Kubernetes Podcast from Google

In this episode we bring you with us to KubeCon NA 2022 in Detroit, Michigan. We interviewed 15 attendees from various backgrounds and learned some cool insights. Featuring: Mo Khan , Software Engineer, Microsoft. Katrina Verey , Senior Staff Production Engineer, Shopify. Aishwarya Harpale , Student, Rutgers University. Jeffery Sica , Principal Developer Experience Engineer, CNCF. Kirsten Schumy ,...

After four and a half years hosting this podcast (and almost 9 years at Google) Craig Box is moving on from the latter, which unfortunately means leaving the former. But the show must go on. In this episode Craig introduces new hosts Abdel Sghiouar and Kaslin Fields . We take a small look forward, and then a big look back. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kube...

Dan Stein is an engineering manager at General Bioinformatics. Dan Stein is also DJ Fresh, a multi-million selling artist with two UK number one records. Learn about the surprising overlap between these two careers. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod and @craigbox Chatter of the wee...

Betty Junod , VP of Product Marketing at VMware Tanzu, kindly took up Craig's challenge to explain the various parts of the Tanzu ecosystem, and how the traditional IT buyer and the modern cloud native really aren't that different. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod and @craigbox Ch...

When you think of a service mesh, you probably think of "sidecar containers running with each pod". The Istio team has come up with a new approach, introduced recently as an experimental preview. Google Cloud software engineers Justin Pettit and Ethan Jackson join Craig to explore ambient mesh. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kuber...

Kateryna Ivashchenko is a Senior Demand Generation Manager at Teleport, an organizer of community events, and a supporter of the developer community in her home country of Ukraine. 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 Introducing Ambient Mesh in Istio Istio 1.15 Linke...

It's release day! We discuss today's Kubernetes 1.25 with release team lead Cici Huang, Software Engineer at Google Cloud. What's in, what's out, and what is it like to lead a release you are also promoting a feature in? 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 Nelson...

Three years after they were first proposed , the new Kubernetes Gateway APIs - the evolution of the Ingress API - are in Beta. Rob Scott is a software engineer at Google and a lead on the SIG Network Gateway API project. 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 Hot hot...

Ian Miell is a partner at consultancy Container Solutions, and an author of books on Bash, Git, Terraform and Docker. He explains to Craig how writing - whether runbooks, blog posts, training courses, or "real" books, can help you learn and make your team more effective. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com...

Why does a car manufacturer own an IT company? How did that IT company end up running 900 Kubernetes clusters, starting at version 0.9? Craig asks these questions and more of Sabine Wolz , Product Manager at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter o...

Gone are the days of working at the same company for 50 years. Consultants and contractors bring specialised experience to many companies in short bursts. Steve Wade is an independent Kubernetes consultant and trainer, and he tells us how that became the life for him. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twi...

As we move further up the stack, we rely on many foundations – including storage. Alex Chircop is co-chair of the CNCF Storage Technical Advisory Group (TAG), as well as founder and CEO of Ondat (formerly StorageOS). Join us to learn why no app is truly stateless, and how data is the new storage. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kub...

What is configuration as data, how is different from infrastructure as code, and why can't anything just be itself anymore? We posed these questions and more to long-time Kubernetes contributor Justin Santa Barbara at KubeCon EU, and this episode is the result. Justin created the kOps project and now leads the team at Google that makes Kubernetes easier to consume. Do you have something cool to sh...

Live from Valencia, it's KubeCon EU! Craig talks to conference co-chair and CERN computer scientist Ricardo Rocha about the event, and what it's like to be in a room full of people again. 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 9am Karaoke News of the week CNCF news f...

Docker CEO Scott Johnston joins us to talk about the announcements from this week's DockerCon, the transition from an enterprise to a developer tools company, and the Internet's favourite whale. 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 Podes and antipodes Side note: Ku...

Gaze into the stars with Kubernetes 1.24 release team lead, James Laverack . James is a software engineer turned solutions engineer at Jetstack, and explains the difference between the two roles, as well as how he found his home in SIG Release and what to expect in 1.24. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com...

Big week for Istio! Craig talks to Mitch Connors , Istio user experience working group lead and IstioCon program committee co-chair, about the project and the conference. Mitch talks to Craig about the news that Istio has been proposed to the CNCF. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod...

Divya Mohan is a Technical Writer with SUSE, a CNCF Ambassador, co-chair of Kubernetes SIG Docs, and a mentor to new contributors. Learn how her love of language and learning led her from production support to the core of the community. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod News of the...

Bruno Andrade is founder and CEO of Shipa , delivering applications and policy "as code" to Kubernetes with a SaaS model. We discuss founding companies in Canada vs the USA, abstractions for deploying apps, and whether Kubernetes will really ever disappear. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kube...

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...

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,...

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: @kubernetesp...

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: @kub...

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 twit...

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 t...