Kubernetes Bytes

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Patrick McFadin, VP of Developer Relations at Datastax, who is a co-author of the upcoming O’Reilly book “Managing Cloud-Native Data on Kubernetes” and a contributor to the Apache Cassandra project. The discussion dives into how K8ssandra helps users deploy Cassandra on Kubernetes clusters, and how customers are using Cassandra as the NoSQL, Distributed D...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Bhavin and Ryan talk to the Co-founder & CTO of ContainIQ Matt Lenhard to dive into eBPF and what role it plays in the Kubernetes observability ecosystem. Learn about what eBPF is, what use cases it is used for and how you can get started learning more. Show News links https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/introducing-red-hat-openshift-4.10   https://thenewsta...

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Gabriele Bartolini, a PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes enthusiast, who is VP of Cloud-Native at EDB. He is a co-founder of PostgreSQL Europe, a founding member of Barman. The discussion dives into how Postgres has evolved over the past 20 years, and how people can now run Postgres on Kubernetes. We talk about the challenges, benefits, and best practices for run...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes hosts Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner discuss Kubernetes Operators and how they use persistent storage. Operators are software control loops that extend Kubernetes to automate and provide ease of use for application such as databases. Learn about some database operators and how they utilize storage. Check out our Pod Page! https://www.podpage.com/kubernetes-bytes/...

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Vineeth Pothulapati, a product manager at Timescale, and talk about Kubernetes Observability. The discussion dives into what are the three pillars for Observability and how users can leverage different CNCF and Open-source tools like Prometheus, Promscale, and tobs - The Observability Stack for Kubernetes to get started with Observability.  Show link...

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Xing Yang, Tech Lead at VMware and a co-chair of the CNCF Storage TAG, a co-chair of the Kubernetes Storage SIG, a co-chair of the Data Protection WG in Kubernetes, and a maintainer in Kubernetes CSI. The discussion dives into how Kubernetes SIGs and WGs collaborate, and how people can get started. We also talk about storage features and enhancements intr...

In todays episode of KubernetesBytes, hosts Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah discuss the basic of running distributed databases like Apache Cassandra and Kafka along with Mongo, CockroachDB and others on Kubernetes. There are various capabilities of Kubernetes that were designed for these types of data services and this podcast should help you get a basic understanding of the landscape as well as WHY...

In this first episode of season 2, Bhavin and Ryan interview Kenny Coleman a Technical Product Manager at VMWare working with Tanzu. This episode dives into what Tanzu is, how to get started, what day 1 and day 2 solutions there are as well as where to learn more.  Show Links: https://kube.academy/ https://twitter.com/vmwaretanzu?lang=en https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/   https://bour...

NOTE ON AUDIO ISSUES: we had some audio difficulties this episode, these will be fixed in future episodes. In this episode, hosts Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner dive into Kubernetes object. They discuss topics such as What is a Kubernetes object? and What Kubernetes objects use storage? This episode will help listeners understand the different workload object resources in Kubernetes and how they con...

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Luay Alem, an enterprise solution architect at Portworx. Luay is a Kubernetes enthusiast, working with Cloud Native and Open Source technologies helping customers with their digital transformation journey. The discussion dives into challenges associated with running Kubernetes on AWS, the different storage options available, and how customers are leveragi...

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Michael Cade, a community first technologist for Kasten by Veeam. Michael has been in the industry for over 16 years, with a key focus on technologies such as cloud-native, automation, and data management. The discussion dives into challenges associated with managing data on Kubernetes and how data protection and disaster recovery solutions have changed f...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, hosts Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner recap their experiences with KubeCon North America 2021. The hosts talk about their opinions in regards to the overall success of KubeCon NA 2021, their first-hand experiences both in-person as well as virtual and the various as news and announcements that relate to using data on Kubernetes. Show Links https://kubebyexample.co...

In this episode, Bhavin and Ryan interview Kai Davenport who has been running Kubernetes in GKE to host various projects. Kai is a developer and an operator rolled into one and tells us about his lessons learned and experience running Kubernetes as a team of one. The discussion dives into Kubernetes as an abstraction, how to manage backups of applications and data, when to use quotas and more. Sho...

In this episode, Bhavin and Ryan interview Umair Mufti, the product owner of Portworx Data Services; the new database as a service for Kubernetes. They discuss Umair's experience at Dreamworks Animation creating a database as a service platform as well as why he felt is was necessary to build it and some of the lessons learned along the way. Show links https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/01/...

In today’s episode we explore the topic of data management on various Kubernetes orchestration systems. We have Andy Gower on the podcast as our first guest  Who has a background in solutions. He previously worked at SONY Playstation and IBM and now works on solutions for Pure Storage. We’re excited to have him on the podcast to talk about some experience he has working with different orchest...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, the hosts explore the topic of Cloud Native Storage vs Traditional Storage. If you are curious what Cloud Native Storage is, how it may be different from traditional SAN and NAS or are interested in why the abstractions introduced by containers, docker and Kubernetes are driving change in how applications consume storage, then this episode is for you. Show Link...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, the hosts explore the topic of Container and Kubernetes Storage 101. This podcast focuses on a beginner/101 level view of why containers need storage, how volumes were originally used by docker, how orchestration systems like Kubernetes needed to orchestrate volumes and what basic building blocks are used in Kubernetes to manage persistent storage. This episode...

In this pilot episode of Kubernetes Bytes, meet co-hosts Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner as they introduce the Kubernetes Bytes podcast. Learn about Bhavin and Ryan and their backgrounds as well as get sneak peak into some of the topics they plan on covering in future episodes. They cover some recent cloud native data management news such as Kubernetes 1.22 CSI for Windows becoming GA, Portworx 2.8.0...

Trailer for "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...