Trends in open source and building a home lab to create a mini data center

Watch this video interview with platform and solutions engineer Marino Wijay.

Marino Wijay is a Canadian, traveller, international speaker, and open source advocate for Service Mesh, Kubernetes, and networking. He is a solutions and platform engineer as well as a lead organizer for KubeHuddle Toronto. Marino sat down with the All Things Open team at DevOpsDays Raleigh to talk about networking, trends in open source, and building a home lab.

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Key takeaways

• We’ve come a long way with networking and we’re building new kinds of roads with different kinds of workloads and we just have to be accommodating of the different processes and tooling that is in place
  
• Companies are moving into other companies because we’re really thinking about how to be efficient with tooling and processes and platforming and that consolidation helps in a variety of ways
  
• The second trend is what’s going on an open source with a lot of different organizations trying to work to maintain an offering but at the same time also trying to take ownership of particular projects
  
• The home lab gives you so much exposure to how to build out a little mini data center for yourself to test out a variety of different ways to deploy virtualization or other flavors of workload environments