Nigel Poulton, MSB com | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2019
>> Live from San Diego California, it's theCUBE. Covering KubeCon and CloudNativeCon. Brought to you by Red Hat, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and its ecosystem partners. >> Welcome back. We're at the end of three days of wall-to-wall coverage here at KubeCon CloudNativeCon 2019 in San Diego. I am Stu Miniman and my co-host for this week has been John Troyer, and we figured no better way to cap our coverage than bring on a CUBE alumni who has likely educated more people about containers and Kubernetes, you know, may be second only to the CNCF. So, Nigel Poulton now the head of content at msb.com. Nigel, pleasure to see you and thanks for coming back on the program. >> Honestly gents, the pleasure is all mine, as always. >> All right, so Nigel, first of all I'd love to get your just gestalt of the week. You know, take away, what's the energy. You know, how is was this community doing. >> Yeah, so it's the end of the week and my brain is a mixture of fried and about to explode, okay. Which i think is a good thing. That's what you want at the end of a conference, right. But I think if we can dial it back to the first day at that opening keynote, something that really grabbed me at the time and has been sort of a theme for me throughout the conference, is when they asked, can you raise your hand if this is your first KubeCon, and it's a room of 8,000 people, and I don't have the data at hand right, but I'm sat there, I've got my brother on this side, it's his first ever KubeCon, and he kind of goes like this, and then he realizes that nearly everybody around us has got their hands up, so he's kind of like, whoa yeah, I feel like I'm on the in the in-crowd now. And I think from the people that I've spoken to it seems to be that the community is maturing, the conference or the event itself is maturing, and that starts to bring in kind of a different crowd, and a new crowd. People that are not necessarily building Kubernetes or building projects in the Kubernetes ecosystem, but looking to bring it into their organizations to run their own applications. >> Yeah, no absolutely. You know, the rough number I heard was somewhere two-thirds to three-quarters of that room were new. >> Nigel: I can believe that. >> 12,000 here in attendance, right. There were 8,000 here last year. >> Nigel: Yeah. >> You think about the, you know, somebody, oh I sent somebody this year, I sent somebody different the next year, and all the new people. So, you know, Nigel, luckily that keeps you busy, because there is something I've said for a long, long, time is there is always a need for that introductory and then how do I get started and how do I get into here, and luckily the the ecosystem and all the projects and everything, somebody could pick that up in five or 10 minutes if they'd just put their mind to it, right. >> So I say this a lot of the time, that I feel like we live in the Golden Age of being able to take hold of your own career and learn a technology and make the best of what's available for you. Now we don't live in the day where we used, you know, to learn something new you would have to buy infrastructure. I mean even to learn Windows back in the day, or NetWare or Linux you'd need a couple of dusty old PCs in the corner of your office or your bedroom or something, and it was hard. Whereas now with cloud, with video training, with all the hands-on labs and stuff that are out there, with all of the sessions that you get at events like this, if you're interested in pushing your career forward, not only have you not got an excuse not to do it anymore, but the opportunities are just amazing, right. I feel like we live in such an, I feel like we're living in a exciting time for tech. >> Well Nigel, you do books, said you've done training courses, you have your platform of like a lab platform, msb.com. And one of the challenges in this space is that it is moving so fast, right. Yes, you have, anything's at your fingertips, but. >> Nigel: Yeah. >> Kubernetes changes every every quarter. Here at the show, both scale of people's deployments, but also scale of the probably number of projects, and everything has a different name. >> Nigel: Yeah. >> So, how are you, what should people be looking for? How are you changing your curriculum? What are you what are you adding to it, what are you replicating? >> Yeah, so that's super interesting. I think, right, as well, so it's a Golden Age for learning right, but if you're in the technology industry in the sort of areas that we are, right, if you don't love it and if you're not passionate about it, I almost feel like you're in the wrong industry, because you need that passion, and that sort of it's my hobby as well as my job, just to keep up. Like I feel like I spend an unhealthy amount of time in the Cloud Native ecosystem and just trying to keep track of everything that's going on. And all that time that I spend in, I still feel like I'm playing catch-up all the time. So I think you have to adjust your mentality. Like if you thought that you could learn something, a technology or whatever, and be comfortable for five years in your role, then you really need to adjust that. Like just an example, right. So I write, I offer a book as well, and I would love nothing better than to write that book, stick it on a shelf on Amazon and what-have-you and let it be valid for five years. I would love that because it's hard work, but I can't so like I do a six monthly update, but that applies to way more than that. So for your career, you know, if you want to, it sounds cheesy, if you want to rock it in your career, you have got to keep yourself up to date. And it's a race, but I do think that the kind of things were doing with tech now, they're fun things, right. >> Yeah, a little scary, because while we're at this show I hope you kept up with all the Amazon announcements, the Google announcements. >> Nigel: Yeah. >> And everything going, because it is it is non-stop. >> Nigel: It is. >> Out there. Nigel, we last had you on theCUBE two years ago at this show, and at every show for a bunch of shows it seemed like there was a project or a category du jour. >> Nigel: Yeah. >> I don't know that I quite got that this year. There were some really cool things at edge computing. There was the observability, something we spent a bunch of time talking on. But we'd love to just kind of throw it out there as to what you're seeing in the ecosystem, the landscape, some of the areas that are interesting. >> Nigel: Yeah. >> Important, and what's growing, what's not. >> Okay, so if I can take the event first off, right, so KubeCon itself. Loads of new people, okay, and when I talk to them I'm getting three answers from them. Like number one, they're like, some people like, I just love it, you know, which is great, and I've loved it and it's an amazing event. Other people are like kind of over awed by it, the size. So I don't know, maybe we should send them to re:Invent and then come back here and then they'll be like, oh yeah, it's not so bad. But the second thing is that some of the sessions are going over the first timers heads. So I'm hoping, and I'm sure it will, that going forward in Amsterdam and Boston next year that we'll start to be able to pitch parts of the conference to that new user base. So that was kind of a theme from speaking to people at the event from me. But a couple of things from the ecosystem, like we talked about service mesh, right, two years ago, and it felt like it was a bit of a buzzword, but everyone was talking about it and it was a real theme, and I don't get that at this conference, but what I do feel from the community in general is that uptake and adoption is actually starting to happen now, and thanks a lot to, well look, Linkerd pretty easy these days, STO is making great strides to being easier to deploy, but I also think that the cloud providers, those hosted cloud providers, really stepping up to the plate, like they did with hosted Kubernetes, you know when it was hard to get Kubernetes for your environment. We're seeing a similar thing with the service mesh. You can spin something up in GKE, Kubernetes cluster, click the box, and I'll have a service mesh, thank you very much. >> Well, it's funny. I think back to Austin, when I talk to the average customer in the show floor and said, "What are you doing?" they were rolling their own. Picking all of the pieces and doing it. When I talk to the average customer here, is, I'm using managed services. >> Nigel: Yeah. >> Seems to have matured a lot. Of course, some of the manage public cloud services were brand new or a couple months there. Is that's a general direction you see things going? >> So, yes, but I almost wonder if it will be like cloud in general, right, where there was a big move to the cloud. And I understand why people will want to do hosted Kubernetes and things, 'cause it's easy and you know it gets you. I'm careful that when I use the term production grade, because I know it means different things to different people, but you get something that we can at least loosely turn production grade. >> Yeah, and actually just to be clear, we had a lot of discussions about on-premises, so I guess it's more the managed service rather than the, I'm going to roll all the pieces myself. >> Yeah, but I wonder will we start, and because of price and maybe the ability to tweak the cluster towards your needs and things, whether we might see people taking their first steps on a managed service or a hosted Kubernetes, and then as they scale up then they start to say, well, tell you what we'll start rolling our own, because we're better at doing this now, and then run like, you know, you still have your hosted stuff, but you have some stuff on premises as well, and then we move towards something that's a bit more hybrid. I don't know, but I just wonder if that will become a trend. >> Well Nigel, I mean it's been a busy week. You started off with workshops. I don't know, what did you miss? What's the first, when you go home, back to England, are you going to, and you pop open your browser and start looking at all the session videos and stuff, I don't know, what didn't you get a chance to do here this week? >> So I was kind of, for me it's been the busiest KubeCon I've had and it's robbed me of a lot of sessions, right, and when I remember when I looked at the catalog at the beginning it was like, you know it's one of those conferences where almost every slot there's three things that I want to go to, which is a sign of a good conference. I'm quite interested at the moment in K3s. I actually haven't touched it for a long time, but outside of KubeCon I have had a lot of people talk to me about that, so I will go home and I will hunt down, right, what are the K3s sessions to try and get myself back up to speed, 'cause I know there are other projects that are similar right, but I find it quite fascinating in that it's one of those projects where it started out with like this goal of we'll be for the edge, right, or for IOT or something, and the community are like, we really like it, and actually I want to use it for loads of other things. You have no idea whether it will go on to be like a roaring success, but it. I don't know, so often you have it where a project isn't planned to be something. >> Announcer: Good afternoon attendees. Breakout sessions will begin in 10 minutes. >> But it naturally in the community. >> Announcer: Session locations are listed. >> Take it on and say. >> Announcer: On the noted schedule. >> We're going to do something with it. >> Announcer: On digital signage throughout the venue. >> That wasn't originally planned, yeah. So I'll be looking up K3s as my first thing when I go home, but it is the first thing on a long list, right. >> All right. Nigel, tell us a little bit about, you know, latest things you're doing, msb.com. I know you had your book signing for your book here, had huge lines here. >> Yeah. >> Great to see. So, tell us about what you're doing overall. >> Thank you, yeah. So, I've got a couple of books and I've got a bunch of video training courses out there, and I'm super fortunate that I've reached a lot of people, but a real common theme when I talk to people are like, look, I love your book, I love your video courses, whatever, how do I take that next step, and the answer was always, look, get your hands on as much as possible, okay. And I would send people to like Minikube and to play with Docker or play with Kubernetes and various other solutions, but none of them really seem to be like, a real something that looked and smelled and tasted like production. So I'm working with a start-up at the moment, msb.com, where we have curated learning content. Everybody gets their own fully functioning private free node Kubernetes cluster. Ingress will work, internet-facing load balancers will all work on it, and the idea is that instead of having like a single node development environment on your laptop, which is fine, but you know, you can't really play with scheduling and things like that, then msb.com takes that sort of learning journey to the next level because it's it's a real working cluster, plus we've got this amazing visual dashboard so that when you're deploying stuff and scaling and rolling updates you see it all happening in the browser. And for me as an educator, right, it's sometimes hard for people to connect the dots when you're reading a book or, and I spend hours on like PowerPoint animations and stuff, whereas now in this browser to augment like reading a book, and to augment taking a training video, you can go and get your hands on and have this amazing sort of rich visual experience that really helps you like, sort of, oh I get it now, yeah. >> All right, so Nigel, final question I have for you. I've known you back when we were just a couple of infrastructure guys. You've done phenomenal things. >> Nigel: The glory days. >> With kind of the wave of containers, you're a Docker captain. You know, really well known in the Kubernetes. When you reflect back on something, on kind of this journey we've been on, you look at 12,000 people here, you know Docker has some recent news here, so give us a reflection back on that this journey the whole industry's on. >> Yeah, so I had breakfast with a guy this morning who I wrote my first ever public blog with. He had a blog site and he loaned me some space on his blog site 'cause I didn't even know how to build a blog at the time, and it was a storage blog, yeah, we're talking about EMC and HDS and all that kind of stuff, and I'm having breakfast with him, 14 I think years later in San Diego at KubeCon. And I think, and I don't know if this really answers your question, but I feel like that Kubernetes is almost so, if ubiquitous is the right word or it's so pervasive, and it's so all-encompassing almost, that it is bringing almost the entire community. I don't want to get too carried away with saying this, right, but it is bringing people from all different areas to like a common platform for want of a better term, right. I mean we were infrastructure guys, yourself as well John, and here we are at an event that as a community and as a technology I think it's just, it's changing the world, but it's also bringing things almost under one hood. So I would say anybody, like whatever you're doing, do all roads lead to Kubernetes at the moment, I don't know. >> Yeah, well we know software can actually be a unifying factor. Best term I've heard is Kubernetes is looking to be that universal back plain. >> Nigel: Yeah. >> and therefore, both you know, southbound to the infrastructure, northbound to the application. Nigel Poulton congratulations on the progress. Definitely, everybody makes sure to check out his training online, and thank you for helping us to wrap up our three days of coverage here. For John Troyer, I am Stu Miniman. TheCUBE will be at KubeCon 2020 in both Amsterdam and Boston. we will be at lots of other shows. Be sure to check out thecube.net. Please reach out if you have any questions. We are looking for more people to help support our growing coverage in the cloud native space, so thank you so much for the community, thank you to all of our guests, thank you to the CNCF and our sponsors that make this coverage possible, and thank you to you our audience for watching theCUBE. (upbeat music)
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Brought to you by Red Hat, and Kubernetes, you know, may be second only to the CNCF. All right, so Nigel, first of all I'd love to get and that starts to bring in kind of a different crowd, You know, the rough number I heard was There were 8,000 here last year. and luckily the the ecosystem and learn a technology and make the best of you have your platform of like a lab platform, msb.com. but also scale of the probably number of projects, So I think you have to adjust your mentality. I hope you kept up with all the Amazon announcements, Nigel, we last had you on theCUBE I don't know that I quite got that this year. and I don't get that at this conference, and said, "What are you doing?" Is that's a general direction you see things going? to different people, but you get something Yeah, and actually just to be clear, and because of price and maybe the ability to and you pop open your browser I don't know, so often you have it where Breakout sessions will begin in 10 minutes. but it is the first thing on a long list, right. I know you had your book signing for your book here, Great to see. and the answer was always, look, I've known you back when we were just With kind of the wave of containers, and it's so all-encompassing almost, is looking to be that universal back plain. and thank you to you our audience for watching theCUBE.
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Nigel Poulton, The Kubernetes Book | KubeCon 2017
>> Narrator: Live from Austin, Texas. It's theCUBE, covering KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2017. Brought to you by Red Hat, the Linux Foundation, and theCUBE's ecosystem partners. >> Hello everyone. Welcome back to theCUBE's exclusive coverage, here live in Austin, Texas for KubeCon and CloudNativeCon. I'm John Furrier, the co-founder of SiliconANGLE Media with my co-host Stu Miniman, Next is Nigel Poulten, who's the author of the Kubernetes book, also container guru, trainer, been in the business for a long time in the community. Great to have you on for our intro. >> Thank you >> Stu, keynote, let's get down to it. What was the big highlights? >> Yeah, well, first of all John, we've officially entered KubeCon Days here. So CloudNativeCon was yesterday. We've got two more days of KubeCon. Kelsey Hightower, you know, we had him on theCUBE yesterday. Phenomenal speaker, everybody's looking forward to him. Lines to talk to him. Made sure that there was a standing ovation before and after his. Very demo heavy. I mean, you know, this group loves it. There were a lot of, you know, great pithy lines. Arguments over, you know, which is the best language, which is the best way to do things? Knocking on things like YAML. So, it was definitely a fun, geeky discussion. I'm a big Game of Thrones fan. So I loved to see season seven delivered on Kubernetes. >> What was the summary of the keynote? What was the take? >> So I think from my perspective, the summary was Kubernetes is boring. Which translates to us generally, as in it's maturing. It's something that you might want to be able to trust in your production environment, if you're an enterprise. I mean, look, as a technology guy we always think we like to know the details, the weeds. And we like to play with YAML and stuff like that. But at the end of the day, business is down and developers tend not to want to. They want a smooth pipeline. And that's boring, and so boring is good. >> Yeah, and I do want to poke at it a little bit, Nigel, I definitely want your opinion on this, because there are certain technologies we say, "Oh right, it's reached that boring phase", which means it's kind of steady state. Kubernetes is not like One Dot Nine. Coming into the show it was like, how complex it is. Oh my God, there's all these things above and below. Yin gave a really nice keynote showing kind of a layer cake there. >> Yeah. >> I think maybe the Kubernetes layer might be, it's stable enough and used, and people can use it. But this ecosystem by no means is it boring. >> No >> And there's lots of things to make out. What are you seeing? >> Totally, and it's that definition of boring, really. So I would say boring would translate into usable. But you're right, in no way is it boring in any sense. In fact, it's exciting and it's dangerous as well. >> Yeah, and ... >> So I'll give you an example, right. So Kubernetes is massively successful. I think we all grock that at the moment, okay. But it's almost potentially going to be a victim of it's own success. It's always at one of the many summits that was going on before KubeCon and CloudNativeCon started, and it was about networking and there was a bunch of guys here from big carriers and they really want to take this simple networking model that Kubernetes currently has and make it fit their needs, which would make it really complex, dare I say, almost OpenStack Neutron. (laughing) And I think there's so many people here at this conference right now that want to take Kubernetes and use it for their own purposes. And as successful as it is, and as much uptake as it's got, there is a potential danger there, I think, that it explodes out of control, and I don't want to knock OpenStack, but becomes difficult and not what we want it to be, and that's dangerous for them. >> Nigel, you bring up a great point here, because something we've been looking at is every time we abstract or make this new design model, it's "Oh well". We want to make sure the developer doesn't have to worry about that infrastructure. Clayton from Red Hat, we had him on theCUBE, and he talked about it in the keynote, boring means when I write my code I don't have to think about the infrastructure, but networking and storage. Networking some of the basis pieces are done but there's a lot of activity in that space, and storage, we're still arguing over what Container Native Storage should be, what CloudNative storage should be. So it's still to my definition, it's not boring. That's the direction, and I like it. Kind of was where we talked about invisible infrastructure. >> Yeah >> What do you see? You've got a heavy background on that side too. >> So I think I quite like this space that networking is at within Kubernetes. It's simple, and that works for me, right. Storage is certainly, it's still playing catch up there, and I think a lot of decisions still need to be made. The future, in my opinion, is still not clear there. But I think a lot of games have got to be played to say, now how far do we take networking, and how far do we take storage and things like that so that it, in the one sense doesn't balloon out of control, but on the other side you do want it to meet more use cases than just the very basic use cases. So, I mean, that plays back to my idea that that danger aspect of Kubernetes, it seems to have won in the orchestration space at the moment, but I think the road ahead, there still loads of potholes, and there's tight bends, and there's cliff edges and things that we still could fall off, and that's exciting. >> Nigel, your dangerous comment reminds me of some of the early days of V-M-ware. >> Nigel: Right >> You know, people that would get in there, they'd do some really cool things, they'd write it up, share it with the community. And absolutely, it feels like that, almost even bigger. >> Yeah, like the top layer that interfaces with the developers and things like that, that's getting pretty stable. But underneath, I mean, that is a happening place underneath right now, and I imagine it's going to be a happening place for quite a few years. >> What about service meshes and also pluggable architectures? Because that seems to be the answer to the dangerous question. Oh don't worry about it, carriers and what not. You can just build pluggable architectures, no one's going to get hurt. >> Nigel: Yeah >> Not ready for prime time? What's your thoughts? >> So I think service mesh is almost certainly in my opinion, the hot topic of the conference so far. I like this idea of it getting born and stuff, and that's good for the project. But if there's one take away, if it's something that you're not quite clued upon at the moment, go away and look into service mesh. I've got to do a lot of that myself, to be perfectly honest. But this whole idea of running like sidecar containers and what have you, inside of the pods, alongside your application to look at your ingress traffic, your incoming traffic, your outgoing traffic. It's all cool and it can add so much functionality and make it so much more usable to a lot of users. But at the same time there's not ... I don't know, right, look I'm a little bit old fashioned. I remember the days of deploying agents on servers. And we would have server bills that had agent upon agent upon agent. And we have this backlash in the industry of like, you're not bringing your product in vendor x, y or z, okay. If it deploys an agent, we're going fully agentless here. We're sick of managing all these different agents in our stack, and I wonder again, playing to the danger topic here, that like, are we going to end up having loads of these sidecar containers in our pods that are affectively the modern day agents that we then have to manage, and consume resources >> Explain the sidecar generation, it's important. Take a minute to explain the dynamic because containerization has been around for awhile, Google and everyone else knows that. >> Nigel: Yeah. >> But Docker really put it on the map. Now the commoditization of containers with Kubernetes. What's this sidecar thing about? >> Nigel: Okay >> Quick, take a minute to explain to the folks. >> Right, so in the Kubernetes world I guess the atomic unit of deployment, the equivalent of a V-M from the V-M World space would be the pod, which is effectively a container, right? But within that pod you run your application container. And I think for most people you run one container inside of that pod, it's your application, right? What we're starting to see now is, and Kubernetes has always had this ability to run multiple containers inside of a pod. Most people don't do it. And it seems that a lot of the external projects, and a lot of the third party vendors are starting to pick up on this and say, "Alright, well let's run another container "Inside of that pod". It's not your actual application and we call it a sidecar container. And it adds functionality and what have you, but is also potentially eats through resources, it makes your deployments maybe more complicated. I mean it's always a trade off, isn't it? >> Yeah >> You get additional functionality but it's never for free. >> Yeah it's overhead. Alright, talk about the customer guys. What we saw in keynote, we saw HBO on stage. How are customers using Kubernetes? Because I'm trying to put my finger on it. I love Orchestrate, I know what that does, and I understand the benefits, but how are actually people using it today? >> So I think it's a little bit like the whole container thing, right? The early adopters of the Netflix's and the HBOs and the people like that that have got large engineering teams, that have a lot of developers on staff, they're really just comfortable going and taking these new technologies, and rolling them themselves, and they've got this appetite for danger, again within their organization almost. Their risk taking organizations, right. They're all over the containers and the Kubernetes. The more traditional enterprises I think are still kicking the tires. They're still throwing out the occasional new project within the organization and saying, "Let's test the waters with this new feature "That we want to add to our main product", or "We've got something new, "Let's try containers and Kubernetes." They're certain, at least the ones that I speak to, certainly not at the phase where they're taking their legacy apps. >> HBO was using it for like traffic, identifying ingress, you mentioned that earlier, I mean basic stuff. Not a lot of heavy lifting, or is it? >> Well, I think the HBO, I mean ... How much they ran the season seven of Game of Thrones on Kubernetes. I mean, I'm sure there was some non-Kubernetes stuff in there as well, but it seemed like from the presentation pretty much, well, a lot of that stuff was running containers and Kubernetes, and lets be fair, when it comes to HBO, Game of Thrones is like their, it's their killer product at the end of the day, isn't it? And so they've taken a risk there with that. >> Yeah >> But again you know HBO, a rare... >> There's a lot of online viewers, by the way on that too. >> Yeah. >> With HBO Go. >> Oh, an insane number! But I would say compared to a traditional enterprise they're a risk taking organization. They live in the Cloud. They like living on the edge. They're willing to take risks with new technologies to push the product forward. >> Alright, so I want to get your guys' thoughts on a tweet I saw out there. "Think of Kubernetes as the colonel "For modern distributed systems. "It's not about zero ops, it's about op power tools "to unlock developer productivity." Craig McLuckie from Heptio mentioned that on stage. Really kind of rallying around Kubernetes. Thoughts on that quote? What does that mean? >> So I mean John, you know there was for a while people saying, "How do we deprecate? "Or even go to kind of noOps?" Absolutely, many of the keynotes talked about who's deploying them and who's running them. We're not talking about eliminating ops. Even when I can have a voice assistant help roll things out, they're still absolutely a major piece of who needs to run this, but the right things to the right part of the organization. >> Yeah, I think instead of using the word colonel maybe use the word Linux, you know. Looking at Kubernetes as the Linux of the Cloud, and that's not my term, I've heard other people say it. But it's open source for a start like Linux is, it's got a great thriving community of people contributing to it. You can fork it, you can do what ever you want with it, but if you're going to deploy a CloudNative application right now, then Kubernetes is that substrate. You've just got to look at what came out of re:Invent. So A-W-S is now offering a native Kubernetes hosted service, obviously Google does it, Azure does it with Microsoft. They're all picking up on this realizing that people deploying CloudNative apps, they're going to be deploying it on Kubernetes. >> Thoughts about Red Hat. I just saw Gabe Monroy, the keynote, Stu. Red Hat's contribution to hardening Kubernetes cannot be overstated. C-C OpenShift And we had Bryan Gracie on yesterday. I mean OpenShift, what a bet. Microsoft betting heavily on Kubernetes. Google obviously sees this as an opportunity. Multi-Cloud fantasies out there somewhere, but that's what customers are kind of asking for, not yet in tangible product, but this is interesting. You've got Red Hat, the king of the enterprise, OpenSource. >> Nigel: Absolutely, yeah. >> No debate about that. Microsoft and Google, old guard with Microsoft and then new guard in Google. Really if they don't throw a line at the main Cloud trend with Kubernetes, they could be left in the dust. So I see a lot of things at play. How is the Red Hat and the Kubernetes investment paying off? How do you guys see that playing out? Good strategic move, headroom to it? What comments and caller commentary on that? >> Well I think if you compare Red Hat to Microsoft, if you don't mind me doing that, Microsoft has a cash cow in Windows in the past and I think it quickly realized that the cash cow was not going to live forever, and they invested heavily in Azure. Red Hat live a lot, I guess as well, off support contracts and things like that, the Red Hat enterprise Linux. How long of a tail that has, I'm not sure. So certainly they're doing at least, they're looking in the right direction at least by investing heavily in Kubernetes. If they want to go in and be the enterprise's trusted Kubernetes partner, I think they've got a great story. They've contributed a ton to it. They're already in the door at most enterprises, and I think you couple those two things together if the enterprise is going to adopt Kubernetes at some point. I'm not saying they've go the best story, but they've got a pretty decent story. >> Alright, in the last minute I want to ask both you guys this question because it's been kind of on my mind, I've been thinking about it. Maybe I'm overstretching here but three day conference, one day to CloudNative, two days to Kubernetes, KubeCon. Why? More important? Growing community? CloudNative I think, would be probably stronger sessions. Is it because there's more emphasis on the Kubernetes? >> Kubernetes is the core, Kubernetes is what started the C-N-C-F. >> John: Yeah >> All the other projects really build off to it. I think it's pretty... >> It needs more attention. >> Kubernetes, I mean, while there's ... You know I love Kelsey's line this morning. He looked out at the audience he says, "I think everyone that's running Kubernetes "In the globe is here." So, there's jokes about how many people are actually running in production >> Yeah, they're probably here. >> So look, there's still so many people that are getting the Kubernetes 1-0-1. The whole CloudNative, all of these other projects are all building off of it. I think it's really straight forward on there. We even heard, do we call it the C-N-C-F? Do we rename it to something that's a little more Kubernetes focused? Because CloudNative gets talked about some, there's service mesh, absolutely Nigel, it was the buzz coming into the show. I hear those sessions are overflowing here. We didn't even get to talk about, there's like another alternative to Istio that's there. >> And Lou Tucker, by the way, affirmed that same thread yesterday about the service mesh. Nigel, final word for you on this segment. How big order of magnitude and important is Kubernetes? I mean given you've seen, talk about agent-ism in the old days, and all the ways that have come, that's been kind of incremental proving balls been moved down the field here and there. And some big chunk yardage, if you will, use this football analogy. How big, because I've seen Kubernetes just go from here to here. >> Yeah >> Really move the need along the community, it's galvanized. How important is Kubernetes, from an order of magnitude, when we look back a few years from now, what are we going to be saying? "Hey, remember KubeCon in 2017?" How important is Kubernetes? >> Well, can I say I think it's really early days, okay? And I like the analogy that it is the Linux of the Cloud or of CloudNative, okay? But I think there's danger in that as well because the world is changing so fast now. I mean Linux has lived for a very long time, okay. Will Kubernetes live that long or will it be replaced by something else? It probably will be, but I do feel these are early days, and I think it has got a long stretch ahead. A long stretch as in like... >> John: Yeah. >> Good four or five years. And within two to three years, you know, just about every organization in my opinion is going to have some Kubernetes in it. >> And the beginning signs of maturity's coming. Stack Wars too, all the vendors really trying to figure out, strategically it's like a 3-D chess match right now. Open source is kind of like arbiter of this, really good stuff. I think it's going to be super important. Thanks for the commentary. kicking off day two of Cube exclusive coverage here at KubeCon. CloudNativeCon was yesterday. Two days of KubeCon. We'll be back with more live coverage. From theCUBE, I'm John Furrier. Stu Miniman and Nigel Poulten after this short break. (light techno music)
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