DevOps Dispatch

Conversations with Renu Yarday and Carvel Open Source Project Laura Santamaria discovered Carvel, an open source project that helps people build and deploy applications on Kubernetes, on an exploration of the Project Pavilion at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023. She got a chance to chat briefly with Renu Yarday about the project and how more maintainers can join in to help. Listen in, a...

Kat Cosgrove and Laura Santamaria chat with Bob Killen (mrbobbytables), program manager in Google’s Open Source Program office and steering committee member for the Kubernetes open source project. We talk about dealing with getting more people to join large open source projects, no-code or low-code contribution options, maintainer burnout, getting employers to employ open source maintainers, and m...

Ryan Wallner sits down with Xing Yang who is a member of SIG Storage TAG Storage and the Data Protection Working group in the Kubernetes community to get an update on all the latest in storage. Links community/sig-storage at master · kubernetes/community (github.com) community/wg-data-protection/README.md at master · kubernetes/community (github.com) Container Storage Modules | Dell Technologies

Laura Santamaria chats with JJ Asghar about artificial intelligence (AI) and community building in the world of AI development. We discuss the differences between the DevOps communities that we’re used to and the AI community, if we can find one, as is coming up now. We also explore a bit of how open source in the AI world might be different (is it actually dreaded shareware???) and realize that,...

Ryan Wallner chats with Kyle Forster, the founder of RunWhen, an automated troubleshooting platform that uses digital assistants to help ease the complexity of figuring out what is going on in your Kubernetes clusters. RunWhen has both platform and open-source offerings and allows contributions from open source and third-party royalty-based authors of scripts that are used to effectively troublesh...

Importance of nurturing the Kubernetes community Tim Banks sits down with Kelsey Hightower to talk about the history of Kubecon and the Kubernetes community, how inclusion strengthens the project, and the importance of nurturing the individuals in the community. Learn More: https://developer.dell.com

Gabriele Bartolini and Ryan Wallner discuss where the community has come in regard to running Databases like Postgres and Stateful Workloads in general. Databases have moved beyond the concept face and organizations are running large databases with the need for advanced features like multi-cluster architectures and disaster recovery. Listen to Gabriele and Ryan discuss these topics and learn where...

Matt takes us through Open Cost, the CNCF sandbox project for Kubernetes Cloud Cost monitoring. Open Cost allows you to see the cost everything you might have inside of your Kubernetes cluster and has contributing members like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, who announced their involvement that week at Kubecon. Matt also explains the requirements and process by which a CNCF project moves from Sandbo...

Donnie talks about his roots in Gentoo, his background in computational structural biology and the move he made to the tech world. He explains how his arc led him to realize that for the majority of his career he has been involved with the building and using of platforms, and how this led him to found Platify insights through which he could offer that knowledge and skillset to help others. We end...

Software Defined Talk hosts, Matt Ray and Michael Cote are joined by guest host, Barton George for episode #412. The episode was recorded at the Dell booth at Kubecon EU and covers the keynotes, Amsterdam grocery stores, A.I. coverage by tech media and reminisce about OpenStack. Plus, some thoughts on the Breakfast Buffet… Learn more at https://developer.dell.com Check out the video version of thi...

Josh, Karena and Barton cover a wide variety of topics, from Karena’s involvement in upstream projects to how Josh’s quest to fully automate Postgres’s high availability initially led him to. Kubernetes. They talk about the 75-80 CNCF projects that are either a part of Red Hat’s products or upstream efforts as well as OpenShifts bold decision, back in the day, to move from a home-grown container m...

Mike, a member of VMware’s Edge team, and Dell’s Barton cover a host of “edgy” topics including, what it means to be “edge native,” the mini version of Kubernetes that VMware is developing for Edge devices, why people don’t talk about “IoT anymore and where people should go if they want to get started with Edge computing Learn more at https://developer.dell.com Check out the video version of this...

We take a meandering journey through technologies of yesterday and today and their trajectories, including Open Stack, Cloud Foundry and OpenShift. Cote hits his stride as he takes through the details and key elements behind the rise of DevOps and the ascendancy of platform engineering. Learn more at https://developer.dell.com Check out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Yo...

Kat Cosgrove talks with Kubernetes release team. Kat is joined by two long-time members of the Kubernetes release team to discuss the release process itself, and how the release process has changed from v1.12 to now. We cover the good, the bad, the technical hurdles, and the people hurdles for the release team itself, as well as the future for current release team members. Check out the video vers...

Live from the KubeCon EU 2023 show floor, Brad Maltz and Barton George chat with Maciej Mazur, Principal ML/AI Engineer at Canonical, about all things MLOps. For the video version of this podcast, watch on the Dell Technologies Youtube. Learn More: https://developer.dell.com

Live from the KubeCon EU 2023 show floor, Brad and Laura chat with Jacco Landlust, Global Head of Cloud at ING Bank, about ING Bank’s decision to open source tools to share with the rest of the cloud native community. Check out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube. Learn more: https://www.dell.com/ltB4BYHxb_A

At KubeCon Amsterdam in April 2023, Brad Maltz and Barton George from Dell Interview Alex Jones from Canonical (now at AWS) live from the Dell booth on the show floor to talk about KubeCon community, Cloud repatriation, Multi-cloud, APIs and more. Check out the video version of this podcast at the Dell Technologies YouTube! Learn more: https://www.dell.com/hYfWFOyuLwE

Recorded live from the show floor in Amsterdam NL in April 2023, Ryan Wallner from Dell talks to Luca Galante of Humanitec around the hype and reality that is Platform Engineering. Learn about what platform engineering is and where its going. Watch the video version of this podcast at the Dell Technologies YouTube! For more information, please visit https://developer.dell.com

Live from the KubeCon Amsterdam show floor in April 2023, Ryan Wallner talks with Xing Yang about Data on Kubernetes, SIG Storage, CSI Migration updates, Registry changes and more. Watch the video version of this podcast on Dell Technologies YouTube! Learn More: https://developer.dell.com/

Live from the show floor at KubeCon Amsterdam in April 2023, Ryan Wallner from Dell talks to Nigel Poulton about all things WASM. WASM and Cloud Native WASM are up-and-coming topics to the Kubernetes ecosystem providing new runtime and development options for applications. Learn about this and more on this episode of DevOps Dispatch. Watch the video version of the Podcast on the Dell Technologies...

Laura chats with Chris Short, co-lead of the Kubernetes contributor comms group, about helping the contributor community keep up with the news. A lot of information flows in a large contributor community like the Kubernetes contributor community. From events to code freezes to new deprecations, keeping on top of all of the data is difficult. Enter contributor communications, or contributor comms f...

Live from the KubeCon EU 2023 show floor, Laura nerds out with Nick Eberts about geology, cloud native ecosystems, and more on the last day of KubeCon when both of them were a bit exhausted. Check out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube. Learn More: https://www.dell.com/s9Wrkf8lAA8

Swag! Cool tech! KubeCon EU 2023.Live from the KubeCon EU 2023 show floor, Laura goes on an entertaining, rambling journey with JJ Asghar and Jeremy Tanner reviewing the conference from swag to cool tech and more. Check out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube. Learn More: https://developer.dell.com/

Live from KubeCon EU 2023, Hands-on learning and community. Live from the KubeCon EU 2023 show floor, Ryan talks with Sean Carolan (now at GitPod) about Instruqt hands-on learning with labs and what education means to the Kubernetes Community. Check out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube. Learn More: https://developer.dell.com

Live from the KubeCon show floor, Brad Maltz from Dell interviews Stu Miniman from Redhat to talk about KubeCon updates, Platform Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Open-source and more. Check out the video version of this podcast on the Dell Technologies Youtube