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Connecting the dots from his interest in music, to Android phones, to Linux, and Kubernetes, Andrew Rynhard, CTO at Sidero Labs, shares his journey to creating Talos Linux and founding Sidero Labs. He also talks about why it’s the best way to run Kubernetes on bare metal and edge infrastructure. Talos Linux gives you all the ease and power of the cloud without the high costs.

Have you ever had bill shock with AWS, or felt locked-in to Azure? Civo has noticed so many of these cases that they decided to build a cloud platform with zero lock-in. If you've considered moving away from AWS, or repatriating your cloud instances, Civo is a great alternative. It allows you to spin up a new Kubernetes cluster in 3 minutes flat. Listen in as Chad Crowell, Senior Platform Engi...

Rafay Systems was started to simplify Kubernetes, a challenge they've conquered. But their sights are beyond Kubernetes as they enable AI workloads and on-prem/non-Kubernetes workloads. Haseeb Budhani, CEO and Co-Founder, Rafay Systems, talks about their approach to building an end-to-end cloud PaaS solves real-world challenges for IT teams in large organizations. 

Ever thought your cloud spend is spiralling out of control, but there's nothing you can do about it? Fairwinds think you can not only reduce spend, but also improve automation and security policies all at the same time. Andy Suderman, CTO, Fairwinds joins us to talk about the many benefits of leveraging a solution like Fairwinds Insights.

Solo.io is for organizations overwhelmed with tying together Istio, Cilium, Envoy, API gateways, and other tooling. With a focus on service mesh and API gateway capabilities for Kubernetes, Solo.io features a star-studded team behind the product. Tom Callway, VP of Marketing, joins us to give us all the deets about Solo.io including its foray into platform engineering.

For early-stage startups, the sooner you find product-market fit, the better. Encore has built a product that enables early-stage startups to go beyond low-code solutions like Firebase and leverage the power of the cloud without the complexity. They focus on providing a super-productive local development experience and allowing complex deployments to the cloud. Join us as André Eriksson, Founder &...

With data breaches on the rise daily, every organization today needs an SBOM (Software Bill of Materials). However, creating and maintaining one is extremely challenging because of the complexity of the cloud. Anchore has built a solution to enable automated, continuous compliance for cloud-native applications. Listen in as Neil Levine, VP of Product at Anchore gives us the scoop.

Gone are the days when hardware security was enough to secure the workloads running on a server. Today, the people who own the servers (the cloud vendors) and the people who run workloads on them (you) are not the same person. Anjuna empowers organization to take responsibility for their own cloud security by enabling confidential computing for any organization. Listen in as Steve Van Lare, VP of...

Observability data can be voluminous, and riddled with false positives. Edge Delta has a realistic view of AI. David Wynn, Principal Solution Architect at Edge Delta, joins us to talk about how you can gain value from observability data with AI. Whether it's to find important but hidden error messages or build complex queries easily - Edge Delta is out to bolster observability using AI.

Did you know that 50% of IT budgets go to cloud spend, and up to 70% goes to wasted or unused cloud resources? Zesty is out to stop this waste. Maor Ezer, CMO & CSO, Zesty, joins us to talk about how cloud cost optimization and FinOps is not just about saving money, but about operational excellence & innovation. 

Too many new features to release, and too many fires to put out with each release. If this resonates with you, you'll want to listen to this episode with Ben Rometsch, Co-Founder & CEO of Flagsmith. Feature flagging is a great way to reduce the risk of new features breaking things in production. As a bonus, it helps you reduce and simplify your environments. 

Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem at CNCF joins us to chat about the upcoming KubeCon EU 2024. He shares his views on the things he’s most looking forward to at the event, and how you can get the most out of it whether you’re attending for learning, job search, or just networking.

Kubernetes doesn't come with networking capabilities built-in. Thankfully, a tool like Calico is up to the task - securing every part of the networking stack. Calico takes a prevention-centric approach to network security. It prevents risks before they materialize. Leveraging eBPF, Calico Cloud offers a visual deep-dive into your network, and gives you a cluster security score on which to benc...

Alex Olivier, Co-Founder & CPO, Cerbos joins us to talk about his newly launched product, Cerbos Hub. It's an authorization power tool that promises uncompromised performance, and state-of-the-art collaboration features. No more painful permissions - upgrade your authorization experience with the power of Cerbos Hub.

WSJ bestselling author, and DevOps pioneer, Gene Kim, joins us to talk about the key ideas behind his new book 'Wiring the winning organization.' He explains the 3 mechanisms from the book - Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification. He brings these concepts to life by applying them to the day-to-day functioning of IT and software organizations. Listen in to learn from a master, and...

Kubernetes is complex. But it doesn't need to be so. For some, Docker Swarm is a simpler alternative. For others, they just need a way to simplify Kubernetes so they don't need to write complex YAML config. If any of this resonates with you, you should check out Portainer - a container management solution that takes the pain out of Kubernetes. Neil Cresswell, CEO & Co-Founder, Portaine...

Security is usually an afterthought with Kubernetes. That's what happens when 'shift left'  goes wrong and developers are tasked with security responsibilities. Nirmata, instead, believes in a 'shift down' approach to security where security is baked into every step. Nirmata helps you better govern Kubernetes before an incident happens. Listen in as Jim Bugwadia explains how th...

Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem, CNCF, joins us to share his views on the AI/ML movement that is sweeping the technology space today. He takes us deeper than the software layer to the infrastructure and hardware layers and talks about the issues with them. He also share many useful resources for you to learn more and get started with open source AI/ML initiatives.

While many talk about how AI helps you get more out of your data, Orca Security believes AI should empower your SecOps team to do more – a small but significant difference. Ashley Ward, Principal Technical Evangelist, Orca Security, shows us how Orca Security is innovating in this new and uncharted space. Listen to learn all about the intersection between cybersecurity and generative AI.

The public cloud abstracts away the complexities of networking and infrastructure and provides a simple self-service experience. Data centers, however, have fallen behind and are still hard to manage. Enter, Netris, a product that helps you setup and manage every aspect of a VPC (virtual private cloud) just as you would the public cloud. Alex Saroyan, CEO/Co-founder of Netris, joins us to talk abo...

Natan Yellin, CEO, Robusta joins us to talk about the hot topic on everyone’s mind today – platform engineering – and the challenge platform engineers face on a day-to-day basis. He suggests how Robusta’s approach to observability gives Prometheus superpowers and enables platform teams to do way more with less. Whether it’s reducing incident response times or cloud spend, Robusta has got you cover...

Authentication was solved long ago, but authorization is way more complex and is just reaching maturity with open source projects like Cerbos enabling authorization via policies and declarative config. Alex Olivier, part of the founding team at Cerbos, joins us to talk about how Cerbos can make authorization easy for your organization. They’ve just launched Cerbos Cloud and are inviting closed bet...

Platform engineering is a hot topic in the cloud-native space these days. Hearing it makes you feel like you need some sort of new platform that you don’t already have. Zohar Einy, CEO & Co-Founder, Port, believes you don’t need another internal platform, you already have it if you do CI/CD and have a DevOps pipeline. His solution is to augment your existing platform with a developer portal li...

Contrary to the ‘shared responsibility’ of the hyperscalers, Giant Swarm goes against the grain to build a product and service that truly manages Kubernetes for your organization. They have a dedicated team that acts as an extension of your internal platform team, or be your platform team if that’s what you’d like. Henning Lange, CEO of Giant Swarm joins us to talk bout his company’s unique story...

Poor developer experience slows down developers, delays product launches, and costs organizations money. Platform engineering has emerged as the solution to enabling a modern developer experience that is hassle-free, consistent, predictable, and just works. Ramiro Berrelleza, Founder and CEO at Okteto, joins us to talk about all things developer experience, platform engineering, and how Okteto is...