Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis

In this month's episode of Radio Cloud Naitve, Sr. Solution Architect, Kevin Ng, of Mirantis is back to share his findings related to 7 common open source-based tools that relate to cloud native infrastructure and configuration management. He will present some background on each of the 7 tools he researched before diving into an in-depth comparison based on use case, functionality, ease-of-use, and security features. Perfect for DevOps folks, Kevin's episode will enable you to conquer Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), leveraging the best tools for your specific use case.

Furthermore, Kevin will present an example scenario of how to leverage these tools to deploy k0s, an open source, fully upstream Kubernetes Distro created and maintained by the teams at Mirantis. Armed with Kevin's knowledge, your DevOps team can drastically streamline its current approach to IaC.

A full list of topics from this episode include:

• Intro to Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack & Vagrant
• Deploying k0s with each of these tools (above)
• Ease-of-Use of these tools (above)
• Security frameworks for each of these tools (above)
• Infrastructure vs Configuration management with these tools (above)
• How to select the tool that's right for you

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: [email protected]

In this month's installment, Michael Tillman, Principle Solution Architect for Mirantis is back and is joined by Kevin Jackson, Sr. Director of Product Management for Trilio. They will both dive into key aspects of migrating off of VMware and onto an open source-based solution like OpenStack. Trilio's Kubernetes backup and recovery tools are the backbone of this joint migration solution designed to seamlessly move VMs from existing VMware environments onto the more flexible and cost-effective Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) environment.

Michael and Kevin will also provide you with useful background explaining the importance of containerized OpenStack for a variety of use cases, allowing you and your organization to make the most informed decision regarding if, when, and how to migrate off of VMware. There's a lot of factors to consider, but Mirantis and Trilio are here to support you.

A full list of this episode's topics include:

• Value of containerized OpenStack
• Use cases for Mirantis OpenStack on K8s (MOSK)
• MOSK deployment options and process
• Trilio for Day 1 Operations
• Trilio's VMware to Mirantis OpenStack migration process
• Trilio for Day 2 Operations

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: [email protected]

In this month's installment, Michael Tillman, cloud native workload expert from Mirantis, will walk you through a real world example of a SaaS company that worked with Mirantis to migrate over 3000 workloads off of VMware onto Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) - all in just a few short months. The migration was prompted by a massive price increase on the VMware side, which caused this organization to look for a viable alternative solution. Please note, the SaaS company will remain anonymous, but Michael will provide the details needed to see how Mirantis truly made a difference in their recent migration.

In addition to the speed at which Mirantis was able to achieve this migration, the SaaS company also saved over 60% in their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), which was achieved by leveraging open source components and implementing a CI/CD strategy that automated as many steps in the provisioning and deployment phases as possible. Furthermore, the SaaS company was able to achieve this migration while maintaining the most rigorous standards of security and compliance, including FIPS 140-2 and FEDRAMP - both required security standards for working with the US Federal Government. Thinking of moving away from VMware? Let Michael explain why that may be a good choice for your organization.

A full list of this episode's topics include:

• Why companies are migrating away from VMware
• Common challenges Org's face before migration
• How Mirantis OpenStack for K8s solves these challenges
• Key takeaways from the example SaaS company's migration
• Strategies for avoiding all types of lock-in
• Specifics of the Mirantis migration approach
• Success metrics from the example SaaS company's migration

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: [email protected]

In this month's episode, you will hear from Marc Campbell, CTO and Co-Founder of Replicated and his colleague Chris Sanders, Director of Customer Reliability Engineering, as they discuss their company's experience with evaluating various open source Kubernetes Distributions to use when building and launching their new product: Embedded Cluster.

There's a lot of different open source projects and tools out there, but which one is the right one? And is it in your organization's best interest to build your own solution from scratch? Well, Marc and Chris will cover that in their discussion, as well as provide examples from their own experience with evaluating k0s by Mirantis along with other top K8s Distros on the market.

A full list of this episode's topics include:

• Background on Replicated, Embedded Cluster and their other solutions
• Emerging technologies in comparison to Kubernetes
• Replicated's Helm SDK vs Embedded Cluster
• Tips for evaluating open source projects
• Importance of CNCF-certification
• When to build it yourself vs when to leverage existing open source solutions
• Pitfalls and benefits of building it yourself
• Other Distros vs k0s by Mirantis
• Why Replicated chose k0s by Mirantis
• Importance of GitHub community in evaluation process
• How implementation of k0s went for Replicated
• Key takeaways from Replicated's experience

Learn more about k0s by Mirantis at k0sproject.io/

Learn more about Replicated & Embedded Cluster at www.replicated.com/

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: [email protected]

In this month's installment, you will hear from Nick Chase, Adam Parco, and Shaun O'Meara from Mirantis as well as our very special guest Alex Williams, Co-Founder and Publisher of The New Stack. 

They kick things off with some baseline definitions of both "Legacy" and "Cloud Native" architectures, before moving on to industry trends supported by real world examples highlighting the value of Legacy vs Cloud Native workloads in those given environments. The discussion culminates with a deep dive into migrating legacy applications to cloud native ecosystems, aiming to answer the questions: how/when to do it, is it worth it, and where should you look first when moving forward with this undertaking?

A full list of this episode's topics include:

• Defining "Legacy" & "Cloud Native"
• Why Cloud Native over Legacy applications
• Open source technologies in the Cloud Native space
• Value of Cloud Native in regards to speed
• Security & compliance during Legacy migrations
• Security & compliance - an ongoing issue
• Emerging role of AI/ML tooling for security
• Will Kubernetes become Legacy one day?
• Conclusion: Migrating Legacy Apps worth it?

Learn more about the very latest Cloud Native solutions at www.mirantis.com

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

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In this episode of Radio Cloud Native, former host John Jainschigg, Director of Open Source Initiatives for Mirantis, returns to provide a great interview with one of the founders of the Zero Trust model for cybersecurity, John Kindervag. He has authored many blog articles and much of the open source documentation of Zero Trust, and is one of the most knowledgeable cybersecurity experts in the cloud space.

In the interview, you will hear directly from John Kindervag about how the Zero Trust model was initially created, how it has evolved over the years, how it can actually be implemented into a realistic, enterprise security framework, and a host of examples of why Zero Trust may be an ideal security posture for your Org. John's responses touch on both the technical development and operations side, serving as a valuable resource for a variety of IT professionals and software hobbyists. 

A full list of what's discussed in the interview:

• Cybersecurity landscape before Zero Trust
• Concept of "trust" in Zero Trust model
• Zero Trust - technical POV
• Zero trust and the Principle of Least Privilege
• Implementing Zero Trust
• Defense in Depth vs Zero Trust
• Zero Trust streamlines cybersecurity
• AWS S3 Gateway vulnerability example
• Application vs Infrastructure security
• Securing Apps under Zero Trust
• Achieving Zero Trust

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

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In this episode of Radio Cloud Native, former host John Jainschigg, Director of Open Source Initiatives for Mirantis, returns to proctor a great interview with Zero Trust pioneer George Finney, CSO at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. George is the author of the recent IT-cybersecurity thriller Project Zero Trust with a forward written by Zero Trust founder John Kindervag (note - mentions of "John" during this interview is in reference to John Kindervag). The book is available in print form on Amazon and in audio book form on Audible. You can access the Amazon links in this episode's chapters.

During the interview, John Jainschigg and George Finney discuss the exciting opening to Project Zero Trust before jumping into an informative discussion about how the novel provides an actionable framework for the "Zero Trust Model" of cybersecurity - one that can actually be implemented in existing enterprise architectures. Zero Trust is not a specific package or set of tools, but rather an overall way of thinking that can help any IT professional who is concerned with the security of their applications (spoiler: that's every IT professional).

A full list of what's discussed in the interview:

• Meet George Finney, author of Project Zero Trust
• Quick synopsis of Project Zero Trust
• "Trust" as a vulnerability (courtesy of Zero Trust founder John Kindervag)
• Project Zero Trust - a true IT cybersecurity guide
• Implementing a "Zero Trust" framework
• Zero Trust and its connection to Cloud
• Public vs Private Cloud - in terms of security
• "Trusting" components in production
• Actionable steps for implementing "Zero Trust" in the enterprise

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

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In this episode, Solution Architecture Manager for Mirantis, Michael Tillman, is back to break down the leading VMware alternative solutions designed to control cloud costs and eliminate all forms of vendor lock-in by leveraging open source, flexible, and scalable components and tools.

Vendor lock-in can take on many forms, which Michael will outline at the onset. Then, he will present the main reasons behind why so many VMware vSphere users are looking for alternative solutions to limit skyrocketing costs, maintain the flexibility to innovate, and future-proof their cloud native infrastructure framework in order to better integrate with other tools and ecosystems that may make sense as you travel further down your roadmap. Lastly, Michael will highlight the Mirantis approach to open source-based, cloud native infrastructure management, showcasing solutions and tools that will save you money, decrease your deployment times, and better position your organization for innovation in the future.

A full list of the topics discussed in this episode include:

• Different types of vendor lock-in
• Importance of vendor neutrality
• VMware alternative solutions
• The Mirantis solution
• The Mirantis advantage
• Quick summary

Check out VMware alternatives solutions at mirantis.com/vmware-alternatives/ 

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

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In this month's episode, John Jainschigg, Director of Open Source Initiatives at Mirantis hosts Kathleen Moyer, Director of Service Delivery at Corsec Security, and William Konitzer, Senior Solution Architect at Mirantis, to explore the recently achieved DISA STIG certification for Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE). Together, they dive into the intricate certification process that enables public sector and enterprise users to deploy secure, compliant applications using MKE.

Listeners will gain insights into the collaborative effort between Mirantis and Corsec Security, where Kathleen shares her 25 years of expertise in security certifications, detailing how Corsec facilitated the process with government agencies like DISA and the DoD. William provides a behind-the-scenes look at the technical challenges and solutions that ensured MKE met stringent Department of Defense (DoD) security standards without compromising usability or performance. Furthermore, he highlights some of the team's learnings in the context of how it changed the thought process of Mirantis' engineering teams when it came to security.

Achieved in early 2024, this milestone positions MKE as a powerful tool for public sector organizations and industries with specific security and compliance needs. Whether you’re navigating public sector compliance requirements or interested in secure cloud native solutions, this episode offers practical advice and unique perspectives on implementing and managing a STIG-compliant Kubernetes platform.

A full list of this episode's topics include:

• Corsec Security's role in the MKE DISA STIG process
• Common challenges Orgs face in STIG process
• How Corsec handles security testing to ensure compliance
• SITG vs FEDRAMP - in terms of requirements
• How Corsec handles product updates re: the STIG
• Advice for companies getting started with STIG certification
• Role of documentation in STIG process
• Challenges in MKE STIG process
• Why Mirantis did a STIG for MKE
• Specific security features of MKE that affected DISA STIG approval
• Mirantis and Corsec collaboration
• MKE for the Public Sector
• Timelines for achieving STIG certification
• Mitigating evolving vulnerabilities
• How the SITG process for MKE impacted Mirantis engineering

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

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Welcome to Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis, your go-to podcast for all things cloud native, Kubernetes, and open source. Join us as we explore the latest trends, innovative solutions, and open source projects shaping the modern cloud landscape. For related links and/or diagrams, please check out the resources linked in the Chapters.

This episode is once again presented by Daniel Virassamy, Principal Solution Architect at Mirantis, who describes himself as curious by nature and open source by choice. Daniel will walk you through the steps and best practices for building your very own, bespoke, multi-cluster Kubernetes platform leveraging open source components and tools. He will also present some open source-based solutions from Mirantis that drastically streamline multi-cluster management at scale, as well as open source integrations that will optimize your Kubernetes spend and operations.

A full list of topics for this episode includes:

• Current multi-cluster landscape
• Where to run your infrastructure
• Core infrastructure services for multi-cluster
• How to choose a Kubernetes Distro
• How to choose a multi-cluster management solution
• Implementing a UI Portal & APIs
• Adding Observability & application delivery
• Common use cases for multi-cluster

Check out k0s by Mirantis: https://k0sproject.io/
Learn more about k0smotron by Mirantis: https://k0smotron.io/
Download Mirantis Lens, the Kubernetes IDE: https://k8slens.dev/

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: [email protected]