VMware Explore vs. Kubecon - Kelsey Hightower
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yeah i think when you go to a vendor you're looking for solutions when i go to a restaurant i want a menu with a price next to it and you're basically giving me a limited set of choices of what we finna have right because i went to the italian restaurant for a reason right and i'm not surprised now when i go to the grocery store i just want ingredients i may not actually know what i want to eat for the whole week so i want to
see all the ingredients available to me i might want to try something new i might want to explore oh ethiopian okay i have never made that before oh i turned the box around there's a recipe hey we're going to try this let's buy all the ingredients and we're going to try to make ethiopian at the house tonight so i think when you go to an open source conference like a kubecon it's the art of the possible i want to taste a new spice i've never tasted
before i want it to be a little off the wall i want to try something i don't know you could put those two things together and you go there for inspiration and if you're a vendor like vmware you also go for inspiration because even though you have a solution it doesn't do everything there are gaps in all of these solutions and we know how this works when we start gluing together as system administrators one of our jobs is to take the vendor package and say oh
this gives me about 90 of what we need i got to go get a shell script and fill in the gap myself with a custom solution where we're at now in 2022 you go to kubecon that's what your peers that are making all these custom solutions that sit on top right kubernetes had just came out vmware was like vm's everything but then you're like yo what am i going to do for apps what am i going to do for container management of course i can just
install them on vms but there's no orchestration layer so at that checkpoint then we're going to have anything for you you got to go to kubecon to see what the next milestone is but then i think the full circle comes where all right now that we understand the technology nana's been in production for a little while being work and say you know what we're going to add the vmware experience on top so we're going to let you take your existing skill set and consume kubernetes without
becoming the expert you ain't got to go to the grocery store and be a chef you can come to the restaurant we just got a new entry on the menu and i think
