KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023

AI, Kubernetes and more: Decoding trends shaping CNCF’s future

Harnessing object storage for AI: MinIO’s role in data management for advanced technologies

As artificial intelligence gains rapid adoption across industries, it’s more important than ever for leaders looking to utilize the technology to ensure adequate data storage and management.MinIO Inc. offers object storage capable of storing the massive amounts of data required to run AI, while continuing to innovate object storage with weekly releases, according to Daniel Valdivia (pictured), engineer at MinIO.“We’ve been pleasingly surprised to see that we were in the right spot at the right time,” Valdivia said. “Now that AI’s coming along, and the AI needs to deliver massive amounts of data, they need to train a very high speed only object storage can deliver that

American Airlines tames Kubernetes complexity: The emerging role of platform engineering

Even though Kubernetes enhances development efficiency by offering a structure to run distributed networks resiliently, the complexity can be challenging.Platform engineering helps by taming the complexity and heavy lifting, as it addresses DevOps at scale and aligns business objectives with development practices, according to Haseeb Budhani (pictured, right), co-founder and chief executive officer of Rafay Systems Inc.“We talked about this concept of platform engineering, which has now become a thing,” Budhani explained. “Kubernetes, it’s become boring … but boring really means it’s becoming a standard. It has become a standard

Evolving security solutions in the AI era: No ‘silver bullet’ for cloud-native security

With the wave of changes spurred by advancements in artificial intelligence and quantum computing, and more disruption on the horizon, securing the cloud against attacks is more important than ever.“Software supply chain security is actually driving a lot of the zero-trust conversations that are now coming to the forefront,” said Emily Fox (pictured), software engineering lead of emerging technologies for security at Red Hat Inc., and former co-chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. “It’s not necessarily about just signing and verification; it’s actually understanding what went into the build and whether or not you can make decisions about that information

Next-gen compute engine supercharges Kubernetes performance

Across the cloud, companies are embracing the capabilities of Kubernetes, with an eye toward making it run faster, smarter and cheaper.Platform9 aims to help companies cut costs and foster innovation with its Elastic Machine Pool, a new compute engine for running Kubernetes in the public cloud.“Our core bread and butter has always been about simplifying complexity and providing the best optimization to run your workloads,” said Madhura Maskasky (pictured), co-founder and vice president of product at Platform9 Systems Inc. “With EMP, you can reduce your costs of running an [Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service] cluster or a form of EKS clusters by about 50%

Navigating the AI wave: Industry leaders discuss challenges, innovations and the next big wave in technology

Artificial intelligence is an explosive technology, shaking up industries across the globe with promises of speed, accuracy and automation.The technology, however, comes with several challenges, including the cost associated with high-performance hardware, including Nvidia GPUs. This forces tech leaders to be more thoughtful about their application and data layers.“Kubernetes will be an incredible innovator around that, there’s no question, to help things pack together and so on,” said David Aronchick (pictured, right), chief executive at Expanso Inc

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Beyond code: Elevating open-source projects through advanced infrastructure solutions

Since software can’t run without infrastructure, global open-source projects need a special kind of infrastructure to operate.Equinix Inc. is partnering with other players, such as The Linux Foundation, to offer open-source developers relevant infrastructure, such as bare metal, for unparalleled performance, scalability and manageability over their environments, according to Josh Atwell (pictured, left), senior director of developer relations at Equinix.“Software is really boring if it doesn’t have something to run on,” Atwell said. “Being at Equinix has been pretty fantastic, because it’s our core — what we do is infrastructure

Is Kubernetes’ emerging as an AI powerhouse?

Artificial intelligence is all the rage at the moment. Fanning the intense and unending dialogue around AI, is the fact that the industry has only scratched the surface of its vast capabilities.With its well-known flexibility, developer-friendly outlook and vast scaling capabilities, Kubernetes is fast becoming the go-to platform for AI-related operations.“I think that Kubernetes, over the last 10 years, has evolved so that it works in the data center, it works on virtualization, it works in multiple clouds [and] it’s extending to the edge,” said Chuck Dubuque (pictured, right), senior director of product marketing, hybrid platforms, at Red Hat Inc

Medical research team relies on Kubernetes-based IBM solution for sharing critical data

A need to share research data at a publicly funded medical school is being met by a creative Kubernetes-based approach.At the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a research-intensive medical school in New York City, funding from the National Institutes of Health required the school to share its data. So, it turned to IBM Corp. for a solution using a container-native hybrid cloud data platform for Kubernetes.“We have to comply with rules that say, ‘Make your data sharable,’ and that includes the computational code that we have,” said Shailesh Shenoy (pictured, left), assistant dean of information technology and senior staff scientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Digital security: Inside Akeyless’ vaultless platform for advanced secrets management

With adequate secrets management, security professionals can safely and easily store sensitive digital credentials, including passwords, APIs and tokens, a must in today’s password-heavy cyber landscape.Akeyless Security Ltd. aims to revolutionize how security professionals approach secret management with a vaultless platform, greatly decreasing the chance of a attackers gaining access to credentials, according to Oded Hareven (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer at Akeyless.“We basically created a third generation for a solution within the realm of secrets management, where secrets are sprawled away in the environments,” Hareven said

CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group promotes inclusivity in tech by offering a level playing field

As technological innovations continue taking the world by storm, an inclusive IT industry is critical, because diversity is a game-changer.Since individuals are gifted differently, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group ensures that no one is left out in the ever-changing technology field by presenting equal opportunities, according to Rob Koch (pictured, right), principal, data engineering at Slalom Inc. and co-chair of the CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group.“We thought, ‘Why not maybe include and make things more inclusive and friendly to folks like us?’” Koch said

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The push for cloud-native observability: Chronosphere goes beyond the single-pane-of-glass approach

As companies continue being cloud-native, developers are drowning in data, and this is significantly compromising their productivity.Chronosphere Inc. is addressing this pain point with Chronosphere Lens, which analyzes all of the raw observability data “underneath the covers” and then extrapolates insights and knowledge from that raw data. Later on, Chronosphere Lens presents this information to the developer in a problem-solving context, according to Martin Mao (pictured) co-founder and chief executive officer of Chronosphere.“Chronosphere Lens is a new and more effective way for developers to interact with observability data,” Mao explained

VMware’s latest Tanzu enhancements focus on simplifying the developer experience

Despite the 4,000 miles between Barcelona, Spain and Chicago, Illinois, announcements made in one location had an impact in the other location on Tuesday.While KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA was taking place in Chicago this week, Barcelona hosted attendees participating in the annual fall VMware Explore gathering at the same time. VMware Inc. announced enhancements for its Cloud Foundation hyperconverged infrastructure and advances in the Tanzu application development and modernization platform

KubeCon Day 1 review: Dissecting trends around the changing cloud-native landscape

The world of cloud technology and Kubernetes is evolving rapidly, and the discussions at this week’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA event offer a glimpse into the major trends and developments in the industry.One of those emerging trends is the increasing need for more security around apps within Kubernetes, according to Dustin Kirkland (pictured, second from right), vice president of engineering at Chainguard Inc. and theCUBE guest analyst.“With the amount that Kubernetes has been adopted, the next step is, ‘Now what? what sort of applications are running inside of it?'” he said. “And then having the introspection into those applications

Popularity of Kubernetes shows why storage still matters to Red Hat and IBM

It took a village to get persistent storage into Kubernetes.As the container orchestration tool grew in popularity, users wanted persistence or an ability to retain data after a device had been shut down. In the 2015 timeframe, Red Hat Inc. engineers convened a group of leading storage providers to find a way to add persistence while running stateful applications using Kubernetes.“Red Hat was extraordinarily interested in it because at the time we were doing battle with Cloud Foundry,” said Mike Barrett (pictured, right), vice president of product management at Red Hat

Revolutionizing DevOps: GitLab’s AI-infused DevOps journey

Against the backdrop of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023, the DevOps world found itself at a crossroads.With day two of KubeCon NA under way, the stage was set for a deep dive into the world of DevOps and AI. The conversations throughout the day offered a glimpse into the ever-evolving landscape of DevOps and the burgeoning significance of artificial intelligence in this domain.“We did start with AI code review, a very important part of DevSecOps, but the next area we actually looked at was security,” said David DeSanto (pictured), chief product officer at GitLab Inc. “What we did at GitLab … we realized we shift security left. We made it more developer friendly

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Google’s managed Kubernetes offering seeks to eliminate ‘confusion as a service’ for enterprise users

On Thursday, Google LLC announced that GKE Enterprise, its managed Kubernetes service, would be generally available next week.The service was first previewed by Google about two months ago as a solution to reduce the amount of effort required to run containerized environments.“We’re introducing here at KubeCon the new evolution of Kubernetes, which we call GKE Enterprise,” said Bobby Allen (pictured, right), cloud therapist at Google. “This is about what I call having the right kind of CAS, containers-as-a-service not confusion-as-a-service. Let’s make sure we are adding the right kind of features that customers need without unnecessary complexity. That’s really what this is about

Ford revs up cloud-native innovation, tackles Kubernetes challenges with Portworx partnership

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is intrinsically about bringing together experts and industry leaders to discuss the latest developments in cloud-native technologies.Ford Motor Co., known for its automotive industry prowess, and Portworx by Pure Storage Inc., a leader in data services for Kubernetes, have joined forces to create a paradigm shift in cloud-native development.“We started our cloud-native journey or transformation way back in 2017,” said Satish Puranam (pictured, left), technical leader and manager of cloud at Ford. “Our Kubernetes journey was always tethered around stateful stuff. State has been an important part. State has been a curse in Kubernetes as well

Flexibility, security and beyond: Unmasking Kubernetes’ expansion

A lot of the discussion at this week’s KubeCon event focused primarily on projections about the future of Kubernetes, open source and the growing DevOps community.We’re now at an inflection point where maturing technologies, such as artificial intelligence, are finding a home in Kubernetes. At the same time, Kubernetes’ user base has expanded to include expertise areas such as platform engineering and operations.“My first KubeCon, which was the one during the pandemic, there was a lot of developers; [it was] developer-centric [with a] lot of developers, lots of engineers,” said Michael Cade (pictured, left), global field chief technology officer at Veeam Software Inc

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