Mirantis recently released an early access version of Lens 2024, which aims to accelerate productivity for users and includes some long-requested features. Miska Kaipiainen, VP of Engineering at Mirantis, talks about their latest update and how it is simplifying working with Kubernetes and making it more accessible. He says, “We are on a mission to remove complexity, accelerate productivity for our users. So many of the features we have been adding to the product are just based on the roadmap to achieve our goal.”

Kubernetes adoption and Mirantis’ new Lens product release

• Mirantis has announced an early access version to their Lens desktop product, Lens 2024. Kaipiainen explains that the new access aims to include as many user recommendations and feature requests as possible.

Product updates and future plans for AI integration

• Kaipiainen talks about the latest updates in Mirantis’ Lens 2024. He tells us about the motivations behind the update, including users’ long-requested features, simplifying the product, and accelerating productivity for users.
• AI is a big topic currently and Mirantis is working out how to incorporate AI with Lens.

Kubernetes adoption and evolution in various industries and use cases

• Kaipiainen highlights the diverse range of Kubernetes workloads globally, with different use cases, encompassing all sizes of companies.

Lens Enterprise Product Offering for Larger Companies

• Lens offers three tiers: Lens Personal for smaller companies, Lens Pro for bigger companies, and Lens Enterprise for enterprise-sized companies. The Lens Enterprise product offering is now available to the general public.

Simplifying Kubernetes adoption and usage

• Lens aims to reduce the complexity of managing Kubernetes workloads by enabling users to connect to the Kubernetes clusters and have observability over the workloads in a frictionless way.
• Kaipiainen explains that Mirantis is working to make complex technologies like Kubernetes more accessible. He discusses his past experience working in the mesh networking space to similarly try to simplify the complex technology.
• Mirantis’ products, including Lens and k0smotron, aim to make Kubernetes infrastructure easier to deploy and utilize for both operators and consumers of the infrastructure.

Guest: Miska Kaipiainen (LinkedIn)
Company: Mirantis (Twitter) 
Show: Let’s Talk

This summary was written by Emily Nicholls.