of those points that the minister and his team will have to answer. Of course, everyone will support the proposal for carers plans. It is hardly controversial. Ensuring that there is a support plan that identifies the needs of carers is a good thing. On the passage of the bill, we would like to see that provision implemented without delay, but the support plan and young carers' statement in themselves will only be worth the paper that they are written on if they are followed through with support put in place and fully financed so that the plan becomes a reality. You can write up as many plans as you like and you can stick them in a cupboard, but if it does not mean anything for the people who need our assistance, then it has hardly been worth the effort. Issues around the eligibility criteria, whether that is at a national level or a local level, will be debated through during the process of the bill. Some suggest national criteria, others suggest local criteria. Whatever it is, it has to be effective and it has to allow flexibility to meet local needs, while ensuring that people can get equal access. We agree that plans that incorporate education and training will be at a national level. Bob Doris? It has been a very thoughtful speech on national and local eligibility criteria. I have said that there was a confusion among different people in the carer sector on what they meant by that. When you talked about equal access, I wonder if you are talking about equal access to the trigger for where care support needs must be met by a local authority or whether you went to equality and provision, because there are two very different things, obviously, and equality and provision does not necessarily have that local discretion. Neil Findlay? I think that for the people on the ground, they want to ensure that they have equal access to what they receive. Ultimately, that is what they want. They want an improved service that they receive. Whether that is better done nationally or locally, we can debate that through. Ultimately, it is about what ends up happening in those people's lives that is most important. I am also very positive about the role of advocacy in counselling. Income maximisation is a huge issue, and those are all very relevant to the lives of people who are carers. Much of that should be being provided already, but, of course, it cannot be because things like that cost money. You cannot provide such services on fresh air and crossed fingers in a steeply declining budget in local government. The main concerns are about the financial provisions in the bill, and Rhoda Grant, John Lamont, Jackie Baillie and others raised that. Those new provisions will place additional duties and responsibilities on councils, and assessments just in themselves will cost money and need to be fully funded. It is the additional consequences of any assessment that will add additional funding pressures on councils who are already at breaking point. Councils are not at the bone, they are well through the marrow and almost at the other end. The social care system, social work departments, social workers and support workers are drowning under intense pressure, while year-on-year budget cuts threaten the very services that civilise us as a society. There is good practice going on at Jackson Carlaw, who mentioned some of the good practice in Motherwell. That is all very welcome, but that is despite the system at times not because of it. My own local authority in Westlothain has lost £89 million taken from it in the last six or seven years. It has only a budget of £400 million and it has lost £89 million. How, without fully funded support for the bill and funding to replace what we have already lost, can we provide the services that carers and the care for and the families need? Councils across Scotland are staring at more job losses and more service cuts, so the Scottish Government has to get real about the crisis in local government finance and stop pretending that it will somehow go away and we can give councils more responsibility while we have already given them less money. One vital area that people have mentioned is on in relation to breaks. Again, as the bill goes through, that debate will go on. I want to put on record my support for my local carers organisation, Carers of Westlothain. People have all mentioned theirs. They have just moved into their new premises and they helped thousands of carers across the county. We will, of course, support the bill, but, as it goes through its parliamentary process, it has to be strengthened and the financial issues must be resolved. As Johann Lamont said, a right is not a right if it is not enforceable. I wholeheartedly agree with that. I thank all members for their contribution. I think that it has been a very thoughtful debate. I very much agree with Jackson Carlaw. I think that it has been a very good debate, although I will try to be a little less technical in my summation than I was in my open remarks even in the 10 minutes or so that are available to me. I am unable to be able to respond to every point, so I apologise for that and in advance I will try to respond to as many as I can. Let me say at the outset that this Government's vision is for flourishing, optimistic and innovative Scotland and tackling inequalities and promoting equality of opportunity remain our major challenges. We want a Scotland where people have control of their lives and are empowered to make choices and Scotland's carers have to be involved in that. I am sure that that is a common aspiration for us all. Duncan McNeill in his thoughtful opening remarks made the point, albeit in different words, that caring can be life affirming, but it can also have a negative impact on some carers. Whatever the circumstances, carers should enjoy the same opportunities in life as people without caring responsibilities and should be able to achieve their full potential as citizens. Linda Fabiani gave the example that people who are carers might need to be supported to stay in employment. For example, the bill should work to better support carers maintaining a life alongside caring. Rhoda Grant spoke of the needs of individual carers always being different from another. I very much agree that that is why our approach here has to be person-centred. Rhoda Grant also made the fundamentally important point that carers must have the choice to care. I agree with that point as well. That is why, in any adult carers support plan and young carers statement, as well as identifying a carers personal outcomes and identifying needs information about the extent to which the carers are willing and able to provide care should be in there as well. We have introduced the carers Scotland bill because we want to accelerate the pace of change in building what has already been achieved. As I mentioned in my opening contribution, the carers bill introduced a number of provisions aimed at achieving the vision of supporting carers having a life alongside caring by extending their rights and law. I—briefly, yes— Do Anne Lamont have Ms Lamont's microphone, please? Specifically, on the point about carers having to have a life or being entitled to a life out with their caring role and the point about people falling out of work because of lack of flexibility. Can I ask what discussions you have had with the Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work Skills about the role of the fair work convention and whether there has been input on the needs of carers being recognised in any discussion about what work should look like and how people can be supported? No doubt that that convention will absolutely consider the role of carers. I am happy to explore that matter further with ministerial colleagues. The point that I am making here is that each carer is an individual human being and the assessment should be focused on their individual circumstances and on their support to maintain employment. As one of those assesses needs that, it should be contained in their assessment. I welcome the widespread support that is expressed today. I think that it is universal for the bill. A number of members have suggested that they need to change the bill to improve it. I would reflect on the fact that, in my time in this Parliament, I cannot remember a single bill that has ended up the same as when it was introduced. I have already committed to some changes that have, hopefully, demonstrated my willingness to continue to consider and accommodate further changes. Jackson Carlaw picks up my demeanor very correctly. I am open to listening to any amendment that is suggested and, if I agree with him, I think that it is effective that I will support him. Sandra White picked up on the issue of carer involvement and local carer strategies. Carer involvement is throughout the bill. There is a specific duty to take steps to involve carers when preparing and reviewing any local carer strategy. It is also in regulations under the Public Bodies Act. That is an absolutely fundamental point. Some members mentioned a concern about the impact of an increase in demand. I recognise that there are concerns about the increase in demand associated with the widening of the definition of carer joanne Lam in the net mill. However, the increase in demand will be accompanied by a more streamlined assessment process to develop the adult carer support plan, young carer statement and additional resources for local authorities. A company, the Bill Rodegrant, asked that there could be a role for the third sector carer centres and particularly to be involved in the assessment process. I should say that there is nothing in the bill to prevent that approach and we want to see innovation in this area. Duncan McNeill and others raised issues about local eligibility criteria. I should reassert that we will ensure that local eligibility criteria are informed by regulations. There have been national matters that have to steer that local eligibility criteria. I will work with carers organisations to that end in informing those regulations. Duncan McNeill said that if we continue with the approach as we have set out in the bill, the assessment of the efficacy of the approach will be important. Indeed, I think that Neil Findlay made the important point that was key. The key issue is that the approach has to be effective as I set out my response to the health and sport committee arrangements for monitoring and assessing implementation of the bill's provisions, including support provided to carers under local eligibility criteria, will be agreed with COSLA, individual local authorities, the national carers organisations and other key interests. Linda Fabiani and Richard Simpson raised the issue of emergency planning in the future. I agree that emergency planning in the future is very important to carers. That is why I am bringing forward an amendment at stage 2, so that information about emergency planning must be contained within the adult care support planner of the young carers state. I also recognise the importance of future planning, particularly for older carers and Sandra White who spoke about the needs of older carers as important to her contribution today. I intend to bring forward an amendment so that the information advice service must provide information about future planning as well as emergency planning as we move forward, how the information is shared with general practitioners. The point that Richard Simpson made is something that I will carefully consider as well. Johann Lamont raised issues around kinship carers. I should say that the provisions of the bill will apply to kinship carers. Bob Doris made the point about the funding that has been agreed with COSLA and is in place to support parity between kinship and foster carer allowances. Duncan McNeill, Sandra White and Rhoda Grant raised issues about short breaks. I can assure Duncan McNeill that the process for consultation and scrutiny of the regulations that we have put in place will be as important to me, as they will to him. I want us to get this right. Rhoda Grant asks what can constitute a short break. Again, we need to be flexible here. I think that short breaks can constitute a great many things. They can be different things to different people. I agree with the point that the committee made in its report that guidance regarding the provision of short breaks should make clear the importance of ensuring that short breaks are tailored to the needs of the individual carer. Graeme Dain raised the issue of the transition from the caring role when it ends. I know that this is an issue of importance to Mary Curie. I recognise that it can be difficult—even devastating—for an individual when their caring role comes to an end. The bill deliberately focuses on providing access to an adult carer support plan or young carer's statement in order to sustain the caring role. However, I am, of course, aware that some local carer centres continue to support carers after the caring role ends. Graeme Dain and Joanne Lamont spoke of the good work in their areas. In that regard, I will be very happy to explore and guidance on how good practice in this can be shared. Graeme Dain, Jim Hulme and Annette Milm raised the issue of limiting timescales for an adult carer support plan or young carer's statement and issues around why there is no national element. I agree that it is important for carers to have an indication of how long it may take to prepare an adult carer support plan or young carer's statement. That is why I have made provision to require each local authority to set out the intended timescales for preparing such as part of the local carer strategy. Here, because we should look at that further, I am very happy to consider anything that is brought forward at a certain stage. I am conscious that time is running out and that there are substantial financial questions that carers organisations want to answer. I hope that I have answered some of those substantive issues, but I am conscious of time, Ms Baillie and Dull, to get on with it as quickly as I can. Of course, we have moved in relation to the timescales for preparing plans for those who are caring for the terminally ill. We have set that out in response to the stage 1 report. I will not have time to respond to the issues about the named person and discharge, but I am happy to respond further at another time. Let me say on the financial issues, because I think that that is what Ms Baillie was driving at. Let me be clear that the estimates presented in the financial memorandum of the bill were informed by comprehensive information provided from local authorities. Today, taking into account the work of the finance group that I have established, there is no further evidence to suggest that the financial memorandum represents anything other than a robust assessment of the likely cost of the bill's provisions. We will, by the year 2021-22, provide £88 million, including £63 million for direct support to carers. That is a substantial commitment to carers across Scotland, as is the bill, and I commend it to the Parliament. Thank you. That concludes the debate on the Carers Scotland Bill. The next item of business is consideration of motion number 12890, in the name of John Swinney and the financial resolution for the Carers Scotland Bill. I call on Jamie Hepburn to move the motion. Question this motion at decision time. The next item of business is consideration of two parliamentary bill motions. I would ask Joe Fitzpatrick to move motion number 14731 on committee membership and motion number 14732 on substitution on committees. Thank you. The question on this motion will be put at decision time too. There are four questions to be put as a result of today's business. The first question is at motion number 14702, in the name of Jamie Hepburn. On the Carers Scotland Bill, be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed to. The next question is at motion number 12890, in the name of John Swinney on the financial resolution for the Carers Scotland Bill, be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed to. The next question is at motion number 14731, in the name of Joe Fitzpatrick on committee membership, be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed to. The next question is at motion number 14732, in the name of Joe Fitzpatrick on substitution on committees, be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed to. That concludes decision time and I close this meeting.


Welcome to this OKD working group briefing on deploying OKD4 on Azure brought to you by Joseph Meyer, who's been working with the working group testing on one of the many platforms. And he's going to walk us through today his lessons learned deploying the OKD4 beta release now on Azure.  Hello, everybody. My name is Joseph Meyer. I'm a cloud architect at Rode in Schwartz in Munich, Germany. My company is rather old. It's founded in 1933 and it's famous almost every physician or electronics engineer would know it because we are one of the leaders in making measurement equipment, oscilloscopes, signal analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators. We also make TV transmitters where we are a market leader. It could be that also in Canada, your TV comes from our transmitters. We also make body scanners. Maybe you have seen one on an airport. We also do lots of RF high frequency measurement and generation equipment. That's what we do. And my job since two years, almost three years, I'm working in a team which is working with digital transformation at Rode in Schwartz and our job is to build how we call it Rode in Schwartz cloud, which is based also on OKD or OpenShift. So we are responsible for making a great platform for our developers. And we are working with OKD since version three. I don't remember exactly when we started, but the last version came out in the end of the year 2018. Since then we are eagerly waiting for OKD. Why do we wait eagerly for that? Because we have more and more applications which require more modern Kubernetes version. As you know in version 3.11 is the last version in the version 3 line of software of OKD. It's Kubernetes 1.11. And yes, OKD 4 is starting with 1.17 as far as I know. And that's what a lot of applications require now that we have more than a Kubernetes version. What we also like are the great ops features of OKD 4 with the automatic updates. Not only for OKD, but also the underlying OS. We love that a lot because currently we have lots of work in patching hosts. Sometimes those things don't work as expected and you have lots of troubleshooting. Everything was fine for its time on OKD 3, but OKD 4 is more advanced and we want to have it. Also the great integration of tools like monitoring open up and text on and many much more is very good. It's a web UI. I'm a totally fanboy of that because I think it looks fantastic. And it's great not only for beginners, but also for experienced Kubernetes developers. It finds things very fast. Everything looks like it wasn't designed for Kubernetes. I think it's the best web UI nowadays for Kubernetes in the world. And also see a very promising last time I saw a PowerPoint presentation with more than 100 slides filled with nice cool features which are coming in the next releases. That's why we like to jump onto OKD 4. That's also the reason why I'm very engaged in getting that because I like to see it in my company. We have two versions or locations where we use OpenShift or OKD. This is at Rudi and Schwartz on-premises in Munich and also on Azure. We do some kind of hybrid approach. It means we build software on-premises and deploy it in the public cloud. That's why I'm working on the vSphere version of OKD 4 and also on the Azure version. The Azure version is kind of special because it was hard to get it running because there were several milestones which had to get achieved. The first problem was there was no Fedora Core OS version which worked out of the Fox on Azure. I have to say there was a network bug which required a reboot, sometimes even more. On the first boot before the virtual machine got an internet connection. I think not only Azure is affected by that but it was my problem. At first I reported every VM. I had no idea if the OpenShift control, the Kubernetes control plan was still running. It was not ideal. But since a few days, there is a test version of Fedora Core OS available where this bug seems to be fixed. I tried it out several times to deploy VMs with Fedora Core OS and it worked every time. This problem seems to be fixed. I'm very interested to get it in a released version soon. The second point on Azure is that the Fedora Core OS image is still not available on the Azure marketplace. Normally if you spawn a VM on Azure, if it is Ubuntu or CentOS, you can use images which are maintained by third parties on the Azure marketplace. Very easy to get that. In the case of Fedora Core OS because it's rather new, there is no image available in the marketplace. The problem was how to get it in an Azure resource group because the installer tries to download an image from the internet, tries to download a VHD file from the internet, extracts it and uploads it again to Azure. In my case, I have my internet connection here at home where I do the most work on OCD. It's very slow. I have download rates of 5 GB per second. Upload rate is far less. It means if I use the installer without modifications, then it timed out almost always after half an hour so I wasn't able to use it. What made it also complex is that Fedora Core OS image a few weeks ago had to be modified as there were modifications necessary with QEMU. Christian told me today that it should be fixed since a few weeks. I was surprised about that because I made a workaround with lots of love in the long weekend to get around that. But I think it's still necessary because I tried today to deploy OCD on Azure without modifications with the installer from GitHub and it didn't work. Maybe I can show Christian later what the problem is. Yes, I made a workaround for all these problems here because I wanted to test OCD on Azure and I wanted to do lots of manual interaction. All I want to show you in the next three slides is not necessary anymore if Fedora Core OS is available on the Azure marketplace. That's important to say. This modification from mine will never get it to master in the installer. It's just if you want to try out OCD on Azure. Here is a little picture. It should explain what situation we have. If Fedora Core OS would be on the Azure marketplace, you could create OCD only by calling this command OpenShift install create cluster because we don't have it now on the marketplace. I made a, yes, Vadim called it a hacky workaround. It is a hacky workaround. I'll be honest with that, but it helped me a lot. What does this workaround do? It creates a helper VM on Azure through the installer. This helper VM downloads the Fedora Core OS VHD file, extracts it and uploads it to the storage account in Azure. I use Terraform, which is included in the OpenShift installer to do that. My assumption was that the download and upload is much faster if I do it in a virtual machine, which is already on Azure. That is also the case. For that, I had to modify the installer. Yes, I also thought about different strategies to achieve the goal. I also thought that I could manually upload the extracted image to Azure blob storage. But the problem is still there that the upload is very slow in my location here. I modified the installer and set what I want to show in the next three slides. The core commands, which are necessary to run in this helper VM. The list is very short because I removed all the QEMO stuff from that. In principle, the script runs on the helper VM. I download a set copy. This is a tool from Microsoft for Azure, where you can upload software to the Azure Container blob storage. I download the compressed FCOS VHD file, extract it and upload it with Azure copy to the blob storage. On Azure, I get wonderful upload rates. It only takes a minute, I think, to do these tasks. Here at home, I never got it running. It runs forever. At first, you have to install Go somewhere. I think this is nothing special. Next, don't be frightened by the list here. It's also nothing very special. You have to clone the OpenShift installer. Check out the FCOS branch. Still, there is a wrong release image addressed in the installer. I think Wadi made a commit for that, but it hasn't landed. I have to replace the release 4.5 by 4.4. I think maybe tomorrow this is not necessary anymore. Then I cherry pick three commits from my repository where I've made the change for the installer. You build it and you copy it somewhere where you have access to. I copied the OpenShift installer to user slash bin. That's everything about the hack. This here should be very common. At first, you have to create a service principle on Azure. There is a very good documentation about that in the OpenShift documentation. I have pasted the link to the slides. This is very important. A service principle is something like a machine service account, which has some air work on it, which allows the OpenShift installer to create resources on Azure. You have to do this first. You get also an application ID, a secret. You need your tenant ID and your subscription ID. This is Azure terms. Everything used to Azure should know them. You will need them later. The next step is that you have to generate an SSH key pair with SSH key again. Afterwards, I create an OpenShift with OpenShift install, create install config. I create a config file, which is called installconfig.yaml. I create this before because I like to save it or later use it, so I don't have to ask all the questions the installer asks me for every time. I copy the installconfig away because that's some installer weirdness. I never understood why he does that. It deletes the installconfig.yaml. Why I don't know? It does delete it. That's why I save it away and copy it back later if I do the next test. What's also important before we install the cluster is that you have to set an environment variable, which overrides the default Fedora Core SOS image with the one Fedora Core S team has offered a few days ago, which contains the Azure network fix. You have to use that. If you don't use it, CVMs won't come up and you would have to restart CVMs a few times. They mean every VM, not only the bootstrap VM. With all these preparations, you can create a cluster. You should know this command. It takes around 10 minutes at first. The installer will create this VHD helper VM. I told you about that before. A few minutes later, the VHD file with 8GB will be in the storage account in Azure. After that, the installer proceeds. As usual, it creates an Azure VM image out of this VHD file, and all the VMs are created. After around 10 minutes, the bootstrap VM should start. After the master VMs show up in the Azure portal, you can start watching your OKD4 cluster coming to life by using OC CLI. I think it's very nice that the installer creates all the resources completely automatic. You don't have to do anything manually. Normally, if everything works, you have your cluster and can start working with it. That's very important. This is why I wrote this modification in the installer for. It should look like this. In the end, there is an FCOS VHD file in the Azure blob storage container. I always had to use the blob type page blob. Without that, Azure complains that for images it needs page blob. Not block blob. I saw in the sources that the FCOS branch and also the master branch have block blob in the source code. I don't understand why it works for the redhead core as a version of OpenShift installer. But I always had to add a page blob type in Terraform code. Maybe I misunderstand something, but for me it was possible. It was required. If you want to watch the installation, you have to get the OC CLI tool for version 4 of OKD. It's very important. Don't use the old OC command. If you only want to see ports or CSRs, this is also the old version would work. But if you want to get upgrades for your cluster, for your running cluster, the version 3 CLI, the OC wouldn't work. So I get it here for OKD4. I untar it and then I set an environment variable kubeconfig to the content of a file which the OpenShift installer created as it creates a cluster. It's in the auth kubeconfig file. That's important that OC can get a connection to the cluster because kubeconfig also certificates and the cluster location, the domain name is also included. What I normally do afterwards is to do a watch. So I see all ports in all namespaces each second. That helps me in seeing if there are any problems, if ports don't come up or restart. If I have the situation, I look in the logs, the ports, and if it looks strange, then I open a ticket. The last few days, weeks said it didn't happen. Everything was running as expected. Yes, but you should also have a look on that. If the ports in the namespace OpenShift machine API are already normally there should be created 3 worker VMs in Azure. After a while, CSRs for them are generated and a few seconds later normally they are joined to the cluster. If that happens, you are almost done with everything. The problem is, it's a little spoiler that sometimes the VMs come up in Azure but they don't do anything. It happened to me today two times that there were two worker VMs joining the cluster. The third one didn't join the cluster. I was able to SSH into them. I saw that they have an internet connection but POTMAN images didn't show any images. The journal, the system, the journal CTL didn't show any great activities. It was idling around. I don't understand where it comes from, maybe it's a new effect. We have to see in the live team if it still happens again. Afterwards, after around half an hour, you should be able to see the web UI. Here is a screenshot from a cluster I made two days ago. I can show that. Maybe I can show it before we go into a live action. I will switch the presentation to my browser. Here it is. Something has degraded already. I think it's the samples operator. Here we are on Azure. You can see it. Inside is no. It's our domain name. If I go into the settings, I see that I'm on this version. It's from two days ago. I think it's the beta version, I'm not sure. Here we have a degraded samples operator. It happens from time to time after an update that something is degraded. I don't know exactly what I can do against it if it is normal because upgrades, as far as I know, are not supported at the moment because the tests for upgrades have recently begun a few days ago. You can see it on the release page for OKD for Origin. I love this visualization here. I think that's the reason why upgrades sometimes are working, sometimes not, but normally the first installation always works and everything is green. This should be a proof that OKD can run. I also deployed Argo CD as a test. Everything is running. Here is it. We use Argo CD and GitOps for configuration of the cluster and also for configuration and automatic deployments of our applications. Maybe I will block up on that because we have had a few nice findings about it. Now I would like to try to create an Azure cluster. It will take a little bit of time. I will go through the slides in parallel so we don't lose too much time. I open an Azure Cloud Share here. Why do I have to do that? Because in my company the SSH port is blocked by the firewall and my modification of the OpenShift installer runs a script with SSH and it does not work from our own premises. That's why I'm here in the public cloud. You won't do VM, I prepared before. I don't want to show how I built the installer, the instructions and the presentation work. I have tried it several times. You can try it on your own if you like. I will go in a folder. Here is the OC2 already downloaded. I already compiled the OpenShift installer with my modifications. I check if it is not here. I will get my environment variable for the Fedora CoreS image. If you forget it, you will have problems later. I think I made a script for that. Here it is. The environment variable is still linked to Fedora CoreS with the Azure DNS network bug fix. I will create my third config. I have to answer a few questions. Here I am asked for a public key. It's useful for debugging. If you have a problem you can SSH into VMs to make trouble. I always create them. Here I select Azure. I already was logged in before. I entered my credentials. I'm pretty sure you know what to enter here. You have to enter the service principle information about the service principle you created with help of the OpenShift documentation. Then I'm searching for a good location to deploy my cluster. Where is Switzerland? I like Switzerland. It's rather forced. Here it is. The installer is already connected to Azure. You see it because it finds our DNS zone for our playground environment. I select it. It gives the cluster a name. The secret is, I think, optional. Press Enter. That's it. There is installed config. YAML was created by the installer. Here is everything I entered. The credentials are stored in the home directory in a hidden directory called Azure. There are the credentials. They are not in the installer, YAML. Now I can create a cluster. I hope I did not forget anything. Always brutal if you see that you forget something in the very start. If you already have all VMs spawned, that's very sad always. I hope I didn't forget anything. Now the infrastructure gets created by the installer in Azure. What you see here is I forgot to switch off my debug code. As I told, I have this hack which creates a helper VM and now Terraform, which is a part of the installer, creates a few resources and also starts with this helper VM. Go to Azure. Wait until here, some C4, OKD4. Resource group will pop up. It always takes a while. That does not mean that the installer is doing nothing. The Azure UI always takes a few seconds or sometimes minutes until it shows resources which were already created. We can see that there are some older tries of creating OKD4 cluster. Let's remember this two and three and a few seconds as they should pop up a new entry. Maybe I can go first. What I normally do if things go wrong, it's this stage it happens for Azure deployment from time to time.  You could enter at first if the master VMs don't come up or still for a long time in creating date. Then you should enter the bootstrap VM. The username is always core. The public key is the one you have created before with SSHKegan. The first thing what I do is do a curl on Google and check if I have an internet connection. This was a problem in the earlier versions of Fedoraco as that I got no answer with this command. It was obvious that I have no internet connection after I reboot Google Work. The next thing I do is I do a pseudo portman images if Fedoraco has downloaded something from the internet. After there are four or five images downloaded normally the bootstrap every VM restarts. I think it's because there are some in the images are some tools which are downloaded and written to the Fedoraco as partition. After reboots these tools are permanently inside of the Fedoraco as VM. Also cry control is not in CDM from the beginning. It needs a reboot and after that it's in the system. With this command, pseudo-journal control, no-pager-follow, you can see all locks, all system locks. Here if you have containers which make problems you can have a look in the locks. I forgot the command which shows the running containers. It's cry control ps-a. You can see the container it is. If it takes forever until the control plan comes up then you have a few options. The bootstrap VM has already a public IP. The master VMs are behind a load balancer. If you want to go into a master or worker VM you have to give them a public IP and also enable port 22 in the network security group. That's also a point where I think debugging could be improved if the private key for debugging purposes would be in the bootstrap VM because all VMs are in the same private network. It would be nice if I could jump to each VM, masters and workers from the bootstrap VM. But currently that's not possible. Maybe it already changed. I have not tried it since the last days but normally private key is not inside of the bootstrap VM which makes sense for security reasons but for debugging it's nice. In the next step we can see with OC get CSR if all masters are already approved and this is the situation where control plane should be there and you should see something with OC get POTS. You should see that lots of containers are creating. If the reasonable time are not three masters then you are lost. I don't know how to recover that. I always destroy and recreate the cluster in this case. I hope that it doesn't happen now during the installation which occurs in parallel. That's a good time to switch over. Let's see if there is a third. Yes, we have a third resource group in the Azure portal. I changed to it. Already lots of resources created. Okay, we have only one virtual machine. Let's have a look. Okay, it's still running. We have one virtual machine. This is this helper VM. I was talking about we have a storage account. The VM image is already created. It means at this point I could delete the helper VM. It's not automatically deleted. I saved this work. I don't want to see that. To show you the storage account. Here is this. Here is our uploaded Fedora Core's VHD file with the type page flop in the proper size. If you have an image created, it's a very good signal. It means that the format of the VHD file is correct. If it has not the correct format, you can create this image. Azure will complain about that. Let's refresh. We have bootstrap VM and three masters. At this moment, what I normally do in this phase is to go to the bootstrap VM. It's still creating. I'll leave the serial console where you can see if it's running what VM does. Currently, it's still creating complaints. I have to wait a little bit. The master VMs should also be in creating state. Maybe we have one which is a little bit faster than the others. Then you could see that Ignition is waiting for its configuration. We have to wait a little bit. That's normal. VM creation always takes a little bit. What is important? You should not use this URL to SSH into it because this is the IP address of the load balancer. Go into networking and take this IP address. This is the IP address of the virtual machine. We also see that the bootstrap VM already has port 22. The SSH port opened. It takes its time. Now I try again to go into the serial console. This time the bootstrap VM has started. Go back and forth to show you that. That's how it looks like. If the VM has started, you see here somewhere between the bootlocks is the Ignition code starting up. Here you will see Hi, I'm Fedora Ko as I have this IP address. This is a private IP address here in Azure. Now I will show you how to go into the VM. I was falling out of my VM here. I will enter my Ubuntu VM again. I will SSH into the bootstrap VM. I get its IP address. This is the point if you forgot to create a SSH IP here that the VM won't let you in already inside. What I saw, I don't know if it is severe or not. Normally it isn't that I have sometimes failed units here of services which didn't came up. I talked too much. This is the situation here where the bootstrap VM restarts. I said it before, it installs a few tools from the images it downloaded from the internet. It extracts the tools and puts it to a second partition. I think it's a way R-P-M-O-S-3 works. Reboot and then you have the tools inside of CVM. You have to wait for the restart. Completely normal. Nothing special about it. Boot sign if CVM reboots. That's only a little check. If it pulls images, this list will grow. To grow a lot. You can see how it grows. Lots of images. There's a command. You can say that you want to see a Q-Blad. Nothing special. Something should also work. A favorite command here. Because the API server already is answering. As far as I understood, the bootstrap VM starts a fake control plane and all the masters get their ignition configs from the bootstrap VM. They install some of the software. Reboot and join the cluster. If there are three master VMs, if they have joined the cluster, then the bootstrap VM stops working and gets deleted. That's the point where Kubernetes is running. The installation finalizes. The machine API operator starts new worker VMs and you are almost finished. I love this moment. Lots of pods are spawning. A few seconds. At first they are in pending. The next thing I do is that I don't want to disturb. I have to do something in the cloud shell. If I do not, it will close. I will check the dedicate signing requests. They are now a little bit. Yes, here is this view for the workers. Pots. You will have this view with the pending pods as long as the three masters have joined the cluster. They prepared that this can last a little bit. Of course, I do not see any CSRs. No worries about these errors, which are warnings, the Terraform feature. It tells me that there are some resources that are deprecated. There is already a version 2 of the Azure provider for Terraform. They already tried it out. It looks very promising. This information tells me that something gets deprecated. It is not an error. The installer says the API is up. It is waiting for a bootstrap to complete. Our CSRs come to life. It is always, for me, I do not know the insights of OKD very good, but this is for me the first indication that something tries to attend the cluster. It is a good signal because it means that all master VMs came up. Be visible now in OCGetModes. It is true. Wait, they are not ready. That's OK. I hope I don't get you sick through my switching here. Now comes the moment. I love it if everything here is inner-creating. It is this counter. It goes up to 5. Ports will explode. I was wondering on the last try, I did not see any open shift on Zool operator. I don't know where it is. If it comes later, the focus didn't come up. I was thinking that this is a problem. Maybe the open shift console operator is not present, but I'm not sure. Now it is exploding. Isn't that cool? Yes, come up. Console operator is still not there. If you want to see how some information about the health of the cluster operators, you can do this. Now you see a list of operators. If they are available, if they are progressing or if they are degraded, don't be worried if during the installation operators get degraded. They repair themselves. Sometimes I think there are dependencies between operators. Don't get confused if there is a degraded status set or true. What concerns me more is that there is still no Zool operator. I don't know what I missed here. Maybe it comes. Now I will check if machine API are present. Yes, this is true. This is very young. This means that the machine API controller will create your workers. They should appear in the portal. The portal was so young. It's a little bit. If the OEC CLI blocks or sends you this message, don't be concerned. It can be that this is a situation where the load balancer kicks the Bootstrap VM out of the cluster. Sometimes this is a result of that. Normally loads should be ready. I think this was the time where the Bootstrap VM left us. Sometimes also see API ports restart.  At least in my experience, it's normal. Check again if the workers come up. Yes, they are. There is a little bit of tension because it's not clear if they all get in running state and if they are in running state, it's not clear if they will join the cluster ever. As I said, a few days ago it worked but I'm not sure if I had luck or not. Wait a little bit. Creating does not always mean that the VM is not running yet. Creating can mean that the ignition is waiting for a configuration. Only if ignition has completed its configuration sets a point where the VM goes into running state. If ignition waits for its configuration file because also the workers need a configuration file which is served this time from the control plane from the masters through a service which's name is MachineConfigDemon As soon as they get this configuration they will configure themselves and they are in running state. Maybe we have no chance to see something in the serial console because Azure needs boot diagnostics to be enabled. Maybe it's also a good idea if I could configure that because the masters on the bootstrap node it's enabled on the workers it's not enabled for some reason. Only to be able to see which one I think we'll see. If it not works it's not bad. Let's see if they are running. The first one is running. The second one crossing my fingers. Two running VMs. I forgot to I don't understand why can't that's the time out of the Azure Cloud Shell to be such a nice feature to not get thrown out every time. You can ask the Azure folks for that. Yeah, I hope they see that they are very helpful guys and they love the Azure team. Only masters but maybe we have few workers. Wait for them. Takes a little bit. Yes, Diane. All three are running. Maybe it works. This is not a normal situation. I experienced since I use the fixed Fedora Core as a VM image. There is something. Something is still inside some effect. If they are running as I explained it doesn't mean that also something happens inside of the VM. Yeah, nice. This is also I will make a pause. Diane cut it out. We have to wait until the workers come. Okay, here was something. This always comes before something joins the cluster. There is always this node bootstrapper and here we have worker VM first one. Yeah, a few words about that. If you do, if you are watching how much pots are running, we will see that there are lots of pending pots. Yeah, at some times there are lots of pending pots because pots have node constraints. Node selectors on them are allowed to run on certain nodes. And that's the point when they get started. Yeah, if the workers come up. I still see no I don't see OpenShift console. I'm a little bit concerned. Don't know why. Yeah, maybe it comes later. Don't know. The second worker has attended the cluster. A little bit of a hiccup in the API server should be running. The first worker is ready. Second one getting ready. The third one, I hope, that we see it soon. Full strike. Yeah, we have three workers. Yes, that's nice. But I'm worried about the OpenShift console. I don't understand. That's completely new. The last time I installed it, it was there from the beginning of the setup. I saw the operator. I don't know where it is. No, it's not there. Maybe it comes if all workers are set up, but it's a little bit strange because all other operators were there from the beginning. I love this picture. Christian and Diane, I love presentations that work and have a result. I have a strong feeling that this presentation will have a running web UI at the end. Oh, it's not here. It's missing. Oh, my God. Maybe it's missing from the release payload somehow. That would be weird, but it should be in that view as well. The operator is missing. I think that's the point. Can I check that somehow? Yeah, it looks like the namespace doesn't even exist. I'm not sure. I don't have a quick fix. Everything else. But I'm prepared. I have a running cluster here. I would say I make a little pause. I don't have a route, but I can get the route with this command. Needs the OpenShift console namespace for that. This is the name of the URL where you can open the web UI of OKDWiz. And I have prepared a login because there is a problem with the installation. I switched to a former installation of OKDWiz and I entered the console URL and I'm asked for a first-time login. Username and password. The username is kube-admin. The password was generated by the installer at the very beginning of the installation process. It's here in OS in the file kube-admin-password. Take that and copy-paste it in my web console. Yes. And I'm in. So this is the web console of OKDWiz. We see here there is a one degraded operator. I think it's the OpenShift sample operator. And Christian told me that there is already a fixing preparation for that. And yeah, normally everything is green. Maybe there are if you update or upgrade the cluster with this OCADM upgrade command, I'll try to find it in select. Some of this should do the job. There's something with warning. If you upgrade a running cluster with this command here, I think it's also in the documentation. Then it can be currently in the beta that you get a degraded operators. But I think, as I explained before, it's in this phase of the project where upgrades are, yeah, whereas they began, the team began to start a test upgrade. It's normal that things sometimes get degraded. And yeah, that's it for the installation process. I would switch back to the presentation. I have a few slides left. Yes. But I'm happy to get it running on Azure. Yeah, it works good. I also tried. I prepared something in advance. I tried out storage. Where is my storage? Storage classes manage premium. It's Azure disk, the default storage. Lots of Kubernetes distributions. And I think I have some storage test. I created a PVC assistant volume claim. And it is bound. It created a persistent volume. There's something special. I don't understand if it is a wanted feature that if you create a PVC set, it will only bind to a persistent volume if it is used. So I had to create a test. I was using this PVC and where is it? Volume, mount volume. Yes, that's the name. Joseph test is the name of my PVC. And as soon as I start this part, which is mounting this persistent volume, this PVC, the persistent volume was created. And also see that to change the resource group for that. This is my Azure disk. Size was one gigabyte. Also here, the requested size was a gigabyte and you see that we have a disk with a gigabyte premium SSD for sure. I hope I can change that because this is the most expensive disk on Azure. Yeah, maybe it's not so smart to have the most expensive disk as a default storage class, but it's a detail. I'm back to the slides. I stopped here, I think on the slide, if something goes wrong, where I showed you typical procedures you can do if something goes wrong or is not as expected. On the second slide, I mentioned the effect. I stumbled over a few times since a few days that even if the VMs are started and are configured by ignition and have an internet connection, let's say, don't pull image from the internet. Maybe my impression is I don't see anything in the logs here. I don't see that some tubelet script is restarting all the time. Maybe something is, there is a race condition, I don't know. But it seems that it does not run successfully. It doesn't pull ports and this means it's, yeah, this VM is dead. I don't know a procedure how to get it back to life, but I think this will clarify in the next time. If the masters are affected by this effect I think you have not much chance but to recreate the cluster, to delete it and to create a new one. If a worker is affected, I got it working one times. If I deleted the worker in the Azure portal then the machine API operator complains about that he doesn't find the VM again then I deleted a machine customer resource, that's the name for VMs in OKD. I deleted it and I exported as a configuration from a working machine customer resource for a working VM and created a new machine from that and I did this and a new worker VM was created by the operator and everything worked afterwards. Yeah, it's some kind of workaround if you stumble over this effect and yeah, but it must be observed. I don't know if it's special for Azure of course or not just to have it mentioned. Finally, I'd like to recap what we talked about. Yes, installation of OKD4 currently is possible in Azure. Even it takes sometimes a few attempts but things get smoother and smoother it's I see in the future very optimistic. I think it's nothing is unsolvable unsolvable unsolvable here. Sorry. My hack I implemented is not necessary anymore if it or a course image is available on the Azure marketplace. But I would it would be I would be sad if people have to wait until that because I asked in the community when it will be available and so was said as it can't give a schedule about that but yeah, so surprised us a lot in the in the last month said can get very fast. Sometimes there still are effects during the installation that must be observed OKD if it is installed it seems to run stable. And yeah, for sure it's a lot of fun to work with I love it a lot. I can really say and my team also always loves about me that I'm so a fanboy about the software but yeah, it's so carefully crafted piece of software. I love it and yeah hail to Redhead and community for that. Thanks to Christian Dusty and many others for your support I'm always asking lots of questions in my ticket. Sometimes my tickets are not real problems but based on inexperience from my side but yeah people are always friendly and help if they can. That's very nice very nice community. I love it. Yeah, here is a page. I try to put lots of stuff on that because I was asked by the yen if something could be improved and I got a few answers. Not only for the Azure installation it's the least on this list. Yeah, let's start. Fedora Core is for sure should get on the Azure marketplace so that no hacks are necessary anymore. Biggest pain point in OKD 3 was that we use image scanners which are reporting vulnerabilities also on containers which are running. This software looks for images where there are running containers and because the images for OKD 3 were rather old sometimes we got lots of problem reports and we had to patch the OKD images on our own because yeah there were all types known newer ones and this procedure is very very bad for us because nobody enjoys in this moment that the images or the containers based on this images run properly. If it's possible I don't know if it's possible it would be great to have OKD 4 images which are rebuilt regularly not only if there are code updates but also if there are commits. I understand that everything is driven by a commit to a github but in the case that image has no updates it would get no there would be no new image for that where you could do a YAM update which injures that you get hot fixes on the image. It would be absolutely great if there would be updated images. This would be a big advantage over OKD 3 where we suffered a lot in the last months on custom patched images. Yeah Gluster FS was the next point it was very unstable in OKD 3 we moved it from the cluster but as far as I understand OKD 4 is a completely new storage solution which is proposed I think it's based on Seth and Rook it's very nice. Then we have one LDAP sync creates a lot of traffic on our active directory servers in OKD 3 because we have nested group queries and the colleagues asked me to tell that maybe it's better caching algorithms for users and groups to reduce the load on active directory servers maybe it's something we don't know about OKD 4 already available the logging stack in OKD 3 was rather old Elastic search was I think it's version 5 currently we have I think Elastic 7 or 8 don't understand why there is no newer version maybe because it's decoupled from OKD that would be okay but currently it's not possible by the way to install logging stack in the documentation there is a section about how you can install it as far as I remember it should be taken out of the operator hub but there is no logging solution currently in the operator hub it seems as if it was filtered out during the procedure as only the community operators got filtered out for OKD formerly there were also redhead projects present now they are not anymore present next point documentation about open shifts for OKD's internal architecture would be nice as I understand that it's planned after OKD is GA that the community is asked to work intensely on OKD that's the point where it's absolutely necessary in my opinion to have more architecture docs about let's say purpose of operators diagrams how things play together but I think it's nothing new it will come I'm absolutely sure but it's also necessary if you want to have the community with you in the development more debugging features would be nice during my presentation I mentioned a few one maybe it's possible to have private keys for masters and workers in the bootstrap so if things go wrong that I don't have to get them public IP first that's if you do that over and over it's can waste your time with that and I think that's it for the moment what we would like to be improved in OKD here is my last slide some links about valuable information sources most important information source in my opinion where I got the most feedback for development is the select channel open shift dash def in the Kubernetes workspace there is a situation that I ask something and normally takes a few minutes and someone answers even my colleagues which they always open the GitHub issues and were wondering sometimes but there is no response as colleagues were absolutely amazed about the response times on Slack this is where the great community shows its power because you always get valuable information and there is always a nice atmosphere in this chat then we have the OKD open shift link here you should put your issues inside here not in open shift installer or the other repositories because if things maybe come the problems come from misunderstanding OKD it can be solved here and we don't bother the developers about that so please open your issues here then we have the original release page where all new releases are announced and you see a very cool change lock it allows the presentation on this page it's so completely different to what we are used to in former versions it's absolutely great I can absolutely encourage you to visit this page I love it I could watch it all the night because there is it's cool next we have the OKD working group page there you have information about the OKD working groups it occurs b-weekly normally on I think Tuesday evening in German time there is also a calendar for that you can follow this link and you will get the entry in your calendar automatically we have the open shift documentation a few days ago also the OKD preview documentation got released so you also should visit it you have corrections if you find some errors you can I missed sorry I forgot the link there is also repository under open shift open shift dash docs I think you can open the pull request for your documentation box there don't forget to put the OKD in the records in the title so the documentation people can filter out what's special for what has to be separated from open shift or OKD and the last one there are two repos we are currently in this phase the most differences between open shift and OKD are as far as understood this is the open shift install and open shift machine configurator these two projects have a heavy dependency on feed order queries or redhead queries and that's why the OKD guys are mostly working there they do something special for specially for OKD yes this is the end of my presentation about how to install OKD 4.4 on Azure thanks for your attention I hope you learned a little bit and yes maybe we see each other in select channel I would love to see you there goodbye thank you so much Joseph we're taking the time to do this you're welcome there's always something that goes wrong I'm very curious to figure out what it is about the console operator that didn't work but I don't have any tips or tricks for figuring that one out yes that's a stress test


Welcome back to Mike's and Mustangs. I'm your host him. I play football here at Stevenson, and I'm also your host Kylie I play women's soccer. All right, let's dive into the athletics update Your Mac champions men's ice hockey extend their winning streak to eight games after wins versus Newman on Friday and Saturday Score is being five to two and six three Congratulations. Woman's basketball took down the former number two team in the conference York last Wednesday Thanks to a 29-point performance by juniors Emery Giselskis Men's volleyball women's basketball men's basketball Women's lacrosse and men's ice hockey are all homeless Friday and Saturday visit go mustangsports.com to find more information How was your winter break? It was great Got to hang out with the fam Christmas and New Year's and Yeah, how was your winter break my winter break was good. I went to Aruba for a week with the fam nice nice What'd you do in Aruba? We did a lot of things we went a TVing we went on snorkeling on a boat There were pigs snorkeling.  Oh, okay. Yeah, that's yep I knew that that was a test. It's making sure you weren't lying about going to Aruba Good stuff. Okay. Is there anything you're looking forward to this coming semester? Uh Good grades. Let's go with good grades It's time for us to Be on the Mac honors list again again, so excited about that. Do you have any goals for this semester? Good grades obviously there we go. Um get through my spring soccer season healthy. Let's go Yeah, that's it good stuff. All right Well, I think it's time to introduce the man. I need no introduction. Well, I'll do it anyway So this man is a 22 23 indoor or region player and shot put and weight throw 2023 outdoor all Mac second team and shot put and discus 2023 Mac field athlete of the year and drumroll This week's field athlete of the week Nate Williams Yeah, the man the myth of legend mr. Records himself. What's going on there? Nothing much, nothing much. How we doing good good good got anything on the mind that you want to kind of Share with the group today. Um Well, I'm going off of a pretty good meet Achieve like one of my goals. So I all season I've been trying to put together what's called a series So for those who don't know track and field you get three throws in like a prelims and if the top nine get three more throws and I was ranked first come into the meet so I was okay I have six throws hopefully and I was just trying to put together like a good series like throw after throw like They're consistent. They're good like, you know, and I finally did that so I'm pretty proud of myself for that love that so How did you get into throwing? So I started fresh me up high school Played football with my brother. He's a year older than me We had this friend Who did indoor track and was like we did basketball together to like a recreational league and we were at practice one day He was like we're talking to his mom He was a year like so-and-so is doing outdoor track, but you guys should try it and me and my brother Okay, can keep us in shape of football, you know, I can throw he can run and then I really found a passion for it And I was just like this is my sport. Did you try the track part of track and field? So every year no matter what like we had to do Some sort of tryouts so I did like a 100 to 200 and 300 it was I never did a 400 but I was up to a 300 and I Tried it, but I really like it. Okay. I like it so as far as football and track and field goes okay in high school, uh-huh Where was your goals? Was it to get to the NFL or was it to make the Olympic team? What we're doing? Um, so I Didn't start playing football until freshman year of high school. Okay, so I was kind of new to it So I was okay, you know, I can grow like in sport and I was just see where it take me, right? Cuz It was just like oh like my dad was like, you know, you want to play football basketball like just do it, right? So I was I'm just doing it and then see where it took me and then Started getting really good at track and football was still it was getting I was progressing just I was progressing more at track So I was like, I might as well stick with track, you know, try to go somewhere for that All right, I like that. I think going from track and field well from football to track and field You go from a team sport to like an individual kind of thing. What's the difference? So I can't say like one more than another because like the team feeling of football like I made Pretty much all of my friends in high school through that way and like, you know branched out to their friends So like that so it's like the community field of being on a team is just great But like you can have that same feeling which I can feel it is just different because you don't always practice together But you see them at meets, you know, and like I'm fortunate enough to room with some teammates So I you know, I stay in touch with them that way, but It also feels great to like know that you accomplish something like just like for yourself and like by yourself kind of so I Guess I Don't know they're just different, but both good. I like it. I like it So as far as that individual sport goes is it more pressure when you're out there by yourself? Or when you're out there with a team when you have 10 other guys on the field that's depending on Nate to do his job Which one is more pressure? I actually like that question. That was a good question because I also feel like on the football team like Yeah, you have to do your job, but they also do have to do their job. So it's like you can rely on them They can rely on you, but When you're it's just you If you mess up, it's on you like it's like and I feel like that's a little deeper So like I feel like it's great to win as a team So I would say like the pressure is on doing bad like just by yourself. Well, I Don't know because your teammates that could be a situation where your teammates blame you for something And that's more pressure. So it's true That's true. I think the biggest question when it comes to mr. Records himself When did you realize that you're pretty good at the sport? um Had to be junior year of high school. I was going decently. Well, I was like, okay You know, I thought about like states like because the the better you get like the more opportunities open up for you And you know, I was like, okay, like I can go to states. I went to states Senior year was kind of if you because of covet and then I was like, you know But I I can still go somewhere. I was looking at a d2 school But like they weren't really the best and I was okay, you know, there's more out there. And then I think covet kind of messed up how I was gonna recruited that But I was like Stevenson is like a good school. I'll go there and I was dominate, right? First of all, I was completely humbled like I got humbled like I was like I realized okay, like I'm not like the top dog. I thought I was it's not to put in the work to get there, right? and then College it was sophomore year, right? I broke my first record I went to reasonals and after reasonals my brother called me and he was like, yo, like did you go to natty's? Like did you make natty's? I was like natty's like what is natty's right? He was like nationals. Did you go to that? Like are you going to nationals? I was like, I don't I don't know I don't think so and like that just like I expanded my mind about okay. There's more out there, right? And so junior year last year. I was like, you know, let's go to nationals, you know Let's see how high we can get. I love that. It was just from there Cool. Cool. Cool. Do you have a specific throwing coach on the track team? Yeah.  Like most coaches would have not put me in that event again But he gave me another chance. Like I finally got up there. That's my best event So how many other throwers are on the team? So right now we have a couple of transfers coming in They're trying to get their stuff their stuff situated with like compliance stuff like that But we're pretty stacked on the girls side. I think we have like Like six seven I know you've had a few of these now, but how does it feel to be this week's field athlete of the week? um From being honest, I actually didn't know I got it until you announced it But Feels pretty good. I know it feels good to get recognized for something you do good. Um It feels good nice and you were at the Pen relays recently. Uh, so it was just a pen stay open the next open. Yeah, nice And you were nobody knows this. I know this but you were the only d3 player at the meet Yeah, how does how does that feel your rep in d3? Um I don't know. It just felt like I kind of belong there Like I could I saw myself as like part of the competition not just like there's heavy competition there like no I can compete with these guys. Um, it was just like a great experience. I want like a lot of more people to experience that just because Well, it's like kind of like a mind-opening thing like your your mind gets expanded a little bit like there's more out there Um, it was a great guy to see an olympian compete, which was pretty cool. Um Just a great environment nice I know one thing I always think about once I'm like later in the season and like I see a bit more Success, I'm always like what did not do week one that I'm doing down in week eight So like from point a to now What can you say like, okay? I wasn't doing this early on but I learned through the process like this is what I'm good at This is what I need to work on like how does that process go for you? And what what are those things? I think it's just like new information Because we're throwing it's always like a technical aspect like a strength aspect So as you get strength you have to kind of tweak your technique to fit your strength. Okay Um, so it's just like learning what like the sweet spot is for both those that you can reach your potential. Yep I like that okay Okay, so what are some of your goals as you continue through this indoor season and into outdoors? um let's see So I said goals for myself like Kind of like number wise. Yeah, so like if I if I hit these I know like I'll be like And also like set them kind of higher. So if I don't achieve them, I'll be okay At least I like hit like this number when that could have been actually my goal so I don't know if you guys understand the numbers Hit us with it So in weight throw I'm at 20 meters right now with like 20 and a half I want to see if I can get as far into the 21s as possible Right, I feel like that would be like that really solid like solidified like my spot in the nation And see what I can hit on nationals um in shot put Maybe I'm at 16 like low 16 right now I want to see if I can get into like the mid 17s Okay, just by the end of this season and that way for outdoor I know like it should be like really like good and um I want to see if I can so there's a guy I'm second in the nation for weight throw and the top spot. I met him last year at National both indoor and outdoor. He's a cool guy But I want to see if I can give him a scare a little bit Okay, because like he has the d3 national record for weight throw. Nice And he's he almost has it in a shot put two But I want to see if I can scare him like just a little bit. I don't know I'm there, you know There you go. I like that Is there a difference between throwing indoor and outdoor those two seasons? Yeah, so in indoor, um, it's Kind of like there's there's mainly like wooden circles or like like polished concrete for outdoors Basically like the same as like a sidewalk So like the the circles indoor kind of faster. Okay, and then the events are a little different like an indoor shot is like Just like a hard like like shell material where outdoors is metal and then a weight throw Is It's like a really heavy ball on like a chain and like there's like a handle to it But it's like shorter and hammer throw is like the outdoor version of that where it's like longer It weighs a little less so it goes really far. Okay like further So people's outdoors numbers are usually better. Yeah, that's for like track overall. Okay. They say outdoors better Nice. Do you have any advice for some of the young athletes coming up? um It's probably said like too much, but it's true Like you just gotta put the work in like you gotta want it for yourself like find something That you're very passionate about and just want it for yourself and like just keep working at it Like you're gonna fail But make sure you learn something from those years. I love that I can attest to that as well I see Nate out here all the time. It can be zero degrees. He has like a short sleeve shirt on and he's Throwing something out there. It's working. So I can't be restricted. Hey, I got it.  Um We're gonna move on to the next thing. Um, yeah My question is what is the funniest story that you have from a meet? I gotta think about this one. Um, let's see. Let's see Funny story There's so many it's just me to like such a good time. Um I gotta tell the story Don't think about one. We gotta know it Um Hmm I'm having a hard time thinking when let me think let me think It's just like the atmosphere around me just so Fine Maybe you fresh me a year, um, just like the team we had It was really good and My brother was on the team Um Just like the jokes that they were saying I can't remember them all Okay, cool. All right, so Mr. Records himself, okay Where we are assuming that there's some type of prep or some type of pregame Thing that you got going on. Do you have any superstitions and things you do before every meet? Do you like gotta do to perform? Um My coach definitely has uh some but Just like the user like I lay all my stuff out like I'll put like my because I wear like an undershirt under my jersey the undershirt the jersey the shangles were on top Like the jacket I prep that put that in one pile and I do like the lower bite stuff. Yep, put that in one pile um I wear like the same undershirt. Obviously I wash it, but it's just I wear that like every meet. Okay Um, is that a little bit of superstition? Yeah, or okay, and I'll always have to sleep before the meet like on the way up there No matter if it's like at like gout you're like tell us and I gotta sleep before I go there. I feel that Okay, is there a specific playlist you always got to throw on or no, it's whatever I'm feeling. Okay.  Um, honestly to me whatever music gets me locked in at the moment Okay, because like some people can throw like when they're angry like I see some people like like smack them Like people will smack the person on their back. They'll go through. I can't do that I cannot do that or like they'll yell when they throw. I can't do that Okay, I like that Good, okay, we're gonna play a game. Okay Okay, so we're gonna run through a list of different topics, but it's gonna be most likely to and then you pick someone On your team. Okay. Okay. It could be you too. All right. Okay for the first one. Who would be most likely to become president? Um on the team now Hmm honestly Off the top of my head. I could say jackson hall seems like a really good potential president Okay Um, the next one is become famous It's definitely jai a roommate jai. Uh, he like basically halfway there It's a good take or can I add another one to that? Mm-hmm Jeremiah battle. Okay. He basically already takes like famous like The producer himself. Yeah, I was gonna say he does the film stuff um Who would be most likely to accidentally throw the shot putt backwards? I actually did that in uh high school I'm gonna hit this girl. I was like, I didn't hit her. I didn't hit her, but it was kind of close. So probably me Let's go. Um Bring snacks for the team but eat them all before the meat starts Probably john will make Yeah, definitely Um show up to practice late um Is it like my practice like any practice Still baby probably john again Accidentally wear their shirt and set out all day Probably john again John just wrecking him up. I feel like I feel like hayden schindler would do that too But he would notice and he would just keep it. Okay. Like he would intentionally like John just wouldn't that he wouldn't even realize. Okay. I think he done that before Okay, um, and then laugh at their own jokes before anyone else does That sound I don't have before a little bit Actually, I lied. There's one more. Okay, this one's serious Who would get arrested and why? Let me think here. Hmm. Who would get arrested and why? If there's no why you don't have to say it, but It's a great question. I might have to say my other roommate dakota mayfield. Oh, yeah The why I feel like it would be like Because you like to play it fire sometimes. Okay And so I feel like Not not that he was sending a fire is just like he would be like, oh like why send like why is he playing a fire? Yeah, I didn't I didn't think bad. That's a valid reason He's a mad scientist Um, I hate to talk about this right now. You took a big L Here at the bank not too long ago fell to the chiefs So we now know that the chiefs and 49ers are going to be Participating in the Super Bowl. Who are you taking Nate? Huh See, I feel like me and jar was talking about this earlier That they're trying to make pat my home. It's like the next time brady So I feel like You know the script is set up that the chiefs going with Now I'm personally a cowboy's fan. Okay, but I was rooting for the Ravens Okay, but now that We lost Who are you rooting for the niners or the chiefs? I don't really like 49ers as many times they take us out to play So I'm gonna have to say the chiefs. All right, so that means you're rooting for the chiefs Yeah All right, well me personally, I'm just gonna go with the niners because I'm not a part of the swift game It's not my thing Kylie who are you taking in Super Bowl? I honestly don't keep up like at all. I know nothing about football except like touchdowns It's all the matters so I don't want to say the chiefs. Um The whole like Taylor swiss thing. That's the chiefs, right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah 49ers. There you go. Yeah That's just getting really old. Do the one. Yeah, I agree with that So we'll play this back when we see uh rock pretty holding up the lombardi. I think we'll see Don't know The starting quarterback for the 49ers, okay, mr. Irrelevant himself becoming relevant Noted All right Okay Thanks everyone for tuning in and thank you name for joining us. Of course. Thank you guys for having me Yes, sir continues to support your steveson athletes this weekend at our various home events Uh, make sure to follow go mustang sports on instagram threads x and tiktok Uh, subscribe to steveson athletics youtube channel and be on the lookout for more microsoft mustangs coming your way


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Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Snolly. Welcome to a new vlog. It is Sunday and we're gonna have a fun day of just like shopping. We wanna go to a plant store to get a plant for this room since I have a new couch. We just kinda wanna like finish this room off. Still need to look for art though, just realized that. But let's do a quick outfit of the day before we head out the door. My hair's kinda gross today. I kinda like re-curled it and there's just like so much product in it. So it's a little bit gross. But first, jewelry is from Goriana. Except for my earrings, those are Amazon. But bracelets and necklaces are Goriana. This top is from Glassons. I don't know how to pronounce it but that's how I'm pronouncing it for now. It is so cute. It is just like a ribbed tank and it's a really good quality. Literally like I saw a similar one at Eritzia, obviously a little bit more expensive. But I'll link it down below, I'll link everything. And then the shorts are from Topshop. I got it at Nordstrom but they are literally the most perfect fit. It's like an A-line short and I'm obsessed with these shorts and pretty affordable for our jean shorts, honestly. And then we have my furry berks that I showed you guys in the last YouTube video or vlog, hopefully I put that up. It was kind of like a rambly vlog and it was just like weird but I kinda wanted to just like chat with you guys. So hopefully you guys enjoyed it. But yeah, love these things. What kind of plant do you wanna get? Oh, that's cool. What do I like? Cacti's? I want one so the planter's outside. Hydrangeas? Yeah, I guess. I want to grow some hydrangeas on her back porch. I don't know if they're gonna do well cause it's gonna be winter soon, hopefully soon. So this is a plant in the fall.  Sophie, why do you look like that?  I kinda want a big cactus for this room but I feel like that would be very expensive, so. Look at all these cactus, cacti.  This is so cool. Yeah. Look at the cactus though. The cacti, I keep calling cactus. And those are pretty. So these cost more than those. Maybe I'm not aware. I'm definitely gonna get one of those. I'm so excited.  Look at these. Sparkling ones. Oh, I don't like this one. It's like a monster. I may get that one. You wanna get this one? Maybe. For your night standing temper. I don't know, I'm gonna put it now. What color is it? It's very Indian. Yeah, they're really very... I think we found a winner. Yeah, wait, that's a lot of green. Not a lot of pink. So my cactus is getting repotted over there. But I was able to choose like a topping color. I don't know what you called it. I can't remember, but we chose this one. There's even like all these other colors. But it looks so good guys. I'm so excited. She's beautiful and she's coming home with us. Ryan put the flowers on the balcony and they look so cute and pretty. And now we're taking a break before we figure out the cactus situation. I also need to clean the guest room. I have some random boxes in like the corner that I want the cactus to go in. So, gonna have to clean that first but I still have not eaten for today. Like we woke up so late. It is almost 2 p.m. and I have not eaten. That should be illegal. I'm gonna make myself a banana milkshake because that just sounds really good. Got my single serving Vitamix cup and I'm gonna be using two bananas. I don't know why I'm telling you guys how to make a banana smoothie because it's literally the easiest thing, but it's okay. I'm just gonna show you guys in case, you know, you don't know about this but it's just so good. I kind of want to make avocado toast too. That kind of sounds good but I don't know if Ryan, do you want to eat out or what? Maybe we should eat out later today. The sushi sounds so good right now. Then you put milk in it and ice and bam, you got a banana smoothie. Yesterday we had a fun day out on the town. I went to a lucky brand and like a Tequila company event. I don't know how to pronounce it. It's like Codeego. I don't know if I'm saying that right. But yeah, we went to that event and then we got Drunky, which was kind of fun. And then we went to like Buford's and then we went to Terry Blacks. So we Uber to Terry Blacks but then obviously the line was like outrageous. Honestly, I don't know why we even tried to go to Terry Blacks on a Saturday at like literally 7.30. But then we just went to El Alma which was like the place right next door that I've actually been. It's like a Mexican restaurant. We got like queso fundito and I got like ceviche, which was so good. Yeah, that was an expensive day. And I think in the last vlog I said that I told Ryan we should like eat in so that we can save money for the beach vacation. We can eat out on the beach vacation. But yeah, yesterday was not saving money. So, okay. Let's see if I need to add more milk. Yum. No, I think it's perfect. The domain, I think I'm gonna start at Nordstrom because I just have like so much to look at, you know? Upstairs always has like really good active wear. And honestly, I wanted to go to Al. I think we need to go to South Congress.  Monday. But Ryan wanted to get like a cowboy hat for ACL. So maybe we'll go to Allen's. But if they close early, then one weekday because that's closer to home. Domain, if you guys don't know is like north of Austin. So that this was about like 22 minutes away from our house. But other than that, we don't really go anywhere else. Like we just stay in Austin. We don't really go to like Round Rock or Fleurville or at least really even South Austin. Buy anything and I'm kind of sad because like I wanted to get ACL but I did get some inspo for ACL.  So if I end up like not ever wearing it again, like it's totally fine because I think it was like under $15. So I'm gonna do that one day. Maybe like an all-white outfit, Air Force One's kind of deal and then still decided for the rest of the days. But I'm gonna do like a country outfit one of the days I feel like I said that. But now we're back home with Sophie and I love her so much. A little backstory on Sophie. She was actually her family dog. I got her like sophomore year of high school, which is actually the year that me and Ryan started dating. So she was like a puppy and she looked a lot different than this. Rookies are so weird. They're like brown and black when they were puppies and then they turn out to be like this gray, gray weird color. I mean, she's super cute. But anyways, she had an underbite for a really, really long time and they started falling out and shit because they were like rotting because they were outside of her teeth. So basically like they said that like the air was just like kind of like rotting them. So we had to get her teeth pulled out. I wanna say it was like, I kinda wanna say it was last year or maybe two years ago, but she's so much cuter now.  And honestly, I saw like two people. I think like one influencer and one like random person.   I just can't imagine the day. I wouldn't even say it. She loves Ryan more than me, which honestly hurts because she was my freaking dog. You know, Sophie? Are you gonna be like that? Wait, right there? Yeah, yay. Oh yeah, damn. We've all like such a tall one and it's still not that tall. Dang it. Maybe I need to get a better stand. Here's the grand reveal. I'm obsessed with this cactus. I'm so freaking happy I got it. This stool though, I think I might have to like switch that out because it looks like it's like gonna fall over because this is kind of like soft in there.  I'm gonna take a look on Amazon and see if there's anything that would be perfect for this planter, but holy crap, it looks so good guys. And it's just like the perfect pop of color. Now I just need to find some like art or like some chalk skis. I don't know if I want like shelves above it. Need to figure it out, but I do wanna figure it out like soon so I can do my apartment tour and get that up for you guys. But I'm just so excited about this and at the East Austin Seculent Place, they like put in these rocks. I'm not sure if these are crystals. Please comment down below if you guys know if these are crystals. Cause I saw they sold them, but I doubt they would have given me free crystals. So I don't know, I feel like they're just rocks, but I think they look so good. Oh my God. If you don't want to get over that cactus guys, I'm so excited about it, but I have two Amazon packages that I just thought I would open up on camera. I'm obsessed with this liquid IV stuff. Like I've heard about it for so long and it is on the pricier side. So I think that's probably why I never really tried it, but my sister sent some with my mom when she came to like help me with recovery and stuff. And I loved it. Oh my God. It was like this salty kind of like sweet drink. I don't know. And obviously it makes you feel so good. And so I had to buy more. I got them on Amazon and I'll link everything below, but yeah, it's like 14 packets. And I want to say it was like $24. So like maybe $2 a packet, which I guess it's not bad, but I'm going to be like really greedy with them. They were just so good during like post surgery. Okay, next thing. I don't know why this like bottle is all damaged, but this is bio oil. This is what they recommended me to put on my scars to help the scars heal. So it says helps improve the appearance of scars and stretch marks. And someone on my Instagram said that this worked wonders for them. So I'm really just excited to see these scars like disappear. Please, please God. I'm really hoping that they get better because it really is just like kind of weird to see. Like when I'm naked, like about to shower and I look in a mirror and I'm like, it's not, it's not a pretty sight. And it's just weird to see it on my body because that's not like what my body was, you know? Like it's definitely taking some adjusting to in my mind.  So yeah, overall though, I know a lot of people have been asking me how I'm feeling like after surgery. I'm feeling really like totally fine. Even the doctor said that the breast reduction surgery isn't as bad recovery as like most other surgeries. So I was really glad to hear that. Other than that, like I just feel really stiff sometimes. Like it's weird. Sometimes I don't really want to like stretch my back out because it feels weird. And then also like I'm definitely a side sleeper. Like I always sleep on my sides and it just feels a little bit not comfortable when I sleep on my sides because I feel like I'm just gonna like pull a stitch out. I'm probably not supposed to be sleeping on my sides to be honest. And then obviously the last thing is that I just have to take care of my scars, which you know, that takes time and effort. Okay, next thing I got are these Rael face masks. I'm so glad I found them on Amazon. I worked with Rael and they sent me a bunch of these and then I finally ran out and I was like, okay, I literally need to repurchase those because they were so good. So there's like one collagen, one hydration tea tree and then vitamin C and each one comes with five sheets. So five times four is 20. So there's 20 face masks in here and I swear by them. And just like the liquid IV, I'm gonna be very greedy with these two. I use these right before like big events or like on Fridays where I'm gonna film a lot of content. Just one of my faces feeling really dry and I want like a lot of hydration in right before I put on makeup. So those are awesome.  I did not know it was like a tie thing.  I did not know it was like this. Okay, no, this is cute. One shoulder, little one piece. Love my one pieces. This is from Cupshe. And honestly I've had swimsuits from Cupshe and they're great. They're honestly really great quality, thick. It has pads. So I'm really excited to wear this to the beach.  This is another scar thing that my doctors recommended. This is Scarway. It is silicone like Band-Aids kind of things.  And I think you can like reuse them. So these are like, I think these are, I wanna say like 30 bucks, but it's nice that you can reuse them cause I didn't think that you would be able to. So that is all I got from Amazon. The sun is setting. Not really sure what we're gonna have for dinner. Sundays are usually like taco nights, but I'm not really feeling tacos for once. There's these like dumplings in the freezer that I really want. I'll show you guys. If you see these at your grocery store, get them. They are so good. I love them. And they're like the perfect lunch. I usually eat these for lunch, but they're just sounding so good right now. They're six and they fill me up pretty good. So kind of wanting this for dinner, but we'll see. This went down to take Sophie out and I got another package. This is so cute. I've been wanting one of these jackets. I saw like a similar one from Everlane last fall. And I wanted it so bad, but it is so expensive. I was like, I can't do that. So I found this on Amazon. Shipping did take quite a bit. I feel like for a jacket this good, I mean, it's probably worth it. I'll put my size on the screen because I can't remember what size I got. It is cozy. Oh my gosh. Perfect timing before the beach because I feel like beach nights like will be pretty cold. Not cold, but chilly, you know? How cute is this?  This is literally going to be my new favorite sweatshirt. I think Ryan's going to just get Chipotle.  Then I'm going to make those dumpling things. We started watching White Lotus this past week or weekend. I can't remember when I started it. And every time you watch it, I fall asleep like in the middle of the freaking show. So I need to rewatch it, but I kind of want to like watch some YouTube videos when I clean up. So I'm going to do that. I just took my makeup off and wanted to be cozy.  I was like, hey, wash my face. But anyways, what do you think about my sweatshirt? Ryan, you like it? It's cool. Cool girl's sweatshirt. Okay, I made my dumplings. They look like this and they look so good.