How is the open source Kubernetes container orchestration engine actually used out in the wild? Does it drive large clusters for service providers to run multi-tenant apps? Or are its clusters small, fit for managing the lifecycle of a single app? Rob Hirschfeld, CEO of bare metal infrastructure management company RackN, did his own informal Twitter survey to find some answers, and got a wealth of answers, which he summarized in a blog post for The New Stack. On this episode of the The New Stack Context, a weekly wrap-up podcast of news and views in the cloud native computing community, we talk with Hirschfeld about his survey, and what the future may hold for Kubernetes. "As Kubernetes emerges as the de facto management platform, we are still figuring out what that means. The challenge is that it exists in a gray zone between a specialized application platform and general purpose infrastructure abstraction. I wanted to understand if one set of use-cases was more common," he wrote. In the second half of the show, we talk with our Oakland technology news correspondent T.C. Currie about her recent podcast interview with Zack Butcher, a founding engineer at Tetrate.
How is the open source Kubernetes container orchestration engine actually used out in the wild? Does it drive large clusters for service providers to run multi-tenant apps? Or are its clusters small, fit for managing the lifecycle of a single app? Rob Hirschfeld, CEO of bare metal infrastructure management company RackN, did his own informal Twitter survey to find some answers, and got a wealth of answers, which he summarized in a blog post for The New Stack.
On this episode of the The New Stack Context, a weekly wrap-up podcast of news and views in the cloud native computing community, we talk with Hirschfeld about his survey, and what the future may hold for Kubernetes.
"As Kubernetes emerges as the de facto management platform, we are still figuring out what that means. The challenge is that it exists in a gray zone between a specialized application platform and general purpose infrastructure abstraction. I wanted to understand if one set of use-cases was more common," he wrote.
In the second half of the show, we talk with our Oakland technology news correspondent T.C. Currie about her recent podcast interview with Zack Butcher, a founding engineer at Tetrate.