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From YouTube: Keynote: Welcome to Cloud Native - We’re Here to Help - Vaibhav Kamra, Kasten by Veeam

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Don’t miss out! Join us at our next event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 in Valencia, Spain from May 17-20. Learn more at https://kubecon.io The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.

Keynote: Welcome to Cloud Native - We’re Here to Help - Vaibhav Kamra, Chief Technical Officer, Kasten by Veeam

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Thank you steven good morning, hello, everyone, I'm so excited to be here. uh My name is web of I'm at cast in by veeam, where we focus on backup disaster recovery data management.

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So I want to take a few minutes today to talk to you about some of the challenges we see new users, including cloud native facing, and what we as a community and what we specifically as casten are doing here to help.

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So our community continues to grow. We've heard about this over the last few days and there are many ways to measure this. You know one way to measure this, for example, is just to track kubecon attendance, and so, if you look at you know I've I've been attending this event ever since seattle, and if I look at the growth, it's just been amazing in some cases exponential, but what's often missed.

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When you look at one of these graphs- or at least you know- you got to look into it- is that, if we're seeing this kind of growth, what that means is a majority of us every year are new to cloud native, and that is leading to some of the challenges, as with anything which skills you're going to need, you're going to see some challenges with this kind of growth.

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So when we talk to folks here at lunch or at the booths, or with customers or inside our own companies- and we ask them what the challenges are, there are a few things that start to bubble up the first one is just the complexity. I mean we've talked about how much choice there is in cloud native, which is a good thing, but that can often lead to complexity, which distribution am I going to use with storage system which networking plug-in that leads to complexity?

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We're often not just adopting these new technologies, we're also going through a cultural change, maybe moving from traditional I.t to devops, and when someone says infrastructure is code. If we haven't been doing that already, it can be challenging and then just you know, the lack of accessible training over here to to help guide us through this um is is starts to show up.

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So the good news is that what you will see here at this event and other other forums, is that we are really all here to help with this. We do realize this challenge and there are many ways to get involved, get involved with the sigs like we were just talking about uh doing more open source, open source, tooling. Just making your expertise available to the community are our ways to go about this, and I want to talk about two two initiatives over here.

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The first one is learning.casting.io.

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It's a free, kubernetes training that we just released a few days ago, and what learning.castin.io is it's a learning website where you go and you have labs that are created for the community actually by the community, so experts in the community are coming in there they're, creating these hands-on labs environments that are completely free to take.

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As you go through the modules you're going to get badges that you can use to track your progress, you can put them on social media and what we've already seen in just the few days that it's been up there, we've had over 3 500 people go through this go through the labs and we're also starting to see some of that community flywheel where people are going to the labs and they now want to give back to the ecosystem.

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So this also allows you to come in. If you want to be an instructor, you want to do a lab work with us work with our team and we'll just create a lab around whatever module you want. So we're really excited about this. Please do check this out.

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The other one I wanted to quickly talk about is this is something we've been working on for the last few months and we've had a few releases out. There is this goes back to that complexity of choice, challenge and what we found was, and we were working with people and we were helping them navigate the ecosystem.

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They would ask us what storage system should we use? How do we test it, um and- and we would often end up working with this, so what we decided to do is take that that expertise and and what we were doing and codify it into an open source project called cubester. So cubester is a collection of tools. um It allows you to discover all the storage options that you have out there. What are the different capabilities that are available to you?

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Actually, when you install something in your environment, it'll, let you go test, it benchmark it and then. Finally, as you're deploying your applications, we're now adding debugging capabilities in here, so you can go and if you want to debug one of your applications use the tool, give you a clone, you can go and peek into inside your application, so do check this out, especially if you're working with storage you're traveling trying to navigate that ecosystem.

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I think this is going to be a great tool and we're always looking for contributors so do check it out. So that's that's really. What I was I wanted to mention: um there's a link there, which lists all of those resources. Please do check them out. We are also demoing all of these at our booth and we'll love to get hands-on with you on these projects. Thank you. So much have a great great great conference.