In this episode of Radio Cloud Native, Michael Tillman, Sr. Solutions Architect and FedGov Cloud expert, is back to provide you with an in-depth overview of everything you need to know about Public Sector cloud native virtualization and modernization. Michael will cover the challenges most FedGov cloud customers face in terms of Legacy system modernization before presenting Mirantis Kubernetes Engine 4k (MKE 4k) as the ideal solution for your FedGov cloud needs.

Furthermore, Michael will provide real world use case examples (anonymized to maintain the privacy of our customer) showcasing ways in which Mirantis was able to drastically improve the digital transformation process for its Public Sector clientele - all while maintaining the reliability and security needed in the most highly regulate industries.

A full list of this episode's topics include:

1. Legacy Public Sector IT challenges
2. Cloud Native Virtualization
3. Mirantis Kubernetes Engine 4k (MKE 4k + KubeVirt)
4. Public Sector IT best practices
5. Conclusion and summary

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

In this month's installment, Sr. Product Manager for Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE), Sergey Goncharov, will walk you through how to achieve full cloud native virtualization on top of Kubernetes-based infrastructure using MKE 4k (our latest release) and open source KubeVirt. By the end of this talk, you'll be able to run Kubernetes and/or Swarm-based VMs alongside containers and even within the K8s clusters themselves!

A full list of topics in this episode include:

1. What are virtualized workloads & what do they do?
2. Rising trend of Kubernetes-based Infrastructure
3. Why migrate to Kubernetes?
4. How to migrate to Kubernetes?
5. Leveraging Open Source KubeVirt
6. The Mirantis solution: Mirantis Kubernetes Engine 4k (MKE 4k)

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

In this month's installment, we're diving into OpenStack storage: the challenges, the solutions, and the best practices for securely and efficiently storing your bits when leveraging an OpenStack cloud. Proctored by Christian Huebner, Director of Services Architecture at Mirantis, this episode will build off his 25+ years of experience with cloud storage, specifically in the context of OpenStack. This episode is perfect for OpenStack admins that are looking for better ways to deal with storage, as well as anyone working with OpenStack clouds. 

A full list of topics for this episode include:

1. Computer storage background (general)
2. Types of storage (OpenStack)
3. OpenStack storage backends (Ceph)
4. Software Defined Storage (SDS) alternatives
5. Storage Area Networks (SANs)
6. Shared files systems (NFS)
7. Local storage (Flash)
8. Combining OpenStack storage types
9. Common failure scenarios
10. OpenStack storage security

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

In this month's installment of Radio Cloud Native, Bryan Gruneberg, Solutions Architect from amazee.io (now a Mirantis company), walks you through everything you need to know about the Open Web Alliance (OWA) and open source web hosting. He will cover some background in the beginning to set the stage for amazee.io's Lagoon, a fully open source application delivery platform built on top of Kubernetes - as well as amazee.io's tried and true open source website and AI hosting solutions.

Bryan will cover, in detail, the framework laid out in the OWA's Open Web Manifesto, and how organizations can piggy-back on this structure to ensure that their hosting platform is just as open source as their solution. He will also look at the application side of things, exploring how platforms like Drupal, Wordpress, and TYPO3 stack up in comparison to the Open Web Alliance's standards and how you can leverage them in a truly open source, vendor-agnostic way.

A full list of topics for this episode include:

1. Background on amazee.io and Lagoon
2. Background on the Open Web Alliance (OWA)
3. Defining the "Open Web" via the OWA Open Web Manifesto
4. How Lagoon maintains an "Open Web"
5. Drupal vs Wordpress vs TYPO3 vs Joomla
6. Why use Lagoon by amazee.io
7. Resources for getting started with Lagoon

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

In this month's episode of Radio Cloud Naitve, Sr. Solution Architect, Kevin Ng, of Mirantis is back to share his findings related to 7 common open source-based tools that relate to cloud native infrastructure and configuration management. He will present some background on each of the 7 tools he researched before diving into an in-depth comparison based on use case, functionality, ease-of-use, and security features. Perfect for DevOps folks, Kevin's episode will enable you to conquer Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), leveraging the best tools for your specific use case.

Furthermore, Kevin will present an example scenario of how to leverage these tools to deploy k0s, an open source, fully upstream Kubernetes Distro created and maintained by the teams at Mirantis. Armed with Kevin's knowledge, your DevOps team can drastically streamline its current approach to IaC.

A full list of topics from this episode include:

• Intro to Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack & Vagrant
• Deploying k0s with each of these tools (above)
• Ease-of-Use of these tools (above)
• Security frameworks for each of these tools (above)
• Infrastructure vs Configuration management with these tools (above)
• How to select the tool that's right for you

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

In this month's installment, Michael Tillman, Principle Solution Architect for Mirantis is back and is joined by Kevin Jackson, Sr. Director of Product Management for Trilio. They will both dive into key aspects of migrating off of VMware and onto an open source-based solution like OpenStack. Trilio's Kubernetes backup and recovery tools are the backbone of this joint migration solution designed to seamlessly move VMs from existing VMware environments onto the more flexible and cost-effective Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) environment.

Michael and Kevin will also provide you with useful background explaining the importance of containerized OpenStack for a variety of use cases, allowing you and your organization to make the most informed decision regarding if, when, and how to migrate off of VMware. There's a lot of factors to consider, but Mirantis and Trilio are here to support you.

A full list of this episode's topics include:

• Value of containerized OpenStack
• Use cases for Mirantis OpenStack on K8s (MOSK)
• MOSK deployment options and process
• Trilio for Day 1 Operations
• Trilio's VMware to Mirantis OpenStack migration process
• Trilio for Day 2 Operations

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

In this month's installment, Michael Tillman, cloud native workload expert from Mirantis, will walk you through a real world example of a SaaS company that worked with Mirantis to migrate over 3000 workloads off of VMware onto Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) - all in just a few short months. The migration was prompted by a massive price increase on the VMware side, which caused this organization to look for a viable alternative solution. Please note, the SaaS company will remain anonymous, but Michael will provide the details needed to see how Mirantis truly made a difference in their recent migration.

In addition to the speed at which Mirantis was able to achieve this migration, the SaaS company also saved over 60% in their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), which was achieved by leveraging open source components and implementing a CI/CD strategy that automated as many steps in the provisioning and deployment phases as possible. Furthermore, the SaaS company was able to achieve this migration while maintaining the most rigorous standards of security and compliance, including FIPS 140-2 and FEDRAMP - both required security standards for working with the US Federal Government. Thinking of moving away from VMware? Let Michael explain why that may be a good choice for your organization.

A full list of this episode's topics include:

• Why companies are migrating away from VMware
• Common challenges Org's face before migration
• How Mirantis OpenStack for K8s solves these challenges
• Key takeaways from the example SaaS company's migration
• Strategies for avoiding all types of lock-in
• Specifics of the Mirantis migration approach
• Success metrics from the example SaaS company's migration

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

In this month's episode, you will hear from Marc Campbell, CTO and Co-Founder of Replicated and his colleague Chris Sanders, Director of Customer Reliability Engineering, as they discuss their company's experience with evaluating various open source Kubernetes Distributions to use when building and launching their new product: Embedded Cluster.

There's a lot of different open source projects and tools out there, but which one is the right one? And is it in your organization's best interest to build your own solution from scratch? Well, Marc and Chris will cover that in their discussion, as well as provide examples from their own experience with evaluating k0s by Mirantis along with other top K8s Distros on the market.

A full list of this episode's topics include:

• Background on Replicated, Embedded Cluster and their other solutions
• Emerging technologies in comparison to Kubernetes
• Replicated's Helm SDK vs Embedded Cluster
• Tips for evaluating open source projects
• Importance of CNCF-certification
• When to build it yourself vs when to leverage existing open source solutions
• Pitfalls and benefits of building it yourself
• Other Distros vs k0s by Mirantis
• Why Replicated chose k0s by Mirantis
• Importance of GitHub community in evaluation process
• How implementation of k0s went for Replicated
• Key takeaways from Replicated's experience

Learn more about k0s by Mirantis at k0sproject.io/

Learn more about Replicated & Embedded Cluster at www.replicated.com/

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

In this month's installment, you will hear from Nick Chase, Adam Parco, and Shaun O'Meara from Mirantis as well as our very special guest Alex Williams, Co-Founder and Publisher of The New Stack. 

They kick things off with some baseline definitions of both "Legacy" and "Cloud Native" architectures, before moving on to industry trends supported by real world examples highlighting the value of Legacy vs Cloud Native workloads in those given environments. The discussion culminates with a deep dive into migrating legacy applications to cloud native ecosystems, aiming to answer the questions: how/when to do it, is it worth it, and where should you look first when moving forward with this undertaking?

A full list of this episode's topics include:

• Defining "Legacy" & "Cloud Native"
• Why Cloud Native over Legacy applications
• Open source technologies in the Cloud Native space
• Value of Cloud Native in regards to speed
• Security & compliance during Legacy migrations
• Security & compliance - an ongoing issue
• Emerging role of AI/ML tooling for security
• Will Kubernetes become Legacy one day?
• Conclusion: Migrating Legacy Apps worth it?

Learn more about the very latest Cloud Native solutions at www.mirantis.com

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

In this episode of Radio Cloud Native, former host John Jainschigg, Director of Open Source Initiatives for Mirantis, returns to provide a great interview with one of the founders of the Zero Trust model for cybersecurity, John Kindervag. He has authored many blog articles and much of the open source documentation of Zero Trust, and is one of the most knowledgeable cybersecurity experts in the cloud space.

In the interview, you will hear directly from John Kindervag about how the Zero Trust model was initially created, how it has evolved over the years, how it can actually be implemented into a realistic, enterprise security framework, and a host of examples of why Zero Trust may be an ideal security posture for your Org. John's responses touch on both the technical development and operations side, serving as a valuable resource for a variety of IT professionals and software hobbyists. 

A full list of what's discussed in the interview:

• Cybersecurity landscape before Zero Trust
• Concept of "trust" in Zero Trust model
• Zero Trust - technical POV
• Zero trust and the Principle of Least Privilege
• Implementing Zero Trust
• Defense in Depth vs Zero Trust
• Zero Trust streamlines cybersecurity
• AWS S3 Gateway vulnerability example
• Application vs Infrastructure security
• Securing Apps under Zero Trust
• Achieving Zero Trust

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

In this episode of Radio Cloud Native, former host John Jainschigg, Director of Open Source Initiatives for Mirantis, returns to proctor a great interview with Zero Trust pioneer George Finney, CSO at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. George is the author of the recent IT-cybersecurity thriller Project Zero Trust with a forward written by Zero Trust founder John Kindervag (note - mentions of "John" during this interview is in reference to John Kindervag). The book is available in print form on Amazon and in audio book form on Audible. You can access the Amazon links in this episode's chapters.

During the interview, John Jainschigg and George Finney discuss the exciting opening to Project Zero Trust before jumping into an informative discussion about how the novel provides an actionable framework for the "Zero Trust Model" of cybersecurity - one that can actually be implemented in existing enterprise architectures. Zero Trust is not a specific package or set of tools, but rather an overall way of thinking that can help any IT professional who is concerned with the security of their applications (spoiler: that's every IT professional).

A full list of what's discussed in the interview:

• Meet George Finney, author of Project Zero Trust
• Quick synopsis of Project Zero Trust
• "Trust" as a vulnerability (courtesy of Zero Trust founder John Kindervag)
• Project Zero Trust - a true IT cybersecurity guide
• Implementing a "Zero Trust" framework
• Zero Trust and its connection to Cloud
• Public vs Private Cloud - in terms of security
• "Trusting" components in production
• Actionable steps for implementing "Zero Trust" in the enterprise

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

In this episode, Solution Architecture Manager for Mirantis, Michael Tillman, is back to break down the leading VMware alternative solutions designed to control cloud costs and eliminate all forms of vendor lock-in by leveraging open source, flexible, and scalable components and tools.

Vendor lock-in can take on many forms, which Michael will outline at the onset. Then, he will present the main reasons behind why so many VMware vSphere users are looking for alternative solutions to limit skyrocketing costs, maintain the flexibility to innovate, and future-proof their cloud native infrastructure framework in order to better integrate with other tools and ecosystems that may make sense as you travel further down your roadmap. Lastly, Michael will highlight the Mirantis approach to open source-based, cloud native infrastructure management, showcasing solutions and tools that will save you money, decrease your deployment times, and better position your organization for innovation in the future.

A full list of the topics discussed in this episode include:

• Different types of vendor lock-in
• Importance of vendor neutrality
• VMware alternative solutions
• The Mirantis solution
• The Mirantis advantage
• Quick summary

Check out VMware alternatives solutions at mirantis.com/vmware-alternatives/ 

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

In this month's episode, John Jainschigg, Director of Open Source Initiatives at Mirantis hosts Kathleen Moyer, Director of Service Delivery at Corsec Security, and William Konitzer, Senior Solution Architect at Mirantis, to explore the recently achieved DISA STIG certification for Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE). Together, they dive into the intricate certification process that enables public sector and enterprise users to deploy secure, compliant applications using MKE.

Listeners will gain insights into the collaborative effort between Mirantis and Corsec Security, where Kathleen shares her 25 years of expertise in security certifications, detailing how Corsec facilitated the process with government agencies like DISA and the DoD. William provides a behind-the-scenes look at the technical challenges and solutions that ensured MKE met stringent Department of Defense (DoD) security standards without compromising usability or performance. Furthermore, he highlights some of the team's learnings in the context of how it changed the thought process of Mirantis' engineering teams when it came to security.

Achieved in early 2024, this milestone positions MKE as a powerful tool for public sector organizations and industries with specific security and compliance needs. Whether you’re navigating public sector compliance requirements or interested in secure cloud native solutions, this episode offers practical advice and unique perspectives on implementing and managing a STIG-compliant Kubernetes platform.

A full list of this episode's topics include:

• Corsec Security's role in the MKE DISA STIG process
• Common challenges Orgs face in STIG process
• How Corsec handles security testing to ensure compliance
• SITG vs FEDRAMP - in terms of requirements
• How Corsec handles product updates re: the STIG
• Advice for companies getting started with STIG certification
• Role of documentation in STIG process
• Challenges in MKE STIG process
• Why Mirantis did a STIG for MKE
• Specific security features of MKE that affected DISA STIG approval
• Mirantis and Corsec collaboration
• MKE for the Public Sector
• Timelines for achieving STIG certification
• Mitigating evolving vulnerabilities
• How the SITG process for MKE impacted Mirantis engineering

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

Welcome to Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis, your go-to podcast for all things cloud native, Kubernetes, and open source. Join us as we explore the latest trends, innovative solutions, and open source projects shaping the modern cloud landscape. For related links and/or diagrams, please check out the resources linked in the Chapters.

This episode is once again presented by Daniel Virassamy, Principal Solution Architect at Mirantis, who describes himself as curious by nature and open source by choice. Daniel will walk you through the steps and best practices for building your very own, bespoke, multi-cluster Kubernetes platform leveraging open source components and tools. He will also present some open source-based solutions from Mirantis that drastically streamline multi-cluster management at scale, as well as open source integrations that will optimize your Kubernetes spend and operations.

A full list of topics for this episode includes:

• Current multi-cluster landscape
• Where to run your infrastructure
• Core infrastructure services for multi-cluster
• How to choose a Kubernetes Distro
• How to choose a multi-cluster management solution
• Implementing a UI Portal & APIs
• Adding Observability & application delivery
• Common use cases for multi-cluster

Check out k0s by Mirantis: https://k0sproject.io/
Learn more about k0smotron by Mirantis: https://k0smotron.io/
Download Mirantis Lens, the Kubernetes IDE: https://k8slens.dev/

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

Welcome to Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis, your go-to podcast for all things cloud native, Kubernetes, and Open Source. Join us as we explore the latest trends, innovative solutions, and open source projects shaping the modern cloud landscape. For related links and/or diagrams, please check out the resources linked in the Chapters.

This episode is presented by Daniel Virassamy, Principal Solution Architect at Mirantis, who describes himself as curious by nature and open source by choice. Daniel will cover, in-depth, the various costs associated with current Public Cloud offerings to debunk many of the myths that Public Cloud is always cheaper, simpler, and the easiest to use in comparison to Private Cloud offerings.

He will also offer recommendations for reducing cloud spend - on any architecture - by leveraging open source technologies wherever possible.   

A full list of topics for this episode includes:

• The Iceberg model (of cloud cost)
• Yearly Cloud cost example
• The FinOps cloud cost model
• Staff requirement for Public Cloud
• Cloud migration return on investment
• Shifting from Capex to Opex
• Infrastructure Services to Function-as-a-Service
• Importance of cloud reversibility
• Cost of data in Public Cloud
• Public vs Private Cloud
• Private Cloud does NOT equal On Prem
• Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK)
• Mirantis Support: OpsCare and OpsCare+
• The Mirantis TCO calculator

Learn more about Mirantis OpenStack for K8s (MOSK): http://www.mirantis.com/mosk

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

Welcome to Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis, your go-to podcast for all things cloud native, Kubernetes, and Open Source. Join us as we explore the latest trends, innovative solutions, and open source projects shaping the modern cloud landscape. For related links and/or diagrams, please check out the resources linked in the Chapters.

This week, Mirantis CTO Shaun O'Meara dives deep into On Prem data centers - a concept that many have forgone with the explosion of Public Cloud providers and solutions - but, one that is still critical for securing many organization's data to meet specific security requirements both in given industries and for specific clientele. Shaun also presents the Mirantis strategy for leveraging the most secure data center components while still maintaining flexibility in regards to cloud provider and infrastructure choice.

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Data Center background: is the Data Center really dead?
• Current use cases driving Private Cloud & On Prem Data Centers
• Common challenges with Public Cloud
• Advantages of Public Cloud
• Multi/Hybrid-Cloud: get the best of Public & Private Cloud worlds
• How to build a "Hybrid-Cloud" data center
• On Prem Cloud and Data Center strategies
• The Mirantis approach

Learn more about Mirantis: https://www.mirantis.com/ 

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

Welcome to Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis, your go-to podcast for all things cloud native, Kubernetes, and Open Source. Join us as we explore the latest trends, innovative solutions, and open source projects shaping the modern cloud landscape. For related links and/or diagrams, please check out the resources linked in the Chapters.

In this episode, Solution Architecture Manager Michael Tillman of Mirantis covers everything you need to know about DISA STIG, FEDRAMP, and the associated security requirements needed to achieve Authorization to Operate (ATO).

ATO is a requirement for applications running in the US Federal and State governments, but the security stipulations required in this industry represent the best security practices for cloud native applications in general. With that being said, regardless of whether you need specific approvals for specific workloads, the security framework and solution architecture of the Mirantis Stack of solutions can help your organization ensure that not only your workloads meet the highest standards of security, but also - if you choose to do so - your organization can get ATO much faster than if you were leveraging other solutions that don't meet the Mirantis security standards.

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Defining cloud native applications
• Common challenges with cloud native applications
• DISA STIG
• FEDRAMP
• Defining a "Secure Stack"
• Mirantis secure container solutions
• How to partner with Mirantis for faster ATO
• The complete stack of Mirantis cloud native solutions

Learn more about Mirantis in the Public Sector: https://www.mirantis.com/public-sector-solutions/
Reach out to Michael Tillman directly: mtillman@mirantis.com 

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

More on Mirantis Kuberentes Engine: http://www.mirantis.com/mke
More about Mirantis Container Runtime: http://www.mirantis.com/mcr

The teams at Mirantis are excited to announce that Radio Cloud Native is back!

It will be following a slightly different format from before, and although Eric Gregory & John Jainschigg did a fantastic job hosting, we’ve decided to give a voice to more members of the Mirantis family moving forward. 

You should still expect to hear a lot of critical information about the cloud native and Kubernetes space, but rather than covering recent developments in the form of a news update, Radio Cloud Native will aim to provide more thought leadership on the most pertinent topics of the day. 

This week, Mirantis Sr. Solution Architect Kevin Ng is back with another deep dive comparing previous versions of Docker Engine with the latest versions of Mirantis Container Runtime (MCR) and Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE). It is worth noting that these Docker Enterprise solutions were acquired by Mirantis some years ago, and MCR and MKE represent the latest Mirantis iterations of these same solutions, enhanced by our development teams to provide robust and complete container and cloud native infrastructure management solutions. 

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• A History of Docker Engine
• A deep dive into various container runtime interfaces
• Full explanation of cri-dockerd & its use cases
• Full overview of Mirantis Container Runtime (MCR) & its use cases
• Full overview of Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) & its use cases
• Recap: cri-dockerd vs MCR vs MKE

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

More on MOSK: mirantis.com/mosk
More on MKE: mirantis.com/mke
More on Mirantis App Migration: mirantis.com/application-migration-and-modernization
Reach out to Daniel: dvirassamy@mirantis.com 

Welcome to Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis, your go-to podcast for all things cloud native and Kubernetes. Join us as we explore the latest trends, innovative solutions, and open source projects shaping the modern cloud landscape. 

With the recent Broadcom acquisition of VMware, many VMware vSphere users are looking for more cost-effective alternatives for managing their critical VM workloads. If you or your Org are facing this predicament, then you've likely thought about migration. But fear not - Mirantis has you covered.

In this episode, Cloud Solution Architect Daniel Virassamy of Mirantis will explain the most seamless and efficient way to migrate your existing VMware VMs to either an open source, OpenStack Cloud (Recipe 1) OR how to move those same VMs into a containerized environment on top of Kubernetes with Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE). 

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Major open clouds in the market today
• Moving VMware VMs to OpenStack Cloud
• Discovery & planning phases
• Analysis & design phases
• Migration & validation phases
• Components supported in migration process
• Operating systems supported in migration process
• Automation is the key
• Migration dependencies - workloads, provider & infrastructure
• Moving from VMware to K8s - VMs to containers
• Supported use cases for AMMP
• How does AMMP look at enterprise scale?
• Real world example - application transformation metrics
• How Mirantis can help

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

Explore k0s by Mirantis: https://www.mirantis.com/software/k0s/
Check out k0smotron: https://k0smotron.io/

Welcome to Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis, your go-to podcast for all things cloud native and Kubernetes. Join us as we explore the latest trends, innovative solutions, and open source projects shaping the modern cloud landscape. For related links and/or diagrams, please check out the resources linked in the Chapters.

k0s, k3s, and MicroK8s are all popular open source Kubernetes distributions with small footprints - but which is right for your use case?

This week, Kevin Ng, Senior Solution Architect for Mirantis, will walk you through the capabilities of each option so you can choose the tool that’s right for you. He will also dive deep into k0s (open source K8s Distro) and k0smotron (open source control plane/multi-cluster K8s management tool) - both from Mirantis - giving you the necessary background and technologies to streamline your Kubernetes operations.

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Vanilla Kubernetes explained
• Kubernetes overhead (cost)
• Lightweight Kubernetes explained
• k0s vs k3s vs MicroK8s
• Choosing the right K8s Distro for you
• Why k0s by Mirantis? (deployment example)
• k0smotron by Mirantis - for K8s control plane & multi-cluster management

The teams at Mirantis are excited to announce that Radio Cloud Native is back!

It will be following a slightly different format from before, and although Eric Gregory & John Jainschigg did a fantastic job hosting, we’ve decided to give a voice to more members of the Mirantis family moving forward. 

You should still expect to hear a lot of critical information about the cloud native and Kubernetes space, but rather than covering recent developments in the form of a news update, Radio Cloud Native will aim to provide more thought leadership on the most pertinent topics of the day. 

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

If you are interested in contributing to Radio Cloud Native, please reach out to our podcast team: podcasts@mirantis.com

In the final episode of Radio Cloud Native, Eric takes a look at Kubernetes 1.29, a tool for creating OCI images of eBPF programs, new ways to live in a simulation (of Kubernetes), and more. 

A full list of topics covered in this episode include:

• Kubernetes 1.29, codenamed: Mandala
  • New defaults for cloud provider integrations
  • Storage refinements
  • Improvements for Kubernetes on Windows
• Cisco to acquire Isovalent
• Solo.io's BumbleBee
• SimKube for simulated Kubernetes clusters
• KubeCon NA recap
•  A final farewell & last Whack-a-Doodle

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Get the latest news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Hosts Eric Gregory breaks through the jargon to help you make sense of it all.

In this episode, Eric walks through the highlights of Kubernetes 1.28, then breaks down the latest kerfuffles in the world of the enterprise open source, a major security issue in npm, and more.

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Kubernetes 1.28 Release
• Cloud trends for the summer
• Open source tumult
• Developer trends for the remainder of 2023
• ChatGPT & StackOverflow study
• The bug at the heart of npm
• Remembering Bram Moolenar

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Read the attached blog post for this episode here: https://www.mirantis.com/blog/what-s-new-in-kubernetes-1-28-sidecar-containers-and-fewer-disruptions 

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Get the latest news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Host Eric Gregory breaks through the jargon to help you make sense of it all.

In this episode, Eric discusses the new open source control plane manager k0smotron, Kubernetes’ new sidecar container feature, changes around Red Hat Enterprise Linux and how those have echoed around the industry, a new wrinkle in Broadcom’s proposed acquisition of VMware, and much more. 

Access the resources Eric presented in this episode below:

• k0smotron GitHub page: https://github.com/k0sproject/k0smotron
• KEP-753 - Sidecar containers: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/753-sidecar-containers
• CMA document on Broadcom/VMware: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64ac174ab504f7000ccdb88e/Issues_Statement_Response.pdf

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• k0smotron
• Kubernetes Sidecar feature update
• Congrats to Istio
• Red Hat RHEL & SUSE
• New wrinkles in the Broadcom/VMware saga

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Get the latest news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Co-hosts Eric Gregory and John Jainschigg break through the jargon and help you make sense of it all.

This week Eric does a deep dive into Prime Video’s microservice-to-monolith story - or maybe it’s a microservice refactoring? Then he explores some cool new features in k0s 1.27, including wasm support and a neat bit of security hardening, as well as the latest releases for JavaScript runtimes Bun and Deno, and the role of open source large language models in the industry’s ongoing AI tempest.

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Microservices to monoliths? A Prime Video story
• k0s 1.27 - from the Teams at Mirantis!
• JSwatch - a look at the JavaScript world
• Update on PyPi & the world of security
• A closing word on Large Language Models - small & open?

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Get the week's news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Co-hosts Eric Gregory and Nick Chase break through the jargon and help you make sense of it all.

KubeCon Europe is in full swing - so we'll be circling back to the most interesting developments from the conference next week. This week week however, Eric & special guest host John Jainschigg tackle a whirlwind of Kubernetes news stories, including some new release features that are fresh off the press, as well as a whole lot more!

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Kubernetes 1.27
• News from KubeCon in Amsterdam
  • CNCF Security Audit
  • Trivy adds CIS Kubernetes benchmark scanning
  • Java Operator SDK
  • Keycloak joins the CNCF
• A "vibe-shift" in the world of AI
• WebAssembly news update
• Hacker news - a project reccomendation from Eric

Check out John's Stochastic Parrots paper recommendation: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922 

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