Day Two Cloud 149: On-Prem Cloud Networking With Netris (Sponsored)

Welcome to Day Two Cloud. You know how when you create a VPC in the cloud, it’s a pretty simple thing? A few dropdowns and clicks, and you’re there. Not a bunch of nerd knobs and questions you’re not sure how to answer. What if you could bring that DevOps-friendly, easy-to-use experience on premises? That is, make your local network as easy for a DevOps-minded human to consume as a public cloud VPC? Our sponsor today is Netris, and they promise to deliver a cloud-like experience for running your physical network. Our guest is Alex Saroyan, and he’s the CEO and Founder of Netris. We discuss: * How Netris provisions networking on premises * Building a VPC-like experience that network engineers control and DevOps teams hook into * How Netris differs from other platforms * Network hardware and software it works with * Terraform and Kubernetes integration * More Show Links: Try Netris – Netris.ai Netris Documentation – Netris.ai @alex_saroyan – Alex Saroyan on Twitter Transcript: Please note this transcript is provided as-is without error corrections. [00:00:04.390] – Ethan Welcome to Day Two Cloud. You know how when you create a VPC in the cloud, it’s a pretty simple thing. A few dropdowns and clicks and you’re there not a bunch of nerd knobs and questions you’re not sure how to answer. What if you could bring that devopsfriendly, easy to use experience onpremises that is make your local network as easy for a DevOps minded human to consume as a public cloud VPC? Our sponsor Day is Netris, and they are delivering exactly this experience. And our guest is Alex Saroyan, and he’s the CEO and founder of Netris. Alex, welcome to the show. If you would give our engineering audience the 10,000 foot view of Netris, just a few sentences describe what Netris is all about. [00:00:48.170] – Alex Hi, Ethan. Hi, Ned. Hi, everyone. Thanks for having me on the show. Very excited to be on one of my favorite shows in the industry. I’m a former network engineer. Like many of you guys, I started from configuring Cisco devices, network devices, using conft and storing IP information in spreadsheets. And then over time, I’ve learned programming, started to try automation, then embrace Sdn and APIs over the time. But cloud kind of changed the way we think about infrastructure. In terms of in public cloud, infrastructure services are kind of self service. So you like Ethan described really well in public cloud, you just developers, DevOps engineers, networks engineers, infrastructure engineers, they just go to public cloud. They create a VPC, they throw a bunch of EC, two instances or Kubernetes cluster applications, they throw all that into the VPC and it’s ready to work. Now, when we think about on premises or when we think about a bunch of metal serverless somewhere in a data center, the experience shouldn’t be any different. Should be the same. And thinking of networking, what we have to provide that experience and we can’t provide that experience with the CLI’s and automation. [00:02:22.910] – Alex No, industry wise, we have seen software defined networking. But like, can DevOps engineers self service through service? Software defined networking or through even intent based networking? That’s not I was afraid to let DevOps engineers go and self service using any of these platforms. So what DevOps engineers need, they need exactly the VPC, something which takes understands applications, can talk with the compute platforms and behind the scenes can provide the networking.