Day Two Cloud 120: Web Assembly, K8s Rivals, And Other Cloud Computing Trends

On today’s Day Two Cloud we talk trends and predictions in cloud computing, including emerging technologies such as Web assembly, rivals to Kubernetes, and the role of GitOps in infrastructure as code. Our guest is Adrian Mouat, Chief Scientist at Container Solutions. His blog post “10 Predictions for the Future of Computing or; the Inane Ramblings of our Chief Scientist” inspired this episode. We discuss: * Why technology predictions are tricky * Which predictions Adrian is most confident about * Web assembly and why infrastructure folks should care about it * Will GitOps become the dominant way to run Kubernetes * Whether cloud repatriation will become a thing * More Sponsor: Aviatrix Check out Aviatrix’s Flight Training to learn about multi-cloud networking and security. It’s worth your time if you’re defining your company’s multi-cloud strategy or want to nail down your Aviatrix Certified Engineer certification. Get details and register at aviatrix.com/flight-training. Show Links: 10 Predictions for the Future of Computing or; the Inane Ramblings of our Chief Scientist – Container Solutions @adrianmouat – Adrian Mouat on Twitter Adrian Mouat on LinkedIn GitOps: What You Need To Know Now Ebook – Container Solutions Day Two Cloud 100: Get To Know Crossplane: An Infrastructure Control Plane For K8s – Packet Pushers To learn more about WASM, check out any articles and presentations by Lin Clark or Kevin Hoffman. To learn more about GitOps, follow Alexis Richardson Transcript: [00:00:01.030] – Ethan Check out sponsor Aviatrix’s Flight training to learn about multicloud networking and security from the Aviatrix perspective, Aviatrix dot com slash Flight-Training worth your time if you’re defining your company’s multi cloud strategy or wanting to nail down your Aviatrix certified engineer, Cert Aviatrix dot com slash flight-training. [00:00:28.190] – Ned Welcome to day two. Cloud today is an episode about trends and predictions what’s going to happen in the future. And we’re going to gaze into a Crystal ball with Adrian Mouat. He’s the chief scientist over at Container Solutions, and he had a bunch of different things he wanted to talk about. One thing that jumped out to me was web assembly. It’s a thing that I keep hearing about. I hear whispers in the hallways or the virtual hallways as it were, that this is a new technology that’s going to replace a bunch of things. [00:00:56.750] – Ned And he set me straight on what it actually does and what it actually might replace. So for me, that was the most interesting thing. Ethan, what jumped out to you in the conversation? [00:01:06.290] – Ethan Oh, there are a couple of other things when we got into Kubernetes and what comes next because of some of the co...