Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, joins me to discuss the business model behind Cilium and the enjoyment she has found working in open source. 

In this episode, Liz and I discuss why Isovalent decided to donate Cilium to CNCF, and the additional decisions behind developing for Cilium open source versus Cilium for Enterprise. Tune into this episode to hear how entrepreneurship taught Liz what she didn’t enjoy doing so she could focus on work she enjoys, and what she finds most rewarding about working in open source.

Highlights:

• Liz introduces herself and describes her role as Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent (00:55)
• Why Isovalent decided to donate Cilium to CNCF (02:11)
• What Liz sees as the relationship between cloud native and open source (07:43)
• Liz’s past experiences as an entrepreneur and how it led her to to where she is now (10:05)
• How Isovalent has evolved and grown into a company with enterprise product offerings (17:17)
• How decisions are made differently when developing the open-source version of Cilium versus the enterprise version (22:12)
• The gratification and value Liz has found working in open source (25:58)

Links:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizrice
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/lizrice
• Github: https://github.com/lizrice
• Company: https://isovalent.com/
• Cilium: www.cilium.io
• eBPF: www.eBPF.io