Guest: Sudeep Goswami (LinkedIn) 
Company: Traefik Labs (Twitter)
Show: Let’s Talk

Traefik Labs recently announced the launch of their Day 2 operations workflow capabilities for Traefik Hub, which aims to tackle some of the challenges developers are experiencing with change management of APIs and incident management.

In this episode of TFiR: Let’s Talk, Traefik Labs Chief Revenue Officer Sudeep Goswami talks about the launch of the Day 2 operations workflows. He goes on to discuss some of the key challenges of Day 2 operations and how Traefik Labs is helping to tackle some of those pain points. Goswami talks about some of the new features of GitOps and shares what is in the pipeline for the company.

Key highlights from this video interview:

• Traefik Labs was an open-source project that started offering a reverse proxy and ingress controller, and since then has started offering an API gateway and API management.
• Traefik Labs’ latest announcement is their launch of Day 2 operations workflows for Traefik Hubs. Goswami tells us about the challenges in operations once you have something in production, such as scale issues and efficiency issues. He discusses how Traefik Hubs is helping people create Day 2 workflows.
• Goswami discusses the transformation in the development of new APIs and how it is becoming easier for developers to create an API and push it out. However, there are still issues that arise once it is in production, such as, are the changes you made the right ones or are they going to break something, and are they going to work when you scale.
• According to Goswami, some of the biggest challenges of Kubernetes are in GitOps where engineers try to unify everything into a common language. He talks about how Traefik Labs is solving this with API Management-as-Code and how from a Day 2 operations perspective, developers can use the GitOps workflow to declare any change that happens in the environment as code.
• Goswami discusses some of the new features they have introduced to the GitOps workflow: when a pull request is initiated, the tool assesses the impact of that change. From there, the GitOps Workflow looks for errors in the changes you made and if necessary you can revert back, and if an incident does occur there is a triaging feature.
• Although Traefik Labs is not an incident management tool, developers can use Traefik Hub to see and diagnose the source of the incident using the tool. They can then export the open telemetry metrics to a third-party system like Grafana or Prometheus where they can see their entire environment.
• Goswami shares the things they are working on at the moment saying one of their key focuses is on Day 2 operations in API management and solving the current pain points developers are experiencing. He talks about the three pillars they are focusing on: change management, incident management, and posture management.
• Goswami talks about the importance of open source for Traefik Labs saying that they had initially started as an open source project. However, he feels it does not solve every issue and they recognize that enterprises need enterprise-grade features. He discusses their paid offerings, such as Traefik Hub, to cater to those needs.

This summary was written by Emily Nicholls.