>>from around the globe. It's the Cube with digital coverage of Red Hat. Summit 2020 Brought to you by Red Hat. >>Yeah. Hi. And welcome back to the Cube's coverage of Red Hat Summit 2020 on stew. Minimum in this year's event, of course, happened globally. Which means we're talking to Red Hat executives, customers and partners where they are around the globe on and happy to welcome back to the program. One of our cube alumni, Badani, who is the senior vice president. Cloud platforms at Red Hat is great to see you. >>Yeah, thanks a lot for having me back on. >>Yeah, absolutely. So you know, the usual wall to wall coverage that we do in San Francisco? Well, it's now the global digital, a little bit of a dispersed architecture to do these environments. Which reminds me a little bit of your world. So, you know, the main keynote stage. You know, Paul's up There is the, you know, new CEO talking about open hybrid cloud. And of course, the big piece of that is, you know, open shift and the various products, you know, in the portfolio there, So ah, personal. We know there's not, you know, big announcements of, you know, launches and the like, But your team and the product portfolio has been going through a lot of changes. A lot of growth since last time we connected. So bring us up to speed as to what we should know about. >>Sure. Thanks s Oh, yes, not not a huge focus around announcements, this summit, especially given everything going on in the world around us today. Ah, but you know, that being said, we continue our open shift journey. We started that well, you know, many years ago. But in 2015 and we had our first release both the stone kubernetes in a container focused platform. Ever since then, you know, we continue to groan to evolve Atlassian count now over 2000 customers globally. I trusted the platform in industries that literally every industry and also obviously every job around around the globe. So that's been great to see you. And last summit, we actually announced a fairly significant enhancement of a platform with a large fortune before big focus around created manageability ability to use operators which is, you know, kubernetes concept to make applications much more manageable. um, you know, when they're being run natively within within the platform, we continue to invest. There s so there's a new release off the platform. Open shift 4.4 based on kubernetes 1.17 big made available to our customers globally. And then really, sort of this this notion of over the air updates right to create a platform that is almost autonomous in nature, you know, acts more like your your your mobile phone in the way you can manage and and update and upgrade. I think that's a key value proposition that, you know, we're providing to our customers. So we're excited to see that and then be able to share that with you. >>Yeah, so a chef won't want to dig into that a little bit. So one of the discussions we've had in the industry for many years is how much consistency there needs to be across my various environments. We know you know Kubernetes is great, but it is not a silver bullet. You know, customers will have clusters. They will have different environments. I have what I do in my data centers or close. I'm using things in the public clouds and might be using different communities offering. So you know, as you said, there's things that Red Hat is doing. But give us a little insight into your customers as to how should they be thinking about it? How do they manage it? One of the new pieces that we're building it into a little bit, of course, from a management sand point is ACM, which I know open shift today, but going toe support some of the other kubernetes options you know down the road. So how should customers be thinking about this? How does Red Hat think about managing? Did this ever complex world >>Yes, So Student should have been talking about this for several years now, right with regard to just the kind of the customers are doing. And let's start with customers for us, because it's all about you know, the value for them so that this year's summit we're announcing some innovation award winners, right? So a couple of interesting ones BMW and Ford, um, you know BMW, you know, building It's next generation autonomous driving platform using containers. And then, you know, police Massive data platform an open ship for doing a lot of interesting work with regard to, uh, bringing together. It's a development team taking advantage of existing investments in hardware and so on, You know, the in place, you know, with the platform. But also, increasingly, companies that are you know, for example, in all accept. All right, so we've got the Argentine Ministry of Health. We've got a large electricity distribution company adopting containers, adopting middleware technology, for example, on open shift until great value. Right. So network alerts when there's electricity outrage going from three minutes to 10 seconds. And so, as you now see more and more customers doing, you know, more and more if you will mission critical activities on these platforms to your points to your question is a really good one is not got clusters running in multiple markets, right? Perhaps in their own data center, across multiple clouds and managing these clusters at scale, it becomes, you know, more, more critical up. And so, you know, we've been doing a bunch of work with regard to the team, and I actually joined us from IBM has been working on this. Let's remember technology for a while, and it's part of Red Hat. We're now releasing in technology preview. Advanced cluster management trying to solve address questions around. What does it mean to manage the lifecycle of the application process? Clusters. How do I monitor and imbue cluster help? You know, regardless of you know, where they run. How do I have consistent security and compliance for my policies across the different clusters. So really excited, right? It is a really interesting technology. It's probably most advanced placement. That's our market. What? IBM working on it. We know. Well, before you know, the team from from there, you know, joined us. And now we're making it much more >>widely available. Yeah, actually, I just want one of things that really impressed some of those customers. First off. Congratulations. 2000 you know, great milestone there. And yeah, we've had We're gonna have some of the opportunity to talk on the cube. Some of those essential services you talk Ministry of Health. Obviously, with a global pandemic on critically environment, energy companies need to keep up and running. I've got Vodafone idea also from India, talking about how communication service is so essential. Pieces and definitely open shift. You know, big piece of this story asst to how they're working and managing and scaling. Um, you know, everybody talks about scale for years, but the current situation around the globe scale something that you know. It's definitely being stressed and strained and understood. What? What? What's really important? Um, another piece. Really interesting. Like to dig in a little bit here. Talk about open shift is you know, we talk kubernetes and we're talking container. But there's still a lot of virtualization out there. And then from an application development standpoint, there's You know what? Let's throw everything away and go all serverless on there. So I understand. Open shift. Io is embracing the full world and all of the options out there. So help us walk through how Red Hat maybe is doing things a little bit differently. And of course, we know anything right Does is based on open source. So let's talk about those pieces >>Yes, to super interesting areas for us. Um, one is the work we're doing based on open source project called Kube Vert, and that's part of the CN CF incubating projects. And that that is the notion off bringing virtualization into containers. And what does that mean? Obviously There are huge numbers of workloads running in which machines globally and more more customers want, you know, one control plane, one environment, one abstraction to manage workloads, whether they're running in containers or in IBM, I believe you sort of say, Can we take workloads that are running in these, uh, give, um, based which machines or, uh, VMS running in a VM based environment and then bring them natively on, run them as containers and managed by kubernetes orchestrate across this distributed cluster that we've talked about? I've been extremely powerful, and it's a very modern approach to modernizing existing applications as well as thinking about building new services. And so that's a technology that we're introducing into the platform and trying to see some early customer interest. Um, around. So, >>you know, I've got ah, no, I'm gonna have a breakout with Joe Fernandez toe talk about this a little bit, but you know what a note is you're working on. That is, you're bringing a VM into the container world and what red hat does Well, because you know your background and what red hat does is, you know, from an operating system you're really close to the application. So one of my concerns, you know, from early days of virtualization was well, let's shut things in a VM and leave it there and not make any changes as opposed to What you're describing is let's help modernize things. You know, I saw one of the announcements talking about How do I take job of workloads and bring them into the cloud? There's a project called Marcus. So once again, do I hear you right? You're bringing V M's into the container world with help to move towards that journey, to modernize everything so that we were doing a modern platform, not just saying, Hey, I can manage it with the tool that I was doing before. But that application, that's the important piece of it. >>Yeah, and it's a really good point, you know, We've you know, so much to govern, probably too little time to do it right, because the one that you touched on is really interesting. Project called caucuses right again. As you rightly pointed out, everything that is open source up, and so that's a way for us to say, Look, if we were to think about Java and be able to run that in a cloud native way, right? And be able to run, um, that natively within a container and be orchestrated again by kubernetes. What would that look like? Right, How much could be reduced density? How much could be improved performance around those existing job applications taking advantage off all the investments that companies have made but make that available in kubernetes and cloud native world. Right? And so that's what the corpus project is about. I'm seeing a lot of interest, you know, and again, because the open source model right, You don't really have companies that are adopting this, right? So there's I think there's a telecom company based out of Europe that's talking about the work that they're already doing with this. And I already blogged about it, talking about, you know, the value from a performance and use of usability perspective that they're getting with that. And then you got So you couple this idea off. How do I take BMC? Bring them into contempt? Right? Right. Existing workloads. Move that in. Run that native check. Right? Uh, the next one. How do I take existing java workloads and bring them into this modern cloud native Kubernetes space world, you know, making progress with that orchestra check. And then the third area is this notion off several lists, right? Which is, you know, I've got new applications, new services. I want to make sure that they're taking advantage, appropriate resources, but only the exact number of resources that require We do that in a way that's native to kubernetes. Right? So we're been working on implementing a K native based technologies as the foundation as the building blocks, um, off the work we're doing around serving and eventing towards leading. Ah, more confortable several institution, regardless of where you run it across any off your platform prints up. And that will also bring the ability to have functions that made available by really any provider in that same platform. So So if you haven't already to put all the pieces together right that we were thinking about this is the center of gravity is a community space platform that we make fully automated, that we make it very operational, make it easy for different. You know, third party pieces to plug in, writes to sort of make sure that it's in trouble in modular and at the same time that start layering on additional Kim. >>Yeah, I'm a lot of topics. As you said, it's Siachin. I'm glad on the serverless piece we're teasing out because it is complicated. You know, there are some that were just like, Well, from my application developer standpoint, I don't >>need to >>think about all that kubernetes and containers pieces because that's why I love it. Serverless. I just developed to it, and the platform takes care of it. And we would look at this year to go and say, Well, underneath that What is it? Is it containers? And the enter was Well, it could be containers. It depends what the platform is doing. So, you know, from from Red Hat's standpoint, you're saying open shift server lists, you know? Yes, it's kubernetes underneath there. But then I heard you talk about, you know, live aware of it is so, um, I saw there's, you know, a partner of Red Hat. It's in the open source community trigger mesh, which was entering one of the questions I had. You know, when I talk to people about serverless most of the time, it's AWS based stuff, not just lambda lots of other services. You know, I didn't interview with Andy Jassy a few years ago, and he said if I was to rebuild AWS today, everything would be built on serverless. So might some of those have containers and kubernetes under it? Maybe, but Amazon might do their own thing, so they're doing really a connection between that. So how does that plug in with what you're doing? Open shift out. All these various open sourced pieces go together. >>Yes, I would expect for us to have partnerships with several startups, right? You know you name, you know, one in our ecosystem. You know, you can imagine as your functions, you know, running on our serverless platform as well as functions provided by any third party, including those that are built and by red hat itself, Uh, you know, for the portal within this platform. Because ultimately, you know, we're building the platform to be operational, to be managed at scale to create greater productively for developments. Right? So for example, one of things we've been working on we are in the area of developer tools. Give the customers ability. Do you have you know, the product that we have is called cordon Ready workspaces. But essentially this notion off, you know, how can we take containers and give work spaces that are easy for remote developers to work with? Great example. Off customer, actually, in India that's been able to rapidly cut down time to go from Dev Productions weeks, you know, introduced because they're using, you know, things like these remote workspaces running in containers. You know, this is based on the eclipse. Ah, Apache, the the CI Project, You know, for this. So this this notion that you know, we're building a platform that can be used by ops teams? Absolutely true, but the same time the idea is, how can we now start thinking about making sure these abstractions are providing are extremely productive for development teams. >>Yeah, it's such an important piece. Last year I got the chance to go to Answerable Fest for the first time, and it was that kind of discussion that was really important, you know, can tools actually help me? Bridge between was traditionally some of those silos that they talked about, You know, the product developer that the Infrastructure and Ops team and the AB Dev teams all get things in their terminology and where they need but common platforms that cut between them. So sounds like similar methodology. We're seeing other piece of the platforms Any other, you know, guidance. You talked about all your customers there. How are they working through? You know, all of these modernizations adopting so many new technologies. Boy, you talked about like Dev ops tooling it still makes my heads. Then when I look at it, some of these charts is all the various tools and pieces that organizations are supposed to help choose and pick. Ah, out of there, they have. So how how is your team helping customers on kind of the organizational side? >>Yes. So we'll do this glass picture. So one is How do you make sure that the platform is working to help these teams? You know, by that? What I mean is, you know, we are introducing this idea and working very closely with our partners globally and on this notion of operators, right, which is every time I want to run data bases. And you know, there's so many different databases. There are, you know, up there, right? No sequel, no sequel. and in a variety of different ones for different use cases. How can you make sure that we make it easy for customers trial and then be able to to deploy them and manage them? Right? So this notion of an operator lifecycle because application much more manageable when they run with data s O. So you make you make it easier for folks to be able to use them. And then the question is, Well, what other? If you will advise to help me get that right So off late, you probably heard, you know, be hired a bunch of industry experts and brought them into red hat around this notion of a global transformation and be able to bring that expertise to know whether you know, it's the So you know, Our Deep in Dev Ops and the Dev Ops Handbook are you know, some of the things that industry is a lot like the Phoenix project and, you know, just just in various different you know what's your business and be able to start saying looking at these are told, music and share ideas with you on a couple that with things like open innovation labs that come from red hat as well as you know, similar kinds of offerings from our various partners around the world to help, you know, ease their transition into the >>All right. So final question I have for you, let's go a little bit high level. You know, as you've mentioned you and I have been having this conversation for a number of years last year or so, I've been hearing some of the really big players out there, ones that are, of course, partners of Red Hat. But they say similar things. So you know, whether it's, you know, Microsoft Azure releasing arc. If it's, you know, VM ware, which much of your open ship customers sit on top of it. But now they have, you know, the Project Pacific piece and and do so many of them talk about this, you know, heterogeneous, multi cloud environment. So how should customers be thinking about red hat? Of course. You partner with everyone, but you know, you do tend to do things a little bit different than everybody else. >>Uh, yeah. I hope we do things differently than everyone else. You know, to deliver value to customers, right? So, for example, all the things that we talk about open ship or really is about industry leading. And I think there's a bit of a transformation that's going on a swell right within the way. How Red Hat approaches things. So Sam customers have known Red Hat in the past in many ways for saying, Look, they're giving me an operating system that's, you know, democratizing, if you will. You know what the provider provides, Why I've been given me for all these years. They provided me an application server, right that, you know, uh, it's giving me a better value than what proprietary price. Increasingly, what we're doing with, you know, the work they're doing around, Let's say whether it's open shift or, you know, the next generation which ization that we talked about so on is about how can we help customers fundamentally transform how it is that they were building deploy applications, both in a new cloud native way. That's one of the existing once and what I really want to 0.2 is now. We've got it least a five year history on the open shift platform to look back at you will point out and say here are customers that are running directly on bare metal shears. Why they find, you know, this virtualization solution that you know that we're providing so interesting Here we have customers running in multiple different environments running on open stack running in these multiple private clouds are sorry public clouds on why they want distribute cluster management across all of them. You know, here's the examples that you know we could provide right? You know, here's the work we've done with, you know, whether it's these, you know, government agencies with private enterprises that we've talked to write, you know, receiving innovation awards for the world been doing together. And so I think our approach really has been more about, you know, we want to work on innovation that is fundamentally impacting customers, transforming them, meeting them where they are moving the four into the world we're going into. But they're also ensuring that we're taking advantage of all the existing investments that they've made in their skills. Right? So the advantage of, for example, the years off limits expertise that they have and saying How can we use that? Don't move you forward. >>Well, a chef's Thank you so much Absolutely. I know the customers I've talked to at Red Hat talking about not only how they're ready for today, but feel confident that they're ready to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. So thanks so much. Congratulations on all the progress and definitely look forward to seeing you again in the future. >>Likewise. Thanks, Ian Stewart. >>All right, I'm still Minuteman. And much more coverage from Red Hat Summit 2020 as always. Thanks for watching the Cube. >>Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.