The New Stack Podcast

Dell Technologies sponsored this podcast.

In this The New Stack Makers podcast, Savla and Chip Zoller, senior principal engineer for Dell Technologies, discuss infrastructure challenges associated with cloud native and Kubernetes and how the right tool choice can help to make the shift that much less painful.

Kubernetes’ arrangement of container clusters and pods is one of the more amazing computing structures this writer has observed. Its relatively simplicity as a container orchestrator, in many ways, begs the question why such a straightforward system was so hard to invent in the first place. Regardless, in addition to the resource-savings capabilities Kubernetes offers, the hype about its versatility and scaling capabilities is also well-deserved.

But then your organization decides to make the cloud native shift to Kubernetes — suddenly, DevOps sees the very steep learning curve ahead as they face the often immense challenges of managing a Kubernetes infrastructure.

DevOps teams, for example, begin to think about the daunting prospect of ensuring a particular stack is safe and secure on Kubernetes, Boskey Savla, technical product line marketing manager, modern apps, for VMware, said. “These are the things a lot of times customers start thinking about [when adopting] cloud native architectures and they tend to think about this as an afterthought,” Savla said. “And they go all in on Kubernetes. But then they realize, ‘okay, we need to take care of all this. How do I even scale a cluster”’?

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week’s episode, we spoke with Chris DiBona, director of open source at Google, about Google’s launch of the Open Usage Commons, an independent company to help open source projects better manage their trademarks.

In a blog post, DiBona notes that trademarks sit at the juncture of the rule-of-law and the philosophy of open source. So for this episode, we wanted to find out more about how they interact and how Google is attempting to improve the management of trademarks in an open source way. We also wanted to address the rumors that this organization was created to manage Google’s Istio open source service mesh in lieu of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (DiBona’s answer: no).

TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon sponsored this podcast.

In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, Cheryl Hung, vice president of ecosystem, CNCF, discusses CNCF’s the Technology Radar’s role in software development today.

In many ways, the Technology Radar can “show reality,” Hung said. And in doing that, the purpose is to show and distinguish between what is important and what is just hype.

“We are obviously all really interested in new projects, new tools and the new products that are coming out, but the question has always been is anyone actually using this?,” Hung said. “Is it real or is it hype that’s going to fade away in a few months or a few years? So, that was really my motivation behind this new report.”

Prisma Cloud from Palo Alto Networks sponsored this podcast.

In this edition of The New Stack Makers recorded for The State of Cloud Native Security virtual summit held on June 24, thought leaders from Palo Alto Networks discuss why the shift left for security in the software production process is essential for DevOps today. The topics discussed include how the trend to shift left has its roots in DevOps, its integration with continuous delivery (CD), security’s role not only in software development processes but for the enterprise as well and, ultimately, how the shift left helps to ensure software is safe and secure.

Many, if not most, DevOps team leaders and CTOs are well aware of the importance of embedding security processes at the very beginning of the production pipeline.

The guests from Palo Alto Networks are:

Aqsa Taylor, a product manager for Prisma Cloud.

Ashley Ward, solutions architect.

Keith Mokris, head of product marketing, Prisma Cloud.

Vinay Venkataraghavan, Cloud CTO, Prisma Cloud.

Prisma Cloud from Palo Alto Networks sponsored this podcast.

Palo Alto Networks, Amazon Web Services, and Accenture, in March 2020, began to survey over 3,000 cloud architecture, InfoSec and DevOps professionals, on a quest to uncover the practices, tools and technologies companies are using to meet and deal with challenges of securing cloud native architectures and methodologies — and to gain the benefits of moving to the cloud.

This edition of The New Stack Makers features the keynote panel discussion with thought leaders from Palo Alto Networks, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Accenture who shared their own experiences and anecdotes within their organizations as they related to the findings. Moderated by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, the panel discussion was recorded for the The State of Cloud Native Security virtual summit held on June 24.

The panelists guests were:

John Morello, vice president of product, Prisma Cloud.

Mark Rauchwarter, multicloud security lead, Accenture.

Daniel Swart partner solutions architect Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Dell Technologies sponsored this podcast.

The tools and technologies DevOps teams rely on for infrastructure as code certainly has changed, especially as it has begun to scale for storage. At the same time, the tools, technologies, and platforms that started in the hyper-scale, cloud native applications and their DevOps environments have actually democratized “scale”. The concepts of configuration management and state-based declarative paradigms are actually reinforcing the fact that “Cloud is not a place” and instead it’s how you manage the operations to achieve objectives like self-service, elastic scale, and agile application development.

During this The New Stack Makers podcast as part of the Dell Technologies Virtual Day of Podcast series, we discuss a number of topics relating to infrastructure as code and how it applies to storage — and what that implies in today’s increasingly cloud native-centric world.

The guest are:

Catherine Paganini, head of marketing for Kublr.

Parasar Kodati, senior consultant, product marketing, Dell Technologies.

Patrick Ohly, senior software engineer, Intel.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week’s episode, we spoke with Craig McLuckie, who is the VMware chief of Tanzu development, as well as one of the creators of Kubernetes. We asked him about the importance of the developer for modern business, the value that Kubernetes brings to developers and how VMware’s Tanzu portfolio enables that.

TNS Editorial and Marketing Director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside TNS Senior Editor Richard MacManus, and TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson.

In this conversation for The New Stack Makers, Majors discusses a number of themes relating to observability and monitoring, as well as how she continues to make herself a better developer. The topics include how:

Test-driven development and how it has evolved.

Monitoring as a practice — much like test-driven development — was built for on-premises architectures.

Observability is the successor to monitoring by allowing for the discovery of the “unknown, unknowns,” which Majors previously wrote is like “following breadcrumbs to find what you don’t even know what is there.”

A robust architecture is required for observability.

While observability has been referred to as a “missing link” in DevOps, Majors said, instead, “it’s not such a missing link as it is a necessary first step.”

Prisma Cloud from Palo Alto Networks sponsored this podcast.

BankUnited N.A. falls under the mid-sized bank category. Based in Miami Lakes, Florida, it has about $32.9 billion in total assets and serves both the consumer and commercial sectors. Not one of the largest banks or one of the smallest banks in the U.S., BankUnited N.A., a subsidiary of BankUnited, reflects what it is like for an organization in the financial sector, seen as a barometer for cloud native adoption, to make the switch to cloud native.

In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, Felipe Medina, vice president, IT security operations, InfoSec engineering, and Michael Lehmbeck, cloud architecture and operations manager, for BankUnited N.A. spoke about their DevOps’ cloud native journey in the financial sector. The podcast was recorded for The State of Cloud Native Security Virtual summit that took place on June 24.

BankUnited N.A. began to make its switch to the cloud about three years ago. The initial idea was to “test the waters” in order to achieve “some tangible returns,” Lehmbeck said. The DevOps team set about testing its disaster recovery capabilities. “We proved our ability to be able to failover between our primary data centers, to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a disaster recovery-type scenario,” Lehmbeck said. “So, that basically enabled us to get an initial footprint stood up and proof out that our mission critical systems could in fact run in that cloud estate.”

Dell Technologies sponsored this podcast.

Enterprises worldwide are often revamping their IT organizations amid the great shift to cloud native infrastructures and the ongoing effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. In the New Stack Makers podcast, Jonas Emilsson, concept manager for hybrid platforms for Atea, discusses the impact on his firm’s delivery of IT infrastructure solutions services for its main customer base in Europe and the Baltics.

One macro trend Emilsson has observed is how the role of the developer has changed as DevOps adopts software-defined datacenters and Kubernetes. “We’ve seen a greater change in the market in terms of how customers and users, in general, are using the technologies,” Emilsson said. “A lot of it lies within the software-defined data center, of course. We thus do a lot of business with self-service portals and automation.”