De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast

In this episode, recorded live at KubeCon, Ronald and Jan talk with Jannis Relakis and Michael Seiwald-McCarty, both senior platform engineers at Celonis. Celonis manages over 150 Kubernetes clusters across GKE, AKS, and EKS, but it wasn't always that clean. They started with six different Kubernetes flavors, including Gardener, K-Ops, and OpenShift (both Rosa and ARO), spread across multiple...

In this episode, Ronald and Jan sit down with Luigi Nardi, founder and CEO of DB tune, at KubeCon. Luigi brings a rare mix of academic depth (PhD in computer science, postdocs at Imperial College London and Stanford, professor at Lund University) and startup pragmatism. The conversation digs into why database tuning is fundamentally a combinatorial optimization problem that humans aren't wire...

In this episode, hosts Ronald and Jan are joined at KubeCon by two guests from Red Hat: Brian Stevens, AI CTO and one of the original architects behind the creation of Kubernetes and the CNCF, and Rob Shaw, co-lead of the vLLM project and maintainer of LMD. Brian shares the remarkable backstory of how Kubernetes came to be open source, including how Red Hat negotiated a single committer seat befor...

In Episode 135 of the Dutch Kubernetes Podcast, Ronald Kers and Jan Stomphorst sit down with Mohamed Nasser, CEO of VEXXHOST and OpenInfra Foundation board member, together with Thierry Carrez, General Manager of the OpenInfra Foundation and Linux Foundation Europe. The conversation explores the growing relevance of OpenStack in a world increasingly focused on digital sovereignty, private cloud, A...

In episode 134, Ronald and Jan reconnect with Carl Moberg from Avassa , live from KubeCon Amsterdam, nearly two years after their first spontaneous conversation about edge computing. Since that first meeting, the edge landscape has evolved rapidly. What was once a niche topic has now become a serious focus area for industries ranging from retail and manufacturing to telecom and AI-driven infrastru...

In this episode, Ronald and Jan talk with Neil Cresswell , CEO, CTO, and co-founder of Portainer. Neil shares how Portainer started as a simple Docker UI and evolved into a platform for managing Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes environments at scale. A key topic in this episode is Kube Solo , a lightweight Kubernetes distribution that can run on roughly 200 MB of RAM . The goal is to make Kubernetes...

In this episode, Ronald and Jan are joined by Nigel Douglas, Head of Developer Relations at Cloudsmith, to discuss the upcoming Kubernetes 1.36 release and the broader evolution of the Kubernetes ecosystem. Nigel shares his journey from help desk and cybersecurity roles into open source, eventually working closely with Kubernetes through projects like Calico and Falco within the CNCF ecosystem.  T...

In this episode, Ronald and Jan talk with Zahra Dehghanpour (platform engineer at bol.com) and Feike Wierda (Senior DevOps Engineer @Bol. via HCS Company) about software supply chain security in Kubernetes environments. Zahra shares her journey from development to platform engineering, driven by the constant challenges and unpredictability of working with infrastructure. Her earlier experience wor...

In this episode, Ronald and Jan are joined by Hannah Hawken, partner sales at Chainguard,  who brings a fresh perspective on something every Kubernetes team struggles with: security. What starts as a conversation about career paths quickly turns into a deeper discussion about how we’ve been approaching security all wrong for years. Coming from a background in development and later moving into secu...

In aflevering 129 spreken Ronald en Jan met Jan Buurman van HCS Company iemand die al sinds zijn 17e in de IT zit en de evolutie van mainframes tot Kubernetes van dichtbij heeft meegemaakt  Jan begon als COBOL-programmeur en groeide door richting organisatie, processen en platformstrategie  Vanuit die brede ervaring kijkt hij anders naar Kubernetes dan veel engineers: niet als eindoplossing, maar...

In this episode of The Dutch Kubernetes Podcast, Ronald and Jan are joined by Maurice Côté, VP of Products at Devolutions, to talk about one of the most misunderstood topics in modern IT security: Privileged Access Management (PAM). Too often, PAM is treated as a compliance checkbox. Something you buy because an auditor, insurer, or regulation tells you to. Maurice explains why that mindset is dan...

In this episode of The Dutch Kubernetes Podcast, Ronald and Jan talk with Yahya Al-Salqan, CEO and co-founder of Jaffa. Net Software, about building and scaling global software companies far beyond the traditional tech hubs. Yahya shares his personal journey from academia and Silicon Valley, where he worked at Sun Microsystems, back to Palestine to found Jaffa. Net. What started as a mission-drive...

In episode 126 of De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast, Ronald and Jan sit down with Chris Noon , Technical Solution Director at Alkira , to talk about one of the most underestimated challenges in cloud-native environments: networking . Chris shares his journey from traditional telco and enterprise networking, through VMware NSX, to modern cloud and Kubernetes platforms. The conversation dives deep i...

In this episode of The Dutch Kubernetes Podcast , Ronald and Jan sit down with Jussi Nummelin , Senior Principal Engineer at Mirantis , to explore the world of lightweight Kubernetes , edge computing , and multi-cluster orchestration . Jussi introduces k0s , a fully upstream Kubernetes distribution packaged as a single, statically compiled binary with zero dependencies. He explains why simplicity,...

In aflevering 124 van De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast bespreken Jan Stomphorst en Ronald Kers de nieuwste Kubernetes-release: versie 1.35 . Dit keer geen volledige lijst met alle wijzigingen, maar een bewuste keuze voor impactvolle features die in de praktijk het verschil maken. Een van de eerste onderwerpen is Image Max Age , een nieuwe kubelet-optie waarmee je expliciet kunt bepalen hoe lang o...

In this episode of The Dutch Kubernetes Podcast , Ronald and Jan talk with Andrea Giardini , cloud native consultant and trainer, live from Dutch Cloud Native Day . Andrea shares his journey into cloud and Kubernetes and dives deep into a real-world use case where Kubernetes, data engineering, and AI are used to help prevent wildfires . Andrea explains how his client Overstory uses satellite and a...

In deze aflevering spreken Ronald en Jan met Giorgia Fiscaletti, Cloud Reliability Engineer bij Adobe. Giorgia vertelt hoe ze vanuit een creatieve achtergrond — kunst en digital design — uiteindelijk in de wereld van cloud engineering en Kubernetes terechtkwam. Bij Adobe werkt Giorgia aan Adobe Experience Manager, een enorm platform dat draait op tientallen Kubernetes-clusters met honderden namesp...

In this episode of The Dutch Kubernetes Podcast , Ronald and Jan sit down with Soroosh Khodami to explore one of the most urgent questions in modern software engineering: are we truly ready for the next Log4Shell-level cyber crisis? Soroosh, a hands-on solution architect currently supporting security platform services at Rabobank, takes us deep into the evolving threat landscape. From classic vuln...

In this episode, we sit down with Luca Berton and Grzegorz (Greg) Stencel , authors of the brand-new book Kubernetes Recipes — a 400+ page cookbook packed with real, practical solutions for everyday Kubernetes challenges. Luca and Greg explain how the idea for the book started: most Kubernetes books do a great job explaining theory, but very few show how to solve the messy, real-world issues engin...

In this episode, we talk with Abdel Sghiouar and Mofi Rahman , Developer Advocates at Google and (guest) hosts of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google . Together, we dive into one central question: can you truly run LLMs reliably and at scale on Kubernetes? It quickly becomes clear that LLM workloads behave nothing like traditional web applications: GPUs are scarce, expensive, and difficult to sched...

In this episode of De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast , we talk with Travis Nielsen, one of the original creators of the Rook project, about the evolution of cloud-native storage and how Rook and Ceph make reliable, distributed storage accessible to Kubernetes users. Travis shares the story of how Rook started back in 2016 when Kubernetes was still young and how it became the bridge that made Ceph,...

In this episode of De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast , we talk with Jim Bugwadia, founder and CEO of Nirmata, and Shuting Zhao, Staff Engineer and one of the maintainers of Kyverno — the CNCF project for Kubernetes policy management. Jim and Shuting share how Kyverno was born from Nirmata’s commercial work and has since become one of the most widely adopted open source projects in Kubernetes gover...

In this episode of De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast , we talk with Carlos Santana , Principal Partner Solution Architect at AWS and long-time contributor to the Kubernetes and AI communities. Carlos joins us to explore what it really takes to run AI workloads on Kubernetes , from GPU scheduling to scaling inference and training efficiently across clusters. We discuss how AI and machine learning a...

In this episode of De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast, we talk with Mustafa Hadadian, PhD researcher at the University of Groningen and founder of startup CAIDEL. Mustafa shares his journey from video game development to big data and Kubernetes innovation, and how his latest work explores a powerful concept: bringing inheritance into Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs). We dive into his p...

In this episode, we sit down with Nicolas Fränkel , Developer Advocate at Loft Labs , to talk about two things every Cloud Native engineer should know in 2025: 🪵 OpenTelemetry Tracing and 🌀 vCluster . Nicolas helps us unpack why tracing is often the missing pillar of observability — and whether it might one day make traditional logs obsolete. We dive into: How traces , spans and sampling actuall...