Are you thinking about starting a YouTube channel? I'm gonna give you a couple of quick tips right now on how to get started. What's up everybody, Ricky Krooth here. Welcome back to my channel. So today I wanna talk about how to start a YouTube channel and really the key point of this is just to start.  Those are the normal fillings when you start the YouTube channel that's kinda holding you back, okay? And so I want you to think about this and visualize this in the beginning when you have zero subscribers or maybe 10 subscribers or 20 or even 100, okay? You need to be putting out a lot of content right there in the beginning and all that content is literally practice.   Then we get 1,000 subscribers, that's gonna be even better. When you get to 5,000, your videos are gonna be really good. By 10,000, they're gonna be even better and they're gonna just continue to get better and better and better the more you grow. So keep that in mind, I want you to just start and just put it in place, get a video, do it with your phone, whatever the case may be, start from somewhere and then build on that. That's really the key to success in anything. Start where you are and then build on that. You can't really help where you're starting from. Everybody starts from somewhere.  I love the saying about getting 1% better a day. You get 365% better in a year. That's incredible and that's what I try to do. I try to get just a little bit better at everything that I do. So I want you to apply this to a YouTube channel if that's what you're trying to do. Secondly is the content. You need to find something that you really love, you're really passionate about, that you know a lot about, you have a lot of knowledge, something that you can actually share with an audience. Okay, I don't know what that's gonna be for you. You have to decide that. But once you figure it out, I want you to start doing a little YouTube research. I want you to add an extension to Chrome called Keywords Everywhere, okay? That will show you the number of searches per month for different key terms when you search them in YouTube. That'll give you an idea of what people are looking for within your niche, whatever that niche may be. So I want you to search your niche. I want you to find the top 5, 10, 20 videos. I want you to pick a couple of them out. I want you to really go deep with them. Watch them, figure out what the key terms are and how they did in the subject, kind of how they did everything. And don't really focus too much on how great those videos are, how really good the editing is and that you probably won't be able to reproduce that quality of video in your first couple videos. But I just want you to visualize that that's where your channel could end up with practice and if you actually start. Because the problem is most people just don't start so therefore they never get there. So I'm gonna keep saying this. The biggest thing is just to do it even if it's not perfect, even if it's, even if you don't really even like it, get it out there so that you kinda get used to posting, kinda get used to the fact that you gotta be okay with the fact that some people aren't gonna like it and you just gotta keep it moving because what we're gonna do is we're gonna build off the audience that does like it. We're not worried about the people that don't like it. We're gonna build off that audience that do like your videos. So that's all I got today. I wanted to do a quick little video on how to get started. This is just from zero and just getting started on YouTube. So I hope this helps you a whole lot. I wanna make some more content around how to grow on YouTube. So reach out if there's anything in the world I can do for you. Answer every single deal on my Instagram and shoot me a comment below. Let me know what you think. We'll talk to you soon.


Good morning Thursday 18th of March. Hope you're doing well Just before I begin if you are watching this briefing delayed on our YouTube channel Don't forget to like and subscribe If you would like to see the private live session we did for the FMC last night with the team and myself then just leave a comment on the video and I'll be happy to share that on Saturday at the weekend because I think it was a really good Review of how to prepare and then with some of the guys how they're executing trades over a news driven event So as I said, if you like subscribe leave a comment I'll be happy to share that at the weekend if that's of interest But otherwise look let's get straight into it and talk about this morning and definitely it's a Kind of picking up the baton from where we left off. So generally speaking Equity index futures are still higher. We had a positive close on Wall Street across the three major indices And that reverberated then across then the global market Asia generally higher Perhaps the Aussie market touched lower despite very good jobs data there locally Dollar still weak and weakening at this point in terms of the actual Intra day session at the moment. It's down about one tenth of a percent But obviously got hammered yesterday on the back of the Fed So both major currency pairs euro dollar and cable continuing to move higher You're a dollar in close proximity now to retesting the initial aftermath high that we saw On the initial spike up on the Fed cable looking to reclaim 140 this coming Irrespective of vaccine delay information that we heard from the NHS yesterday, which we'll talk about in a moment Gold still elevated having broken out of that range really firm move there and up 23 bucks having just grinded it out as well adding to the US pop on the Fed in the Asia pack session And then in terms of yields rather to be static there So let's have a recap then of the Fed. What exactly did they do and what has promoted this type of movement? That I was just kind of talked through so from a very top level Getting everyone up to speed long story short The Fed done what we thought that they would do what we discussed here yesterday in the briefing kind of materialized and it was the idea then that people were really zoned in on the median dot plot for rates in 2023 now Here then what they basically said is that they stuck to their projections of near zero interest rates through not in 2023 and that was the key trigger really for the markets There were other things of course But that's what promoted that move given the outside bets that there was going to be a potential Bringing in nearer time frame for the first rate hike from the Fed, which did not materialize Our kind of view on this Is that ultimately this isn't going to track from the fact that yours are going to move higher in the foreseeable future in The months to come as the growth momentum picks up in the US to hit their targets And what they're looking for which is around six and a half percent gross coming in the period ahead The odds inevitably will grow up with that gross scenario However, the market taking heed from the relief then that there's no kind of signs at this point of early tightening And I don't think that was a surprise I think the markets were just kind of misaligned with what they were looking for and the reason for a lot of that I think was down to The summary of of projections and you'll you'll remember Two days ago or so I was talking about Goldman Sachs who put out a note And they were talking about the fact that they saw actually around 11 members or so Switching out to then bump the dot plot up, which would be this table here on the left-hand side and This is what the common the composition of the actual dot plot looked like in the actual Projections last night on the right-hand side and as you can see here only seven Nowhere near as many voting for that more optimistic view on the economy to subsequently lift rates And so I think markets You know Goldman's was really banging the drum on this I think people were getting a little bit overly excited as we were kind of forecasting here on the desk that The idea here that we think given recent communication from the Fed Not just power but everyone that they weren't going to shift things at this point in time And that's pretty much what he was echoing in the press conference that look We've always missed our inflation target. It's always under shot it. We haven't yet It's very early to make those judgment calls about what it's going to be like in the future Or be it they see it higher not wanting to pin down an actual figure as a threshold And I think that type of language means that there as he has said before many times that despite the kind of yuled tantrum Movement and focus that the markets had in recent weeks for the Fed They're just sticking to the plan at this point in time not being bullied by the markets And that's exactly, you know, the the stance that we we would expect power to take so All in all, I think it was more a little bit of a function of markets Positioning rather than a shock event so to speak But definitely things still remaining You know of a continuation of the trend for the moment going into the European open The Dixie has just as I was speaking now gone below the low that was seen post event last night So both major currency pairs on the front foot at the moment and definitely a dollar weakness story driving those Those dollar-based pairs for the time being so definitely will be a theme to account for In the session ahead. Here's what the actual projections look like and yeah for real GDP then they do see Real GDP they've upgraded it Marginally 0.2 for both 21 and 2022 unemployment revised down so positive there With the quicker the vaccination and the ability to reopen faster and then the core PCE numbers It was very marginal only point one increase on both 21 and 2022 Which probably also assisted some of that that move as well last night As I said then overnight in Asia it kind of followed through we've got the boj later We'll talk about that in a moment. There was some Aussie employment data. It was fantastic in fact, but really the Aussie Not reacting a great deal it being more driven by the weakening of the dollar and Aussie Like with other dollar-based pairs is rallying on the back of that In fact, the Aussie has just broken out just quickly flashing the Aussie into shot here You can see the Aussie dollars just broken out of the double top from the Asia pack session as Europe comes in and hits the dollar again And a breakthrough the R1 in the future. So fresh session highs here for the Aussie But I guess Underpinning that as well helping the kind of divergence their short term being the good jobs data But not much in the way of reaction to the actual numbers on their release The other thing I wanted to talk about was was this and you know One thing to be quite clear up front is the pounds rallying at the moment on the back of dollar weakness And if anything the actual pounds outperforming Euro on that basis. So this news I think is is not really being impactful for Market sentiment on the UK on the road map or its general delivery Perhaps the fact that the UK's got out in front with the speed of its vaccinations gives it a bit of wiggle room And if you remember when the UK issued their vaccination roadmap program a couple of weeks ago The fact of the matter was that they were going to hit their targets well ahead of the actual Fourth final step of reopening on 21st of June But they actually give have given themselves a degree of wiggle room for exactly the issue of what we're seeing and confronted with now And so getting you up to speed the UK's vaccination programs It's potentially being thrown a little bit off course as the NHS yesterday ward of a significant delay And a reduction in supplies of jabs in order to freeze on new vaccination appointments in the month of April NHS staff were told that volumes for first doses will be significantly constrained And the start of inoculations for the under 50s would be delayed the BBC have reported It's understood the AstraZeneca vaccine supply issue Relates to a consignment from a manufacturer in India a half of orders being delayed by four weeks. So yesterday You know, this is kind of the state of where we're at at the moment politicians that can to protect themselves Across the pond in the mainland you're trying to point the finger Astra's trying to protect itself. I mean it's quite it's quite Uninspiring to see given the fact that we're facing a humanitarian crisis to be quite frank, but that side You know yesterday you had UK government politicians pointing the finger at astra saying it's you know It's there in a similar vein to Europe It's their fault for not meeting the criteria of part of the supply agreement Astra said that there's nothing wrong at the moment with the supply chain or their delivery schedule And then it transpires that you know, they're exactly right, you know, it isn't it's just to do with An issue which is always going to be that case given the fact that these drugs are manufactured all over the world and manufacturing distribution logistical issues are going to happen a Large part and this is a good point that was made by Mike in our community on Amplify live He said the large part of the big ramp up in UK vaccine supply was made up of an acquisition of 10 million doses of Astra vaccine from the India contract manufacturer serum. So in fact, it's around 10 million It's pretty sizable coming out of that plant facility in India So the point being here is half of that order is delayed as the BBC have suggested And that's leading to a slowdown of vaccinations Putting the UK government in a perhaps a slightly tricky situation And the reason for that is that it has to cover its basis on second shots Remember UK government came out with that report a few months back saying that there's a perfect kind of 12 week Window to administer the second shot after the first and those people are coming due now given those high-risk categories that we're taking care of first and There's also probably going to be pressure To preserve the Pfizer Jabs and the reason for that of course is that a lot of those are manufactured in mainland Europe And at the moment Europe are not playing ball and making some quite threatening noises via the EU Commission president Vondellion yesterday just to kind of go over that and Vondellion said the block could activate article 192 so 122 of the EU treaty which allows it to take emergency measures to control the distribution of essential goods if severe difficulties arise in securing supplies So basically just saying what we're going to use you EU law and part of the justification is that is that the UK so far ahead And the vaccinations and most of the exports of European vaccines are going to the UK, right? You get the cut and So they're almost weaponizing that situation again. I think a lot of that is political I don't think it's perhaps going to get quite to that point and that drastic But you can see then the precarious nature that the UK is in Because there's only so many different drugs out there And if Astra delay is is is meaningful and leading to just Astra alone Which we're heavily geared to one as a composition in our rollout of vaccines in the UK gets delayed by a sizable amount They're having to take that action about Freezing new vaccination appointments in April while they take care of second shots being administered You've then got the risk of Europe halting the Pfizer distribution and Moderna who's due to supply a few hundred thousand Doses in the first delivery next month If the EU puts in place stricter export controls that could also be heard and the problem with Moderna Of course, but we've known from the start. We're talking a few hundred thousand with Astra in India We're talking 10 million Moderna has real difficulties in Producing mass amounts given that it doesn't have the type of infrastructure that some of these bigger pharmaceutical companies have All the meanwhile over our friends across the pond More positive Joe Biden the president is basically poised to meet his goal of a hundred million vaccinations in the first hundred days He's gonna hit it on day 58. It's looking at so nearly half The amount of time he's scheduled to speak publicly actually Later today, it's going to be this evening in London time about the vaccinations and he actually Could well be in his right to double this target to 200 million in the first hundred days and I just think the notion of Under promising and over delivering is a fine thing in 2021 when it comes to politicians globally It's a rarity. And so he really has Stepped this up and in fact the pace of Vaccinations in the US is at two and a half million per day And this is what that looks like in terms of the pace over January 1st It's current date of March 18th, and it's anticipated to get faster Hence the reason why they can be very ambitious with those targets. So yeah, definitely Tying this back in this is a key component, of course for the Fed Now what the Fed are going to do because the economy is going to heat up Even though the Fed are kind of holding off and being still ultra accommodative for now That time will come and that communications challenge will need to be met At some point and that some point is coming relatively soon Probably going into May and then June FOMC meeting where we get the latest dot plots That's going to be then very telling because at that point They're probably going to want to give themselves at least a three to four month Running of communication subtlety changes To then give the discussion about tapering before then tapering commences perhaps towards q4 of this year So This is a key component to that the vaccination story the faster it happens The more pressure there is then for the Fed to ultimately make a change at some point because the economy is going to pick up At this a greater speed of reopening And then in creating demand inflation and so on So that hopefully gives you a bit of context, but importantly as I started that conversation the pound Isn't too fast for those those reasons I mentioned Otherwise bank decisions we've got the bank of england coming up now the bank of england I would say is probably the most boring of the Fed the boj and the boe So of the trio is probably the least inspiring for an intraday trader for price movement Not expecting any change in interest rates and their asset purchase facility. So they're QE program They're not going to follow the lead if you like of what we heard from the ECB last week If anything, I actually think that given the ECB's commitment to significantly increase their pace of purchases within their PEP Program and also what the Fed have been doing with being resistant to commenting on this kind of movement hiring yields And getting the market kind of back into line with things with Fed thinking actually think the bank of england of course a bit of a break here and Coming kind of after those banks comes with a little bit of upside that they've made their moves and the market's so kind of globally synchronized that They've already covered the basis if you like and and the bank of england could just sit back and And just put it in cruise control for now. I think that no need to rock the boat. So Language is key here. I think for the bank of england as they said here in bloomberg tone And guidance are key in the decision to make no change So just looking out for some of the surrounding commentary around it, but not expecting a great deal The boj on the other hand a little bit more interesting And that's because they've just got a they've got this policy review that they've been working on And they're due to make some potential tweaks To the variety of tools in which that they use The bank according to a Reuters survey will scrap either or both of the numerical guidelines set for its purchases of ETFs To make its stimulus program basically more sustainable. So this is about doing more increasing flexibility here in a similar vein to a more damaged stance The boj currently sets two guidelines for its ETF buying Which is to buy an annual pace of roughly six trillion yen, but up to 12 trillion Critics argue numerical guidelines prevent the boj from buying ETFs in a flexible format Such as slowing purchases significantly when stock prices are booming So just having a little bit more agility to react to market conditions The central bank secondly the other big thing to look out for is expected to slightly widen an implicit band At which it allows long-term interest rates to move around its euro percent target according to the Nikkei press overnight And that's one that's that that's been talked about quite a lot as well. So that kind of your curve control flexibility But we'll have the answers to this obviously this is coming out overnight If you're looking at london time, so I'll talk about this more tomorrow morning when we have more details Otherwise for the calendar today Very quiet in the uk european morning boe then at 12 o'clock No press conference this time around from them Next one of that's not due till may You've then got the weekly jobless claims coming out of the states expected at 700,000. Remember they printed at 712 last week So we are looking for a further improvement here the number to go lower And that comes in the context of 712 last week being the lovest reading we've had since the first week of november So it wasn't particularly strong figure then And looking for these improvements Filly fed business index coming out at the same time So remember 12 30 rather than the regular 130 with the clock change in the us And that's pretty much it on the data side speakers though christine legard speaks twice today At eight and at 11 but speaking of parliamentary hearing introduce true marks first and in a Women rights event second Equally bank giving man's cum lift is speaking 11 with chief economist of the boe Howl dane speaking at 12 30 again both off topic talking about payment systems and annual Women in banking event for howl dane. So of all of these Speeches these aren't meaningful people talking But also layering the context of the boe Rate decision happening those boe guys they're not going to say anything specific on economy or policy I would think and I don't think we're going to get much out of the guard given the fact that we heard the official communication from the meeting last week All right, that is it going to leave it there as I said quite a lot To go over there So hopefully it all made sense any questions at all just feel free to leave a comment if you're watching this on youtube Don't forget to hit the subscribe button as well We really appreciate you being a part of our community and for the rest of the guys that find life I'll see you in the discord room. All right. Have a good day


There is no greater privilege in life than knowing Jesus. There is no greater advantage than the presence and power of the Holy Spirit within you.  What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Well, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ who loved us. That's Romans chapter 8 verses 31 and 37. This of course does not mean that we will never face hardships. This simply means that even in hardships, we are victorious because we belong to God. Being victorious doesn't mean that I don't face difficulties. Being victorious means that even in difficulties, I continue to believe that God wins in the end. The victorious believer doesn't allow exterior circumstances to diminish their inner joy. The victorious believer doesn't allow the actions of others to steal their peace. In persecution, we have God's love. In loneliness, we have God's presence. Even in death, we have eternal life. You have God's attention, God's voice, God's favor, and God's love. God opens doors, brings opportunities, and shapes your destiny. What can anyone do to us? Truly, the believer can never be a victim. No person, no system, no government, no idea can hold us down. We are never victims, always more than conquerors. With this God-given position of eternal victory comes the responsibility of walking in it. And one of the keys to walking in heavenly dominion is thinking according to the truth, having a godly mindset. Thoughts are the actions of the mind, and you can choose your thought patterns. The choice is ours. We can either choose to live with the victim mindset, constantly blaming everyone and everything else around us for defeats and challenges, settling for less when God has more. Or we can choose to allow the truth to affect our thinking. It's time to embrace your privilege, the privilege of Christ in you. I'm David Diga Hernandez, and that is your Moment of Truth. Thank you for watching EncounterTV. Don't forget to subscribe and click the notification bell. Also, help us spread the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. Make a one-time donation, or become a monthly supporter by clicking on the donate link now.


certain things happen in life because God wants to bring us through fire so he can purify us before he can give us a platform, but if we don't handle the time of rejection, the time of hurt, the time of misunderstanding correctly, and we allow bitterness to sit in our heart, and then we say, oh, it's this church folks, oh, it's these people, all these pastors are all the same, all these pastors, all they want is money, they're not godly people, maybe you're right, but what kind of state do you have to be in, mental state and in your heart, that you join the enemy to go against God's people?


It's a recipe for disaster, when people are in a meeting trying to look something up in their phone. They're often giving the first answer they find instead of taking a few minutes to research the best answer. And sometimes the world changes. Sometimes we really do need to go get additional information because something has changed. So don't be afraid to adjourn that meeting. Sometimes we're in a time-critical situation. We can't do that. We've got to go with what we've got. But most of the time, we can take half an hour and hour and afternoon to go update ourselves on the latest information or the latest changes in the world and then come back and make our decision much better prepared.


Okay, so let's get started. Welcome to our presentation today. So my name is Christoph. I'm a CEO and co-founder of Scale-Up. And with me, I have Frank. He's our COO at Scale-Up, responsible for all operations in our data centers. And also within the presentation, it's John Leong of Intel and he will focus a bit more on Redfish doing this presentation. So it will be a combined presentation, focusing quite a bit on the Open Compute project. And from our side, it will be a bit more focused on what we at Scale-Up did to build a more sustainable OpenStack cloud using OCP platforms. So a quick background on who we are. So we are a managed hosting company and co-location provider based in Hamburg and here in Berlin. We have seven data center sites here in Germany and we also operate OpenStack based clouds for an infrastructure as a service offering. And additionally, on top of our OpenStack infrastructure, there's also a managed Kubernetes platform.  We are less than 20 people at this point and we are fully focused on open source. And for a couple of years, we are also more and more focused on becoming more sustainable. And this is in regards to everything we do in our company. It's not only about energy efficiency and things like that, but we are trying to reduce our carbon footprint with everything that we do. And so this somewhat led to this project that we will be talking about today. So the question is why build a cloud with open hardware and to be quite honest, I didn't really know what open hardware was two years ago. So in essence, a good friend approached me and asked me whether I would be interested in acquiring some Facebook service. And I was like, Facebook service? I'm sure they must use some service, but I wasn't aware that there's like a typical Facebook service. So it certainly got my attention. And I went onto Google and found out that that might actually be quite interesting. For us, so well, we basically went ahead and first of all, we ordered just a small testing setup with just a couple of servers just to get a feel of it. And well, during my search on Google and the likes, I found out that there's potentially a very interesting aspect for us in using those OCP servers because there was lots of talk about, besides many other benefits, that they will be much more energy efficient than like a traditional 19 inch based server. So, well, I mean, I'm the CEO, so I can do anything I like. So I just went ahead and ordered two full racks of those servers and figured, let's just give it a try. And I told Frank, LCO, that I just ordered two full racks of servers for a lot of money. And well, we went ahead and tried those out. What's also important with this, so we didn't buy new OCP gear, it was like refurbished servers. So they actually came from some Facebook data center somewhere, I don't know where, but they came from Facebook. And so this really also helps us to reduce our scope three emissions. And for those of you who don't know about those types of emissions, so there's scope one, two and three. Scope one is essentially, if you drive your car and the fuel you use, scope one, scope two is when you run your data center and the energy you put in into something and scope three emissions are the emissions that went into actually building the server. So by using a server that was previously used, that drastically reduces our type scope three emissions. So that's actually a very interesting aspect in using those refurbished OCP servers. So I think John had a presentation yesterday, well no, it was Steve actually, Steve from the Open Compute Foundation had a presentation on Tuesday, where he also briefly talked about some of the aspects of Open Hardware and OCP and I won't get into too much detail unless you have questions later on. But so one of the main benefits supposedly is the energy efficiency of OCP. So what you see on your right hand side is some graphs and statistics from SK Telecom. So that's a Telecom provider based in Korea. And so they did like a test in the real data center and the real co-location data center where they took a traditional 19 inch server and an OCP server and they compared how much more efficient the OCP server is running compared to a traditional server. So you see two different workloads, the upper one being while server doing nothing, being idle. And there you actually, so the lower line is the OCP one. You actually have up to 50% more efficiency in using those servers. If you run it at 100%, it goes down to about 19%. And that's somewhat in the range that I also found so 15 to 20% seems to be something realistic. So we basically did those tests ourselves. We just got one of our regular Dell servers. We're using Dell servers all over the place. It had the exact same configuration as the OCP server, same CPUs, same amount of memory, same disks, everything the same. And we did some synthetic benchmarks on those machines and those are the results that we got. And so that basically translates to exactly what SK Telecom also did. And while being based in Germany, saving 15 to 20% on the energy bill is interesting. Nowadays it's probably interesting for anyone in Europe, right? But that really helps us, well, first of all to save cost but also to being more sustainable. We did some additional tests after that. So in the One Data Center where we're currently running this stuff, there's no cold aisle containment yet. So we did some testing with cold aisle containment for those OCP racks. But well, the essence of those tests is that cold aisle containment for OCP does not bring a large benefits. And the reason for that is that those open compute servers and the open compute hardware can be run at much higher temperatures to begin with. So keeping your cold air contained in the cold aisle doesn't pose such a large benefit here. So just some stuff on the basic setup. So the types of nodes that we are using. So well, we run OpenStack and Ceph on it. So we have some OpenStack servers all with 25 gigabits Ethernet back end. The network stack is also fully OCP. So we're using it the Facebook wedge switches, 100G switches and the spine leaf architecture. And for the Ceph nodes we're also using OCP servers fully flash so only NVME drives in those servers just to give you an overview. And that's a picture of one of those OCP servers. So certainly running OCP is nothing special for someone like Facebook or all the big hyperscalers out there. For a smaller provider in the traditional data center it does pose its challenges. So one of the first issues that we discovered besides the fact that you don't get the servers packed like you're used to where you get one package for server you get basically a full rack and it's already ready with all servers in it. One of the first things that we had an issue with was that OCP racks expect to get the power from the top of the rack. Well, we have a traditional data center, we have raised floor and power is beneath the raised floor so it's kind of not ideal. So we actually, well, we went on Amazon and ordered some extra cables to get the power up to the top of the rack. Another thing that we discovered was that at least with the OCP server generation that we used, the board management controller was very basic. I mean, I told you that we use Dell server so we used to full IDRAC experience and well, the experience of that very raw and basic. BMC was not what we were expecting. In our traditional setups, we have dedicated IPI networks so we have dedicated interface just doing IPMI. There's certainly the possibility to have that on OCP but we learned the hard way that there are slight variations on how the actual manufacturer builds out those OCP servers and even though there is a possibility to have an IPMI interface, that does not mean that you will have that interface on your server so our servers didn't have that so we had to, well, basically put it on the existing network stack somehow. And another challenge that we faced was, well, now that you don't have any traditional servers anymore, you just have a full rack with servers that don't even have space to put a name tag on them anymore. You have to also rethink your deployment methods and how you actually go about into installing OpenStack, installing Ceph and all the likes so we had to decide on a way on how to do that. And Frank will tell you a bit more about that. I think running out of time, well, we thought about using OpenStack caller, well, first let me put it like this, we are using OpenStack since 10 years about right now, we started with Grizzly, we started with a Swift installation, it's short after we had our first complete cloud and so we're not new to the business, I'm pretty old, so I was using Puppet a lot, but this didn't seem to be a choice with a newer cloud, so it was pretty soon sure that we had to use Ansible anyhow. Luckily, we have a new colleague who's really smart with Ansible and this was just very lucky for us. Well, I worked with caller before, we had Edge Cloud set up with caller for Vietnamese customers some years ago and one of our, we are a small company so we have a certain portfolio, we customize cloud business very much towards our customers and customization with containers means you need the perfect working CI CD in your company to be able to build new containers and put them on the line as fast as you need them and this is an extra level of complicity which we avoided so we decided against caller this time and we were using Open Ansible but we ran into the next problem which is with Open Stack Ansible, you have hard-coded variables like Keystone or Newton or it's always Keystone underscore or Newton underscore or and these are, you cannot use one inventory for multiple clouds because you will have this Keystone all group and it's, you have all Keystone controller instances of all clouds in that group so you have to either use multiple instances of the inventory or you have to change this all group this Keystone or Newton or whatever group. We were in contact with the Keystone developers and they had some good arguments against changing this we are still in contact, we will keep in contact but we decided to go to just, what we finally do is with heavy usage of the original Open Stack Ansible roads, we build a layer on top so that we can use one inventory for all the clouds, yeah and so we succeeded in building our cloud and we're now able to just reproduce this at the other locations of our company I think, oh yeah, you have the description of this on that side, yeah. I would be round to answer any technical questions afterwards, I think it's no use to go deeper in detail right now. Okay, so to sum it up and give some more time to John to talk about Redfish which we would have loved to use if our servers would support it so we believe that using OCP hardware is also interesting for smaller operators so I mean for sure if you're a very large hyperscale like operator, sure OCP is probably any other way to go but I think we kind of proved that even for a smaller operator in a smaller company it can be possible to adopt OCP I mean there's still a few challenges here and there I had a conversation just last week with the foundation and there's certainly a few things that could be improved for smaller and medium sized enterprises to make it more easy for them to use OCP as well but it can be used and I think going down this road well basically adding, finally adding open hardware to your open software which like everyone is using is certainly the way to go and for us it also made it possible to become much more sustainable in running this infrastructure and I can only highly encourage anyone to take a look at OCP and don't be afraid of the first challenges once it's running it's running and it's still the same server inside so well with that I'm going to say thank you and hand over to John page down if I need to go back so I'm going to do a quick discussion of OCP platforms and first I'll tell you exactly so one of the challenges of integrating OCP hardware into deployment is manageability and in my discussion with Chris well you have old generation for OCP it won't work for you but this is the way we're going to go and I think further discussions I figure out a way of getting newer OCP hardware to rerun this test with the latest hardware so I represent Intel at OCP and I am the representative to the hardware management project so the first thing about OCP for those who weren't at the presentation two days ago is that OCP and what exactly is open compute projects it's basically it was founded on envy and jealousy of open source it was the they were looking at the innovation of the community within open source of being able to have things out in the open and built and improved and they said how do we bring this type of community innovation to hardware and what you do is you push hardware designs out into the open you allow people to take that hardware design, improve it and then contribute it back to that hardware community so that's what OCP does and it's out of that type of innovation that you get platforms with reduced power consumption because that's the way the community wanted to take the platforms so within the hardware management project when I went in it was as someone who brought in in Redfish so Redfish was a protocol definition and I wanted OCP and I told him you know you really have a whole lot of platforms you have HPC platforms you have storage platforms, you have network platforms you have server platforms your problem is going to be you cannot have a different manageability interface for each one of them you should have a single one and everyone who uses that interface should be able to get some base set of functionality for manageability and then above that you should be able to, if you're a particular platform you should be able to do additional stuff so the baseline so right now there's baseline profile which defines exactly what type of capabilities need to be available across OCP platforms and that's everything from some low level inventory to this setting of IP addresses to resetting system to inventory and then if you're a server you have additional stuff you can do you can now look at the processors look at the memories so on and so forth so during the process of rolling this out baseline exists the server profile would exist for that to exist and so the way the DMTF works is that innovation occurs below the interface so DMTF doesn't care how it's implemented so it can be implemented on a BMC platform which is always powered on so many you plug in a base board the BMC can come up and it can start listening and helping you provision the system Redfish can be implemented as a software agent so it can run on top of the OS it really doesn't matter to DMTF the Redfish it's just a restful interface for accessing manageability second is that within IP they also have open hardware so they started actually doing open hardware so they took the BMC and they isolated it onto a module stuck it on a connector so the first version was run BMC the second version is DCSAM and that's so as people design motherboards they no longer have to redesign the BMC and do the routing and the placement of it every time have the connector plug in the module and be done with it and so lastly there's the implementation so now you have a piece of hardware, you have a BMC on it what do you get the software or a firmware to run on it there's open BMC which is a Linux foundation repository and so you can the way they build these now is they all the remnant BMCs and DCSAM also have a AST and they all you can download a BMC run BMC version on there and then we work DMTEP works with run BMC open BMC to support the RedFish interface kind of a three way alliance there to make sure that the RedFish interface has both a way of defining it OCP will prescribe it as you have to have this subset of functionality and then open BMC will implement it and then run the performance test to make sure that functionality exists so the DMTEP had a alliance partnership with OpenStack at least seven years ago and so as part of that one thing that we talked about I think at the RedFish deep dive was Sushi which is the layer that you put below within Ironic Group Talk Run BMC so that's been ongoing for several years now DMTEP actually has a dedicated set of contractors to improve Sushi and expand the functionality of it so as we add functionality to RedFish if we see that there's a place to insert it within the Ironic base we can go do that so the way you read this is that this left-hand side is exactly what's in the Ironic base what it does and how much of it actually utilizes Sushi and RedFish to actually get to that functionality in the platform and that's all open source so so summary is that basically RedFish has taken managability and reduced it to a flexible interface so all you need is you need an HP path URI and then understanding what the content that's returned so the content is returned in JSON we describe it in JSON schema and we describe it in OpenAPI so that connects up to those particular tool chains in case you want to auto generate clients to run against the interface and the way you do an access is that you just wander down these bubble trees which exist throughout the documentation of going from service route which is RedFish v1, going to systems going to the first system that you have so by looking at the diagram you can see if I want to go to the first processor I can get down there and it returns a JSON packet a set of name value pairs those name value pairs are all described within the schema itself so there was a RedFish deep dive yesterday sorry you missed it however you can engage RedFish who have a public bulletin board which people ask questions on so if you're a newbie if you're a professional who's found problems in it you can still engage the DMTAP and we go through the forum on at least a weekly basis under someone actually sitting there usually responsive fairly quick and then there's a developer hub where you can wander through mockups of what RedFish tree looks like for various sets of systems and I think that's it yeah questions? okay thank you question I have to bring the guy who actually does the implementation of that right down basically uses another method other than RedFish to get to that functionality so I believe the functionality exists in ironic it just does need to get down to RedFish to get that information anything else?