When is it safe to run software? When is it safe to drink orange juice? Are we a better judge of one or the other? Santiago Torres-Arias is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University, the team lead of the in-toto project, and a contributor to The Update Framework . He joins Craig to talk security in both physical and software supply chains. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chat...
Mar 30, 2022•42 min•Ep 174•Transcript available on Metacast ThreatMapper is an open source tool that hunts for vulnerabilities in your production Kubernetes environment, and ranks them based on their risk of exploit. It is built by Deepfence, who also sell a commercial product based on it called ThreatStryker. Co-founder/CEO Sandeep Lahane and head of products/community Owen Garrett join Craig to discuss how to decide what to open and what to keep closed, and just how deep his fence needs to be. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us...
Mar 23, 2022•38 min•Ep 173•Transcript available on Metacast The Argo project is a set of four tools to help “get stuff done” with Kubernetes: Workflows, CD, Rollouts and Events. Jesse Suen is a creator of the Argo project and co-founder and CTO of Akuity, a company set up to provide commercial support for it. 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 Daylight saving time Container ship follow-up News of the week Backstage and ...
Mar 17, 2022•39 min•Ep 172•Transcript available on Metacast The fourth horseman of the apocalypse observability, according to Frederic Branczyk , is continuous profiling. Frederic is founder and CEO of Polar Signals and creator of the Parca open source project. He and Craig talk all things Cloud Native observability. 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 Australia: Shane Warne died National emergency called o...
Mar 09, 2022•42 min•Ep 171•Transcript available on Metacast Six years after its creation, Kubernetes is the subject of its very own documentary film. Job platform Honeypot has released. Josiah McGarvie was Honeypot’s head of video, and the lead filmmaker for Kubernetes: The Documentary . Join us for the director’s commentary. 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 Episode 21, with Ihor Dvoretski Ihor joins the army Donate t...
Mar 02, 2022•48 min•Ep 170•Transcript available on Metacast Anna Belak learned about containers and security as a Gartner industry analyst. She is now the Director of Thought Leadership at Sysdig, who have just published their latest annual Cloud Native Security and Usage Report. Anna joins Craig to dicuss the report’s findings. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod News of the week Chaos Mesh moves to Incubation in CNCF Episode 121, with Ed ...
Feb 23, 2022•33 min•Ep 169•Transcript available on Metacast We’re back for 2022 with a look at Rancher Desktop, which recently hit 1.0. Its creator, Matt Farina , is today’s guest. Matt is a Distinguished Engineer at SUSE, was a founding chair of Kubernetes SIG Apps, and was recently appointed to the CNCF TOC. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod News of the week Kubernetes: The Documentary Sysdig Cloud Native Security and Usage Report Ranch...
Feb 16, 2022•41 min•Ep 168•Transcript available on Metacast Learn all about what’s new in today’s Kubernetes 1.23 with its release team lead, Rey Lejano . Rey is a Field Engineer at SUSE/Rancher Labs , and a contributor to the Docs, Release and Security SIGs. Long time listener Adam also drops by to ask Craig what’s been happening with the hiatus. 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 Ted Lasso Filming locations Knative ap...
Dec 08, 2021•32 min•Ep 167•Transcript available on Metacast We celebrate the launch of Knative 1.0 with Ville Aikas , who has been with the project since the beginning. He was also with the Kubernetes team at the beginning, and thus we cannot resist a Pete Best comparison. We also celebrate Jimmy’s last show as our guest host with a rapid-fire Kubernetes quiz. 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 Jimmy graduates! CNCF Lan...
Nov 02, 2021•45 min•Ep 166•Transcript available on Metacast Jasmine James is an Engineering Manager within the Engineering Effectiveness organization at Twitter, focused on their internal developer experience. She is also the latest co-chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, starting with the North America event last week. Jasmine joins us to talk about being in the same room as other people - up to 3,000 of them - for the first time in a long while. The cover art for this show is courtesy of the CNCF and licensed under CC-BY . Do you have something cool to s...
Oct 21, 2021•44 min•Ep 165•Transcript available on Metacast Red Hat maintains a full set of container tools and libraries, bringing their pedigree in security and operating system engineering. The most notable of those tools, Podman , has had a surge in popularity this month, after Docker announced changes in their subscription model. Daniel Walsh leads the Red Hat containers team, and Brent Baude is the architect and primary maintainer of Podman. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernete...
Sep 24, 2021•54 min•Ep 164•Transcript available on Metacast Prodfiler is a new tool that provides fleet-wide full-system continuous profiling. It is in some ways the second act of its co-creator Thomas Dullien , who is an internationally-renowned reverse engineer and vulnerability researcher under the name Halvar Flake. Thomas joins us to discuss his career, what you should profile in a distributed system, and why you can’t sell something with a negative cost. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com ma...
Sep 17, 2021•43 min•Ep 163•Transcript available on Metacast The most popular Ingress controller for Kubernetes is ingress-nginx, created in 2015 by Alejandro de Brito Fontes . Alejandro stepped down earlier this year, and the project is now maintained by a team including Ricardo Katz . Learn the history and what’s in the new 1.0 release from a pair of South American self-proclaimed sysadmins. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of t...
Sep 09, 2021•44 min•Ep 162•Transcript available on Metacast Adevinta is an online classified ads company, operating many local brands. Daniel Megyesi is a DevOps engineer at Adevinta and maintainer of their central big data and Machine Learning platform, Unicron. Learn why they wanted to replace Mesos, how they aligned their engineering efforts to do so, and the choices that had to be made to provide an easy experience for their data engineers. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespo...
Sep 02, 2021•49 min•Ep 161•Transcript available on Metacast KEDA, the Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaler, is a project that adds superpowers to the Kubernetes horizontal pod autoscaler, including zero-to-one scaling. Celebrate KEDA reaching Incubation in the CNCF by listening to an interview with maintainer Tom Kerkhove from Codit. But first, learn about Craig’s worst concert experience. 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...
Aug 26, 2021•34 min•Ep 160•Transcript available on Metacast Kubernetes lets us manage our infrastructure declaratively, so why do we still manage the underlying OS with a myriad of different text files? And why allow shell and SSH access to a machine that should be immutable? So asked Andrew Rynhard before creating Talos, a Linux distribution built for Kubernetes. He’s now CTO of Talos Systems, a company founded to take it to market. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@googl...
Aug 19, 2021•43 min•Ep 159•Transcript available on Metacast What is a telecommunications provider, if not a very distributed system? Kubernetes is becoming an important engine for the world’s telcos, especially as they roll out 5G. Vuk Gojnic leads the team rolling out Kubernetes across Deutsche Telekom (the parent company of T-Mobile), and he tells us how the worlds of telco and cloud have converged. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Cha...
Aug 13, 2021•41 min•Ep 158•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Pictograms Korea o...
Jul 28, 2021•41 min•Ep 156•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod...
Jul 15, 2021•40 min•Ep 154•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chat...
Jun 18, 2021•46 min•Ep 152•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 64, with Sarah...
Jun 11, 2021•31 min•Ep 151•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter...
May 13, 2021•40 min•Ep 150•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the we...
Apr 23, 2021•47 min•Ep 147•Transcript available on Metacast 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: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Moscone Center vaccination site Monday morning w...
Apr 15, 2021•40 min•Ep 146•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 
