The New Stack Analysts

Where will Kubernetes eventually fit in the emerging picture of the distributed applications stack? Is it the virtual infrastructure provider for developers’ work environments? And if that’s the case, doesn’t that work against its chances to penetrate more production environments? Or is it the physical infrastructure manager that OpenStack may never have become for many users? These are questions that The New Stack’s Alex Williams and Scott Fulton put to three of the most respected names in open source infrastructure: Donnie Berkholz, former analyst with 451 Research, and now vice president of IT service delivery at Carlson Wagonlit Travel; Krishnan Subramanian, founder and chief research advisor at Rishidot Research; and Jani MSV, principal at Janikiram & Associates.

Docker’s decision to hire Steve Singh as its new CEO surfaces questions about the future of arguably still the most symbolic and important company in the shift to container-based architectures. With Singh as CEO, the message is clear. Docker is making a big move into the enterprise market. We decided to ask Fintan Ryan, an analyst with RedMonk about Singh’s appointment, what it says about Docker’s focus, how it impacts their engineering strategy and the larger context for ecosystem partners, cloud service providers and the overall developer community.

On today’s episode of The New Stack Analysts, Redmonk Principal Analyst & co-founder Stephen O'Grady and PagerDuty Director of Platform Strategy David Hayes joins me to discuss PagerDuty's digital operations management platform strategy, its emphasis on developer ecosystems, and how the company is adapting to the new intersection of infrastructure and app-centric approaches.

On this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we sat down with Ken Owens, Cisco CTO Cloud Platforms and Services Group, Susie Wee, Cisco VP and CTO of DevNet Innovations & Networked Experiences, and our guest analyst for this recording, Krishnan Subramanian, Rishidot Research CEO and Chief Research Advisor. The topic of discussion was the Cisco DevNet Create conference and the focus on the intersection of infrastructure and application technologies. Cisco offers a detailed description of the event: "The application development landscape is changing. Innovation that has its roots in startups, APIs, cloud computing, containers and microservices is quickly making its way into the enterprise and into verticals such as manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and transportation. (Cisco is) launching DevNet Create to bring together the application developers, infrastructure engineers, designers, innovators, DevOps engineers and IT Pros who want to define and build this new landscape."

Are Docker and Kubernetes friends? Maybe. Are they partners? Definitely. Many tech companies have a shared interest in promoting the successful adoption of cloud-native technologies. As Diane Mueller, Red Hat’s Director of Community Development for OpenShift recently wrote on Twitter, “Everyone and everything is connected, nothing wrong with cross-community collaboration #everybodywins.” On today's episode of The New Stack Analysts, Scott Ottaway, Research Director for DevOps, Cloud Application Platforms and Open Source at IDC joins Alex and Lawrence to discuss partnerships and alliances in the cloud-native ecosystem. Scott provides context into how and why companies enter into relationships with larger cloud providers. Deep into the conversation, Scott thinks about the relative position of Kubernetes, Mesosphere and Docker’s orchestration capabilities. Scott is very diplomatic but we all laughed when he said “There’s a whole bunch of dogs that won’t hunt when you see joint press releases.”

PaaS, CaaS, container management, cloud platform, what do you call that technology you’re using? In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Larry Carvalho, research manager and lead analyst for Platform as a Service at IDC, explains why the term PaaS is actually passè. Instead of talking about platforms as a service, Larry uses the term “cloud application platform. ” This cloud platform provides compute abilities, developer services, as well as back-end services. At its core, it has to provide a compute engine that traditionally was provided as a VM, but compute is increasingly done with containers and even as functions. In other words, no matter how an application is packaged, it can still be run on top of a platform.

In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, we talked to conference co-chairs of OSCON, the open source convention being held in Austin on May 8-11. Interview participants were: Rachel Roumeliotis, Strategic Content Director, O’Reilly Media, Inc. Scott Hanselman, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft. Kelsey Hightower, Google developer advocate. A few highlights from the conversation include: There will be a lot of discussion about collaboration and community. Topics will cover managing contributions in a large organization, incentivizing community members and how to leave a project. Outside of the actual sessions, expect lots of one-on-one mentoring in the hallways. Open source business models continue to be something people want to talk about even if there is no long-term plan to transition a project to a full-blown start-up. Hanselman made sure to let us know about the care with which speakers were picked. All the co-chairs are on the speaking circuit and didn’t want to hear the same old people giving the same old talk.

Can Kubernetes serve as the entry-point for the multi-cloud? This episode of The New Stack Analysts was recorded live, during our pancake breakfast panel sponsored by Wercker, at the CloudNativeCon/Kubecon conference, held in Berlin last week. Panelists Aaron Rice (Wercker), Aparna Sinha (Google), Fintan Ryan (RedMonk) and Kris Nova (Deis) discuss the intricacies of setting up multi-cloud operations, the benefits of Kubernetes, and equipping your continuous integration and deployment pipeline for the cloud-native age. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NB_kf-FfxM0

On this episode of TNS Analysts, Nancy Gohring of 451 Research joined TNS Analyst Lawrence Hecht to talk about the differences between monitoring and IT operations analytics. Just defining the market is complicated, so Nancy provided some explanation. In many ways, she sees many similarities between APM (application performance monitoring) and what is going on in server and infrastructure monitoring. However, she sees more differentiation when it comes to providers dealing with log management. Where there is the greatest degree of overlap, and where vendors are focusing hard on innovation, is the area of advanced analytics. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/analyzing-morphing-monitoring-market-apm-logs-pricing-analytics/

In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, we focused on GoDaddy’s journey toward developing a containers-as-a-service (CaaS) platform. Heading the discussion was Shaheeda Nizar, senior director of engineering at GoDaddy, joined by Micah Rupersburg, GoDaddy CaaS engineering leader. Donnie Berkholz, director for 451 Research, joined TNS founder Alex Williams in the interview. Throughout the conversation, Nizar and Rupersburg explained that as GoDaddy developers saw the advantages of containerizing applications and packaging together dependencies, it became a necessity to build a platform to run, orchestrate, and manage those containers. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/godaddy-built-container-service-platform/

DevOps, SecOps, DevSecOps, ChatOps, NoOps, the terms go on and on. In this episode of TNS Analysts Toph Whitmore, Principal Analyst at Blue Hill Research, talks about DataOps. He describes it as looking at the data production pipeline in a holistic manner, marrying data-management objectives with data-consumption ideals to maximize data-derived value. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/delving-dataops-matters/

On today's episode of The New Stack Analysts, TNS founder Alex Williams and Managing Editor Joab Jackson sat down with RedMonk analyst and co-founder James Governor to learn more about the upcoming MonkiGras 2017 event, launching 1/26/2017 in London, England. While packaging software and refining the user experience will be discussed at length in both the traditional and technical sense, MonkiGras and RedMonk's follow-up event in October 2017, dubbed MonkToberFest, introduce the parallels found between software and craft beer. coffee, and microbreweries. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/monkigras-2017-software-and-craft-beer/

This week’s episode of The New Stack Analysts is our year-end wrap-up, with TNS staffers reflecting back over 2016 in scalable technology, with Research Analyst Lawrence Hecht, veteran journalist Scott M. Fulton III, Technical Editor Benjamin Ball, Managing Editor Joab Jackson, and founder Alex Williams. Tasked with breaking down three of the biggest topics in the ecosystem during 2016, the group launched into the conversation, also offering some predictions as to what 2017 may bring to open source. These topics were: 1. Whatever happened to the much-rumored Docker Fork? 2. The Future of OpenStack and Containers 3. The Growing Influence of Open Source in the Enterprise Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KTspO7vDHOU Read more at: http://thenewstack.io/new-stack-analysts-2016-year-end-wrap-discussing-docker-openstack-open-source/

The D in ContainerD stands for daemon and a whole new shift in the ever subtle and not so subtle mechanics the container and orchestration communities. This news from Docker is one of three topics we explore in The New Stack Analysts. We start with a conversation about CoreOS and Container Linux, Docker's major news about its shift in strategy and plans to donate ContainerD to what it calls a neutral standards body. We finish with thoughts about AWS and the questions surfacing about its forays into the open source world. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Is8NSBhw0 Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-115-buzz-tectonic-summit-2016/

Throughout 2016, the community around the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration tool has continued to grow at a pace that surprised many. “Probably the biggest defining moment for the Kubernetes community right now is that other communities are communities of vendors more so than Kubernetes. I think Kubernetes is more a community of developers, operators, and users than it is of vendors. It’s up to us as users and developers in that community to continue to keep that feeling,” Intel Vice President and General Manager of Cloud and Infrastructure Technologies Jonathan Donaldson said on the 114th edition of the The New Stack Analysts podcast, a special “Pancake Breakfast Podcast” recorded during the CoreOS Tectonic Summit, held in New York this week. Donaldson was joined by SAP Director of Cloud Architecture & Engineering Nishi Davidson, CoreOS Vice President of Engineering Mike Saparov, and Tigera CEO Andy Randall. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT9p17y5Fcw Learn more at: http://thenewstack.io/tectonic-summit-pancake-breakfast/