In this month's installment, Sr. Product Manager for Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE), Sergey Goncharov, will walk you through how to achieve full cloud native virtualization on top of Kubernetes-based infrastructure using MKE 4k (our latest release) and open source KubeVirt. By the end of this talk, you'll be able to run Kubernetes and/or Swarm-based VMs alongside containers and even within the K8s clusters themselves!

A full list of topics in this episode include:

1. What are virtualized workloads & what do they do?
2. Rising trend of Kubernetes-based Infrastructure
3. Why migrate to Kubernetes?
4. How to migrate to Kubernetes?
5. Leveraging Open Source KubeVirt
6. The Mirantis solution: Mirantis Kubernetes Engine 4k (MKE 4k)

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In this month's installment, we're diving into OpenStack storage: the challenges, the solutions, and the best practices for securely and efficiently storing your bits when leveraging an OpenStack cloud. Proctored by Christian Huebner, Director of Services Architecture at Mirantis, this episode will build off his 25+ years of experience with cloud storage, specifically in the context of OpenStack. This episode is perfect for OpenStack admins that are looking for better ways to deal with storage, as well as anyone working with OpenStack clouds.

A full list of topics for this episode include:

1. Computer storage background (general)
2. Types of storage (OpenStack)
3. OpenStack storage backends (Ceph)
4. Software Defined Storage (SDS) alternatives
5. Storage Area Networks (SANs)
6. Shared files systems (NFS)
7. Local storage (Flash)
8. Combining OpenStack storage types
9. Common failure scenarios
10. OpenStack storage security

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

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In this month's installment of Radio Cloud Native, Bryan Gruneberg, Solutions Architect from amazee.io (now a Mirantis company), walks you through everything you need to know about the Open Web Alliance (OWA) and open source web hosting. He will cover some background in the beginning to set the stage for amazee.io's Lagoon, a fully open source application delivery platform built on top of Kubernetes - as well as amazee.io's tried and true open source website and AI hosting solutions.

Bryan will cover, in detail, the framework laid out in the OWA's Open Web Manifesto, and how organizations can piggy-back on this structure to ensure that their hosting platform is just as open source as their solution. He will also look at the application side of things, exploring how platforms like Drupal, Wordpress, and TYPO3 stack up in comparison to the Open Web Alliance's standards and how you can leverage them in a truly open source, vendor-agnostic way.

A full list of topics for this episode include:

1. Background on amazee.io and Lagoon
2. Background on the Open Web Alliance (OWA)
3. Defining the "Open Web" via the OWA Open Web Manifesto
4. How Lagoon maintains an "Open Web"
5. Drupal vs Wordpress vs TYPO3 vs Joomla
6. Why use Lagoon by amazee.io
7. Resources for getting started with Lagoon

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

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In this month's episode of Radio Cloud Naitve, Sr. Solution Architect, Kevin Ng, of Mirantis is back to share his findings related to 7 common open source-based tools that relate to cloud native infrastructure and configuration management. He will present some background on each of the 7 tools he researched before diving into an in-depth comparison based on use case, functionality, ease-of-use, and security features. Perfect for DevOps folks, Kevin's episode will enable you to conquer Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), leveraging the best tools for your specific use case.

Furthermore, Kevin will present an example scenario of how to leverage these tools to deploy k0s, an open source, fully upstream Kubernetes Distro created and maintained by the teams at Mirantis. Armed with Kevin's knowledge, your DevOps team can drastically streamline its current approach to IaC.

A full list of topics from this episode include:

• Intro to Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack & Vagrant
• Deploying k0s with each of these tools (above)
• Ease-of-Use of these tools (above)
• Security frameworks for each of these tools (above)
• Infrastructure vs Configuration management with these tools (above)
• How to select the tool that's right for you

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

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In this month's installment, Michael Tillman, Principle Solution Architect for Mirantis is back and is joined by Kevin Jackson, Sr. Director of Product Management for Trilio. They will both dive into key aspects of migrating off of VMware and onto an open source-based solution like OpenStack. Trilio's Kubernetes backup and recovery tools are the backbone of this joint migration solution designed to seamlessly move VMs from existing VMware environments onto the more flexible and cost-effective Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) environment.

Michael and Kevin will also provide you with useful background explaining the importance of containerized OpenStack for a variety of use cases, allowing you and your organization to make the most informed decision regarding if, when, and how to migrate off of VMware. There's a lot of factors to consider, but Mirantis and Trilio are here to support you.

A full list of this episode's topics include:

• Value of containerized OpenStack
• Use cases for Mirantis OpenStack on K8s (MOSK)
• MOSK deployment options and process
• Trilio for Day 1 Operations
• Trilio's VMware to Mirantis OpenStack migration process
• Trilio for Day 2 Operations

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

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In this month's installment, Michael Tillman, cloud native workload expert from Mirantis, will walk you through a real world example of a SaaS company that worked with Mirantis to migrate over 3000 workloads off of VMware onto Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) - all in just a few short months. The migration was prompted by a massive price increase on the VMware side, which caused this organization to look for a viable alternative solution. Please note, the SaaS company will remain anonymous, but Michael will provide the details needed to see how Mirantis truly made a difference in their recent migration.

In addition to the speed at which Mirantis was able to achieve this migration, the SaaS company also saved over 60% in their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), which was achieved by leveraging open source components and implementing a CI/CD strategy that automated as many steps in the provisioning and deployment phases as possible. Furthermore, the SaaS company was able to achieve this migration while maintaining the most rigorous standards of security and compliance, including FIPS 140-2 and FEDRAMP - both required security standards for working with the US Federal Government. Thinking of moving away from VMware? Let Michael explain why that may be a good choice for your organization.

A full list of this episode's topics include:

• Why companies are migrating away from VMware
• Common challenges Org's face before migration
• How Mirantis OpenStack for K8s solves these challenges
• Key takeaways from the example SaaS company's migration
• Strategies for avoiding all types of lock-in
• Specifics of the Mirantis migration approach
• Success metrics from the example SaaS company's migration

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

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In this month's episode, you will hear from Marc Campbell, CTO and Co-Founder of Replicated and his colleague Chris Sanders, Director of Customer Reliability Engineering, as they discuss their company's experience with evaluating various open source Kubernetes Distributions to use when building and launching their new product: Embedded Cluster.

There's a lot of different open source projects and tools out there, but which one is the right one? And is it in your organization's best interest to build your own solution from scratch? Well, Marc and Chris will cover that in their discussion, as well as provide examples from their own experience with evaluating k0s by Mirantis along with other top K8s Distros on the market.

A full list of this episode's topics include:

• Background on Replicated, Embedded Cluster and their other solutions
• Emerging technologies in comparison to Kubernetes
• Replicated's Helm SDK vs Embedded Cluster
• Tips for evaluating open source projects
• Importance of CNCF-certification
• When to build it yourself vs when to leverage existing open source solutions
• Pitfalls and benefits of building it yourself
• Other Distros vs k0s by Mirantis
• Why Replicated chose k0s by Mirantis
• Importance of GitHub community in evaluation process
• How implementation of k0s went for Replicated
• Key takeaways from Replicated's experience

Learn more about k0s by Mirantis at k0sproject.io/

Learn more about Replicated & Embedded Cluster at www.replicated.com/

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In this month's installment, you will hear from Nick Chase, Adam Parco, and Shaun O'Meara from Mirantis as well as our very special guest Alex Williams, Co-Founder and Publisher of The New Stack.

They kick things off with some baseline definitions of both "Legacy" and "Cloud Native" architectures, before moving on to industry trends supported by real world examples highlighting the value of Legacy vs Cloud Native workloads in those given environments. The discussion culminates with a deep dive into migrating legacy applications to cloud native ecosystems, aiming to answer the questions: how/when to do it, is it worth it, and where should you look first when moving forward with this undertaking?

A full list of this episode's topics include:

• Defining "Legacy" & "Cloud Native"
• Why Cloud Native over Legacy applications
• Open source technologies in the Cloud Native space
• Value of Cloud Native in regards to speed
• Security & compliance during Legacy migrations
• Security & compliance - an ongoing issue
• Emerging role of AI/ML tooling for security
• Will Kubernetes become Legacy one day?
• Conclusion: Migrating Legacy Apps worth it?

Learn more about the very latest Cloud Native solutions at www.mirantis.com

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