Takeaways NTC Tech Connect

Takeaways NTC Tech Connect

Last week, we visited the Nutanix HQ in sunny San José, California. It was a fantastic event where we learned a lot from various sessions and had the opportunity to meet many product managers, developers and even Nutanix CEO Rajiv.

See my summary in this LinkedIn post.

One of the key discussions at the event was about the transition many of us are experiencing in our roles within our respective companies. Many of us are experienced virtualization infrastructure administrators, but moving forward, we are becoming more like Platform Administrators, providing platform services to our end users and customers.

A particularly interesting topic was the recent boom and explosion of cloud-native applications. Nutanix has had a product in their portfolio for a while that has undergone several name changes. This product, designed for Kubernetes workload orchestration, is currently known as Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE), formerly called Nutanix Karbon.

At GDM, we have been using Nutanix Kubernetes Engine for some of our workloads internally, such as AWX and other cloud-native applications. However, there are still some pieces missing for NKE to become a complete platform, like ingress, monitoring to mention a few.

Recently, Nutanix acquired a company called D2iQ. As a result of this acquisition, the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform was officially introduced this year at the .NEXT conference in Barcelona.

Inspired by the discussions and insights at the NTC Tech Connect, I decided to create a blog series on how to deploy NKP in our Nutanix test environment. I invite you to join me on this journey!

Below, you'll find the blog posts in the series: