Beyond the Hypervisor: Developing with Ubuntu on VCF

About this episode

Rachel Stephens and Jay Thontakudi discuss the partnership between VMware Cloud Foundation and Canonical, focusing on the developer experience and security implications of using Ubuntu in enterprise environments.

Infrastructure gets written off as table stakes, but if you've actually shipped software, you know how much pain comes from the friction between layers of the stack. In this RedMonk Conversation, Rachel Stephens sits down with Jay Thontakudi, Principal Product Marketing Manager at Broadcom, to dig into why the partnership between VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and Canonical is more than "Linux runs on VMware." The conversation gets at a problem most enterprises quietly live with: developers build on Ubuntu, then watch their code land on a different Linux distribution in staging and production. Jay and Rachel talk through what it means to close that gap, and why treating the hypervisor and the OS as one supported thing rather than two vendors pointing fingers is as much a security story as it is a developer experience one. For additional information please visit: - https://vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/vmware-cloud-foundation - https://canonical.com This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by VMware by Broadcom. Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/ubuntu-on-vcf/ Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 02:06 - What is VCF? 03:55 - The Broadcom & Canonical Partnership 05:58…

People in this episode

Host: Rachel Stephens

Guest: Jay Thontakudi

Topics covered

• Infrastructure
• VMware Cloud Foundation
• Canonical partnership
• Developer experience
• Security
• Linux distributions

Keywords

• hypervisor
• Ubuntu
• VMware
• Canonical
• developer experience
• security
• Linux
• infrastructure

Sponsors

VMware by Broadcom

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Broadcom, VMware, Canonical, VMware Cloud Foundation, Ubuntu

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