Containers and Walled Gardens

We start talking about walled gardens and the momentum and push that causes us to get into vendor active environments in this episode. This is going to be a multi-part discussion where we look at the drivers of AI in the future.

In this case, we used up a lot of time before this recording talking about Kubernetes and what’s next for Kubernetes and containers, as well as how that ecosystem has been shaping up. This conversation is about the wall gardens that could be broken down, and in some cases, have actually been built taller because of containerization and Kubernetes and infrastructure and how infrastructure works.

After that background before going into the discussion, we pick it up on how these ecosystems and walled gardens are self reinforcing as well as chinks in the armor that will allow us to go back to interoperable standards.

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A Path for Cloud Standardization?

We discuss standards, de facto standards, and cloud standards. It comes down to how we are creating repeatable results for the cloud marketplace.

Ideally, we’re creating marketplaces where standards can be shared. We’d consider Amazon as the primary example, but we also talk about hardware and Kubernetes which have their own marketplaces.

Ultimately, we asked if we are creating standardized cloud infrastructure? The short answer is no.

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Rob’s Hot Take:

Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and co-founder of RackN and host of the Cloud 2030 Podcast, reflects on the November 30th DevOps Lunch and Learn session focused on standards and vendors’ attempts to establish standard operating processes. He highlights the market’s lack of convergence or trust in vendor-driven standards, emphasizing the durability of certain influential standards in the industry compared to vendor-specific APIs. Hirschfeld underscores the ongoing need for standard operating models and APIs to address market complexity, encouraging listeners to explore the insightful discussion at the2030.cloud for deeper insights into standardization efforts within the industry.