Sudo Show

Moving to the cloud was easy; getting out is the hard part. In SUDO Show 74, Bill, Neal, and Noel dig into “The Great Cloud Breakup” and why more teams are rethinking cloud‑first dogma as exit fees rise and data residency laws go live across the US, EU, UK, and beyond. They talk through how modern Linux, NVMe‑over‑Fabrics, and on‑prem hardware make repatriation realistic again, spotlight rclone and Nick Craig‑Wood for making data movement sane, and share hard‑won stories about ugly data transfers and hybrid architectures. The episode wraps with a tongue‑in‑cheek “repatriate AWS onto three Raspberry Pis” action item and a NetHogs quick fix you can run today to catch chatty services before egress fees blow up your budget.

Show Links:

Red Hat - https://www.redhat.com​

rclone - https://rclone.org​

rclone (commercial) - https://rclone.com​

restic backup - https://restic.net​

Oxide Computer Company - https://oxide.computer/​

nethogs (NetHogs) - https://github.com/raboof/nethogs​

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro – The Great Cloud Breakup

00:02:11 Standup – Data Residency Laws and Exit Fees

00:06:36 Are We Ready to Repatriate? Linux and NVMe-over-Fabrics

00:15:37 Where Are the Future Jobs?

00:23:29 Supporter Spotlight – rclone and Nick Craig-Wood

00:30:17 Bill’s Nightmare Data Transfer Story

00:36:11 Main Topic – The Great Cloud Breakup

01:12:31 Action Item – Repatriate AWS onto MicroShift (on Three Pis)

01:14:12 Quick Fix – NetHogs to Catch Chatty Services

01:17:13 Looking Forward to the Next Episode

01:18:32 Outro – Where Business Meets Linux

Connect with the Hosts:

Bill - @ctlinux on Mastodon

Neal - @[email protected] on Mastodon

Noel - https://github.com/noelmiller

SUDO Show 73 revisits the classic “Career Pipeline” topic with a fresh panel and an updated roadmap for building a Linux and open source career today. Bill, Neal, and Noel start with the “Wayland-only” future of the Linux desktop, spotlight Red Hat’s work on fwupd and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, then dive into education, certifications, homelabs, open source contributions, and soft skills that turn curiosity into real-world tech jobs. They wrap up with a practical systemd-analyze “quick win” you can run right now to understand and improve your system’s boot performance.

Show Links:

Red Hat – Company site:

https://www.redhat.com

fwupd project:

https://fwupd.org

LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service):

https://fwupd.org/lvfs

CompTIA A+ Certification:

https://www.comptia.org/en-us/certifications/a/

AWS Certification:

https://aws.amazon.com/certification/

RHCSA Training and Certification:

https://www.redhat.com/en/services/certification/rhcsa

SUSE SCA (SLES 15):

https://www.suse.com/training/exam/sca-sles-15/

Linux Professional Institute (LPIC):

https://www.lpi.org

systemd-analyze documentation:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-analyze.html

Commands discussed:

systemd-analyze – “Odometer” (total boot time)

systemd-analyze blame – “Leaderboard” (slowest services)

systemd-analyze critical-chain – “Timeline” (dependency chain)

systemd-analyze critical-chain --system

systemd-analyze plot > boot.svg – “Visualizer” (boot chart)

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