Cloud Native Now Podcast

Cloud Native Now Podcast

26 Episodes

The Cloud Native Now podcast is dedicated to everything related to the modern cloud-native stack: Kubernetes, microservices, platform engineering, platform-as-a-service, cloud-native security, cloud-native application protection, SaaS, serverless, WebAssembly (Wasm), containers and more.

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Cloud Native Now Podcast
  • Microservices Orchestration - Cloud Native Podcast EP 25

    Episode 1

    Mike Vizard chats with Orkes CTO Viren Baraiya about the challenges organizations will encounter as they look to orchestrate the next wave of microservices in the age of artficial intelligence (AI).

  • Cloud Native Investment Boom - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP26

    Episode 2

    Mike Vizard and Mitch Ashley, principal analyst for Techstrong Research, dive into a DevOps Next report that sees 60% of organizations making significant investments in container and orchestration technologies over the next two years.

  • Kubernetes Cost Control - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP24

    Episode 3

    Mike Vizard and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development at The Futurum Group, dive into what drove IBM to acquire Kubecost before discussing the implications of increased licensing fees from Docker, Inc. Then, the discussion turns to latest cloud-native moves from JFrog, includi...

  • Accelerating Cloud Native Transition Using Gen AI - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP23

    Episode 4

    Mike Vizard and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development at The Futurum Group, dive into the degree to which generative artificial intelligence (AI) will accelerate modernizing legacy monolithic applications before discussing the impact generative AI will have on application test...

  • Kubernetes Management - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP22

    Episode 5

    Mike Vizard and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development for The Futurum Group, dive into the management challenges organizations encounter when managing multiple versions of Kubernetes. Then, they turn their attention to service meshes and how much progress is being made in adop...

  • AI for Kubernetes - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP21

    Episode 6

    Mike Vizard and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development for The Futurum Group, dive into the degree to which generative artificial intelligence (AI) might accelerate the adoption of cloud-native computing by making it easier to manage Kubernetes. Then, they turn their attention ...

  • Cloud Native Needs DevOps - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP20

    Episode 7

    Mike Vizard and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development at The Futurum Group, delve into how much progress is being made in adopting the Open Container Initiative (OCI) specification. Then, they discuss why the path to cloud-native computing needs to start with DevOps fundamentals.

  • DevSecOps for Cloud Native - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP19

    Episode 8

    Mike Vizard and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development for The Futurum Group, dive into the degree to which the software supply chains for cloud-native applications are truly secure in the wake of the latest GitHub breach.

    Then, the conversation turns to Kubernetes 1.31 and th...

  • Kubernetes Outlook - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP18

    Episode 9

    Mike Vizard and Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst for application development for The Futurum Group, dive into where and how improvements to Kubernetes need to be made before talking about the rise of Kubernetes clusters at the network edge and in air-gapped environments. Then, the conversation s...

  • Cloud Native Now Podcast EP 17 - Microservices Madness

    Episode 10

    Mike Vizard and Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst for application development for The Futurum Group, dive into what makes microservices so challenging to manage before discussing Mirantis' effort to make it simpler to use OpenStack as an alternative to VMware. Finally, Mike and Paul turn their at...

  • Event Driven - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP16

    Episode 11

    Mike Vizard and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day Business Unit for Futurum Research, chat about why every modern application seems to be based on some type of event-driven architecture (EDA). Then they turn their attention to the latest cloud-native moves made by SUSE and Microsof...

  • Kubernetes Becomes a Tweener - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP15

    Episode 12

    Mike Vizard and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development at Futurum, dive into the state of Kubernetes adoption now that the platform has turned 10 before diving into research from Docker, Inc. that highlights how complex application environments have become. Then they turn their...

  • Kubernetes Automated - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP14

    Episode 13

    Mike Vizard and Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst for application development at The Futurum Group, dive into all the latest advances promising to make it simpler than ever for IT professionals of any experience level to manage Kubernetes clusters.

  • Insights from Red Hat Summit and More with Paul Nashawaty | Cloud Native Podcast

    Episode 14

    Mike Vizard and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development at The Futurum Group, dive into the highlights of the recent Red Hat Summit before discussing how application modernization is being achieved. Then, the conversation turns to what degree observability will require a real-ti...

  • Docker Hub Insecurity - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP12

    Episode 15

    Mike and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development at The Futurum Group, discuss the implication of millions of repositories on Docker Hub that were used to distribute malware before diving into how cloud-native application security might improve. Then the conversation turns to ap...

  • IBM, NVIDIA, FinOps and Observability - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP11

    Episode 16

    Mike and Paul, a practice lead for application development at the Futurum Group, discuss the cloud-native implications of the IBM move to acquire HashiCorp before diving into why NVIDIA acquired Run:AI. Then the conversation shifts to applying best FinOps to rein in Kubernetes costs. Additionally...

  • Kubernetes Maturity - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP10

    Episode 17

    Mike and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development for the Futurum Group, dive into the latest update to Kubernetes before moving on to what platforms are best for running cloud-native applications. Then the discussion shifts to Broadcom’s Tanzu strategy, the state of Kubernetes c...

  • Pitchers, Catchers and Kubernetes Report(s) - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP9

    Episode 18

    Sharon and Mike discuss a slew of new reports on platform engineering, DevSecOps in cloud-native environments and observability and Istio loses some service mesh weight with its Ambient project. Then, Mike and Sharon talk about Civo's acquisition of Kubefirst to advance GitOps--and possibly fill ...

  • KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU: Wasm, AI and Rancher - Oh, My! - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP8

    Episode 19

    Mike checks in from Paris at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, and highlights WebAssembly (Wasm) announcements, the CNCF's launch of an End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB), advancements from Docker and Loft Labs and, of course, the hottest thing going: AI.

  • The Kubernetes Ecosystem with CNCF's Taylor Dolezal - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP7

    Episode 20

    Sharon and Mike welcome Taylor Dolezal, head of ecosystem for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, to discuss the current state of cloud-native, the challenges and complexities end-users face and how the CNCF can help them navigate the expanding cloud-native landscape. Sharon, Mike and Taylor a...

  • The Singularity! - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP6

    Episode 21

    Sharon and Mike discuss the potential Kubernetes singularity and what's stopping us from achieving it, some of the challenges involved in Kubernetes adoption - scaling, databases, security - and the rise of platform engineering.

  • Continuous Cloud-Native Progress - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP5

    Episode 22

    Sharon and Mike talk about Octopus Deploy's acquisition of Codefresh and what that means for progress in the cloud-native continuous deployment space, the open secret of Kubernetes waste and new innovation in Kubernetes security from KSOC and Sysdig.

  • Under New Management? - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP4

    Episode 23

    Sharon and Mike talk about the issue of Kubernetes management - who's managing it? When you're building a K8s team, should you develop in-house talent or bring in freelancers/contractors? What about the role of managed services? Mike and Sharon then explore the issue of automation in Kubernetes a...

  • The Holy Grail Times Three - Cloud Native Now Podcast EP 3

    Episode 24

    Sharon and Mike discuss Dagger, Dapr and Wasm -- three technologies that have been touted as 'the holy grail' in cloud-native computing. What's the deal? Is there such a thing as a holy grail? Sharon and Mike also talk about the upcoming KubeCon EU.