday That's when teams were legally allowed to talk to players Before then no no contact no contact. Can't talk to them. Guess what happened 12 o 1 p.m. Eastern standard time notification alex kappa Offensive linemen from the bucks signs with the Cincinnati Bengals Oh, hey, you agree to a multi-million dollar deal in one minute That's incredible. Absolutely amazing. How'd you do it? Oh, well, you know, we just As soon as 12 p.m. Hit they called me up Offered me that much money said sure Nah You talked beforehand Talked beforehand and if I was not gonna do anything about it tampering Hey, that's tampering They don't care But it's tampering I don't care either. I'm just saying like Gotta be consistent with this stuff, man Gotta be consistent DJ shark signs a one-year deal with the Detroit Lions We're going to be talking about him a little bit later on James Cardinal resigns with the Arizona Cardinals three-year 21 million dollar extension Justin Reed So he was suffering some injuries and had some dissonant disciplinary issues For the Houston Texans and it did not work out with them. So he has Gonna be Has agreed to terms to sign with the Kansas City Chiefs on a three-year 31.5 million dollar deal and Is looking to get a fresh start. That's a pretty good good signing for the Kansas City Chiefs. Jordan Whitehead The safety from the Bucks replaces the loss of Marcus May Signs a two-year deal worth 14.5 million dollar deal. So I mean going from The amount of amount of money that Marcus May was asking for They couldn't afford it. So they settled for less money with Jordan Whitehead Sebastian Joseph Day signs with the Chargers. We're going to be talking about him more in depth later on in the show Foy Alouacan Something about the Falcons and we're going to talk about this when we talk about Deshaun Watson The Falcons are just set on mediocrity way too much in the NFL, man way too much That like Devondra Campbell goes on to do bigger and better things with another team because there's just mediocre with the Falcons Foy Alouacan Foy Alouacan I liked I liked a lot and I thought he was a great player for the Falcons, but he was just, you know, didn't really stand out too much But going on with the Jaguars like, you know, he's going to be the replacement from pretty much for Miles jack Who they released which You can have your opinions on that. I think that's a very underrated signing Chase Edmonds with the dolphins. We're going to be talking about him later on Uh, what are some other big names? Austin Corbett Guard for the Rams. I think he missed the Super Bowl if I'm not mistaken. Sadly He might have played it might have been another offensive lineman, but He signs with the Carolina Panthers. Charverius Ward, uh, cornerback for the, uh Chiefs goes to the San Francisco 49ers on a three-year 40.5 million dollar deal Xavier Woods Signs a three-year 17 or 15 million dollar contract with the Carolina Panthers Uh, Larry Okunjobi has been a key piece for the defensive line of the Cincinnati Bengals And one of the key reasons why they've advanced to the Super Bowl has signed a three-year 40.5 million dollar contract with the Chicago Bears key piece for the Bears Uh, and then Let's now talk about those players that are still available on the market. Okay, so Austin Hooper We just got word that Austin Hooper has been released by the Cleveland Browns. They franchise tagged David and joku They're set on David and joku being the tight end one so, uh Yeah, Austin Hooper is now on the free agent markets. Uh, again, I'm getting notifications left to right So ignore me if I'm just looking at my phone The Raiders released defensive and uh, Carl Nassib. Okay.  I hate how I don't know. I just talk about football. That's it and fashion screw fashion, dude screw freaking fashion Tron Armstead is still available out there on the market von Miller Chandler Jones, he's being heavily pursued by the seahawks the dolphins the falcons just to name a few I think the the rams and the packers were interested in von Miller Um Allen Robinson is still out there as well tyron matthew odo beckham I think his preferred place is still la but he's still in the market Stefan gilmore dwayne brown james winston the saints are now out of the question of resigning them bobby wagner is still available the cowboys have talked about Being a potential suitor for bobby wagner jadavion clowny is adaria smith was a surprise release early on Uh early on this week or last week Kaleas cambal melvin ingram robin kowski Is being talked about with the bills. Let's clear things up. It's not the bangles who are interested in robin kowski It is the bills people are linking the bangles and robin kowski because grok himself has come out and said It'd be pretty cool to play with joe burrow But that doesn't mean that the bangles are interested in bringing him in that just means that He just likes to play with joe burrow Jarvis Landry was a surprise release earlier this week. Uh, not not a surprise actually they were Wanting to trade him and then I guess they're gonna find a suitor jerry hues is out there akim hicks Brown jude smith shoester still on the market cordial patterson will fuller Depending on where doshan watson plays maybe will fuller is going to sign with that team Eric fischer is out there with school douglas brice callahan Uh, anthony bar is still available marquez vowed is scantling It's still available. I heard per source on twitter that the patricks are thinking about mbs But that's not 100 confirmed rishad penny like to talked about is still available Uh, oh kasey hayward. Okay, so I talked about the chargers having kasey hayward uh That's not going to be working out. I guess he's still a free agent A letter for nets melvin gordon derrick barnett I would sign derrick barnett if I had the chance like off his rookie season and I mean pretty much Wanted super bowl for the eagles locked that thing in oj howards sheldon richardson and domin kong sue patrick peterson james Crowder miles jack was recently released kevin king brian angler The brian angler marquez mariota Could be a surprise daunte howe high tower Let's not forget rihim mostert even though he's in his 30s still with speedster lindsay carter riley reef joe hayden daunte fowler andrew norwell leighton vander esch is still available as well All right. Okay. That could be a big signing for someone Andy dalton, of course is uh Just gonna be a good deaf piece and then jay on brown Those are just some of the top people remaining Let's take a moment to talk about the players that I think are the most underrated signings In free agency thus far now it could be for a lot of money, but I still think that these four players Are the most underrated pieces that any team could sign So let's first start off with dj charg for the detroit lines I do believe personally that this is an underrated signing because aamon ross st Brown has emerged as the number one target for jared goff They resign josh reynolds to a two-year 12 million dollar deal and now you add dj charg to a one-year prove it deal I know that last year he was dealing with injuries, but let's not forget that he was He was either a pool bowl consideration or an actual pro bowler just a couple of years ago for the Jacksonville Jaguars a thousand yard receiver in the past Um, you know, he's just coming off his rookie contract. I like dj charg a lot and I was You know pretty adamant on okay if he goes into the free agency market He's got to get a deal that's maybe closer to like a four-year three-year deal That's making somewhere around like 12 13 14 million dollars a year. Well, I mean he's making 10 million dollars On a one-year deal with the detroit lines again the lines have nothing to lose In this aspect. That's why I like dj charg as being an underrated signing for the lions You finally have your wide receiver market your wide receiver core set in for the most part It's not the greatest out there, but Compared to 2021 detroit lines definitely a step up. I like dj charg as an underrated signing Uh, the next player that I want to talk about that's a very underrated signing Is actually hassan reddick. Okay fantastic name by the way I spelled a little bit differently, but hassan reddick is a player that I've loved ever since his days Being drafted out of temple with the arizona cardinals. I don't know what it was, but it just did not work out With the cardinals. I mean he was very good. Maybe it just it was money and they just kind of agreed to a deal and then he goes out and signs a short contract with the carolina Panthers and has another great season with the panthers So he's just having great season after great season after great season And no team wants to keep him and maybe it's because of the uh, the money that he's Asking for it could make a lot of sense Now the eagles have committed to him for three years as you can see here a three year 45 million dollar deal for hassan reddick And that's going to be a key piece and a replacement and a step up I would say from derrick barnett and the other key pieces that they're losing on that defense So for the eagles, I think this is a very underrated signing in general I think he's going to be one of the better defensive players in the nfl next season and it's going to greatly improve that eagles defense so reddick 45 million dollar deal a lot of money, but still a very underrated piece for the philadelphia eagles Some a player that I actually kind of compare him to and the you know going from team to team Is brain and cooks brain and cooks has not been a bad player in his nfl career, but he's been just You know, what's the term that everybody's saying is getting passed around more than a blunt for brain and cooks.  Whoever nobody wants to settle with them chase edmonds is also the Uh underrated player that I want to talk about a two-year 12 million dollar deal So on tiktok I came out with a video just a quick one minute video talking about the signing of chase edmonds And I kind of rated it like a seven out of ten Because I like it I think anything is an improvement from the miami dolphins running back situation with myos gaskin being the leading rusher I know that duke johnson came on pretty strong towards the end of the season, but He wasn't a long-term option. He's 29 years old. He's not going to get re-signed Maybe potentially but I think that chase edmonds is a step up from any of the other miami dolphins running back to the hat Now the only thing that I said was hey if you add some offensive linemen to that Miami dolphins brutal offensive line Then chase edmonds will be a hit And they added counter williams Signed him to a deal earlier just about a couple days ago.   I don't think edmonds is going to be the three down back But he's going to be the lead back. So if you pair him with uh Miles gaskin as the rb2 whichever young running back they draft as the rb2 this is going to be Beautiful because mike mcdano is going to call his own offensive place.  I'm dyslexic uh s jd Godly we'll cut that part out maybe But Sebastian joseph day has signed a three-year 24 million dollar deal With the los angeles chargers. Oh my goodness is chargers defense. Hey, we talked about the jaguars how they are bolstering This offense Let's take a moment to talk about the char the chargers defense The chargers defense jc jackson Asante samba already there durwin james already there joey bosa already there then you traded for cleal mack And now you signed Sebastian joseph day and they added another defensive lineman as well I think it's austin johnson that they signed This chargers defense guys Watch out for this defense. I'm telling you top 10 defense next season at least Maybe even top five defense. They were nine and eight last season They had the potential to make the playoffs and if they made the postseason who knows maybe they would have gone On to the division around of the playoffs maybe they would have gone on to the championship Who knows what would have happened with the chargers? On offense already set. They're fine now. You bolstered their defense They're moving up and up and up and i'm telling you that a ofc west division is going to be so freaking competitive the chargers are a team to watch out for we already knew how great their offense was but their defense amazing Sebastian joseph day helps out So much in that aspect So to kind of recap the underrated players that i was talking about dj chart to the lions I like it a lot asan reddick to the eagles I like it a lot chase admins to the dolphins underrated and then Sebastian joseph day to the chargers Leave your comments down below. Let me know your thoughts on some other players that you think are underrated signings and free agency thus far All right, i'm going to check in real quick with dishaun watson and just kind of give you guys a little bit of a recap on what's going on The guys haven't been following twitter I've been on twitter This whole entire time following the news on what's going on with shan watson All right, so previously we talked about okay, maybe the potential shooters would be the saints the panthers are interested um Deshaun himself has come out and said the bucks are or he's interested in the bucks or the vikings The eagles were also talking about the landing spot as well Uh, so to kind of recap all the teams and what's going on right now. Let's go ahead and just first off show you By the time this video is filmed what is going on which teams are just now interested in dishaun watson The saints are still interested the falcons have emerged as a team that could land dishaun watson The carolina panthers and the cleveland bounds are just now interested. So these are the four finalists I would say for the running for dishaun watson. How did we get to this point? Well, it started when Okay, you had interested in the vikings of the bucks with the vikings extended her cousins tom brady is coming back to the bucks Uh dishaun watson those windows are are out the eagles have been talked about potential shooters, but then They were like now we're out of this we were interested but now we're out of this The dolphins ended up being a potential shooter as well, but then they were like now we're out of this Uh, and then the colts actually earlier this week showed interest and we requested with the hueson texans Uh about dishaun watson, but the hueson texans actually declined and said now we're not trading you Dishaun watson where we have to face them twice a year. We're not doing that because that's pretty much To guaranteed. I don't want to say guaranteed, but uh two very tough games right there If we have to play dishaun watson twice a year So now we're we're down to the saints and the panthers as being the two final contenders who have submitted official proposals on monday requesting about shan watson after his allegations with uh, you know, the sexual assault allegations They they kind of you know simmer down and he wasn't convicted for that But then the falcons emerged as a potential shooter as well because the shan himself has come out and said I'm interested in the falcons and the falcons are like Oh my gosh Okay, yeah, let's do it Let's do it dishaun and now they're meeting up today to talk about a potential deal so now uh, the kind of Get you guys caught up in everything the hueson texans Have allowed dishaun to meet up with the saints the falcons and the panthers and they are only allowing Teams to meet up with him if they submitted an official proposal that they'd be like Yeah, we'd accept that trade offer So already the saints the panthers the falcons and even the browns have submitted offers that the hueson texans are like We like it if it works out Then sure we'll take that deal. So i'm thinking to myself like what could the potential offers be for dishaun I know that they said three first round picks At least and from what i'm hearing that has not changed the shan is still worth three first round picks The cleaver browns i haven't been talking about them a lot, but uh, they they've emerged as a A potential shooter for dishaun as well. Uh, they had some interest and then baker mayfield as you know He came out on twitter and and he's gave his condolences to uh, the city of cleveland knowing that uh, maybe his future in there is is Pretty uh is coming to an end uh pretty soon But yeah, let me go ahead and show you that list again the saints the falcons the panthers The browns those are the teams that are that are in the running. Uh I I guess I should have ordered it in the sense of like who has the best shot at landing. Um, I My personal opinion. I think the Okay, here's the thing I I want to say the saints I really do that they have the best shot at landing to shan but Where's this cap space man? I i'm surprised that they signed marcus may because I I I know they're restructuring everyone's contract, but can like they're still below Like they're in the negatives and cap space. So I don't know like Is cap space a myth like doesn't even matter I don't know but if if they try to you know trade for dishaun Maybe they can make it work this season, but like in the future years, man, that's gonna That's gonna suffer. I guess that makes sense for any team if you're losing first round picks But still like with that cap space, that's that's gonna be tough for the saints for sure The falcons. Okay. So this is the only team out of those four right here that the shot has come out and said I want to play for the falcons because he's from gainsville gainsville, georgia Which is you know from where we're filming the show is only 15 20 minutes away. We're right outside of gainsville, georgia right out to the the home of dishaun. So Yeah, I mean if he goes to the falcons as a falcons fan personally, I would be as static I would love this so much matt ryan. Thank you for the time. Thank you for getting us through the Super Bowl appearance I have a matt ryan jersey but Sean Sean would be awesome to see Uh in Atlanta, they're not gonna do man. They're not gonna do anything. Hey, I'm a falcons fan They they always settle for mediocrity always Hey, instead of trying to sign the best free agent available Let's sign no one Hey, instead of trying to sign a free agent running back or draft a running back like Giovante Williams, let's settle with mike davis as our starting running back Huh Yeah, they're doing it. You ain't doing anything Bartome hopes that me saying that is gonna actually convince them to do something Uh, if they're watching the show the carolina panthers. Okay, so this is the least interest as far as the Sean Watson goes according to his camp Uh, just because of the The team that they have and the turmoil, I guess and the coach, I guess he's not a big fan of them I don't know. I don't know what it may be But he's just not that interested in the carolina panthers and then the Cleveland Browns I think there is a little bit of interest maybe not as much as like the falcons or the saints But yeah, if I had to make an it's a prediction on this It's either the saints or it's either the falcons that he goes to and I'm gonna say that we're gonna have this Happen as soon as today So if you guys are watching this as soon as this video comes out We're gonna have to shoot a decision on Sean as soon as that happens. But yeah, that's that's my take on to Sean Watson that's the update on him and Potentially what could happen with the Sean Watson? And the new team that he placed for in 2022 leave your comments down below Let us know your thoughts on what is going to happen with the Sean and This whole fiasco All right, now let's take a moment just to uh, we're towards the end of the show So we're just going to take a moment just to talk with the uh, the live chat see what you guys are saying Down here. Um, let's see. Let's see. Let's see. Oh, we got a lot of comments here. I like it. I like it a lot uh Dicks to Seahawks was weird. Uh, they are paying him and Jamal. They just wasted two first round picks on Jamal I'm confused. Yeah, you're talking about quandary dicks I don't know man. I see they're like We're rebuilding but we're also not rebuilding like we get rid of Russell Wilson. We get rid of bobby wagner I don't know man. I don't know. I think I could I could not tell you all I can tell you is that They have a good safe. They have two good safeties That's all I can tell you I don't know man Um Let's see. What else is uh, everybody's saying Sean Hassan thoughts on gauge going to Tampa. I think falcon should have kept him in case Ridley doesn't return Uh, I think the uh, signing of Russell gauge Let me go back here and see exactly how much he signed for And that that makes a difference um By the way, I I'm not gonna No, I'm not gonna mention this. I don't want to bash anyone on the show Um, I was gonna mention something about someone else who comes out with reports on twitter that some people are saying It's false, but then also sometimes like He might be right, but I don't know if he's just like You know the phrase like a broken clock clock is right twice a day Never mind. I'm not gonna get into it. Anyways, forget everything that I said, uh, Russell gauge. Okay Expect to sign with the tape. I've been booking ears. I have not heard an official number yet Let me look up and see. Oh my gosh. I I feel like I I read up on what the contract is going to be for Russell gauge Um, oh, hey by the way. Hey Indianapolis Colts Where are you? Hey, you have 62 million dollars in cap space Where are you? What you doing? Everybody's been signed at this point What you doing? Who you got a sign? Hey, Andy What you doing with that money? Are you saving that money for jimmy garoppolo? Makes sense I've always backed up chris ballard on the show. I've said he's like one of the top gms in the nfl And I still believe that I really do But sometimes like some of the moves that he makes is like I trust you because in the past you've proven to be a good gm. So I trust you but like right now it's All right. All right, I guess, um, we'll see what happens Um, okay, so Russell gauge Uh, yeah three year 30 million dollar deal. We we weren't able to match that man Speaking of the Falcons like I don't I don't think the Falcons were able to match that I I think it's okay. We're letting them go. I think Russell gauges talented, but like again I like the fact that we're not settling for mediocrity The Falcons have been known for settling for media mediocrity And I'm not saying that Russell gauges like a mediocre player, but so much emphasis is put on Russell gauge Like he's he's not he's not going to be a wide receiver one. He's not So the the buck signing him as a wide receiver three that makes sense Because that's what he is like we got to get out of the mindset of like If if our favorite team is interested in a player All of a sudden we start like thinking and over hyping that player like I think you could be a good player. I think you I think you like if you have to like continuously justify like He has to be a good player. He's gonna be a good player. He's he has potential if you continue continuously say potential potential potential No, like look at how it is And I used to fall into that as well. I used to be like, yeah, I think this guy has potential He could do really really well. He could like it could work out No, like if you've seen a player long enough play, you know the kind of talent he is like jimmy garoppolo I don't think In the NFL he's ever gonna throw 40 touchdowns in a season I just don't think that's gonna happen But like if we continue like colts fans are like, oh jimmy garoppolo, he could be the savior There's no difference between jimmy garoppolo and karsten wence. There's no difference No difference at all so like get out of the mindset of like The potential that he has like look at the player of How he is and I'm saying that about russell gauge right now like look at the player that he is like Great player and like there might be a few games out of the year like he could pop off But he's not going to be a reliable wide receiver one so That's my take on it I don't know what they're going to do a wide receiver alamides zakias Needs to step up big because oh my gosh, man. Kyle pits is going to get 1600 yards this season is going to be wild But Let's see. Let's see what happens With uh with the bucks and russell gauge uh Keo asking did mike hawk sign anywhere mike hawk mike hawk michael hilton Mike hawk someone help me here Who's my cock? Um I think tomlinson to the jets was a great signing. He knows the offense the jets is running and and helps zack wilson. I agree, man lincoln tomlinson was like actually the First guard I want to say that agreed to terms of free agency. I think the jets had their eyes set on Oh alex kappa, but tampering Hey, and the first one minute of the free agency period alex kappa tampering You agree to a 40 million dollar deal in one minute Dude imagine agreeing to afford life changing money And just taking a minute to realize that Maybe even just 45 seconds because it took 15 seconds to tweet it out by adam shifter that he signed tampering Nah, we didn't talk beforehand uh Oh, yeah, yuzama forgot about cju zama. I didn't mention him on the show Yuzama to the jets was another nice piece for zack wilson can't believe i'm saying this but the jets Seem to be making very strategic moves. Yes, they're adding the right weapons And the right pieces and actually re-signing braxton barrios as well who stepped up pretty big So they got their their offense already lined up cju zama tied in cori davis elisha more braxton barrios as your three wide receivers lincoln tomlinson protecting that line Michael carter is going to be your rb 1 zack wilson stepping up into the second year. Oh those jets man watch out for them Could be on the move Uh saw in good morning football that the packers should trade cubie jordan love to the saints for a second round pick in case Watson and winston are available Are unavailable thoughts? Yeah, I think the colts uh should make that move on jordan love saints as well saints as well But I think the saints are in an option where they can Resign james winston. I don't see why they wouldn't If you've already played for that team you have a good relationship I mean You could just be like hey james. We give you another shot. I know they didn't work out because you got injured But let's just give you another shot. Let's just see what happens So, I I mean Investing more draft capital or getting rid of draft capital for another quarterback. I I don't know about that But jordan love does have potential so yeah for the colts are the saints. It's it's not a bad not a bad trade You just got to give the give the kid a chance and see what happens um Why would the texas trade uh watson and the afc cleveland would have to pay an extra tax for keeping him in the conference? Yeah Yeah, they're actually and I think that's why I didn't work out with the pittsburgh steelers if i'm not mistaken They signed mr. Biscay Which by the way, I don't think we covered mr. Biscay, did we? Uh on the show just yet, but yeah, I mean for you guys that Not you know have been living under a rock mr. Biscay signs a uh two-year 14 million dollar deal up to 27 million dollars Uh for this deal for the pittsburgh steelers, you know, I'll talk about mr. Biscay for a second At first I was like, uh, I don't know about this like I don't know if uh, I don't know I just don't know um, but then I changed my mind because I looked at the contract details And I was like, okay, he can make 27 million dollars if he's a starter and he ends up being good Like I was going down the route of okay Like that's a lot of money for someone to enter a quarterback competition But if it doesn't work out then at worst you just lose 14 million dollars over two years But if it does work out, then you have to pay him a little bit more I like the deal for the pittsburgh steelers a lot Um, yeah, so I think that's why I didn't work out with the shon watson because they're in the same afc You know conference, but that that's just my opinion on that D perp saying atl picks up landry, dude Chat okay otro sinco reached out to arthur blank was like give alan robinson a chance Now I don't know if alan robinson is still going to be good or not You know if he goes to the falcons, then no he's not because they're very mediocre I'm a falcons fan. I can bash my team So yeah, we'll see but uh jarvis landry to the falcons. I'd be I'd be open to it I wanted dj shark. I really did want dj shark like the fact that he signed a 10 Oh my god, she signed a one-year 10 million dollar deal. That's affordable That's affordable, but we didn't get him Uh, so jarvis landry alan robinson. I'm happy with either one of those guys Uh Sean giving me a dig at least we don't have a 49 million dollar qb cap hit lol.  You fell for it think Bart Simpson Mike hawk I've never heard that before I heard about like ben dover.  I fell for it.  I love that a lot Oh my gosh Thanks for the clarity Tomas saying hi greetings from germany. I like your voice and I watch every week your videos about the sorts of sets Thank you for your work. Tomas if you're just tuning in Do me a favor type in t2f Fantasy football I know you watch the sorts of sets video on this channel. 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Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cloud Native Live, where we dive deep into the code behind Cloud Native.  So, every week, we bring a new set of presenters to showcase how to work with Cloud Native technology. They will build things, they will break things, and they will answer all of your questions so you can join us every Wednesday to watch live. So, this week, we have Thomas here to talk with about one spec to rule them all. A very fun title. I'm really looking forward to this. And as always, this is an official live stream of the CNCF, and as such, it is subject to the CNCF code of conduct. So, please do not add anything to the chat or questions that would be in violation of that code of conduct. So, basically, please be respectful of all of your fellow participants as well as presenters. But perfect. With that done, I'll hand it over to Thomas to kick off today's presentation. Thank you very much. And thank you, everyone, for joining. So, yes, I'm here today to talk about an open source project named SCORE. SCORE aims to sort of improve the developer experience, reduce cognitive load on developers. And SCORE was born out of the platform engineering movement. So, before we address SCORE, I'd like to talk a bit about platform engineering. And where SCORE fits into that. So, I shall share my screen. Have I got our entire screen? Here we go. Can we see what's on my screen? Yes. Now we see the content perfectly. Cool. So, I'm just going to go sort of a short whiteboard experience. Platform engineering. And we're talking about platform engineering from quite a high level here. So, platform engineering really is sort of the discipline of a platform team providing a product to internal developers in an organisation so that ultimately software can be delivered faster, more sustainably, of higher quality. All while developers focus in on the work that they actually need to do and the work that they want to do, which is writing application code to develop applications that provide business outcomes. So, in platform engineering, we'd have these two distinct teams, the actual platform engineering team that are creating the platform for the developers to consume and the development team who are consuming that platform and writing their application code. So, on the platform engineering team sides, what do they care about? Ultimately, they care about enabling developers to do their job sufficiently. And within that, reducing ticket operations. So, rather than an operations team being reactive to every single request on an ad hoc basis, really sort of defining best practice infrastructure, sort of some golden standards, designing the tool chain, CI pipelines, embedding login, observability, and all those things that we need to run an application at Scow in production. So, some of the things that a platform engineering team may have, a CI pipeline that they have designed, some infrastructure code to actually go and deploy the relevant infrastructure. There's a request to zoom in a bit if that's possible. I can indeed. Yeah. And then I can move around. I can move around. So, this might work. First try, first try, trying this on a webinar to be fair. So, apologies if it's a bit sketchy. Okay. So, is that okay? Can people understand that? Well, it is. I think it's better now. I can see now, well, if the audience you still have trouble, let us know. And we can zoom in maybe a bit more. But so far, I think it's good work. Cool. Cool, cool, cool. So, yeah, platform engineering team, they have infrastructure codes to go and deploy infrastructure. And really, they're in the business of making these higher level architecture decisions. People within that team actually write in the infrastructure code to best practice, to a golden standard. Okay. And then we have the development team over here. And what do they do? Pretty obvious, I suppose. We write an application code. And really, do they care about the infrastructure? Do they care about the implementation of that infrastructure? They really just care about writing the application code and getting their app to production, right? So, to actually do these things or to live in this world where, you know, platform engineering teams are creating this architecture and development teams are just writing the code, we actually need a platform, right? So, bring in the platform. Okay. And this is an example of what a good practice platform could look like. Did warm. This might not go 100% smoothly. Okay. So, let's put this in the middle, the platform. Okay. So, we've got this platform that the development team actually interact with, and that the platform engineering team ultimately make resources available to developers. Okay. So, this is a very high-level look at a platform, but how could this work? Okay. So, the first thing is that the platform team, they're actually going to deploy in infrastructure, okay, to a cloud provider. So, that could be using something like Terraform, for example. I'm trying to, oh, here we go. So, they would go deploy to a cloud provider. So, that might be Google Cloud. Then they actually make, and that's all fine on its own. You know, we've got these resources running there, but we don't want developers to access those resources directly as such. You'll be too aware of those resources.  Probably not. It doesn't really fit into the ideology of what we're trying to do here. So, platform engineers will make those resources available to the platform via something like a resource definition. You know, it's a pointer to the actual resource and gives access to that resource. So, they may create a Kubernetes cluster in Google Cloud, a GKE cluster in Google Cloud, make this available to the platform. They may also create a Postgres database, for example. And then give these resources, or, you know, point us to these resources, tags or criteria that define which environment they can be used in. So, Kubernetes cluster for the staging environment, a database for the staging environment in this example that I'm giving here. Okay. And then we have developers who are just writing their app code, building their app codes into a container, and then pushing that to a registry. Okay. So, they push the container to the registry. And then they actually need to define how that workload runs. And this is where score comes in. Okay. So, score is a workload specification. So, it's a smallish piece to a larger puzzle. All right. Just explaining some of the context behind the larger puzzle here. So, building app codes in a Docker container, pushing it to a registry, reasonably well defined. And then we get to the workload specification. Okay. So, the platform, you know, may have the object that we call an application, you know. And we need to configure that application object with specific workloads. All right. So, a typical application might have, you know, a handful of workloads between five, 10 workloads to build out the entire application. So, each workload would need a specification. So, in the sub pipeline that they build their app code, they push this specification to the platform. And that specification will contain information around what the container or what the workload is in terms of the container image and the resources that actually depends on. Okay. So, if we just sort of type out a rough specification here, we might say image, the name of the image. And then we say resources. And I appreciate you probably not, let me just zoom in a bit because you're probably not going to see this on the screen. I'm not even zooming. Just zooming like this. So, you may say image, the name of the image, resources. And then rather than actually, you know, worrying about the implementation of that resource, where that resource actually lives, we just say, I need Postgres. Right. So, say resources. I need a Postgres database. I need some storage.  Okay. So, we just declare the resources that we need. And we've already sort of tagged this application object within the platform as it belongs to the stage environment. Okay. So, once I've got my workload spec, once I've got my workload specification defined, once I have my application code pushed or built and pushed to the image registry, we need to go and deploy that application. So, at deployment time, what happens on, you know, using something like a platform orchestrator product is the orchestrator would say, okay, this is the staging environment. So, it would know that we need to push this image and run that image on the Kubernetes cluster in the staging environment. And then also says, we need Postgres and we need some storage. So, it would look through the available resource definitions for a Postgres database and the actual relevant environment as well. So, it would pick those up and attach those to the workload. And the idea behind this is that as a developer, I do not really know where that database lives. I don't know about the configuration of it, but I do know and have confidence the platform engineering team have set that up to absolute best practices, absolute company golden standards that conform to all regulations and compliance. And I just focus on writing my code. Okay. So, are there any questions at this point? There may be questions. No, nothing at the moment, but there was a comment though, nice, someone said. So, that's really nice to hear the people enjoying the content so far. Oh, there's no comment I see. So, we can actually maybe tackle it. I don't see a question mark, but maybe we can take your take on it. So, there's someone saying, but their humble experience in a platform engineering team that let me conclude the following. Don't give many options to devs. Example, auto inject resource limits is for historical metrics for monitoring systems. Smart enable or auto scaling is required, producing the inputs from dev increase reliability and consistency. Yeah, I absolutely agree with all that. I think that's a great comment. It's actually probably a very nice segue into score and looking specifically at this word specification, because score is really about reducing the inputs that a developer has to give, only exposing things that they care about and that they should know about, rather than all the complexity of infrastructure. So, I will move on to that right now. So, we're looking specifically at score here and some of the problems that developers have that we have spoken with have told us. So, they have a high level of cognitive load. So, this is often a switching between different tools within different environments or different teams have different pipeline tools. Lots of switching is not productive. In consistency between environments too. So, if you're developing locally using Docker compose and then in production you're using full blown Kubernetes, multi cluster, multi cloud even, very different environments and you can see inconsistencies there. And then infrastructure management, which is quite problematic before developers, not spoke to many developers who enjoy managing infrastructure. And this also, the infrastructure management piece creates higher cognitive load as well. And what the score development team and product team believe today is that there is a large, most development that happens is very infrastructure centric. Developers really invested and have interved deep knowledge in the tooling and the platforms that run their workloads. They have to really think about configuring each environment very specifically. So, taking that example again of developing locally and Docker compose, Kubernetes for production, you have to think a lot about sort of the environment specific configuration and then just platform specific configuration as well. So, if we're using different platforms for different applications, different teams, there's a lot of consideration that goes into that. So, what we're, what score is advocating is a workload centric development model. So, ultimately it's the workload that creates the value, the workload, all those workloads do it together, create this application, the application is creating the value. Infrastructure is super important if we didn't have infrastructure, where would we run our workload? But it is ultimately a byproduct of a workload of an application. So, really score is aiming to help developers and platform teams to help developers focus on the workloads rather than the whole tech stack and all of the sort of complexity that goes in that tech stack to run the application. So, workload centric development just focusing on the workload. So, the spec is just a single source of truth across different platforms, across different environments and really tightly scoped as well. So, this is a nod to the comment that was made in the chat, really only exposing the inputs that a developer cares about and a developer needs, hiding those inputs that could create confusion, create extra cognitive load and create production instances that are unfavorable for our application and our customers. And a completely declarative approach for infrastructure management. So, the context we're talking about here is declaring what we need and thus being given there. So, obviously there's declarative tools for infrastructure as code, but this is looking at as a developer, I declare what I need, I get given that, I don't care where it runs, I don't care where it is, I don't care too much about the underlying configuration. So, a little bit about the tool itself at quite a high level. There's a few components. So, there's the score specification, which is the spec that can be run across multiple different implementations. So, an implementation relates to a specific platform or a specific piece of technology. So, at the moment we have score compose, we have score helm, there's score humanitech for the humanitech platform. So, you have this single score specification, you run it against an implementation and it spits out a platform specific configuration file. Okay, so I could be deploying to multiple technologies, multiple types of platforms, but I need to write one file and I don't have to care about sort of all of the pieces of configuration or the nuances of each platform's configuration. I'll stop just to see if there's any comments, questions. Not at the moment, but keep them coming people. I know we did get confirmation at some point that the Zooming did the trick, so we want to have been after that. So, that was good. Oh, cool. And rather than looking at this on here, we're actually going to look at in a demonstration. Okay, so I'll skip to a demo now. I'm using this sandbox environment and I will give everyone access to this sandbox environment at the end of the session as well so you can play around to your heart's content. Okay, let's look at a score file first. So, let's set out a situation before I go rushing in to looking at code on the screen. The situation is, I am developing locally using dot compose and then I need to deploy to Kubernetes using hell. Okay, so we're going to leverage the two score implementations, two of the score implementations that are available today, score propose and score help. This is probably quite a maybe a simplified situation, okay, using some of the, you know, just the existing implementations that we already have. There are other tools out there that can, you know, tackle this type of problem just between compose and help. But, you know, score is supposed to be very pluggable. It is very pluggable. You can write your own implementations for your own platforms. But we're just giving an example here. So, I have a score file called, let's actually make this a bit bigger now. I'm sure there'll be complaints or suggestions. So, I've got this backend score file. So, if we look at this, we've got, I'm just going to sort of run through the file and explain it. We've versioned the score spec so you can use different versions and metadata. Simply, we can just simply give this a name here, which is our backend workload. And then a list of containers or a container. So, we've got a simple image here. And then we can issue commands to that container, arguments, etc. And then a list of variables as well, okay, that we want to inject into the container. Now, as you can see, we're not sort of explicitly declaring the variables or, you know, the variable values. We have got placeholders in there. Okay. So, the idea being that a good platform should be able to resolve these placeholders and actually inject correct values. Okay. So, we quickly just go back to this very basic drawing. The idea being that when we actually do this deployment of this application, and that's deployed onto Kubernetes, also when we specified Postgres in this instance, I don't know what's going on with that drawing, when we specified Postgres in that instance, that will take the configuration from the sort of the database resource. So, as a developer, I do not need to work with credentials. I do not need to understand the end points. That's all resolved by the platform and injected into the workload. Something I didn't talk about too much when I presented this wonderful whiteboard. Okay. So, it's the platform that needs to be able to implement that. So, we can look here and we can say, then we start declaring resources. So, we can actually, in this instance, declare a set of environment variables that we want to inject. But in general, the variables that we use in, say, for like a database connection string would be resolved and injected via the platform. So, here I've said I need a database. My workload needs a database. The type of database is Postgres. And then, in this instance, just give them some default values that could be injected into the configuration. And then I've defined another resource here, resource dependency, which is the front end. So, we're sort of dependent on this front end workload actually to build our application. And in the front end, I've just got a sort of a basic alpine image that serves over Port 80. So, I will execute this. I assume there's not any questions, because I probably would have been asked. But the idea being that wherever I run this file, my workload is going to be consistent. Whatever platform that's on. There's nothing specific to any type of platform within this definition. So, we'll be using the Score Compose context. So, there's a CLI tool named Score Compose. And then, after that, we'll be using the same file in the Score Helm context. Score Helm. And hopefully, we should have exactly the same outcome. We will have the same outcome. When I share this with you as well, so you can actually follow through, you know, if you're interested, follow through with the guides on the right. I find this useful when I'm presenting as well, because I can just copy and paste. So, there's some stuff in there that explains what's going on. This is also important that there's, we've got this Score Specification here. But there's also, we actually need a database. This is just Docker running locally. There is no platform in this instance. So, we need to actually supply the database. So, we've just supplied that with a database definition in a Score, in a Compose file. We could have actually... Audience question coming in. So, we have a question. Can you dive a bit more into how you'd handle secrets? Yeah, that's a good question. So, Score itself doesn't really handle secrets, sort of reference in secrets. So, on this connection string here, this would all be secret information. So, the DB password. That's something that really, and what we can hint at some of this and show a little bit of this, but it would be injected by the platform. So, in this instance here, this platform orchestrator or this platform sort of sketch here has a lot of things missing on the actual sketch. So, naturally, there would be secrets management components of this platform. And we could... The platform would be able to inject into the workload. Hopefully that makes sense. Yes. Then we had another question, which is, are we implementing here a Docker Compose interface compatible, which is targeting Kubernetes? So, the interface, I mean, if I understand the question correctly, we can target any platform. So, there's the specification, which has a schema that looks, is represented like this when it's in YAML. And the idea being that we can really, if I go back to this slide here, anyone is free to write their own implementation that can target a specific platform.  So, the interface, the experience is around just having a single specification and outputting to a platform-specific configuration file without having to understand that platform-specific configuration file. You'll need to understand one specification. Hopefully that answers the questions, but if it does not, then please follow up. I'll be happy to. And then there was actually another question from the same asker. How are we managing multi-environments here, or is it still required third-party like Argo CD? So, again, more comes down to the platform, the platform to manage that. You may have something like Argo CD. You may have sort of a platform orchestrator, such as Humanitech. You may have a custom-built platform. But if I look at it from this context, so I'm trying to, there we go. If I have some cloning capability, this is just not going well. What I was trying to do is, actually, if I copy that out, there we go. I didn't think it was there as one object. So, if we cloned the application and then give it the sort of tag, sort of prod, the actual workload specification is really going to look exactly the same. We don't want the workload specification to look any different. The platform orchestrator will assign different resources. So, for the prod application or the prod deployment, it would give us the prod instance of the database and inject the relevant sort of configuration that's needed and connect to that database. The actual workload definition should look the same. We don't really want those to vary between environments. Hopefully that answers the question. Great. And if anyone wants to ask a follow-up questions, of course, the chat is open and ready for questions. But, yeah, now we can, I think, move on. Cool, cool. So, I'm actually going to thank you for the questions. I appreciate it. It's always good to have some interaction. So, what we're going to do is we're going to translate these score files to compose files, okay? So, I'll actually show the translations here. So, we've got these back-end compose or back-end score.yaml. It's now been translated to a back-end compose.yaml, okay? And then we've got the front-end compose.yaml as well. So, score doesn't actually even really execute those files. It creates a translation and then you can execute those files against the platform that you need. And, again, these are simple examples. This is one of the first iterations that we had was score compose and score helm. Naturally, platforms that provide a lot more would be more complex and their configuration files look a lot more complex as well. So, once you're going to start the workloads now, okay? And what we want to see here is this workload running and the connection string echoed out. That's what the workload is going to do. It's going to echo out the connection string to the database, okay? So, hey, Jimmy, whoever Jimmy is, connect into the DB and there's the connection string there. In this instance, we have just passed in the default values that we've set in the score file, but for a more advanced platform that uses a platform orchestrator, a platform product, these would be retrieved from the resource or from a secret manager injected in, okay? That's the platform really to implement rather than the score. Score is agnostic to that sort of platform. It is just a specification, okay? So, we got that. So, hopefully, that makes sense. We've used a file, a score file to define some workloads onto Docker. Now, we're going to take that exact same file, okay? And we are going to deploy via Helm to Kubernetes. Okay? So, if I come here and these are exact same files, translate them, yes, into the editor. And what we've got is sort of, within the Helm implementation, we translate to a set of values files, okay? So, we've got the front-end values and the back-end values. And then we've got a specific sort of reference workload Helm chart and that these values are fed into, basically. That was the implementation was built. We've got this Helm chart. And now we're actually going to run the workloads and just do a Helm install to actually run these workloads. And this is a GKE cluster. And so, if I do a sort of QTGL, get pod. You can see that those are coming up on GKE now, okay? And then to actually sort of output some more in-depth information, we're going to tell the logs of the back-end container. And as we can see, we've got the same, we've come to the same conclusion. Hey, Jimmy, we're connecting to the database. And then we've got the database connections during this being echoed out, okay? So, hopefully, we can see how we can use a single file such as this written in, you know, written in YAML to define a workload and run that workload across any platform that only supports a codified way of defining workloads. That's all we need, okay? So, yeah, we are looking at developing more contexts, so more integrations with other platforms, you know, be that cloud services or more bespoke platforms as well. And you're absolutely free to contribute your own context. So, we have this, we have a GitHub organization, and we have the specific spec within there, okay? And there's information on how to contribute, and things like that. So, I'll probably post this in the chat afterwards. And then we can look at sort of, we've got some of the sort of specific implementations here. So, score helms, score humanitex, score composer have already been built. So, you're free to look at the code for that. And yeah, have a play around. Perfect. If you get the links to our site, we can get them to the chat. We're going to access. And I think this is the perfect time for the audience members to start typing away all of their questions as well. We only released this at the back end of last year, really. So, it's still an early stage project. And we're looking for contributors as well. So, if you're looking to get involved in a new exciting open source project, and can contribute, then please reach out. Perfect. So, is the GitHub page that you're linking to, when we got you to the chat, the right place to find the contact info, where should people kind of be looking to reach out to you? So, if you go on, I've just posted another link called score.dev. I believe there is a contact us page there. Or you can create a discussion or just even send us a poll request on GitHub. But there's definitely contact information on score.dev, which is the website for the score project. And also, in the chat, I don't know if you've pasted this yet, but there's a link for the sandbox. So, if you follow that link, you get access to the sandbox. It's up for an hour. You can play around. And it will be up for the next week. So, yeah, feel free to have a play on that. Send me feedback our way. Perfect. And now, while we wait for our back end to kind of send in the links to everyone via the chat, you have an audience question. So, how easy it is to write my own converter from score, say, my company. So, it is a pluggable system. We've tried to make it as simple as possible. It depends on the complexity of your sort of internal specification. But if you want to talk further about that and get some of the development team involved or the product managers from the score project, we'd be happy to look at that further. Great. And the question actually did kind of celebrate with I've developed a young spec for my community's ops. Yeah. What was that sort? They continued with I've developed a young spec for my community's ops. Okay. Interesting. So, maybe trying to achieve the same things there as well, to a certain extent. And that's what, you know, has been noticed as well. There's a lots of different of these specifications that are not transferable between platforms. So, I think there's a lot of value in having just a more standardized specification, one that can be applicable to different teams and, you know, or different units within the organization to across organizations as well. You wouldn't have to learn a new specification if you change jobs. And they're using the same spec, right? Simple. Perfect. And we're getting the links into the chat right now. They are at least on the YouTube side. So, no worries there. And then there was another question from Pren on guess score home chart is a boilerplate the intelligence to deploy the workflow as deployment staples that slash job is defined somewhere. Yes. So, there's a essentially a boilerplate home chart that we feed values in. Obviously, you can use your own reference your own boilerplate that is more suitable for yourself as well. But yeah, that's the fundamentals of it. Perfect. And I hope the links are visible on the LinkedIn side. If not, I guess for if someone can't see the links, it's essentially the get off, get off site, the score, mainly anything from there or score.dev is the webpage likely. So, there you can find probably a lot of the material as well if people can't see the links there. Yeah, the link's not been posted, is that? Was it just me? Yeah, they're at least on the YouTube side. They are there. Yeah. Cool. Sorry. No worries. And then there's another question. Is there an integration with tools such as tilt? Use for local development? There is not currently. I don't know of tilt personally either. But that is maybe a fantastic project for yourself. And yeah, if there's enough sort of interest in a specific platform or deployment target, then we'll look into developing for that as well. Yeah, makes sense. But that's always a good part about open source. It's like if you want something, you can also start building together. Yeah. Question out the basics of it and then need some help from the wider community. It's starting to be quite a big community built around score now, which is cool, a lot of interest at least anyway. So even if you flesh something out and then others contribute to it, it'd be cool. Perfect. Well, there was someone who was commenting that they've used tilt, but not much. It's a niche part as far as their concern at least. Great that there's a discussion going on in the chat as well. I like seeing that. That's great. Yeah. Is there anything else that you want to kind of bubble here while people might be typing their questions in final call? I think for questions, if anyone's still wondering something, or is there anything that you want to share, Thomas? Nothing else that I'm going to share. I've spoken the last 40 minutes straight, so I'll give everyone a break. If there are any final questions and I'm happy to answer, of course. Yeah. Let's see if anything comes in. I have a question while we see if anyone is still typing away. Is there any kind of sneak peek that you've given on what does the future of math look like for score? Is there anything happening in the future and what does it look like? There's a couple of different implementations being considered. I won't commit to anything right now. It's not my place. But yeah, just obviously evaluating what would be most beneficial to the community, which sort of tools that we need to interact with are the most popular, and then moving on from there. The ultimate aim of score is, I will say, I've probably said it in other words before, but it is really to provide this definitive single specification for deploying or defining a workload. That is the ultimate aim, and it may take many, many different integrations with other systems to be able to get there. We're looking to go that way. Perfect. Actually, the discussion in time continues a bit with help. It's absolutely amazing. The best dev experience when it comes to being set up to need the prior. I love the discussion going on there. That's nice to see. Then, Dennis said, thank you Thomas and Annie, which is lovely to know is here. Thank you to you for attending. Thank you for amazing questions to everyone. But since there's no new questions, I think we're going to start wrapping up. Perfect. Thank you everyone for joining the latest episode of Cloud Native Live. It was great to have a session about one spec to rule them all. We really also love the interaction and questions from the audience, as well as the discussion within the chat, within the audience. That's always great to see. And as always, we will bring you the latest Cloud Native Code every Wednesday. In the coming weeks, we have more great sessions coming up. For example, next week, we have a session on showcasing new features and capabilities in Kuberno. So thank you for joining us today. And see you all in the coming weeks. Thank you, everyone. Bye.


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What if we could move an entire bridge into place in a weekend and open the highway to traffic by the Monday morning rush hour? What if we could repair a road by dropping precast concrete pavement panels into place at night and keeping it open to traffic during the day? What if we could close a highway completely so it can be fixed in a fraction of the time it normally takes while keeping traffic moving on alternate routes? We can. The highways for life program is working with our partners to show the highway community how to do it and helping agencies and industry get it done. Highways for Life is a federal highway administration initiative with a mission to improve the American driving experience. We all know the challenge. Aging highways and bridges need rehabilitation and reconstruction. Traffic congestion is growing making it hard to fix roads without creating huge backups and the resources available make it tough to pay for all of the repairs needed. 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