The New Stack Makers Virtual Pancake Breakfast + Podcast: IT, Developer Strategies, and Open Source

The importance of persistent storage in a multi-cloud world and the challenges it presents for organizations. The rise of GitOps and its potential impact on persistent storage.

• Persistent storage has become increasingly important for organizations as deployments become bigger and more complex.
• Moving data in a multi-cloud world is still very difficult, especially for stateful applications.
• GitOps, the practice of declaring infrastructure within YAML and checking it into a repository, is on the rise and presents potential benefits and challenges for persistent storage.
• Developers need to be able to efficiently work with persistent data while collaborating with IT teams and architects.
• Open source reporting capabilities are important for monitoring Kubernetes and storage arrays.

The speaker mentions that they predicted in 2017 that storage would be a solved problem within 18 months, but this turned out to be overly optimistic. They also discuss the challenges of moving data in a multi-cloud world, which is much more difficult than moving stateless applications. The rise of GitOps presents potential benefits for persistent storage, but also raises questions about how to easily roll back changes. Overall, the importance of persistent storage and the challenges it presents in a multi-cloud world are key themes of the presentation.

It’s pancake time! How do you manage your pancake stack? That’s the question. Well, it has nothing to do with modern applications but those pancakes sure taste good! So what about that app data management? The needs are outpacing the reach of today’s DevSecOps digital transformation plans. Join us for a short stack with The New Stack and the CNCF for this Pancake & Podcast discussion with sponsor Dell Technologies to talk about how DevOps, AppSec and IT teams can best use open source projects and enterprise management tools to enable developers to be free from the overhead of IT demands and keep data secure. We’ll look at persistent data and the role developers play with IT now that Kubernetes has emerged as the orchestration engine for at-scale architectures and microservices are taking center stage. Bring your questions for a chance to win a custom TNS spatula!