From Bare Metal to Abstraction: A There and Back Again Tale to the Heart of Cloud-Native Computing

From Bare Metal to Abstraction A There and Back Again Tale to the Heart of CloudNative Computing. DevOpsDays Austin 2025

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A long time ago, in a data center far, far away… DevOpsDays Austin 2025

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BGP, the “Two Napkin Protocol” DevOpsDays Austin 2025

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The Dark Ages of IT /r/sysadmin horror stories are fun, if not a bit triggering BOFH. ‘nuf said. No online documentation Power switch kicked off meant a 30-minute drive to the data center Data recovery bandwidth as fast as a car loaded with tapes could drive Didn’t update things until something was broke Large binders of CDs for every OS and program in the company Hotswap was a myth (and no one really used SCSI back then Sneakernet filesharing DevOpsDays Austin 2025 )

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Journey from Bare Metal to Cloud Native Limitations inherent in managing physical servers Adoption of virtualization to improve resource utilization Cloud computing brought on-demand compute resources (a virtual Rent-a-Center) DevOps movement pushed collaboration and automation, breaking down silos Docker & containerization provided a standardized way to package applications Orchestration platforms like Kubernetes emerged to manage containers at scale … DevOpsDays Austin 2025

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Future Challenges Practitioner Experience + AI-Driven Operations Expanding Cloud Boundaries Sustainability and Efficiency Focus Continued Open Ecosystem Growth DevOpsDays Austin 2025

“I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.” -Ginni Rometty, former IBM CEO DevOpsDays Austin 2025

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