6. Experts in Linux & Open Source Solutions
◇ Virtual Work
◇ New Rules / types of Access / Collaborations
◇ New ways of working
The past 2 years at Kangaroot
7. Experts in Linux & Open Source Solutions
◇ We are now a Teammember / Customer - first organisation
◇ Location does not matter unless it makes:
⋄ Customer feel better
⋄ Teammember feel better
◇ Get together where/when it makes sense:
⋄ Monthly full team get together
⋄ Weekly collaborations with colleagues/customers
◇ Async work: Chat - Gitlab
How a lot of Open Source Project teams work !
The past 2 years at Kangaroot
8. Experts in Linux & Open Source Solutions
Last 2 years in Open Source
Acquisitions
2020
● Peachtech by Gitlab
● Rancher Labs by SUSE
● Chef by Progress Software
● Saltstack by VMWare
2021
● Stackrox by RedHat
● Optimyze by Elastic
IPO
2021
● HashiCorp: 14 billion $
● GitLab: 15 billion $
● Confluent: 9 billion $
● Suse: 6.1 billion $
9. Experts in Linux & Open Source Solutions
Trends & evolutions
➔ Security / Code maintenance !
➔ War for talent
➔ Managed Services by public clouds / software vendors
10. Experts in Linux & Open Source Solutions
Community Work
● Open Source Community work is done by:
○ Employees @ hardware/software vendors → PAID
○ Employees @ Service providers → PAID
○ Volunteers → ???
● Volunteering goes a long way but …
○ Demanding users
○ Maintaining work is not attractive, but needed
11. Experts in Linux & Open Source Solutions
Community Work
Security flaws in Open source software :
○ fixed faster than in most Commercial Closed source software
2 big issues
○ small, widespread used software components not being invested in
○ components being continuously used inside other open & closed pieces of software
92 % of software library flaws can be fixed by an update
(Veracode - State of software security research , 2021 )
BUT 79% of developers never update a third party component after being added to
the codebase.
12. Experts in Linux & Open Source Solutions
For Software building companies, developers:
Build a OSS practice that includes a component inventory
SBOM
“A formal record containing the details and supply chain
relationships of various components used in building software”
Community Work
14. Experts in Linux & Open Source Solutions
ROOT Fund
◇ 10 € of every day we charge @ customers, will go into this fund
◇ We start with an initial funding of 25.000 €
◇ A panel of employees, partners and/or customers will decide on
○ Which developers to sponsor
○ Which teams/projects to sponsor
◇ GitHub sponsors ♡♡♡
◇ Customers can join as well ! → Monthly/Yearly commits
◇ community.kangaroot.net
16. Experts in Linux & Open Source Solutions
Automation will be one of the answers …
War for Talent
17. Experts in Linux & Open Source Solutions
Automation Factory
◇ Build: Build an Ansible automation factory
○ Best practices
○ Employee trainings
○ Workshops
○ Not only on server infra: networking, security, …
◇ Convert: Move existing automation from Puppet, Chef to Ansible
◇ Assist: Point solutions
18. Experts in Linux & Open Source Solutions
De-couple from Public cloud vendors
Build integrated cross-vendor stacks
Open source the builds
Managed Services
19. Experts in Linux & Open Source Solutions
RootStacks
◇ Open, automated environments that can be deployed :
○ on public clouds
○ on premise
◇ Available on the Kangaroot Github
◇ Ansible driven
Rootstack Kubernetes
● OpenShift
○ Elastic
● GitLab
● Servicemesh
Rootstack Devfactory
● Nomad
● Consul
● Loki & Grafana
● Traefik
● Minio
Rootstack ??
20. Experts in Linux & Open Source Solutions
RootStacks Managed
◇ Open, automated environments
◇ 24/7 Managed & supported by Kangaroot
◇ On Cloud or On Premise
◇ Ansible driven
Rootstack Kubernetes
● OpenShift
○ Elastic
○ Servicemesh
● Gitlab
Rootstack Devfactory
● Nomad
● Consul
● Loki & Grafana
● Traefik
● Minio
● Vault (on cloud)
● Boundary
