The New Stack Analysts

Now that containerization and orchestration platforms have upset the proverbial apple cart with respect to traditional concepts such as endpoint security, what are the points in the modern network that get security treatment, and who’s responsible for them? 

“The folks that are doing SRE at scale are a couple of really hyperscale companies,” said Fintan Ryan, an industry analyst at RedMonk, speaking with Alex Williams for the latest edition of The New Stack Analysts.

Independent industry analyst Dr. Chenxi Wang, in the same interview, noted that the latest batch of security startups are taking a very different approach to security policy and frameworks than the traditional, endpoint-centric mindset.

Hear the complete discussion with Wang and Ryan in 'The Intersection Between Containerization and Security,' the latest edition of The New Stack Analysts with Alex Williams.

In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, TNS Technical Editor Ben Ball spoke to Mark Boyd, Writer and Analyst at Platformable, Guy Podjarny, CEO of Snyk, and Paul Johnston, Founder of Roundabout Labs, about the state of severless security. In our discussion at ServerlessConf Austin, we talked about both the tools used to secure serverless environments, and the methodologies used to provide inherent, consistently secure approaches.

We talked about how serverless moves the security concern from the infrastructure level to high-level targets, such as application security, data security, and network security. The panel agreed that there are many classic security questions which remain the same, especially in regards to best practices from cloud providers, but there are still new security threats dealing with the pace at which serverless allows teams to experiment. Finally, we also discussed how the state of serverless security will change as it sees greater adoption.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QBKvDM_pgX4

Stackie, the New Stack's traveling pancake robot, ventured to Santa Clara California this week to host a pancake breakfast and podcast recording for the Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017.  As steampunk hacker Dr. Torq tended to the fussy 3D pancake maker,

TNS founder Alex Williams hosted a lively panel discussion about the evolution of Cloud Foundry, the Open Service Broker API, and Kubo, which is a new open source project being developed by Pivotal and Google that uses Google Bosh to package and deploy Kubernetes. The panel also discussed their favorite forms of communications for geographically diverse development teams, mentioning Twitter, Slack, telepathy and conferences.

The panelists for this episode of the The New Stack Analysts podcast were:

Dieu Cao: Pivotal director of product management,

Holger Mueller: Constellation Research vice president and principal analyst,

Abby Kearns: Cloud Foundry executive director,

Sarah Novotny: Google Program Manager of Kubernetes Community.

As an added bonus, play through to the end of the podcast to hear a special bonus segment where Dr. Torq explains the hardware hacker methodology and demonstrates his steampunk eyeball and as well as his "Electro-Matic Conference Personality Identification Device."

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NXlQ5UZmqxA

Where will Kubernetes eventually fit in the emerging picture of the distributed applications stack? Is it the virtual infrastructure provider for developers’ work environments? And if that’s the case, doesn’t that work against its chances to penetrate more production environments? Or is it the physical infrastructure manager that OpenStack may never have become for many users?

These are questions that The New Stack’s Alex Williams and Scott Fulton put to three of the most respected names in open source infrastructure: Donnie Berkholz, former analyst with 451 Research, and now vice president of IT service delivery at Carlson Wagonlit Travel; Krishnan Subramanian, founder and chief research advisor at Rishidot Research; and Jani MSV, principal at Janikiram & Associates.

Docker’s decision to hire Steve Singh as its new CEO surfaces questions about the future of arguably still the most symbolic and important company in the shift to container-based architectures.

With Singh as CEO, the message is clear. Docker is making a big move into the enterprise market. We decided to ask Fintan Ryan, an analyst with RedMonk about Singh’s appointment, what it says about Docker’s focus, how it impacts their engineering strategy and the larger context for ecosystem partners, cloud service providers and the overall developer community.

On today’s episode of The New Stack Analysts, Redmonk Principal Analyst & co-founder Stephen O'Grady and PagerDuty Director of Platform Strategy David Hayes joins me to discuss PagerDuty's digital operations management platform strategy, its emphasis on developer ecosystems, and how the company is adapting to the new intersection of infrastructure and app-centric approaches.

On this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we sat down with Ken Owens, Cisco CTO Cloud Platforms and Services Group, Susie Wee, Cisco VP and CTO of DevNet Innovations & Networked Experiences, and our guest analyst for this recording, Krishnan Subramanian, Rishidot Research CEO and Chief Research Advisor. The topic of discussion was the Cisco DevNet Create conference and the focus on the intersection of infrastructure and application technologies.

Cisco offers a detailed description of the event:

"The application development landscape is changing. Innovation that has its roots in startups, APIs, cloud computing, containers and microservices is quickly making its way into the enterprise and into verticals such as manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and transportation.

(Cisco is) launching DevNet Create to bring together the application developers, infrastructure engineers, designers, innovators, DevOps engineers and IT Pros who want to define and build this new landscape."

Are Docker and Kubernetes friends? Maybe. Are they partners? Definitely. Many tech companies have a shared interest in promoting the successful adoption of cloud-native technologies. As Diane Mueller, Red Hat’s Director of Community Development for OpenShift recently wrote on Twitter, “Everyone and everything is connected, nothing wrong with cross-community collaboration #everybodywins.”

On today's episode of The New Stack Analysts, Scott Ottaway, Research Director for DevOps, Cloud Application Platforms and Open Source at IDC joins Alex and Lawrence to discuss partnerships and alliances in the cloud-native ecosystem. Scott provides context into how and why companies enter into relationships with larger cloud providers. Deep into the conversation, Scott thinks about the relative position of Kubernetes, Mesosphere and Docker’s orchestration capabilities.

Scott is very diplomatic but we all laughed when he said “There’s a whole bunch of dogs that won’t hunt when you see joint press releases.”

PaaS, CaaS, container management, cloud platform, what do you call that technology you’re using? In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Larry Carvalho, research manager and lead analyst for Platform as a Service at IDC, explains why the term PaaS is actually passè.

Instead of talking about platforms as a service, Larry uses the term “cloud application platform. ”

This cloud platform provides compute abilities, developer services, as well as back-end services. At its core, it has to provide a compute engine that traditionally was provided as a VM, but compute is increasingly done with containers and even as functions. In other words, no matter how an application is packaged, it can still be run on top of a platform.

In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, we talked to conference co-chairs of OSCON, the open source convention being held in Austin on May 8-11. Interview participants were:

Rachel Roumeliotis, Strategic Content Director, O’Reilly Media, Inc.

Scott Hanselman, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft.

Kelsey Hightower, Google developer advocate.

A few highlights from the conversation include:

There will be a lot of discussion about collaboration and community. Topics will cover managing contributions in a large organization, incentivizing community members and how to leave a project. Outside of the actual sessions, expect lots of one-on-one mentoring in the hallways.

Open source business models continue to be something people want to talk about even if there is no long-term plan to transition a project to a full-blown start-up.

Hanselman made sure to let us know about the care with which speakers were picked. All the co-chairs are on the speaking circuit and didn’t want to hear the same old people giving the same old talk.