One hybrid cloud data services and management company wants to make developers’ lives easier.

NetApp Inc. recently announced general availability of Cloud Volumes Service and Cloud Volumes ONTAP for the Google Cloud Platform. The new solutions are designed to provide fully managed, cloud-native file services for running workloads in production and deliver storage management enterprise support.

“When I turn on data services inside of Kubernetes, I need to be able to have that workload go anywhere,” said Matt Baldwin (pictured, right), director of cloud native and Kubernetes software engineering at NetApp, who described running in production on a public cloud while performing tests on bare metal environments. “I want to be able to sync some of my data that I’m working with in production down to my test environment. That stuff is missing; there’s no one doing that right now. That’s the path; that’s where we’re headed.”

Baldwin spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Justin Warren (@jpwarren) during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event in San Diego, California. He was joined by Rob Esker (pictured, left), product management and strategy, Kubernetes, at NetApp, and they discussed how the company works to simplify the use of Kubernetes in hybrid-cloud environments and rising interest in finding new solutions to build on top of the container orchestration tool. (* Disclosure below.)

A simpler private cloud

NetApp HCI, the company’s simplified hybrid cloud infrastructure, enables both Cloud Volumes and NetApp Kubernetes Services, or NKS, to provide data management capability across public and private platforms on-demand.

“The intention is to make it a simple private cloud capability,” Esker said. “If you’re an application developer or if you want the effect of NKS on-premises, the endeavor with our NetApp HCI product is to give you that easy button experience because you didn’t want to be a storage admin or network admin.”

Providing solutions for the cloud-native world has given Baldwin an opportunity to see the maturation of the ecosystem, as evidenced by the growth in attendance at major industry gatherings such as KubeCon.

“The power of the community is at a point where it’s drawing in cities now, not just a small collection or tribe of people,” Baldwin said. “That’s a very powerful thing. People are moving past the problems of Kubernetes itself and moving to what problems they can solve on top of Kubernetes.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event. (* Disclosure: NetApp Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither NetApp nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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