>>Mhm Yes. Hello and welcome back to the cube coverage of red hat summit 2021 Virtual. I'm john furrier host of the Q. We've got a great lineup here. We've got two great guests just bad padan, E. S. V. P. Of cloud platforms at red hat and Tracy ranking VP of open shift engineering at Red Hat folks. Thanks for coming on. Good to see. You got some big news, you guys have made some acquisitions. Uh stack rocks you guys bought into red hat was a really big deal. People want to know, what's the story? How's it going? What's the uptake? What's the integration, how's it going? >>Right, thanks john, thanks for having us on. Um so yeah, we're really excited with stack rocks acquisition being the team on board. Uh Well, the first thing to note before even why we did it uh was for for you and and then the beers have been following us closely. This is our first acquisition as red Hat being part of IBM. So, so, so quite big for us from that perspective as well. Right? Continue to maintain our independence um within uh IBM uh and I really appreciate that way of working together. Um but saying all of that aside, you know, as a company have always been focused on ensuring that were direct enterprise capabilities to just sort of doing that for two decades. With with Lennox, security has always been a big part of our story, right, ensuring that, you know, we're finding cbs updating uh and sending out patches to our customers and doing that in a reliable fashion running mission critical applications. We applied that same if you will um security mindset on the community side with the open ship platform. Um we've invested insecurity ourselves organically, right, you know, uh in various areas and making it more secure, all right, can't run containers uh as Root by default, uh investing in things like role based access control and so on. And we really felt like we want to deepen our commitment to security. Uh and so, you know, in conversations with stack rocks, we found just a great fit, just a great team building a really interesting approach to community security, right? You know, very declared of approach to it. Uh you know, focus on a vision around this notion of shift left. But you've probably been hearing from that because we're a little bit right. Which is this uh idea that, you know, we're in the world moving from devops to death setups. Uh and the approach that sack rocks were saying, so great team, great product, really great vision with regard to kind of weather going forward and finding a nice alignment between, you know what, you know, they've been thinking about the value that we want to bring >>Yeah, I want to dig into the depths cops, piece of it. But you brought up the IBM acquisition as part of now Red Hat bought IBM you know it's just you remember back in 2019 I interviewed Arvin on the cube when he was at IBM you guys were still independent and he had a smile on his face. He is pro cloud, he is all about cloud Native and even that interview I had no idea what was going on behind the scenes but I was kind of drilling him on some of the things that were important at that time which are now certainly relevant today which is cloud Native, Agile development Programmable infrastructure. I don't think we touched on security that much was kind of inherent in the conversation. He was like all smiling, he loves the cloud Native and and this is where it comes into the relevant, I have to ask you, what was it like to get this through? IBM where they're like girl green light or was it, was it different? What was different about this acquisition? >>John great, great question for you to ask. And you know, I will say that, uh, you know, everyone's heard the stories they're telling us. They get, you know, part of IBM, you know, it's definitely working on red hat jOHn the cube we've talked to you and several of your colleagues about that. Um, the great thing has been that, look, the redhead way of working, uh, are still pushing forward with regard to our commitment to open source, uh, and our culture, you know, is still the way it is. And I have to give huge credit not just to urban and his and his team, but definitely to orbit right. He's always champion, He's champion rather acquisition. He's champion kind of, you know, the independence that we've had and he takes very, very firm stance around it. Um, and look, IBM uh, story company uh, in the United States and really in the world, um, they have, there was working and you know, for redhead, they've kind of said, look, we'll give you a pass path, right? So, uh, getting the acquisition through, if you will, diarrhea processes, um, really was, was hugely supported by, you know, from mormon, but all the way down. Russian strategic >>strategic bet with the dollars involved trace, they want to get you in this because, you know, one of the things about shift left and getting security built in by default, which has always been part of red hat, that's never been an issue. It just extends as developers want to have native security built in. There's a technology angle to this as well. So, um, obviously cloud native is super important. What investments are you guys making with this acquisition and how does that translate to customer benefits? >>Yeah, I mean the one thing that is really important about the stock rocks acquisition and kind of, you know, key for us is, you know, this was a cube native solution and I think that's really, you know, was important piece as to why stock rocks might have been, you know, was a great fit for us. Um, and so you know, what we've been trying to do in the short time that that team has been on board with us is really, you know, taken a deep look and understanding where are the intersection points of some of the things that we have been trying to focus on, you know, just with inside of, you know, open shift in red hat in general and where do they have bring the additional value. Um, and really trying to make sure that when we create this solution and ultimately it is a solution that's cohesive across the board. Um, we don't add confusion too. You know what, some of the things that maybe we already do this team knows, you know, how to they know their customer base. They really know what the customers are looking for. And we are just trying to absorb, I would say so much of this information uh as we are trying to, you know, create what the right road map will be uh for stack rocks from a long term and infrared had ultimately in the security space. I mean, as the chef said, I mean we are red hats known for being, you know, security mind focus built on top of realm, you know, uh the leader and so we want to make sure that what we've got that actually serves, you know, the developers being able to not just secure the environment and the platform, but also the workloads, customers need that security from us. Um and build it in so that we have, you know, into the cube native >>controls. >>So stack rocks was known for reinventing and security enterprise security with cloud native. How is it complimentary? How does it fit in? Can you guys just quickly talk to that point because um like you said, you guys had security but as kubernetes and containers in general continue to rise up and and kubernetes continue to become a hybrid cloud kind of linchpin for applications. Um where's the synergy? Where's where does this connect? And what are some of the uh the part of the areas where it's it's fitting in nicely or or any overlaps that you can talk about as well? >>Yeah, I can start and then maybe Tracy if you want to add to that securities of it's a wide space. Right? So, you know, just saying security is like, well, you know what security you're talking about, you're talking about, you know, and use the security, like what your desktop are you talking about? You know, intrusion prevention? I mean, it's a huge, huge, you know, space. Uh you know, many companies devoted to the entire spectrum, you know, self has a very robust security business. We're very focused on uniting Tracy. Was talking about this, the Kubernetes Native security part of this. Right. You know, do we have the appropriate runtime uh, controls in place? Uh You know, our policies configured appropriately Well, if they're in one cluster, are they being applied consistently across, you know, every cluster? How do we make sure that, you know, we make security the domain, not just of the operators but also uh in in uh make it easier for it to be adopted at development time. So, you know, there's a, there's a, if you will, a very sort of uh a lot of surface area for security, we're trying to really think about the pieces that are most relevant for our enterprise customers and the ones that are deploying it at scale. And I'm sure we can build on it. Having said that, john what I do want to add also is that because expands even of Cuban any security is so large, there is a lot of room for our partners to play. Right? And so before you asked me that question, I want to say that there is space. Right? So you know, I've had conversations with you know, all the other folks in the cloud native security space. We know them well, we've been working with them over the years and we could do to look forward to ensure that they're building over and above the foundation of Berlin. >>So plenty of beachhead, what you're saying from a, from a security sample, you guys hit the table stakes added into the product, but there's so much surface area going on with this hybrid cloud and soon to be multi cloud that you're saying this room for partners to play. >>Exactly, right, >>okay. Tracy quick under the hood, you know, actually shift left. That's kind of the mindset for developers who are writing modern applications might not want to get under the hood, who just wanted all the program ability of security and not have to come back to it. I mean that seems to be the complaint that I hear. It's like okay I gotta come back and do a security, more security work. I just wrote the code that was last week or yesterday and that seems to be the developer productivity. Then there's also under the hood devops what how does this all fit? >>Yeah, so it's uh let's take a take a step back and this is how I kind of like to think about it. So we are trying to look at, you know, how do we just enable in some of the C. I. C. D. The tooling that we have? How do we actually take and enable some of the technology that was already available in stock rocks today and actually put it into those tools. Because if we can make it easy for you to not just develop your application and, you know, integrated in with what you're, the tooling is that you're trying to use for the entire life cycle of developing your application. It then becomes exactly what you didn't say, you know, what they're doing now is it's an after thought. We don't need it to be an afterthought. Um and I think, you know, we're seeing the changing from a customer mindset where um they're become customers are becoming a lot more aware of these things. So if we actually get this into, you know, some of the Argo and the ci cd pipe pipeline work, then it just becomes something natural and not a secondary thought because actually when it's a secondary thought, uh we have exposures and that's not what a customer wants when they're creating, you know, creating these workloads, they're trying to rapidly create the workloads, so we need to make it um to have those integration points in as quickly >>as possible. >>Totally nailed. I mean there's productivity issues and there's also the top line which is security. Great stuff. Congratulations on that acquisition. Security continues to be built in from the beginning. That's what people want. They want productivity want want security, great stuff, Great acquisition. Congratulations. Um Next next segment I want to get into is uh open shifts around telemetry. Tell us about telemetry for open shift. What is this about? >>Yeah, another big interesting topic for us. So over a year ago we released open Ship for and you know, we learned a lot of lessons, you know, shipping open ship three up and over the years and really getting feedback from hundreds of customers around the globe. One of the things obviously we heard from a lot was you know, make install the upgrade experience better. Right. But you know, we were thinking about how can we take that forward to the next level, which is is there a way for us to say, you know, let these clusters they connected up so we can get a better sense of cluster help and help with remote health monitoring will be able to proactively provide information back to our customers around, let's say, you know, if applications are healthy clusters healthy and how they're running and how we can help them um could figure them if they're not. Um And so that led us to introducing uh inflammatory remote health monitoring directly into open ship for as a value that we can provide to customers. Um And what that really starts doing is starts bringing this notion of a public cloud, like experience to customers with clusters run across the hybrid cloud. Right? So you have the expectation that, you know, your clusters are monitored and watched over in the public cloud and we want to make sure we can provide that to customers regardless of, you know, where they're running in. So, so that's just >>a quick question on that insights for open shit. That's what you're getting to. Is that on premise? And in the cloud? So it's hybrid environment, is that correct? >>Exactly. Right. So, the insights for open ship is all about that, Right? So how can be proactively, you know, uh identify risk helped remediated? How can we uh do things like, for example, give you recommendations, cost optimization, right insights around around around that. Uh and to your point, right? The goal is to make it completely hybrid. So, it's obviously a new area right for customers want Leslie used to that, you know, in an on premise environment, they're used to that in a public cloud or cloud native environment. And we're trying to make sure we bring that consistently across to our customers, you know, regardless of where they're running apart. >>Tracy. Talk about the the developer productivity involved because if you have telemetry and you have insight into what's going on in the infrastructure and the data, what's going on the application, you can be more proactive, You don't have to get pulled into these rabbit holes of troubleshooting. Oh, is a trace over here or something going on over here. Are clusters going down or should I could have caught that there's a lot of, you know, good intentions with with the code and then all of a sudden new code gets pushed and then also that triggers this to go off and you have all these kind of dependencies, day two operations, many people call this kind of that phenomenon where everything looks good and then you start pushing more stuff more code and then the cluster goes down and then it's like wait, that could have been avoided. That was a dumb error, we could have fixed that this is kind of the basic what I call human software error kind of stuff that's not intended. The telemetry help this area. >>Yeah, it does. And actually one point that even to take it further, that I think it's important is our customers can learn from each other not even having to talk to each other, which is the beauty of what telemetry is and what redhead insights, rope and shift is. You know, what we have been able to see is you know, there are certain characteristics that happen even across, you know, certain groups of customers but they don't know that they don't talk to each other, but the telemetry is giving us a night into what some of those patterns are. And so when a customer in one site starts to have, we start to see telemetry, you know, you know, maybe a. T. D. Is going down for a certain reason and and we can determine that we then have the ability to take that telemetry and you know, be able to send alerts back to all the other customers and say, hey we recognize this might be becoming an issue, You know, here's how you might re mediate it or hey we've already put a fix out for this issue that we're starting to see you having an issue, you should probably take action on. So it's an increasing the the efficiency of customers without them necessarily having to, you know, constantly be understanding, monitoring, you know, watching everything like they had had to do from of the three perspective, we're now giving them some of the insights of what we know as developers back to them, >>you know, that's interesting. I think that's really key because it's talking to a friend last night we just talked about cybersecurity and we're talking about how a lot of these things are patterns that have that are the same and people just don't talk to each other. There's no shared insights. I think this is an interesting dynamic where you can get the collective intelligence of other patterns and then share that. So the question that I mean that's that's a game changer in my opinion. So that's awesome. The question I have is can you guys push alerts and recommendations to the customers? So from this data? So how does that work? Is that built into the product? Can I get some proactive notifications and saying, hey, you know, your cluster might go down and we've seen this before, we've seen this movie. I mean she is that built in. >>Yeah, so john you're keeping it exactly where we're taking this, right? And I think Tracy started putting out some breadcrumbs for you there. So uh, first get comfortable with the foundation was laid out, get clusters connected right. Then information starts going, reported, we start getting exactly to what you said, john write a set of patterns that we can see Tracy, start talking about what we can, if we see pattern on one end, we can go off and help customers on other end. Now, if you take this forward interest for your viewers today, um introduce a I you know, into this, right? And then we can start almost starting to proactive now of saying, look, you know, following actions are going to be committed or we expect them to be committed. You know, here's what the outcome is a result of that. Here's what we recommend for you to do, right? So start proactive remediation along that. So that is exactly, you know, the surface that we're trying to lay down here and I think this is a huge, >>huge game changer. Well, great stuff, want to move on the next we're getting go on for hours on that one topic. I think telemetry is a super important trend. Uh you guys are on top of a great, great job to bring in the Ai piece. I think that's super cool. Let's get back to the end of blocking and tackling Tracy. You know, one of the things that we're seeing with devops as it goes mainstream now, you've got def sec apps in there too, is you've got the infrastructure and you've got the modern application development, modern application developers, just wanna code, be productive, all that security shifting left, everyone's all happy that things are going great under the hood. You have a whole set of developers working on infrastructure. The end of the customers don't want to manage their own infrastructure. How is red hat focused on these two groups? Because you got this SRE like cloud Ops persona developing in the enterprise and you got the developers, it's kind of like almost two worlds coming together, how you, how you helping customers, you know, control their infrastructure and manage it better. >>Yeah, so great question. And you know, this really plays to the strength of what, you know, we have been trying to champion here at red hat for for many years now around the hybrid cloud and this, you know, hopefully everybody's recently heard about the announcement we've made with our new offering Rosa in partnership with amazon. Um you know, we've got different offerings that enables customers to really focus, as you mentioned on the key aspects that they are concerned about, which is how do they drive their businesses, how do they create their applications, their workloads that they need to and offload, you know, the need for having to understand all of the I. T. Infrastructure that's underneath. Um We want to red hat to reduce the operational complexity that customers are having um and give them the ability to really focus on what's important for them. Um how can they be able to scale out their applications, their businesses and continue to add value where they need to have and so um I think it's great we're seeing a huge uptake right now and we've got customers and they understand completely this hybrid cloud model where they're, you know, purchasing open shift um for certain, you know, applications and workloads that they want to run inside their own data centers. And then for those that they know that they don't, you know, don't have to be inside their own data centers. They don't want to have all of that operational complexity. They want to utilize some of the clouds. That's when they're starting to look at other things like rosa or open shift dedicated and and really starting to find the right mix that works well for their business. >>So are you saying that you guys are going to the next level because the previous, I won't say generation but the current situation was okay, you're born in the cloud or you lift and shift to the cloud, You do that manually, then you go on premise to build that cloud operations. Now you're in a hybrid environment. So you're saying if I get this right that you guys are providing automation around standing up in building services on AWS and cloud, public cloud and hybrid, is that kinda what you're getting at? >>Yeah. So the to go to the higher multi cloud world, right? You want platform consistency, right? Running my application running on a platform consistently, you know, where we go. Right. Tracy started talking about this idea of in some cases you say, well I've got the infrastructure team, I've got the ops team, johnny talked about this notion of, well the dwarves can be hard, sometimes right to some groups. Um, and so hey, red hat or hey redhead, plus, you know, my hyper scale of choice, you know, take that off of my hands, Right. Run that for me consistently yourself. Right. So I focused on my application uh and the management of infrastructure is something that's on you Tracy talked about rosa, that's our joint uh first party service that you know, we've got with amazon were directly available in amazon's console, you can go pull that down, right. You'll see red hat open shift on AWS, right on their uh we've got a similar one with Microsoft Azure Tracy mentioned open dedicated, we stand up the platform, we have our own sorry team that manages it with IBM as well as with google. So you pick your cloud of choice and we'll make sure, you know, we'll give you a platform that if you as a customer so choose to self manage. Great, go for it. If you'd like for us to manage it directly ourselves or in conjunction with the cloud provider and provided to you as a native service, you know, we can do that for you as well. Right? So that day to obsolete, you know, challenge that we're talking about. You know, it's something that we can get your hands if you want us to. >>That's really cool. You gotta manage service. They can do it themselves whatever they want. They can do it on public cloud and hybrid. Great stuff. Yeah, I think that's the key. Um, and that's, that's, that's killer. Now, the next question is my favorite. I want to ask you guys both pretend I'm a customer and I'm like, okay, Tracy shit, tell me what's in it for me. What is open shifts and red hat doing for me is the customer? What are you bringing to the table for me? What are you gonna do for me? What is red hat doing for me today? So if you have the kind of bottom line we were in the elevator or probably I ask you, I like what I'm hearing. Why? Why are you cool? Why are you relevant? What's in it for me? >>You >>already start? Okay. Yeah, so I mean I think it's a couple of things that we let's just tie it back to the first initial blend. I mean we've got, we're enabling the customers to choose like where do they want to work that run their workloads, what do they want to focus on? I think that's the first thing. Um we're enabling them to also determine like what workloads do they want to put on there. We continue to expand the workloads that we are providing um capabilities to customers. You know most, you know one of the more recent ones we've had is you know, enablement of Windows containers a huge plus for us. Um, you know, it's just kind of talked about, dropped the buzzword ai you know, recently, you know, we're looking at that, we're talking about, you know, moving workloads need to go to the edge now. It's not just about being in the data centers, so it's about enablement. That's really what open shift as you know, bread and butter is, is, you know, let us, you know, create the ability for you to drive your workloads, whichever, whatever your workloads is, modernize those workloads um, in place them wherever you want to. >>Yes, your your answer. How would you say to that? >>I'll build on what Tracy said, right. She obviously took the, you know, build up tribal Benjamin perspective and I'll sort of talk about a business thing you're introducing, actually add threat at summit. So, you know, we go up and acquire stock rocks, you know, further deepen investment in communities or containment of security. Uh if you recall, john, we've talked to you about, you know, advanced cluster management team that we actually got from IBM incorporate that within red hat, um, to start providing, you know, those capabilities are consistent, you know, cluster policy, immigration management. Um, and you know, in the past we've made an acquisition of Core West, we've got a lot of technology from that incorporated the platform and also things like the quake container registry. What we're introducing address had some it is a way for us to package all of that together. So a customer doesn't say, look, you know, let me pick out a container platform here, let me go find, you know, somebody manage it over there. You let me see, you know what security you adhere. We introduced something called open shift platform plus right. Which is the packaging of, you know, core Open shift contain a platform uh, capabilities within uh, stack rocks, which we're calling advanced cluster security capabilities of cluster management, which is called advanced cluster management. And the quake container registry always want to make it much easier for customers to consume that. And again, you know, the goal is, you know, run that consistently in your hybrid multi club >>chef Tracy. Great, great segment, great insight. Um, here on the cloud platform and open shift under the hood. Uh, you guys are well positioned and I was talking about Arvin and idea who acquired red hat. You know, it's pretty clear that cloud native hybrid is the new cloud operating environment. That's clear. You guys are well positioned. And congratulations. Final question Chef. Take a minute to quickly put the plug in for open shift. What's next? Um, looking forward, what do you guys building on? Um, what's on the roadmap if you can negative share the road map, but yeah, tell us what you're thinking about. I mean you're innovating out in the open, love your shirt by the way and that's the red hat way, looking ahead. What's coming for? Open shift? >>So john I will say this, our roadmap is out in the open every quarter. Our product managers host the session right open to anybody, right? You know, customers prospect, competitors, anybody can can come on. Um, and uh, you hear about our road map, lots of interesting things they're working on uh, as you can imagine investments on the edge front, right? So that's across our portfolio, right on the open shift side, but also on learning platform as well as on the open stack front, make it easier to have, you know, slim down open shift. we'll run that you won't be able to run uh open ship in remote locations and then manage it. Um So expect for us uh you know, just to show you more work there, drinking things like uh ai and more workloads directly onto the platform, but you'll see what they're doing to get more Alex on what we're doing to take uh technologies that we've got called Open data hub to make it easier to run more data intensive, more ai ml types of frameworks directly a platform. Um And so that's a great interest, more workloads Tracy, start talking about that. Right, so Windows containers, support has G eight, uh and what's really awesome about that is that we've done that with Microsoft, right, so that offering is jointly supported by both us and our partners over at Microsoft uh virtualization, which is taking much machines and being able to run them as dangerous orchestrated by communities Um, and and doing more work, you know, on that front as well. So just a lot of different areas uh, were investigated and really, really excited to bring more workloads on 2:00. >>Well, Chef Tracy, great segment with a lot of data in there. Thanks for spending time in and providing that insight and uh, sharing the information. A lot of flowers blooming um, here in the cloud native environment, a lot of action. A lot of new stuff going on. Love the shift left. I think that's super relevant. You guys do a great job. Thanks for coming on. I appreciate it. >>Okay. >>This the cubes coverage of red hat summit. I'm john for a host of the cube. Thank you for watching.