The New Stack Podcast

There is much discussion about boosting application release cadences, but the fact is that most organizations have not figured out how to deploy applications more quickly. According to data from analyst firm Gartner, 90% of DevOps initiatives will fail to fully meet expectations through 2023. In this breakfast episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, streamed live during LaunchDarkly’s annual Trajectory user’s conference, we discussed today’s DevOps struggles and challenges. Potential solutions were also covered, such as how DevOps teams are turning to self-service developer platforms to meet their cloud-deployment goals. Cody De Arkland, principal technical marketing engineer, LaunchDarkly; Rachel Stephens, senior analyst for analyst firm RedMonk; Steve George, chief operations officer for GitOps solutions provider and Flux creator Weaveworks; and Margaret Francis, president and chief operating officer for Armory, all participated in this discussion.Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, hosted this podcast.

The number of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects has exploded since Kubernetes came onboard, setting the stage for hundreds of tools and platforms that have achieved the various CNCF project maturity milestones of Sandbox, Incubated or Graduated.With the profound influence the adoption of the projects have had on cloud native notwithstanding, it can be easy to sometimes overlook the monumental effort involved in every project by their contributors. In this The New Stack Makers podcast, we look at two CNCF  projects that have gone from sandbox to incubation: Crossplane, a Kubernetes add-on for infrastructure assembly and OpenTelemetry, which supports a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs for observability.The podcast featured guests involved with the projects including Dan Mangum, senior software engineer, for cloud platform provider Upbound (Crossplane), Constance Caramanolis, principal software engineer, data platform provider Splunk, and on the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee and Ted Young, director of developer education, observability platform provider Lightstep and an OpenTelemetry co-founder who is also on the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee.Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, hosted this podcast.

Cloud native is really only as good as the support and input the community provides. It is in this spirit that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) continues to invest heavily in the community to support new and existing projects, including  Kubernetes, Prometheus and Envoy that are among the cornerstones of cloud native today.During this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, held live at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon last month, CNCF Marketing Manager Bill Mulligan and CNCF Developer Advocate Ihor Dvoretskyi spoke of the CNCF's Cloud Native Credits and Kubernetes Community Day program, as well as why these and other initiatives are vital to building cloud native tools and infrastructure of today and in the future.Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, hosted this podcast.

Kubernetes played a key role in maintaining Pokemon Go, Niantic’s wildly popular augmented-reality development.  Kubernetes, and the efficiencies it offers DevOps teams, continue to play a role at Niantic, as the company builds on the game’s architecture to third-party developers.In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Ria Bhatia, senior product manager of Niantic, discusses why the Pokemon Go platform remains relevant and why Kubernetes will remain an integral part of the platform as the company hopes to bring in more “developer customers.” 

Google’s open source program certainly has come a long way since 2003. That was when the search engine giant could still arguably be called a startup, Android had not yet been acquired and open source projects Kubernetes, Go and Chromium were years away in the making.It was also then that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin asked their favorite recruiter to go and find an “open source person,” recounted Chris DiBona, the company’s director for open source.  Already an open source pioneer before joining Google, DiBona continues to oversee the tech giant’s open source program, which continues to have major implications for the IT industry and the open source community.In this New Stack Makers podcast, DiBona discusses Google’s open source policy, as well as the search engine giant’s plans for its open source future.  Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, hosted this podcast.

The  number of open source components inside services and applications continues to increase exponentially, and this adoption is creating a lot of change in how software is created, deployed and managed.  in 2016, applications on average had 86 open source software components. Today, the average number of components is 528, according to “The 2021 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report.” In this latest edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, we discuss the implications of the explosion of  open source’s adoption and its effect on data center operations. The guests were Mark Hinkle, co-founder and CEO, TriggerMesh, Shaun O’Meara, field CTO, Mirantis; Jeremy Tanner, developer relations, Equinix and Sophia Vargas, research analyst, open source programs office, Google. TNS’ Founder and Publisher Alex Williams and TNS Editor Joab Jackson hosted this podcast.

In March, Daniel Prizmant, senior security researcher for Palo Alto Networks, uncovered the malware targeting Windows containers, calling the exploit “Siloscape.” In a blog post, he wrote the emergence of such an attack was not “not surprising given the massive surge in cloud adoption over the past few years.”In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, Prizmant, as the guest, described what makes Siloscape a threat for Kubernetes clusters — both for Linux and Windows containers.The New Stack’s publisher and founder, Alex Williams, hosted this episode.

Since its creation almost six years ago and 120 projects later, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has played a key role in the ongoing adoption of Kubernetes and associated tools and platforms for organizations making the shift to cloud native environments. In this The New Stack Makers podcast, Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF, discusses with The New Stack’s publisher and founder, Alex Williams, what’s hot in cloud native land and offers a glimpse of what is emerging.

How Kubernetes environments might be able to offer hooks for storage, databases and other sources of persistent data still is a question in the minds of many potential users. To that end, a new consortium called the Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC)  was formed to help organizations find the best ways of working with stateful data on Kubernetes.In this latest episode of The New Stack Maker podcast, two members of the group discuss the challenges associated with running stateful workloads on Kubernetes and how DoKC can help.Participants for this conversation were Melissa Logan, principal, of Constantia.io, an open source and enterprise tech marketing firm, and director of  DoKC; Patrick McFadin, vice president, developer relations and chief evangelist for the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database platform from DataStax; and Evan Powell, advisor, investor and board member, MayaData, a Kubernetes-environment storage-solution provider.TNS Editor Joab Jackson hosted the podcast.

Five former Googlers recently started Chainguard, a newly minted supply chain security company focusing on Zero Trust principles. Their mission is to help support DevOps teams with their monumental struggles of securing application code across the development, deployment and management cycle.“Supply chain security by default is our mission and making it really easy for developers to do the right thing,” Kim Lewandowski, founder and product, for Chainguard, said during a The New Stack Makers podcast  recorded live at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in October.Alex Williams, founder and publisher of TNS, hosted the podcast.