In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin talk to the SIG Storage COSI Co-Lead Sid Mani about the Container Object Storage Interface (COSI) project, as it enters the Alpha phase of the maturity cycle. The discussion dives into the need for a different Object Storage standard, how it works with Kubernetes, the vision of the community, and how people/vendors can contribute to the ecosystem. Show links Acorn Labs - https://venturebeat.com/programming-development/open-source-acorn-takes-a...
Aug 20, 2022•57 min
In this week's episodes Bhavin and Ryan dive into the three different operators that MongoDB has for deploying and managing MongoDB with Kubernetes with Developer Advocates Joel Lord & Cedric Clyburn. Come learn about the different ways you can get started using MongoDB with Kubernetes, lessons learned getting started and how to use MongoDB's multi-cloud database service, Atlas. Show Links News Mirantis acquires Amazee.io : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220726005393/en/Mirantis-Ac...
Aug 05, 2022•50 min
In this episode, Bhavin interviews Scott Lowe, a Principal Field Engineer at Kong. The discussion dives into what is Cluster API, how it works, and how it helps users deploy Kubernetes clusters at scale using simple YAML files. We also talk about the different components of the Cluster API project and discuss the new features introduced by the community. Show Notes: 1. Scott Lowe - https://twitter.com/scott_lowe Blog - https://bl...
Jul 20, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 15
This Episode In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview CTO of Speedscale Matt LeRay, a testing service that can collect and replay traffic without scripting, to simulate load and chaos, measure performance for Kubernetes workloads. Learn what Speedscale is, what kind of data is works and how it can be used in Kubernetes for various API driven applications. Weekly News Links Trivy 0.29.0 release - RBAC scanning and Config scans for Helm charts - Bhavin https://blog.aquasec.com/trivy-v0.29.0-rbac...
Jul 08, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 14
In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Rick Spencer, VP of Products at InfluxData, previously the VP of Platforms for InfluxData. The discussion focuses on InfluxData, creator of InfluxDB, and how they help customers looking for a Time-Series database solution. Rick talks about the interesting IoT and Edge computing use cases, and how getting that real-time sensor information can be transformational for customers. In the second half of the discussion, we focus on how InfluxDB cloud runs acro...
Jun 23, 2022•53 min•Season 2Ep. 13
In this episode, Bhavin interviews Brad Ascar, Principal Product Manager at Redis, focusing on all things containers and Kubernetes. The discussion dives into the higher-level architecture of Redis, how to deploy a Redis cluster on Kubernetes using the Redis Operator, and what are some of the benefits and challenges of running Redis on Kubernetes. We also talk about how you can upgrade, scale and manage your Redis clusters on Kubernetes, and how you can architect a Geo-distributed Active-Active ...
Jun 10, 2022•39 min•Season 2Ep. 12
In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin talk about Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 and discuss all the vendor announcements from the past couple of weeks. Kubecon Europe had close to 7500 attendees and shows a continuous increase in the adoption of containers and Kubernetes. Below, you can find links to the things discussed during the podcast: The State of Cloud-Native Development Report - Q3 2021 (came out in May 2022): https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Q3-2021-State-of-Cloud-N...
May 27, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 11
In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin go back to school and talk about Backup and Restore 101 when it comes to Kubernetes and containerized applications. We discuss why Backup is important, why you need a new approach for Kubernetes, and how do you plan for things like Kubernetes operators and custom resources. We also talk about how backup tools can help you protect from ransomware attacks and look at managed backup solutions to help alleviate administrative tasks when it comes to building and maint...
May 13, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 10
In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Andrew Sillifant, a solution architect at Pure Storage working on all things databases and solutions. The discussion starts by talking about Andrew's early days with the LAMP stack, and how he sees the community evolve around containers and Kubernetes. We dive into the MySQL Operator and how it helps Kubernetes operators or developers deploy MySQL InnoDB clusters using simple YAML files. We talk about the benefits and challenges associated with running ...
Apr 28, 2022•48 min•Season 2Ep. 9
In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Patrick McFadin, VP of Developer Relations at Datastax, who is a co-author of the upcoming O’Reilly book “Managing Cloud-Native Data on Kubernetes” and a contributor to the Apache Cassandra project. The discussion dives into how K8ssandra helps users deploy Cassandra on Kubernetes clusters, and how customers are using Cassandra as the NoSQL, Distributed DB backend for their applications. We talk about the challenges, benefits, and best practices for run...
Apr 14, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 8
In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Bhavin and Ryan talk to the Co-founder & CTO of ContainIQ Matt Lenhard to dive into eBPF and what role it plays in the Kubernetes observability ecosystem. Learn about what eBPF is, what use cases it is used for and how you can get started learning more. Show News links https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/introducing-red-hat-openshift-4.10 https://thenewstack.io/nsa-on-how-to-harden-kubernetes/ https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/cr8escape-new-vulnera...
Mar 30, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 7
In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Gabriele Bartolini, a PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes enthusiast, who is VP of Cloud-Native at EDB. He is a co-founder of PostgreSQL Europe, a founding member of Barman. The discussion dives into how Postgres has evolved over the past 20 years, and how people can now run Postgres on Kubernetes. We talk about the challenges, benefits, and best practices for running Postgres on Kubernetes, and what users can look forward to in the near future. Show links: Gabr...
Mar 17, 2022•52 min•Season 2Ep. 6
In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes hosts Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner discuss Kubernetes Operators and how they use persistent storage. Operators are software control loops that extend Kubernetes to automate and provide ease of use for application such as databases. Learn about some database operators and how they utilize storage. Check out our Pod Page! https://www.podpage.com/kubernetes-bytes/ Show links https://blog.kubecost.com/blog/series-a-funding-announcement/ https://www.c...
Mar 02, 2022•34 min•Season 2Ep. 5
In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Vineeth Pothulapati, a product manager at Timescale, and talk about Kubernetes Observability. The discussion dives into what are the three pillars for Observability and how users can leverage different CNCF and Open-source tools like Prometheus, Promscale, and tobs - The Observability Stack for Kubernetes to get started with Observability. Show links: Vineeth Pothulapati: https://twitter.com/VineethReddy02 https://opentelemetry.io/ Promscale - htt...
Feb 17, 2022•51 min•Season 2Ep. 4
In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Xing Yang, Tech Lead at VMware and a co-chair of the CNCF Storage TAG, a co-chair of the Kubernetes Storage SIG, a co-chair of the Data Protection WG in Kubernetes, and a maintainer in Kubernetes CSI. The discussion dives into how Kubernetes SIGs and WGs collaborate, and how people can get started. We also talk about storage features and enhancements introduced in Kubernetes version 1.23 and features and enhancements planned for the Kubernetes 1.24 rele...
Feb 04, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In todays episode of KubernetesBytes, hosts Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah discuss the basic of running distributed databases like Apache Cassandra and Kafka along with Mongo, CockroachDB and others on Kubernetes. There are various capabilities of Kubernetes that were designed for these types of data services and this podcast should help you get a basic understanding of the landscape as well as WHY you may want to run them on Kubernetes. Show Links: https://thenewstack.io/new-tools-for-optimizing-...
Jan 20, 2022•37 min•Season 2Ep. 2
In this first episode of season 2, Bhavin and Ryan interview Kenny Coleman a Technical Product Manager at VMWare working with Tanzu. This episode dives into what Tanzu is, how to get started, what day 1 and day 2 solutions there are as well as where to learn more. Show Links: https://kube.academy/ https://twitter.com/vmwaretanzu?lang=en https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/ https://bourbonpursuit.com/ ...
Jan 05, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 1
NOTE ON AUDIO ISSUES: we had some audio difficulties this episode, these will be fixed in future episodes. In this episode, hosts Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner dive into Kubernetes object. They discuss topics such as What is a Kubernetes object? and What Kubernetes objects use storage? This episode will help listeners understand the different workload object resources in Kubernetes and how they consume and define storage resources. Show Links https://sysdig.com/blog/kubernetes-1-23-whats-new/ htt...
Dec 08, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Luay Alem, an enterprise solution architect at Portworx. Luay is a Kubernetes enthusiast, working with Cloud Native and Open Source technologies helping customers with their digital transformation journey. The discussion dives into challenges associated with running Kubernetes on AWS, the different storage options available, and how customers are leveraging Portworx for their Data Management, Data Migration, and Disaster Recovery needs. Show Links: 1. P...
Nov 24, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Michael Cade, a community first technologist for Kasten by Veeam. Michael has been in the industry for over 16 years, with a key focus on technologies such as cloud-native, automation, and data management. The discussion dives into challenges associated with managing data on Kubernetes and how data protection and disaster recovery solutions have changed from virtual machines to containers. Show links: Michael Cade: https://twitter.com/MichaelCade1...
Nov 10, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, hosts Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner recap their experiences with KubeCon North America 2021. The hosts talk about their opinions in regards to the overall success of KubeCon NA 2021, their first-hand experiences both in-person as well as virtual and the various as news and announcements that relate to using data on Kubernetes. Show Links https://kubebyexample.com/> https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2021/10/13/entry-level-kubernetes-certification-to-help-adv...
Oct 28, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In this episode, Bhavin and Ryan interview Kai Davenport who has been running Kubernetes in GKE to host various projects. Kai is a developer and an operator rolled into one and tells us about his lessons learned and experience running Kubernetes as a team of one. The discussion dives into Kubernetes as an abstraction, how to manage backups of applications and data, when to use quotas and more. Show Links https://github.com/binocarlos CNCF Kanister Presentation OpenEBS 3.0 ( release ) Stora...
Oct 13, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this episode, Bhavin and Ryan interview Umair Mufti, the product owner of Portworx Data Services; the new database as a service for Kubernetes. They discuss Umair's experience at Dreamworks Animation creating a database as a service platform as well as why he felt is was necessary to build it and some of the lessons learned along the way. Show links https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/01/11/why-is-storage-on-kubernetes-is-so-hard/ https://www.dataversity.net/data-container-architecture-...
Sep 29, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In today’s episode we explore the topic of data management on various Kubernetes orchestration systems. We have Andy Gower on the podcast as our first guest Who has a background in solutions. He previously worked at SONY Playstation and IBM and now works on solutions for Pure Storage. We’re excited to have him on the podcast to talk about some experience he has working with different orchestration systems. We talk with Andy about his past experience at IBM and explore what Kubernetes data ...
Sep 16, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, the hosts explore the topic of Cloud Native Storage vs Traditional Storage. If you are curious what Cloud Native Storage is, how it may be different from traditional SAN and NAS or are interested in why the abstractions introduced by containers, docker and Kubernetes are driving change in how applications consume storage, then this episode is for you. Show Links https://www.openfaas.com/blog/faas-storage-cassandra-astra https://thenewstack.io/ibm-red-hat-brin...
Sep 01, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, the hosts explore the topic of Container and Kubernetes Storage 101. This podcast focuses on a beginner/101 level view of why containers need storage, how volumes were originally used by docker, how orchestration systems like Kubernetes needed to orchestrate volumes and what basic building blocks are used in Kubernetes to manage persistent storage. This episode is a great way to familiarize listeners with a little bit of container and volume history as well a...
Aug 18, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In this pilot episode of Kubernetes Bytes, meet co-hosts Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner as they introduce the Kubernetes Bytes podcast. Learn about Bhavin and Ryan and their backgrounds as well as get sneak peak into some of the topics they plan on covering in future episodes. They cover some recent cloud native data management news such as Kubernetes 1.22 CSI for Windows becoming GA, Portworx 2.8.0, PX-Backup 2.0.0 and how the recent NSA Kubernetes Hardening guide can apply to the security of you...
Aug 05, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Trailer for "Kubernetes Bytes" Kubernetes Bytes is a podcast bringing you the latest from the world of cloud native data management. Hosts Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah come to you from Boston, Massachusetts with experienced backgrounds in cloud-native tech. They'll be sharing their thoughts on recent cloud native news and talking to industry experts about their experiences and challenges managing the wealth of data in today's cloud-native ecosystem.
Aug 02, 2021•31 sec
