All right. Well, today we have Tom Parkin, Colorado filmmaker, Boulder High graduate, Boulder High long-time native. Your whole life had been here in Boulder County. Moved here in 1984. 1984, yeah, right, right, and and your latest film, Len Berry, 1, 2, 3. I almost want to sing that. And it's so great to have you here, and it's, you know, being our, it's gonna be our first program next week while we're filming this, and it's even a great help getting people to submit and to make this a venue for filmmakers to, to show their stuff and to get feedback from an audience. So super appreciate your help with that. Oh, I love that you're doing this. I think any venue in Boulder County to show local filmmakers work is great for everyone. So thank you for doing this. Yeah, good. It's good to start with the best. We got you here. So, no pressure. Thanks. So when, when I first heard about Len Berry, 1, 2, 3, I was who? Right. And, and I'm older than you, and I was around in the 60s, but probably more psychedelic, British Invasion type stuff is when I started to listen. Sure. But the, the Len Berry thing, and then I went back and I watched the trailer. It was super catchy. And what, and it's, it's interesting to me that you chose a figure that I wouldn't recognize. Right. You know, from rock and roll history. Sure. And what, what brought you to Len Berry as a topic for your doc? Well, it was an accident. In fact, I call the film an accidental documentary. Because my day job is producing sort of healthcare related programming. And I happened to be in Philadelphia producing a piece for an assisted living facility. It was just sort of like a marketing piece and part of that production was interviewing the residents that lived in this facility. Okay. And so I was in the conference room that he set up for me and they would bring in some of the residents just to talk about their experience living in this place. And the last person that came in was this highly energetic mid 70s guy. He kind of limped in, but he was like, hey, how you doing? Nice to meet you. My name's Lenny. I'm like, nice to meet you Lenny. All right. All right. Well, just have a seat here. Put a little microphone on him. And I started asking him questions about living at this facility. I said, yeah, the food's great here. You know, I have some problems walking. They got good physical therapy and I just love it here. It's terrific. You know, I just needed like a 10 second sound bite. So I got what I needed in just a few minutes. I said, well, thanks. And I started unhooking the microphone. I said, you know, Lenny, you're pretty good at being on camera. Have you done this before?  I said, wait, what? Well, are you serious? He goes, yeah, yeah. I had a band called the Dovels and like, okay, sounds vaguely familiar. I don't know. And then I did a quick Google search. I'm like, I know this song one, two, three. Right. Like, I've heard this before just in the pop culture ethos, you know. And I said, hey, can I, do you mind if I ask you some more questions? And he said, sure. So we sat down and we let me spend a half day with him. He told me his whole life story, showed me his gold record and all these things. And I had no idea. You know, it just I just accidentally met him on this shoot. And he told me his whole life story. And from there, you know, I mean, gosh, I must have about three hours of him talking on camera. I didn't know what I was going to do with it. I didn't know if I was going to make a short film or just a news piece or whatever. But you know, I was in the middle of many other projects. So that footage just sat on my computer for a couple of years. COVID hits. All right.  And then I got the call that he passed away. I said, well, now I got to do something with this footage. I mean, you know, let me just take a look at it. It was COVID. I didn't have much to do. So I got through the footage. And I remember when he was talking, he was very nonlinear. He would jump from decade back and forth. And I knew him when I was shooting this. This was going to be hard to edit whatever I choose to do with it. And but yeah, once I sat down and started to sort of figuring out, okay, well, he's talking about this here, I can make this into a linear thing. My initial cut was an hour and 15 minutes long. But he was talking so much about stuff later on in his career that there was zero B roll footage. And any filmmaker out there is going to, you know, you don't want just someone talking to the camera for an hour and 15. So I just opted to stay with his heyday, which was the 1960s, and found lots of footage online, finding the B roll footage. He did provide me with some photos and some records and whatnot. But yeah, it worked out. Yeah. No, I thought it was great. He has a lot of fun. He was so fun to just listen to talk to. It's like one of those things where you just like, this is a piece of rock and roll history that I've just stumbled upon. That is, that's incredible. That's almost like a film itself. And then you start to wonder about all these other people. And you'd be like, well, these people with these amazing pasts, and they don't they don't run around advertising this. No, they just just meant you asked him, have you been on camera before? Oh, yeah, in front of millions of people. He wasn't going to tell me otherwise. Yeah. I mean, he just told me, okay, well, tell me more. That's great.  Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And there was. So that's that's terrific. Yeah. And so you had the whole thing. And I was watching it.  And then, you know, things kind of drift away. And they try to capture the old glory. And I'm just wondering where it's going to go. And then, but you nailed the most poignant ending I thought. And did that it when you filmed the sequence of that you finished the film with? Did you go like I got my ending right here? Or because because that's that that's settled with me. And I was just that that's amazing. Right. So obviously, I don't want to give away the ending. Right. But, you know, I think most filmmakers, especially documentary, when you're interviewing someone, I'm already editing in my head, right? I can use that. Oh, that's good. Oh, that's good. Oh, that ties to what he said earlier. Okay. But I knew I'd be ending with that particular thing. You know, because we're storytellers, right? And every story needs a beginning, middle and end. Okay.  So, you know, I knew I started early in his career during his high school. That's when the band started. And so that's I just knew I had to come back to that somehow. And he already said it. So, you know, yeah, yeah, it was beautiful. Thanks. Just being a former teacher just hit me. Of course. Right, right. And he was just easy. I mean, I've worked on many documentaries in my time. But when you have a subject like him, just he was so charismatic, and just told his story. And I just it was such a joy to sit just listen, I only asked him like, maybe five or six questions. He just right.  I'd have to say, could we go back to when you, you know, first did the recording? Can you talk about that day? Do you remember the day in the studio? Oh, yeah. And he just goes off. And it was great. Right. So, okay, well, I got something here. Yeah. Yeah, I think you definitely nailed it. Does he have family that have seen the film? Yeah. So, soon after I finished the film, he, I got a Facebook message from Spencer Barry. Spencer Borisov. Right. So, Len Barry is his stage name. Yeah. Leonard Borisov is his real name. But Spencer Borisov from Florida messaged me on Facebook. Hey, I understand you just made a film about my dad. I'm like, oh, hello. How are you doing? And so I sent him the link right away. And he, within, it's a 20 minute film, 30 minutes after I sent him, he said, this is wonderful. Thank you so much. This is great. I can't wait to show it to my wife and everything. This is right. Oh, well, thank you. Because I wasn't sure. He got really nervous. Like, I hadn't even submitted to any film festivals at that point. So I was a little nervous. Like, oh, what if his son hates it or something? I don't know. What do I do? Like, but yeah, it worked out. He liked it. So I got lucky there. Yeah. And now you're submitted to film festivals and it's doing well. So I actually completed the film in November of 2021. I started submitting the film festivals everywhere. And I was lucky enough to get into the Baldwin International Film Festival, our hometown festival. I've been working with them for 14 years doing various things. I do the, I produce their trailer every year. I do their on screen graphics. I'm their cinematographer. So I document it every year. And I, you know, submitted many times in the past. And this is the first time I actually got in.  It was really fun. And it, it's shown at many other places. And that was last year. And gosh, I think he's probably played in at least 15 festivals around the country. And various places.  Well, no, a lot of this was during COVID. So a lot of it was on screen, online festivals. So no, I haven't really, I mean, I've really just been to the Boulder, like in person, Boulder. There was a screening in Longmont last month, went to that. But yeah, yeah, it was fun. If that went out of the park. So what are you working on now? What is your next project? Well, I'm currently working on another documentary film. We don't have a title yet, but it is basically it's got nothing to do with music. It's a Christmas based a Christmas themed documentary. It's about one man's quest yearly quest to decorate the perfect Christmas tree. And that's all I can really say about it right now. But we're just wrapping up the production. And I'll be starting editing right away. So hopefully in the next month or two, I'll have a another film to show. That's great. That's I think just the Len Berry thing. And that's just like focus on one person. Yep.  Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty, pretty cool thing. We're all storytellers. We're just trying to tell the good ones.  They say you edit, you shoot, you do you travel around and do Colorado Health, Health Matters. Yeah. And I don't know how many people out there do the whole thing.  But it's probably just you. I know. Video made by feel bad. I see all these other. Thank you, Tom Parkin. Yeah, I know.  Yeah. Yeah.  Right. Please watch. Yeah. That's my day job. And then so television production by day, filmmaker by night. But I've been a filmmaker for a very long time. I became a freelance videographer in 1999. And I've been doing it on my own ever since. And before that was, I had one job out of college. And I was at a video production company in Denver. Okay. So this is all I've ever really done. So I think I'm getting pretty good at it. I think pretty soon I might be pretty good at it. I don't know. Yeah, someday soon. I know you can you can make money on one of these routes. I would call it the short films you're spending a lot of money probably. Well, that's what we do, right? I mean, that's that's our art. We're artists, you know, that's our passion. You know, I got to do something creative, right, you know, at least once a year. And that's, you know, keeps the juices flowing. Right. And who are your influences? Like, when, who do you look at as far as a filmmaker? And just how do I know that, you know, there's a long list. There's, you know, growing up as a kid, I wanted to be the next Spielberg. And I set that goal for myself. Okay, he was 27 when he made Jaws. Well, I hadn't that came and went a long time. You know, but then I mean, I love independent film, but I also love the big blockbusters. James Cameron is one of my favorite directors. The guy can make entertaining movies. Right.  No, they're all very entertaining. But then I love anything from like Good Will Hunting, as Gus Van Sant made that movie. I mean, this is going back to like the 90s for that, these are sort of low budget independent films, like, because in the back of our mind, we're like, well, we can make that. Yeah. I remember, I remember seeing El Mariachi in the United Artists Theater in Boulder, when he came out, that was Robert Rodriguez, his first, he was his college film, but apparently he sold blood to make, you know. Yeah. And I was sitting there watching it with my filmmaking buddy. I was in high school at the time. I'm like, we can do this. Yeah. So that's where that came from. The movie that influenced me the most was the movie Airplane in 1980. And I remember seeing that not in the theater, but we rented it when I was older.  I've seen it. Yeah. Sure. Well, I would have been seven when I came out. Yeah. But just seeing all these people laugh, like, I need people to do that. Wow. Or just not just laugh, because that's a comedy, but, you know, just get someone to be emotional watching a film together. And I just, you know, that's why when I turned 16, my first job was at a movie theater here in town. And I worked there for five years. I was just always about movies. So it's just in my blood. That's all I've ever done. And so many influences. I would say the most direct influence was a friend of mine who was three years older. He was a film student at CU while I was in high school. And he'd let me work on his films. And then later on in life professionally, I was his director of photography, cinematographer. A couple of his feature length films that he made. And then his name is Troy McGatlin. And he's out in LA. So my influences are like close friends and the big filmmakers.  Oh, continuity problems? Yeah. My wife is kind of like, stop it. Oh, I see the haircuts that are different because they had to do reshoots later. Like, I can remove myself from the filmmaker to just sit back and enjoy it. Because I enjoy every aspect. I love seeing, I can tell if a movie's bad, but like maybe one of the actors is really good. And I can just like, well, that was, you know, the movie was in, but they were great. Or you can tell the screenplay is really good. The acting is also good. Or, you know, yeah, bad sound, bad lighting, but other aspects are good. So I can see, I mean, there are many movies that look beautiful, like the cinematography is just top notch, but you're bored out of your mind. Right. So, yeah, I will say this trend of like three hour movies these days is getting a little out of hand.  Right. So that's why I've not seen the latest avatar. Three hours. I don't know, you know. And so on the opposite end of that spectrum, the short film genre, which is a real niche, you know, it's, it's, what is it about short films and kind of how cool they are. And if you go to film festivals, you have the features showing, but a lot of times the most popular tickets they're going are the short films where people will show up and watch two and a half hours of different shorts. Well, I think, yeah, no, you hit it the nail on the head. I mean, there are so many feature films I've seen that should have been a short. Right. Like that could have been a short film. The problem is, where do you show short films? That's why this is so important what you're doing. We have so little venues to show our short film, other than on YouTube. And yeah, I hope you get people watching it. But as a community watching short films, this is what we got. Film festivals, what you're doing here. So I really hope this takes off because I mean, this is fantastic. And I will always be promoting this sort of thing. Especially, I work a lot with the Boulder County Film Commission, and we're looking for this sort of stuff to promote and really get the word out there about local filmmaking. And so this works out very well. And it's free. And it's free. What? That film freeway thing, you get up 50 bucks. Yeah. I don't know. And you know your chances.  Submitting film like Len Berry. I submitted to a lot of places. It adds up after a while. It does. Well, Tom, thank you so much. Thank you so much for coming here. Thank you, John. Good luck with the film. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully you'll be able to come out and be in the audience and that's the plan for filmmakers and absolutely what you can to promote this. We're working on a monthly free beer here with the different breweries here in town. They'll provide beer. And so it should be a schmooze. A schmooze. A schmooze fest. A schmooze fest. Not a snooze fest. Not a snooze fest. Because these are good films. Yeah, these are good films. We want good films. Just the good ones. All right. Well, thank you, John. Okay. Thanks a lot.


Good afternoon, everyone. So presenting with me today is Alex Tesh. And my name's Anthony Rees. And today, we're going to take you through some of the use cases that we built for a customer of ours based in Australia. And some of the enhancements that we did utilizing OpenStack with Ansible. Most of the use cases that we'll be going through today will be neutron-based. So hands up, anyone in the room who has had a customer or even a work colleague come up to them and say, hey, I've been reading about this Gartner by-model IT. And we really want to do something about it. And we've got all these legacy systems. And now we also want to be able to start using code to be able to transform our business and to be able to leverage OpenStack in some particular way. Has anyone had a customer or even a couple of hands going up around the room? Well, this exact same thing happened to us. And I'll admit, in about September of last year, I looked at my colleague, Alex, and Alex looked at me. And we went, what's this bimodal IT thing? And from there, a set of use cases developed. And we went on a bit of a journey of learning. And hopefully, what we'll be able to do today is to be able to pass some of that learning onto you. Not only will we talk about what worked really well, but we're also going to highlight a number of the distinct challenges around working with some of the examples that we've created and also some areas where the solution is quite mature, but also other areas where you're going to identify. And we're going to call out to you hopefully pretty much all of the pitfalls that we came across and some of the issues that you'll come across if you're trying to do similar use cases as well. So this afternoon, what we're going to take you through is we'll start off with low balancer as a service. So we'll talk you through what the customer was trying to achieve there. We'll go straight into a live demo. So everything that we're doing today is live demonstration. And then from there, we'll move into firewall as a service, talk you through what we were trying to achieve out of that. Working next into VPN as a service with another live demonstration. So we'll actually be joining two open stack clouds together. And we'll also talk a little bit about back end as a service in that particular area too. And the last example with a live demonstration will be bare metal. So bare metal provisioning as a service, utilizing Ansible for that. We'll take you through that. We'll talk you through the different playbooks, how it works. And we'll kick that off. Probably won't have time for that to finish because it does take a little while to run. But we're happy to take questions afterwards once we get through those. So four live demonstrations that we'll be moving through this afternoon. What could possibly go wrong? I think we're crazy to try this, but anyway. All right, low balancer as a service. Should we get started on it? OK, low balancer as a service. So as I alluded to before, this enterprise-based customer of ours already has a large legacy set of systems. They've got in excess of around about five to 600 applications, disparate applications that they have running in legacy environments.  But they're in the financial and banking area. So of course, they've got a couple of issues around data sovereignty and also the ability for them to be able to meet the regulatory requirements of the country. So they wanted to be able to test out auto-scaling via threshold. And they also wanted to be able to support a number of different low balances as well. So what we did was we put together a framework for them to be able to utilize. This particular framework is centered around Elbas 2 in this particular case. But we'll talk you through some of the challenges that we had around that, and especially as we're going through the demo, to be able to get that to proactively scale as well. So they wanted to be able to integrate that with auto-scaling too. And all in all, they wanted to be able to control everything by code. So they wanted to be able to use similar low balances that they were using in their legacy type environment and do exactly the same thing within their new mode 2 area, as they would call it from Gartner. So with that, I think we'll jump across to our first demo. Thank you, Antonio. Yes, what I will do first is let me kick off the demo for a while, and then we go into the challenges that we face it. All right, so what I will do is I'm going to connect to our jumping host, which is currently sitting in Sydney. And I will trigger the very first use case, which is basically Elbaz. So like Antonio mentioned, basically this customer, they wanted to achieve quite a good amount of SDN use cases. The funny thing is that initially, we pulled NewAge as well. So NewAge was actually playing closely with us. We managed to create a plate books to integrate NewAge with our own Hylian OpenStack distribution. And there were long nights, right, Antonio? So basically, we spent a couple of long nights working with the folks from NewAge in Sydney. And suddenly, after we got that portion working, it turns out that there is no project to bring NewAge into the book. So we have to figure out how to redo it again, basically just using pure Neutron. So all the use cases that we have here too there is basically based in an OpenStack Neutron, all right? There is no DCN. There is no NewAge, sadly. We're hoping that for the next customer. That will be the case. All right, so we can see from here, from Horizon, that basically we have, Jose, the font size. All right, for the console. Yeah, let me give it a try. Perhaps let's make it 18. Is this better? A bit? I think there is no one. All right, cool. Well, we'll translate as we're going through as well. Yeah, later we will go into the challenges. But basically, we scripted everything. We're going to run this script, which basically starts calling a heat template, a heat orchestration template that we have running in this environment. And basically what this one does is it will start to stand up database network. We have a DMZ network as well. And this customer, like Antoni mentioned, they were looking into mode 2. So it's not really a cloud-based kind of application. They were actually having some back-end applications that we wanted to migrate into the cloud. And they say, look, Garner said that mode 2 can also be ported into OpenStack. So you guys have to give it a try. So that's what we did, right? And basically, this is not exactly the same infrastructure that we were running at the time. But we tried to emulate roughly the same just to give you a rough idea, right? So what we have here at the moment is we have two web servers. They are actually Tomcat servers.  In this case, we're using Heshape Proxy. So we are using the native Neutron APIs for that. Of course, this was mostly on development and QA stage. They just wanted to give it a try, see the behavior. For production, they were actually going to integrate with F5, make use of some production load balancers. OK, well, this one is running, which is going to take about two more minutes. Let's talk a bit about the limitations. OK, how many of you guys tried before Elbas using Cilometer for the scaling groups? So as you may know, in HEAT, basically, when you define the scaling groups, you can define thresholds. And once you hit a threshold for your web farm, let's say we define it at 80% CPU utilization, then the scalability group will kick in. And hopefully, it will trigger the scaling, bring a new web server into the farm, and basically just put it as a member of the load balancer, and everything should be fine. However, having said that, Cilometer has quite a few known issues. There are some instances in which the utilization is quite high, actually, for your web farm. And Cilometer just didn't kick in the auto scaling group. That's very often. So what we are trying to achieve in Helion OpenStack at the moment is we are limiting the scope of Cilometer just for billing purposes. We try the utilization of whatever instances that you have running in the cloud, but we only use Cilometer basically to track and build. That's all. Fortunately, we are working on a project on Monasca. I don't know if you heard about it. Basically, it means monitoring as a service at scale. And the scope of Monasca is basically monitor the instances and make sure that we can trigger this auto scaling. No HG capabilities for Elbas version 2 is exactly the same issue that we have with version 1. So basically, the load balancer is running as a namespace in either the compute node, if we are using DVR, or the network controllers. Yes. Talk about it. OK, yeah. So the question is, in the previous session, they were talking about Mitaka and the integration with Cilometer was it, and the new project that they are working on. Is it coming? It's definitely coming. Look, they are quite a number of improvements happening in Mitaka, sadly, or I shouldn't say sadly, because actually it's a good thing for the enterprises. The commercial distributions, the ones that are enterprise-grade and ready for production, are behind the cycle that is happening upstream, right? And it's usually between three to six months, the gap that we have. All right? We have people like Marantis, which are very efficient. Joe's releasing very close to upstream. In the case of Helion OpenStack, actually, this week, we are releasing Helion OpenStack 3.0, and that one is going to be based on liberty. So again, whatever improvement that is going on at the moment in Mitaka is going to be likely ported over in 4.0. So it's getting there, but it's not as close as upstream as what you may like, all right? So again, this is your challenges from the operational side. May not apply for Mitaka itself, but is how we address them in this case using OpenStack 2, which is based on kilo, all right? So we are a bit behind. Okay, so you may know that if we are using basically kernel namespaces for the load balancer, the moment that either your network node dies or their compute node dies, basically your load balancer is gone, right? So that's a limitation that we have. This is actually been addressing the next release, liberty base, with something that we call Octavia. Okay, so basically Octavia is going to be an actual virtual machine, which is going to be acting as a load balancer, and there is going to be a shake-up abilities. So hopefully when the network node goes down or the compute node goes down with DVR, then we should be able to migrate Octavia to another node and your load balancer will continue to work in a seamless fashion. And the last section really is around, this particular version doesn't have horizon integration, so you can't see the ALBAS being spawned shown within the horizon interface. To me, that's not really a big issue, because you can still do it through command line, so which is fine from my perspective. But the particular customer that we were dealing with, they wanted to be able to see everything from a single pane of glass, so there was a little bit of a challenge there from their perspective. I don't think most people in the room are going to see it as a massive negative, but that's okay. And then the last issue was around ALBAS v2 at that particular time with heated integration. We all know it's coming, so which is good, but at that stage, we had to go down the Ansible path because the heat integration isn't there. So this was the workaround that we came in to be able to do it. Let's take a look how our demo is going. Right, I think it's open running. So like Anthony mentioned, look, if you go to an Edward tab here, you won't be able to see ALBAS. And the reason for it is ALBAS v2, no integration at the moment as of kilo. Liberty, I understand it won't be there either. At least in our commercial release, it's supposed to happen in Mitaka, hopefully. So not a big deal. Again, this particular customer, they were very keen to do infrastructure as code and everything is supposed to be driven via APIs or command lines, so it's not actually a big issue there. Okay, so let's take a look at the actual script that was supposed to stand up the infra, and hopefully we should be able to see from here the floating address for our so-called load balancer on the Niklossys tab. Let's just try to paste it. In this particular case, we are using Tomcat, the port that we are using, the load balancer is 8080. And if everything goes smooth, we should be able to see from the, that would be your left side, the connectivity to the database. All right, so all these fields that are coming from this side are actually coming from the backend, which is actually running Oracle Express Edition. That was the instance that we spun it on the DB segment. So how to test the round robin because this thing is supposed to be working in a round robin fashion. Again, I am using forms here, so this particular font may not get the updates from the second load balancer, so what we can do is we can actually call the IP address for the load balancer. The load balancer is just a round robin, so we should see it's just toggling between the two, web one, web two, web one, web two. Yeah, that's right. So it's supposed to work in a round robin fashion. Let's talk a bit about what we call proactive scaling. Like Anthony mentioned before, there is no integration yet with heat, and Elba's version too. So by right, Cilometer cannot really work with auto scaling groups, which is actually a good thing because it doesn't work most of the time anyway. So what we did in this particular case, the customer was using OpenView, which is an enterprise monitoring tool. So we get OpenView to monitor the actual loading of the instances and just trigger our proactive scaling scripts, right? So we just don't want to call, let's say, a scale up. We go back to our network tab, we should be able to see that a new instance is starting to come up. So this is called a scale web one. So again, if we want to use a pure OpenStack solution, what would be the way to do it? So ideally, we won't be relying on enterprise tools, monitoring tools in order to achieve this. Okay, the good point is that in Monaska, I don't know if they were quite a few Monaska sessions during the summit. I don't know if you have the chance to attend it, but basically they mentioned that we can enable some alarms, we can create our own alarms, and we can actually monitor the loading the instances running inside the cloud, all right? So we should be able to create the triggers as well, and basically, based on events, call the scripts and do what we call proactive scaling. So again, all of this is trying to bypass the limitations that we're facing with the current release. And this particular customer was using third-party monitoring tools, which they wanted to be able to continue to use no matter what resource pool they were consuming, they were monitoring. So what we did was we actually tied into those and we were able to do proactive scaling and scale down based on the monitoring tools that they were already utilizing and basically just hitting the API from there to be able to get the responses. That's right. Let's see if our new Tomcat server is up. It seems to be there. Sorry about the resolution once more. Let's just clear this. And let's try to test our advanced again. Hopefully we should see a third web server, which is a scale web one. All right, so seems to be working fine. Antonio, do you want to talk more about the firewall as a service? We will be the next one. Yep, okay. So the next live demo that we'll go through is firewall as a service.  And what they were looking to be able to do is to be able to control that via code. So at particular runtime, they use a lot of continuous integration. In this particular environment, they had a Jenkins rig that was running. And at runtime, what they wanted to be able to do was to inject into the IaaS layer the policies to be applied for the tiered architecture that they were going and standing up. And what we were able to do was to be able to give them via API in this particular case. And this is the demonstration that we'll do. Although there is integration at the horizon level and we'll show you that before we start. Don't forget to do that. And once the rig was initiated, the code is obviously then pushed to the platform as the infrastructure is being stood up and the security policies are injected at runtime. So what we do is we'll give you a demonstration of those security policies that were being literally injected. And we'll show you how they run and what they look like from the horizon portal and what they look like from the command line as well. All right, let's go back to our network tabs. Let's check the firewall as a service and there is nothing of the slips, right? So we don't have anything at the moment. Okay, so this is by no means a replacement of an enterprise firewall. So what we are using again is basically a firewall as a service which is provided by Neutron. And what I will do is a very simple test case. I will take a look at the IP address that we are running for the load balancer. In this case is 202.33. And let's just try to ping it from this console. Okay, I can actually ping it. So the customer was a bit concerned about this. They said, look, you know, have you heard about denial of service and this kind of stuff? You can actually ping it from many sites and so maybe we'll go down. So we are a bit, a bit uneasy with this implementation. The sad thing is that we cannot really control ICMP by using security groups in the load balancer, right? Because this floating IP is actually sitting in the load balancer. The load balancer is not an actual instance, at least not until we get to Octavia. And then the only way that we really have to block this ICMP from within OpenStack is actually enable firewall as a service. So let me go to case three. What I will do is just call this particular script and we will see that basically I am starting to deny it. I'm creating some rules to deny the ICMP and to steal a labor or allow the traffic going to ITAT, which is our tongue observer, right? Let's go back to Horizon. Let's take a look at the firewalls and hopefully we should have a firewall with has two policies in place, one for deny ICMP, one for allow HTTP and these are the rules. All right, let's try to ping it again. Where's my ping? Here. All right. Two out of four. It's working fine so far. Hey, don't jinx this. Okay, let's get Anthony to talk a bit about VPN as a service. Or let me see, I think we have some limitations that we want to highlight about this particular case. Yeah, there's a couple of limitations we need to talk about. Yeah, well, like we mentioned is by no means a replayment of an enterprise firewall. They are APIs in place for major vendors like ShapePoint in which we can integrate with Neutron. So that's the ideal case for production environments. All right, again, this is only QA and development. So it's just for testing purposes. The second issue is if DVR is enabled, which in our case it is because it's the defaulting Helium OpenStack, then it's not going to filter the bandwidth traffic. It's only going to filter the north-south, right? So any traffic coming from outside. So again, in this particular case, a combination of security groups for the particular Tonka instance, let's say, and a firewall as a service to basically block the ICMP in the load balancer that would be the ideal situation, or at least as a way that we presented to this customer. All right. Yeah, that's pretty much what we mentioned before. Let's jump into what I believe is the most interesting use case, which is VPN as a service. And Tony will talk a little bit more about this requirement from the customer. Okay. So VPN as a service was interesting to the customer that we were working with for a number of reasons. Probably the biggest reason that they were interested in it and they wanted to see how to be able to connect to OpenStack Clouds in this particular instance together was because like I alluded to before, they were utilizing quite a bit of public cloud, but because of the regulatory issues that they had and a number of the monolithic databases that they have sitting at the back end, they wanted to be able to have their private cloud environment be able to hook up to either alternate private cloud environments or even look to be able to hook up to public clouds in the future, but still be able to have their databases located where they are at the moment and have them securely left in the locations and the data centers where they currently were residing. They have a number of Oracle Teradata databases for example, so massive systems of record. And a lot of these need to be made available to the digital groups that need to be able to consume them. And this is one way that they were looking at to be able to do that. So literally to be able to link two clouds together, to be able to do proof of concepts on whether they can be able to ship information from one legacy environment across to what they were calling their bimodal new world, so to speak, and allow the legacy groups still to be able to continue on, working on the solutions and the platforms that they were currently utilizing in their legacy environments, but also allow their digital teams to be able to move faster and be able to still get to that information at the back end. So to describe it at a very, very high level, we've essentially got two OpenStack clouds running. And those two clouds, one of the clouds we will show having the web servers sitting in. And in the second site, so site A in this particular case, we've got the database located. So it's a pretty simple two tier architecture in this particular case. We've got a small Oracle database on site A and on site B Tomcat with a set of webpages heading on it. And what we're gonna do is show you that they can't talk to each other. And then when we enable VPN as a service via code, which we can also de-enable via code as well, you'll then be able to get to the database and retrieve the information. All right, there are a few discrepancies between our actual demo environment and what the customer used to have at that time. This poke actually happened in January. And at that time, we still have our defunct helium public cloud, which is based in OpenStack. So at that time, some of the workloads that they plan to run, we actually tested on the public cloud, right? Based on OpenStack. And the web farm was basically sitting there. So ideally, the database will be kept on premise. They don't want the data sitting God knows where. So that was the whole idea that they have in mind, right? So let me go back to environment, which is here. And what we do now is lend me Jaws. I think I may need to re-log in again to this particular second cloud. Both of these clouds in this case are sitting in the same data center in Sydney, but they are isolated clouds. So we have to separate helium OpenStack implementations, right? I'm going to log in as the VPN tenant for this particular cloud. And if we go to the network topology, we should be able to see that this one is only running the web services, the Tomcat, right? So Tomcat is here. Let's take a look at the other cloud. Get out from this tenant. Let's quickly go into my VPN tenant. And this guy should be running our database, okay? Two isolated clouds, one running the backend, the other one running the web services. So this is a slightly simpler use case in terms of the infrastructure. I don't have a load balancer sitting in front. So what I will do is I should be able to actually hit the floating IP from the web server itself, which is the one that we have over here. So this tab, let's open a new one. Port 8084 Tomcat. And there you go. We are getting some JSP errors. And the reason for this is, like I mentioned before on this side, we have actually the database connectivity, right? Which is being pulled from our backend. We have no backend connectivity at the moment. This one we can actually double check it from the Neutron tab. We should be able to see the VPN tab here. And there is no policies and there is no IP sec site connection, right? So let me try to enable it for this particular tenant. Now once enabled, we should be able to go back to that web page and the JSP errors should disappear because it should now have a database that it can talk to if it works. All right. Let's just give it a few seconds. Cool, let's try to refresh our horizon first. Let me just make sure that we have an IP link. It seems to be active. The IKey policies are in place. And let's try to refresh this guy. We have a database now. Okay, so basically we just created the tunnel between the on-premise cloud and the public one. Okay, not a big challenge there. Still, we have quite a number of limitations which I want to cover now. And yeah, basically this doesn't work with DVR. Okay, if we want to run this implementation and DVR is enabled, which basically will put the floating IP on the compute side. We should have an FIP running as a name facing the compute node itself. The implementation is not going to work. And the reason is because there is still no integration with VPN and the DVR. This is going to happen hopefully in our next release. I think that a lot of work was done in Liberty, so hopefully that won't be a challenge. So what we have to do for this particular tenant is the moment that we create the router that is going to have the IPsec link between the two sides, we have to create it as a centralized virtual router. Okay, that was one of the limitations. Again, no big deal. The only problem is, as you know, the FIP will be sitting on the network controller, so all the traffic will travel through the compute to the network and then outside. So it's just a single point of contagion. The second challenge, and which is perhaps more worrying, is that the current implementation that we have for VPN as a service is based on what we call pre-share keys. So basically we just define a word that we're going to use and that word is going to serve as the seed for the encryption, and it has to be the same on both clouds. So it's not precisely the safest of the implementation, but it's what it works, right, which is an important thing. And the last implementation, helium open stack is still based on open swan for the VPN implementation, and open swan happens to be run as root. So not to worry you too much, but at the moment they are no holes, no bugs that we know or that we are aware of, but as you know, if there is an exploit of open swan and it's running as root, it's not that difficult actually to get a root change in your machine, right? So yeah, there should be a concern. We reckon that again, there is work taking place at the moment in the community. So hopefully there will be a stronger implementation in the future. Yeah, just to be clear on the open swan challenge, let's call it that, the financial institution that we're working with, even though it was a Poc environment, they appreciated being able to control VPN as a service by code, but that was seen as quite a large security hole. So please keep that one in mind, all right? It's good for Pocs, good for demos, but yeah. Back end as a service. Bare metal as a service. Bare metal, yes. All right, do you want to talk about this particular customer? Okay. So this is our final live demo. And Bare metal as a service was interesting to the customer because they have a lot of challenges, number one, actually time to market. So even being able to deploy into their particular environment would take quite a substantial amount of time, let alone if they need to go to bare metal. And to be brutally honest, if they've deployed into a virtualized cloud set of instances, taking it from a set of cloud instances and then deploying it onto bare metal after having already pushed into a virtualized environment, took them four times longer. And even working out how to be able to cut across from that was a policy nightmare within that particular organization. So what they're really interested in here was really bare metal in two ways. So what they wanted to be able to do was, yeah, can we actually increase the amount of compute nodes in an automated way to be able to increase the size of our environments? But number two, can we come up with a methodology to have a singular framework in terms of scripts to be able to deploy into an environment which is running on OpenStack? But can we also do the same thing, provision bare metal and deploy onto bare metal as well, using a very similar set of code? And this is what they asked us to be able to prove. It was pretty challenging, I must admit. But... Well, the good thing is that in our distro, we already have all the playbooks in place for this kind of situation. So ideally, it's just as simple as dropping a new server in your rack, taking out of the MAC address, just defining the model for this particular compute and just run the playbook, and it should work fine, right? So one of the main things that we are trying to address here with Ansible is basically what we call HLM, the Helium Lifecycle Manager. If we have the same conversation with this customer one year back, it would be a totally different one. Let's try to go back in time to our Helium OpenStack One release, which was basically based on triple-o, social wonder. And the conversation basically will go, okay, guys, I want to upgrade today, or I want to patch my cloud. Let's say I am sitting in Juneau, which is the case of our previous distribution, and I want to migrate to, let's say, Kilo or Liberty. How do I go about it? So basically, the conversation was, well, you stand a new cloud. You stand a new cloud based on Liberty, and then we start moving workloads, she's perhaps no idea of the situation, right? So with these Ansible playbooks, what we're trying to do is to make a seamless experience for the customer when it comes to migrating across cycles, all right, and make it seamless for the world loss. So the end user shouldn't be affected. Let's take a look at one of the playbooks that we have here, for example. This particular server, what I will do is I'm going to check how many systems I currently have inside Covular. So for HLM, we have basically with a few components, our repositories are held in Covular, which is, of course, open source, and in Covular, we also hold the definitions on how many computes we have in this particular cloud at the moment. So I only happen to have one, which is compute two. I create already the definition in the model, which is sitting in this particular directory, and what I will do is just call my playbook to try to update Covular and inform him that there is a new compute node coming into the cloud. Okay, this playbook is going to run for about a minute, and hopefully after this is finished, when we check the Covular, again, we should be able to see an additional compute node. In the meantime, let me check, we're going to connect to our ILO in this particular HP machine to use Internet Explorer for that. Yes, this is the most boring use case. That's why there is people walking out. All right, the machine is currently down, so I only have the option to momentary press, which is your favorite button, right, to power on the machine. I'm not going to do that. Hopefully my playbook is going to take care of everything. Okay, so this one's wrong without any issues. Let's check Covular again, and we can see now two compute nodes. So let's try to power on this baby, and for that, I have created a script which basically is calling a playbook again. And that one is sitting in case where metal. We call it ray image. So basically what this one will do is it's going to power on my machine. In Ansible, we are making calls to IPMI tools, and basically using IPMI tools, we just control the booting, rebooting of the machines. And we can also set and configure the PixiWood and which one is the interface that is going to PixiWood to grab all the binaries from our repos, right, sitting on the Covular machine. Okay, so hopefully this guy is going to power off. Let me just get rid of this slip condition. Control C to continue. Powering it now down, it's already down. Let's continue. And if we're successful, we should say that other server starts to Pixi. Yeah, we should. This slip condition is going to be there until this machine actually powers on. Which is happening, we can see more options here, so that means that it's actually coming up. Okay. Again, the installation is going to take about 20 to 30 minutes, which I don't think we have the time. Actually, we have, we are the last session, but I don't think you want to see it anyway. I don't want to say it. So what I will do instead is let me walk you to some of the slides, and we will basically explain how the model works. This is how the Ansible model works, okay? We basically created definitions on this particular find for all your environments. So all the computes are basically here. All your BSAs, in case that you are using BSAs as in their back end are here, or if you have a three-part definition, it's also here. Your controller definition is sitting here as well, so everything is basically Jamel defined in the Ansible model, okay? So what we do is basically the very first time that I run the Cobbler Playbook is going to create the repositories holding our HLinux distribution, which is the one that we use for Helium OpenStack. And it's also going to configure the HCP.conf, right? So basically we're going to provide the MAC address of that particular machine, the IP address that we want to use, and everything is basically seamless to the user. So the only thing that we need to worry about is logging the server in the rack, taking note of the MAC address and updating this particular model, okay? Okay, so what we did just now, the last playbook that I run, which is called Reimage, is basically making a few calls to ICMP to the IPMI tools to get in the machine boot. We are not using Ironic at the moment. Perhaps that will come in the future, but at the moment we think that the ICMP tools is good enough for what we want to achieve. So the moment that this machine actually starts booting, it's going to take a while, it will go into Pixiboot, all right? It will grab the Pixiboot interface and we will start to get the binaries for our HLinux distribution loaded already in the machine. Step number two, after we have the machine running with the operating system, is basically run another set of playbooks, which is basically going to bring the machine inside as an over-compute inside our cloud. And that's pretty much what we do for Bermetal as a service at the moment. All right, guys. All right. I think that's all we have. That's it. Do you have any additional questions? Four demos, and yeah, we'll be... No, I will leave this guy running. We'll be here for any questions afterwards, but I think we're out of time. So thank you very much for attending. We hope you enjoyed it. Thank you for coming. Cheers.


Arsenal has extended its lead with a 4-2 win over Brighton. Well, and to discuss this, I am now being joined by Plus TV Sports correspondent Mudashiru Shitu. Mudashiru, how are you? I'm fine. Thank you very much, Marie. All right. Well, Arsenal Football Club of England has not won the Premier League since 2004, but in its third season in charge as a manager, do you think Arteta can lead the club to win their 14th league title as the lead on the Premier League table with 43 points after a 4-2 win over Brighton? Yes, you are right, Marie. Arsenal has not won the Premier League since 2004, and that was when the former manager, the popular man called us and when I was in charge. But what's going on right now, we can see that it seems that they will probably be going in for the next Premier League, because right now that second point am I ahead of the closest rival, which is Man City. Man City was the Jew, and I gave against the Vatican, when we have Nigerians there, my legs will be. In making it more interesting is the fact that the third on the position, and they look us to also could not have a win. So it's a very good one for Arteta, and Arsenal fans generally, because it's been a long time for a team who has been going to the Champions League for many years, have not won the Champions League. So I'm going to give you 50-50 chances that they might win, and they might not win. They might win if they continue with the winning performance right now, and they might not win if they take away the focus of a minute. There are still many games to be played for, there's still about 17 more games, more than 17 more games to be played for. But I hope that Arteta, just like many Arsenal fans wanting to win, and it's also good to know that Arteta is also a former player of Arsenal. So it's a good one if they win, and I hope they keep up to the momentum.


You're welcome back after the break just before we went for a break. We We all just read through quietly by ourselves Pistimony chapter one and I just asked you all to share Insights that you've received and Charles shared with us. Thank you, Charles Elisha has posted he says Paul despite considering himself the worst of sinners or the foremost of sinful men was judged faithful by God and Trusted with the stewardship of his word and his service I believe that this serves as a reminder that God does not see the potential in everyone No matter their past and is willing to use them to advance his kingdom And we should not write people off as sinners But instead strive to bring them to Christ so that he can transform them and use them for his glory Thank you. Thank you very much Elisha anyone else like to share Insights that you received in that you Learned while just reading through first Timothy chapter one anyone Get on mute your mics and please share be nice to hear One faster For me that Two things are three things that the length from from from chapter one one is when Paul said because he He committed sin in ignorance and then that's reminds me of what says Look, it's you the John or Peter say that if you seen seen Well knowing that you're sinning there's no more Sacrifice for you and then that reminds me of myself that need to To be mindful of that and second thing is It with the acceptance, okay, thank you Pasta. I'll leave today Okay, thank you, Vangie Kennedy says that the urge for sound doctrines only. Yes. That's right. Thank you anyone else Yes, I just wanted to Just try to understand a little bit more about That that was not number 19 our 20 where he mentions about these two people Hymenia sendings Alexander That Paul says are who am I deliver whom I deliver to sit in We learn not to blaspheme so I just want to understand The you know for someone to for for those two people to to blaspheme was that you know such a big sin that Paul you know had to deliver to Satan and What did what did mean did it mean that you know both these people were then just not Able to be forgiven by God or you know, what what was this? What a while What's this that great? So I just wanted to What that Yeah, we'll actually look at it when we come to verse 20, but since you've only asked me You know Hymenia is is also we see is mentioned in second Timothy chapter 2 was 17 And here he's mentioned with you know, he's mentioned with Alexander There in circuit sorry in second Timothy chapter 2 was 70 is mentioned in connection with Pilateus as a very dangerous man So one of the doctrines which Hymenia's was promoting in the church was that the Resurrection was already passed. We we look at it again when we look at second Timothy chapter 2 was 18 So that is all we know about Hymenia's but when it comes to Alexander, you know In second Timothy chapter 4 was 14 we see that Alexander is a corpus myth and he's mentioned as someone who did much evil To Paul and it's possible that it's the same Alexander, you know that who was instrumental in handing over Paul you know to The authorities so Paul says that he hands them, you know Over to you know to Satan and we see we also look at this Something that Paul does similar to this he writes about this something similar in first Corinthians chapter 5 verse 5 You know, and he says where you know, these men have to be excommunicated You put out a fellowship of the church Because when they are, you know, when Paul is saying excommunicate them or put them out of church It's not that, you know, he's thinking bad for them or that he does not want them to to come to a realization of the truth or to be saved or You know, this their souls to be lost in eternity or to be done away with such people Or with such men, but you know what he's basically meaning here and in when he's saying in first content chapter 5 verse 5 We say, you know excommunicate these people send them out of the church And here he's saying, you know, I'll hand over both of these men to Satan It's not we don't look at it in you know, how can Paul be so evil or mean or rude? But his intent was something that was good So when he's saying, you know, give them up to Satan or excommunicate them He's saying that these people when when they are under Satan or when they're out of the church They're out of that spiritual covering. Okay, they're no longer under spiritual oversight on the church leadership They're no longer under the spiritual covering of God.    So No, the language is very sounds very rude and harsh and strong here but Paul has a Good intention behind so that you know when these people are faced with the these kind of troubles and difficulties They're open to the attacks of the evil one or the elements of this world They you know, they will come to a realization of the truth. They will turn back to God They will repent and their souls will be saved for eternity. Did that help Christopher? Yes, thank you. I just just a follow-on question because sometimes, you know, we as Christians also you know, sometimes the Dutch people and now we also In some ways also feel that, you know, if there are there are people who are really evil Do do should be we kind of, you know, you know sort of Do something similar what Paul has done or me I mean it could be Some of us or it could be even, you know, maybe people who are, you know You know pastors or whatever is that is that something that should be done or we should not do it I think what we could do is, you know, we have the whole You know, we can ask the Holy Spirit to work in their lives.  And just pray for them.  She also has a hand up. Yes, Mangi Thank you, Busta Yeah, some I'm just just to follow up from previous question So what's the relationship is? Can we get in this verse and that one in Matthew 18 17 when Jesus said if a brother is not does not Listen Treating is an unbeliever or a tax collector. So what's it? What's a relationship with them with these two verses and how do we treat? Is it a sinner and how do we send someone to say that? Thank you, Busta So how do we treat a sinner? Thank you go Mangi for your question How do we treat a sinner a sinner here actually these two people with who Paul is referring to Hymenias and Alexander they've actually part of the church. So they have heard the truth They know the doctrines and they have turned away. So Paul mentioned some of them in his letters We saw even in Romans. He mentions people who have gone away from the faith who have departed You know who deserted him I deserted the faith and things like that. So these people know the truth and They have gone away. So that is why Paul is using this this So-called harsh or hard language for them to come to a realization of the truth and nothing but difficulties and The son is going to you know, bring them back the truth but for sinners basically when we're talking about sinners where I Am assuming that they have they they are not believers. They have not known the truth They have not heard the truth. So for them we basically pray and share and you know speak and Minister to them from our own lives and our own testimony the way that we live Just portray Christ just reveal Christ and reveal the truth to them so that they come to a Realization of the truth because they're not able to see the truth because you know Satan has blinded their eyes from seeing the truth But for those who have known the truth and gone away from the truth You can't speak the truth back to them because basically, you know policy You can't speak the truth because they already know the truth and they deviated from the truth and they are going to you know They have answers to give you back So, you know, it's only when they face hardships that they're going to turn around But for those who are sinners they do not know the truth because Satan has blinded them But we pray and we minister we share the truth with them The love of God with them so that they you know, they repent and they come back to God Did that help Maggie? Yes, thank you Okay, Divya Yeah, thank you best. I just wanted to Highlight some of the points that popped out for me as I was reading Chapter one. So I really love the way Paul describes God there especially saying that God our savior Lodgy surprised our hope Also in verse 17 Paul writes he's the King eternal immortal invisible To God who alone is wise Be glow honor and glory forever and ever Also the way Paul is, you know addressing himself As an apostle of Jesus Christ By the commandment of God our savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope And also how he addresses Timothy as a true son in the faith So Yeah, and there are some words that are really repeating over and over in the first chapter like good Conscience since your faith pure heart So these are I feel like Paul is these are some things that that matter and And also Even as everyone was sharing like how Paul is talking about God's mercy and grace in his life in verses 12 to 17 and Also was 18 where? Timothy is given the charge to wage the good warfare And To commit committing to you according to the prophecies Previously made concerning you that by them you may wage the good warfare having faith and good conscience So in our lives as well, especially as the word of the Lord for 2023 like Pray like your blessing is coming pray through till breakthrough. So yeah, there are promises of God And there are prophecies made concerning each one And need to hold on to it. Yeah, whatever maybe our circumstances whatever people might tell Or may made Terry we might have to you know, just hold on to those prophecies and promises of God. Yeah Yeah, that's it. Thank you. Thank you. Divya. Thank you so much good insights Asha is saying first Timothy chapter one was 16 But God had mercy on me so that Christ Jesus could use me as a prime example of his great patience Even the worst sinners then others will realize that they too can believe in him and to see the eternal life I love this passage this verse. It's was beautiful and has touched me and helped me to realize the importance. Thank you Um Stephanie has asked to shed light on worse 18 so Was 18 will come to it, but then maybe because you've asked I can just quickly Share was 18 Paul says this I charge a commit to you some Timothy according to the prophecies Previously made concerning you that by them you may Wage the good warfare. So they basically prophecies. He's talking about what was spoken over You know Timothy's life So, you know, I'm sure they would had ministry time people would have spoken over Timothy Paul would have spoken to see Words of prophecy and that which he has spoken over Timothy's life or other people would have spoken over Timothy's life. So he's basically using this, you know, this this chapter to encourage young Timothy we look at why he's he's writing all of these things. So he's encouraging him and He's saying that, you know, hey, you know prophecies were spoken over your life He also mentions about this in first Timothy chapter four was Verses 14 where he says do not neglect the gift that is in you which was given to you by prophecy But the laying on of hands of the leadership. So, you know the anointing the the gifts that he had received when Imparted to him when people laid hands the elders laid hands. So he's saying don't neglect that gift He's just encouraging him that you have these gifts of leadership, you know and God is Taking you at this point to this church things might be very difficult, but remember what was spoken over your life So God has preplanned this for all day in this Has spoken over your life and you know, hold on to those prophecies Also, I think it's in second Timothy chapter one Second Timothy chapter one was Six he says therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying and on-off hands So, you know, he's saying hey, you know, you've received you've been Given all of these gifts this capabilities which was spoken over you prophesied over you, you know, and these are good enough And this, you know, that will sustain you that will help you to continue to run your race and To accomplish what God has called you to do here in the Church of Ephesus Did that help? Stephanie Okay Okay, so thank you all for sharing. We'll Look at a study first Timothy chapter One okay Verse one Paul says Paul and Apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope Okay, so Paul begins his right letters You know by writing his own name first Which is like a letter writing custom in his days So first the letter or the writer of the letter is mentioned and then the reader so we look at was to he says to Timothy So first the writer of the letter is mentioned which is the custom of Paul's day and then you know the the reader or the person is writing to and then You know Paul the person gives greetings to so that is why Paul is writing his name there and he he says Paul and Apostle So we know an Apostle comes from the Greek word apostolous And an Apostle is somebody who is sent with orders He's a delegate an ambassador Somebody who is commissioned so a commissioned one a messenger And you know somebody who's called into the office of an Apostle so an Apostle is basically a sent one somebody sent out with a special mission a messenger Delegate and in terms of function. He's one who goes ahead and pioneers Things starts things where no one else has gone What no one else has done and Paul is saying you know, he's he's Making very clear to the church at Ephesus, you know, because he's going to write very important things matters administration of the church, which In this is this letter is those written to Timothy is going to be read out to all the churches at Ephesus So, you know, Paul is making known who he is. What is this calling that as an Apostle, you know appointed by Jesus Christ himself by My god himself, he has the authority to write what he's writing He has the authority to tell the church what they have to do what they shouldn't be doing About church administration Church ordered and how to bring about things in the church. So he's he's basically setting the stage, you know He's making things very clear Because people can turn around and ask Timothy, okay, who are you to tell us these things? Who is Paul to write? So he's saying that he's an Apostle and he's mentioning that he's an Apostle of Jesus Christ. So which means he's saying that he's been called to this responsibility He's been equipped. He has been sent forth as God's Educative messenger. So his authority comes from God. He derives his authority from God He's been equipped by him. He's been sent forth by him. So as an Apostle Paul had God's authority and God is the one who gave Paul this particular call and Function, which was that of an Apostle So here we know that, you know, or we we can see that, you know, God has gifted each one of us different gifts and You know, whether it's an Apostle or Prophet a teacher or administrator or helper Somebody like Steven who was just serving waiting upon people, but we know sir Steven was full of wisdom of Full of the Spirit full of the fear of the Lord Even though he was just somebody was waiting on people just serving But each one of us, you know, God has given us different gifts and each of these different gifts, you know, we can't You know, we can't compare it with each other because each of these gifts are important for the mutual edification of the body of Christ and for the glory of God. So we can't say that, hey, you know, I'm just an helper in church I'm not an Apostle. I'm not a prophet or I'm not a pastor or a teacher. So my role is not very important It's not true. We can't compare You know one's role against the other because you know, each one of us have received different gifts from God It's God who gives us the gifts and he's given us all different gifts and each of our gifts are important, our pressures are valuable for the edification of the body of Christ So don't look at your gift as something that you used to compare or look down on yourself or Undermine your roles and responsibilities your commitment in the body of Christ But you need to look at your gift as something that Christ has given you that God has given you and look at it as Something which is important for the mutual Edification of the church so your gift is important for the edifying of the body of Christ For the work of God to be established and continued in the in the body of Christ and for the glory of God So you're going you're doing using your gift to manifest his glory, which means to manifest his glory means You know to reveal who God is to make known his nature and what he does Okay So whether we see that even Stephen even though he was just Serving people waiting on people serving tables or serving food But he was full of Wisdom and knowledge and full of the spirit in the fear of the Lord and he was also doing mighty science miracles and Wonders so you know, it's not just those in like pastors and Apostles who have to do all of this but it's also us who can flow in the supernatural Who can manifest the glory of God of who he is and what he does even through, you know You know, if you're just a helper or administrator, whatever we are just use our gifts to the glory of God So we need to recognize discern our gifts And the place of ministry to which God has called us to and we need to use our gifts And not compare or you know, look down or undermine but stay committed faithful and use it for the glory of God so whatever is our gifts or the offices that God has called us to, you know, we must completely surrendered Surrender ourselves surrender our will and you know surrender ourselves and use it for the glory of God and Paul says that, you know, he's an apostle of Christ Jesus by the Commandment of God, so he's basically the stressing things laying out things very clear making things very clear To the church, it ever says he's saying here.   So God is our Savior. He's our father. He's our hope. He's our Lord He's our healer. He's our deliverer. He's our provider Redeemer and we can go on with all of the nature and the attributes and the characteristics of God So it's good to acknowledge to recognize Who God is and then Paul goes on to write in verse two to Timothy a true son in the faith Grace mercy and peace from God our father and Jesus Christ our Lord so As we as I mentioned earlier, you know Paul taught and mentor Timothy And helped him grow or spiritually and helped him to grow in a service in the Lord Jesus Christ So we also see that, you know Paul refers to Timothy as his son. So they had a father son Relationships so here he says, you know to Timothy a true son in their faith So Paul is saying that Timothy have a father and son relationship because of their common faith So what is their common faith their common faith is in the Lord Jesus Christ? So by using this this word or this term common, you know The Apostle Paul is reminding us of that which we hold Common with all believers and what do we hold common with all believers? We hold common is our personal faith in Jesus as our Lord and Saviour and this personal faith that you know each one of us hold as Jesus as our Lord and savior is one that binds us together You know as a spiritual family Regardless of our nationality our status You know The places that we come from whatever, you know, all of those are important to us Yes, but what really binds us together holds us is our personal faith our personal faith our belief in the Lord Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour so all of us, you know who have believed in Jesus as our Lord and savior trusted in him we stand together as one as brothers and sisters in Christ and In some cases, you know, we are spiritual fathers, spiritual mothers To the children that we are, you know, we are raising up mentoring in the body of Christ And so it's this common faith in Jesus Christ that provides us the Basis for our fellowship our communion our relationship and our harmony with one another, okay? Some of these, you know Extra points that I'm giving is not there in your notes So if you're following your notes and it's not there you want to Make a note of it. You can go ahead and make a note of it and then Paul, you know in his in his greetings He usually mentions grace and peace from God our father and Jesus Christ our Lord But here he also mentions the word mercy Usually in most of his epistles and most of his letters Paul mentions grace and peace but here, you know, he's also mentioning the word Mercy so when Paul is using these words, you know grace mercy peace in his greetings In most of his epistles. He's not just using it as a formality You know, just when we write, you know, we also use greetings Sometimes it can just be used as a formality or a fill-in or a way of starting the letter very well But, you know, Paul does not use it as a formality because Paul knew that the source of all grace mercy and peace is no none can come from none other than only God from, you know, God the father God the son Who is our? Jesus Christ who is our Lord and Savior so by writing this or mentioning, you know God the father and the Lord Jesus Christ It's not just like a formality that he's using but he is stressing that, you know, this is where we get Grace mercy and peace it comes from No one else from nothing else none of the things of this world Can give us grace mercy and peace, but it's only it only comes from God the father and the Lord Jesus Christ, okay So Paul is teaching us here or he's teaching the church That they can be neither grace nor peace, you know until you have a personal Relationship with God the father. So what is essential to a relationship with God? As you know, our heavenly father is a relationship with Jesus Christ as our Savior is You know is is the outcome of our relationship is, you know Grace mercy and peace. So he's saying what is essential is our relationship. What matters is our relationship with God who is our heavenly father and what is also essential is our relationship with Jesus Christ because He is our Savior. So look at that pronoun that Paul uses, you know, Jesus Christ our Savior So he stresses the need for a personal faith and Points to a common relationship that all believers have together. So he's basically, you know, at the very start of his letter He's making some very important Phrases and and statements. He's saying hey, there may there is a lack of peace In your in the church it effaces there is division and all of that You know, it does not come by just following some doctrines some rituals Keeping the Old Testament laws and rituals that you're bringing in into the church Some legalistic rules that you want people to follow, you know All of this is not going to bring peace because you know, I mean indirectly just saying hey look There is no peace in the church. There is division. There is strife, which he talks about in You know in in the in the next few verses Sorry He's he mentions that in I think in verse Yeah, in verse Four, you know, he says there is strife. There is three and four. He mentions about it, you know He's saying there is no peace in the church because You know, and he says where does peace come from is, you know, not just in a Corporate gathering where you're bringing about all of these legalistic rules and rituals and your own so-called doctrines, but it's It's in your personal relationship with God the Father and God the Son and that Translates into unity and oneness in the body of Christ. So, you know Some of us can know when we are not at peace with God when we are not in a right relationship with God, you know, it can You know Satan can use us to bring about this unity and strife in the body of Christ So we need to check ourselves, you know, we can't say that in this church There is no unity and and there's no peace. So there's no love It it has to start from us if each one of us are in love with God the Father God the Son We are at peace with them. It automatically translates into having love and peace with With believers with whom we share a Common bond of relationship because of our personal faith in Christ Jesus our Lord So it all begins with our, you know, a personal relationship with God the Father and God the Son, okay So here he stresses on that are, you know, the pronoun are and the need of personal faith and points to That translates into a common relationship of all that all believers have together that he is our Savior now this phrase our savior Or the title savior was, you know in Paul's time was used To honor the Roman Emperor. Okay, so so some commentators some writers mentioned this they they say that this was savior Was a word that was or a term that was or a title that was used to honor the Roman Emperor And so people called and the force to call Caesar or Nero as savior and so Paul, you know In this context that he's writing, you know made the identity of the real savior very very clear And he went by by saying that, you know, he's God in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ So very clearly he's mentioning that God that, you know, savior is not like, you know, like Nero and And Caesar were persecuting the Christians who were fallen human beings evil in their own ways, but he's making the identity of You know Or the real identity of the savior known and that can be seen in the person of The law for Lord and savior Jesus Christ who is God himself Any questions so far from verses one and two Any questions Okay, if there's no questions will move on to us three and four can somebody quickly read three and four, please loudly anyone Okay, so As I like you go ahead when I went, okay. Thank you. Thank you first. Yes I I I did you when I moved into Macedonia Remain in emphasis that you may charge some that they make they teach no other doctrine not give heed to the fee both and Endless genealogies which cause disputes rather than a godly Edification which is in faith Thank you pastor Thank you, manki. So Paul is, you know telling Timothy remain in Ephesus which means he would have heard, you know Paul is left Timothy in in Ephesus he's gone on to You know, he's gone on to Macedonia is writing to him And you know, he's saying that, you know, you remain here in Ephesus Maybe, you know, there might be different reasons why Timothy might not want to remain in Ephesus He might have missed Paul He wanted to be with his mentor He might, you know, have been intimidated by Following Paul's ministry, you know, or he might feel he is very timid or, you know, reserved in nature and, you know Perhaps he would have just feel Intimidated by the challenges that he's facing He might have been discouraged by the difficulties of the ministry the people that he has to relate to He might have had questions of his own calling. Is this what God wants me to do? Is this the right place?  Also, maybe, you know Frustrated disappointed at, you know, all the false teachings that were there And the behavior of the people the Christians the the rules and legalism that they were all bringing in the division in the church But, you know, despite all of these reasons That, you know, it's there was no doubt in Apostle Paul's mind that God wanted Timothy to remain in Ephesus and I'm sure, you know Paul before he would have placed Timothy dead He would have done it by the leading of the spirit He would have prayed about it and so he says, you know remain in Ephesus Maybe Paul was at Timothy wants to come back to Paul. So he would have heard about it. So he's, you know, writing their remain in Ephesus and You know, Paul gives him six reasons In chapter one Why he should stay there and finish the ministry that God has given him to do So first Timothy chapter one versus three to seven he says because people need the truth people need to know the truth and In the same chapter in verses eight to eleven He says because you minister in a hard place so Paul is saying yes I know you're in a hard place But you know, you need to remain there 12 to 16. He says, you know, God uses unworthy people So maybe Paul is sorry Timothy is feeling is unworthy, you know, timid Unworthy in the sense that, you know, there are elders there that are grown-up people who are leaders of the church He feels unworthy to even tell them what to do not to do You know, what is the order that he has to bring in church administration that he has to set right? So Paul is saying, you know, God uses unworthy people as well If you're feeling unworthy during that situation, you know, God will use you there in verse 17, you know because Paul is reminding Timothy that you serve a great God, you know A great God who can do great things, accomplish great things more than he can even think ask or imagine Verse 18 he says because you're in a battle and you cannot surrender very easily, you know Soldier is reminding him of a soldier who goes to the battlefield, you know, if he doesn't turn around and run away You know, it's considered to be a covered Soldier, but he will fight till the very end just till he, you know, lays down his life or he's dead So he says you cannot surrender. That's not what a soldier is called to or, you know, that's not Who he is and then in verses 19 to 20 he says because not everyone else does so, you know Yes, you know Paul is saying I know what you're going through but you can't Leave that place. You have to remain there So it just reminds us that, you know, sometimes God will allow us To be in difficult situations put us in difficult places of ministry Things will not be easy. We just feel like leaving the mission field the place that God has called us to And run away, but nothing is going to come very easy, you know Nothing is going to be easy. Wherever we are going to Ministers, so work, you know, nothing is going to be easy We're going to have every attack of the evil one people who are as in hindrance But we need to set our minds You know on what God has Called us to, you know, like Paul says, you know I take hold of that which Christ Jesus has taken hold of me and I continue to run my Race, you know, and he's saying this he's saying, you know, forgetting everything that is behind these things have happened in the past We have done things that are not Appropriate, right? We have messed up things, but he says, you know, whatever is the situation He says, you know, I'm pressing on, you know, I'm taking hold of that which Christ Jesus has taken hold of Me just read this so I just thought I'll share it with you all how many years ago A famous Arctic Explorer, you know, he put this ad in a London newspaper And it reads as this men wanted for hazardous journey small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness constant danger, safe return doubtful Honor and recognition in case of success. So this is the Ad that this Arctic Explorer Put up in the London newspaper. He did not make things very easy, glossy, comfortable, nice But he just mentioned the hard things and the small wages And the hazardous journey But, you know, surprisingly, thousands of men responded to the appeal And the reason why thousands of men responded to this ad was because they were willing to embrace a difficult job of small wages, difficult journey doubtful of returning because You know, they had a great leader and when I read this It was it just struck me because, you know, when we step into ministry things are not going to be easy It's going to be very, very difficult You know, we will not even receive honor and recognition and all of those things We might not see success the level that we expected anticipated that we wanted And it can be very difficult Situations can be very difficult, but always your focus should not be on your problem But it should be on, you know, the one who has called you You know, so that is why Paul says, you know, fixing my eyes on Jesus The author perfecter and the finisher of my race I continue to run my race with endurance and perseverance So Paul had it right, you know His eyes were always fixed on the one who had called him You know, the one who had entrusted things to him And that is why, you know, in spite of all the difficulties, in spite of all the persecutions And the shipwrecks and the beatings and, you know, thing times when he was left dead You know, he just gets on his feet and he, you know, marches on He continues on in ministry because his eyes were focused on the leader The one who called him because he knew he was greater And sufficient enough, his grace was sufficient enough and was capable enough To help him to run his race So even as we are, you know, journeying on in the beginning of this year Just like to leave us with this, you know Things might be easy for us Things might be comfortable this year Things might be exciting There might be challenges There might be difficulties But don't focus your gaze or, you know, look at your problems But, you know, focus on the one who has called you Because greater is he who is in us than he is in the world, you know And he can do exceedingly abundantly more than we can ask, think or imagine And he is the one who opposes us with his righteous right hand And he will continue to lead us and guide us And give us the strength, the skills, the capabilities Empower us, the Holy Spirit empowers us His presence is there and he will lead us on And, you know, the one who's called us is faithful And he will do everything that concerns us that is required of us Okay, so stop here Anyone has any questions? Anything you'd like to share? No questions? Just wanted to find out with regards to the Bible reference for this You mentioned those six reasons why Paul felt our world was telling Timothy to remain in Ephesus Which is the, what is the Bible reference for that? Do you want me to post all of that on the thing? I'll do that He said first Timothy is chapter one Okay, he says he says because people need the truth It's verses three and seven, three to seven Because you minister in a hard place, verses eight to eleven God uses unworthy people verses 12 to 16 Because he serves a great God verse 17 Because you're in a battle and you cannot surrender verse 18 And not everyone else does 19 to 20 So that is first Timothy, 19 to 20? Yes Yes, first all of them in first Timothy chapter one So all of these reasons which he's giving us in first Timothy Which I mentioned is in first Timothy chapter one I just mentioned the verses Okay, thank you Thank you Christopher Anyone else has any questions? Okay, if not then we'll end class Thank you for posting But thank you for everything we have understood And I think really it will be amazing class Thank you first Thank you hope Thank you for that For that encouragement Thank you for enduring with me with the last three hours And be patient Thank you very much Have a good day Just to remind you all that we will not have classes from Monday Sorry, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday That is Wednesday to Friday We have a Christian leaders conference And the sessions will be made available So you all


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And also all of a sudden after COVID, the finally things started moving. I guess they finally got smart following what happened with Adobe when they went to the subscription business and finally getting out selling, you know, selling their product. So finally we had to make money. But anyway, congratulations to them, but that doesn't help us. That's the past. That's working about the future. Let's talk about what's going on. Well, first of all, we're coming back from a, you know, big holiday, month of the king day. So when that happens, I told you, same thing happened on Friday. You're not going to get that much action going into a long weekend. A lot of people went away over the weekend.  Markets down about 300 points. We're down about close to about 1,000 from the ties. You could see that maybe a little bit more. We almost at 37,000. We're down almost about 1,500.  You could see what's happening with a lot of the vaccine stocks. They're not doing too well. I'm just looking over here. You could see Pfizer starting to back off a little bit. ABIV, you know, I don't know if they're still worrying about too much about those test kits, but DWAC is doing pretty well. Okay. So that one's going back on my watch list. But you could see everything else is pretty much bleeding on that list. There's really not that much out there. DWAC, we stock that has a little bit of a push out there. So regarding what happened on Friday, you know, we had the RE, was it the RE-LI? That one, let me just put a two-day chart here so you could see what's going on here. There we go. So that one had a pretty decent move. That went from like 750 up to about 9 bucks. Ugly stock right now. It's been moving pretty well since December from $2.  Big was okay. Big is actually on the watch list this morning. Big did pretty well, but it was one of those late bloomers. You could see that big when it made its move right here. You know, at 9.30 went up, it came back down. It had this nice little pop right here in the middle of the day. And I mean, that was like the 10.30 move right there. I think a lot of people didn't realize it was for real until it got passed this 3.50. So big, that one was one of them that did okay. But that was in the middle of the day. H-O-U-R-R. That one had a nice pop right around 130. That one ran from $5 all the way to 650. Nice little trend. Once again, middle of the day trade. You know, so kind of not the greatest of stocks that I kind of liked. And then he had SBEV. SBEV had a... That was probably the only one that moved early in the morning. It went all the way to about 10 o'clock. It ran from that price around $1.80 to $3.25. And then going into the close, had a really nice push. Ran from that $2.70 all the way up to the last minute of about $4.25. So that was probably the only good one out of them all on what we caught on Friday. But other than that, it was pretty crappy. Usually we get a better selection, a lot more bigger list of stocks.  And listen, if you've been here for a while, you know that's what we look on that pattern. And you know what? It's not a bad thing. You don't have to trade every day. So let's go about, let's talk about what's going on this morning. So we got the AVTI. We know about the buyout on that one. It's starting to back off a little bit. We're not going to look at it. We're not going to trade it. But when you want to know what happened, that's basically what it is. Looks like they came out the announcement just right before a little bit after 845. I am TI. Did I spell it wrong? Yes, I did, of course. I am TE. That's what it was, TE. That one has a, you know, that stock has been doing really, really well on the swing trade. You could see that since January, the beginning of the beginning of the year, I think went from about 475. This stock is already at 950. It's been going up nice and steady. You know, if I look at what happened the last couple of days here, what we're looking at, that, I mean, you could see it was really slow, very, very slow. But it goes up. It's not the prettiest day trade. It might be a day trade today, but it wasn't the best day trading stock on Friday, but she's been more of a swing trade. I don't know, things change all of a sudden. We'll see if today is the day it's going to be that. SRGA, nice little cheap stock, level one stock. But if you're an advanced trader, you could trade several thousand shares of it or you trade nine million shares up 24%. You know, pre-market, put on the B list. I mean, this is what I'm dealing with today on a Friday, on a Tuesday coming back from a big holiday. BBIG just had a little bit of a push, went from 450 to 470, 12 million shares. It could test this resistance levels right below five. You're not too far away from there now. You know, so there's not really that much room to make on that stock. I mean, look at these things. I mean, this thing had a great four o'clock move. You've seen that before, rare for a dollar, $1.60 right back down. I mean, the stock is going on the B list. And then the DWAC. So not really a lot going on. Not really a lot going on. Out of big, maybe about 20 cents, Kathleen. All right, there you go. Give her a round of applause. There you go, Kathleen. Did pretty well. You have about 20 cents on BBIG. That was good. Nice little move right there. You hit the bottom and you got at the top. Good trade right there. All right.   All right. Yes. And then by the way, like Josh just posted up on the link, we do have traders talk today. Also, we're gonna have open house today at four o'clock with me. A lot of talking about direct access trading and how to spot the moves on certain stocks with iceberg orders. And then I am going to be on Walt 365 tomorrow. Expect to be have over, as usual, over 1000 people in their event. So I know some, there's some great speakers, some of you, you know, at the trade in the morning, maybe want to jump in and listen to some of those speakers. That would also be great. But other than that, just be very careful on a day like today. Market is down.  I think Goldman Sachs wasn't doing too well. You know, they had Goldman Sachs took a, I guess earnings were not too well on on on that stock. They beat earnings. I don't know what happened. But apparently they didn't like it. But I would just be very careful until you don't get too cocky. All right. All right, everybody, everyone on YouTube Facebook live will be back here at 230. You can always like us and friend this, watch some other videos if you like. Cyber traders in the cyber group room. We'll be back here. We'll start commentary once the market opens up in about 20 minutes. So let's get ready. Just don't be too crazy today. Right, guys? Good luck, everyone. Happy trading. Be safe. And we'll see you in a little bit.