 Live from Vancouver, Canada, it's theCUBE. Covering OpenStack Summit North America 2018. Brought to you by Red Hat, the OpenStack Foundation, and its ecosystem partners. Welcome to SiliconANGLE Media's coverage of OpenStack Summit 2018. This is theCUBE, we're on day two of three days of live coverage. I'm Stu Miniman here with my co-host, John Troyer. Beautiful city here in Vancouver. There's been a bunch of parties last night, community things going on, and to help us kind of set the stage for day two, happy to welcome back to the program Lisa Marie-Nanffy, who's an OpenStack ambassador and also now a developer advocate with Portworx. Lisa, great to see you. Thanks for having me back, always fun to be here. All right, so you're wearing a new logo since last time we talked. Why don't you bring us up to speed on some of the many hats you're wearing these days. Yeah, I joined the team at Portworx a few months back. Super exciting, cloud native storage. If you want to run a stateful application like databases in containers, that's where Portworx comes in. So it's a great space, as you know, and as you know, I've been in the cloud native space for a long time, and so I'm very happy to join the team at Portworx. Yeah, I love, there's the OpenDev stuff going on here at the show. There was a keynote this morning, heard Boris did a nice job with this. We'll actually have him on theCUBE tomorrow to talk some more about this, but you're at that nice intersection of, how do developers fit into this? Containers has been a hot discussion here for a few years, that whole cloud native term that you brought up. What does that mean to the OpenStack community? Maybe give us your level set as to what you see happening here in the OpenStack and beyond. Yes, well as you mentioned, I'm still an OpenStack ambassador for North America and have been for a long time. So I have seen this change coming, this progression, super exciting at this conference, how they've embraced those technologies that have been part of the story, but they've really embraced in a very serious way, as you saw from the keynotes yesterday, all of the other technologies, like the work to be done around containers, like Edge, IOT, all of these wonderful stories that are getting showcased at this conference and customers and partners and communities coming together and working together, I think that's the most exciting part. Well, Lisa, you run the meetup formally known as the Bay Area OpenStack Meetup, which just changed its name. Can you talk a little bit about that? Yeah, well we just thought, I was looking at our schedule and over the last few years, I think I've run 18 meetups on Kubernetes and Docker and Mesa's and I just felt networking and storage and all of the stuff we showcased, IOT. We didn't feel like the name was really reflective of the content that we were delivering and cloud native and open infrastructure is a more of a broad term and that's the content that we've been delivering and that's what the community has been wanting to talk about and wanting to come together over. So I changed the name and, you know. And you guys have had a great success, right? It's one of the biggest or the biggest meetup in this space. It is, yeah. It's the world's largest user group. We have over 6,000 members and what I did, People show up. They do, right? I get the meetings and I do that. That's a nice note to everybody. I didn't want anyone to panic and I was like, we still love OpenStack and remember, OpenStack was the foundation of this. You know, it was the first OpenStack Meetup but OpenStack is at the core of all of this technology. So it's built on OpenStack, OpenStack's inside and so it's just open infrastructure is a better, more encompassing title. I think that's great. We actually, in some of the interviews we did yesterday, we had a cloud provider from Australia and you go look around their website. It's not like they're saying, you know, hey, OpenStack all over the place. It's their infrastructure as a service for government and when you dig down underneath, what do you know there's OpenStack there? Talk to a number of software companies that when you dig into their IP, it's like, oh, okay, we're using one of these projects from OpenStack. So the premise I had had a few years ago is we know OpenSource is a bunch of tools out there and it's not necessarily just like Linux permeated throughout the data center. That's OpenStack has that opportunity to be that next generation of helping us to build, you know, everything from infrastructure as a service to all of these software products that are inside. Absolutely and you know, we saw during all those keynotes yesterday all the different projects and when they did show, you know, what was being shown as a demo, all these projects coming together, maybe even only two of them said an OpenStack project. It's all of these communities coming together, working together and it's kind of, it's changed because everything's been focusing around business problems and this is I think the biggest shift at this show. You know, these user communities not being so focused on the project that they're working on but really focusing on use cases and trying to solve business problems. And you know, I haven't said this to Lauren and Jonathan but I feel like when they pulled the design summit out, I think that went a long way to taking away the project focus, you know, because when you had the design summit and everybody went off into their room to talk about Cinder or Nova or whatever it was, you know, argue about the next release. You know, that has all been removed and that's happening elsewhere and it really let the community kind of come together and work together and bring all the technologies together. What do you think of the conference in general? What's the vibe here? This, I mean, obviously we're in a beautiful place. Everyone's really kind of stunned by the mountains everywhere. Not the first time OpenStack Summit's been here in Vancouver but what's the vibe? What's the feeling? Yeah, oh, it's so great to be back in Vancouver. Congratulations on the train whale that you've got to be for a freeze frame behind us. Vancouver, I mean, yay, Canada. Everyone has been so nice, so wonderful. It's so beautiful. We're all extremely happy to be back here. I think the summit's been going great, you know? I mean, hey, there's non-dairy options at the coffee stations. I love that too. They thought of everything. The marketplace was booming last night. We had a little ambassador stand where people could come up and do a meet and greet and I was like pinned there. There were so many people coming by for the whole hour. The energy has been wonderful and everybody feels involved. You know, this is a very communal feeling to this summit. Great, so tell us about Portworx. Give us the update there, how that fits into what's happening at the show. You've been, lots of shows lately. You got more coming up in the next month. Absolutely, I mean, it's, you know, people just think, okay, if it's OpenStack Summit, is it really going to be relevant? I have so many customers here. It's been fantastic, you know, to catch up with people. And Portworx is, it's a startup out of the Silicon Valley based in Los Altos. And we have, you know, almost a hundred customers now and live in production, running Kubernetes in production. And the problem with, when you wanted to run those stateful applications, you know, people think of containers as stateless traditionally, particularly Kubernetes. But, you know, what are you going to do with the data? Right? The database is still super important. So whether it's Postgres or MySQL or Kafka or Cassandra, those stateful applications are really important and that's the problem that Portworx solves. It's a cloud native storage company, but it's really, it's really beyond that. You know, things that you would expect from traditional, you know, VM, high availability, things like that. We can solve those problems if you want to run Postgres in a container. And we worked really closely with, with Mesos, they resell us with the Kubernetes team with Docker, will be a DockerCon together next week. And so we're actually doing the next meetup in the San Francisco Bay area. First one, we're going to bring all the user groups together. We're doing it in conjunction with our friends from CodeFresh, who run the production ready containers, used to be container 101 meetup. So we're getting together with them and with our cloud native open infra user group. And so we're going to do a meetup on June 6th at the Portworx office. I hope you guys come. Great. So, I mean, you said there was a lot of, so going back to the conference, the business users, you know, folks who actually need to get stuff done, anything you're looking at in the conference in terms of the news, the Queen release is out. But so in terms of technologies you're hearing talked about, Buzz, the VTPU stuff, or I don't know what all different, I know there's a lot of other storage news coming out this week, but anything that you guys are hearing is in the air. I mean, around kind of again the adjacent technologies, Cota containers, a big focus here. And I hope that they're going to be a big focus. I hope I can finally run the first ever Cota containers meetup. We're going to have them do a hands-on lab at our Opusac birthday party event on the 8th. I put that in quotes because it's like a half day hands-on labs training. It's sorry, the 10th, July 10th. We want to focus on Cota containers. We want to focus on some of the new technology, Acrino. You heard them mention it yesterday, that's coming out edge. So edge technology is huge. Beth was on stage again, right? Talking about what they're doing. Open Dev as a subtract of this conference, or however they say that, is super exciting. I think Boris is on stage this morning. Marantis is a sponsor of that. And I think the Open Dev community is really, it's bringing the developers and the technology back into the fold and having this kind of unconference or subconference going on as a track, which is fantastic. I'm speaking tomorrow in the container track, container infrastructure track. So super excited that that's also a track. So that's what I've loved about this conference, about how they're really focusing on these kind of new and up and coming areas that are super hot. All right, well, Lisa Marie-Nanthi, really appreciate you helping us kick off day two coverage. So much that these blendings of these communities helping the users put together the overall solution to get done what they need to get done. Yeah, bravo, Open Stack Foundation. They've done a fantastic job. I think that the energy at the summit has been fantastic. All right, well, we've got a full lineup today. We've got practitioners, we've got the ecosystem and for John Troyer, I'm Stu Miniman. Thanks for watching theCUBE.