What’s the quickest and slowest deployment in your career?
Minutes? Hours? Days? Months? Years? Let’s hear it! Don’t settle for months, you’ve got Equinix within minutes. Be the first to test drive Equinix Deploy and use our self-service capabilities across Equinix Metal, Equinix Network Edge and Equinix Fabric.Meet the Product Managers!
Hello Equinix Community, I'm Jantzen Belliston, Sr Manager at Equinix. Today, we're opening a new chapter in our commitment to fostering transparency and community by introducing you to the incredible individuals behind our innovative products. The essence of Equinix has always been a blend of technology and community. We understand that the pulse of any tech-driven organization is its products, and behind those products, there's a team of dedicated, passionate individuals: our Product Managers. This thread offers a unique opportunity for our customers to get to know these dedicated professionals on a personal level. Our product team is thrilled to be a part of this platform, as it offers us a direct channel to engage, share, and grow with all of you. We see the Equinix Community not just as a space for interactions, but as a bridge to understand your needs, address your questions, and co-create the future. Here’s what to anticipate: Personal Introductions: Our Product Managers from various domains will be stepping forward to share about themselves, their roles, and the inspirations behind the products they steer. Behind-the-Scenes Stories: Insights into the ideation, challenges, and milestones of our product journeys – straight from those who live and breathe them. Open Dialogue: We're building a two-way street. Engage directly with our product teams, share your feedback, or ask anything you've ever wondered about our offerings. Sharing Expertise: Expect enlightening discussions, from technological deep dives to evolving market trends, all from the experts behind our product lineup. I invite our vibrant community to dive into these conversations, ask questions, and truly get to know the people who shape the products and services you trust. Warm regards, JantzenNew Feature - Equinix Status
Starting today you can check the status of your network products on the new Equinix Status page. View status by product and metro for Equinix Connect, Equinix Fabric, Equinix Internet Exchange, Equinix Metal, Equinix Precision Time, Metro Connect and Network Edge. Be sure to bookmark the https://status.equinix.com/ page. We'd love to hear your thoughts, give feedback online or comment below. Learn more about Equinix Status by reading the documentation60 seconds about IFConfig and IPConfig
What can you learn in 60 seconds? A lot, actually! We're now creating Youtube Shorts to teach you in bite-size snippets. Let me and stevemar know which topics you'd like us to cover! Here I talk about IPConfig and IFConfig, which dives into your computer's network - like VPNs, ethernet ports, and more! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xh5KqfH7WE8
Dedicated support for Metal OTW – Join the Beta!
The new support experience for Metal users (Beta) is Live! Metal customers have access for the very first time to an Enterprise-compliant support experience. Key Support Center Beta Features: All-New Support Case System – Easily create Metal support cases with our redesigned case submission system. Unified Case Management – View and manage all your support cases for Equinix products in one place. Seamless Collaboration – Seamlessly invite team members to monitor the status for any Metal support case. Realtime Notifications – Receive email notifications whenever your Metal case has been updated. How do I join the beta? It’s easy, fill out this request form! Who and how to access the beta? For qualifying organizations and users, the new support portal can be accessed in two ways: via a link displayed on the support page of Metal console directly via the URL https://customer-support.equinix.com/ and SSO (same credentials as for Metal) Be sure to check out the Support section of our documentation for more details and let us know how you like it!How do we prepare our kids for jobs that don’t exist?
Studies show that technology is progressing at such a rapid pace that up to 85% of the jobs that will be available in 2040 have not been created yet. Will AI, ML, and hardware advancements create a society where careers we take for granted today won’t exist in the future? In the Traceroute Podcast episode 9 “The Kids are Alright”, join me, Grace Ewura-Esi and Amy Tobey as Producer John Taylor puts a personal face on this idea through his 13-year-old daughter, Ella, who wants to be a chef when she grows up. Together, they explore this issue with Executive Chef-turned-Dell Computer Advocate Tim Banks, as well as employment attorney Michael Lotito, whose Emma Coalition seeks solutions to TIDE, the technologically induced displacement of Employment. Between trips to fully-automated restaurants and the latest advancements in 3D food replication, we discover that Gen Z’s humanity may be their biggest asset in tomorrow’s job market.Cluster-API-Provider-Packet v0.7.0 Release
Version 0.7.0 of cluster-api-provider-packet, introduces metro level support vs facility level in accordance with the soon-to-be updated Metal API. Users ofprevious versions will want to take advantage of this immediately. The basic requirements to upgrade your existing clusters can be found here. Please work with your Equinix support team to determine the best migration path for your architecture. Assistance can also be found in theCommunity Slack andCommunity site. Read more at our Metros Quick Reference and see the facility deprecation announcement. *Please note that if devices are already in the correct metros you’ve specified, no disruption will happen to clusters or their devices. As with any production change, test your changes before applying them to clusters in production. In addition to metro-level support, this release installs the latestcloud-provider-equinix-metal v3.6.1 by default and is built on golang version 1.19 and cluster-api 1.3. The default OS used is Ubuntu 20.04 and kube-vip is updated to v0.5.12 in the kube-vip flavor templates. Lastly, the CI workflow has been refactored with caching removed and updated tests considering cluster-api 1.3 dependencies. See more at the github release here! https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-packet/releases/tag/v0.7.0CFP Readiness for Equinix Demo Day
⛔Closing May 5th The May 5th CFP closing date is fast approaching for Demo Day. Submissions and edits to submissions can be made at Equinix Demo Day 2023 Call for Proposals. Whether you've expressed interest, submitted a draft CFP, or already began working on your demo, here are some considerations to make your CFP standout and make your presentations memorable and actionable. 🔨 Nail the theme The event focus is Equinix integration with talks and demos where the code is shown and is user repeatable. Some example scenarios: A product that includes cloud provider integrations giving it the ability to deploy and manage Equinix resources. This may take advantage of public IaC (Infrastructure as Code), Kubernetes controllers, or SDK (Go, Python, Java) tools for Equinix Metal. Prove your project is resilient. Show it. Destroy it. Show how it can be reprovisioned. Can your project be brought back up without careful attention? A user case story or journey is told. How is this story a unique or common experience? How was integration with the platform utilized? What challenges were presented and overcome by this integration? Tell us more about the developer experience. What made Equinix the right choice for this project? What features would have made this smoother? What features made this shine? How did the developer support, the online community, documentation, tools, or platform features provide value to your organization, product, or project. If the product is a managed service or closed source, these examples would help to make the demo more applicable to the event theme: Helper code and documentation (a tool assisted guide or workshop) reproduces the environment and demonstrates applications running on this product integration. A story about the development process of the integration and the lessons learned Additional routes to explore for this event (fitting open source projects well): How does this solution stack up with alternatives in the ecosystem What design and development choices were made for this project How has the community size and adoption changed What are some of the open challenges past or present, how have they been overcome 🧰 Share your Toolbox There are several ways to publish your integration to get early eyes on it and share it with the community. Our first choice for projects like this is GitHub. Consider the following repositories on the Equinix Labs GitHub organization as a place to park your integration or a template for your project: Equinix Workshop - Create a workshop using this template. Once you've customized the project, enable GitHub Pages and the workshop will be publicly hosted and available. Terraform Template - This template bakes in our best practices and is ready-made for publishing an Equinix Terraform module Terraform Equinix Labs - If you want to share your project with other users of Equinix and turn that project into a workshop, take a look here and open a PR adding your project as a sub-module. Terraform Kubernetes Addons - If your project can run in any Kubernetes environment running on Equinix Metal and has Equinix resource requirements, submit your project as an add-on here so others can take advantage of your integration. Do you have another location in mind? Let us know. 🦺 Pass Inspection As the hosts of the event, we believe the value of any particular product can be demonstrated through open integrations. Our particular focus is on the capability to integrate with Equinix in a user demonstrable and reproducible way, along with the capabilities unlocked through those integrations. The review panel will process CFPs with these considerations. Keep in mind, other CFPs will target common user scenarios especially on network Infrastructure and edge compute automation. While event presentations are not in a product competition, for the purposes of the CFP review, there is a competition of compelling stories. The more engaging we believe those stories fit our user and engineering audience, the more they demonstrate the themes of integrations with Equinix in repeatable ways, the better the chance will be for the CFP to be accepted. The best presentations will be ones where the practitioner viewer is compelled to pull down the discussed project and start experimenting with it to deliver their projects. The presentation, including demos or integrations, does not need to be ready at the time the CFP is submitted. A CFP may be tentatively accepted with the recommendation for a different format or criteria for improving the fit. We will be considering alternate presentation formats for CFPs including panels, lightning talks, and workshops. Tentative acceptance communications will start on May 10th with final acceptance communicated on May 12th. 🧱 Build Your Story Once accepted, we want to have the opportunity to field test your work and storytelling in an advocacy stream or a recorded solution demo. The advocacy live stream is the perfect environment for an early, rough-edges, walkthrough. For demo day, we encourage (but do not require) ironed presentation videos to be submitted no later than two weeks ahead of the event. This will help to avoid any on-air mishaps such as a missed step, flakey builds or runs, and network or availability issues. Presentation windows should leave space for discussion during and after. Another format we can explore is to have the recording voiced over live by the presenter with an event host providing real-time feedback. In this case, the sooner pre-recordings can be offered the better. 🏗️ More Opportunities There are more opportunities for collaboration through presentations and demos on Equinix. This includes streams on Equinix Labs Live and recordings targeted at our solution teams. Future events may provide a better audience for talks and demos that we can't fit into this event. 🚧Demo Site The event page for Demo Day 2023 (equinix.com) is up. As the event nears, we'll be reaching out to CFP submitters with more details on preparation and ways to spread the word. If you haven't already, subscribe to the Equinix Developers YouTube channelwhere you can find playlists of our previous live streamed events: Uncensored GIFEE Day Proximity Dates to remember: CFP Closes: May 5, 2023 Tentative Acceptance: May 10, 2023 Acceptance: May 12, 2023 Pre-recordings submitted: June 7, 2023 Live Streaming: June 21, 2023. See you there! Participants must agree to follow a code of conduct.Deploy a Global Hybrid Cloud on Equinix Metal in 30 minutes
Are you interested in deploying VMWare in a more flexible and modern way, over a neutral, globally available platform, connected to your Cloud Services provider of preference privately, and building real Hybrid Infrastructure in minutes? Join us in this exciting Tech Talk next April 20th.Visit our Event page:https://community.equinix.com/t5/Events/Deploy-a-Global-Hybrid-Cloud-on-Equinix-Metal-in-30-minutes/ev-p/1256 I hope to see you all there! EMEA: Deploy a Global Hybrid Cloud on Equinix Metal in 30 minutes Thursday, April 20, 2023, 11:00 AM CEST AMER: Deploy a Global Hybrid Cloud on Equinix Metal in 30 minutes Thursday, April 20, 2023, 10:00 AM PDT APAC: Deploy a Global Hybrid Cloud on Equinix Metal in 30 minutes Thursday, April 20, 2023, 10:00 AM GMT+08:00
