Red Hat’s Michael Hausenblas on the Ailments of Cloud-Native

Michael Hausenblas, a Red Hat developer advocate and Cloud Native ambassador, emphasizes the importance of aligning development and operations teams to address cloud-native deployment challenges, advocating for a focus on practical, scalable solutions like documented demos and blog posts. Hausenblas argues that successful DevOps integration relies on bridging the gap between developers, who are incentivized to implement changes, and operations professionals, who aim to maintain stability. He highlights that many organizations are still in the early stages of adopting CI/CD practices and often face foundational issues such as code management. Hausenblas suggests that developers should also assume operational responsibilities, especially in serverless environments, to ensure accountability and efficiency. Additionally, he stresses the significance of developer experience in tool development, advocating for technological diversity to address cross-platform challenges. Hausenblas also underscores the communal responsibility in addressing cloud-native security risks, calling for increased awareness and collaboration between open-source communities and cloud native vendors.