The New Stack Analysts

In this special, surprise episode of the New Stack Analysts podcast, we take a quick reading on the fallout from our story, "A Docker Fork: Talk of a Split Is Now on the Table," which described rumors of a number of prominent container ecosystem players discussing whether or not to fork the Docker codebase.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/docker-fork-talk-split-now-table/

In this week’s episode of The New Stack Analysts, we explore how developers got their start in open source, why foundations may not be a perfect solution for bringing into open source communities, and best practices for bug reporting and problem solving in today’s open source ecosphere.

The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and co-host Lee Calcote spoke with Apcera Software Engineer Jamie Piña and Apcera Lead Software Architect Josh Ellithorpe to get their insight on these matters and more.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/powerful-collaboration-tools-open-source-community/

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XiSDtFnx99s

In this discussion with John Morello of Twistlock, we talk about how containers can actually be a better medium for automating and securing applications. Containers being immutable and lightweight makes it easier to follow images from early in the development life cycle all the way to the registry and compute environments. Twistlock collects data from this life cycle and creates a predictive model for a container’s behavior. This model looks for inconsistent behaviors, and depending on what you want, it can set off an alert or even block the activity entirely.

Later in the discussion, we talk about Twistlock’s focus on four distinct use cases, recent changes to its core features, the value of partner integration and more.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/creating-automated-model-container-security/

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9xcCjcEi-FY

In this discussion with Hari Krishnan and Harmeet Sahni of Nuage Networks, we talk about how to use software-defined networking (SDN) to address the networking and security needs of containers. SDN can help prevent infrastructure-related performance bottlenecks, as well as provide the fine-grained policy enforcement that allows users to handle dynamic container environments. Nuage Network’s Virtual Services Platform (VSP) provides these capabilities in all types of cloud environments, featuring user intent-focused definition, virtual routing and switching components, and more.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/software-defined-approach-networking-security/

Estes talks about the challenges of networking containers, the evolution of container namespaces, and the current state of container security, to which he offers a positive security outlook. This discussion extends into the plugin ecosystem for Docker, and how this pluggable model benefits the vendors and their customers.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-bridging-open-source-container-communities/

In this episode, delve into a discussion surrounding our latest EBook on Container Networking, Security, and Storage.

IBM Fellow, VP and CTO at IBM Cloud Platform Jason McGee discusses bringing together the various tools in the open source and container ecosystems, including the many networking tools looking to address the needs of containers. IBM is focused on bringing these communities together by contributing to core technologies and building a world-class cloud platform.

In this discussion with Ken Owens of Cisco, we talk about how to apply existing models of networking, security and storage to containerized environments. Owens talks about how bringing a DevOps mindset forward to containers reveals the strong foundations for security, networking and storage and how they still apply.

But the challenge is often in the varying perspectives involved in operating these environments, from Linux and network administrators to security and storage teams. It’s important to link up these perspectives through the components they control, while creating policy around resource management.

The discussion moves on to the roles of Contiv and Mantl, and how they address these issues.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/uniting-teams-devops-perspective/

In this discussion with Nathan McCauley of Docker, we talk about the different ways that users have come to think about Docker security over the years. McCauley explained that many early security concerns stemmed from users not being familiar with the technology at play. Docker has addressed these concerns in the base platform over the years, aided by a movement in the DevOps community towards embracing container technology and how it can help them achieve their security goals. The discussion also covers Docker 1.12’s native Swarm orchestration mode, and some additional security features like cryptographic node identity.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/foundation-of-secure-containers/

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5XJ1Vsu1O0

In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we explore how NATS hopes to stand out in the message broker ecosystem, why simplicity is a powerful tool for message brokerage at scale, and how developers can ensure their services remain cost-efficient in the long term.

The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and co-host 451 Research Analyst Donnie Berkholz spoke with Apcera Product Manager Larry McQueary and Apcera VP Alliances & Channels Steve Dischinger to learn more about NATS.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/finding-simplest-path-value-apcera-nats/

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ttMMzRwbUBE

In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we explore the ways in which OpenStack and Kubernetes have evolved throughout the years, some of the challenges facing the Kubernetes community, and the ways in which foundations such as CNCF are shaping projects such as Kubernetes. The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and Managerial Editor Joab Jackson hosted another pancake breakfast with Pancake Bot serving up its own short stacks at OpenStack Silicon Valley 2016.

Panel guests included Google Product Manager Craig McLuckie, CoreOS VP of Engineering Mike Saparov, Mirantis Co-Founder and CEO Alex Freedland, and Iron.io. Co-Founder and CEO Chad Arimura.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoB95KZgH2c

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/ossv-pancake-breakfast-kubernetes-openstack-usher-paas-2-0/