Where is the cloud native App Store?

In our first 2022 episode, Alexis Richardson, co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks, is talking to Gerhard about going fully remote, what a great team looks like, and GitOps. While you may have heard of GitOps, now is a good time to check out opengitops.dev.

The most interesting part of today’s conversation is the missing cloud native App Store. While Apple revolutionised the world with the App Store and the iPhone, we don’t yet have something similar for cloud native apps. You may be thinking “But what about OperatorHub?”, or all the Helm registries out there? The registry fragmentation, operator deprecations and lack of curation are not what people have in mind when they think App Store. But there is more to it, so let’s hear how Alexis thinks about this.

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Featuring:

• Alexis Richardson – GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• What is GitOps?
• What is OpenGitOps?
• 🎬 Creating the Enterprise App Store - GitOpsCon NA 2021 Keynote
• 🎬 GitOps Maturity Model - GitOps Days 2021
• How to get robust GitOps? The U.S. Department of Defense uses Flux and Helm
• Notes on GitOps potential role in compliance
• 🎬 A Multi-Cluster, Multi-Cloud Infrastructure with GitOps at CERN - Ricardo Rocha, CERN

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