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In this episode, Michael, Sarah, and Mark talk to Merill Fernando about a set of open source tools he and his team have developed to help people understand their Azure and Entra ID security postures.We also cover news about Fabric, TLS 1.o and 1,1 retirement, Microsoft Ignite, FIDO2, Confidential Containers and Red Hat OpenShift and various Zero Trust news.https://aka.ms/azsecpod

In this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, Utpal Mangla from IBM Cloud joins Ryan Chacon to discuss successfully deploying an IoT solution. The conversation covers the critical role of partnerships in the IoT industry, the challenges enterprises face when adopting IoT solutions, especially in achieving ROI, how different industries are navigating these challenges, overcoming legacy infrastructure, stakeholder alignment, the role of edge computing and 5G in accelerating IoT adoption, actionable advice on moving from proof of concept to deployment, and leveraging hybrid cloud solutions for scalable IoT implementations. Utpal Mangla is a General Manager responsible for Distributed, Edge, Sovereign Cloud & Partnerships at IBM Cloud. Previously, he was a VP and Senior Partner in IBM. He is a recognized leader in IBM's Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment (TME) industry. He is focused on driving AI, 5G, edge, hybrid cloud, and automation for IBM's clients worldwide. Utpal is a regular speaker at industry forums, universities, and business conferences globally. He has been quoted in Fortune, Forbes, Cognitive World, Bloomberg TV, and MWC. IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud, AI, and consulting expertise. They help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs, and gain the competitive edge in their industries. More than 4,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently, and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions, and consulting deliver open and flexible options to their clients. Discover more about IoT at https://www.iotforall.com More about IBM Cloud: https://www.ibm.com/cloud Connect with Utpal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/utpal-mangla-b748541/ (00:00) Intro (00:12) Utpal Mangla and IBM (00:40) IBM's partner ecosystem (01:32) Biggest IoT deployment challenges (02:51) Which industries face the most challenges? (04:12) Overcoming legacy infrastructure (07:13) How to go from proof of concept to deployment (11:32) Defining a successful IoT deployment (12:35) The role of partners in IoT deployments (15:08) What is the impact of edge computing? (16:56) Demand for IoT and AI (19:04) Learn more and follow up Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2NlcEwm​ Join Our Newsletter: https://www.iotforall.com/iot-newsletter Follow Us on Social: https://linktr.ee/iot4all Check out the IoT For All Media Network: https://www.iotforall.com/podcast-overview

Today, Dell Technologies and Red Hat announced a significant advancement in the Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift, which was designed to streamline and accelerate the deployment of AI solutions. This enhanced platform delivers a fully integrated, automated infrastructure optimised for Red Hat OpenShift AI, setting a new standard in how organisations handle AI complexities. In a rapidly evolving AI landscape, the Dell APEX Cloud Platform now supports an expanded range of GPUs, including the new NVIDIA L40S, to cater to the most demanding AI applications. The platform also introduces support for both Dell PowerFlex and Dell ObjectScale storage solutions, ensuring robust, scalable, and cost-effective management of massive datasets and AI workloads. Key Enhancements Include: NVIDIA L40S GPU Integration: The Dell APEX Cloud Platform now supports the NVIDIA L40S GPU, providing advanced computational power essential for handling the most demanding AI applications. This addition offers increased flexibility, allowing organisations to customise their infrastructure according to their specific AI needs, whether for high-performance computing or complex AI models. Dell ObjectScale Storage: In addition to Dell PowerFlex storage, the platform now includes Dell ObjectScale storage, enhancing scalability and cost-effectiveness for managing vast amounts of data. ObjectScale is critical for efficiently handling AI workloads that involve large language models and extensive datasets, ensuring reliable and scalable data management. Hosted Control Planes for Red Hat OpenShift: The APEX Cloud Platform now supports hosted control planes, which streamline cluster management and reduce associated costs. This feature optimizes deployment times, separates management and workload concerns, and allows organisations to concentrate on their applications rather than infrastructure management. Updated Design for Digital Assistants: The Validated Design for deploying digital assistants has been upgraded from a 7B parameter model to a more robust 13B model. This design uses the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework to augment large language models (LLMs) with company-specific data, enabling rapid adaptation and training with relevant information. NVIDIA Riva Integration: The new solution incorporates NVIDIA Riva, a microservice designed for building GPU-accelerated speech AI applications. This integration facilitates automated speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities, streamlining the deployment of natural language processing (NLP) solutions and opening new possibilities for AI-driven communication tools. The updated validated design now includes a 13B parameter model for digital assistants utilising a large language model (LLM) with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework, enabling businesses to rapidly adapt LLMs with domain-specific data. The new AI solution also features automated speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities powered by NVIDIA Riva. Speaking on Dell's collaboration with Red Hat, Caitlin Gordon, Vice President of Multicloud Product Management at Dell Technologies, said: "In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), seizing opportunities amidst complexity is paramount. Collaboratively engineered with Red Hat, the Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift offers a streamlined and automated turnkey solution that transforms how organizations run Red Hat OpenShift on-premises." Stefanie Chiras, senior vice president of Partner Ecosystem Success at Red Hat, said, "The rise of AI has led customers to seek out hybrid cloud infrastructure that accelerates AI application development and delivers faster time to value. Innovation is at the heart of our continued collaboration with Dell, and the updates announced today showcase why Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift can empower organisations with a more consistent, reliable, integrated, and autom...

Interview with Paul Zikopoulos – Vice President, IBM Skills Vitality and Enablement In our latest episode of CGE Radio, J. Richard Jones speaks with Paul Zikopoulos, Vice President, IBM Skills Vitality and Enablement about artificial intelligence you can trust and deploy at scale in government / public sector. Paul is a renowned writer and speaker on AI and Big Data, consulted by "60 Minutes" and NATO generals. Named on numerous global "Experts to Follow" and "Thought Leader" lists, he has authored 21 books and over 360 articles. At IBM, Paul directs strategic initiatives for the IBM Technology Unit's sales and learning programs. He actively promotes Women in Technology, winning IBM Canada's “Women in Technology Ally of the Year” and serving on several advisory boards. Despite his success, Paul stays grounded, always learning from his experiences and his daughter Chloë. Follow him on Twitter at @BigData_paulz. IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting services provider, helping clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,800 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently, and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to their clients. All of this is backed by IBM's legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity, and service. For more information, visit www.ibm.com In this episode: How public sector should organize to prepare for generative AI How Generative AI can help in Canada and abroad The practical use cases that IBM focusses its innovation around How IBMs work with AI differ from others And more!

In this episode of The 5G Factor, our series that focuses on all things across the 5G ecosystem, we review recent adjustments by key players throughout the 5G ecosystem including Verizon Business' debut in the neutral host network segment, Dell and Ericsson commercially debuting Ericsson Cloud RAN software on Dell PowerEdge servers to spur telco cloud journeys, and how Red Hat's open source approach is making inroads across telco hybrid cloud and Open RAN environments. Our analytical review drilled down on: Verizon's First Neutral Host Deal with Cummins. Verizon created a 5G ecosystem stir in announcing its debut neutral host private 5G deal with Cummins Inc., a manufacturer of heavy-duty truck engines. Cummins is tapping Verizon as the technical lead and anchor tenant for a combo network to be deployed at its Jamestown engine plant in Lakewood, New York. Verizon will collaborate with Ericsson to implement the neutral host model using Verizon's C-band and mmWave spectrum bands, plus support for 3.5GHz CBRS connections. The move follows T-Mobile already tossing its hat into the neutral host arena with suppliers such as Celona certified on its 4G-based neutral host system within T-Mobile's “Bring Your Own Coverage 2.0” (BYOC 2.0) program that has the property owner financing and hosting the neutral site. We delve into how the neutral host model can deliver benefits like ensuring all users, such as employees, get the same level of signal across all carriers, vital to making sure emergency calls inside or outside the facility are received as well as the prospects that other operators will warm to Verizon acting as the “neutral” anchor tenant at such sites. Dell and Ericsson Target Stimulating Telco Cloud Journeys. At Dell Tech World 2024, Dell and Ericsson announced they have bolstered their partnership to push telco cloud transformation journeys forward. To help make this happen, the duo is commercially debuting Ericsson Cloud RAN software on Dell PowerEdge servers underpinned by continuous testing and lifecycle management plus joint services that offer telcos integrated network infrastructure support. They are working together to cultivate customized cloud network transformation journeys and provide guidance on network structures and operational frameworks that minimize the deployment risks across open, heterogeneous vendor environments. We assess the potential impact of the alliance on the 5G market including how Dell's AI Factory solutions can ultimately play a key role in stimulating telco cloud journeys including the acceleration of Cloud RAN implementations.  Red Hat Seeks to Reduce Complexity Through Open Source Principles. Red Hat is focused on using open source principles to help telcos improve their business outcomes by reducing complexity with open source underpinning Red Hat's pre-integrated platform approach that includes orchestrating 5G automation, hybrid cloud, AI, and edge computing capabilities. Specifically, Red Hat offers a unified cloud-native application platform that spans the telco's network from core to edge. To that end, Red Hat has integrated Ericsson Cloud RAN with Red Hat OpenShift to provide telcos more flexibility in choosing a cloud platform. The move comes after Red Hat announced in 2023 a partnership to deliver Nokia's core network applications together with Red Hat's cloud infrastructure platforms. We assess the practical outcomes of Red Hat's portfolio development and marketing strategy as shown by its collaboration with telco organizations such as KDDI, Telenor, Turkcell, Perfectum, and an array of others to help accelerate cloud-native network deployments within multi-vendor environments including progress working with Nokia's anyRAN framework as well as Mavenir's Open RAN solutions in the Vodafone Idea network.

Red Hat, a leading provider of open-source software solutions, is expanding its generative AI capabilities to address the IT skills gap. The company plans to extend its Red Hat Lightspeed AI capabilities to its platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). By incorporating gen AI functionality into its portfolio, Red Hat aims to simplify enterprise IT, allowing platform engineers and developers to be more efficient and accurate. Red Hat is joining other enterprise IT vendors in incorporating generative AI capabilities into their offerings. However, budget constraints and uncertain return on investment may hinder the adoption of these new features. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tonyphoang/message

In this episode of The 5G Factor, our series that focuses on all things 5G, the IoT, and the 5G ecosystem as a whole, we look at the top cloud and telco takeaways from conversations and sessions at Mobile World Congress 2024. The major takeaways consist of Red Hat and Tech Mahindra boosting their hybrid cloud collaboration, Red Hat and NTT working with Fujitsu and NVIDIA to ready IOWN environments for real-time edge AI data analytics, Indonesia's Telkomsel selecting Google Cloud to integrate GenAI for augmenting its operations and product offerings, VMware focusing on assuring the DISH Wireless Open RAN build in the US, and TELUS using HPE servers to complete its Open RAN mission in Canada.  Our analytical review focused on: Red Hat and Tech Mahindra Uplift Hybrid Cloud Capabilities. Red Hat and Tech Mahindra announced a collaboration aimed at making it easier for telecommunication service providers to accelerate and manage 5G adoption and deployments across the hybrid cloud. Tech Mahindra's Multi-mode Companion Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift running on AWS can support multiple network use cases, spanning RAN, edge computing, transport and 5G core, to extend capabilities across hybrid cloud environments with integrated automation and orchestration capabilities. We delve into why Red Hat OpenShift provides the infrastructure and application layer key to supporting operations at scale across any cloud environment, with Tech Mahindra's netOps.ai offering a unified view to manage infrastructure and automate applications with low touch provisioning. Plus, we look at how Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes enables full cloud lifecycle management to automate Day 0 and Day 1 configurations and orchestrate workloads across Red Hat OpenShift clusters on-premises and on AWS. Red Hat and NTT Show IOWN Ready for Real-time Edge AI Data Analysis. As part of the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (or IOWN) initiative, Red Hat and NTT in collaboration with NVIDIA and Fujitsu, have jointly developed a solution targeted at enhancing and extending the potential for real-time AI data analysis at the edge. Using technologies developed by the IOWN Global Forum and built on the foundation of Red Hat OpenShift this solution has received an IOWN Global Forum's Proof of Concept (PoC) recognition for its real world viability and use cases. The PoC evaluated a real-time AI analysis platform4 with Yokosuka City as the sensor installation base and Musashino City as the remote data center, both connected through the IOWN All-Photonics Network. We assess why this is a breakthrough for AI edge applications since even when many cameras were accommodated, the latency required to aggregate sensor data for AI analysis was reduced by 60% compared to conventional AI inference workloads.   Telkomsel Selects Google Cloud to Boost Operations and Products with GenAI. Telkomsel announced a strategic collaboration with Google Cloud to integrate enterprise-grade generative AI (gen AI) into its operations and core product offerings for consumers and businesses. This latest collaboration builds on Telkomsel's ongoing use of Google's AI-powered advertising tools, such as Performance Max, with the aim of transforming its employee and customer interactions, augmenting overall user satisfaction, and improving business outcomes. Moreover, Nokia is running AVA Data Suite on Google Cloud to facilitate AI/ML development. We examine why such moves are further validating the overall Google Cloud for Telecommunications proposition.   VMware Looks to Assure DISH Wireless Open RAN Build. At MWC24, VMware, recently acquired by Broadcom Inc, unveiled that DISH Wireless has deployed VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance across the Boost Wireless Network in a pilot production environment to deliver real-time network monitoring, assurance and automation, with the goal of providing a better 5G network and subscriber experience. We assess why the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance remote data collector service allows DISH Wireless the Network Operations Center (NOC) team to collect and analyze data from 20,000-plus cell sites. From our view, this is a critically important development for DISH Wireless to efficiently assure and scale its breakthrough Open RAN 5G network that is getting closer to offering more than 240 million Americans access to the latest in 5G connectivity technology and innovation. TELUS Enlists HPE Servers to Complete Open RAN Mission. During MWC24, HPE announced it is working with TELUS, which is building Canada's first 5G Open RAN, by providing infrastructure across 3,000 sites. Once completed, the new TELUS Open RAN 5G network can provide instantaneously responsive connectivity which can enhance the customer experience with faster connectivity and mobile access. We examine why HPE ProLiant DL110 Gen11 servers, designed specifically for telco workloads, are ready to provide an open and flexible, virtualized foundation to deliver next-generation cellular connectivity to urban and rural Canadians. The servers provide Open RAN infrastructure to assist TELUS with the interoperability it needs by providing the foundation for DU implementations, which are responsible for preparing data for transmission across the 5G network.

Topics covered in this episode: Granian pytest 8 is here Assorted Docker Goodies New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Michael #1: Granian via Andy Shapiro and Bill Crook A Rust HTTP server for Python applications. Granian design goals are: Have a single, correct HTTP implementation, supporting versions 1, 2 (and eventually 3) Provide a single package for several platforms Avoid the usual Gunicorn + uvicorn + http-tools dependency composition on unix systems Provide stable performance when compared to existing alternatives Could use better logging But making my own taught me maybe I prefer that! Originates from the Emmett framework. Brian #2: pytest 8 is here Improved diffs: Very verbose -vv is a colored diff, instead of a big chunk of red. Python code in error reports is now syntax-highlighted as Python. The sections in the error reports are now better separated. Diff for standard library container types are improved. Added more comprehensive set assertion rewrites for comparisons other than equality ==, with the following operations now providing better failure messages: !=, =, . Improvements to -r for xfailures and xpasses Report tracebacks for xfailures when -rx is set. Report captured output for xpasses when -rX is set. For xpasses, add - in summary between test name and reason, to match how xfail is displayed. This one was important to me. Massively helps when checking/debugging xfail/xpass outcomes in CI. Thanks to Fabian Sturm, Bruno Oliviera, and Ran Benita for help to get this release. Lots of other improvements See full changelog for all the juicy details. And then upgrade and try it out! pip install -U pytest Michael #3: Assorted Docker Goodies OrbStack Say goodbye to slow, clunky containers and VMs OrbStack is the fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux. Develop at lightspeed with our Docker Desktop alternative. Podman Podman is an open source container, pod, and container image management engine. Podman makes it easy to find, run, build, and share containers. Manage containers (not just Podman.) Podman Desktop allows you to list, view, and manage containers from multiple supported container engines* in a single unified view. Gain easy access to a shell inside the container, logs, and basic controls. Works on Podman, Docker, Lima, kind, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Developer Sandbox. CasaOS Your Personal Cloud OS. Community-based open source software focused on delivering simple personal cloud experience around Docker ecosystem. Also have the ZimaCube hardware (Personal cloud. Re-invented.) Brian #4: New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' David Ramel Regarding “…the quality and maintainability of AI-assisted code compared to what would have been written by a human.” Q: "Is it more similar to the careful, refined contributions of a Senior Developer, or more akin to the disjointed work of a short-term contractor?" A: "We find disconcerting trends for maintainability. Code churn -- the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored -- is projected to double in 2024 compared to its 2021, pre-AI baseline. We further find that the percentage of 'added code' and 'copy/pasted code' is increasing in proportion to 'updated,' 'deleted,' and 'moved 'code. In this regard, AI-generated code resembles an itinerant contributor, prone to violate the DRY-ness [don't repeat yourself] of the repos visited." Extras Brian: Did I mention pytest 8? Just pip install -U pytest today And if you want to learn pytest super fast, check out The Complete pytest Course or grab a copy of the book, Python Testing with pytest Michael: I'd like to encourage people to join our mailing list. We have some fun plans and some of them involve our newsletter. It's super private, no third parties, no spam and is based on my recent Docker and Listmonk work. Big release for Pydantic, 2.6. New essay: Use Custom Search Engines Way More Joke: Pushing to main Junior vs Senior engineer

In deze fascinerende aflevering zitten Jan Stomphorst en Ronald Kers aan tafel met Joris Cramwinckel, Head of Cloud Native Transformation bij Ortec Finance. Samen duiken ze diep in de wereld van High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads, gericht op duurzaamheid.Ontdek met ons waar in Europa de energiemix in datacenters het groenst is en hoe dit de duurzaamheid van onze technologische toekomst beïnvloedt.Daarnaast nemen we je mee in het intrigerende Project Kepler. Dit project maakt gebruik van efficiënte eBPF-probers om verschillende perf-counters, kernel scheduling parameters en systeemconfiguraties te monitoren. Het resultaat? Het blootleggen van energieverbruik per container en Pod via Prometheus metrics provider API. Deze gegevens kunnen worden gebruikt voor duurzaamheidsrapportage of door Red Hat OpenShift-controllers om werkbelastingsschema's en configuraties te optimaliseren en zo energiebesparingsdoelen te bereiken. Een samenwerking tussen ET, IBM Research en mogelijk Intel.En alsof dat nog niet genoeg is, behandelen we ook KEDA - Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaler. Ontdek hoe KEDA de schaalbaarheid van elke container in Kubernetes aandrijft op basis van het aantal te verwerken gebeurtenissen.Mis deze diepgaande discussie over cutting-edge technologieën niet! Luister nu en laat ons in de reacties weten wat jouw inzichten zijn.

[English episode] Welkom bij aflevering 34 van De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast! In deze boeiende aflevering gaan we diep in op de wereld van Red Hat OpenShift, het krachtige containerplatform dat de manier waarop we applicaties implementeren en beheren transformeert. Onze speciale gast is Pilar Bravo Contreras, Global Presales Leader bij Red Hat. Samen met Pilar verkennen we de minder bekende functies en mogelijkheden van OpenShift. Tijdens ons gesprek duiken we ook in de uitspraak van Dan Walsh: "Containers do not Contain." Wat betekent dit en hoe beïnvloedt het de manier waarop we naar containerisatie kijken? Ontdek de diepere betekenis achter deze uitspraak en hoe het ons begrip van containerisatie vormgeeft.Daarnaast hebben we het met Pilar over Hub Clusters in OpenShift. Wat zijn ze en hoe spelen ze een rol in het optimaliseren van je containeromgeving? Pilar deelt haar inzichten en expertise, waardoor je een dieper inzicht krijgt in de mogelijkheden van OpenShift.Of je nu een techneut bent die op zoek is naar nieuwe mogelijkheden of gewoon nieuwsgierig bent naar de technologische ontwikkelingen, deze aflevering heeft voor elk wat wils. Mis het niet en duik met ons mee in de fascinerende wereld van OpenShift, Containers, en Hub Clusters. Veel luisterplezier!Kubernetes Community Days (KCD Utrecht)Koop je tickets op https://kcdutrecht.nl met kortingscode: KCDUT23-PODCASTFRIENDS en ontvang 20% korting!

This week, we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost, the Free Software Product License, paying for Social Media, and Apple's latest announcements. Plus, Matt begins the search for a new keyboard. 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PromCon, the flagship yearly event of the Prometheus community, took place in Berlin 28-29 September 2023, and we're here to bring you the highlights from the Prometheus ecosystem, including the pivotal decision on Prometheus 3.0! Brace yourselves for some exciting announcements! We also delved into the latest addition to the ecosystem, Perses project, which promises to revolutionize the world of dashboard visualization and monitoring. This new open source project, now part of the Linux Foundation, aims to become the GitOps-friendly standard dashboard visualization tool for Prometheus and other data sources. On this episode I hosted Augustin Husson, Prometheus maintainer and the creator of the Perses project, at the heels of his PromCon announcement of the Perses release. Augustin is also principal engineer at Amadeus, a technology vendor for travel agencies. Augustin joined Amadeus to create a new internal monitoring system based on Prometheus, and he will also share his end-user journey and insights. The episode was live-streamed on 4 October 2023 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzQZagfgIKk OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and chime in with your comments and questions on the live chat. https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks   https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability Show Notes: 00:00 - show, episode and guest intro 05:46 - OpenTelemetry support in Prometheus 11:02 - Green IT use case with Prometheus 14:12 - scrape sharding support in Prometheus operator  19:33 - scaling out Alerts and alert sharding 24:45 - Windows Exporter is released 27:50 - revamping the Prometheus UI with React   30:48 - Prometheus 3.0 and DevDay updates 41:04 - Perses project origins at Amadeus  47:10 - Perses joining open source foundation 49:58 - embedding Perses in Red Hat OpenShift and in Chronosphere  54:05 - Perses current release  59:32 - Perses roadmap 1:03:11 - Perses joining the Linux Foundation and the CNCF 1:07:47 - how to get involved in Perses 1:10:03 - episode outro Resources: Perses on GitHub: https://github.com/perses/perses The CoreDash Project: https://github.com/coredashio/community Perses overview talk at PromCon 2023: https://promcon.io/2023-berlin/talks/... Prometheus support for OpenTelemetry Metrics in OTLP: https://horovits.medium.com/83f85878e46a Socials: Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon Augustin Husson =============== Twitter: https://twitter.com/nexucis LinkedIn: https://fr.linkedin.com/in/augustin-husson-69a050a1 Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@nexucis

In today's episode, hosts Andy Leonard and Frank La Vigne catch up on their recent activities, including Frank's presentations at the Red Hat Summit Connect. They discuss the event and the focus on AI and government agencies. Frank also shares his experiences with a new product called Ansible Lightspeed with Watson code assist, which is enhancing the use of large language models.Moving on, Andy and Frank talk about their home lab projects. They both express their excitement for building a powerful system that allows them to explore AI capabilities locally. While Andy's lab is focused on AI, Frank is delving into the world of Red Hat OpenShift and containers to expand his knowledge. They discuss the importance of hands-on learning and the practicality of setting up a home lab.The conversation takes an interesting turn as they discuss Andy's initial miscalculation with the GPU size and his daughter starting college, leading to budget changes. Frank shares his hardware journey over the past year, including his experience with the Apple Silicon M2 computer and its incredible performance.Tune in to this episode of "Data Driven" to hear more about the Red Hat Summit, the latest developments in AI, and the adventures of building a home lab. So grab your favorite beverage, sit back, and get ready to dive into the world of data-driven insights!LinksRed Hat OpenShift AI in Higher Education Webinar https://qrcodes.at/aidata-edu-webinar-oct19Show Notes[00:00:45] Red Hat holds an annual summit, usually in Boston, featuring sessions for developers.[00:05:16] Recounting difficulty using AI engines, but eventually having success. Mistake of underestimating GPU capacity.[00:07:08] This 8 gig memory is supernatural, like a cool oasis at a conference.[00:09:48] The text discusses trying different operating systems on an old device, including Fedora and Chrome OS Flex.[00:15:17] This machine has 96 gigs and can run multiple VMs.[00:17:12] The author plans to install Hyper V on Windows Server to run multiple Linux VMs, eventually migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They are waiting for a developer license key.[00:19:46] The person is setting up a NAS to store and access files from different devices. They currently use OneDrive as a temporary solution.

In this episode of The 5G Factor, our series that focuses on all things 5G, the IoT, and the ecosystem as a whole, I'm joined by my colleague and fellow analyst, Steven Dickens for a look at 5G news and what's going on that caught our attention. Our conversation focused on: Red Hat Becomes the Primary Infrastructure Platform for Nokia's Core Network Applications. Nokia and Red Hat reached an agreement to integrate Nokia's core network applications with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and RedHat OpenShift. 350 personnel at Nokia will be transferring to Red Hat as Nokia moves on from developing the platforms that host its software. The duo will jointly support and evolve existing Nokia Container Services (NCS) and Nokia CloudBand Infrastructure Software (CBIS) customers while developing a path for customers to migrate to Red Hat's platforms. We delve into the implications for the 5G ecosystem and telco cloud journeys. Azure for Operators: Build 5G Modern Connected Apps at the Edge. Azure for Operators (AfO) is targeting the advancement of 5G modern connected apps across cloud computing fabrics, especially the edge. AfO brings Azure Public MEC, which leverages the mobile operator's public 5G network connectivity, and Azure Private MEC, which brings the power of the cloud to the enterprise's own infrastructure, as key solution offerings. We explore why AfO can move the needle in driving 5G modern connected apps across 5G environments. HPE Completes Acquisition of Private 5G Specialist Athonet. With the acquisition of Athonet, HPE sets the company's sights on bringing private 5G and WiFi together to augment and innovate enterprise connectivity, including using HPE GreenLake's edge compute and security/SASE portfolio assets. HPE's Aruba portfolio is already widely deployed throughout global WiFi implementations putting HPE in a strong position to drive private 5G and WiFi services and capabilities, including mixed network scenarios, according to customer needs. HPE also gains 450 more deployments across major verticals such as healthcare, transportation, utilities, and government. We assess what the completion of the acquisitions means for the private 5G market and the overall 5G ecosystem.

In deze aflevering over VMware in de IBM Cloud schuift Bert Jonker aan tafel. Bert is Europees technisch verantwoordelijk voor Infrastructure as a Service en VMware in de IBM Cloud. Samen gaan we dieper in op de virtualisatie laag van de cloud en waarom VMware in de IBM cloud de flexibiliteit kan bieden, die de hybride oplossing is, die tot een totale oplossing kan leiden zonder conversie.Show Notes:IBM Think 2023: https://www.ibm.com/events/think/IBM Think on Tour: https://www.ibm.com/events/think/on-tour/IBM TechConnect 7 maart: https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/29bmi7mb/landing/page/landingRedbook Security Implementation with Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power Systems: https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/redp5690.htmlVMware op IBM Cloud: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/vmwareVergelijk VMware oplossingen op IBM Cloud: https://cloud.ibm.com/vmware/compare_offeringsBack-up/DR VMware op IBM Cloud met Veeam: https://cloud.ibm.com/infrastructure/vmware-solutions/console/newserviceentry/VeeamVM/vcs_nsx_tBack-up/DR VMware op IBM Cloud met Zerto: https://cloud.ibm.com/infrastructure/vmware-solutions/console/newserviceentry/Zerto/vcs_nsx_tGebruikte afkorting(en):VMDK: (VMware) Virtual Machine Disk (File)IaaS: Infrastructure as a ServiceDR: Disaster RecoveryRTO: Recovery Time ObjectiveKVM: Kernel-based Virtual MachineSDDC: Software Defined Data CenterOp- en aanmerkingen kunnen gestuurd worden naar: ofjestoptdestekkererin@nl.ibm.com

As our listeners should know, Matt Leib (@MBleib) was a GreyBeards co-host But since then, Matt has joined IBM to become Product Marketing Manager on IBM Spectrum Fusion, a data orchestration solution for Red Hat OpenShift environments. Matt's been in and around the storage and data management industry for many years which is why we … Continue reading "140: Greybeards talk data orchestration with Matt Leib, Product Marketing Manager for IBM Spectrum Fusion"

In this recent livestream, Frank explains his excitement about speaking at the upcoming AWS re-invent. The audio gets a little choppy.I tried to clean it up, but there's only so much I can do. I think I need more GPUs.

DETROIT — Developer relations, or DevRel to its friends, is not only a coveted career path but also essential to helping developers learn and adopt new technologies. That guidance is a matter of survival for many organizations. The cloud native era demands new skills and new ways of thinking about developers and engineers' day-to-day jobs. At Dell Technologies, it meant responding to the challenges faced by its existing customer base, which is “very Ops centric — server admins, system admins,” according to Brad Maltz, of Dell. With the rise of the DevOps movement, “what we realized is our end users have been trying to figure out how to become infrastructure developers,” said Maltz, the company's senior director of DevOps portfolio and DevRel. “They've been trying to figure out how to use infrastructure as code Kubernetes, cloud, all those things.” “And what that means is we need to be able to speak to them where they want to go, when they want to become those developers. That's led us to build out a developer relations program ... and in doing that, we need to grow out the community, and really help our end users get to where they want to.” In this episode of The New Stack's Makers podcast, Maltz spoke to Heather Joslyn, TNS features editor, about how Dell has, since August, been busy creating a DevRel team to aid its enterprise customers seeking to adopt DevOps as a way of doing business. This On the Road edition of Makers, recorded at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in the Motor City, was sponsored by Dell Technologies. Recruiting Influencers Maltz, an eight-year veteran of Dell, has moved quickly in assembling his team, with three hires made by late October and a fourth planned before year's end. That's lightning fast, especially for a large, established company like Dell, which was founded in 1984. “There's two ways of building a DevOps team,” he said. “One way is to actually kind of go and try to homegrow people on the inside and get them more presence in the community. That's the slower road. “But we decided we have to go and find industry influencers that believe in our cause, that believe in the problem space that we live in. And that's really how we started this: we went out to find some very, very strong top talent in the industry and bring them on board.” In addition to spreading the DevOps solutions gospel at conferences like KubeCon, Maltz's vision for the team is currently focused on social media and building out a website, developer.dell.com, which will serve as the landing page for the company's DevRel knowledge, including links to community, training, how-to videos and an API marketplace. In building the team, the company made an unorthodox choice. “We decided to put Dev Rel into product management on the product side, not marketing,” Maltz said. “The reason we did that was we want the DevRel folks to really focus on community contributions, education, all that stuff. “But while they're doing that, their job is to bring the data back from those discussions they're having in the field back to product management, to enable our tooling to be able to satisfy some of those problems that they're bringing back so we can start going full circle.” Facing the Limits of ‘Shift Left' The roles that Dell's DevRel team is focusing on in the DevOps culture are site reliability engineers (SREs) and platform engineers. These not only align with its traditional audience of Ops engineers, but reflect a reality Dell is seeing in the wider tech world. “The reality is, application developers don't want to shift left, they don't want to operate. They don't want they want somebody else to take it, and they want to keep developing,” Maltz said.  “where DevOps has transitioned for us is, how do we help those people that are kind of that operator turning into infrastructure developer fit into that DevOps culture?” The rise of platform engineering, he suggested, is a reaction to the endless choices of tools available to developers these days. “The notion is developers in the wild are able to use any tool on any cloud with any language, and they can do whatever they want. That's hard to support,” he said. “That's where DevOps got introduced, and was to basically say, Hey, we're gonna put you into a little bit of a box, just enough of a box that we can start to gain control and get ahead of the game. The platform engineering team, in this case, they're the ones in charge of that box.” But all of that, Maltz said, doesn't mean that “shift left” — giving devs greater responsibility for their applications — is dead. It simply means most organizations aren't ready for it yet: “That will take a few more years of maturity within these DevOps operating models, and other things that are coming down the road.” Check out the full episode for more from Maltz, including new solutions from Dell aimed at platform engineers and SREs and collaborations with Red Hat OpenShift.

Afgelopen week vond in de Verenigde Staten VMware Explore plaats. Techzine was hierbij aanwezig en in deze Techzine Talks bespreken we de aankondigingen, het portfolio van VMware en alle ontwikkelingen rondom het bedrijf. Hoe zit het met Broadcom? Wat bieden vSphere 8 en vSAN 8? Hoezo kiest VMware voor SaaS? Wat is Aria?VMware gaat cross-cloud de nodige diensten leveren op een SaaS-manier. Deze diensten heeft het onderverdeeld in vijf pilaren, namelijk: App Platform, Cloud Management, Cloud & Edge Infrastructure, Security & Networking, Anywhere Workspace. Verder heeft VMware eindelijk ondersteuning voor ARM toegevoegd aan ESXI. Dit in combinatie met de toevoeging voor ondersteuning van DPU's biedt veel mogelijkheden voor toekomstige workloads. Deze kunnen efficiënter worden uitgevoerd op meer verschillende chips. DPU's zijn programmeerbare chips waarop taken kunnen worden uitgevoerd die normaal gesproken door een CPU worden gedaan. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan het routeren van netwerkverkeer, maar ook voor encryptie en decryptie van data. Hierdoor blijft er meer CPU capaciteit beschikbaar voor de applicatie workloads.Tanzu blijft ook een belangrijk kernonderdeel van VMware. Vooral het Tanzu Application Platform biedt veel kansen en krijgt ook de grootste updates. Zo ondersteuning het Tanzu Application Platform nu ook Red Hat OpenShift, toch wel de grootste concurrent van Tanzu Mission Control. De industrie kiest echter steeds vaker voor OpenShift dus VMware heeft weinig keuze.Ook is Carbon Black nu geïntegreerd het in applicatieplatform, naast de bestaande integratie met bijvoorbeeld Snyk. Carbon Black is echter eigendom van VMware, wat voor het bedrijf natuurlijk interessanter is dan een derde partij. Tot slot is er nog Aria, een nieuwe samenvoeging van allerlei verschillende VMware-oplossingen. Het doel van Aria is om een overzicht te bieden van je multi-cloud omgeving en hierin ook allerlei logs en informatie te verzamelen voor bijvoorbeeld Observability. Wij noemen het maar gewoon een soort Splunk maar dan van VMware. Aria is echter behoorlijk uitgebreid met allemaal bestaande oplossingen van VMware waaraan een API Graph is toegevoegd. Het doel is om realtime inzicht te bieden in kosten, performance en het gebruik van resources in applicaties. We staan hier uitgebreid bij stil in deze podcast.

Mediante un acuerdo global, Red Hat y ABB se asocian en busca de apoyar a que las industrias utilicen la automatización de procesos y el software industrial de ABB en entornos híbridos de tecnología de la información (TI) y tecnología operativa (OT) para escalar de forma rápida y flexible, basándose en sus soluciones digitales bajo demanda y a escala a los clientes utilizando Red Hat OpenShift.

Tobias, CEO of Glasnostic here.When the company I co-founded became Red Hat OpenShift and embraced Kubernetes, I felt PaaS could be so much more than an execution fabric for application code.Forward-looking teams were already building the complex and rapidly evolving landscapes of applications we see in successful companies today, and these applications needed more than just an execution fabric. To reliably and safely connect applications across teams, clouds and companies, they needed an effective way to bring load and interaction behaviors under control.This is why we created Glasnostic.The fastest-growing companies today deploy ever more applications in ever more places, and code and configuration say nothing about how actual user behaviors and service interactions impact applications in production. That's why production is where applications get punched in the face.Our purpose at Glasnostic is to augment cloud production environments with powerful runtime control capabilities so engineers understand what is going on and what needs to be done—across all environments.Because it's high time that we get cloud production under control.https://glasnostic.com

Pri objavovaní kontajnerov a Kubernetes nejde OpenShift prehliadnuť. Red Hat OpenShift je otvorená kontajnerová platforma pripravená pre hybridné riešenia. Vie bežať v cloude, edge alebo on-prem. Rieši komplexnosť kontajnerových platforiem, ktorá je často uvádzána ako problém pri adopcii cloud native vo firmách. A práve o tom, ako Red Hat OpenShift po "vybalení" veľa starostí a operatívy vývojárom a aj administrátorom rieši, porozpráva Patrik Plachý.

We waren aanwezig bij KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Valencia afgelopen week om meer te weten te komen over de laatste ontwikkelingen rondom Kubernetes, het bekendste project van de Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). In deze podcast hoor je wat wij ervan opgestoken hebben.Als je het over het cloud-native ontwikkelen van applicaties hebt, kom je al heel snel uit op Kubernetes. Deze beheerlaag bovenop container-gebaseerde applicaties heeft sinds het ontstaan een jaar of acht geleden een grote vlucht genomen. Kubernetes in het algemeen en containers in het bijzonder blijven echter nog altijd behoorlijk complex. Daar is op zich niet zo heel veel mis mee, maar je moet wel weten hoe je ermee om moet gaan. Dat je er niet zonder voorkennis instapt en dus wel goed weet wat er bij komt kijken.Om wat meer inzicht te krijgen in de ontwikkelingen rondom Kubernetes, zijn we naar Valencia gereisd om tijdens KubeCon de nodige mensen te spreken. Niet alleen van de CNCF, maar vooral ook van de leveranciers in de markt die allerlei extra diensten aanbieden om Kubernetes goed in te richten.

Welcome to Episode 121 Main Topic How do I get a hold of expensive software, for the purposes of learning? Check with your school, a LOT of vendors have super-cheap solutions for education.  Your school may be able to provide you a learning license/sub for software you are interested in Less than Legal alternatives Red hat enterprise linux Red Hat Developer Sub https://developers.redhat.com/articles/getting-red-hat-developer-subscription-what-rhel-users-need-know#  Centos literally feeds RHEL, Centos stream is an extremely similar platform. Fedora feeds Centos, Ubuntu Ubuntu Server is free, but you can buy support from Canonical Windows Server Try it on azure's free tier Windows server will run for some time without activation Talk to a partner about a trial https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/trial  Red Hat Openshift https://developers.redhat.com/openshift/hosting-openshift Trial, ask your account rep OKD is the upstream for Openshift OpenShift Online has a free tier First, are you a student?  What if i Just CANNOT find a demo? Operating Systems VM/Container platforms   Vmware vsphere https://www.vmware.com/try-vmware.html https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi7 . Vmware has a surprising number of public trials/demos, and even labs, here: Or just stand-alone esxi?  Industry Software Included with most RHEL subs, but not the dev sub.   Trials are available.  The Katello project is the open source upstream Oracle DB Their site seems to steer you toward an account rep, or their cloud. I believe that oracle will operate without a license, but I do not know that they have an official trial Red Hat Satellite Oracle SaaS and Cloud Aws AWS Free Tier https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/trial  Also, amazon linux is pretty similar to RHEL…  Google compute https://cloud.google.com/compute/  You get a $300 credit to get hooked. Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/free/  Effectively a 30 day trial, you get $200 to use for 30 days Digital ocean https://try.digitalocean.com/freetrialoffer/  Currently a 60 day/$100 trial Linode $100 trial credit Rotating list of promotions: https://www.linode.com/promotions/ Github Free for all, as far as I know Enterprise: (includes a free trial link) https://github.com/enterprise     Watch us live on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month! Subscribe and hit the bell! https://www.youtube.com/IronSysadminPodcast  OR https://twitch.tv/IronSysadminPodcast   Discord Community: https://discord.gg/wmxvQ4c2H6  Find us on Twitter, and Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/ironsysadmin https://www.twitter.com/ironsysadmin Subscribe wherever you find podcasts! And don't forget about our patreon! https://patreon.com/ironsysadmin   Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/ 

Although Kubernetes was originally designed to run stateless workloads, the technology has matured over time and enterprises are increasingly adopting the platform to run their stateful applications. In a survey conducted by the Data on Kubernetes community, 90% of the respondents believe that Kubernetes is ready for stateful workloads, and 70% of them are already running them in production with databases taking the top spot. Having the ability to standardize different workloads on Kubernetes and ensure consistency are seen as the key factors that drive value for businesses.Nutanix provides an industry-leading HCI platform that is ideal for running cloud-native workloads running on Kubernetes at scale. The Nutanix architecture offers better resilience for both Kubernetes platform components and application data. With the addition of each HCI node, apart from scaling the Kubernetes compute nodes, there is an additional storage controller as well which results in improved storage performance for your stateful applications. The Nutanix Unified Storage is made available to cloud-native applications with the Nutanix CSI driver. Applications use standard Kubernetes objects such as PersistentVolumeClaims, PersistentVolumes, and StorageClasses to access its capabilities. The CSI driver also enables users to take Persistent Volume snapshots using API objects VolumeSnaphot, VolumeSnapshotContent, and VolumeSnapshotClass. Snapshots represent a point-in-time copy of a volume and can be used to provision a new volume or to restore existing volumes to the previous snapshotted data. OpenShift Container Platform deploys the snapshot controller and the related API objects as part of the Nutanix CSI Operator as described in Blog 3. Host: Andy WhitesideCo-host: Harvey GreenCo-host: Jirah Cox

Traditionally, enterprise observability solutions have required event data to be routed to back-end storage before any centralized analysis and reporting could take place. First Mile Observability shifts this whole process left, enabling observability immediately when and where the data is created. This empowers the enterprise with immediate, actionable intelligence on system performance and real-time troubleshooting and performance optimization. As a bonus, First Mile Observability solutions from Calyptia, powered by open source Fluent Bit and Red Hat OpenShift, can leverage your existing IT infrastructure.

As Kubernetes becomes more and more popular there's a growing need to address compliance concerns. While development teams face constant demands based on customer and organizational equirements, they must also ensure that data and systems adhere to mandates and frameworks like GDPR, NIST 800-53, HIPAA and others. The only way to keep up is to automate processes everywhere possible – including compliance.During this podcast we'll discuss the current and future state of compliance requirements and how developers can use a template-based approach to simplify the administration and management of compliance.

Kavitha Gowda joins Scott Hanselman to discuss and demo Azure Red Hat OpenShift, which is jointly engineered, operated, and supported by Microsoft and Red Hat to provide an integrated support experience. There are no virtual machines to operate, and no patching is required. Master, infrastructure, and application nodes are patched, updated, and monitored on your behalf by Microsoft and Red Hat. Your Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters are deployed into your Azure subscription and are included on your Azure bill. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:12 - Overview 07:15 - Cluster creation 12:38 - Cluster connection and exploration 15:35 - Creating a new MachineSet 19:42 - AAD integration with Group Sync Operator 20:26 - Install Azure resources with Azure Service Operator 21:30 - Azure Arc integration 22:18 - GitOps 23:09 - Monitoring 24:38 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Red Hat OpenShift (Azure.com) Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift (RedHat.com) Azure Red Hat OpenShift docs Overview of responsibilities for Azure Red Hat OpenShift Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @shanselman Kavitha Gowda | Twitter: @KavithaJPGowda Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday

Kavitha Gowda joins Scott Hanselman to discuss and demo Azure Red Hat OpenShift, which is jointly engineered, operated, and supported by Microsoft and Red Hat to provide an integrated support experience. There are no virtual machines to operate, and no patching is required. Master, infrastructure, and application nodes are patched, updated, and monitored on your behalf by Microsoft and Red Hat. Your Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters are deployed into your Azure subscription and are included on your Azure bill. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:12 - Overview 07:15 - Cluster creation 12:38 - Cluster connection and exploration 15:35 - Creating a new MachineSet 19:42 - AAD integration with Group Sync Operator 20:26 - Install Azure resources with Azure Service Operator 21:30 - Azure Arc integration 22:18 - GitOps 23:09 - Monitoring 24:38 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Red Hat OpenShift (Azure.com) Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift (RedHat.com) Azure Red Hat OpenShift docs Overview of responsibilities for Azure Red Hat OpenShift Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @shanselman Kavitha Gowda | Twitter: @KavithaJPGowda Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday

Interoperability across owned and rented IT systems is essential and a major challenge for IT departments evolving their hybrid multicloud operations. As more IT leaders ask for tighter integration between Red Hat OpenShift and Nutanix software, the two companies joined forces in 2021 to help customers move more quickly and confidently to what Ron Pacheco […]

Interoperability across owned and rented IT systems is essential and a major challenge for IT departments evolving their hybrid multicloud operations. As more IT leaders ask for tighter integration between Red Hat OpenShift and Nutanix software, the two companies joined forces in 2021 to help customers move more quickly and confidently to what Ron Pacheco […]

Interoperability across owned and rented IT systems is essential and a major challenge for IT departments evolving their hybrid multicloud operations. As more IT leaders ask for tighter integration between Red Hat OpenShift and Nutanix software, the two companies joined forces in 2021 to help customers move more quickly and confidently to what Ron Pacheco […]

Innovation is the goal of every organization today.  Whether it is for growth, gaining competitive advantage or just improving the way they do business, it always points back to innovation.  The challenge many organizations face when trying to innovate is integration to the siloed legacy systems which are difficult to interact with and certainly not designed to interface with modern systems.  So, many customers we speak with have a wealth of Information locked into their legacy mainframe systems, with no easy way to access it, nor any easy way to adapt to changes quickly once they do.  ​In this tech talk we will explore the challenges to innovation when legacy systems are involved, what we have learned from our customers, and some real live case studies highlighting successful innovation stories involving legacy systems.  We will also discuss how these innovations play into the Red Hat OpenShift framework.

Nos dias de hoje, muitas empresas estão migrando suas aplicações com a utilização do conceito de container. No novo episódio do nosso podcast, Pedro Wheeler, Gerente Comercial do Seprol, te dá as melhores recomendações para você começar sua jornada neste mundo

Mit der COVID-19-Pandemie waren medizinische Zentren auf der ganzen Welt gefragt. Die Universitätsmedizin Mainz, die jährlich mehr als 350.000 Menschen in rund 60 Kliniken stationär und ambulant versorgt, begann sofort die Prozesse im Klinikumfeld zu digitalisieren. Neue Lösungen zum sicheren Austausch von Gesundheitsdaten sowie zur Optimierung der Prozesse für COVID-19-Tests und die Impflogistik wurden rasch entwickelt. Organisationen in stark regulierten Industrien wie der Gesundheitsbranche, können die Vorteile der Hybrid-Cloud-Technologie nutzen, um die Gesundheit von Patienten und Mitarbeitern zu garantieren und gleichzeitig private Daten zu schützen. IBM Cloud Satellite basiert auf Red Hat OpenShift und ermöglicht einen sicheren Cloud-Betrieb in jeder Umgebung, in der sich Daten befinden – in der Public oder Private Cloud oder auch vor Ort im eigenen Rechenzentrum. Let´s talk … wie man die Flexibilität einer Cloud mit Sicherheit und Datenschutz auch in Ihrem Unternehmen einsetzen kann.

The migration of applications from physical servers to virtual workloads has been underway for over two decades, but the migration from virtual machines to containers is less than a decade old. Modernizing applications to run as containers requires new tooling and the open source Kubernetes project has emerged as the widest adopted container management system.Kubernetes provides cloud-native capabilities, architecture, and operations which require new skill sets, posing a disruptive challenge to traditional organizations who desire the rapid software updates and performance scaling benefits. Like the Linux operating system, there are many Kubernetes distributions, and Red Hat OpenShift provides a market-leading platform to build, deploy and run applications with a consistent foundation across the hybrid cloud. Red Hat OpenShift includes over-the-air updates, container runtime, networking, ingress, monitoring, logging, container registry, and authentication and authorization solutions.Nutanix provides simplicity, scalability, and hybrid cloud infrastructure, providing one-click upgrades of storage, compute, and network resources and services on your choice of hardware, public cloud, and service providers. Running Red Hat OpenShift on Nutanix provides a full stack, enterprise supported, standardized solution with greatly simplified platform management and many non-disruptive operations, accelerating the adoption of containers and cloud native applications.Host: Andy WhitesideCo-Host: Harvey GreenCo-Host Jirah Cox

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, hosts Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner recap their experiences with KubeCon North America 2021. The hosts talk about their opinions in regards to the overall success of KubeCon NA 2021, their first-hand experiences both in-person as well as virtual and the various as news and announcements that relate to using data on Kubernetes. Show Links https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2021/10/13/entry-level-kubernetes-certification-to-help-advance-cloud-careers/ https://dok.community/dokc-2021-report/ https://cilium.io/blog/2021/10/13/cilium-joins-cncf https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/program/cfp/ https://openssf.org/press-release/2021/10/13/open-source-security-foundation-raises-10-million-in-new-commitments-to-secure-software-supply-chains/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kc8BbiVDVU "Whats new in Kubernetes Storage - Xing Yang" Portworx - PX-Backup 2.1 - https://portworx.com/blog/introducing-px-backup-2-1/ Red Hat OpenShift 4.9 and Advanced Cluster Management 2.4 - https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-openshift-4-9s-single-node-clusters-for-the-edge/ NetApp Astra Data Store - https://www.crn.com/news/storage/netapp-debuts-astra-data-store-with-kubernetes-native-software-defined-file-services Google Anthos for VMs - https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/introducing-anthos-for-vms-and-other-app-modernization-tools IBM Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Protect Plus - https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/simple-resilient-hybrid-cloud-with-ibm-storage/ SUSE Harvester - https://www.zdnet.com/article/suse-harvester-deploying-virtual-machines-with-kubernetes Akuity - https://venturebeat.com/2021/10/11/akuity-launches-to-be-the-argo-ent

For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer explore the collaboration of IBM Global Business Services with Telefonica to modernize Telefonica's 5G core network platform built with IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation, Red Hat OpenShift, and Juniper Networks Apstra and QFX technology as well as DISH Network's selection of IBM to help automate what the company is touting as the United States' first greenfield cloud-native 5G network.

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) speaks with Noah about the history of Red Hat OpenShift and how it, and its teams, have evolved to address the needs of the community. We talk about the duality of contributing to #Kubernetes in both an enterprise, and upstream sense, and how to solve for the requirements of companies that are NOT Google.

SingleStore raises $80M in Series F to innovate and expand its footprint and team to offer customers more resources and a better choice. The company revealed a 150 percent increase in cloud revenue and a 300 percent growth in customer acquisitions for its cloud service.Zeotap, a SaaS customer intelligence platform, announced a second extension of $11 million to its Series C funding, where it received $18.5 million from SignalFire in the first extension last year. The new extension involved the backing of Liberty Global Ventures.myCOI raised $5M in debt financing from SaaS Capital, a provider of growth debt for B2B SaaS companies. The proceeds would be used to continue innovation, improve customer experience and hire primarily for sales, marketing, product and development departments.ThinkIQ, a digital manufacturing transformation SaaS, has announced the launch of the Alliance Partner Program to assist customers in getting the most out of their strategic technology investments with the firm.PolyAI, a conversational AI company, raised $14 million in a Series B funding round led by Khosla Ventures. PolyAI, according to the company, creates and installs voice assistants for customer service automation that sound like actual people.TrueFort, a company that safeguards zero-trust apps, has secured $30 million in a Series B investment led by Shasta Ventures. The funds will be used to improve company-wide recruiting, go-to-market operations, and a variety of R&D projects.Duda, a professional web development platform for SaaS enterprises and digital agencies, has acquired Snipcart. Duda intends to put a lot of money into expanding the team and improving the basic Snipcart platform's capabilities and features.To further its vision for hybrid work environments, Google announced a series of innovations in the Google Workspace to help employees collaborate equally regardless of location, device preferences, role or language, a press release from Google said. The updates on the G Suite include a rollout of Spaces in the Google Chat for all users, in addition to new meeting enhancements and conferencing hardware for organizations to bridge the gap while navigating hybrid work environments.Sumo Logic, a log management and analytics provider, and IBM announced the availability of Sumo Logic's continuous intelligence platform on the open cloud Red Hat Marketplace to help companies running on the Red Hat OpenShift platform achieve insights into their cloud and hybrid infrastructure.

El portafolio de servicio de AWS en contenedores se continua ampliando. Últimamente se han anunciado emocionantes nuevas capacidades para EKS y ECS para que puedan desplegarse en instalaciones on-premises a través de la opción Anywhere. Asimismo hace poco AWS anunció ROSA, un nuevo servicio que permite utilizar “Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform“ en un modelo como servicio, gestionado de manera conjunta entre Red Hat y AWS. Únanse a este episodio donde discutiremos en mayor profundidad este servicio y los beneficios que tienen para los clientes de Red Hat y AWS Material Adicional: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/whats-new-red-hat-openshift-service-on-aws/

Dirk-Jan Niggebrugge schuift aan en spreekt over de rol van partners en de samenwerking tussen IBM en SAP. Gaat SAP over op containers of is dit onnodig voor een in-memory database oplossing. Daarnaast komen de laatste nieuwtjes weer naar voren. Vragen of opmerkingen kunt u melden via ofjestoptdestekkererin@nl.ibm.comShownotes:The Weather Company voorspellingen: https://weather.com/news/news/2021-07-28-ibm-weather-company-forecast-accuracy IBM z/OS V2.5 announcement: https://ibm.biz/BdfeXVIBM z/OS V2.5 webinar: https://ibm.biz/BdfeXa IBM en SAP: https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/power/sap-hanaIBM en SAP samenwerking: https://dutchitchannel.nl/678496/sap-werkt-nauwer-samen-met-ibm-cloud-for-financial-services.html https://newsroom.ibm.com/5-Things-to-Know-IBMs-Expanded-Parternship-with-SAP Redbook SAP HANA op Red Hat OpenShift: https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp5619.html?Open Ondersteuning SAP: https://dutchitchannel.nl/639517/sap-onderhoudt-s-hana-tot-en-business-suite-tot.html

This week we discuss Programming Language Rankings, CNCF Project Velocity and the new Gartner MQ for Cloud Infrastructure. Plus, are straws really necessary? 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Jesse Trucks is the Minister of Magic at Splunk, where he consults on security and compliance program designs and develops Splunk architectures for security use cases, among other things. He brings more than 20 years of experience in tech to this role, having previously worked as director of security and compliance at Peak Hosting, a staff member at freenode, a cybersecurity engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and a systems engineer at D.E. Shaw Research, among several other positions. Of course, Jesse is also the host of Meanwhile in Security, the podcast about better cloud security you're about to listen to.Show Notes:Links: Here's the hacking group responsible for the Colonial Pipeline shutdown: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/10/hacking-group-darkside-reportedly-responsible-for-colonial-pipeline-shutdown.html Biden says ‘no evidence' Russia involved in US pipeline hack but Putin should act: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/10/colonial-pipeline-shutdown-us-darkside-message Colonial Pipeline CEO warns of possible fuel shortages following cyberattack: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/colonial-pipeline-ceo-warns-of-fuel-shortages-following-cyberattack Colonial Pipeline hackers apologize, promise to ransom less controversial targets in future: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/10/22428996/colonial-pipeline-ransomware-attack-apology-investigation Over 40 Apps With More Than 100 Million Installs Found Leaking AWS Keys: https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/over-40-apps-with-more-than-100-million.html Red Hat bakes cloud security into the heart of Red Hat OpenShift: https://siliconangle.com/2021/04/27/red-hat-bakes-cloud-security-heart-openshift/ Amazon debuts CloudFront Functions for running lightweight code at the edge: https://siliconangle.com/2021/05/03/amazon-debuts-cloudfront-functions-running-lightweight-code-edge Critical Patch Out for Critical Pulse Secure VPN 0-Day Under Attack: https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/critical-patch-out-for-month-old-pulse.html New Amazon FinSpace Simplifies Data Management and Analytics for Financial Services: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-finspace-simplifies-data-management-and-analytics-for-financial-services/ Spectre Strikes Back: New Hacking Vulnerability Affecting Billions of Computers Worldwide: https://scitechdaily.com/spectre-strikes-back-new-hacking-vulnerability-affecting-billions-of-computers-worldwide America Hacks Itself. Waiting for the Cyber-Apocalypse: https://tomdispatch.com/waiting-for-the-cyber-apocalypse/ Wanted: The (Elusive) Cybersecurity ‘all-Star': https://www.darkreading.com/operations/wanted-the-(elusive)-cybersecurity-all-star/d/d-id/1340929 How to Solve the Cybersecurity Skills Gap: https://securityboulevard.com/2021/05/how-to-solve-the-cybersecurity-skills-gap/ Most Organizations Feel More Vulnerable to Breaches Amid Pandemic: https://www.darkreading.com/risk/most-organizations-feel-more-vulnerable-to-breaches-amid-pandemic/d/d-id/1340954 How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Impacting Cyber Security Worldwide: https://innovationatwork.ieee.org/how-the-covid-19-pandemic-is-impacting-cyber-security-worldwide/ Impact of COVID-19 on Cybersecurity: https://www2.deloitte.com/ch/en/pages/risk/articles/impact-covid-cybersecurity.html Biden on cyber security after 100 days: A good start, but now comes the hard part: https://securityboulevard.com/2021/05/biden-on-cyber-security-after-100-days-a-good-start-but-now-comes-the-hard-part/ Why Software Supply Chain Attacks are Inevitable and what you Must do to Protect Your Applications: https://securityboulevard.com/2021/05/why-software-supply-chain-attacks-are-inevitable-and-what-you-must-do-to-protect-your-applications/ TranscriptJesse: Welcome to Meanwhile in Security where I, your host Jesse Trucks, guides you to better security in the cloud.Announcer: If your mean time to WTF for a security alert is more than a minute, it's time to look at Lacework. Lacework will help you get your security act together for everything from compliance service configurations to container app relationships, all without the need for PhDs in AWS to write the rules. If you're building a secure business on AWS with compliance requirements, you don't really have time to choose between antivirus or firewall companies to help you secure your stack. That's why Lacework is built from the ground up for the cloud: low effort, high visibility, and detection. To learn more, visit lacework.com. That's lacework.com.Jesse: Infrastructure security, including both critical physical systems that make our modern human lives possible, and supply chain on critical software systems is the theme of the week—maybe month, or a year—and we need to sit up and pay attention. Our electrical grids, telco systems, fuel pipelines, water supplies, and more, are delicate flowers ready to be stomped by anything with brute force, or eaten away by a swarm of tiny insects. These systems lurk online in the background where most of us don't see them. However, all these are managed by computerized systems and they aren't as air-gapped as we would hope they are. Internet of Things—or IoT—operational technology—or OT—and industrial control systems—or ICS—aren't new security problems to solve. These have been highly vulnerable forever, but now we're seeing how IoT, OT, ISS security lags far behind mainstream cybersecurity. This is a rapidly changing trend, but we should be worried over the next few months and years, as the security for these things catch up to the rest of the world.Meanwhile, in the news, “Here's the hacking group responsible for the Colonial Pipeline shutdown.” And, “Biden says ‘no evidence' Russia involved in US pipeline hack but Putin should act.” And, “Colonial Pipeline CEO warns of possible fuel shortages following cyberattack,” and, “Colonial Pipeline hackers apologize, promise to ransom less controversial targets in future.” I could list hundreds of more articles on the Colonial Pipeline breach. These are some choice ones you should read to understand the impact of this event. And also hacker groups with sort of a conscience? Hmm.“Over 40 Apps With More Than 100 Million Installs Found Leaking AWS Keys.” Wow, just wow. This is the modern equivalent of hard-coding a password in plain text into an app anyone can read. Please don't be stupid. Don't put keys or passwords into your apps in ways that expose your whole internal structure and customer or user data to the world.“Red Hat bakes cloud security into the heart of Red Hat OpenShift.” DevSecOps is like DevOps, but integrating security into the entire process. If you aren't doing DevSecOps already, you need to start. I like that Red Hat has an offering that makes it easier to adopt for organizations that need a managed service.“Amazon debuts CloudFront Functions for running lightweight code at the edge.” Using a DevSecOps model is critical when you run code that calls someone else's functions. CloudFront functions look useful programmatically to deliver a smooth and fast user experience, but be careful about your inputs and outputs and test your code well.“Critical Patch Out for Critical Pulse Secure VPN 0-Day Under Attack.” Finally, a patch to install if you use pulse secure. You need to know what's happening and you need to install the patch. It's still a good read even if you don't use the product.“New Amazon FinSpace Simplifies Data Management and Analytics for Financial Services.” Like many of us, I'm an armchair economist who likes to geeking out over market and economy analysis and trends. AWS FinSpace looks like a combination of a fantastic way to open opportunities for new players in the financial services industry—or FSI—but at the same time, this moves the trust of data integrity and availability into someone else's hands. When I worked with supercomputers used by chemists, the accuracy and availability of computational results were the most important aspect of the work, so outsourcing some of the fundamental maths makes me fret.Announcer: This episode is sponsored by ExtraHop. ExtraHop provides threat detection and response for the Enterprise (not the starship). On-prem security doesn't translate well to cloud or multi-cloud environments, and that's not even counting IoT. ExtraHop automatically discovers everything inside the perimeter, including your cloud workloads and IoT devices, detects these threats up to 35 percent faster, and helps you act immediately. Ask for a free trial of detection and response for AWS today at extrahop.com/trial. That's extrahop.com/trial.Jesse: “Spectre Strikes Back: New Hacking Vulnerability Affecting Billions of Computers Worldwide.” Hardware flaws are both esoteric and terrifying. This shows that anything can be compromised given enough willpower and science. Always assume your systems are flawed and breakable and have multiple checks and balances to ensure the efficacy of operations and the integrity of your data.“America Hacks Itself. Waiting for the Cyber-Apocalypse.” I'm a Cold War spy novel aficionado, and I can't go a week without reading a story or novel about a dystopian nightmare. You know, like today's news. Most of the former teaches us about the origins of the latter, and we are living in one of those nightmares now. If you want to understand more about nation-state hacking and cracking, this one is for you.“Wanted: The (Elusive) Cybersecurity ‘all-Star',” and, “How to Solve the Cybersecurity Skills Gap.” The whole point of Meanwhile in Security is to help people who don't do security full time, and this piece expresses my thoughts on the cybersecurity labor market quite well. There are not enough experienced security people on the planet to meet the demands, so everyone has to learn more about security just to get through the day. Repeat this mantra when it gets you down. “I can do it. Security isn't as hard as security people claim. Remember, I can do it. I can do it. I think I can. I think again.”Cloud-native businesses struggle with security, you aren't alone. As more things move to cloud services, security gets more complex and difficult for everyone. These are solvable problems, but it will take an industry shift for it to become easy. It looks worse now than it will be in the near-term future over the next couple of years. We'll catch up to the bad guys' methods and mindsets soon enough.“Most Organizations Feel More Vulnerable to Breaches Amid Pandemic,” and, “How The COVID-19 Pandemic is Impacting Cyber Security Worldwide,” and, “Impact of COVID-19 on Cybersecurity.” There are tons of articles, and surveys, and studies out talking about how cybersecurity has become a larger problem during the global pandemic. It isn't only SARS-CoV-2 rampaging through our human world. I find it important to understand trends in cybersecurity in any sector or vertical because it helps me understand how to gauge my own risk.“Biden on cyber security after 100 days: A good start, but now comes the hard part.” It is important to understand how government policies and politics affects the tech industry, and cybersecurity is not any different. The speed of innovation in attacks and defenses usually leaves governments way behind. We should understand how government thinks about these things.“Why Software Supply Chain Attacks are Inevitable and what you Must do to Protect Your Applications.” I wrote about supply chain attacks recently because it is a scary problem that has shown up in the news with catastrophic results. Everyone managing any type of infrastructure or service needs to understand the nature of the attacks and the associated risks.And now the tip of the week. Remember the article about exposing AWS access keys? Yeah, don't do those things. Even AWS tells you not to. Any app or service should be protected using the most limited IAM role you can possibly use, and keys allowing access to those roles should not be embedded directly into code.Build a process to pull the access credentials when an app launches or connects to your service to initiate the access Instead of putting these things directly into the client systems. You should always be thinking of the ‘least privilege paradigm.' This means you give a service or user the smallest possible set of access rights to do the job needed. For example, AWS allows you to use AWS Config to track what a service touches. So, in testing, use AWS Config to see what your service needs and limit access to only those minimal things it needs.And that's a wrap for the week, folks. Securely yours Jesse Trucks.Jesse: Thanks for listening. Please subscribe and rate us on Apple and Google Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

The conversation covers:  An overview of Ravi's role as an evangelist — an often misunderstood, but important technology enabler.  Balancing organizational versus individual needs when making decisions. Some of the core motivations that are driving cloud native migrations today.  Why Ravi believes it in empowering engineers to make business decisions.  Some of the top misconceptions about cloud native. Ravi also provides his own definition of cloud native. How cloud native architectures are forcing developers to “shift left.” Links https://harness.io/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ravilach Harness community: https://community.harness.io/ Harness Slack: https://harnesscommunity.slack.com/ TranscriptEmily: Hi everyone. I'm Emily Omier, your host, and my day job is helping companies position themselves in the cloud-native ecosystem so that their product's value is obvious to end-users. I started this podcast because organizations embark on the cloud naive journey for business reasons, but in general, the industry doesn't talk about them. Instead, we talk a lot about technical reasons. I'm hoping that with this podcast, we focus more on the business goals and business motivations that lead organizations to adopt cloud-native and Kubernetes. I hope you'll join me.Welcome to The Business of Cloud Native, I am your host Emily Omier. And today I'm chatting with Ravi Lachhman. Ravi, I want to always start out with, first of all, saying thank you—Ravi: Sure, excited to be here.Emily: —and second of all, I like to have you introduce yourself, in your own words. What do you do? Where do you work?Ravi: Yes, sure. I'm an evangelist for Harness. So, what an evangelist does, I focus on the ecosystem, and I always like the joke, I marry people with software because when people think of evangelists, they think of a televangelist. Or at least that's what I told my mother and she believes me still. I focus on the ecosystem Harness plays in. And so, Harness is a continuous delivery as a service company. So, what that means, all of the confidence-building steps that you need to get software into production, such as approvals, test orchestration, Harness, how to do that with lots of convention, and as a service.Emily: So, when you start your day, walk me through what you're actually doing on a typical day?Ravi: a typical day—dude, I wish there was a typical day because we wear so many hats as a start-up here, but kind of a typical day for me and a typical day for my team, I ended up reading a lot. I probably read about two hours a day, at least during the business day. Now, for some people that might not be a lot, but for me, that's a lot. So, I'll usually catch up with a lot of technology news and news in general. They kind of see how certain things are playing out. So, a big fan of The New Stack big fan of InfoQ. I also like reading Hacker News for more emotional reading. The big orange angry site, I call Hacker News. And then really just interacting with the community and teams at large. So, I'm the person I used to make fun of, you know, quote-unquote, “thought leader.” I used to not understand what they do, then I became one that was like, “Oh, boy.” [laughs]. And so just providing guidance for some of our field teams, some of the marketing teams around the cloud-native ecosystem, what I'm seeing, what I'm hearing, my opinion on it. And that's pretty much it. And I get to do fun stuff like this, talking on podcasts, always excited to talk to folks and talk to the public. And then kind of just a mix of, say, making some sort of demos, or writing scaffolding code, just exploring new technologies. I'm pretty fortunate in my day to day activities.Emily: And tell me a little bit more about marrying people with software. Are you the matchmaker? Are you the priest, what role?Ravi: I can play all parts of the marrying lifecycle. Sometimes I'm the groom, sometimes I'm the priest. But I'm really helping folks make technical decisions. So, it's go a joke because I get the opportunity to take a look at a wide swath of technology. And so just helping folks make technical decisions. Oh, is this new technology hot? Does this technology make sense? Does this project fatality? What do you think? I just play, kind of, masters of ceremony on folks who are making technology decisions.Emily: What are some common decisions that you help people with, and common questions that they have?Ravi: Lot of times it comes around common questions about technology. It's always finding rationale. Why are you leveraging a certain piece of technology? The ‘why' question is always important. Let's say that you're a forward-thinking engineer or a forward-thinking technology leader. They also read a lot, and so if they come across, let's say a new hot technology, or if they're on Twitter, seeing, yeah, this particular project's getting a lot of retweets, or they go in GitHub and see oh, this project has little stars, or forks. What does that mean? So, part of my role when talking to people is actually to kind of help slow that roll down, saying, “Hey, what's the business rationale behind you making a change? Why do you actually want to go about leveraging a certain, let's say, technology?” I'm just taking more of a generic approach, saying, “Hey, what's the shiny penny today might not be the shiny penny tomorrow.” And also just providing some sort of guidance like, “Hey, let's take a look at project vitality. Let's take a look at some other metrics that projects have, like defect close ratio—you know, how often it's updates happening, what's your security posture?” And so just walking through a more, I would say the non-fun tasks or non-functional tasks, and also looking about how to operationalize something like, “Hey, given you want to make sure you're maintaining innovation, and making sure that you're maintaining business controls, what are some best operational practices?” You know, want to go for gold, or don't boil the ocean, it's helping people make decisive decisions.Emily: What do you see as sort of the common threads that connect to the conversations that you have?Ravi: Yeah, so I think a lot of the common threads are usually like people say, “Oh, we have to have it. We're going to fall behind if you don't use XYZ technology.” And when you really start getting to talking to them, it's like, let's try to line up some sort of technical debt or business problem that you have, and how about are you going to solve these particular technical challenges? It's something that, of the space I play into, which is ironic, it's the double-edged sword, I call it ‘chasing conference tech.' So, sometimes people see a really hot project, if my team implements this, I can go speak at a conference about a certain piece of technology. And it's like, eh, is that a really rational reason? Maybe. It kind of goes into taking the conversation slightly somewhere else. One of the biggest challenges I think, let's say if you're kind of climbing the engineering ranks—and this is something that I had to do as I went from a junior to a staff to a principal engineer in my roles—with that it's always having some sort of portfolio. So, if you speak at a conference, you have a portfolio, people can Google your name, funny pictures of you are not the only things that come up, but some sort of technical knowledge, and sometimes that's what people are chasing. So, it's really trying to have to balance that emotional decision with what's best for the firm, what's best for you, and just what's best for the team.Emily: That's actually a really interesting question is sometimes what's best for the individual engineer is not what's best for the organization. And when I say individual engineer, maybe it's not one individual, but five, or the team. How do you sort of help piece together and help people understand here's the business reason, that's organization-wide, but here's my personal motivation, and how do I reconcile these, and is there a way even to get both?Ravi: There actually is a way to get both. I call it the 75/25 percent rule. And let's take all the experience away from the engineers, to start with a blank slate. It has to do with the organization. An organization needs to set up engineers to be successful in being innovative. And so if we take the timeline or the scale all the way back to hiring, so when I like to hire folks, I always like to look at—my ratio is a little bit different than 75/25. I'm more of a 50/50. You bring 50 percent of the skills, and you'll learn 50 percent of the skills, versus more conservative organizations would say, “You know what? You have 75 percent of the skills, if you can learn 25 percent of the skills, this job would be interesting to you.” Versus if you have to learn 80 percent, it's going to be frustrating for the individual. And so having that kind of leeway to make decisions, and also knowing that technical change can take a lot of time, I think, as an engineer, as an engineer—as talking software engineering professions as a whole, how do you build your value? So, your value is usually calculated in two parts. It's calculated in your business domain experience and your technical skills. And so when you go project to project—and this is what might be more of, hey, if you're facing too big of a climb, you'll usually change roles. Nobody is in their position for a decade. Gone are the days that you're a lifetime engineer on one project or one product. It's kind of a given that you'll change around that because you're building your repertoire in two places: you're building domain experience, and you're building technical experience. And so knowing when to pick your battles, as cliche as that sounds, oh, you know what, this particular technology, this shiny penny came out. I seen a lot of it when Kubernetes came out, like, “Oh, we have to have it.” But—or even a lot of the cloud-native and container-based and all the ‘et cetera accessories' as I call it, as those projects get steam surrounding it. It's, “We have to have it.” It's like, eh. It's good for resume building, but there's your things to do on your own also to learn it. I think we live in a day of open source. And so as an engineer, if I want to learn a new skill, I don't necessarily have to wait for my organization to implement it. I could go and play, something like Katacoda, I can go do things on my own, I can learn and then say, “You know what, this is a good fit. I can make a bigger play to help implement it in the organization than just me wanting to learn it.” Because a lot of the learning is free these days, which I think it's amazing. I know that was a long-winded answer. But I think you can kind of quench the thirst of knowledge with playing it on your own, and that if it makes sense, you can make a much better case to the business or to technology leadership to make change.Emily: And what do you think the core business motivations are for most of the organizations that you end up talking to?Ravi: Yeah, [unintelligible] core motivation to leveraging cloud-native technology, it really depends on organization to organization. I'm pretty fortunate that I get to span, I think, a wide swath of organization—so from startups to pretty established enterprises—I kind of talk about the pretty established enterprises. A lot of the business justification, it might not be a technical justification, but there's a pseudo technical business reason, a lot of times, though, I when I talk to folks, they're big concern is portability. And so, like, hey, if you take a look at the dollar and cents rationale behind certain things, the big play there is portability. So, if you're leveraging—we can get into the definition of what cloud-native resources are, but a big draw to that is being portable—and so, hopefully, you're not tied down to a single provider, or single purveyor, and you have the ability to move. Now, that also ties into agility. Supposedly, if you're able to use ubiquitous hardware or semi-ubiquitous software, you were able to move a little bit faster. But again, what I usually see is folk's main concern is portability. And then also with that is [unintelligible] up against scale. And so as—looking at ways of reducing resources, if you could use generics, you're able to shop around a little bit better, either internally or externally, and help provide scale for a softer or lesser cost.Emily: And how frequently do you think the engineers that you talked to are aware of those core business motivations?Ravi: Hmm, it really depends on—I'm always giving you the ‘depends' answer because talking to a wide swath of folks—where I see there's more emotion involved in a good way if there's closer alignment to the business—which is something hard to do. I think it is slowly eroding and chipping away. I've definitely seen this during my career. It's the old stodgy business first technology argument, right. Like, modern teams, they're very well [unintelligible] together. So, it's not a us versus them or cat versus dog argument, “Oh, why do these engineers want to take their sweet time?” versus, “Why does the business want us to act so fast?” So, having the engineers empowered to make decisions, and have them looked at instead of being a cost center, as the center of innovation is fairly key. And so having that type of rationale, like, hey, allowing the engineers to give input into feature development, even requirement development is something I've seen changed throughout my career. It used to be a very special thing to do requirements building, versus most of the projects that I've worked on now—as an engineer, we're very, very well attuned to the requirements with the business.Emily: Do you think there's anything that gets lost in translation?Ravi: Oh, absolutely. As people, we're emotional. And so if we're all sum total of our experiences—so let's say if someone asked, Emily, you and I a question, we would probably have four different answers for that person, just because maybe we have differences in opinions, differences of sum totals of experience. And I might say, “Hey, try this or this,” and then you might say, “Try that or that.” So, it really depends. Being lost in translation is always—it's been a fundamental problem in requirements gathering and it's continued to be a fundamental problem. I think just taking that question a step further, is how you go about combating that? I think having very shortened feedback cycles are very important. So, if you have to make any sort of adjustments, gone are the days I think when I started my career, waterfall was becoming unpopular, but the first project or two I was on was very waterfall-ish just because of the size of the project we worked on, we had to agree on lots of things; we were building something for six months. Versus, if you look at today, modern development methodologies like Agile, or Scaled Agile, a lot of the feedback happens pretty regularly, which can be exhausting, but decisions are made all the time.Emily: Do you think in addition to mistranslations, do you think there are any misconceptions? And I'm talking about sort of on both sides of this equation, you know, business leaders or business motivations, and then also technologists, and let's refocus back to talk about cloud-native in particular. What sort of misconceptions do you think are sort of floating out there about cloud-native and what it means?Ravi: Yeah, so what cloud-native means—it means something different to everybody. So, you listen to your podcasts for a couple episodes, if you asked any one of the guests the question, we all would give you a different answer. So, in my definition of cloud-native—and then I'll get back to what some of the misconceptions are—I have a very basic definition: cloud-native means two pillars. It means your architecture, or your platform needs to be ephemeral, and it needs to be [indibited]. So, it needs to be able to be short-lived, and be consistent, which are two things that are at odds with each other. But if you kind of talk to folks that, hey, they might be a little more slighted towards the business, they have this idea that cloud-native will solve all your problems. So, it reminds me a lot of big data back in the day. “Oh, if you have a Hadoop cluster, it will solve all of our logistics and shipping problems.” No. That's the technology. If you have Kubernetes, it will solve all of our problems. No. That's the technology. It's just a conduit of helping you make changes. And so just making sure that understand that hey, cloud-native doesn't mean that you get the checkmark that, “Oh, you know what? We're stable. We're robust. We can scale by using all cloud-native technologies,” because cloud-native technologies are actually quite complicated. If you're introducing a lot of complexity to your architecture, does it make sense? Does that make sense? Does it give you the value you're looking for? Because at the end of the day, and this is kind of something, the older I get, the more I believe it, is that your customers don't care how you did something; they care what the result is. So, if your web application's up, they don't care if you're running a simple LAMP stack, they just care that the application is up, versus using the latest Kubernetes stack, but using some sort of cloud-native NoSQL database, and we're using [Istio], and we're using, pick your flavor du jour of cloud-native technology, your end customer actually doesn't care how you did it. They care what happened.Emily: We can talk about misconceptions that other people have, but is there anything that continues to surprise you?Ravi: Yeah, I think the biggest misconception is that there's very limited choice. And so I'll play devil's advocate, I think the CNCF, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, there's lots of projects, I've seen the CNCF, they have something called the CNCF Landscape, and I seen it grow from 200 cards, it was 1200 cards at KubeCon, I guess, end of last year in San Diego, and it's hovering around 1500 cards. So, these cards means there's projects or vendors that play in this space. Having that much choice—this is usually surprising to people because they—if you're thinking of cloud-native, it's like saying Kleenex today, and you think of Kubernetes or other auxiliary product or project that surrounds that. And a lot of misconception would be it's helping solve for complexity. It's the quintessential computer science argument. All you do in computer science is move complexity around like an abacus. We move it left to right. We're just shifting it around, and so by leveraging certain technologies there's a lot of complication, a lot of burden that's brought in. For example, if you want to leverage, let's say, a service Istio, Istio will not solve all your networking problems. In fact, it's going to introduce a whole set of problems. And I could talk about my biggest outage, and one of the things I see with cloud-native is a lot of skills are getting shifted left because you're codifying areas that were not codified before. But that's something I would love to talk about.Emily: Tell me about your biggest outage that sounds interesting.Ravi: Yeah, I didn't know how it would manifest itself. It's ways, I think, until, like, years later that I didn't have the aha moment. I used to think it was me, it probably still is me, but—so the year was 2013, and I was working for a client, and we were—it's actually a large news site—and so we were in the midst of modernizing their application, or their streaming application. And so I was one of the first applications to actually go to AWS. And so my background is in Java, so I have a Java software engineer or J2ED or JEE engineer, and having to start working more in infrastructure was kind of a new thing, so I was very fortunate up until 2013-ish up until this point that I didn't really touch the infrastructure. I was immune to that. And now being more, kind of becoming a more senior engineer was in charge of the infrastructure for the application—which is kind of odd—but what ended up happening that—this is going to be kind of funny—since I was one of the first teams to go to AWS, the networking team wouldn't touch the configurations. So, when we were testing things, and [unintelligible] environments, we had our VPC CIDR rules—so the traffic rules—wide open. And then as we were going into production, there were rules that we had to limit traffic due to a CIDR so up until 2013, I thought a C-I-D-R like a CIDR was something you drink. I was like, “What? Like apple cider?” So, this shows you how much I know. So, basically, I had to configure the VPC or Virtual Private Cloud networking rules. Finally, when we deployed the application, unknowing to myself, CIDR calculation is a significant digit calculation. So, the larger the number you divide by, the more IPs you let in. And so instead of dividing by 16, I divided by 8. I was like, “Oh, you'll have a bigger number if you divide by a smaller number.” I end up cutting off half the traffic of the internet when we deployed to production. So, that was a very not smooth way of doing something. But how did this manifest itself? So, the experts, who would have been the networking team, refused to look at my configuration because it was a public cloud. “Nope, you don't have a slot in our data center, we look at it.” And poor me, as a JEE or J2EE engineer, I had very little experience networking. Now, if you fast forward to what this means today, a lot of the cloud-native stack, are again, slicing and dicing these CNCF cards, a lot of this, you're exposing different, let's say verticals or dimensions to engineers that they haven't really seen before. A lot of its networking related a lot of it can be storage related. And so, as a software engineer, these are verticals that I'd never had to deal with before. Now, it's kind of ironic that in 2020, hey, yes, you will be dealing with certain configurations because, hey, it's code. So, it's shifting the burden left towards the developer that, “Oh, you know what, you know networking—” or, “You do need to know your app, so here's some Istio rules that you need to include in your packaging of your application.” Which folks might scratch your head. So, yeah, again, it's like shifting complexity away from folks that have traditional expertise towards the developer. Now, times are changing. I seen a lot of this in years gone by, “Oh, no. These are pieces of code. We don't want to touch it.” Being more traditional or legacy operations team, versus today, everybody—it's kind of the merging of the two worlds. The going joke is all developers are becoming infrastructure engineers, and infrastructure engineers are becoming software engineers. So, it's the perfect blend of two worlds coming together.Emily: That's interesting. And I now think I understand what you mean by skills shifting left. Developers have to know more, and more, and more. But I'm also curious, there's also people who talk about how Kubernetes, one of its failures is that it forces this shift left of skills and that the ideal world is that developers don't need to interact with it at all. That's just a platform team. What do you think about that?Ravi: These are awesome questions. These are things I'm very passionate about. I definitely seen the evolution. So, I've been pretty fortunate that I was jumping on the application infrastructure shift around 2014, 2015, so right when Kubernetes was coming of age. So, most of my background was in distributed systems. So, I'm making very large distributed Java applications. And so when Kubernetes came out, the teams that I worked on, the applications that were deployed to Kubernetes were actually owned by the app dev team. The infrastructure team wouldn't even touch the Kubernetes cluster. It was like, “Oh, this is a development tool. This is not a platform tool.” The platform teams that I were interacting with 2015, 2016, as Kubernetes became more popular than ever, they were the legacy—well, hate to say legacy because it's kind of my background too—they were the remaining middleware engineers. We maintained a web server cluster, we maintained the message broker cluster, we maintained XYZ distributed Java infrastructure cluster. And so when looking at a tool like Kubernetes, or even there were different platforming services, so the paths I've leveraged early, or mid-2010s was Red Hat OpenShift, before and after the Kubernetes migration inside of OpenShift. And so looking at a different—how teams are set up, it used to be, “Oh, this is an app dev item. This is what houses your application.” Versus today, because the workloads are so critical that are going on to say platforms such as Kubernetes, it was that you really need that system engineering bubble of expertise. You really need those platform engineers to understand how to best scale, how to best purvey, and maintain a platform like Kubernetes. Also, one of the odd things are—going back to your point, Emily, like, hey, why things were tossed over either to the development team or going back to a developing software engineer myself, do we care what the end system is?So, it used to be, I'll talk about Java-land here for a minute, give you kind of long-winded answer of back in Java land, we really used to care about the target system, not necessarily for an application that have one node, but if we had to develop a clustered application. So, we have more than one node talking to each other, or a stateful application, we really had start developing to a specific target system. Okay, I know how JBoss WildFly clusters or I know how IBM WebSphere or WebLogic clusters. And so when we're designing our applications, we had to make sure that we play well into those clustering mechanisms. With Kubernetes, since it's generic, you don't necessarily have to play into those clustering mechanisms because there's a basic understanding. But that's been the biggest Achilles heel in Kubernetes. It wasn't designed for those type of workloads, stateful workloads that don't like dying very often. That's kind of been the push or pull. It's just a tool, there's a lot of generic, so you can assume that the target platform will handle a certain way. And you're slowly start backing off the case that you're building to a specific target platform. But as Kubernetes has evolved, especially with the operator framework, you actually are starting to build to Kubernetes in 2018, 2019, 2020.Emily: It actually brought up a question for me that, at risk of sounding naive myself, I feel like I never meet anybody who introduces themselves as a platform engineer. I meet all these developers, everyone's a developer evangelist, for example, or their background is as a developer, I feel like maybe once or twice, someone has introduced themselves as, “I'm a platform engineer,” or, “I'm an operations specialist.” I mean, is that just me? Is that a real thing?Ravi: They're very real jobs. I think… it's like saying DevOps engineer, it means something else to who you talk to you. So, I'll harp on, like ‘platform engineer.' so kind of like, the evolution of the platform engineer, if you would have talked to me in 2013, 2014, “Hey, I'm a platform engineer,” I would think that you're a software engineer focused on platform tools. Like, “Hey, I focus on authentication, authorization.” You're building—let's say we had a dozen people on this call and we're working for Acme Incorporated, there's modules that transcend every one of our teams. Let's say logging, or let's say login, or let's say, some sort of look and feel. So, the platform engineer or the platform engineering development focused platform engineering team would make common reusable modules throughout. Now, with the great rise of platforms as a service, like PCF, and OpenShift, and DCOS, they became kind of like a shift. The middleware engineers that were maintaining the message broker clusters, maintaining your web application server clusters, they're kind of shifting towards one of those platforms. Even today, Kubernetes, pick your provider du jour of Kubernetes. And so those are where the platform engineers are today. “Hey, I'm a platform engineer. I focus on OpenShift and Kubernetes.” Usually, they're very vertically focused on one or more specific platforms. And operations folks can ride very big gamut. Usually, if you put, “operations” in quotes, usually they're systems or infrastructure engineers that are very focused on the infrastructure where the platform's run.Emily: I'm obviously a words person, and it just seems like there's this vocabulary issue where everybody knows what a developer is, and so it's easy to say, “Oh, I'm a developer.” But then everything else that's related to engineering, there's not quite as much specificity, precisely because you said everybody has a slightly different understanding. It's kind of interesting.Ravi: Yeah, it's like, I think as a engineer, we're not one for titles. So, I think a engineer is a engineer. I think if you asked most engineers, it's like, “Yeah, I'm a engineer.” It's so funny, a good example of that is Tim Berners-Lee, the person who created WWW, the World Wide Web. If you looked at his LinkedIn, he just says he's a web developer. And he invented WWW. So, usually engineering-level folks, you're not—at least for myself—is not one for title.Emily: The example that you gave regarding the biggest outage of your career was basically a skills problem. Do you think that there's still a skills or knowledge issue in the cloud-native world?Ravi: Oh, absolutely. We work for incentivization. You know, my mortgage is with PNC, and they require a payment every month, unfortunately. So, I do work for an employer. Incentivization is key. So, kind of resume chasing, conference chasing there's been some of that in the cloud-native world, but what ends up happening more often than not is that we're continuously shifting left. A talk I like to give is called, “The Engineering Burden is on the Rise.” And taking a look at what, let's say, a software engineer was required to do in 2010 versus what a software engineer is required to do today in 2020. And there's a lot more burden in infrastructure that, as a software engineer you didn't have to deal with. Now, this has to do with two things, or actually one particular movement. There's a movie company, or a video company in Los Gatos, California, and there's a book company in South Lake Union in Seattle. And so these two particular companies given the rise of what's called a full lifecycle developer. Basically, if you run it, or if you operate—you operate what you run, or if you write it, you run it. So, that means that if you write a piece of code, you're in charge of the operations. You have support, you're in charge of the SLAs, SLOs, SLIs. You're ultimately responsible if a customer has a problem. And can you imagine the number of people, the amount of skill set that requires? There's this concept of a T-shaped skill that you have to have experience in so many different platforms, that it becomes a very big burden. As an engineer, I don't envy anybody entering a team that's leveraging a lot of cloud-native technology because most likely a lot of that onus will fall on the software engineer to create the deployable, to create how you build it, to fly [unintelligible] in your CI stack, write the configuration that builds it, write the configuration deploys it, write the networking rules, write how you test it, write the login interceptors. So, there's a lot going on.Emily: Is there anything else that you want to add about your experience with cloud-native that I haven't really thought to ask, yet?Ravi: It's not all doom and gloom. I'm very positive on cloud-native technologies. I think it's a great equalizer. You're kind of going back—this might be a more intrinsic, like a 30-second answer here. If you taking back that I wanted to learn certain skills in 2010, I basically had to be working for a firm. So, 2010, I was working for IBM. So, there's certain distributed Java problems I wanted to solve. I basically had to be working for a firm because the software licensing costs were so expensive, and that technology wasn't very democratized. Looking at cloud-native technology today, there's a big, big push for open source, which open source is R&D methodology. That's what open source is, it helps alleviate some sort of acquisition—but not necessarily adoption—problems. And you can learn a lot. Hey, you could pick up any project and just try to learn, try to run it. Pick up these particular distributed system skills that were very guarded, I would say, a decade ago, it's being opened up to the masses. And so there's a lot to drink from, but you can drink as much as you want from the CNCF or the cloud-native garden hose.Emily: Do you have a software engineering tool that you cannot live without?Ravi: Recently, because I deal in a lot of YAML, I need a YAML linter. So, YAML is a space-separated language. As a human, I can't tell you what spaces are. Like, you know, if you have three spaces, and the next line you have four spaces. So, I use a YAML linter. It puts periods for me, so I can count them because it's been multiple times that my demo is not syntactically correct because I missed a space and I can't see it on my screen.Emily: And how can listeners connect with you?Ravi: Oh, yeah. You can hit me up on Twitter @ravilach, R-A-V-I-L-A-C-H. Or come visit us at Harness at www.harness.io. I run the Harness community, so community.harness.io. We have a Slack channel and a Discourse, and always excited to interact with people.Emily: Thanks for listening. I hope you've learned just a little bit more about the business of cloud-native. If you'd like to connect with me or learn more about my positioning services, look me up on LinkedIn: I'm Emily Omier, that's O-M-I-E-R, or visit my website which is emilyomier.com. Thank you, and until next time.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

Kubernetes is being used in more and more complex application architectures. It today's episode, we talk about Kubernetes Operators, a way to automate and ensure that complex applications stay up and running. Our guest is Rob Szumski, Senior Manager, Product Management, Red Hat OpenShift.

Kubernetes is being used in more and more complex application architectures. It today's episode, we talk about Kubernetes Operators, a way to automate and ensure that complex applications stay up and running. Our guest is Rob Szumski, Senior Manager, Product Management, Red Hat OpenShift.

Kubernetes is being used in more and more complex application architectures. It today's episode, we talk about Kubernetes Operators, a way to automate and ensure that complex applications stay up and running. Our guest is Rob Szumski, Senior Manager, Product Management, Red Hat OpenShift.

Containerize all the things! Carl and Richard talk to Ben Hall about his on-going work with software in containers. Ben talks about Docker being pretty much synonymous with containers now, but when it comes to orchestration, there are a few more choices. Kubernetes seems to be the popular choice in the public cloud space, but Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos and Red Hat OpenShift all can play a role as well. Ben also digs into the role of serverless in a container world, and how these cloud-native architectures make you think about software differently!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Containerize all the things! Carl and Richard talk to Ben Hall about his on-going work with software in containers. Ben talks about Docker being pretty much synonymous with containers now, but when it comes to orchestration, there are a few more choices. Kubernetes seems to be the popular choice in the public cloud space, but Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos and Red Hat OpenShift all can play a role as well. Ben also digs into the role of serverless in a container world, and how these cloud-native architectures make you think about software differently!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations