TFIR: Open Source, Cloud Native & AI/ML

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Cloud Foundry Foundation will be hosting the next Cloud Foundry Summit Virtual in July this year. We sat down with Chip Childers, Executive Director of the Foundation, to talk about the format of the event and what are some themes and topics we should be looking forward to. Essentially, there will be three tracks throughout the event – the first will be about the end users’ stories and experiences, the second will be “How To”, the developers guide for using Cloud Foundry;, and the third track will be “Behind the Curtain” that is all about the interaction between and with the Open Source community who create the Cloud Foundry software. The Foundation will also organize certification exams that have become extremely popular.

Learn more about VMware Tanzu: https://bit.ly/3zdsKLu

In 2020, we saw an uptake in the adoption of digital transformation and cloud-native technologies. Fast forward to 2021: As these adoptions are maturing, there has been a shift of focus towards Day 2 challenges and, more importantly, security. Security, as we all know, is no longer an afterthought in the cloud-native world and has moved into the developer’s pipeline with the Shift Left movement. In this episode of Let’s Talk, we invited James Watters, Chief Technology Officer at VMware’s Modern Application Platforms Business Unit, to talk about various aspects of security in the cloud-native world.

Upbound, the creator of open source Crossplane — the modern, cloud-native alternative to Infrastructure as Code (IaC), has announced an enterprise-grade distribution of Crossplane called Upbound Universal Crossplane (UXP). The company also took two core products - Upbound Cloud and Upbound Registry - out of beta and announced their general availability. In this episode of Let’s Talk, we sat down with Bassam Tabbara, Founder and CEO of Upbound, to learn about these announcements.

Replicated is the modern way to ship on-prem software. Replicated gives software vendors a container-based platform for easily deploying cloud-native applications inside customers' environments to provide greater security and control. We invited Replicated CEO and Co-Founder Grant Miller to talk about the state of software delivery in the Kubernetes world, how software vendors struggle to deliver Kubernetes-based apps to their customers and how Replicated helps such customers and vendors.

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Fauna is the creator of FaunaDB — a disruptive, global serverless database that makes modern applications possible with rich clients and serverless backends. The founders of the company come from global tech giants like Twitter. In this episode of Let’s Talk, I sat down with Evan Weaver, Co-Founder and CTO of Fauna, to learn more about FaunaDB and what unique problem it's trying to solve.

RackN has announced the release of RackN Digital Rebar v4.6, which introduces a load of new features including continuous provisioning automation with self-contained high availability and multi-platform universal workflow. In this episode of Let’s Talk, RackN CEO and Co-Founder Rob Hirschfeld joined us to tell us more about what’s new in v4.6 and also where does it fit in the broader bare metal story.

Learn more about Puppet Relay: https://puppet.com/products/relay/

Puppet announced the general availability of Relay recently. We hosted Deepak Giridharagopal, CTO of Puppet to learn more about the project. He said that Relay is based on a couple of core hypotheses. If you are an ops type of person, you would find that automation in this kind of modern environment is too hard; things move too quickly. In addition, the tooling is inaccessible to the broadest range of users that need to have it. With Relay Puppet is bringing the low-code approach to Ops, an interface to automate across all those different tools that teams use in the modern cloud environments. “Relay lets you do things like automated incident response, cost management, better security and compliance auditing,” said Giridharagopal.

“SIOS provides clustering software that offers high availability for mission-critical applications, particularly when they're in the cloud. We protect them both on-premises in the cloud and in hybrid environments,” - Margaret Hoagland.

Hoagland was recently promoted as the Vice President of Global Marketing at SIOS Technologies. We invited her to our show TFiR Newsroom to talk about her new role and the importance of High Availability and Disaster Recovery in the cloud native world where companies can’t afford ‘any’ downtime.

“Open Policy Agent or OPA was designed to be a policy engine that enables users to have a unified solution to authorization and policies that are across that Cloud Native stack. That’s super important because when you start thinking about putting policies in place for different applications running in different clouds, or different platforms using different databases, different microservices built on different programming languages, what you really want to be able to do is have a single cogent way of solving that authorization problem of who (people) or what (machines) can perform which actions on that software. That’s why OPA is so powerful,” said Tim Hinrichs, Co-founder and CTO of Styra.

Lens is celebrating its first birthday this month. As companies accelerated their digital transformation and cloud-native journeys, Lens became an integral part of Kubernetes experience. Lens enjoyed wide-spread adoption within the Kubernetes ecosystem.

In this episode of TFiR INSIGHTS, Miska Kaipiainen, Senior Director Of Engineering at Mirantis, joined me to talk about Lens and how they are planning to celebrate its first anniversary.