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Get the week's news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Co-hosts Eric Gregory and Nick Chase break through the jargon and help you make sense of it all.

This week, Eric & our favorite recurring guest host John Jainschigg talk new releases from Istio, Fedora & Deno, OpenStack's 2022 User survey, and are we really "turning off the microservices?" That & more in this week's jam-packed episode. 

We'd also like to point you all towards our "Sister Show" - Cloud Native & Coffee - hosted by our very own John Jainschigg. CN&C features longer form conversations with Kubernetes experts, cloud native innovators, and open source champions from across the industry & around the world. Find full episodes of Cloud Native & Coffee wherever you can find Radio Cloud Native, or catch us live every other Thursday at 1PM EST on the Mirantis LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mirantis/events/

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Announcement: check out our "Sister Show" Cloud Native & Coffee
• Choozle leverages Lens Autopilot to move faster with Kubernetes
• Istio announces the release of version 1.16
• Spotify Backstage vulnerability discovered & patched before it causes any real damage
• GitHub adds procedure for private vulnerability reporting
• IBM discontinues IoT device management offering
• Twitter blue check fracas & Twitter 2.0
• Deno 1.28 brings 1.3M npm modules
• Fedora Linux 37
• OpenStack's 2022 User Survey

As mentioned by Eric, this (RCN #49) will be the final episode of Radio Cloud Native (in it's current format).

Please keep the podcast in your feed and keep an eye out for fresh content. Sometime early in this new year, the team at Mirantis is planning to revamp Radio Cloud Native (possibly under a new name, but accessible from this same RSS feed).

Thank you to all of our listeners that kept Radio Cloud Native going over the past two-or-so years. And a special thanks as well as good luck to long-time host Eric Gregory as he pursues future endeavors outside of Mirantis. Stay tuned for more podcasts from Mirantis in 2024!

De OpenInfra Foundation is fundamenteel aan het veranderen. Wat betekent dat voor OpenStack? En hoe relevant is en blijft datgene wat de OIF doet in Europa?

Enkele weken geleden waren we aanwezig bij de Europese uitvoering van KubeCon + CloudNativeCon van de Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in Valencia. Deze week was het de beurt aan de OpenInfra Foundation (OIF) om on tijdens de OpenInfra Summit in Berlijn bij te praten over wat het allemaal in petto heeft voor de open-source projecten die onder die stichting vallen.

Meer dan OpenStack
Bij het horen van de naam OpenInfra Foundation is het wellicht niet voor iedereen duidelijk waar we het over hebben. Deze naam is namelijk nog niet zo heel oud. Voor 2021 ging deze stichting door het leven als de OpenStack Foundation. De naamswijziging is een duidelijk signaal naar de markt geweest. De OIF gaf en geeft hier mee aan dat het meer in het portfolio heeft dan alleen OpenStack. Toegegeven, de naam OpenStack was voor ons al enige tijd niet meer een synoniem voor innovatie en spannende ontwikkelingen, dus wij snappen de naamswijziging heel goed. Sterker nog, de OIF had het wat ons betreft wel iets eerder mogen doen.

We zeggen niets geks als we stellen dat OpenStack niet helemaal geworden is wat men er een jaar of tien geleden van verwachtte. Deels vanwege ontwikkelingen in de rest van de markt, met de onstuitbare en snelle opkomst van de hyperscalers. Deels ook vanwege het imago dat aan OpenStack kleeft als een omgeving die niet per se eenvoudig op te zetten en te beheren is. Je moet er behoorlijk wat mensen opzetten, iets wat veel organisaties niet kunnen en/of willen.

Dit imago is inmiddels niet meer helemaal verdiend en terecht overigens. Het is anno 2022 een stuk eenvoudiger om met OpenStack aan de slag te gaan dan het in het verleden was. Evenals andere open-source projecten zoals Kubernetes zal het echter nooit doodsimpel worden. De operationele kant zal altijd een uitdaging zijn bij open-source.

Maar goed, de naamswijziging heeft er vooral voor gezorgd dat het nu duidelijk is dat dat er meer is dan OpenStack binnen de OIF. Het CI/CD-platform Zuul is het oudste project naast OpenStack. Dat viert dit jaar ook alweer zijn tiende verjaardag.

In deze podcast gaan we in op de ontwikkelingen rondom de OpenInfra Foundation. Denken we in de toekomst nog aan OpenStack als we het hebben over de OpenInfra Foundation, of zal het dan toch vooral gaan over de andere projecten? En kunnen we een zekere mate van integratie verwachten tussen de verschillende grote(re) open-source communities?

Each week, Nick Chase, Director of Technical Marketing & Developer Relations, and Eric Gregory, Sr. Technical Writer, break down the interesting & impactful stories from across the cloud native technology landscape. 

This weeks topics include:

• Azure Passes AWS
• Google Cloud Platform Pricing Changes
• The CNCF Accepts In-toto
• DataStax Announces Update for K8ssandra
• Intel Invests in EU Computer Chips
• Neon Gas Supply Threatened by Russia's War on Ukraine
• Layoffs at Arm
• The 1st RISC-V Portable Computer is Here!
• An Update on Cryptocurrency Legislation
• A New Linux Kernel Vulnerability
• Cybersecurity in Ukraine & Russia
• Solo.io and Service Mesh
• OpenStack is NOT Dead
• Russian & Ukraine
• An Update on Chinese Cybersecurity
• Quantum Computing
• Lightning Whack-a-Doodle: A Potato Hotel?

As mentioned by Eric, this (RCN #49) will be the final episode of Radio Cloud Native (in it's current format).

Please keep the podcast in your feed and keep an eye out for fresh content. Sometime early in this new year, the team at Mirantis is planning to revamp Radio Cloud Native (possibly under a new name, but accessible from this same RSS feed).

Thank you to all of our listeners that kept Radio Cloud Native going over the past two-or-so years. And a special thanks as well as good luck to long-time host Eric Gregory as he pursues future endeavors outside of Mirantis. Stay tuned for more podcasts from Mirantis in 2024!

OpenStack: scalable, automated cloud infrastructure

We introduced OpenStack, powerful open source software that automates the management of hardware and infrastructure, in our 50th episode. Organizations like Sardina Systems use OpenStack to offer their clients scalable, pay-as-you-grow cloud infrastructure. Today we have two guests from Sardina Systems, Kenneth Tan and Mihaela Constantinescu, who manage OpenStack installations for their customers. Our other guest, Dr. Jens Krüger, uses Sardina to deploy OpenStack for the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Sardina Systems deploys OpenStack to private cloud customers

Sardina Systems knew they needed an open source cloud infrastructure base to build on. They researched the market and ended up picking OpenStack due to its “tremendous velocity of development,” as Kenneth puts it.

Sardina Systems’ flexibility, ability to scale, and attention to privacy and security are desirable to organizations in industries with particular needs regarding security and privacy. Sardina Systems’ enterprise cloud platform, Fish OS, is specifically geared toward creating private clouds for finance, telecommunications, healthcare, and government clients. Sardina Systems is also highly cost-effective compared to many big-name competitors — a private cloud is a fraction of the cost compared to others like Azure or Google Compute Cloud. 

The University of Tübingen chose Sardina Systems because, according to Dr. Kruger, “Sardina provides a supportive environment for rolling updates with, theoretically, zero downtime, and practically, something very close to that. It saves the university a lot of headaches.” 

Open Source creating natural alliances where the competition can’t

Platform.sh also uses OpenStack, enabling us to offer public and private cloud services to various customers. Since OpenStack is open source, it can bring together ecosystems of cloud infrastructure service providers like Sardina Systems and Platform.sh in a way that public (often proprietary) cloud can’t. There are alternatives to OpenStack, such as NFS, which work well for storage. But they tend to be slower, and they lack the self-healing and re-balancing that OpenStack offers.

Try powerful open source software OpenStack to help manage your cloud infrastructure.

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The Open Infrastructure Foundation

Julia Kreger, Mark Collier, and Mohammed Naser are all part of the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF), a nonprofit that builds communities around IaaS, Infrastructure-as-a-Service. The OIF is vast and global — it spans 100,000 members across over 180 countries, and it focuses on projects in multiple areas, including:

• Edge computing
• Container Infrastructure
• Public/Private hybrid cloud
• AI and Machine Learning
• CI/CD

The OIF origin story

The Foundation traces its roots to another open source project, OpenStack, which provides software for creating private and public clouds. Julia describes OpenStack. “OpenStack is a whole slew of projects that we've had to build, orchestrate, and integrate, which allow you to use software to manage your infrastructure.” These projects include Airship, Kata Containers, and Zuul, an open source CI/CD platform for gating changes across multiple systems.

OpenStack accelerated and began to build a larger community. “Since its inception, over 8,500 developers have contributed to OpenStack.” says Mark. The team wanted to take their work with OpenStack even further. Mark explains the journey from OpenStack to OIF. “We wanted to apply the things we learned with OpenStack to make an even bigger impact, so we became the Open Infrastructure Foundation.”

The Four Opens

The OIF follows a set of guiding principles dubbed “The Four Opens.” Mohammed explains them in the quotes below.

• Open source: “All the software we build is 100% open source — no paywalls and all with open source licenses.”
• Open design: “You have to have a public conversation about what you intend to do, you have to get that documented as a spec, that the community needs to all agree on together to make sure that it works for everybody. The community controls the roadmap of each project.” 
• Open development: “All code commits and code review are done in public, nothing is behind any walls, nothing that you have to be invited to do.”
• Open community: “Any and all discussions are locked and made public. There’s no discussion you can’t be a part of.”

Learn more about the Open Infrastructure Foundation or try one of their projects.

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In this episode, Christian interviews Kurtis Bowman, President of the Gen-Z Consortium. They discuss next-generation server architecture and how the Gen-Z standard will help customers drive higher utilization and greater flexibility.

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Episode 2 of Talking IO's thirds season is all about ongoing education. Stewart and Christian discuss what they do to keep up to date in their field, and how we keep sane by learning outside of our paychecks.

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Christian Cloud and Stewart Harmon catch up and kick off Season 3 Episode 1. No specific tech talk track.

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Bill Dawkins, Ph.D., Dell EMC Fellow, Office of the CTO, joins us to discuss the server platform of the future.

With data growth exploding, the need to utilize more compute resources than ever continues to push the boundaries of technology. Bill is helping to deliver the server platform of the future, focusing on two areas: Disaggregated Servers and
Memory Centric Architecture

We discuss the data challenges customers are facing, how the explosion of IoT will continue delivering new challenges and opportunities, and the technologies being delivered to address them.

We also discuss the difference between HyperConverged, Composable, and Disaggregated, and the future of orchestration.

For more information on the topics discussed today, visit:

• https://blog.dellemc.com/en-us/server-disaggregation-sometimes-the-sum-of-the-parts-is-greater-than-the-whole/
• https://blog.dellemc.com/en-us/composable-infrastructure-today-and-tomorrow/
• https://genzconsortium.org/
• https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish

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Season 2 kicks off with James McCormick joining us to talk Scale-Out NAS, Unstructured Data, Isilon, and ECS. We discuss how customers can build a cloud native environment, save operational costs, and deliver better performance.

For all the details, go to www.DellEMC.com/Isilon

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