It’s Kubernetes release day! The team that launched v1.22 of everyone’s favourite cluster management software was led by Savitha Raghunathan , Senior Platform Engineer at MathWorks. Savitha joins host Craig Box to talk contribution, containers and cricket. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Life before smartphones Dark Sky, hyperlocal weather app Karl the Fog U...
Aug 05, 2021•46 min•Ep. 157
Sebastien Pahl is a pioneer of container technology, building the predecessor to Docker as a co-founder of Dotcloud. After working at some big tech companies, he’s back to the startup life as co-founder of Opstrace , a fully open source observability distribution, built on top of the tools you know and love. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Pictograms Korea o...
Jul 28, 2021•41 min•Ep. 156
The idea of software supply chain security rocketed into the public consciousness in the last year, with the news that US government agencies had been breached. Priya Wadhwa is a software engineer at Google working on open source security, including projects to secure and verify container deployments. She outlines what is being done to make sure this doesn’t happen to you. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google....
Jul 23, 2021•36 min•Ep. 155
Gatekeeper is an open source project which lets you enforce policy in a Kubernetes cluster. It’s also the basis for Policy Controller, a hosted and managed version now available for all GKE users. Max Smythe , a senior SWE at Google, is a maintainer of Gatekeeper and the TL of Policy Controller. He joins us to talk constraints, config and Cruise. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod...
Jul 15, 2021•40 min•Ep. 154
Debugging Kubernetes often involves correlating what happened just before something went bad. Itiel Shwartz is a co-founder of Komodor, a startup who builds a platform to help with exactly that. We talk Hebrew names, Hungarian dogs and German car crashes. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Jimmy Moore steps out from behind the scenes Conan O’Brien Needs A Frien...
Jul 09, 2021•43 min•Ep. 153
Steve McGhee worked as an SRE at Google for almost 10 years, then took a job outside the company. He was tasked with recreating “Google Production” and SRE practice from first principals, but with three books, modern cloud providers, and the entire Kubernetes ecosystem to help. How did he do? Learn about that which you can and can’t replace. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chat...
Jun 18, 2021•46 min•Ep. 152
NVIDIA and Google have teamed up to bring the new Multi-Instance GPU feature, launched with the NVIDIA A100, to GKE. We speak to Kevin Klues from NVIDIA and Pradeep Venkatachalam from Google Cloud on how and why people use GPUs, optimising instance shapes for machine learning, and why less is often 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 Episode 64, with Sarah...
Jun 11, 2021•31 min•Ep. 151
Pixie Labs built an observabiity platform for Kubernetes, which uses eBPF to get telemetry without user intervention. They were recently acquired by New Relic, who open sourced the Pixie software. Co-founders Zain Asgar and Ishan Mukherjee join Craig Box to tell the story and talk about what’s next. Guest host Alex Ellis tends his garden. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter...
May 13, 2021•40 min•Ep. 150
A small army of community volunteers is necessary to host a KubeCon, but behind them is a professional events team. Colleen Mickey is Director of Event Services at the Linux Foundation and is responsible for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, as well as other events like Hyperledger Global Forum and cdCon. She talks to us about hosting, feeding and watering 10,000 people, as well as the change to virtual events. We also bring the round-up of the KubeCon news, including our famous Lightning Round. Do you ...
May 06, 2021•32 min•Ep. 149
Liqo is short for Liquid Computing. It’s a tool for extending Kubernetes onto others clusters, developed at the Polytechnic University of Turin. Research assistant and Liqo co-creator Alex Palesandro is our guest this week. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 64 with Sarah D’Angelo and Patrick Flynn Three years ago today James Strachan , James Rawlings a...
Apr 30, 2021•35 min•Ep. 148
Brian Singer co-founded Orbitera, which was acquired by Google in 2016. During that process he met Kit Merker , who was a PM on GKE and the GCP Marketplace, and the two are now working togther on relability engineering startup Nobl9. We talk about migrating Orbitera to GKE and Google’s SRE platform, and how many 9s are too many. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the we...
Apr 23, 2021•47 min•Ep. 147
Celebrate the release of Kubernetes 1.21 with release team lead Nabarun Pal from VMware. Nabarun talks about choosing between “hardware” and software, additions and removals from Kubernetes 1.21, and how the Kubernetes project has become more welcoming to people outside the USA. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Moscone Center vaccination site Monday morning w...
Apr 15, 2021•40 min•Ep. 146
We conclude our two-part conversation with Weaveworks co-founder Alexis Richardson , picking up when the company received Series A investment in December 2014. Since then, they built projects like Scope , Cortex and Flux as well as SaaS offerings based on them. We also look at Alexis’s role in the founding of the CNCF. Please be sure to listen to the first part before this one! Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@go...
Apr 08, 2021•47 min•Ep. 145
We’re trying something new! In Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Weaveworks co-founder Alexis Richardson , we have a wide ranging conversation about career choices, finance, founding and selling tech companies, and the dangers of being pigeon-holed based on the first project your company releases. Next week we’ll finish the conversation by talking about Weave projects like Flux and Cortex , as well as their SaaS offerings, the founding of the CNCF, and whether Weave built the platform they ...
Mar 31, 2021•45 min•Ep. 144
Grant Miller is the co-founder and CEO of Replicated, which helps operationalize and scale the delivery of Kubernetes-based apps into the enterprise. We look at what it means to be enterprise software in a SaaS world, and we also get some 2021 predictions from guest host Liz Rice . Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 19, with Liz Rice Episode 133, with T...
Mar 24, 2021•48 min•Ep. 143
If you’d like something more tangible than a virtual cloud instance, there’s always (still!) bare metal. Tinkerbell is a project from Equinix Metal to manage bare metal servers at scale, and Gianluca Arbezzano is one of its maintainers. We talk stacks, racks and MACs. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 11, with Vic Iglesias Vic lives here , but not here...
Mar 17, 2021•45 min•Ep. 142
Crossplane lets you automate creation of infrastructure using Kubernetes APIs. Daniel Mangum is a Crossplane maintainer working at its creator Upbound, a TL of Kubernetes SIG Release, and a YouTube streaming star. He chats about tech with host Craig Box , who is helped this week by returning guest Ken Massada from GKE’s Support team. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of t...
Mar 10, 2021•48 min•Ep. 141
Kamil Potrec is a Senior Security Engineer at Snyk, working on security around Kubernetes and cloud platforms. He joins the show to discuss how to think about securing your infrastructure, the different arts (and colors) of offensive and defensive security, and what not to lose sleep over. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 23, with Andrew Philips and L...
Mar 03, 2021•40 min•Ep. 140
Today Google Cloud introduced GKE Autopilot, a new mode of operation where you no longer manage or configure nodes, and you pay per-pod, per-second. Craig talks Autopilot with GKE product manager Yochay Kiriaty . Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 86, with Lin Sun Istio boat meetup at KubeCon NA 2019 IstioCon 2021 Craig and Lin’s session Jeff from Coupl...
Feb 25, 2021•36 min•Ep. 139
This week we talk multi-cluster services with Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson , co-chair of the Kubernetes Multicluster SIG, and tech lead on the Google Kubernetes Engine platform team. Guest host Tim Hockin shows us the way. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 41, with Tim Hockin The Machete Order John Boyega on Star Wars News of the week Istio 1.9 IstioCon 202...
Feb 16, 2021•26 min•Ep. 138
Michael Gerstenhaber is a Director of Product Management at Datadog, and the curator of their annual Container Report. He joins Craig to discuss why they release it, some recent trends, and how it helps people validate their assumptions about technology. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 103, with Saad Ali New TOC members Episode 62, with Ricardo Rocha...
Feb 09, 2021•38 min•Ep. 137
Backstage is a platform for building developer portals, powered by a centralized service catalog. It was built at Spotify and both open sourced and donated to the CNCF in 2020. A Kubernetes plugin was recently added. We talk to maintainers Lee Mills and Matt Clarke from Spotify. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 106, with John Belamaric Production Read...
Feb 02, 2021•27 min•Ep. 136
Josh Bernstein has worked at a number of infrastructure roles before recently landing at Google. He talks about migrating Siri from AWS (pre-acqusition) to VMware to Mesos, and Dell EMC’s work building what would become the Container Storage Interface. Guest host Jasmine Jaksic talks with Craig about snowcreatures. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 15,...
Jan 26, 2021•38 min•Ep. 135
After building the Eclipse IDE and Twitter’s Open Source office, Chris Aniszcyzk bootstrapped the CNCF, joining its parent the Linux Foundation in 2015. He’s now a VP of DevRel there, as well as CTO at the CNCF and Executive Director of the Open Container Initiative. Chris joins us to share his technology journey and Cloud Native predictions for 2021. And all that is now And all that is gone And all that’s to come And everything under the sun is in tune But the sun is eclipsed by the moon Do you...
Jan 19, 2021•39 min•Ep. 134
Thomas Graf is the inventor of Cilium and the co-founder of Isovalent. Cilium is a container networking plugin built on top of eBPF, bringing modern SDN technologies to accelerate your pods. Adam and Craig also discuss the many uses of Christmas trees. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Christmas trees: Keep clear ( mostly ) Culinary uses Discussed in episodes ...
Jan 12, 2021•41 min•Ep. 133
Akri is a recent open source project launched by Microsoft to manage edge devices. Kate Goldenring is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Edge OS team and an Akri maintainer. She joins our final show of 2020 to talk about how to use Kubernetes to manage devices that can’t run 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 Reventure Kurstin X Grohl Puppy for Hanu...
Dec 16, 2020•31 min•Ep. 132
The final — and raddest — Kubernetes release of 2020 is 1.20. This week, Craig and Adam talk to its release team lead, Jeremy Rickard from VMware. Jeremy talks about migrating to newer Kubernetes versions, sooner or later; what was added, what was deprecated, and what that really means; and what happens when you Google your own nane. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of t...
Dec 08, 2020•45 min•Ep. 131
Join us for all the news from KubeCon NA 2020, and a conversation with conference co-chair Stephen Augustus . Stephen is a Senior Open Source Engineer on the VMware Tanzu team, a chair of Kubernetes’ SIG Release, and a leader in many other parts of the project, past and present. 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 kākāpō wins Bird of the Year We’re off for 2...
Nov 18, 2020•53 min•Ep. 130
Thomas Rampelberg is a software engineer with Buoyant, creators of Linkerd, and a core maintainer of that project. He is also a co-author of the Service Mesh Interface and co-creator of DC/OS. He joins Craig and Adam to talk about the two former, and pour one out for the latter. 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 BBC on Sean Connery Noreen Malone on Alex Tr...
Nov 10, 2020•36 min•Ep. 129
For pods to talk to each other in Kubernetes, you need a virtual network. Antonin Bas is a staff engineer at VMware and a maintainer of Project Antrea; a CNI plugin which provides such a network. He talks to Adam and Craig about encapsulation, virtualisation, and 10,000 year old Finnish artifacts. 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 top Halloween light ...
Nov 03, 2020•38 min•Ep. 128
