One key trend worth watching at the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America event will be progress on the open hybrid cloud.

The concept brings interoperability, workload portability and open-source software to the cloud computing environment. It has been widely discussed in company forums for major tech players, including Red Hat Inc., IBM Corp., Nutanix Inc. and AT&T Inc.

Open hybrid cloud’s significance can be found in the nearly unlimited appetite among enterprise customers for applying managed cloud services to applications and the long-term reality that hybrid architectures will drive enterprise computing for the foreseeable future.

“What we’ve been talking about at Red Hat for more than a decade is open hybrid cloud,” Stu Miniman, director of market insights, cloud platforms, at Red Hat, said during an interview with SiliconANGLE. “Twenty to twenty-five percent of applications are in the cloud, so that means there’s a lot still in the datacenter. You might have not planned it out, but you are hybrid today. What are you going to be in the next decade? You are going to be even more hybrid.”

The current landscape for open hybrid cloud, Kubernetes and the open-source ecosystem will be the focus of discussion at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021, Oct. 13-15. TheCUBE’s coverage will include interviews with members of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, company executives and technology thought leaders, focusing on open-source developments, cloud native trends, the evolving role of security and continued use of Kubernetes by large-scale enterprises. (* Disclosure below.)

Here’s the complete interview with Stu Miniman:

GitOps on the rise

Another hybrid-related development worth watching during this month’s KubeCon event will be the rise of GitOps. Developed in 2005 by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, Git is software used to track changes for any set of files. When combined with Ops, Git can offer a cohesive way to manage applications in the cloud and on-premises.

One of the popular open-source projects within the CNCF is Argo CD, a declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. In February, Red Hat announced that it would release OpenShift GitOps for cluster configuration and application delivery.

“Argo CD is the project for GitOps, and we have that built into OpenShift at general availability,” Miniman said. “Not only was it ready to go, but we had a few customers who were ready to say, ‘Hey we’re using this in production.’”

200-plus sessions

This fall’s North America KubeCon event will offer over 200 sessions, with 12 cloud native tracks and more than 70 project maintainer presentations. Topics range from serverless and runtimes to storage and service mesh.

CNCF’s flagship gathering will take deeper dives into subjects such as KubeEdge, currently in the incubation stage, the lightweight Kubernetes distro K3, as well as Rook, a storage operator for Kubernetes. There will also be plenty of discussion around security, according to Constance Caramanolis, principal engineer at Splunk Inc. and co-chair of the KubeCon event.

“There are a wide variety of topics,” Caramanolis said during an interview with SiliconANGLE. “Security is getting more popular; business value is getting a lot more traction.”

Progress for CNCF

In a nod to the unprecedented circumstances of the past two years, conference organizers have added a tagline: “Resilience Realized.” It was a recognition that the technology world in general experienced its own stress test as cloud-driven platforms became the solution of choice for education, civic services, shopping and communications during the global pandemic.

Despite the challenges, the open-source community and CNCF have made significant progress over the past year. In May, CNCF announced the addition of 27 new members, a group that included banking giant Citicorp LLC and leading telecom operator Orange SA. Two open-source projects – Linkerd and Open Policy Agent – graduated in 2021.

“Throughout this year, the creators and maintainers of CNCF projects have all made incredible strides,” Stephen Augustus, head of open source at Cisco Systems Inc. and co-chair of the KubeCon event, said in an interview with SiliconANGLE. “We’ve really made the effort to show up for each other.”

Livestream of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021 is an in-person and livestream event, with additional interviews to be broadcasted on theCUBE. You can register for the event here. Plus, you can watch theCUBE’s event coverage of the event here.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

We offer you various ways to watch theCUBE’s coverage of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021, including theCUBE’s dedicated website and YouTube channel. You can also get all the coverage from this year’s events on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE Insights podcast

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on iTunes, Stitcher and Spotify, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests

Stay tuned for a complete list of guests who will appear on theCUBE. Watch Constance Caramanolis’ complete interview below, joined by Stephen Augustus, head of open source at Cisco and a featured speaker at this year’s event.

Here’s the complete interview with Constance Caramanolis, joined by Stephen Augustus, head of open source at Cisco and a featured speaker at this year’s event:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021. Red Hat, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and other sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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