Daniel Lopez Ridruejo, Bitnami | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2019
Channel: SiliconANGLE theCUBE
Date: 21/05/2019

Daniel Lopez Ridruejo, CEO & Co Founder, Bitnami, sits down with Stu Miniman and Corey Quinn at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2019 in Barcelona, Spain

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https://siliconangle.com/2019/05/28/bitnami-makes-open-source-so-easy-enterprises-can-do-it-kubeconeu-guestoftheweek/

Bitnami aims to make open source so easy, enterprises can do it

Many companies no doubt envy the all open-source elite — companies that chucked proprietary software in favor innovative, rapidly upgraded operating system technologies. But they don’t envy the work of the information technology personnel that must run it day-in-day-out. Combining the perfect mix of OS software for production in enterprises is still a pretty messy business.

“There is all this marvelous open-source software out there that is super-difficult to use for a great majority of people,” said Daniel Lopez Ridruejo (pictured), chief executive officer of Bitnami, a subsidiary of BitRock Inc.

Many companies are playing with open-source technology. They may have developers building new types of applications with open-source tools. But in order to go live in production with open-source technology, companies must untangle a ball of red tape, according to Ridruejo. Compliance and security around open source are particularly onerous, he added.

The tech industry has seen how standards and simplification can bring tech out of its open-source enclave and into the enterprise. For example, there’s Kubernetes’ open-source orchestration platform for containers, a virtualized method for running distributed applications in multiple computing environments. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation — Kubernetes’ home — has made huge strides in the past two years toward reducing complexity. This has spurred enterprises to adopt Kubernetes either directly or via a cloud service provider such as IBM Corp. or Google LLC.

“Things that used to be very exotic now are business as usual,” Ridruejo said. Bitnami wants to put more open-source projects on the Kubernetes track to make enterprise adoption easier.

Ridruejo spoke with Stu Miniman, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host and cloud economist Corey Quinn during the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference in Barcelona. They discussed the maturation of open source and what’s needed to increase enterprise adoption (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)

This week, theCUBE spotlights Ridruejo in its Guest of the Week feature.

Bitnami serves hot, instant open source
Bitnami began as an offshoot of Bedrock, which made certain types of software easy to install. The company realized many developers desired a means to easily install open-source software on the Linux open-source operating system.

“Over time, we decided to do the same thing as an open-source project for all those other tools and projects that didn’t have a way to make them easy to install,” Ridruejo said. “We started as Bitnami.org. We wanted to emphasize that it was an open-source project that was never going to be a company.” 

However, the Bitnami project soon realized the huge market potential for a smooth onramp to complex open-source software. “We never expected the success. It turns out that we went from 100 to 1,000 to 10,000 to hundreds of thousands of downloads,” Ridruejo added.

Thus, Bitnami.org spun out into a real company. There are now millions of developers using Bitnami, according to Ridruejo. Bitnami also began working with cloud providers. It drives a significant percentage of usage for Amazon Web Services Inc., Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud. With this foundation of fans and partners in place, Bitnami is poised to march forward toward major enterprise adoption.

“As the next stage of the company, we wanted to go directly to the enterprises in which we already have a lot of developers,” Ridruejo said.

OS gets dressed and goes to work
Bitnami’s pivot is toward production — seeing open-source software through the compliance and security gates and making it generally more business ready. “The core mission is not changing,” Ridruejo said. “We’re just augmenting that and going after the enterprise.”

Bitnami will be integrating more with Red Hat Inc. Enterprise Linux and OpenShift. It will also deliver more multitier capabilities, production features and high availability. 

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Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event. (* Disclosure: This segment is unsponsored. Red Hat Inc. is the headline sponsor for theCUBE’s live broadcast at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. Neither Red Hat nor any other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)