Laura Santamaria sits down with Benazir Khan, Community Program Manager at Microsoft, to talk about the Cloud Native Rejekts conference (happens before KubeCon), community conference organizing, and all of the work that happens behind the scenes. Sign up for the event if you’re headed to Paris!
Links:

• https://cloud-native.rejekts.io/

Kat Cosgrove chats with Christoph Blecker, Service Delivery Architect at Red Hat, about his many roles within the Kubernetes project over time, what all of those roles really involve, and how others can grow from contributor, to code owner, to open source governance in Kubernetes and beyond.

Kat Cosgrove is joined by Robert Reeves, VP of Strategic Partnerships at the Linux Foundation. We talk about the various moving parts of an open source foundation as large as the Linux Foundation, how they help build communities, and the tools and resources they provide for projects to get them off the ground, help them thrive, and eventually change the world.

Kat Cosgrove is joined by Rey Lejano, Cloud Native Solutions Architect at Suse, to talk about Kubernetes documentation. We cover how SIG Docs works alongside the release team, the hurdles involved from both a people and a technology standpoint, and the many ways you can get involved in contributing back to Kubernetes whether you’re an organization member or not!

Kat Cosgrove and Laura Santamaria sit down with Natali Vlatko, open source architect at Cisco, to talk about psychological safety in working in open source and in group environments and how to let people know it’s okay to ask for help.

Links:

• Dungeons and Deployments talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CPrDLFM1Aw&t=0s
• Kubernetes SIG Docs talk: https://youtu.be/R4RDZ-rLNJo?si=0ZaF3ByebhWN0VWB

At Kubecon NA 2023 in Chicago, Tim Banks sits down with Amy Tobey of Equinix to talk about competition, contributing, open source and more.

Links:
- Equinix Metal - Bare Metal Server & Dedicated Cloud Provider
- Dell Technologies Developer

Learn more: https://developer.dell.com

Laura Santamaria chats with Matt Butcher, CEO at Fermyon Technologies, about WebAssembly, its fit in the overall ecosystem, the huge maturity leap that WebAssembly has made, security with WASM, and more. Join us for our chat about how 2023 was the first big year for WebAssembly, and share some thoughts with us!

Links:

• https://webassembly.org/
• https://www.fermyon.com/
• https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime
• https://developer.fermyon.com/spin/v2/index

Laura Santamaria chatted with Katherine Druckman and Ezequiel Lanza, Open Source Evangelists at Intel, about open source, artificial intelligence (AI), and security. They talked about how generative AI is changing the technology landscape, open source, DevOps, and security.

Links:

• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/topic-technology/open/overview.html
• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/topic-technology/open/podcast.html

At Kubecon NA Barton George sat down with Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. Jim takes us through the LF’s 20-year history and how they went from housing one project to over 1000. Jim reveals how the LFs attack on Microsoft back in the day was really a way to neutralize Sun Microsystems and why Google made the strategic move to contribute the code for Kubernetes to the community and why they chose the Linux Foundation as stewards.

Learn more:

• https://www.dell.com/9viDQU3gmzQ
• Video of this interview posted https://youtu.be/9viDQU3gmzQ?si=nWB2u6yWNPLMC0C1

Kat Cosgrove and Laura Santamaria chats with Paris Pittman, Senior Program Manager in the Open Source Programs Office at Apple, live at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023 about organizational design of, mentoring in, leadership transitions for, and community strategy in open source projects.Links:

• https://www.swift.org/documentation/server/
• https://www.swift.org/blog/evolving-swift-project-workgroups/
• https://github.com/swift-server

Barton George catches up with Ben Wilcock, a Tech Marketing Architect at VMware by Broadcom. Ben takes us through Backstage as well as the role and impact of Generative AI, and its influence in various fields including coding, marketing, and daily life. Ben also introduces 'Back Chat' https://github.com/benwilcock/backstage-plugin-backchat an open source project he’s created to integrate generative AI into Backstage.

At KubeCon North America, Barton George sat down with technology journalist Steven J. Vaughn Nichols. They discuss a variety of topics including Stephen's background in tech journalism, his focus on Linux and open source, the keynotes at KubeCon, the growth of cloud native computing, and the importance of security in the industry.

Barton George caught up with the founder of Platify Insights, Donnie Berkholz to get his take on key trends in the industry. Donnie takes us through platform engineering, portable backends, and the growing presence of generative AI and how it will affect the role of developers. He also gives his thoughts on KubeCon, re:Invent and Monktoberfest.

Kat Cosgrove and Laura Santamaria sit down with Noah Abrahams, Senior Principle TPM at Oracle, about their talk at KubeCon NA 2023, the problems that new contributors or even attendees coming into the cloud native ecosystem face, the churn rate of open source communities, and keeping momentum in open source projects.

Links:

• The talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CPrDLFM1Aw&t=0s
• Kubernetes Slack: https://communityinviter.com/apps/kubernetes/community
• CNCF Slack: https://communityinviter.com/apps/cloud-native/cncf

At Kubecon NA Barton George sat down with Louis Ryan, CTO of Solo.io and a cofounder of the open source service mesh, Istio. Louis explains how, like Kubernetes itself, Istio came out of a technology used internally at Google. He explains what a service mesh is, what “ambient services” are and why you want them as well as how Solo.io came to be and what it provides.

Learn More: https://developer.dell.com

At Kubecon NA Barton George sat down with OpenCost community manager, Matt Ray. Matt explains how this vendor-neutral open source project provides multi-cloud cost monitoring from on-prem to public clouds. He talks about the big names that support it, the features and capabilities the project plans to include and what they look to others to build. He also walks us through the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) which provides a uniform spec for comparing cloud cost, usage, and billing data allowing customers to make apples to apples comparisons between vendors offerings as well as their own.

To learn more, check out opencost.io, github.com/opencost or email opencost@kubecost.com

Learn More: https://developer.dell.com

At Kubecon NA 2023 in Chicago, Ryan Wallner sits down with Buu Lam of the community team at F5 to talk about Kubecon in general, Nginx and what F5 is up to in the Kubernetes space. Learn about what open-source projects F5 has to check out and what Buu thinks about Kubecon. Ryan and Buu also dive into the networking space and what F5 is up to in the multicloud space.

Links:
- F5 DevCentral - YouTube
- https://developer.dell.com
- DevCentral: An F5 Technical Community

Description: Live from the KubeCon Chicago show floor, Ryan Wallner talks with the founder of Elotl, Madhuri Yechuri about the evolution of compute in Kubernetes stacks. Learn about why Just in Time (JIT) compute has evolved to treating entire clusters as commodity and listen to Madhuri’s take on managing your fleet of clusters from a “Super Cluster” in this level of abstraction.Links:

• Nodeless Kubernetes (elotl.co)
• Dell Technologies Developer
• Cloud Native Multi-Cluster on Apple Podcasts

Barton George sat down with Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) to get his insight into a variety of topics – episode 1 of 7. We started out by discussing Chris’s background and how he ended up at the Linux Foundation as the CTO of the CNCF. He then walked us through the breadth and depth of the CNCF and how Kubernetes is just a small part of it

At Red Hat summit 2023, Barton George of Dell sat down with Stephen Watt who leads both Red Hat’s office of the CTO and their Open Source program office. Stephen talks through the major announcements at the event, Red Hat’s activity at the Edge, and the latest regarding Ansible, SBOMS and, of course, AI.