Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis

As enterprises scale generative AI and autonomous agents, every layer of the technology stack - from silicon to orchestration (ie. Metal to Model) - is being reshaped. In this episode, hosted by Mirantis CMO Dominic Wilde, you will hear why AI workloads reverse decades of cloud abstraction, what full-stack AI infrastructure actually demands (GPUs, CPUs, networking fabrics, power, storage, etc.), h...

Rancher Kubernetes Engine 1 (RKE1) reached end of life on July 31st of 2025, meaning no more security patches, bug fixes, or a direct upgrade path forward. For businesses still running RKE1, the clock is ticking - and the decisions made now will have major implications for security, compliance, and operational continuity. In this episode, Edward Ionel of Mirantis is back to walk you through what r...

The GPU cloud market is booming - but for NeoClouds and cloud service providers, explosive growth is quickly becoming a race to the bottom. In this episode, Edward Ionel of Mirantis breaks down why raw compute is no longer enough to sustain a profitable business, and what operators must do to protect their margins before the window closes. Edward walks through the full monetization maturity model...

In this month's episode Sr. Solution Architect at Mirantis, Zachary Fanelle, will walk you through the basics for getting started with gRPC and how to easily start integrating it into your Kubernetes workflows. He will cover HTTP and REST APIs, as well as how these web technologies prompted Google to create gRPC in the first place. You will gain practical knowledge about what gPRC is, why it...

In this month's installment, Sergey Goncharov, Sr. Product Manager for Mirantis Kubernetes Engine 4k (MKE 4k) is back to help you tackle the ever-emerging problem of Platform Engineering for complex multi-cluster, multi-cloud Kubernetes workloads. With the rise of AI/Ml, these are becoming more and more prevalent in enterprises around the world. Overcoming this complexity requires a multi-clu...

In this episode of Radio Cloud Native, Michael Tillman, Sr. Solutions Architect and FedGov Cloud expert, is back to provide you with an in-depth overview of everything you need to know about Public Sector cloud native virtualization and modernization. Michael will cover the challenges most FedGov cloud customers face in terms of Legacy system modernization before presenting Mirantis Kubernetes Eng...

In this month's installment, Sr. Product Manager for Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE), Sergey Goncharov, will walk you through how to achieve full cloud native virtualization on top of Kubernetes-based infrastructure using MKE 4k (our latest release) and open source KubeVirt. By the end of this talk, you'll be able to run Kubernetes and/or Swarm-based VMs alongside containers and even wi...

In this month's installment, we're diving into OpenStack storage: the challenges, the solutions, and the best practices for securely and efficiently storing your bits when leveraging an OpenStack cloud. Proctored by Christian Huebner, Director of Services Architecture at Mirantis, this episode will build off his 25+ years of experience with cloud storage, specifically in the context of O...

In this month's installment of Radio Cloud Native, Bryan Gruneberg, Solutions Architect from amazee.io (now a Mirantis company), walks you through everything you need to know about the Open Web Alliance (OWA) and open source web hosting. He will cover some background in the beginning to set the stage for amazee.io's Lagoon, a fully open source application delivery platform built on top o...

In this month's episode of Radio Cloud Naitve, Sr. Solution Architect, Kevin Ng, of Mirantis is back to share his findings related to 7 common open source-based tools that relate to cloud native infrastructure and configuration management. He will present some background on each of the 7 tools he researched before diving into an in-depth comparison based on use case, functionality, ease-of-us...

In this month's installment, Michael Tillman, Principle Solution Architect for Mirantis is back and is joined by Kevin Jackson, Sr. Director of Product Management for Trilio. They will both dive into key aspects of migrating off of VMware and onto an open source-based solution like OpenStack. Trilio's Kubernetes backup and recovery tools are the backbone of this joint migration solution...

In this month's installment, Michael Tillman, cloud native workload expert from Mirantis, will walk you through a real world example of a SaaS company that worked with Mirantis to migrate over 3000 workloads off of VMware onto Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) - all in just a few short months. The migration was prompted by a massive price increase on the VMware side, which caused this...

In this month's episode, you will hear from Marc Campbell, CTO and Co-Founder of Replicated and his colleague Chris Sanders, Director of Customer Reliability Engineering, as they discuss their company's experience with evaluating various open source Kubernetes Distributions to use when building and launching their new product: Embedded Cluster. There's a lot of different open source...

In this month's installment, you will hear from Nick Chase, Adam Parco, and Shaun O'Meara from Mirantis as well as our very special guest Alex Williams, Co-Founder and Publisher of The New Stack .  They kick things off with some baseline definitions of both "Legacy" and "Cloud Native" architectures, before moving on to industry trends supported by real world examples...

In this episode of Radio Cloud Native, former host John Jainschigg, Director of Open Source Initiatives for Mirantis, returns to provide a great interview with one of the founders of the Zero Trust model for cybersecurity, John Kindervag. He has authored many blog articles and much of the open source documentation of Zero Trust, and is one of the most knowledgeable cybersecurity experts in the clo...

In this episode of Radio Cloud Native, former host John Jainschigg, Director of Open Source Initiatives for Mirantis, returns to proctor a great interview with Zero Trust pioneer George Finney, CSO at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. George is the author of the recent IT-cybersecurity thriller Project Zero Trust with a forward written by Zero Trust founder John Kindervag (note - mentio...

In this episode, Solution Architecture Manager for Mirantis, Michael Tillman, is back to break down the leading VMware alternative solutions designed to control cloud costs and eliminate all forms of vendor lock-in by leveraging open source, flexible, and scalable components and tools. Vendor lock-in can take on many forms, which Michael will outline at the onset. Then, he will present the main re...

In this month's episode, John Jainschigg, Director of Open Source Initiatives at Mirantis hosts Kathleen Moyer, Director of Service Delivery at Corsec Security, and William Konitzer, Senior Solution Architect at Mirantis, to explore the recently achieved DISA STIG certification for Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE). Together, they dive into the intricate certification process that enables publ...

Welcome to Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis, your go-to podcast for all things cloud native, Kubernetes, and open source. Join us as we explore the latest trends, innovative solutions, and open source projects shaping the modern cloud landscape. For related links and/or diagrams, please check out the resources linked in the Chapters. This episode is once again presented by Daniel Virassamy, Principa...

Welcome to Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis, your go-to podcast for all things cloud native, Kubernetes, and Open Source. Join us as we explore the latest trends, innovative solutions, and open source projects shaping the modern cloud landscape. For related links and/or diagrams, please check out the resources linked in the Chapters. This episode is presented by Daniel Virassamy, Principal Solution...

Welcome to Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis, your go-to podcast for all things cloud native, Kubernetes, and Open Source. Join us as we explore the latest trends, innovative solutions, and open source projects shaping the modern cloud landscape. For related links and/or diagrams, please check out the resources linked in the Chapters. This week, Mirantis CTO Shaun O'Meara dives deep into On Prem...

Welcome to Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis, your go-to podcast for all things cloud native, Kubernetes, and Open Source. Join us as we explore the latest trends, innovative solutions, and open source projects shaping the modern cloud landscape. For related links and/or diagrams, please check out the resources linked in the Chapters. In this episode, Solution Architecture Manager Michael Tillman of...

More on Mirantis Kuberentes Engine: http://www.mirantis.com/mke More about Mirantis Container Runtime: http://www.mirantis.com/mcr The teams at Mirantis are excited to announce that Radio Cloud Native is back! It will be following a slightly different format from before, and although Eric Gregory & John Jainschigg did a fantastic job hosting, we’ve decided to give a voice to more members of th...

More on MOSK: mirantis.com/mosk More on MKE: mirantis.com/mke More on Mirantis App Migration: mirantis.com/application-migration-and-modernization Reach out to Daniel: dvirassamy@mirantis.com  Welcome to Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis, your go-to podcast for all things cloud native and Kubernetes. Join us as we explore the latest trends, innovative solutions, and open source projects shaping the m...

Explore k0s by Mirantis: https://www.mirantis.com/software/k0s/ Check out k0smotron: https://k0smotron.io/ Welcome to Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis, your go-to podcast for all things cloud native and Kubernetes. Join us as we explore the latest trends, innovative solutions, and open source projects shaping the modern cloud landscape. For related links and/or diagrams, please check out the resourc...