Has there been a more exciting time in enterprise IT than now-- the age of cloud native? Containers, Kubernetes, and the expansive ecosystem of technologies around them have brought about game-changing new approaches to building, deploying, and managing applications. But as many enterprise organizations undertake ambitious cloud native projects, they face big new challenges in operationalizing and managing Kubernetes environments, particularly with respect to networking, storage, observability, and security.

In today’s explosion of network end-point devices (think IoT), the management of IP addresses and domain names become exponentially more difficult to address. This is where automation tools like Ansible can be a savior when packaged with IP and Domain Name solutions such as Infoblox. Infoblox Ansible Collection for vNIOS enables the DNS and IPAM automation of VM workloads that are deployed across multiple platforms. It allows managing your NIOS objects by leveraging the REST APIs
in the backend. 
With the new Infoblox NIOS Collection-1.1.0 for Ansible, organizations can now leverage
Ansible to automate the configuration and management of the DNS Traffic Control functionality offered by Infoblox. Infoblox DNS Traffic Control (DTC) integrates GSLB functionality with core DDI network services. Highly automated, it provides the performance, scalability, and availability that organizations require. DTC load balances DNS traffic based on client location, server location, and server availability.

Running a Cloud Native Database in Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud environments, one gets to see a number of security issues. These are nearly always obvious in hindsight. This is a list of five that Matt Ingenthron, Sr. Director of Engineering and in charge of Cloud Native Development, has seen with Couchbase Database Deployments.

Resources:

Matt's Scale 17x talk: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/presentations/tyrannical-9s-solved-opentracing-your-apps-and-couchbase

Jeff Dean and Luiz Barroso
The Tail at Scale - CACM February 2013

Rick L. Hudson
International Symposium on Memory Management July 2018

Red Hat with its Linux distribution, container environments and Ansible management
framework is one of the fastest growing software infrastructure solutions in the world. In this episode we invite Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat, to discuss how they have been incorporating compatibility and optimization in Red Hat environments for several years.

The trend of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps continues to gain momentum with DevOps and cloud teams as a way to achieve complete operational control of infrastructure. As teams codify infrastructure using IaC tools like Terraform, Helm, and YAML, it can be easy to overlook misconfigurations and security gaps that can leave you exposed to risk. 

Using a policy-as-code approach, you can ensure security and compliance within your IaC and across your pipeline – from source to production. In this podcast, you’ll hear from Maor Goldberg, VP of Security Product Management at Sysdig who brings a wealth of cybersecurity experience having led large-scale, high-demanding security, identity, and networking projects and companies. Join us to learn about the challenges and opportunities of securing IaC for cloud, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.

The rise of microservices, DevOps, and global applications is putting pressure on
traditional systems of record. Modern transactional applications need databases that can deliver continuous availability, on-demand scale, and geo-distribution without sacrificing ACID guarantees or RDBMS features. These databases should run where the applications are and enable developers to deliver new capabilities quickly.
Join Yugabyte’s Tim Faulkes and our host for a conversation about the design of high-performance distributed SQL databases, and real-world use cases driving the adoption of distributed SQL databases.

Today’s container technologies, kubernetes being the leader here, focus on CPU &
memory as the primary resources when scheduling and managing applications in a distributed
environment. But they tend to ignore the impact of storage and network I/O resources today’s containerized applications need. Diamanti considered management of storage and network resources as the first-degree problem under this new paradigm. Gopal Sharma, co-founder and CTO of Diamanti, shares the origin of this thought process and how it is changing the way enterprises are relying on Diamanti to provide the right infrastructure to take their applications from dev to production.

Monday morning special! Take a break from tech with this conversation on working remote. 

According to GitLab’s 2021 Remote Work Report, 82% of respondents agreed that remote work is the future of work, with nearly as many 80% saying that they would recommend working remotely to a friend. This shows us that the way we work is leading towards remote with many praising its benefits.
Both RedHat and GitLab are known for their Remote Culture and its flexibility, providing employees the ability to work a sync and handle their personal needs first. This has brought tremendous benefits and enables a culture of family and friends first. In this episode we will speak about our experiences with remote work and how it has affected our lives.

Kubernetes adoption and use is gaining traction for all types of services and applications, but for many the database still runs off to one side. In fact, a recent survey conducted by Cockroach Labs and Red Hat shows that 94% of organizations are using Kubernetes in production today -- and that the number one priority they named is architecting for data-intensive workloads.
Please join us for this insightful session, where we will help you gauge your maturity against some of your peers and help identify the trends and approaches organizations are facing with K8s and how to use it for transactional, data intensive workloads.

Click here to read the full report.

Today’s container technologies, focus on CPU and memory as the primary resources when scheduling and managing applications in a distributed environment, but they tend to ignore the impact of storage and network I/O resources on containerized applications. Diamanti considered management of storage and network resources as the first-degree problem under this new paradigm. Abhay Singh and Naveen Seth, founding engineers at Diamanti, take a deep dive into the vision and the challenges that shaped their solution to this issue.