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>> Hi and welcome to SiliconANGLE Media's production
of theCUBE here at OpenStack Summit 2018 in Vancouver.
I'm Stu Miniman with my cohost, John Troyer.
We're here for three days of live wall-to-wall coverage
at the OpenStack Foundation's show they have it twice a year
John, pleasure to be with you again,
you and I were together at the OpenStack show in Boston,
a year ago, little bit further trip for me.
But views like this, I'm not complaining.
>> It's a great time to be in Vancouver,
little bit overcast but the convention center's beautiful
and the people seem pretty excited as well.
>> Yeah so if you see behind us, the keynote let out.
So John, we got to get into the first question of course
for some reason the last month people are always
Hey Stu where are you, what're you doing
and when I walk through the various shows I'm doing
when it comes to this one they're like,
why are you going to the OpenStack show?
You know, what's going on there,
hasn't that been replaced by everything else?
>> I got the same thing, there seems to be kind of a
almost an antireligious thing here in the industry
maybe more emotional perhaps at other projects.
Although frankly look,
we're going to take the temperature of the community,
we're going to take the temperature of the projects,
the customers, we got a lot of customers here,
that's really the key here is that our people
actually using this, being productive, functional,
and is there enough of a vendor and a community ecosystem
to make this go forward.
>> Absolutely, so three years ago,
when we were actually here in Vancouver,
the container sessions were overflowing,
people sitting in the aisles.
You know containers, containers, containers,
docker, docker, docker, you know,
we went through a year or two of that.
Then Kubernetes, really a wave that has taken over,
this piece of the infrastructure stack,
the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon shows, in general,
I think have surpassed this size,
but as we know in IT, nothing ever dies,
everything is always additive,
and a theme that I heard here that definitely resonated is,
we have complexity, we need to deal with interoperability,
everybody has a lot of things and that's the,
choose your word, hybrid, multi-cloud world that you have,
and that's really the state of opensource, it's not a thing,
it's there's lots of things you take all the pieces you need
and you figure out how to put 'em together,
either buy them from a platform,
you have some integrator that helps,
so somebody that puts it all together,
and that's where, you know, we live here, which is,
by they way, I thought they might rename the show
in the open, and they didn't,
but there's a lot of pieces to discuss.
>> Definitely an open infrastructure movement,
we'll probably talk about that,
look I loved the message this morning
that the cloud is not consolidating,
in fact it's getting more complicated,
and so that was a practical message here,
it's a little bit of a church of opensource as well,
so the open message was very well received and,
these are the people that are working on it, of course,
but yeah, the fact that, like last year I thought in Boston,
there was a lot of, almost confusion around containers,
and where containers and Kubernetes fit
in the whole ecosystem, I think,
now in this year in 2018 it's a lot more clear
and OpenStack as a project, or as a set of projects,
which traditionally was,
the hit on it was very insular and inward facing,
has at least, is trying to become outward facing,
and again that's something we'll be looking at this week,
and how well will they integrate
with other opensource projects.
>> I mean John, you and I are both big supporters
of the opensource movements,
love the community at shows like this,
but not exclusively, it's, you know,
Amazon participating a little bit,
using a lot of opensource,
they take opensource and make it as a service,
you were at Red Hat Summit last week,
obviously huge discussion there about
everything opensource, everything,
so a lot going on there, let me just set for,
first of all the foundation itself in this show,
the thing that I liked, coming into it,
one of the things we're going to poke at is,
if I go up to the highest level,
OpenStack is not the only thing here, they have a few tracks
they have an Edge computer track,
they have a container track,
and there's a co-resident OpenDev Show
happening a couple floors above us and,
even from what the OpenStack Foundation manages,
yes it OpenStack's the main piece of it,
and all those underlying projects but,
they had Katacontainers, which is, you know,
high level project, and the new one is Zuul,
talking about CI/CD, so there are things that,
will work with OpenStack but not exclusively for OpenStack,
might not even come from OpenStack,
so those are things that we're seeing, you know,
for example, I was at the Veeam show last week,
and there was a software company N2WS that Veeam had bought,
and that solution only worked on Amazon to start and,
you know, I was at the Nutanix show the week before,
and there's lots of things
that start in the Amazon environment
and then make their way to the on-premises world so,
we know it's a complex world, you know, I agree with you,
the cloud is not getting simpler,
remember when cloud was:
Swipe the credit card and it's super easy,
the line I've used a lot of times is,
it is actually more complicated to buy,
quote, a server equivalent, in the public could,
than it is if I go to the website
and have something that's shipped to my data center.
>> It's, yeah, it's kind of ironic
that that's where we've ended up.
You know, we'll see, with Zuul, it'll be very interesting,
one of the hits again on OpenStack has been
reinvention of the wheel, like,
can you inter-operate with other projects
rather than doing it your self,
it sounds like there's some actually,
some very interesting aspects to it, as a CI/CD system,
and certainly it uses stuff like Ansible so it's,
it's built using opensource components, but,
other opensource components, but you know,
what does this give us advantage for infrastructure people,
and allowing infrastructure to go live in a CI/CD way,
software on hardware, rather than,
the ones that've been built from the dev side, the app side.
I'm assuming there's good reasons,
or they wouldn't've done it, but you know, we'll see,
there's still a lot of projects inside the opensource
umbrella.
>> Yeah, and, you know, last year we talked about it,
once again, we'll talk about it here,
the ecosystem has shifted.
There are some of the big traditional
infrastructure companies, but what they're talking about
has changed a lot, you know.
Remember a few years ago, it was you know,
HP, thousand people, billion dollar investment,
you know, IBM has been part of OpenStack
since the very beginning days, but it changes,
even a company like Rackspace,
who helped put together this environment,
the press release that went was:
oh, we took all the learnings that we did from OpenStack,
and this is our new Kubernetes service that we have,
something that I saw, actually Randy Bias,
who I'll have on the show this week,
was on, the first time we did this show five years ago,
can't believe it's the sixth year we're doing the show,
Randy is always an interesting conversation to
poke some of the sacred cows, and,
I'll use that analogy, of course,
because he is the one that Pets vs Cattle analogy,
and he said, you know,
we're spending a lot of time talking about
it's not, as you hear, some game,
between OpenStack and Kubernetes, containers are great,
isn't that wonderful.
If we're talking about that so much,
maybe we should just like, go do that stuff,
and not worry about this, so it'll be fun to talk to him,
the Open Dev Show is being, mainly,
sponsored by Mirantis who, last time I was here in Vancouver
was the OpenStack company, and now, like,
I saw them a year ago, and they were,
the Kubernetes company, and making those changes,
so we'll have Boris on, and get to find out these companies,
there's not a lot of ECs here,
the press and analysts that are here,
most of us have been here for a lot of time so,
this ecosystem has changed a lot, but,
while attendance is down a little bit, from what I've heard,
from previous years, there's still some good energy,
people are learning a lot.
>> So Stu, I did want to point out,
that something I noticed on the stage, that I didn't see,
was a lot of infrastructure, right?
OpenStack, clearly an infrastructure stack,
I think we've teased that out over the past couple years,
but I didn't see a lot of talk about storage subsystems,
networking, management, like all the kind of,
hard, infrastructure plumbing,
that actually, everybody here does,
as well as a few names, so that was interesting,
but at the end of the day, I mean,
you got to appeal to the whole crowd here.
>> Yeah, well one of the things,
we spent a number of years making that stuff work,
back when it was, you know,
we're talkin' about gettin' Cinder,
and then all the storage companies lined up
with their various, do we support it,
is it fully integrated, and then even further,
does it actually work really well?
So, same stuff that went through, for about a decade,
in virtualization, we went through this in OpenStack,
we actually said a couple years ago,
some of the basic infrastructure stuff has gotten boring,
so we don't need to talk about it anymore.
Ironic, it's actually the non-virtualized environments,
that's the project that they have here,
we have a lot of people who are talking bare metal,
who are talking containers, so that has shifted,
an interesting one in the keynote is that you had
the top level sponsors getting up there,
Intel bringing around a lot of their ecosystem partners,
talking about Edge, talking about the telecommunications,
Red Hat, giving a recap of what they did last week
at their summit, they've got a nice cadence,
the last couple of years,
they've done Red Hat Summit, and OpenStack Summit,
back-to-back so that they can get that
flow of information through,
and then Mark Shuttleworth,
who we'll have on a little bit later today,
he came out puchin', you know,
he started with some motherhood in Apple Pi about
how Ubuntu is everywhere but then it was like,
and we're going to be so much cheaper, and we're so much easier
than the VMwares and Red Hats of the world,
and there was a little push back from the community,
that maybe that wasn't the right platform to do it.
>> Yeah, I think the room got kind of cold,
I mean, that's kind of a church in there, right,
and everyone is an opensource believer and,
this kind of invisible hand of capitalism (laughs)
reached in and wrote on the wall and,
you know, having written and left.
But at the end of the day, right,
somebody's got to pay for babies new shoes.
I think that it was also very interesting seeing,
at Red Hat Summit, which I covered on theCUBE,
Red Hat's argument was fairly philosophical,
and from first principles.
Containers are Linux, therefore Red Hat,
and that was logically laid out.
Mark's, actually I loved Mark's, most of his speech,
which was very practical, this, you know,
Ubuntu's going to make both OpenStack and containers
simpler, faster, quicker, and cheaper,
so it was clearly benefits, and then,
for the folks that don't know,
then he put up a couple a crazy Eddy slides like,
limited time offer, if you're here at the show,
here's a deal that we've put together for ya,
so that was a little bit unusual for a keynote.
>> Yeah, and there are a lot of users here,
and some of them'll hear that and they'll say:
yeah, you know, I've used Red Hat there but,
you can save me money that's awesome,
let me find out some more about it.
Alright, so, we've got three days of coverage here John,
and we get to cover this
really kind of broad ecosystem that we have here.
You talked about what we don't discuss anymore,
like the major lease was Queens, and it used to be,
that was where I would study up and be like oh okay,
we've got Hudson, and then we got,
it was the letters of the alphabet,
what's the next one going to be and what are the major features
it's reached a certain maturity level that
we're not talking the release anymore,
it's more like the discussions we have in cloud,
which is sometimes, here's some of the major things,
and oh yeah, it just kind of wraps itself in.
Deployments still,
probably aren't nearly as easy as we'd like,
Shuttleworth said two guys in under two weeks,
that's awesome,
but there's solutions we can put,
stand up much faster than that now,
two weeks is way better than
some of the historical things we've done,
but it changes quite a bit.
So, telecommunications still a hot topic,
Edge is something, you know what I think back,
it was like, oh, all those NFE conversations we've had here,
it's not just the SDN changes that are happening,
but this is the Edge discussion for the Telcos,
and something people were getting their arms around, so.
>> It's pretty interesting to think of the cloud
out on telephone poles, and in branch offices,
in data centers, in closets basically or under desks almost.
>> No self-driving cars on the keynote stage though?
>> No, nothing that flashy this year.
>> No, definitely not too flashy so,
the foundation itself, it's interesting,
we've heard rumors that maybe the show will change name,
the foundation will not change names.
So I want to give you last things,
what're you looking for this week,
what were you hearing from the community
leading up to the show that you want to validate or poke at?
>> Well, I'm going to look at real deployments,
I'd like to see how standard we are, if we are,
if an OpenStack deployment is standardized enough that
the pool of talent is growing, and that if I hire people
from outside my company who work with OpenStack,
I know that they can work with my OpenStack,
I think that's key for the continuation of this ecosystem.
I want to look at the general energy
and how people are deploying it,
whether it does become really invisible and boring,
but still important.
Or do you end up running OpenShift on bare metal,
which I, as an infrastructure person,
I just can't see that the app platform
should have to worry about all this infrastructure stuff,
'cause it's complicated, and so,
I'll just be looking for the healthy productions
and production deployments and see how that goes.
>> Yeah, and I love, one of the things that they started
many years ago was they have a super-user category,
where they give an award, and I'm excited,
we have actually have
the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
is one of our guests on today,
they won the 2018 super-user group,
it's always awesome when you see, not only it's like,
okay, CERN's here, and they're doing some really cool things
looking for the Higgs boson, and all those kind of things but,
you know, companies that are using technology to help them
attack the battle against cancer, so, you know,
you can't beat things like that.
We've got the person from the keynote, Melvin,
who was up on stage talking about the open lab, you know,
community, ecosystem, definitely something that resonates,
I know, one of the reasons I pulled you into this show
in the last year is you're got a strong background there.
>> Super impressed by all the community activity,
this still feels like a real community,
lots of pictures of people, lots of real,
exhortations from stage to like,
we who have been here for years know each other,
please come meet us, so that's a real sign of also,
a healthy community dynamic.
>> Alright, so John first of all, I want to say,
Happy Victoria Day, 'cause we are here in Vancouver,
and we've got a lot going on here, it's a beautiful venue,
hope you all join us for all of the coverage here,
and I have to give a big shout out to
the companies that allowed this to happen,
we are independent media,
but we can't survive without the funding of our sponsors so,
first of all the OpenStack Foundation,
helps get us here, and gives us this lovely location
overlooking outside, but if it wasn't for the likes of
our headline sponsor Red Hat as well as Canonical,
Kontron, and Nuage Networks,
we would not be able to bring you this content so,
be sure to checkout thecube.net for all the coverage,
for John Troyer, I'm Stu Miniman,
thanks so much for watching theCUBE.
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