DevOps Dispatch

Laura Santamaria sits down with Benazir Khan, Community Program Manager at Microsoft, to talk about the Cloud Native Rejekts conference (happens before KubeCon), community conference organizing, and all of the work that happens behind the scenes. Sign up for the event if you’re headed to Paris!Links:https://cloud-native.rejekts.io/

Kat Cosgrove chats with Christoph Blecker, Service Delivery Architect at Red Hat, about his many roles within the Kubernetes project over time, what all of those roles really involve, and how others can grow from contributor, to code owner, to open source governance in Kubernetes and beyond.

Kat Cosgrove is joined by Robert Reeves, VP of Strategic Partnerships at the Linux Foundation. We talk about the various moving parts of an open source foundation as large as the Linux Foundation, how they help build communities, and the tools and resources they provide for projects to get them off the ground, help them thrive, and eventually change the world.

Kat Cosgrove is joined by Rey Lejano, Cloud Native Solutions Architect at Suse, to talk about Kubernetes documentation. We cover how SIG Docs works alongside the release team, the hurdles involved from both a people and a technology standpoint, and the many ways you can get involved in contributing back to Kubernetes whether you’re an organization member or not!

Kat Cosgrove and Laura Santamaria sit down with Natali Vlatko, open source architect at Cisco, to talk about psychological safety in working in open source and in group environments and how to let people know it’s okay to ask for help.Links:Dungeons and Deployments talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CPrDLFM1Aw&t=0sKubernetes SIG Docs talk: https://youtu.be/R4RDZ-rLNJo?si=0ZaF3ByebhWN0VWB

At Kubecon NA 2023 in Chicago, Tim Banks sits down with Amy Tobey of Equinix to talk about competition, contributing, open source and more. Links:- Equinix Metal - Bare Metal Server & Dedicated Cloud Provider- Dell Technologies Developer Learn more: https://developer.dell.com

Laura Santamaria chats with Matt Butcher, CEO at Fermyon Technologies, about WebAssembly, its fit in the overall ecosystem, the huge maturity leap that WebAssembly has made, security with WASM, and more. Join us for our chat about how 2023 was the first big year for WebAssembly, and share some thoughts with us!Links:https://webassembly.org/https://www.fermyon.com/https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtimehttps://developer.fermyon.com/spin/v2/index

Laura Santamaria chatted with Katherine Druckman and Ezequiel Lanza, Open Source Evangelists at Intel, about open source, artificial intelligence (AI), and security. They talked about how generative AI is changing the technology landscape, open source, DevOps, and security.Links:https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/topic-technology/open/overview.htmlhttps://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/topic-technology/open/podcast.html

At Kubecon NA Barton George sat down with Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. Jim takes us through the LF’s 20-year history and how they went from housing one project to over 1000. Jim reveals how the LFs attack on Microsoft back in the day was really a way to neutralize Sun Microsystems and why Google made the strategic move to contribute the code for Kubernetes to the community and why they chose the Linux Foundation as stewards.Learn more:https://www.dell.com/9viDQU3gmzQVideo of this interview posted https://youtu.be/9viDQU3gmzQ?si=nWB2u6yWNPLMC0C1

Kat Cosgrove and Laura Santamaria chats with Paris Pittman, Senior Program Manager in the Open Source Programs Office at Apple, live at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023 about organizational design of, mentoring in, leadership transitions for, and community strategy in open source projects.Links:https://www.swift.org/documentation/server/https://www.swift.org/blog/evolving-swift-project-workgroups/https://github.com/swift-server

Barton George catches up with Ben Wilcock, a Tech Marketing Architect at VMware by Broadcom. Ben takes us through Backstage as well as the role and impact of Generative AI, and its influence in various fields including coding, marketing, and daily life. Ben also introduces 'Back Chat' https://github.com/benwilcock/backstage-plugin-backchat an open source project he’s created to integrate generative AI into Backstage.

At KubeCon North America, Barton George sat down with technology journalist Steven J. Vaughn Nichols. They discuss a variety of topics including Stephen's background in tech journalism, his focus on Linux and open source, the keynotes at KubeCon, the growth of cloud native computing, and the importance of security in the industry.

Barton George caught up with the founder of Platify Insights, Donnie Berkholz to get his take on key trends in the industry. Donnie takes us through platform engineering, portable backends, and the growing presence of generative AI and how it will affect the role of developers. He also gives his thoughts on KubeCon, re:Invent and Monktoberfest.

Kat Cosgrove and Laura Santamaria sit down with Noah Abrahams, Senior Principle TPM at Oracle, about their talk at KubeCon NA 2023, the problems that new contributors or even attendees coming into the cloud native ecosystem face, the churn rate of open source communities, and keeping momentum in open source projects.Links:The talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CPrDLFM1Aw&t=0sKubernetes Slack: https://communityinviter.com/apps/kubernetes/communityCNCF Slack: https://communityinviter.com/apps/cloud-native/cncf

At Kubecon NA Barton George sat down with Louis Ryan, CTO of Solo.io and a cofounder of the open source service mesh, Istio. Louis explains how, like Kubernetes itself, Istio came out of a technology used internally at Google. He explains what a service mesh is, what “ambient services” are and why you want them as well as how Solo.io came to be and what it provides.Learn More: https://developer.dell.com

At Kubecon NA Barton George sat down with OpenCost community manager, Matt Ray. Matt explains how this vendor-neutral open source project provides multi-cloud cost monitoring from on-prem to public clouds. He talks about the big names that support it, the features and capabilities the project plans to include and what they look to others to build. He also walks us through the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) which provides a uniform spec for comparing cloud cost, usage, and billing data allowing customers to make apples to apples comparisons between vendors offerings as well as their own.To learn more, check out opencost.io, github.com/opencost or email [email protected] Learn More: https://developer.dell.com

At Kubecon NA 2023 in Chicago, Ryan Wallner sits down with Buu Lam of the community team at F5 to talk about Kubecon in general, Nginx and what F5 is up to in the Kubernetes space. Learn about what open-source projects F5 has to check out and what Buu thinks about Kubecon. Ryan and Buu also dive into the networking space and what F5 is up to in the multicloud space.Links:- F5 DevCentral - YouTube- https://developer.dell.com- DevCentral: An F5 Technical Community

Description: Live from the KubeCon Chicago show floor, Ryan Wallner talks with the founder of Elotl, Madhuri Yechuri about the evolution of compute in Kubernetes stacks. Learn about why Just in Time (JIT) compute has evolved to treating entire clusters as commodity and listen to Madhuri’s take on managing your fleet of clusters from a “Super Cluster” in this level of abstraction.Links:Nodeless Kubernetes (elotl.co)Dell Technologies DeveloperCloud Native Multi-Cluster on Apple Podcasts

Barton George sat down with Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) to get his insight into a variety of topics – episode 1 of 7. We started out by discussing Chris’s background and how he ended up at the Linux Foundation as the CTO of the CNCF. He then walked us through the breadth and depth of the CNCF and how Kubernetes is just a small part of it

At Red Hat summit 2023, Barton George of Dell sat down with Stephen Watt who leads both Red Hat’s office of the CTO and their Open Source program office. Stephen talks through the major announcements at the event, Red Hat’s activity at the Edge, and the latest regarding Ansible, SBOMS and, of course, AI.

Laura Santamaria chats with Nigel Brown, Senior Developer Advocate at Intuit, about open source, especially at large companies, and building open source communities. They sit down to chat about things like working with Argo, getting new contributors from your company on board with a project, valuing low- and no-code contributions, getting all of your contributions to matter to your management chain, and more. Join us for our chat and share some thoughts with us!Links:https://opensource.intuit.com/app/intuit-open-source/open-sourcehttps://github.com/projectcontour/contour/blob/main/hack/release/release-notes-template.md and example contributor callouts in release notes at https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/releases

Laura Santamaria sits down with Rich Boyd, technical principal at Liatrio, to discuss his experience at KubeCon NA 2023 in Chicago. They talked about what new projects are up and coming in the cloud native world, webassembly and AI, the future of Kubernetes (with some OpenStack discussion in there!), and more.Links:DevOpsDays Austin: https://devopsdays.org/austin/Cloud Austin Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/cloudaustin/Liatrio (where Rich works): https://www.liatrio.com/

Brad Maltz sits down with Alex Chircop of Akamai live from KubeCon North America Chicago to talk about what it's been like recently joining Akamai and what being part of the CNCF Storage TAG (Technical Advisory Group) is like and how it compares to a SIGs (Special Interest Group).Links:cncf/tag-storage: 🗄CNCF Storage TAG (github.com)https://developer.dell.com

At KubeCon North America in Chicago, Ryan Wallner sits down with Prasad Dorbala of Avesha.io to talk about multi-cluster connectivity. Some of the driving factors include data gravity, sovereignty and of course the challenges of security when connecting applications across infrastructure.Links:https://www.avesha.io‎Integrating Avesha's KubeSlice with Dell PowerFlex for Multi-Cluster Connectivity | DELL Technologies

At DevOps days Chicago, Thibaut Rouffineau of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, took us through the company’s portfolio of solutions as well as their areas of strategic focus. Thibaut takes us from the desktop, to the Edge, to their work around Kubernetes and, of course, AI

Conversations with Renu Yarday and Carvel Open Source Project Laura Santamaria discovered Carvel, an open source project that helps people build and deploy applications on Kubernetes, on an exploration of the Project Pavilion at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023. She got a chance to chat briefly with Renu Yarday about the project and how more maintainers can join in to help. Listen in, and then explore their website to see how you can use the project and how you can join the team! Links: https://carvel.dev/

Ryan Wallner sits down with Xing Yang who is a member of SIG Storage TAG Storage and the Data Protection Working group in the Kubernetes community to get an update on all the latest in storage.Linkscommunity/sig-storage at master · kubernetes/community (github.com)community/wg-data-protection/README.md at master · kubernetes/community (github.com)Container Storage Modules | Dell Technologies

Kat Cosgrove and Laura Santamaria chat with Bob Killen (mrbobbytables), program manager in Google’s Open Source Program office and steering committee member for the Kubernetes open source project. We talk about dealing with getting more people to join large open source projects, no-code or low-code contribution options, maintainer burnout, getting employers to employ open source maintainers, and more.Links:https://kubernetes.io/https://www.kubernetes.dev/https://www.kubernetes.dev/resources/keps/https://www.kubernetes.dev/docs/guide/https://www.kubernetes.dev/docs/guide/first-contribution/https://www.kubernetes.dev/docs/guide/contributing/

Ryan Wallner chats with Kyle Forster, the founder of RunWhen, an automated troubleshooting platform that uses digital assistants to help ease the complexity of figuring out what is going on in your Kubernetes clusters. RunWhen has both platform and open-source offerings and allows contributions from open source and third-party royalty-based authors of scripts that are used to effectively troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters, all searched, curated, and aided by RunWhen’s digital assistants.Learn More:RunWhen Productsrunwhen-contrib/runwhen-local: RunWhen Local provides a tailored troubleshooting cheat sheet for Kubernetes environments (github.com)Introduction - RunWhen Documentationrunwhen-contrib/rw-cli-codecollection: RunWhen Public CLI Codecollection Repository - Open Source CLI troubleshooting library for Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure components. (github.com)developer.dell.com

Laura Santamaria chats with JJ Asghar about artificial intelligence (AI) and community building in the world of AI development. We discuss the differences between the DevOps communities that we’re used to and the AI community, if we can find one, as is coming up now. We also explore a bit of how open source in the AI world might be different (is it actually dreaded shareware???) and realize that, while open source is proactive, AI is reactive. Join us for our chat and share some thoughts with us!Links:https://jjasghar.me/https://www.ibm.com/watsonxhttps://huggingface.co/

Importance of nurturing the Kubernetes community Tim Banks sits down with Kelsey Hightower to talk about the history of Kubecon and the Kubernetes community, how inclusion strengthens the project, and the importance of nurturing the individuals in the community.Learn More: https://developer.dell.com

Gabriele Bartolini and Ryan Wallner discuss where the community has come in regard to running Databases like Postgres and Stateful Workloads in general. Databases have moved beyond the concept face and organizations are running large databases with the need for advanced features like multi-cluster architectures and disaster recovery. Listen to Gabriele and Ryan discuss these topics and learn where the community is going and where to find out more.Gabriele's recent talk at KubeCon: Disaster Recovery with Very Large Postgres Databases - Gabriele Bartolini, EDB & Michelle Au, Google - YouTubeLearn more: https://www.dell.com/3Fm1cpS4cHc

Matt takes us through Open Cost, the CNCF sandbox project for Kubernetes Cloud Cost monitoring. Open Cost allows you to see the cost everything you might have inside of your Kubernetes cluster and has contributing members like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, who announced their involvement that week at Kubecon. Matt also explains the requirements and process by which a CNCF project moves from Sandbox to incubationLearn more at https://developer.dell.comCheck out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube Channel.

Donnie talks about his roots in Gentoo, his background in computational structural biology and the move he made to the tech world. He explains how his arc led him to realize that for the majority of his career he has been involved with the building and using of platforms, and how this led him to found Platify insights through which he could offer that knowledge and skillset to help others. We end the talk with Donnie’s thoughts on the show and how it compared to Kubecon NA in Detroit.Learn more at https://developer.dell.com Check out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube Channel.

Software Defined Talk hosts, Matt Ray and Michael Cote are joined by guest host, Barton George for episode #412. The episode was recorded at the Dell booth at Kubecon EU and covers the keynotes, Amsterdam grocery stores, A.I. coverage by tech media and reminisce about OpenStack. Plus, some thoughts on the Breakfast Buffet…Learn more at https://developer.dell.comCheck out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube Channel.

Josh, Karena and Barton cover a wide variety of topics, from Karena’s involvement in upstream projects to how Josh’s quest to fully automate Postgres’s high availability initially led him to. Kubernetes. They talk about the 75-80 CNCF projects that are either a part of Red Hat’s products or upstream efforts as well as OpenShifts bold decision, back in the day, to move from a home-grown container management system to Kubernetes.Learn more at https://developer.dell.comCheck out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube Channel.

Mike, a member of VMware’s Edge team, and Dell’s Barton cover a host of “edgy” topics including, what it means to be “edge native,” the mini version of Kubernetes that VMware is developing for Edge devices, why people don’t talk about “IoT anymore and where people should go if they want to get started with Edge computingLearn more at https://developer.dell.comCheck out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube Channel.

We take a meandering journey through technologies of yesterday and today and their trajectories, including Open Stack, Cloud Foundry and OpenShift. Cote hits his stride as he takes through the details and key elements behind the rise of DevOps and the ascendancy of platform engineering.Learn more at https://developer.dell.comCheck out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube Channel.

Kat Cosgrove talks with Kubernetes release team. Kat is joined by two long-time members of the Kubernetes release team to discuss the release process itself, and how the release process has changed from v1.12 to now. We cover the good, the bad, the technical hurdles, and the people hurdles for the release team itself, as well as the future for current release team members. Check out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube.Learn More: https://developer.dell.com

Live from the KubeCon EU 2023 show floor, Brad Maltz and Barton George chat with Maciej Mazur, Principal ML/AI Engineer at Canonical, about all things MLOps. For the video version of this podcast, watch on the Dell Technologies Youtube.Learn More: https://developer.dell.com

Live from the KubeCon EU 2023 show floor, Brad and Laura chat with Jacco Landlust, Global Head of Cloud at ING Bank, about ING Bank’s decision to open source tools to share with the rest of the cloud native community.Check out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube.Learn more: https://www.dell.com/ltB4BYHxb_A

At KubeCon Amsterdam in April 2023, Brad Maltz and Barton George from Dell Interview Alex Jones from Canonical (now at AWS) live from the Dell booth on the show floor to talk about KubeCon community, Cloud repatriation, Multi-cloud, APIs and more.Check out the video version of this podcast at the Dell Technologies YouTube!Learn more: https://www.dell.com/hYfWFOyuLwE

Recorded live from the show floor in Amsterdam NL in April 2023, Ryan Wallner from Dell talks to Luca Galante of Humanitec around the hype and reality that is Platform Engineering. Learn about what platform engineering is and where its going. Watch the video version of this podcast at the Dell Technologies YouTube!For more information, please visit https://developer.dell.com

Live from the KubeCon Amsterdam show floor in April 2023, Ryan Wallner talks with Xing Yang about Data on Kubernetes, SIG Storage, CSI Migration updates, Registry changes and more.Watch the video version of this podcast on Dell Technologies YouTube!Learn More: https://developer.dell.com/

Live from the show floor at KubeCon Amsterdam in April 2023, Ryan Wallner from Dell talks to Nigel Poulton about all things WASM. WASM and Cloud Native WASM are up-and-coming topics to the Kubernetes ecosystem providing new runtime and development options for applications.Learn about this and more on this episode of DevOps Dispatch. Watch the video version of the Podcast on the Dell Technologies YouTube!Learn more: https://www.dell.com/dcnJsVmRWzc

Laura chats with Chris Short, co-lead of the Kubernetes contributor comms group, about helping the contributor community keep up with the news. A lot of information flows in a large contributor community like the Kubernetes contributor community. From events to code freezes to new deprecations, keeping on top of all of the data is difficult. Enter contributor communications, or contributor comms for short, a group focused on getting the word out about anything and everything in easily understandable, easily consumable formats. Live from the KubeCon EU 2023 show floor, Laura chats with Chris Short, co-lead of the Kubernetes contributor comms group, about helping the contributor community keep up with the news and how to build up communities in general.Watch the video version of the podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube channel!Learn more: https://www.dell.com/rT_WiRyUXt0

Live from the KubeCon EU 2023 show floor, Laura nerds out with Nick Eberts about geology, cloud native ecosystems, and more on the last day of KubeCon when both of them were a bit exhausted.Check out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube.Learn More: https://www.dell.com/s9Wrkf8lAA8

Swag! Cool tech! KubeCon EU 2023.Live from the KubeCon EU 2023 show floor, Laura goes on an entertaining, rambling journey with JJ Asghar and Jeremy Tanner reviewing the conference from swag to cool tech and more.Check out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube.Learn More: https://developer.dell.com/

Live from KubeCon EU 2023, Hands-on learning and community.Live from the KubeCon EU 2023 show floor, Ryan talks with Sean Carolan (now at GitPod) about Instruqt hands-on learning with labs and what education means to the Kubernetes Community.Check out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube.Learn More: https://developer.dell.com

Live from the KubeCon show floor, Brad Maltz from Dell interviews Stu Miniman from Redhat to talk about KubeCon updates, Platform Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Open-source and more.Check out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube