The New Stack Analysts

In this discussion with Loris Degioanni of Sysdig, we talk about how the speed at which containerized environments move has proven to be difficult for traditional monitoring solutions. Users may have tens of thousands of containers, with some lasting only a few seconds, and a traditional monitoring solution whose sampling and reaction time is measured in minutes. It’s important to have the contextual information about these containers in order to handle them in an environment where orchestrators are constantly spinning up and removing containers. Without context, you can be quickly overwhelmed by metrics that aren’t useful to you. Degioanni talks about the importance of having visibility into the container, and how Sysdig achieves this with its own ContainerVision technology. Instead of placing an agent inside the container, ContainerVision places a module in the operating system – essentially allowing it visibility into all current and future containers. We also go on to talk about the container orchestration revolution, overcoming telemetry issues, and updating traditional monitoring solutions. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VggD3lBoi3c Download our 5th eBook, Monitoring & Management with Docker and Containers free of charge at: thenewstack.io/ebookseries/

To kick off the GrafanaCon user conference, taking place in New York this week, The New Stack held a special pancake and podcast panel discussion, to mull over these very topics. For the event, the panel was comprised of Paul Dix, chief technology officer for InfluxData, keeper of the InfluxDB time-series database; Raj Dutt, cofounder and CEO of Raintank, which offers a commercial distribution of the open source Grafana visualization monitoring software; Theodore Staack, a software developer at office supply retailer Staples; and Matthew Brender, Intel developer advocate. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/grafanacon-pancake-podcast-intricacies-composing-new-monitoring-stack/

As the Kubernetes community has evolved over the last year, some have wondered if the momentum will continue as the container orchestration ecosystem grows. As more enterprises begin to use Kubernetes in production, this has resulted in many speculating as to what the future ideal use case for Kubernetes may look like, particularly with the decisions made over the last year by Docker. On this special Thanksgiving episode of The New Stack Analysts, Cisco Cloud Native Platforms CTO Ken Owens spoke with TNS Founder Alex Williams alongside The New Stack editorial team of Joab Jackson, Lawrence Hecht, Ben Ball, and SM Fulton III to discuss how Kubernetes and the container ecosystem as a whole can not only evolve but thrive as customers embrace the many benefits cloud native software development practices offer. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HU-d8B9jdMk Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-thanksgiving-special-evolution-kubernetes-container-ecosystem/

For our Kubecon TNS Analysts Pancakes and Podcasts, held Wednesday, we invited Cisco Chief Technology Officer of the Cloud Platforms and Services Group Ken Owens, consulting analyst and TNS contributor Janakiram MSV, Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocate Kelsey Hightower, and Bitnami COO and co-founder Erica Brescia, for a discussion on how Kubernetes can progress as a community. TNS founder Alex Williams moderated the panel and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson drummed up questions from the audience. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp3CKUi980Q Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-keep-the-dream-alive/

Last December, Joyent chief technology officer Bryan Cantrill asked if we had reached "peak confusion" in the container space, referring how the possible combinations of container technologies and platforms would leave any CTO, however, prescient about future technologies, completely bewildered. At the TNS Analysts Pancake Breakfast Panel, held Nov. 8 at CloudNativeCon 2016, CNCF Executive Director Dan Kohn was joined by Comcast Systems Architect Erik St. Martin, CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi, and Wercker CTO Andy Smith to discuss the progression and future of Kubernetes. They fielded audience questions regarding its adoption in the enterprise and highlighted between them how developers can best circumvent some of the challenges still facing developers working with Kubernetes today. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/kubecon-pancake-breakfast-kubernetes-beyond-valley-peak-confusion/

For the recording of our pancake breakfast at the OpenStack Summit Barcelona 2016, we invited CERN's infrastructure manager, Tim Bell, CERN distributed system architect Ricardo Rocha, as well as Red Hat Ansible community architect Robyn Bergeron, and Intel software developer Dan Bode to join us to chat about massive scalability, programmable infrastructure and the sometimes mind-staggering "Big Tent" complexity of OpenStack.

Mesosphere Product Management and Marketing Lead Somik Behera joins Cisco CTO Ken Owens in this week’s episode of The New Stack Analysts for a discussion surrounding container standardization. As this topic continues to sweep the developer community, it has also extended into container networking. Such standardization has arrived in the form of Container Network Interfacing (CNI), developed by CoreOS. Clearly communicating and improving upon these proposed standards presents an ongoing stream of dialogue between developers, network administrators, end users, and vendors. Behera and Owens join TNS Founder Alex Williams and Managing Editor Joab Jackson to discuss the above topics, the container networking plugin ecosystem, and the future of CNI technology as a whole. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/standardizing-container-networking-cni/

As Docker has continued its evolution, it has come under scrutiny from the community for a perceived lack of transparency surrounding the direction of the project, particularly its recent announcement of built-in Docker Swarm integration as a part of the core Docker engine. In a discussion expanding on the events taking place at Dockercon 2016, Red Hat Director of Product Strategy Brian Gracely joined Principal at Contino Consulting Jesse White, TNS Founder Alex Williams, and Managing Editor Joab Jackson to break down the impact of Docker's announcement on the container ecosystem and developer community. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/critical-analysis-docker-landscape-post-docker-swarm-integration/

HPE Cloud System 10 reflects the company's transition to a hardware-oriented viewpoint with software integrated as services for developers to run applications across multiple cloud environments. HPE Cloud System 10 is a cloud broker that integrates with Helion Stackato and HPE's OpenStack distribution. It exposes the ability to build applications targeting to different environments, but having all of those environments centrally managed by the operations team, said HPE Helion Technical Marketing Lead Nik Garkusha in an interview with TNS Founder Alex Williams, Managing Editor Joab Jackson, and CloudDon CEO and Analyst Sriram Subramanian. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/travelling-open-road-hybrid-cloud-infrastructure-hpe-helion-stackato/

In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we’re back with a short stack from our Pancake Overlord at Cloud Native Day 2016 in Toronto, Canada. Topics discussed include the ever-increasing adoption of platforms such as Mantl to help developers better manage their stack and containers in production, how today’s open source projects improve the developer community, and the variety of ways that containers can be utilized at scale. TNS Founder Alex Williams moderated the panel. Guests included Cisco CTO Ken Owens, Scale Factory Consultant Dawn Foster, SolarWinds Cloud Technology Leader Lee Calcote, Red Hat Vice President & Chief Technologist Chris Wright, and Samsung Senior Linux Kernel Developer Shua Khan. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/cloudnative-day-pancake-podcast-containers-at-scale/

In this week's episode of The New Stack Analysts, we dive into a discussion surrounding migrating from Amazon EC2 to containers, the shift toward container-based infrastructure, and how Joyent has helped reverse logistics solution platform Optoro to achieve its own API-driven infrastructure while remaining on premise. The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and co-host EBook editor Benjamin Ball spoke with Optoro Director of DevOps Zach Dunn for an in-depth discussion surrounding these topics and more. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzlNyWBmIdQ Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-107-exploring-economics-containers/

In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we’re back for another short stack with our pancake overlord at ContainerCon 2016. The New Stack Founder Alex Williams, TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson, and TNS EBook Editor Benjamin Ball hosted a breakfast panel to discuss the state of the container ecosystem and its overall health today. Speakers included Kubernetes Community Program Manager Sarah Novotny, Apcera Technical Evangelist David Blank-Edelman, Cloud Foundry Vice President of Industry Strategy Abby Kearns, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation Executive Director Dan Kohn. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/containercon-2016-pancake-breakfast-addressing-tyranny-choice/

In this special, surprise episode of the New Stack Analysts podcast, we take a quick reading on the fallout from our story, "A Docker Fork: Talk of a Split Is Now on the Table," which described rumors of a number of prominent container ecosystem players discussing whether or not to fork the Docker codebase. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/docker-fork-talk-split-now-table/

In this week’s episode of The New Stack Analysts, we explore how developers got their start in open source, why foundations may not be a perfect solution for bringing into open source communities, and best practices for bug reporting and problem solving in today’s open source ecosphere. The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and co-host Lee Calcote spoke with Apcera Software Engineer Jamie Piña and Apcera Lead Software Architect Josh Ellithorpe to get their insight on these matters and more. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/powerful-collaboration-tools-open-source-community/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XiSDtFnx99s

In this discussion with John Morello of Twistlock, we talk about how containers can actually be a better medium for automating and securing applications. Containers being immutable and lightweight makes it easier to follow images from early in the development life cycle all the way to the registry and compute environments. Twistlock collects data from this life cycle and creates a predictive model for a container’s behavior. This model looks for inconsistent behaviors, and depending on what you want, it can set off an alert or even block the activity entirely. Later in the discussion, we talk about Twistlock’s focus on four distinct use cases, recent changes to its core features, the value of partner integration and more. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/creating-automated-model-container-security/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9xcCjcEi-FY