MultiKueue and OpenTelemetry offer new open-source innovation vector [Video]

KubeCon is a simultaneous celebration and solemn assessment of open-source advancement over time. A major theme at this week’s event is MultiKueue, an artificial intelligence-driven project that helps manage distributed workloads across multiple clusters.

MultiKueue and OpenTelemetry are two such initiatives enabling AI models to queue tasks efficiently, particularly across multicloud environments.

“There’s lots of things happening in OpenTelemetry,” said Morgan McClean (pictured), OpenTelemetry co-founder and senior director of product management at Splunk. “I think in the last year or two the adoption of the project has taken off. When we started OpenTelemetry, if you told me it would be as widely used across whole swaths of the market as it is today, I would’ve been a little skeptical that it would be so rapidly adopted. Yet we see major banks, airlines and businesses that are only relatively early in their Kubernetes adoption journey already diving into OTel and adopting it widely, which is very exciting for us.”

McClean spoke with theCUBE Research’s Savannah Peterson…