Simplifying Kubernetes through Automation

VALENCIA, SPAIN —Managing the cloud virtual machines (VMs) your containers run on. Running data-intensive workloads. Scaling services in response to spikes in traffic — but doing so in a way that doesn’t jack up your organization’s cloud spend. Kubernetes (K8s) seems so easy at the beginning, but it brings challenges that rachet up complexity as you go. The cloud native ecosystem is filling up with tools aimed at making these challenges easier on developers, data scientists and Ops engineers. Increasingly, automation is the secret sauce helping teams and their companies work faster, safer and more productively. In this special On the Road edition of The New Stack Makers podcast recorded at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, we unpacked some of the ways automation helps simplify Kubernetes. We were joined by a trio of guests from Spot.io by NetApp: Jean-Yves “JY” Stephan, senior product manager  for Ocean for Apache Spark, along with Gilad Shahar, ​and Yarin Pinyan —product manager and  product architect, respectively, for Spot.io.