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“If you put any workload on Amazon and you put [NetApp] OnTap on top of it, your Amazon bill comes down.”
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Kubernetes Outpaces Generic Container Adoption. Containers as a market are not growing explosively anymore, at least in terms of enterprises adopting it. Over the last two years, research by Cloud Foundry confirms what we have also been noticing for a while, that more organizations are deploying a significant number of containers (over 100). Although container adoption rates may be plateauing, that does not necessarily mean the Kubernetes phenomenon is ready to follow suit. In fact, another report, this one about Sumo Logic’s customers, shows that Docker use has been flattening and Kubernetes is gaining new users at a steady clip. Among the Sumo Logic customers, the percentage of AWS customers using Elastic Container Service (ECS), which includes Fargate, grew modestly (10% since 2018), and adoption of “native” Kubernetes rose 43%. Whether or not AWS customers will choose AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) remains to be seen.
Whether or not your company manages Kubernetes directly or relies on a managed service, the larger project continues to evolve.
The New Stack wants to learn about the most pressing concerns for the Kubernetes core project in 2020. The results will inform the podcast topics we choose with the CNCF's day of podcasting at KubeCon San Diego, as well as our Kubernetes ebook updates in 2020. Thank you for taking this quick survey!
What is the #1 area that the Kubernetes core project most needs to address next year?
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How does your product change when it scales up in the open source world? How does that change your drive to create a better developer experience? In this episode of The New Stack Makers recorded at the SpringOne Platform conference in Austin, The New Stack founder and editor-in-chief Alex Williams sits down with Olga Kundzich, senior product manager for the Spinnaker continuous delivery platform at Pivotal. They discuss the best practices that help drive Pivotal’s open source community, and how that informs Spinnaker’s roadmap.
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My Generation (and Yours)
It must be a tricky task to book just the right musical act to highlight a user conference party. The vendors want to treat its most loyal customers, and maybe, enjoy a bit of rock star mojo by proxy. But with today’s shifting user demographics, the vendor may need to consider the future user base, not just the present one.
Storage admins are nothing if not traditionalists at heart, so it made sense for NetApp to bring a cavalcade of rock star dudes for its Insight user conference. The storage giant’s party was capped by cover band Royal Machines, a sort of moonlighting project for famous musicians of yore who still want to rock out and/or cash in for their retirement years. Robin Zander, of the 70s hard rock band Cheap Trick, sang about how he wanted you to want him. The band led the crowd in a sing-along of Ted Nugent’s “Cat Scratch Fever,” also from the 1970s. Before that, the bouncy lead singer from turn-of-the-century emo band Blink 182 (Mark Hoppus) sang the 80s new wave Cure song “Just Like Heaven,” and alt-rock guitar legend Dave Navarro — who a few decades back was with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane’s Addiction — played guitar throughout.
Classic rock seems to have a long tradition with the ops crowd. For its conferences, SaltStack has its own in-house hard rock band of executives and engineers, captured for posterity with some very fancy video footage they showed at their last event. But can they compete with Chef, whose in-house band played in full Kiss makeup? But the year we went, Chef also booked the genre-bending, if not gender-bending, Black Sabbath-horn band, Brown Sabbath. Flexing that Big Database Energy, Oracle had what was pretty much a full-on festival in 2012 for its San Francisco OpenWorld event, with grunge band Pearl Jam, indie rockers Kings of Leon and punk rock legends X, and you had to go to all the way to Treasure Island to see them.
Some conferences break out of the male-led rock 'n' roll tradition: Last year AWS’ put its fiscal mightiness toward hiring both Skrillex AND Mija, two DJs we hear are quite popular with the rave kids(!). Clearly, AWS is appealing to a younger demographic. And this might be happening more and more as vendors redefine who their audience is. With efforts on in the industry to increase the diversity of the workforce, as well as the large numbers of developers and software engineers in India and throughout the east coming online, we all soon need to find the songs everyone can sing along to.
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In anticipation of KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, we are posting a number of articles leading up to the event about Kubernetes and supporting software. This one, from VMware’s Javier Salmerón Garcia, identifies five elements that developers should pay attention to when they are ready to deploy their apps into production Kubernetes environments.
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Earlier this month, Pivotal held what would be its final SpringOne Conference — as a separate entity — before it returns to its roots with a pending acquisition by VMware, the company from which it was first born back in 2012. The conference, a gathering of thousands of developers, was a testament to the maturity and popularity of the primarily-Java focused framework for building web applications in enterprise environments.
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CloudEvents, a specification for describing event data in a common way, has reached 1.0 and advanced from a sandbox project with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to its incubator. CloudEvents grew out of the CNCF Serverless Working Group, though the event data in serverless is no different from any other infrastructure.
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Tameika Reed of Women in Linux and Robin Ginn of OpenJS Foundation enjoying the booth crawl festivities at Open Source Summit EU in Lyon, France.
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Amanda Brock of the Open Invention Network, Julia Ferraioli of Google and Nithya Ruff of Comcast at a fun dinner before Open Source Summit in Europe.
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As you can tell from NetApp's Cloud And DevOps CTO Ingo Fuchs, the DevOps expertise a man possesses can be measured by the length of his beard.
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Santosh Rao, NetApp's Head of AI/ML/DL and Data Engineering Solutions, sees a bright future for machine learning at Insights 2019.
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Guitar legend Dave Navarro got to rock out at NetApp’s Insights conference while paying down a new deck for his house (just kidding, we don’t know if he has a deck).
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In the 1970s and 1980s, Robin Zander was the snappiest dresser in the hard rock band Cheap Trick. Here, he’s moonlighting at NetApp’s Insights conference.
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NOV. 18-19 // SALT LAKE CITY, UT @ SALT PALACE CONVENTION CENTER
SaltConf19
SaltConf19 is a gathering designed to help IT professionals more effectively control, optimize, and secure data center infrastructure using SaltStack event-driven automation. It includes hands-on training, education, and technical insight from SaltStack engineers, customers, partners, and contributors. Register now!
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NOV. 20 // SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA @ SAN DIEGO CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 2
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
VMware is hosting our pancake breakfast at KubeCon. Come on and join us for some flapjacks and some great conversation as we get together for one of the biggest events of the year in San Diego! Come have a short stack with The New Stack — it’s a KubeCon tradition. Register now!
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The New Stack Makers podcast is available on:
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How should developers connect cloud native workloads to storage? The New Stack’s ebook on cloud native storage takes this question to industry experts who are approaching the problem from three different perspectives: cloud native storage vendors, traditional storage vendors and the big-three cloud providers.
In this 48-page ebook, developers and DevOps professionals will learn:
- Best practices and patterns for handling state in cloud native applications.
- The storage attributes and data needs you should consider up front.
- Storage options for containerized applications running in a microservices architecture on Kubernetes.
- How operations roles change as developers gain the ability to provision storage.
- And more.
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