Kubernetes Podcast from Google

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: @kubernetes...

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: kubernetesp...

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...

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...

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 h...

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 c...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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? Le...

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: @kuber...

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.c...

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 co...

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...

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: @kubern...

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...

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 m...

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...

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 e...

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 Epis...

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...

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@goo...

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 somethi...

We're trying something new! In Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Weaveworks co-founder Alexis Richardson , we have a wide ranging conversation about career choices, finance, founding and selling tech companies, and the dangers of being pigeon-holed based on the first project your company releases. Next week we'll finish the conversation by talking about Weave projects like Flux and Cortex , a...