Ryan Wallner & Bhavin Shah

Kubernetes Bytes

Kubernetes Bytes is a podcast bringing you the latest from the world of cloud native data management. Hosts Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah come to you from Boston, Massachusetts with experienced backgrounds in cloud-native tech. They'll be sharing their thoughts on recent cloud native news and talking to industry experts about their experiences and challenges managing the wealth of data in today's cloud-native ecosystem.

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Ryan Wallner & Bhavin Shah

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Technology

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www.kubernetesbytes.com

Latest episode

Jul 2, 2026

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Episodes

Securing Kubernetes for the Mythos Era 02.07.2026

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin talks to Alex Zenla, Founder and CTO of Edera. The discussion starts by talking about why Alex and team decided to start Edera, where in the stack does it fit in, and how can it work with existing Kubernetes clusters. They also talk about GPU security, what Kubernetes DRA is, and how to plan for the new era of Mythos-class models. Listen to l...

More Code, More Problems: Software Delivery in the Agentic Era 18.06.2026

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin talks to Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI about all things Software Delivery. The discussion starts by talking about the evolution of Software Delivery over the last decade, but then dives into how Vibe coding impacts CI pipelines. Rob also shares his insights about running an AI-first engineering organization at CircleCI. Listen to learn more!&nbs...

Building Grafana Labs and the Future of Observability with Anthony Woods 29.05.2026

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin talks to Anthony Woods about all things Grafana Labs, Observability, Telemetry, and how AI impacts both of these ecosystems. The discussion starts off by talking about the early days of Grafana Labs, what is Adaptive Telemetry, and how AI plays a role both in building Observability capabilities in applications, and how it helps perform root c...

Kubernetes for VMware Admins: Understanding KubeVirt 06.03.2026

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Janakiram MSV about all things KubeVirt. The discussion starts off by talking about the need for KubeVirt and then dives into the details of the KubeVirt architecture, and what you need to do when deploying virtual machines on Kubernetes, including commercial solutions like Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and SUSE Virtualiza...

Secure your Kubernetes applications with Chainguard 09.02.2026

Join Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah for season 6 of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast. In this episode Bhavin talks to Adrian Mouat, Dev Rel at Chainguard about all things Kubernetes Security. They discuss CVEs, the different vulnerability databases, and how platform engineers can use Chainguard images to protect against CVEs.    Links:  https://www.chainguard.dev/ https://www.linkedi...

Diving Into Kubernetes: The Developer's First Steps with New Relic 25.03.2025

Join Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner as they speak with Jemiah Sius, Senior Director of Developer Relations at New Relic to talk about how to get started with learning about Kubernetes. They hosts and Jemiah explore how this has changed within the last 10 years as well as explore what are some good resources for learning and diving in.   Links    https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemiahsius/...

Database as a service with Percona Everest 03.03.2025

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Edith (Edi) Puclla, Technology Evangelist at Percona to talk about Percona Everest. The conversation focuses on Percona's investment in the Open-source ecosystem, and how they keep innovating with Percona Monitoring and Management and Percona Everest. The discussion also dives into how the community is expanding and sup...

KubeCon NA 2024 News Recap 18.12.2024

Join Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner for a recap of announcements and news from KubeCon North America 2024.   Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/  https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241119538933/en/Spectro-Cloud-Closes-75m-Series-C-Led-by-Growth-Equity-at-Goldman-Sachs-Alternatives https://northflank.com/blog/northflank-raises-22m-to-make-kubernetes-work-for-your-dev...

Increasing AI adoption using Kubernetes 06.12.2024

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Tobi Knaup, VP and General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix about all things Kubernetes and AI. The discussion focuses on how Kubernetes has evolved since the early days, and why it's architecture is a perfect fit for accelerating adoption of AI workloads inside organizations.    Check out our website at https://k...

Monolith to Microservices using Kubernetes at Guidewire 07.11.2024

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Diego Devalle and Anoop Gopalakrishnan from Guidewire to talk about how they went through an application modernization journey and adopted Kubernetes and cloud over the last 5 years.   Diego and Anoop share their experiences around how they drove this modernization inside Guidewire by both championing organiza...

Inference in Action: Scaling Al Smarter with Inferless 24.10.2024

In this episode, we sit down with Nilesh Agarwal, co-founder of Inferless, a platform designed to streamline serverless GPU inference. We’ll cover the evolving landscape of model deployment, explore open-source tools like KServe and Knative, and discuss how Inferless solves common bottlenecks, such as cold starts and scaling issues. We also take a closer look at real-world examples like CleanLab,...

Container security with Wiz 07.10.2024

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Ofir Cohen, CTO of Container Security at Wiz. The discussion focuses on the challenges with the cloud native security ecosystem, how organizations can improve their security posture, how developers can do less with more, and how Wiz helps organizations avoid security incidents. Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes...

Dagger.io Deep Dive with Co-Founder Sam Alba 23.09.2024

In this episode, we dive into the challenges of modern CI systems and why they often hinder productivity. We explore Dagger, a programmable CI/CD pipeline engine, with insights from Sam, a former Docker engineer. Learn how Dagger addresses CI complexity, speeds up workflows, and enhances portability between local environments and CI.   Show Links Dagger.io  https://docs.dagger.io/  ...

Running Ray on Kubernetes with KubeRay 05.09.2024

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Kai-Hsun Chen, Software Engineer at Anyscale and maintainer of the KubeRay project. The discussion focuses on how the open source Ray project can help organizations use a single tool for data prep, model training, fine tuning and model serving workflows, both for their predictive AI and generative AI models. The discussion also...

Building scalable data platforms using Data on EKS 22.08.2024

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Alex Lines and Vara Bonthu from AWS to talk about the Data on EKS project. The discussion dives into why AWS decided to build the Data on EKS project and provide patterns for EKS customers to use to deploy data platforms, machine learning and GenAI tools on EKS clusters. They talk about what's included and what's not included w...

Deploy and fine-tune LLM models on Kubernetes using KAITO 07.08.2024

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with  Sachi Desai, Product Manager and Paul Yu, Sr. Cloud Advocate at Microsoft to talk about the open source KAITO project. KAITO is the Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator that enables AKS users to deploy open source LLM models on their Kubernetes clusters. They discuss how KAITO helps with running AI-enabled applications alongs...

The business case for cloud-native and Kubernetes 26.07.2024

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Danielle Cook  -  VP of Marketing, appCD and Co-chair, CNCF Cartografos Working Group, CNCF. The discussion dives into how technical individual contributors can and should think about a business case for cloud native adoption. They talk about the cloud native maturity model and also discuss the different things busine...

Building the AI Hyperscaler with Kubernetes 28.06.2024

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Brandon Jacobs, an Infrastructure architect at Coreweave. They discuss how Coreweave has adopted Kubernetes to build the AI hyperscaler. The discussion dives into details around how Coreweave handles Day 0 and Day 2 operations for AI labs that need access to GPUs. They also talk about lessons learnt and best practices for build...

Shifting Minds: Exploring OpenShift's AI Landscape 14.06.2024

Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah talk to Andy Grimes about the OpenShift AI Landscape. Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/ Episode Sponsor: Nethopper - Learn more about KAOPS:  @nethopper.io - For a supported-demo:  info@nethopper.io - Try the free version of KAOPS now!   https://mynethopper.com/auth Links - https://youtube.com/watch?v=nAT9U1vJ8x0 - https://www.th...

Training Machine Learning (ML) models on Kubernetes 31.05.2024

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with  Bernie Wu, VP Strategic Partnerships and AI/CXL/Kubernetes Initiatives at Memverge. They discuss about how Kubernetes is the most popular platform to run AI model training and model inferencing jobs. The discussion dives into model training, talking about different phases of a DAG, and then talk about how Memverge can hel...

The evolution of service mesh technologies 17.05.2024

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Christian Posta - VP and Global Field CTO at Solo.io about all things Service Mesh. They discuss how things have evolved from the early Linkerd days to sidecar less istio service mesh implementations. They also talk about how service mesh can help you connect to application components running outside Kubernetes, and how devel...

What are Vector Databases 06.05.2024

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Torsten Steinbach - VP, Chief Architect for Analytics & AI at EDB about all things Vector Databases, Postgres, and why Data is important for building AI platforms. The discussion dives into how vector databases are different than relational databases and why using Postgres extensions helps organizations use their existing...

KubeCon EU Paris News Recap 16.04.2024

Join Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner for a recap of announcments and news from KubeCon Paris 2024. Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) in New York City on May 22nd, use the promo code “KUBERNETESBYTES” to get a 10% discount on your registration fees! Nethopper Learn more about KAOPS:  @nethopper.io  For a supported-demo:  info@nethopper.io Try the free version of KAOPS now!   htt...

Open Policy Agent (OPA) 101 03.04.2024

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Charlie Egan, Sr. Developer Advocate at Styra about all things Open Policy Agent or OPA. This episode is meant to be a 101 level episode, where we will learn what OPA is and how it can help improve the security posture for your applications running on Kubernetes. The discussion dives into some of the use cases for OPA and how...

Ops Ops Hooray! Navigating IDPs from an Ops perspective 20.03.2024

Join hosts Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah of Kubernetes Bytes as they explore the complexities of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) with Chris Munford, CEO, and Dan Donahue, Solution Architect of Nethopper. In this episode, the team discusses the challenges of constructing IDPs, achieving the optimal balance of flexibility and prescriptive golden paths. The episode dives into the unique operations...

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