SiliconANGLE article by Jason Bloomberg
The first post-Covid KubeCon/CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam this week did not disappoint, as a sold-out crowd of more than 10,000 professionals turned up in person to learn about all things Kubernetes.
The signs of maturity of this massive open-source ecosystem were everywhere. Some 58% of attendees were first-timers, illustrating the explosive interest in Kubernetes among enterprises. Compared with previous KubeCons, the buzz centered more on running Kubernetes in full production than on assembling the bits and pieces to make it work.
And most important of all, it wasn’t an infrastructure-only crowd, as applications finally earned their place in the Kubernetes sun.
The flipside of a maturing market, however, can be a slowdown in innovation. My goal at the show: Take a look at the most interesting startup exhibitors to see if innovation was indeed on the wane. My conclusion: There’s still plenty of gas in the Kubernetes ecosystem innovation engine.
Generative AI: less than you might expect
With the recent explosion of interest in ChatGPT and generative AI broadly, you might think KubeCon vendors would be rushing out new products that included it.
To be sure, generative AI is on many product roadmaps, but the only vendor I spoke with that had already brought its generative AI offering to market was Roost.ai, officially Zettabytes Inc.
Roost.ai provides a cloud-native, end-to-end testing product that leverages generative AI to generate test cases. Upon a pull request that signals a code change, Roost.ai launches an ephemeral environment, runs test cases within that environment, and then deletes the environment when finished.
Roost.ai works with its customers to hammer out test data specific to their use cases – a necessary manual step to support the generative AI capability.
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