 From Seattle, Washington extracting the signal from the noise It's the Cube on the ground at OpenStack Day Seattle 2015 Now here's your host Jeff Frick. Hi Jeff Rick here with the Q We are on the ground in Seattle, Washington at the OpenStack Innovation Day It's their first kind of dedicated OpenStack event just in Seattle We were at OpenStack Summit in Vancouver a few weeks ago We will be at OpenStack Silicon Valley next week in Mountain View So it's a lot of OpenStack going on all the time and we're really excited to be joining this next segment by our guest Sean Roberts VP development a conda welcome. Hi. Thanks. So for people that aren't familiar with the conda Why don't you give them the the kind of the 4-1-1 which you guys do right? We're an OpenStack project. We're open source We're creating Well, we're making neutron work all the way through so we manage the life cycle of neutron So we do which is OpenStack networking for those those in the crowd So what hasn't worked about neutron and what are you doing? That's different that makes it work I feel like I should do sure quotes maybe good. Yeah, we're quotes so what we do is we we Distribute the networking functionality and that neutron manages and we make it so that the state of the The configuration of that is managed by a central service right now when you implement neutron It's it's a manual implementation and once you're done It's day zero done and day one maybe not so good if somebody goes in and makes a change So we manage life cycle alright, so okay, so let's Sean. Let's dive into it a little bit more Specifically, you know, we're talking a little bit off-camera does your Conta help people avoid things that you know are gonna be problematic in the future Is it really kind of stick avoidance or do you have a nice shiny carrot? You know, there's a lot of things you can do now that you couldn't without your tool Yeah, I think it's a little bit of both those things so Avoiding the stick is really about us supporting the operations of OpenStack networking So our service which is fronting a state machine Manages the state of the routing the network infrastructure The so that's stick avoidance as far as Day one after implementation if somebody goes in and makes a change that breaks the routing of OpenStack networking The our state machine will actually fix that The the carrot is that over the next release and into the next couple years will be adding more services right now We support routing which is a particular network functionality will be supporting more features load balancing next and then VPN and firewall services in the future What that will make is the physical side of customers infrastructure will be even more tightly Integrated with their virtual Which is run by an OpenStack cluster right and do you see in your experience with your customers as they bring you guys in to Help or there's some patterns that are kind of that people typically fall into that cause them issues That that you've seen pretty consistently across the board that you're helping them with So we're a spin out from dream host. So that just happened very recently. So our customer It's I can talk about the pattern of dream host because we have one customer We're we're aggressively going after finding more customers that we're pretty young. Okay only a couple months old. Okay, so But the the whole reason much like how seph was developed at dream host and spun out of dream host into a company was that dream host found a need within their own company that Was solved they could solve other companies needs. So they seph was They've made a service company called ink tank to bring it to the world so to speak we're doing this We have done the same thing with the conda We see that there's a need to manage the life cycle of neutron for customers doing OpenStack deployments So that's why we exist. So the pattern is essentially that Managing day one of OpenStack neutron and networking general is hard because there's a lot of people in operations And keeping it up and resilient for a long period of time is what we do. Okay, so when did you spin out? How big are you guys? How long you've been out on your own about six months? So we're doing things like Building product roadmaps and hiring and doing all those things while we're adding new features. So right now we're creating the What's called a driver model so we can add more services And making our state machine more resilient and fault-tolerant. Okay, and then funding. What's your funding? Can you talk about your funding status? I can One of the unique things about my company is that we're not only is all our code open source We're pretty open about everything we're doing. So we went through a seed round About I guess it was about nine months ago something like that. Maybe a little bit less 1.5 million We specifically kept it nice and tight so that we could focus on hiring people We're starting up another round where we'll be basically looking for money so we can hire more developers Give a plug. So I'm sure you're looking for people. How should they find you? What are you looking for? Great? So we can be found on Kanda.io is our main page. They can read anybody can reach out to me directly either through LinkedIn I'm on IRC and Twitter is Saurab. That's s a r o b We're looking for open-stack Python developers as well as open-stack DevOps So we will look forward to an update at open-stack summit or open-stack Silicon Valley or open-stack Seattle Or open-stack LA As you as you continue to grow get the customers and really hear more about the stories in which you guys are bringing back from the field So thanks for taking a few minutes. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. So I'm Jeff Rick We are in Seattle on the ground at the open-stack Seattle Innovation Day. Thanks for watching