The New Stack Analysts

Can Kubernetes serve as the entry-point for the multi-cloud? This episode of The New Stack Analysts was recorded live, during our pancake breakfast panel sponsored by Wercker, at the CloudNativeCon/Kubecon conference, held in Berlin last week. Panelists Aaron Rice (Wercker), Aparna Sinha (Google), Fintan Ryan (RedMonk) and Kris Nova (Deis) discuss the intricacies of setting up multi-cloud operations, the benefits of Kubernetes, and equipping your continuous integration and deployment pipeline for the cloud-native age.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NB_kf-FfxM0

On this episode of TNS Analysts, Nancy Gohring of 451 Research joined TNS Analyst Lawrence Hecht to talk about the differences between monitoring and IT operations analytics. Just defining the market is complicated, so Nancy provided some explanation. In many ways, she sees many similarities between APM (application performance monitoring) and what is going on in server and infrastructure monitoring.

However, she sees more differentiation when it comes to providers dealing with log management. Where there is the greatest degree of overlap, and where vendors are focusing hard on innovation, is the area of advanced analytics.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/analyzing-morphing-monitoring-market-apm-logs-pricing-analytics/

In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, we focused on GoDaddy’s journey toward developing a containers-as-a-service (CaaS) platform. Heading the discussion was Shaheeda Nizar, senior director of engineering at GoDaddy, joined by Micah Rupersburg, GoDaddy CaaS engineering leader. Donnie Berkholz, director for 451 Research, joined TNS founder Alex Williams in the interview.

Throughout the conversation, Nizar and Rupersburg explained that as GoDaddy developers saw the advantages of containerizing applications and packaging together dependencies, it became a necessity to build a platform to run, orchestrate, and manage those containers.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/godaddy-built-container-service-platform/

DevOps, SecOps, DevSecOps, ChatOps, NoOps, the terms go on and on. In this episode of TNS Analysts Toph Whitmore, Principal Analyst at Blue Hill Research, talks about DataOps. He describes it as looking at the data production pipeline in a holistic manner, marrying data-management objectives with data-consumption ideals to maximize data-derived value.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/delving-dataops-matters/

On today's episode of The New Stack Analysts, TNS founder Alex Williams and Managing Editor Joab Jackson sat down with RedMonk analyst and co-founder James Governor to learn more about the upcoming MonkiGras 2017 event, launching 1/26/2017 in London, England.

While packaging software and refining the user experience will be discussed at length in both the traditional and technical sense, MonkiGras and RedMonk's follow-up event in October 2017, dubbed MonkToberFest, introduce the parallels found between software and craft beer. coffee, and microbreweries.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/monkigras-2017-software-and-craft-beer/

This week’s episode of The New Stack Analysts is our year-end wrap-up, with TNS staffers reflecting back over 2016 in scalable technology, with Research Analyst Lawrence Hecht, veteran journalist Scott M. Fulton III, Technical Editor Benjamin Ball, Managing Editor Joab Jackson, and founder Alex Williams.

Tasked with breaking down three of the biggest topics in the ecosystem during 2016, the group launched into the conversation, also offering some predictions as to what 2017 may bring to open source.

These topics were:

1. Whatever happened to the much-rumored Docker Fork?

2. The Future of OpenStack and Containers

3. The Growing Influence of Open Source in the Enterprise

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KTspO7vDHOU

Read more at: http://thenewstack.io/new-stack-analysts-2016-year-end-wrap-discussing-docker-openstack-open-source/

The D in ContainerD stands for daemon and a whole new shift in the ever subtle and not so subtle mechanics the container and orchestration communities. This news from Docker is one of three topics we explore in The New Stack Analysts. We start with a conversation about CoreOS and Container Linux, Docker's major news about its shift in strategy and plans to donate ContainerD to what it calls a neutral standards body. We finish with thoughts about AWS and the questions surfacing about its forays into the open source world.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Is8NSBhw0

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-115-buzz-tectonic-summit-2016/

Throughout 2016, the community around the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration tool has continued to grow at a pace that surprised many.

“Probably the biggest defining moment for the Kubernetes community right now is that other communities are communities of vendors more so than Kubernetes. I think Kubernetes is more a community of developers, operators, and users than it is of vendors. It’s up to us as users and developers in that community to continue to keep that feeling,” Intel Vice President and General Manager of Cloud and Infrastructure Technologies Jonathan Donaldson said on the 114th edition of the The New Stack Analysts podcast, a special “Pancake Breakfast Podcast” recorded during the CoreOS Tectonic Summit, held in New York this week.

Donaldson was joined by SAP Director of Cloud Architecture & Engineering Nishi Davidson, CoreOS Vice President of Engineering Mike Saparov, and Tigera CEO Andy Randall.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT9p17y5Fcw

Learn more at: http://thenewstack.io/tectonic-summit-pancake-breakfast/

In this discussion with Loris Degioanni of Sysdig, we talk about how the speed at which containerized environments move has proven to be difficult for traditional monitoring solutions. Users may have tens of thousands of containers, with some lasting only a few seconds, and a traditional monitoring solution whose sampling and reaction time is measured in minutes. It’s important to have the contextual information about these containers in order to handle them in an environment where orchestrators are constantly spinning up and removing containers.

Without context, you can be quickly overwhelmed by metrics that aren’t useful to you. Degioanni talks about the importance of having visibility into the container, and how Sysdig achieves this with its own ContainerVision technology. Instead of placing an agent inside the container, ContainerVision places a module in the operating system – essentially allowing it visibility into all current and future containers. We also go on to talk about the container orchestration revolution, overcoming telemetry issues, and updating traditional monitoring solutions.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VggD3lBoi3c

Download our 5th eBook, Monitoring & Management with Docker and Containers free of charge at: thenewstack.io/ebookseries/

To kick off the GrafanaCon user conference, taking place in New York this week, The New Stack held a special pancake and podcast panel discussion, to mull over these very topics.

For the event, the panel was comprised of Paul Dix, chief technology officer for InfluxData, keeper of the InfluxDB time-series database; Raj Dutt, cofounder and CEO of Raintank, which offers a commercial distribution of the open source Grafana visualization monitoring software; Theodore Staack, a software developer at office supply retailer Staples; and Matthew Brender, Intel developer advocate.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/grafanacon-pancake-podcast-intricacies-composing-new-monitoring-stack/