Hello and welcome everyone,
“There is always a first time for everything,” #vLeaderConnect was the same experience for us at VMUG Pune. I proposed this idea to all the committee members during one of our internal discussion. The sole objective of vLeaderConnect was to get an insight into how the technical leaders carry themselves, personally and professionally. It was also an opportunity for us to bring some brilliant minds on the VMUG Pune forum and let the community experience their thoughts and wisdom.
We considered Joe Beda as our first guest. There were two reasons for it: First- Kubernetes is making its way into the VMware ecosystem with VMware’s recent product releases. Second- Joe Beda himself is the co-creator of Kubernetes, and he is into the center of all the magic which is happening at VMware. We reached out to Joe, and without taking time, he agreed to discuss it with us.
On the other side of the preparation part, all the community leaders scrambled themselves and explored the possibility of making it happen. We reached out to the community members, got their feedback to understand what are the things which they want to discuss with Joe. It was heartening to see the response we were receiving from the community members across the globe. We sent the invites to our friends from VMUG Romania, VMUG France, VMUG Japan, VMUG Argentina, and other VMUG communities. I must say they were appreciative of the efforts which we have put in and turned up on the day of the Event irrespective of the time zone.
The event,
We expected a turn around of 100+ participants, and we did receive the expected response from the community members. It was very clear from our part that we will not have a scripted conversation with Joe, We did brief him on what topics we will be discussing upon, but the questions, follow-up, and the discussions were impromptu. Joe was very supportive during the entire conversation. He was candid in his thoughts, spoke out of his mind, and, most importantly, he was speaking on his own without carrying his big credentials on his sleeves. We are really thankful to those who have joined the event and shown their support to us. If you couldn’t join the event, then below is the recording session for you guys to go through.
Highlights:
Evolution of Kubernetes,
Borg was a ten-year-old project written in C++, and it was internally used at google. The experience with Borg gave an understanding that there were other ways to manage and deploy software beyond starting a VM or a Server. This was all possible because of the benefits coming out of the containerized workloads. Borg really gave us essentially a roadmap for how these things could work into the future, and having that roadmap was very instructive for Kubernetes. The next challenge was, with GCE google was very late in the public cloud market so it was a discussion within google about how we can we shake things up so that we can actually create opportunities for Google to really sort of reset things and move the conversation to a place where Google can compete on a more level playing field with GCP versus AWS. The solution to that was to have a containerized workload offering to google customers by turning an internal product to an external one.
Language Selection while writing Kubernetes, (C++ vs. GO)
We wanted to make Kubernetes an open-source project. At that time, the docker and GO community was shaping up really well. So asking open source communities to contribute to the Kubernetes project became much simpler with GO. Also, GO is really sort of a sweet spot in terms of being low-level enough that you can write system software in it but high-level enough that you know you can remove a lot of the complexity which you get with C or C++.
Tanzu Portfolio
It’s a portfolio of products that work well together, not a platform. You can pick the products that work for you but it isn’t VMware only. We live in a multi-vendor world. You can still manage container workload running elsewhere.
Message to vSphere Admin
View this as an opportunity, not a threat. VMware wants the conversation to be vSphere AND cloud (not or). Use these tools for change in your organization.
I am sure there is a lot more to what I have shared in the highlight section, I would like to highly recommend you to watch the complete video to understand more.
Love recieved from the community
I am just highlighting some of the responses we received from the VMUG community.
This session is fascinating!
— Brad Tompkins @ Home (@BradTompkins_) April 29, 2020
Joe talking about Tanzu: it’s a portfolio of products that work well together, not a platform. You can pick the products that work for you but it isn’t VMware only. We live in a multi-vendor world.
I’m paraphrasing the above but Tanzu is a portfolio was the key point for me.
— Brad Tompkins @ Home (@BradTompkins_) April 29, 2020
Joe’s advice to vAdmins on adapting to DevOps and the CNA world:
View this as an opportunity, not a threat. VMware wants the conversation to be vSphere AND cloud (not or). Use these tools for change in your organization.
(again, paraphrasing)— Brad Tompkins @ Home (@BradTompkins_) April 29, 2020
Finally, what a great session. I really enjoyed the candid open conversation. No powerpoint! #bonus
I think many of the India leaders have a future in a TV hosting gig! Thanks! @jatinpurohit92 @biswajitmukherj— Brad Tompkins @ Home (@BradTompkins_) April 29, 2020
Great work @jatinpurohit92 ! @jbeda reminds me of PKS is based on BOSH ( Cloud Foundry ). There’s no reason not to go for Tanzu now 🙂
— Kaz IGARASHI (@tcpninja) April 29, 2020
@vmugpune and @jbeda having an awesome dicussion. Not to miss! Thanks for this session. pic.twitter.com/kE17J0uB2i
— Razvan Ionescu (@ravatheodor) April 29, 2020
Great webinar hosted by @vmugpune with a special guest Joe Beda , thx VMUG Pune for your invitation ! @tcpninja #VMUG Japan & @VMUGFR pic.twitter.com/ZY75sVdWyc
— Noham MEDYOUNI (@Noham_m) April 29, 2020
I know it was our first ever attempt to host something like this at VMUG Pune. Stay tuned with us and keep supporting us.
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Thanks,
Jatin Purohit 