Red Hat X Podcast Series

Distributed tracing is surfacing in the global consciousness of DevOps and Observability as critical signals, on par with metrics and logging. However, while the technology and operations of metrics and logging solutions are well established and understood, distributed tracing is still an early discipline and ripe for learning.

For microservices environments distributed tracing must be extremely precise – no sampling, no partial traces, have very low overhead, and provide powerful insights. In this podcast, Michele shares the lessons learned along the way of building Instana, the lead distributed tracing solution for cloud-native applications.

Modern organizations are ramping up their use of DevOps methodologies, open source software, and container technology to optimize their digital transformation initiatives and bring products to market more quickly. This optimization, however, comes with newfound risk.  Join Clinton Herget, Principal Solutions Engineer at Snyk, to learn about the security risks introduced by our overwhelming use of containers and open source software, and how effective application security programs now require development teams to manage security as they build.

Finding and removing vulnerabilities and compliance violations should start as early as possible in the CI/CD pipeline. In this podcast. Glen Kosaka, VP Product Management of NeuVector, will discuss how NeuVector supports and enhances Red Hat and OpenShift security initiatives such as the Vulnerability Scanner Certification, Red Hat Operator, and OpenShift draft CIS benchmarks. He will cover key places in the pipeline to integrate and automate security, all the way to protecting container workloads during run-time.

Learn how Red Hat weaves together DevOps and Security to master the force called DevSecOps. Every 3rd week of the month we bring you Red Hat products and our security ecosystem partners to aid in your journey. We help you integrate DevSecOps into your OpenShift lifecycle and create a strategic advantage to win against security problems.

Join us to hear from Mirko Novakovic, Co-founder and CEO of Instana on how Instana was founded, where it got its name and and how its original idea is still the guiding principle of the company.  Also learn why this idea of automation, context and Intelligent action is so important in today’s cloud native environments. 

Join us as we talk with Erik Kaulberg, Vice President at Infinidat about the importance of storage for large-scale workloads across different Red Hat platforms, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP), and Red Hat OpenShift - and the possibilities that modern storage platforms like Infinidat InfiniBox bring to optimize administrator workflows via Ansible and drive efficiency through the entire application stack.

There are many significant benefits to automating workflows and management processes in a datacenter­–including saving time and money, reducing errors, and even automating security. Join Infoblox's Sailesh Giri, Product Manager and Phil Miller, Principal Solutions Architect, in this discussion about the new Infoblox NIOS Collection for Ansible. They will look into how integrating Infoblox foundational networking capabilities with Ansible automation can help reduce deployment times and costs, increase network resource efficiencies, and improve network reliability and security.

See the Infoblox certified application in the Red Hat Catalog here.

Join Erik Melander, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Astellent as he discusses how organizations are rapidly adopting cloud-native technology in order to meet customer expectations and speed the pace of innovation. He’ll discuss the challenges organizations face when expanding their OpenShift adoption beyond lightweight and stateless applications and how breaking from legacy architectures can help organizations deliver transformational application performance, scalability, and operational efficiency with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

Densify uniquely addresses the complete cost optimization challenge by first tackling the precise optimization of individual cloud instances, then ensuring that purchasing is optimal from the ground up. Chuck Tatham, CMO at Densify, will discuss how to continuously purchase just enough capacity and resources for each cloud and container workload to maintain optimal performance is the only way to address the instance-level cloud cost challenge.  At scale, this requires sophisticated, machine-learning-driven analytics and automated control mechanisms. This optimization is not achievable manually or by finance efforts alone.  

While software architects have broken their monoliths into event-driven service architectures, many delivery architects are still building monolithic inspired release pipelines and operations still uses manual set alert-thresholds and manual runbooks for operational tasks. This is slow, error prone and doesn’t scale!

In this session we introduce a new approach implemented by Keptn: Event-driven Continuous Delivery and Operation Automation! This approach decouples the declaration of processes for delivery and remediation from tooling. It uses an “everything as code” approach which includes deployment, testing, quality gate, observability, promotion and remediation definitions