OpenObservability Talks

OpenObservability Talks

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OpenObservability Talks episodes

  • KubeCon NA Highlights and Istio Spotlight with Lin Sun - OpenObservability Talks S4E06

    Have you missed KubeCon North America in Chicago? This one’s for you! In this episode, we explored the latest and greatest highlights from the event that every tech enthusiast is talking about. From cutting-edge innovations to industry insights, we've got the broad spectrum covered. 

    But that's not all! We'll also zoomed in on Istio, the popular service mesh open source project that has just recently reached CNCF graduation. Join us as we map out the service mesh universe, and then dive into Istio's galaxy, unraveling its architecture, features, and the roadmap direction with Ambient. And you’ll get to hear it from the Istio authority, Lin Sun.

    Lin is the Director of Open Source at Solo.io and a CNCF ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM for 15+ years. She is the author of the book "Istio Ambient Explained" and co-author of “Istio Explained”, and has more than 200 patents to her name.

    The episode was live-streamed on 15 November 2023 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxnDH6LH-cA

    You can read the recap post: https://logz.io/blog/kubecon-na-2023-recap/?utm_source=devrel&utm_medium=devrel

    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.twitch.tv/openobservabilityhttps://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks  


    Show Notes:

    01:27 - Episode and guest intro

    06:34 - KubeCon Highlights: Fluent Bit

    09:16 - OpenTelemetry Logging, OTLP is GA

    12:53 - OpenTelemetry project journey report

    13:43 - WASM Day and Istio Day updates

    16:18 - Keynote: the future of Kubernetes

    18:51 -Crossplane latest release v1.14 

    19:24 - Kyverno supports non-Kubernetes workloads

    20:12 - Vitess 18 is now GA

    20:43 - AI is nascent in CNCF

    22:56 - CNCF’s GitOps microsurvey 

    23:56 - eBPF documentary released

    27:08 - Service Mesh architecture and landscape

    31:36 - Envoy proxy 

    33:48 - maturity of the projects

    39:36 - Istio unique value proposition and adoption

    43:55 - Kubernetes released native sidecar support

    47:02 - The GAMMA initiative in Kubernetes Gateway API 

    50:04 - Istio updates: Ambient, multi-claster, Gateway API GA impl. For N-S 

    53:40 - CNCF Training & Certification Launch Istio Certification

    54:56 - Istio roadmap

    56:50 - how to follow Istio and Lin Sun and episode wrapup


    Resources:

    KubeCon Updates:

    https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/11/07/opentelemetry-at-kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2023-update/

    https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2023/http-conventions-declared-stable/

    https://www.cncf.io/reports/opentelemetry-project-journey-report/ 

    https://blog.crossplane.io/crossplane-v1-14/  

    https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/11/06/kyverno-expands-beyond-kubernetes/ 

    https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-vitess-18 

    https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/11/07/cncf-gitops-microsurvey-learning-on-the-job-as-gitops-goes-mainstream/ 


    Istio Spotlight:

    https://istio.io/latest/blog/2023/native-sidecars/

    https://istio.io/latest/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh/

    https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/concepts/gamma/

    https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2023/07/12/cloud-native-computing-foundation-reaffirms-istio-maturity-with-project-graduation/ 

    https://istio.io/latest/get-involved/

    https://training.linuxfoundation.org/blog/istio-certification/ 

    https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/istio-ambient-explained/9781098142698/


    Socials:

    Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠

    YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠



    1 hr 1 min
  • PromCon Recap: Unveiling Perses and Prometheus Ecosystem Updates - OpenObservability Talks S4E05

    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

    1 hr 12 min
  • Continuous Observability: Shedding Light on CI/CD Pipelines - OpenObservability Talks S4E02

    DevOps is not just about operating the software in production, but also about releasing that software to production. Well-functioning CI/CD pipelines are critical for the business, and this calls for quality observability, to handle broken and flaky pipeline runs effectively.

    On this episode I hosted Oleg Nenashev, a core maintainer and board member in the Jenkins project, as well as a TOC member in the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). Oleg is a community builder, open source advocate and consultant, now at WireMock Inc. He is also a CDF and CNCF ambassador.
    We discussed CI/CD, observability, the prominent open source projects and foundations, as well as a new proposal for extending OpenTelemetry to natively support CI/CD observability use cases.

    The episode was live-streamed on 10 July 2023 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEbyddZFNeo

    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.twitch.tv/openobservability

    https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks  


    Show Notes:

    00:00 - show intro

    01:00 - episode and guest intro

    10:08 - what’s new in Jenkins

    15:46 - is Jenkins cloud-native?

    16:52 - understanding the CI/CD landscape

    21:54 - updates from the Continuous Delivery Foundation

    27:00 - CI/CD observability support in OpenTelemetry

    40:31 - observability with Backstage IDP open source 

    47:47 - how to contact Oleg

    48:51 - State of Continuous Delivery report

    52:32 - OTLP 1.0 release and other open standards updates

    54:32 - KubeCon will hold a dev-centric event for the first time

    55:55 - Jaeger 1.47 is out

    57:30 - DevOps Pulse survey insights

    58:55 - outro


    Resources:

    Observability Has a Complexity Problem (APM Digest)

    OTLP 1.0 is out

    Open Standards in observability: updates from KubeCon

    CI/CD observability support in OpenTelemetry proposal

    State of Continuous Delivery 2023 report

    Socials:

    • Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠

    • Twitch: ⁠https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability⁠

    • YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠


      • Dotan Horovits

      ============

      Twitter: @horovits

      LinkedIn: in/horovits

      Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon


      Oleg Nenashev

      ===============

      Twitter: @oleg_nenashev

      LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/onenashev/

      Mastodon: @asciidwarf@fosstodon


      1 hr 1 min
    • Terraform is no longer open source. Is OpenTofu the successor? - OpenObservability Talks S4E04

      Terraform is no longer open source. This is the news we got last month (August 2023), when HashiCorp announced its decision to relicense its open source tools, including Terraform, Vault, Packer, Consul, Vagrant and others, into Business Source License 1.1.

      The community, led by active Terraform-based vendors, gathered up to create a fork of Terraform to keep it open. The result is OpenTofu (originally called OpenTF), whose manifesto already has tens of thousands of stars on GitHub, less than a month out. Only a month old, engineers are hard at work to establish the first release of OpenTofu, as well as its foundational backbone.
      In this month’s episode I covered these significant events that shake our industry and the DevOps world. I was joined by Omry Hay, co-founder and CTO of env0. env0 provides an automation solution based on Terraform, and is one of the creators of OpenTofu and a member of the project’s steering committee. Omry also shared OpenTofu’s mission and current status, as well as exciting updates, hot off Open Source Summit Europe conference taking place these days, in which OpenTofu has officially joined The Linux Foundation.
      Omry has been a software engineer and engineering manager for the last 16 years, working at companies like eToro, Fiverr and Proofpoint. As CTO of env0, he leads the R&D and Product departments.

      The episode was live-streamed on 18 September 2023 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QdUs9VKq5g

      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 intro

      00:56 - episode and guest intro
      02:45 - HashiCorp’s relicensing announcement
      04:58 - what the relicensing means for users
      14:50 - implications on the Terraform ecosystem
      24:55 - HCL language for IaC
      28:36 - what does the new license mean?
      32:13 - Terms of service changed for Terraform Registry
      36:08 - forking Terraform and starting OpenTF/OpenTofu
      41:08 - how many engineers work on OpenTofu
      42:18 - joining the Linux Foundation and renaming OpenTofu
      48.50 - OpenTofu release and Terraform compatibility
      56:54 - roadmap for OpenTofu
      59:00 - how to get touch with the community and Omry
      64.30 - The OSI Approved Licenses database is available
      65:28 - Red Hat changed the CentOS release process

      Resources:

      HashiCorp relicensing announcement: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-licenseOpenTofu project: https://opentofu.org/ The Linux Foundation announces OpenTofu: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/announcing-opentofu Red Hat changed the CentOS release process: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-streamCNCF’s guidelines for using source-available dependencies in its OSS projects: https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/source-available-recommendations.md#recommendations checklist for safely using and choosing open source tools: https://medium.com/@horovits/when-your-open-source-turns-to-the-dark-side-331d83f182c

      Socials:

      Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠

      YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠


      Dotan Horovits

      ============

      Twitter: @horovits

      LinkedIn: in/horovits

      Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon

      Omry Hay
      ========
      Twitter: https://twitter.com/omryhay
      LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omryhay/

      1 hr 10 min
    • What's New with Fluentd & Fluent Bit - OpenObservability Talks S4E03

      Fluentd and Fluent Bit are two highly popular open source projects for data collection and log forwarding in the realm of observability. Fluentd's flexibility and scalability have led to seamless integration with diverse applications and data sources, while Fluent Bit's lightweight and efficient log forwarding have made it a preferred choice for modern observability pipelines. But Fluent Bit can process more than just logs. The recent release of Fluent Bit v2 added major new integrations with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and more, as well as extensibility with WebAssembly plugins.

      On this episode I hosted Eduardo Silva Pereira, one of Fluentd project maintainers and creator of Fluent Bit. He also is the founder of Calyptia, the Fluent company. Eduardo shared with us the latest updates of Fluentd and Fluent Bit, as well as valuable insights into the future roadmap of these projects.

      The episode was live-streamed on 9 August 2023 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/V02Ctv0Rtg8

      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:

      02:11 - Fluentd and Fluent Bit background

      09:51 - Should I choose FluentD or Fluent Bit?

      13:26 - developing an active engaged OSS community

      17:18 - enterprise needs and building commercial offering with Calyptia

      19:54 - Fluent Bit v2 updates

      29:22 - plugins, filters and processors in Fluent Bit

      38:23 - A sneak peak into the planned announcements for KubeCon Chicago

      44:16 - where to follow the community and Eduardo

      47:43 - Prometheus now supports OTLP

      48:57 - PromCon will take place in Berlin, 28-29 Sept.

      50:11 - OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions is separated from the Specification

      53:38 - New in Kubernetes 1.27: Query node logs using the kubelet API

      54:43 - Kelemetry: global tracing for Kubernetes control plane


      Resources:

      Resources

      =========

      Fluent Bit: https://fluentbit.io/

      FluentD: https://www.fluentd.org/

      Prometheus supports OTLP: https://horovits.medium.com/83f85878e46a

      PromCon '23: https://promcon.io/2023-berlin/

      Query node logs using the kubelet API: https://logz.io/blog/a-practical-guide-to-kubernetes-logging/#Kubernetes_1_27

      Kelemetry project: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/07/27/kelemetry-global-tracing-for-kubernetes-control-plane/


      Socials:

      Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠

      YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠

      Dotan Horovits
      ============
      Twitter: https://twitter.com/horovits
      LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/
      Eduardo Silva Pereira
      ===============
      Twitter: https://twitter.com/edsiper
      LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edsiper

      59 min
    • ​​eBay’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability with Open Source - OpenObservability Talks S4E01

      eBay is a high scale end user of open source observability. Collecting telemetry from millions of endpoints, and running thousands of queries per second, presents serious scaling challenges. eBay has chosen to use an open source stack to meet those challenges.

      On this episode I hosted Vijay Samuel, Observability Architect at eBay, to hear about the challenges eBay faced in monitoring large Kubernetes installations. We discussed why eBay chose the open source stack, and the strategic decision behind eBay's migration from Elastic Beats to OpenTelemetry, and the remarkable experiences they had while deploying massively large scale telemetry installations using OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
      We also discussed a fascinating new proposal for a query language standard for observability, which eBay spearheads together with Netflix under the auspices of the CNCF’s TAG Observability (the CNCF’s technical advisory group for observability).

      The episode was live-streamed on 8 June 2023 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UsU3nRglhA

      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.twitch.tv/openobservability

      https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks  


      Show Notes:

      3rd anniversary

      eBay monitoring solution 

      planet scale at eBay in numbers

      distributed tracing at eBay

      migrating from Elastic Beats to OpenTelemetry

      why eBay chose open source 

      open-sourcing eBay’s metrics store platform?

      scaling Prometheus

      ramping up tracing, from backend to frontend and mobile

      running OpenTelemetry Collector at scale

      Query Language Standardization for Observability under the CNCF


      Resources:

      New CNCF working group for Observability Query Language Standardization: https://github.com/cncf/tag-observability/blob/main/working-groups/query-standardization.md

      Why and How eBay Pivoted to OpenTelemetry: https://tech.ebayinc.com/engineering/why-and-how-ebay-pivoted-to-opentelemetry/


      Socials:

      • Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenObserv

      • Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability

      • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks


        • Dotan Horovits

        ============

        Twitter: @horovits

        LinkedIn: in/horovits

        Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon


        Vijay Samuel

        ==========

        Twitter: @vjsamuel_

        LinkedIn: vjsamuel


        1 hr 1 min
      • From Spotify to Open Source: The Backstory of Backstage - OpenObservability Talks S3E12

        With over 1,000 companies using it and 21.5K+ stars on GitHub, the Backstage open source project is quickly becoming a go-to tool for managing developer infrastructure. In this episode, I’ll sit down with Lee Mills, a Senior Engineering Manager from Spotify's Backstage project, to learn more about how the open source platform is revolutionizing the developer experience and how it aligns with the growing Internal Developer Platform (IDP) space. We’ll discuss the need that drove Spotify to build this internal tool, about the decision and journey to open source it and donate it to the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation). We’ll also discuss the new commercial plugins, what’s coming up on the roadmap, and much more. 

        Lee has worked as an engineering manager for the past 12 years, from Amazon to Spotify and everything in between. Prior to that Lee had a mixed background working in academia as a lecturer, worked as a Boom Op for television in the UK and lived in more places than he can count.

        The episode was live-streamed on 17 May 2023 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/W3c4YJ71BOQ

        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.twitch.tv/openobservabilityhttps://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks  


        Show Notes:

        01:44 Spotify Engineering internal need for Backstage

        07:09 Backstage and Platform Engineering

        10:33 Backstage components: Templates, Catalogue and Plugins

        15:31 Why Spotify open-sourced Backstage

        21:45 from Spotify’s internal Hack Week to a viral growth

        25:19 a perfect community contributed feature in 24 hours

        28:48 new Backstages use cases for Banking and healthcare

        30:54 Spotify released commercial plugins for Backstage

        36:51 How to follow Backstage discussion and Lee Mills

        39:08 KubeCon Europe updates

        40:51 Prometheus remote-write is standardized

        41:32 Sunsetting OpenCensus

        42:31 ECS to merge with OpenTelemetry specification

        43:22 progress to stabilize Logs in OpenTelemetry

        45:02 MicroProfile v6.0 support OpenTelemetry Traces

        45:40 Grafana 9.5 release


        Resources:

        Backstage website: https://backstage.io 

        Kubecon Europe 2023 talk: The State of Backstage in 2023: https://youtu.be/vskefrlvocE 

        Kubecon Europe 2023 talk: Lunar building an internal compliance platform using Backstage: https://youtu.be/6T3Mf6pdg7E

        Backstage accepted as CNCF incubation project: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2022/03/15/backstage-project-joins-the-cncf-incubator/


        Socials:

        • Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenObserv

        • Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability

        • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks


          • Dotan Horovits

          ============

          Twitter: @horovits

          LinkedIn: in/horovits

          Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon


          Lee Mills

          ===============
          LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/codetoy
          48 min
        • Live from KubeCon: Insider Insights with CNCF's Head of Ecosystem - OpenObservability Talks S3E11

          This is a special episode, live from the KubeCon show floor in Amsterdam. Join us to hear the hot updates from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 as well as insider insights from the CNCF’s head of ecosystem, Taylor Dolezal.

          Taylor works on infrastructure tools that enable innovation. He specializes in Kubernetes, Terraform, public clouds, and distributed systems. Taylor will also deliver the opening keynote on the upcoming KubeCon EU in Amsterdam.
          The episode was live-streamed on 20 April 2023 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/live/a9D5p0SaKL8?feature=share

          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.twitch.tv/openobservability

          https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks  

          Have you got an interesting topic you'd like to share in an episode? Reach out to us and submit your proposal at https://openobservability.io/


          Show Notes:

          • KubeCon EU 2023 stats
          • KubeCon EU 2024 plan
          • CTO Summit EU 2023 focus on FinOps best practices
          • End user challenges
          • Getting end users involved in the OSS
          • Status of end user cloud native maturity
          • Unified Query Language new working group
          • This KubeCon's hallway topics and Observability co-lo event
          • CTO summit report and community feedback


            • Resources:

            • CTO Summit report, KubeCon NA 2022
            • CTO Summit report, KubeCon EU 2022

              • Socials:

              • Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenObserv

              • Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability

              • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks


                • Dotan Horovits

                ============

                Twitter: @horovits

                LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/ 

                Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon


                Taylor Dolezal

                ===========
                Twitter: @onlydole
                LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/onlydole/


                28 min
              • Cloud Native Unplugged: A Fireside Chat with CNCF's CTO - OpenObservability Talks S3E10

                The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is the home of the most prominent open source projects used today, such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, ArgoCD, Linkerd and more. These projects fuel today’s cloud native architectures and software release pipelines. With its immense growth, it has become difficult to keep tabs on the hundreds of new and evolving projects and specifications, the different working groups and technical advisory groups, the different community forums and events, and to see where it’s all heading.

                I invited Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the CNCF, to join me on this episode, to help us understand the CNCF landscape and evolution. We will also discuss the trends in observability and in the open source realm in general. Chris also has some interesting predictions to share. 

                Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He's currently a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Furthermore, he's a partner at Capital Factory where he focuses on mentoring, advising and investing in open source and infrastructure focused startups.

                At Twitter, he created their open source program and led their open source efforts. For many years he served on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors representing the committer community and the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee. In a previous life, he bootstrapped a consulting company, made many mistakes, lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and Linux related projects.

                The episode was live-streamed on 15 March 2023 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/live/lMUFGmNploc

                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.twitch.tv/openobservability

                https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks  

                Have you got an interesting topic you'd like to share in an episode? Reach out to us and submit your proposal at https://openobservability.io/


                Show Notes:

                • Day in a life of CNCF CTO
                • open source sustainability
                • how to navigate the CNCF landscape
                • how to get started with cloud native
                • is Kubernetes spreading too broad to lose focus?
                • OpenTelemetry project journey report sneak peak
                • open observability stack convergence
                • OpenFeature feature flagging OSS
                • CNCF investing in more regional activity
                • CNCF investing in security
                • relicensing and OSS citizenship issues
                • CNCF project health dashboard
                • KubeCon sneak peak

                  • Resources:

                  • https://landscape.cncf.io/guide

                  • https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/PRINCIPLES.md#no-kingmakers--one-size-does-not-fit-all

                  • https://projecthealth.cncf.io 

                  • https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cloud-native-predictions-2023-chris-aniszczyk/?trackingId=QHkYlzDhTniN3sgLSRCOtQ%3D%3D

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                      • Dotan Horovits

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                      Chris Aniszczyk

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                      Twitter: @cra

                      LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caniszczyk/


                      1 hr 6 min
                    • FinOps Observability: Monitoring Kubernetes Cost with OpenCost - OpenObservability Talks S3E09

                      Many organizations struggle in understanding and monitoring the costs of their Kubernetes workloads, cloud infrastructure and cloud native applications. Moreover, different cloud providers use different conventions, which makes it difficult to compare across vendors and to monitor cost in multi-cloud environments. The lack of cost observability and vendor-agnostic FinOps standardization can become a critical business challenge.  

                      OpenCost is a vendor-neutral open source project for measuring and allocating infrastructure and container costs. It’s built for Kubernetes cost monitoring to power real-time cost monitoring, showback, and chargeback, across on-premises Kubernetes as well as cloud managed offering.  

                      I discussed this topic with Matt Ray, Senior Community Manager for the OpenCost project. Matt  has been active in Open Source and DevOps communities for over two decades and has spoken at and helped organize many conferences and meetups. He is currently the Senior Community Manager at Kubecost for the CNCF Sandbox Project OpenCost. Matt also co-hosts the Software Defined Talk podcast.

                      The episode was live-streamed on 14 February 2023 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhqXQV2jsxo

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                      Show Notes:

                      • FinOps and the FinOps Foundation
                      • Relevant stakeholders
                      • Understanding your public cloud bill
                      • How is Kubernetes spend different
                      • OpenCost project overview
                      • OpenCost roadmap and ecosystem
                      • How to join OpenCost convo
                      • News and updates

                        • Resources:

                        • https://www.cncf.io/blog/2022/12/06/opencost-a-new-cncf-sandbox-project-for-real-time-kubernetes-cost-monitoring/ 
                        • https://www.opencost.io/
                        • https://github.com/opencost/opencost 
                        • https://logz.io/blog/finops-distributed-tracing/

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                          • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks


                            • Dotan Horovits

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                            Twitter: horovits

                            LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/

                            Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon


                            Matt Ray

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                            Twitter: mattray

                            LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mhray/

                            1 hr 2 min

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