Containers are easy—moving your legacy system off your VM is not
Ryan sits down with Dan Ciruli, VP and General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix, to talk about getting your virtual machines and Kubernetes to play nice in cloud-native environments, why VMs are still relevant in enterprise applications, and how AI can help modernize legacy systems.
Episode notes:
Nutanix combines compute, storage, virtualization, and networking so you can run applications and manage data across on-premises datacenters, public clouds, and edge locations all on one platform.
Connect with Dan on Linkedin and Bluesky.
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How Nutanix Is Taming Operational Complexity
Most enterprises today run workloads across multiple IT infrastructures rather than a single platform, creating significant operational challenges. According to Nutanix CTO Deepak Goel, organizations face three major hurdles: managing operational complexity amid a shortage of cloud-native skills, migrating legacy virtual machine (VM) workloads to microservices-based cloud-native platforms, and running VM-based workloads alongside containerized applications. Many engineers have deep infrastructure experience but lack Kubernetes expertise, making the transition especially difficult and increasing the learning curve for IT administrators.
To address these issues, organizations are turning to platform engineering and internal developer platforms that abstract infrastructure complexity and provide standardized “golden paths” for deployment. Integrated development environments (IDEs) further reduce friction by embedding capabilities like observability and security.
Nutanix contributes through its hyper converged platform, which unifies compute and storage while supporting both VMs and containers. At KubeCon North America, Nutanix announced version 2.0 of Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK), adding advanced data protection, fault-tolerant replication, and enhanced security through a partnership with Canonical to deliver a hardened operating system for Kubernetes environments.
Learn more from The New Stack about operational complexity in cloud native environments:
Q&A: Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami on the Cloud Native Enterprise
Kubernetes Complexity Realigns Platform Engineering Strategy
Platform Engineering on the Brink: Breakthrough or Bust?
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Replay - Multi-Cloud is the Future with Tobi Knaup
On this Screaming in the Cloud Replay, we’re revisiting our conversation with Tobi Knaup, the current VP & General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix. At the time this first aired, Tobi was the co-founder and CTO of D2iQ before the company was acquired by Nutanix. In this blast from the past, Corey and Tobi discuss why Mesosphere rebranded as D2iQ and why the Kubernetes community deserves the credit for the widespread adoption of the container orchestration platform. Many people assume Kubernetes is all they need, but that’s a mistake, and Tobi explains what other tools they end up having to use. We’ll also hear why Tobi thinks that multi-cloud is the future (it is the title of the episode after all).
Show Highlights
(0:00) Intro
(0:28) The Duckbill Group sponsor read
(1:01) Memosphere rebranding to D2iQ
(4:34) The strength of the Kubernetes community
(7:43) Is open-source a bad business model?
(10:19) Why you need more than just Kubernetes
(13:13) The Duckbill Group sponsor read
(13:55) Is multi-cloud the best practice?
(17:31) Creating a consistent experience between two providers
(19:05) Tobi’s background story
(24:24) Memories of the days of physical data centers
(28:00) How long will Kubernetes be relevant
(30:18) Where you can find more from Tobi
About Tobi Knaup
Tobi Knaup is the VP & General Manager of Cloud Native at Nunatix. Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CTO of D2iQ Kubernetes Platform before Nutanix acquired the company. Knaup is an experienced software engineer focusing on large scale systems and machine learning. Tobi’s research work is on Internet-scale sentiment analysis using online knowledge, linguistic analysis, and machine learning. Outside of his tech work, he enjoys making cocktails and has collected his favorite recipes on his cocktail website.
Links
Tobi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/superguenter
LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiasknaup/
Personal site: https://tobi.knaup.me/
Original Episode
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/multi-cloud-is-the-future-with-tobi-knaup/
Sponsor
The Duckbill Group: duckbillgroup.com
Multi-Cloud is the Future with Tobi Knaup
About Tobi Knaup
Tobi Knaup is a Co-Founder & the Chief Technology Officer of D2iQ. Knaup is an experienced software engineer focusing on large scale systems and machine learning. Previously, he helped scale Airbnb to millions of users worldwide as technical lead. Tobi’s research work is on Internet-scale sentiment analysis using online knowledge, linguistic analysis, and machine learning. Tobi also co-founded his first company at the age of 15.
Headshot
Links Referenced
Twitter Username: superguenter
LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiasknaup/
Personal site: https://tobi.knaup.me/
Company site: https://d2iq.com/
Istio, with Jasmine Jaksic and Dan Ciruli
Istio has hit 1.0, and there's no-one better to tell you about it than Jasmine Jaksic and Dan Ciruli from Google Cloud. Adam and Craig bring you this, as well as the news from the ecosystem.
Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know:
web: kubernetespodcast.com
mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com
twitter: @kubernetespod
News of the week Kubernetes now in Docker Desktop
Harbor enters the CNCF sandbox
Azure Metrics Adapter
CloudBees Core GA on AKS
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 3.11
Codefresh Enterprise
Synchronizing Kubernetes secrets with LastPass at Upside
Istio nightly on EKS at Tetrate
Links from the interview Announcing Istio 1.0
SRE Quality Operations for Your Services Using the Istio Service Mesh and Google Stackdriver, featuring Tim Kelton from Descartes Labs (who presented at the Toronto event two years ago, and has been using Istio in production since 0.2)
Google's Cloud Services Platform Kubernetes Podcast episode 13 on Cloud Services Platform with Aparna Sinha
(It's Dan's favorite episode so far)
Istio à la carte; a presentation by Dan
Istio and the future of service meshes; an article by Jasmine
The Istio project: The URL (The IP address is 104.198.14.52)
Community page, listing Google Groups
Rocket Chat for users
Twitter
Jasmine Jaksic and Dan Ciruli on Twitter
Mesos and Mesosphere DCOS (Interview)
Tobi Knaup, co-founder & CTO of Mesosphere joined the show to talk about the datacenter operating system, and all the open source around it.
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Show Notes:
Tobi Knaup (@superguenter) on Twitter
Tobi Knaup (@guenter) on GitHub
The Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System
CoreOS is Linux for Massive Server Deployments
mesos/chronos
Kubernetes by Google
Mesosphere
Caffe | Deep Learning Framework
Marc Andreessen
Prometheus
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