In this special live edition of ITQ Cloud Native Chronicles, recorded at Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025, Robert Kloosterhuis sits down with Andrew Block, Distinguished Architect at Red Hat, to discuss the evolution of Helm, the rise of OCI as a distribution standard, and how AI is reshaping the cloud native landscape.

Andrew shares his perspective on the upcoming Helm release, the growing role of OCI in container ecosystems, and his work on ModelPack, a new standard for packaging and distributing AI models. They also explore how organizations can adopt cloud native technologies effectively, balance skills and innovation, and use AI-driven automation to simplify IT operations.

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About Andrew Block

Distinguished Architect, Global Services Office of Technology at Red Hat
Distinguished Architect at Red Hat specializing on cloud technologies, security, enterprise integration and automation. He works with organizations seeking to leverage Open Source technologies to solve real world business challenges. Open Source evangelist. He focuses on the intersection of technologies and communities to showcase how collaboration can bring individuals with similar passions together to spread knowledge. These principles are the foundation of the Communities of Practice (CoP) concept, an area for which he is passionate, and he has successfully built large and thriving communities at a global scale.
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