VMs, Edge, and Platform9, with Madhura Maskasky

Jan 28, 2020

Madhura Maskasky is co-founder and VP of Product at Platform9, a company who manage both OpenStack and Kubernetes. She talks to Adam and Craig about the transition from VMs to containers, why OpenStack is still relevant, and what they have to do to be able to offer a 99.9% SLA on cloud-native applications.

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Chatter of the week

• Bad news from both Australia Day and Chinese New Year
• Schitt’s Creek

News of the week

• VMware: Introducing Project Nautilus
  • VMware Fusion on GitHub
• Google Cloud Config Connector
• Octarine open-sources the Kubernetes Common Configuration Scoring System (KCCSS) and kube-scan
• KubeNav, by Rico Berger
• Permission Manager by SIGHUP
• KubeInvaders: gamified chaos engineering
  • Whack-a-Pod
  • Kubernetes DOOM
• CSI inline ephemeral volumes
• Reviewing 2019 in Kubernetes docs
  • Episode 5, with Zach Corleissen and Jared Bhatti
• CSI driver support for Dell/EMC Isilon
• CNCF annual report
• Sign up for KubeCon EU and get 15% off with discount code KCEUGKP15
• TriggerMesh receives $3m seed funding
  • Episode 28, with Sebastien Goasguen
• AWS lowers EKS price

Links from the interview

• Platform9
  • Managed Kubernetes
  • Managed OpenStack
• kubevirt
• Webinar recording: KubeVirt – Beyond Containers: Coming full circle back to VMs!
• OpenStack Ironic
• Cluster API
• Thick Edge and thin Edge
• Managed Apps with 99.9% SLA
• Kubernetes in Production: Operating etcd with etcdadm
  • etcdadm
  • etcd Operator
• 6 Enterprise Kubernetes Takeaways from KubeCon 2019, San Diego, and 5 from Barcelona before it
• Platform 9 and 3/4
• Platform9 on Twitter
• Madhura Maskasky on Twitter