Where are we going with Oxide Computer Integrations

Matthew Sanabria focuses on future integrations for the Oxide Computer Company, aiming to expand its capabilities and make it a more attractive choice for customers. These integrations include a Kubernetes CSI plugin to enable Oxide storage with Kubernetes, the Kubernetes Cluster API to create clusters across different platforms using Kubernetes, and observability enhancements. The goal is to provide a comprehensive platform that integrates seamlessly with existing infrastructure and tools.

A key component of the future integrations is centered around observability. Oxide has developed a Grafana data source plugin that translates Oxide metrics for Grafana, eliminating the need for operators to use OXQL directly. Additionally, an OpenTelemetry receiver is being developed to convert Oxide metrics to the OpenTelemetry format, enabling users to send data to their preferred observability vendors, such as Datadog or Honeycomb. This effort aims to provide flexibility and compatibility with existing observability platforms.

The discussion expanded to potential use cases for Oxide in various verticals. Oxide aims to replace existing hypervisor infrastructure, offering a lower licensing cost option with its own hypervisor. For life sciences, research pipelines and data pre-formatting for supercomputers are key areas. Furthermore, Oxide emphasized that their platform provides traditional VMs capable of supporting any software, addressing concerns, and expanding possibilities of the types of applications and workloads that can be deployed on the Oxide platform.