Delivering Cloud Native Applications at the Tactical Edge

In the U.S. military, there are many different software factories and application platforms that don't work well together. Starting at the tactical edge, Rancher Government Solutions, HashiCorp and their partners, in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force, have designed and implemented a cloud native and hyper-converged software stack that enables choice and flexibility across all platforms. This solution standardizes on a strong zero trust architecture leveraging secure best practices by all contributors. The result of this work is a model for what a unified platform could look like for all government and military use cases.

Join us as we discuss the current state of the industry and the many differing software factories whose differences outnumber their similarities, making it very difficult to deliver on the promise of the cloud-native and cloud-agnostic tools currently being adopted. As part of this we will dive into the problem of overpromising on capability and expecting limited engineering knowledge to solve a problem that only domain experts in that specific software stack are capable of solving.