We finally scheduled some time to talk to David Oppenheimer . David, a software engininer at Google, has been working on scheduling there since 2007, including on both Borg and Omega. That experience naturally led to him working on the Kubernetes scheduler, as well as starting SIG Scheduling. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Last week’s discussion about ice c...
Jul 28, 2020•45 min•Ep 114•Transcript available on Metacast Released on the same day as Kubernetes, cadvisor is a container monitoring daemon that collects metrics and serves them to monitoring tools. It’s built into the Kubelet, and underpins many components in Kubernetes, such as eviction and autoscaling. David Ashpole of Google Cloud is TL of Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation, and the maintainer of cadvisor; he joins Adam and Craig this week to explain where instrumentation fits in the stack, and what you should do as a Kubernetes maintainer vs. a cluste...
Jul 21, 2020•35 min•Ep 113•Transcript available on Metacast An open source license grants rights on copyright and patents, but not trademarks. Chris DiBona has some ideas on how to address that. He has spent his career in open source, including over 15 years running Google’s Open Source Programs Office, and is one of the directors of the new Open Usage Commons . It launched last week with three projects - Angular, Gerrit and Istio - transferring their trademarks. Chris joins Adam and Craig to talk about Google’s work in open source, and why a new organis...
Jul 15, 2020•50 min•Ep 112•Transcript available on Metacast Before Kubernetes was launched, it could have at most 25 nodes in a cluster. At 1.0, the target was 100. Meanwhile, Borg, Omega and Mesos were all running away at 10,000. What did it take to get Kubernetes to this number, and above? SIG Scalability and GKE Tech Lead Wojciech Tyczynski tells us. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Follow-up: Chairs, from Episode ...
Jul 07, 2020•35 min•Ep 111•Transcript available on Metacast Over the past 20 years, Mirantis has grown from an outsourcing company for semiconductor engineers to a product company that is the new home of Docker Enterprise. Past and present CEO and “co-founder” Adrian Ionel oversaw Mirantis’s adoption of OpenStack and purchase of Docker’s enterprise business, and he joins the show to discuss them both. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Cha...
Jul 01, 2020•42 min•Ep 110•Transcript available on Metacast Last week Loodse, the makers of the Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform, made that platform open source, and rebranded their company to match. Co-founder Sebastian Scheele joins us to explain how the company and platform came about, why they’ve made their changes, and what exactly a Loodse was anyway. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Docker for the new Arm Macs Ti...
Jun 24, 2020•36 min•Ep 109•Transcript available on Metacast Two years ago, Sarah Wells from the Financial Times gave a KubeCon EU keynote about how the company moved from monolith to microservices, and how her Content and Metadata platform team moved to Kubernetes specifically. She joins hosts Adam and Craig to recap that migration, and what life has been like since. As Sarah has moved to a broader role in charge of all observability for The FT, she also invited Dimitar Terziev , the current platform lead for the CM team, to the conversation. Do you have...
Jun 17, 2020•46 min•Ep 108•Transcript available on Metacast After 5 years at the helm of the CNCF, executive director Dan Kohn is stepping down to launch a new Public Health initiative. The new General Manager of the CNCF is Priyanka Sharma , who joins our show today. Priyanka tells Craig and Adam what to expect, talks about virtual events, and gives some hints on how to rename projects. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the we...
Jun 10, 2020•40 min•Ep 107•Transcript available on Metacast In a world where pods (and IP addresses) come and go, DNS is a critical component. John Belamaric is a Senior SWE at Google, a co-chair of Kubernetes SIG Architecture, a Core Maintainer of the CoreDNS project and author of the O’Reilly Media book Learning CoreDNS: Configuring DNS for Cloud Native Environments. He joins Craig and Adam to discuss CoreDNS, the evolution of DNS in Kubernetes, and how name resolution has been made more reliable in recent releases. Do you have something cool to share?...
Jun 02, 2020•50 min•Ep 106•Transcript available on Metacast Over the last 10 years, Cloud Foundry has grown from “open Heroku clone” to “software used at your bank”. The Cloud Foundry Foundation and the CNCF launched within a few months of each other in 2015, and the two worlds are now colliding as Cloud Foundry replatforms on top of Kubernetes. Our guest this week is the Executive Director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, Chip Childers . He talks to Adam and Craig about foundations, the boredom of infrastructure, and the cost of every line of code you w...
May 26, 2020•46 min•Ep 105•Transcript available on Metacast SIG Network is completely rethinking the way you define groupings of applications (Service) and get traffic sent to them (Ingress) by building the Service APIs, a new set of primitives which are better suited to how different groups of users interact with them. Bowei Du is a Tech Lead on GKE and a member of SIG Network who is leading the design and implementation of these new APIs, as well as working on getting Ingress to GA in Kubernetes 1.19. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions...
May 20, 2020•49 min•Ep 104•Transcript available on Metacast More gripping than a crime scene in Las Vegas, the Container Storage Interface (CSI) lets vendors interface with Kubernetes. Saad Ali from Google led development of Kubernetes storage, including the CSI and volume subsystem. He joins hosts Adam and Craig for an in-depth look at how storage works in Kubernetes. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Adam’s puzzle Ho...
May 12, 2020•54 min•Ep 103•Transcript available on Metacast In celebration of Helm graduating to a top-level CNCF project, Adam and Craig . talk to its creator and primary architect, Matt Butcher of the Deis Labs team at Microsoft Azure. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Adam talks about these baby wipes Craig talks about these baby wipes News of the week Red Hat Virtual Summit news : OpenShift 4.4 OpenShift Serverless...
May 05, 2020•44 min•Ep 102•Transcript available on Metacast Tim Hinrichs and Torin Sandall are the creators of Open Policy Agent (OPA), a project which allows policy to be integrated with popular cloud native software (including Kubernetes and Envoy) or anything you write yourself. Adam and Craig discuss OPA with Tim and Torin after the news of the week. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week The cupboard was bare Marmite i...
Apr 28, 2020•46 min•Ep 101•Transcript available on Metacast To celebrate our 100th episode we welcome back our first ever guest, Paris Pittman, open source program manager at Google Cloud and member of the Kubernetes steering committee - among many other roles. Along with hosts Adam and Craig , Paris looks at how the community has changed and how it has stayed the same, and how other projects are able to adopt learnings from Kubernetes. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@go...
Apr 21, 2020•43 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast kpt (“kept”) is a new open-source tool for Kubernetes packaging built by Google Cloud. Morten Torkildsen is an engineer at Google, focusing on configuration management and the workloads APIs, and he worked on Kpt. He explains it to Adam, while Craig fills his mind with penguins. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week The Easter Bunny is an Essential Worker in New Z...
Apr 14, 2020•29 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast Apache Cassandra, a scale-out datastore, is becoming more Kubernetes-native. Sam Ramji is Chief Strategy Officer at DataStax, a company that builds Cassandra-based products. He explains how DataStax has pivoted back towards supporting upstream Cassandra, and how they’re making it easier to manage on Kubernetes. As always, we also cover the news of the week, and we look at what is and is not a dinosaur. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com m...
Apr 07, 2020•50 min•Ep 98•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•48 min•Ep 97•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Shoe Dog What ...
Mar 24, 2020•34 min•Ep 96•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Getting toilet paper be like So, stay at home and play with free synth apps! Ko...
Mar 17, 2020•30 min•Ep 95•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Castlevania series 3 on Net...
Mar 10, 2020•35 min•Ep 94•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Over the Road Over The Top and its amazing poster 13 Minutes to the Moo...
Mar 03, 2020•27 min•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Printer networking HP JetDirect USB Type B The mess ...
Feb 25, 2020•31 min•Ep 92•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•36 min•Ep 91•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespo...
Feb 11, 2020•41 min•Ep 90•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•31 min•Ep 89•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Bad news from both A...
Jan 28, 2020•30 min•Ep 88•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Wi...
Jan 21, 2020•37 min•Ep 87•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•44 min•Ep 86•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.c...
Jan 07, 2020•47 min•Ep 85•Transcript available on Metacast 
