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Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Abdel Sghiouar, Kaslin Fieldskubernetespodcast.com
A weekly podcast focused on what's happening in the Kubernetes community hosted by Abdel Sghiouar and Kaslin Fields. We cover Kubernetes, cloud-native applications, and other developments in the ecosystem. Abdel and Kaslin on Twitter at @KubernetesPod or by email at [email protected].

Episodes

Jaeger, with Yuri Shkuro

Jaeger is a distributed tracing platform built at Uber, and open-sourced in 2016. It traces its evolution from a Google paper on distributed tracing, the OpenZipkin project, and the OpenTracing libraries. Yuri Shkuro , creator of Jaeger and author of Mastering Distributed Tracing , joins Craig and Adam to tell the story, and explain the hows and whys of distributed tracing. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google...

Mar 31, 202048 minEp. 97

Kubernetes 1.18, with Jorge Alarcon

Kubernetes 1.18 is out - almost! A bug has pushed it back a day. While you’re waiting, release team lead Jorge Alarcon will tell you all about the fit and finish you can expect in the release when it’s out tomorrow. Adam and Craig bring you the other community news of the week, as well as some podcast follow-up. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Shoe Dog What ...

Mar 24, 202034 minEp. 96

etcd, with Xiang Li

If you’re running Kubernetes, you’re running etcd. The distributed key-value store was started as an intern project at CoreOS by Xiang Li , who is still maintaining it but now working on infrastructure at Alibaba. Xiang joins your hosts to discuss. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Getting toilet paper be like So, stay at home and play with free synth apps! Ko...

Mar 17, 202030 minEp. 95

gRPC, with Richard Belleville

Richard Belleville works at Google on gRPC, a high-performance, universal RPC framework. Richard used gRPC before joining Google to work on it; he talks to the hosts about its history and derivation from Google’s internal Stubby, how it works, and how it differs from other RPC and messaging systems. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Castlevania series 3 on Net...

Mar 10, 202035 minEp. 94

Kubeflow 1.0, with Jeremy Lewi

Kubeflow, the Machine Learning toolkit for Kubernetes, has hit 1.0. Google software engineer Jeremy Lewi is a core contributor to Kubeflow and was a founder of the project. He joins the show to discuss what Kubeflow does, and what it means to have hit 1.0. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Over the Road Over The Top and its amazing poster 13 Minutes to the Moo...

Mar 03, 202027 minEp. 93

Accelerators and GPUs at NVIDIA, with Pramod Ramarao

GPUs do more than move shapes on a gamer’s screen - they increasingly move self-driving cars and 5G packets, running on Kubernetes. Pramod Ramarao is a Product Manager at NVIDIA, and joins your hosts to talk about accelerators, containers, drivers, machine learning and more. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Printer networking HP JetDirect USB Type B The mess ...

Feb 25, 202031 minEp. 92

eBPF and Falco, with Leonardo Di Donato

We dive into the Linux kernel this week with guest Leonardo Di Donato , Open Source engineer at Sysdig . Leonardo works full-time on the Falco project, a runtime security engine that listens to the Linux kernel using eBPF - the extended Berkeley Packet Filter. Leonardo tells the hosts about the architecture of eBPF, how he has used it before and now, and what’s coming up for Falco. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcas...

Feb 18, 202036 minEp. 91

CockroachDB, with Peter Mattis

Peter Mattis is a creator of the CockroachDB open source database and co-founder and CTO of Cockroach Labs. His history in open source goes back to the creation of the GIMP image editor and UI toolkit Gtk at university in 1995, and his history at Google saw him work on storage and build systems. Hosts Craig and Adam ask him about all of the above. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespo...

Feb 11, 202041 minEp. 90

GitLab, with Marin Jankovski

GitLab is a single application DevOps platform, including source code management and CI/CD tools for targets including Kubernetes. The application itself runs on Kubernetes, including in its largest installation, the SaaS version at gitlab.com. Marin Jankovski is an Engineering Manager at GitLab, where he was Employee #1. He joins Craig and Adam to talk about migrating to Kubernetes, remaining a monolith, and the company value of radical transparency. Do you have something cool to share? Some qu...

Feb 04, 202031 minEp. 89

VMs, Edge, and Platform9, with Madhura Maskasky

Madhura Maskasky is co-founder and VP of Product at Platform9, a company who manage both OpenStack and Kubernetes. She talks to Adam and Craig about the transition from VMs to containers, why OpenStack is still relevant, and what they have to do to be able to offer a 99.9% SLA on cloud-native applications. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Bad news from both A...

Jan 28, 202030 minEp. 88

Multitenancy at Cruise, with Karl Isenberg

Self-driving cars need self-driving backend infrastructure. Karl Isenberg is the tech lead & manager of the platform team at Cruise, a self-driving car company backed by GM and Honda. He joins hosts Craig and Adam to discuss two years of running multitenant Kubernetes. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Wi...

Jan 21, 202037 minEp. 87

Invention, IBM and Istio, with Lin Sun

What do you do next when you have over 150 patents to your name? Write a book, of course! Lin Sun is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM, where she has spent the past 14 years doing software engineering in areas including cloud and open technologies. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since 2017, and is on the Istio steering and technical oversight committees. Lin joins Adam and Craig to discuss invention, making Istio easier to use, and how being a mother has impact...

Jan 14, 202044 minEp. 86

OpenShift and Kubernetes, with Clayton Coleman

Five years ago, Clayton Coleman took a bet on a new open source project that Google was about to announce. He became the first external contributor to Kubernetes, and the architect of Red Hat’s reinvention of OpenShift from PaaS to “enterprise Kubernetes”. Hosts Adam Glick and Craig Box return for 2020 with the story of OpenShift, and their picks for Game of the Holidays. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected]...

Jan 07, 202047 minEp. 85

Monitoring, Metrics and M3, with Martin Mao and Rob Skillington

Martin Mao and Rob Skillington are co-founders of Chronosphere; CEO and CTO respectively. They both worked on the monitoring team at Uber, where they created M3: a metrics platform with an open source time-series database built for scale. They join Craig and Adam to talk about monitoring, metrics and M3 on the last episode of 2019. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the...

Dec 17, 201936 minEp. 84

Kubernetes 1.17, with Guinevere Saenger

Hop on the release train for the fourth and final Kubernetes release for 2019. Release manager Guinevere Saenger joins Adam and Craig . to discuss how a classically trained pianist has a second act as a Kubernetes release team lead. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Craig plays the Oculus Quest: Superhot Epic Roller Coasters Beat Saber Keep Talking and Nobody ...

Dec 10, 201933 minEp. 83

Chaos Engineering, with Ana Margarita Medina

Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting in identifying potential areas of failure before they express themselves in outages. Ana Margarita Medina is a Chaos Engineer and Developer Advocate at Gremlin , a chaos-as-a-service vendor that recently added Kubernetes support. She talks to Adam and Craig about the discipline, and her journey to it. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubern...

Dec 03, 201932 minEp. 82

Vitess, with Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane

Vitess is a cloud native database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. It was built for YouTube, open sourced, and has recently graduated from the CNCF. Two members of the team who wrote and ran Vitess at YouTube, Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane, are CEO and CTO of PlanetScale; a company they founded to support Vitess commercially. They join Craig and Adam to talk databases. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubern...

Nov 26, 201937 minEp. 81

Lyft and KubeCon NA 2019, with Vicki Cheung

Catch all the news (and there is a lot of it!) from KubeCon NA 2019 in this week’s show. We then talk to Vicki Cheung , the conference co-chair, and an Engineering Manager running Kubernetes infrastructure at Lyft. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod News of the week Docker sells its enterprise business: Mirantis press release Docker press release New Google Kubernetes Engine featu...

Nov 19, 201933 minEp. 80

Cloud Native Rejekts, with Chris Kühl

Due to overwhelming submission numbers, 85% of talks proposed to KubeCon are rejected. Cloud Native Rejekts , a two-day community conference immediately before KubeCon, gives a second chance to some of those talks. Chris Kühl is CEO and co-founder of Kinvolk, a Berlin-based Linux company, who organise events including Cloud Native Rejekts. Hosts Adam and Craig ask him about this, and somehow the discussion includes both Pearl Jam and Mötley Crüe. Do you have something cool to share? Some questio...

Nov 12, 201927 minEp. 79

KUDO, with Gerred Dillon

KUDO is the Kubernetes Universal Declarative Operator, a toolkit for writing operators for Kubernetes. Gerred Dillon works on KUDO at D2IQ, formerly Mesosphere, and joins Craig and Adam to discuss KUDO, how Mesos frameworks relate to Kubernetes operators, and taking care of chickens. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Little Free Libraries Top moments of 50 yea...

Nov 05, 201932 minEp. 78

Engineering Productivity and Testing, with Katharine Berry

Katharine Berry works in the Engineering Productivity team at Google Cloud, and works in SIG Testing on the Kubernetes project. She joins Adam and Craig to discuss Prow, Pebble and ponies. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week SkyCity Convention Centre Fire A nice dinner out after a conference England knock NZ out of the Rugby World Cup Cards Against Humanity to o...

Oct 29, 201925 minEp. 77

Pulumi, with Joe Duffy

Joe Duffy is the founder and CEO of Pulumi, an open-source cloud development platform. He joins Adam and Craig to explain why a general purpose programming language is a better tool for cloud infrastructure than a domain-specific language (or YAML), and how you can use Pulumi to provision cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes resources alike. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatt...

Oct 22, 201939 minEp. 76

cert-manager, with James Munnelly

cert-manager is a certificate management toolkit for Kubernetes, commonly used to get TLS certificates from Let’s Encrypt . Project founder James Munnelly of Jetstack joins hosts Craig and Adam to explain how how certificates are issued and managed, and how cert-manager automates it all. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Fast food-themed entertainment: Wendy’s...

Oct 15, 201941 minEp. 75

Community and Contributor Experience, with Jorge Castro

Jorge Castro is a community manager employed by VMware to help keep the Kubernetes project running smoothly. He joins Adam and Craig to talk about the programs run by SIG Contributor Experience, the difference between supporting contributors and end users, and the recent steering committee election. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week The Jordan Luck Band The Ex...

Oct 08, 201942 minEp. 74

CRDs, Extensibility and API Machinery, with Daniel Smith

Daniel Smith is co-Chair and co-TL of SIG API Machinery, as well as TL of the corresponding Google team. Daniel has been working on Kubernetes since before it was open sourced, and is one of the top overall contributors to the codebase. He joins Adam and Craig to discuss CRDs and extensibility. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Old Man’s Journey Rocketman Fune...

Oct 01, 201931 minEp. 73

Kubernetes 1.16, with Lachlan Evenson

Kubernetes 1.16 is out, and our guest this week is its release manager, Lachlan Evenson . Lachie is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft and an Australian living in the US; Craig and Adam are therefore method-interviewing, being this week in those two countries respectively. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week New Zealand: man brings clown to redundancy meet...

Sep 24, 201938 minEp. 72

containerd, with Derek McGowan

containerd was born from community desire for a core, standalone runtime to act as a piece of plumbing that applications like Kubernetes could use. It sits between command line tools like Docker, which it was spun out from, and lower-level runtimes like runC or gVisor, which execute the container’s code. This week’s guest is Derek McGowan , a Software Engineer at Docker and a containerd maintainer-d. Along with the news of the week, Adam and Craig discuss the many Vancouvers. Do you have somethi...

Sep 17, 201933 minEp. 71

Windows Server Containers, with Patrick Lang

Patrick Lang is the co-chair of the Kubernetes Windows SIG. He is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, developing Kubernetes and related open-source projects supporting Windows Server Containers. Patrick joins Adam and Craig to tell the story of how containers came to Windows. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Getting to the Peak Tram News of the week Kube...

Sep 11, 201939 minEp. 70

kind, with Ben Elder

kind stands for Kubernetes in Docker. Originally built for continuous integration (CI) and testing of Kubernetes itself, kind has found many uses, including acting as a cluster for bootstrapping other clusters. Original author Ben Elder from Google Cloud joins Craig and Adam to talk about it. Want to see Adam’s puzzles? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Adam’s new Seattle office building Example Quick Cryptic fr...

Sep 03, 201932 minEp. 69

Container Camp, with Angie Maguire

Container Camp is a series of independent conferences, spanning three continents and in their fifth year. “Camp mother” Angie Maguire is the co-organiser, and is also the founder of Ladies of Code. She joins Adam , who is yet to attend a Camp, but actually goes camping, and Craig , who has spoken at Camps in London and Sydney, and prefers hotels. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod...

Aug 27, 201930 minEp. 68