The New Stack Context

This week on The New Stack Context, the editorial team recorded live from Copenhagen, Denmark, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon -- the CNCF’s premiere event focused on Kubernetes and other cloud-native open source projects including Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd and others. The New Stack managing editor, Joab Jackson, editor-in-chief Alex Williams, and Ihor Dvoretskyi, developer advocate at the CNCF, discuss the latest with the Kubernetes community after the recent release of Kubernetes 1.10.

Earlier this week, we hosted a pancake breakfast and podcast discussion on the CNCF's first security project called SPIFFE, which is aiming to build a secure identity framework for cloud-native production environments. And we hosted two days of podcasting and livestreaming from the show floor, sponsored by Red Hat and the CNCF.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_ld1PoOiv0s

Hello, welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we review the week’s hottest news in cloud-native technologies/ at-scale application development and look ahead to topics we expect will gain more attention in coming weeks.

Next week, the New Stack editorial team will be traveling to Copenhagen next for the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon which is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s premiere event focused on Kubernetes and other cloud native open source projects including Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd and others.

On Tuesday we’ll be at the Red Hat Commons event on machine learning. Thursday we’ll be hosting a pancake breakfast and podcast discussion on the new CNCF project called SPIFFE, which is aiming to build a secure identity framework for cloud-native production environments. And we’ll host two days of podcasting and livestreaming from the show floor where we’ll be talking to companies such as Red Hat (which is sponsoring us), Aqua Security, IBM, Google, Booking.com, VMware and many others.

So for this week's podcast, we chatted with Red Hat's director of OpenShift product strategy, Brian Gracely. about what we might expect to see at Kubecon. We' also spoke with TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson about how SUSE's Cloud Application Platform uses Kubernetes to manage a containerized distribution of Cloud Foundry.

The New Stack editorial team is reporting live this week from Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston. We hosted a pancake breakfast and podcast discussion on the intersection of Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes this morning. And we’ve been hosting a day of podcasting and livestreaming from the show floor where we’ve talked to companies such as Dynatrace, Pivotal, Snyk, Grape Up, and many others.

In this episode of Context we’re going to have a roundtable discussion about the news from Cloud Foundry Summit and some of our top takeaways so far from the keynotes and sessions.

But first we’re going to bring on Jennifer Kotzen, senior product marketing manager at SUSE to talk about their new Cloud Foundry distribution, how it integrates with Kubernetes and how it’s the first to package up Cloud Foundry into containers.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z7IxIDYMoF0

On this week's episode of The New Stack Context, TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson was reporting live from AnacondaCon in Austin, Texas. He covered the annual data science conference for Anaconda users and came back with some insights on Anaconda and machine learning in the enterprise. We’ll hear more about that in the second half of the show.

But first, we discuss TNS Correspondent Scott Fulton's article about how Kubernetes is beginning to make it into the telco industry’s stack. Scott talked to Randy Bias, Juniper’s vice president for cloud technology and strategy, and one of the long-time key figures in the containerization movement. He says the time may be imminent for telecommunications providers to get behind their counterparts in the data center, and adopt Kubernetes as their orchestrator for network functions.

This week on The New Stack Context we talk with CircleCI CEO Jim Rose about a three-part series of posts he just wrote for The New Stack about the metrics that the company has found are useful for measuring an organization’s DevOps performance. The series is full of lots of data and graphics to help explain some standard metrics like mainline branch stability, deploy time and deploy frequency. Rose spoke to us about the report CircleCI put together, how they came up with those metrics, and how they can be useful for DevOps teams.

Also, this week, TNS managing editor Joab Jackson discusses Camunda, a company out of Berlin that provides workflow automation for developers building microservices-based applications. In an article this week, he offered details on their enterprise platform and open source project, called Cockpit, which allow developers to coordinate and oversee the complex operations of multiple components, or microservices.

TNS Editorial Director Libby Clark hosted this episode, along with TNS founder Alex Williams.

Hello, welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we review the week’s hottest news in cloud-native technologies/at-scale application development and look ahead to topics we expect will gain more attention in coming weeks.

This week we start with news from Docker, that its founder and former CTO Solomon Hykes has announced he’s leaving the company. Alex Handy first reported that Hykes stepped down as CTO back in November. At the time he said he was staying on as VP of the board of directors. Then this week Hykes published a post on the Docker blog announcing he’s leaving the company he started 10 years ago. Alex Handy has the story for us again.

Also this week, we discuss Nvidia’s AI and deep learning event, the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), with TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson, who attended the event. The New Stack is ramping up our machine learning coverage, especially as it relates to infrastructure automation and developer tooling. You, our readers and listeners told us in a survey back in December that AI is one of your top 5 areas of interest this year and so we are diving in -- starting with GTC.

TNS Editorial Director Libby Clark hosted this episode, with the help of TNS founder Alex Williams.

Hello, welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we review the week’s hottest news in cloud-native technologies/ at-scale application development and look ahead to topics we expect will gain more attention in coming weeks.

This week, we’re joined by Joel Speed, a DevOps engineer at Pusher who is working to build their internal Kubernetes Platform. Speed has been writing a series of articles for The New Stack recently about how Kubernetes handles authentication and how to create a single sign-on experience for Kubernetes users.  The team at Pusher has developed its own in-house single sign-on solution for their Kubernetes users that also offers more fine-grained access control. Speed spoke to us about the SSO set up at Pusher and how it came about.

We also spoke to TNS founder Alex Williams about The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Leadership Summit, which Williams attended a few weeks back. He recorded several interviews at the event, which we’ve been publishing this week on our other podcasts, TNS Analysts and TNS Makers.

TNS Editorial Director Libby Clark hosted this episode, along with TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson.

Hello, welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we review the week’s hottest news in cloud-native technologies/at-scale application development and look ahead to topics we expect will gain more attention in coming weeks.

This week, we’re joined by TNS correspondent Michelle Gienow, TNS Research Director Lawrence Hecht and TNS founder Alex Williams. This week, Gienow published the second article in our new weekly feature series focused on microservices. We’ll be covering cloud native microservices from start to finish for the next few months — starting with some of the things that organizations should consider when they’re weighing the decision to move to a microservices architecture. Michelle shares some of what she learned so far about why companies are adopting microservices architectures.

Hello, welcome to The New Stack Context, a weekly podcast where we review the week’s hottest news in cloud-native technologies/at-scale application development and look ahead to topics we expect will gain more attention in coming weeks.

This week we're speaking with Katy Farmer, Developer Advocate at InfluxData, who has been writing a regular series for The New Stack on time-series data.

Hello, welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we review the week’s hottest news in cloud-native technologies and at-scale application development, as well as look ahead to topics we expect will gain more attention in coming weeks.

On this week's episode, TNS security correspondent Lucian Constantin joins us to talk about how companies can and should handle security reports. His latest story on this subject is based on a recent survey of 1,700 bug bounty participants on HackerOne. The survey revealed that one in four ethical hackers have had cases where they eventually gave up on reporting vulnerabilities because the affected vendors didn't respond to the issues. And this wasn't because of a lack of trying to contact those organizations. Constantin explained how your company sets up a good vulnerability reporting policy so you’ll learn about vulnerabilities from ethical hackers first, before customer data end up for sale on the underground market.

Then, later in the episode, managing editor Joab Jackson talked about the O'Reilly Software Architecture conference he attended in New York this week. He heard a lot about event-driven microservices and got a preview of Camunda, a workflow engine for coordinating complex arrangements of microservices.

TNS Editorial Director Libby Clark hosted this episode, along with TNS Founder Alex Williams.