Innovate @Open

In this podcast, I talk with Red Hat's Steve Huels, Sherard Griffin, and Pete MacKinnon about the motivations behind OpenDataHub, the open source projects that make it up, how OpenDataHub works in concert with Kubernetes and Operators, and how it reflects a general trends towards open source communities working together in new ways.

Brian Behlendorf has a long history in open source going back to his co-founding of Apache. Today, he's the executive director of the Hyperledger Foundation. In this podcast, Brian takes us through some of his motivations in the early days of Apache, the tension between pragmatism and idealism in free and open source software, and why he's excited about distributed ledgers.

On August 21, the Linux Foundation announced the intent to form the Confidential Computing Consortium, a community dedicated to defining and accelerating the adoption of confidential computing. In this podcast, recorded at devconf.us just prior to this announcement, we discuss issues of trust and security broadly as well as Red Hat Enarx, a project providing hardware independence for securing applications using TEEs, that will be contributed to this consortium.

Hugh Brock is Research Director at Red Hat. In this podcast, Hugh discusses how open source makes the way Red Hat approaches research different from the way it's done at other companies. He also talks about how the resarch program got started and, in particular, the role that Boston University has played.

William Henry is a senior distinguished engineer at Red Hat who has been involved with open source since Slackware. In this podcast, William takes us through some of tensions in the open source world, including those between innovation and standardization, which have taken many forms over the years.

Twistlock does lifecycle vulnerability and compliance management for containers. In this podcast, we talk about balancing the needs of developing fast and operating securely, including how to use tooling as a common framework for driving discussions between those writing apps and those responsible for operating them.

There have always been integration challenges with open source software, whether in pulling together Linux distributions or in mating program subsystems developed by geographically-distributed communities. However, today we're seeing those challenges writ large with the rise of large ecosystems on projects in areas such as networking and cloud-native computing.

Arpit Joshipura, general manager of networking at The Linux Foundation, takes us through the evolution of networking from its proprietary beginning. He describes the networking layers that make up the full stack and explains how technical capabilities like disaggregation, the software-defined phenomenon more broadly, and virtual functions have led to the big changes in the telco world and increasingly networking more broadly that we see today.

I worked for Bryan Che for my first seven years at Red Hat. We caught up with each other at the Open Source Leadership Summit in Sonoma. Bryan thought it would be interesting to share his observations and experiences on open source adoption in China, the China cloud market and cloud portability, and what it's like living in China.

Fintan Ryan takes us through the serverless landscape and talks about technologies coalescing around Kubernetes, how serverless is mostly about developer velocity, and where serverless intersects with containers.