The New Stack Makers

What we do know about Kubernetes? It’s a raw, gaping maw. It’s not meant for most of us. What is needed? Access to the grinding, digital gears that make what we know of as distributed architectures. Istio is an example of a management layer for Kubernetes, said Zack Butcher, part of the founding engineering team at Tetrate, a service mesh company. He joins Varun Talwar, co-founder at Tetrate for a discussion about the service mesh Istio and its role in the management of highly distributed networks, including, of course, Kubernetes in this The New Stack Makers podcast. Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, hosted this episode.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by Joab Jackson, managing editor for The New Stack, we speak two of the fabled conference’s key organizers about what to expect and what the organizers’ goals are: Priyanka Sharma, general manager for CNCF and Stephen Augustus, engineering director and head of open source at Cisco. This is no business-as-usual KubeCon conference, of course. Last year’s KubeCon EU was cancelled just a few weeks before the event was scheduled to take place. Then, many question marks remained during the early days of the pandemic about not only the future of conferences but how workers in the IT industry would continue to live and work. As it turns out, this year’s event is virtual, of course, and at the very least, there is no shortage of talks and events. All told, for KubeCon, experts from organizations including Adobe, Apple, CERN, Nvidia and OVHcloud will deliver more than 100 sessions, keynotes, lightning talks, and breakout sessions. There will also be more than 60 sessions hosted by project maintainers – spanning beginner-level introductions, end-user case studies and technical deep dives.

This The New Stack Makers podcast explores the state of open source software today and features a case example of what is possible: Kasten by Veeam has created Kubestr to identify, validate and evaluate storage systems running in cloud native environments. As Michael Cade, a senior global technologist for Veeam, describes Kubestr, the open source tool provides information about what storage solutions are available for particular Kubernetes clusters and how well they are performing. The software project is also intended to offer DevOps teams an “easy button” to automate these processes. Hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, Cade and fellow guest Sirish Bathina, a software engineer, for Kasten, describe Kasten’s long-standing collaboration with the open source community and how Kubestr serves as case study example of both an ambitious open source project and what is possible today for stateful storage in Kubernetes environments.

The New Stack Makers’ recent “eBay Baby! How eBay Is Working for Developer Speed” livestream podcast covered a lot of ground about eBay’s five successive reengineers of its IT architecture. Recorded on April 1 and hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, eBay’s challenges and achievements were certainly no joke. The eBay guests Randy Shoup, vice president, engineering and chief architect, Mark Weinberg, vice president, core product engineering and Lakshimi Duraivenkatesh, vice president, buyer experience engineering offered their insight and lessons learned over pancakes.

In 2018, Kubernetes had become too big to run on Raspberry Pi. For a while, it meant that kubeadmin could not run on the micro-device. K3s changed that and represents a new take on Kubernetes: stripped of code, K3s is a lightweight version of Kubernetes meant to run on edge devices. Today, K3s is seeing a rise in popularity as are a host of other new services that focus on the edge for Kubernetes architectures. It’s now at the point that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is planning Kubernetes on Edge Day at KubeCon, said Bill Mulligan, marketing manager for CNCF in a podcast recording with Alex Ellis, founder at OpenFaaS and the author of a new course on K3s that will be available for KubeCon, scheduled for May 4-7.

In this The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, Lad discusses ThousandEyes’ work as a network monitoring provider to meet the challenges of the day. Lad discussed his background in networking, the evolution of networking and software in general and the parallel growth of the Internet as it relates to ThousandEyes. Needless to say, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a profound impact on remote work in a number of ways. Mohit Lad, general manager, co-founder and former CEO of ThousandEyes, has been at the front lines. He and his team at ThousandEyes have helped a number of customers meet the networking- and infrastructure-management challenges associated with tremendous surges in remote data connections during the past year.

In this, The New Stack Makers Livestream podcast, hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, the security challenges associated with moving to a public cloud is the central theme. Issues such as what are the different ways that attackers can attack an enterprise that is using public cloud infrastructure and how the enterprises can defend themselves from such attacks are discussed. The guests are Ankur Shah, vice president of products, Prisma Cloud, Alok Tongaonkar, director, data science, Palo Alto Networks and Gaspar Modelo-Howard, principal data scientist at Palo Alto Networks.

In this episode, co-hosts Alex Williams, founder, and publisher of The New Stack, and Randall Degges, head of developer advocacy at security services provider Okta, speak with guest Ev Kontsevoy, co-founder and CEO of Teleport, which offers organizations instant access to computing resources. An organization’s cloud security processes often cover several different cloud providers, while oftentimes hundred, if not thousands, of developers all have multiple cloud accounts. Since each account typically adheres to different security systems and policies, managing it all represents yet another security challenge DevOps teams face. Web security is the theme of the latest episode in our new series “Security @ Scale” on The New Stack Makers with Okta. The series explores security in modern environments with stories from the trenches including security horror stories and fantastic failures.

In this episode, co-hosts Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, and Randall Degges, head of developer advocacy at security services provider Okta, discuss the challenges associated with building a security-minded culture and what works and what does not work. Culture is a cornerstone of sound security policy. However, at many — if not most — organizations, cultural changes are warranted in a number of ways, not least of which for security and policy. How to build a security-minded culture is the theme of the latest episode in our new series “Security @ Scale” on The New Stack Makers with Okta. The series explores security in modern environments with stories from the trenches including security horror stories and fantastic failures.

In this, The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by Alex Williams, founder, and publisher of The New Stack, Joe Vaccaro, head of products, ThousandEyes, discussed today’s digital supply chain for the modern app experience and managing backend interdependencies. The days are long gone when users accessed data mainly through local area network (LAN) connections and ran applications stored on centralized servers in the data center. Conversely, in today’s highly distributed network experience, the user’s access to applications is through a vast contingent of network connections, supported by microservices and in multicloud environments. Application performance is also highly dependent on DNS and other network connections for which organizations often lack visibility into the complete digital supply chain. In many cases, for example, it is thus difficult to determine whether sub-par application performance is due to network connectivity or bad code in the stack.

This episode of The New Stack Makers series with Okta, on all topics related to development and security at scale, features the development requirements for securing mobile apps. They are explored from two points of view: the database and authentication. Guests Ian Ward, senior product manager, mobile, for MongoDB discusses synchronizing mobile data with backend databases and his related work on Realm, a mobile database, and Aaron Parecki, senior security architect, for Okta, describes authentication, and OAuth, for which he is the spec editor and member of the OAuth working group. Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack hosts with co-host Randall Degges, head of developer advocacy at API security firm at Okta.

“Black women are the moral compass of this country,” Kim Crayton said, referring to the United States in this episode of The New Stack Makers. But it’s exhausting work. And repetitive, to continue to offer the same basics to white people of what’s wrong with a country, an economy, and a tech industry that’s systemically built on anti-Blackness. “Tech always thinks in binaries, which gets on my nerves. People of color, people from marginalized communities, we survive living in the gray. There is no right, wrong, good, bad because it changes situationally. So you have people who want to flip the tables. And then folks act like the only alternative is to prepare marginalized communities to go into spaces and work in places where they’re going to be harmed,” Crayton said.

In this episode, co-hosts Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, and Randall Degges, head of developer advocacy at security services provider Okta, speak with guest Dustin Rogers, staff application security engineer, Netlify, about all things related to static Web security management. Netlify is a popular static website hosting platform for Jamstack used by over a million web developers. But while Netlify is popular, thanks to its simplicity for uploading code to the platform from GitHub and managing Web applications once uploaded, the security it offers for the static environments is of interest as well. Using Netlify as a case example, static websites’ security layers and related security practices are the themes of the latest episode in our new series “Security @ Scale” on The New Stack Makers with Okta. The series explores security in modern environments with stories from the trenches including security horror stories and fantastic failures.

In this The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, Vaibhav Kamra, chief technology officer, Kasten by Veeam, discussed the changes he has observed, and ultimately, the lessons learned during the past year. During this time, Kasten has provided the necessary platforms for application and data management that organizations rely on to scale across Kubernetes applications.

Okta sponsored this podcast. This episode of The New Stack Makers series with Okta on all topics related to development and security at scale features guest Anant Jhingran, CEO, StepZen. Jhingran’s deep well of experience, including long stints at IBM, Apigee, Google, and, currently, CEO of StepZen certainly qualifies him as a leading expert on APIs and their role in today’s DevOps environments. Co-hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, and Randall Degges, head of developer advocacy at Okta, Jhingran offers his take on how APIs have evolved, their potential for the developer community and how their success accounts, in part, for their exposure to vulnerabilities.