The Kubelist Podcast

In episode 28 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie speak with Michael Guarino about Plural, a scalable solution empowering DevOps teams to build and maintain cloud-native and production-ready OSS infrastructure on Kubernetes.

In episode 27 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot are joined by Webb Brown of Stackwatch. Managing costs and performance-related tradeoffs has always been a difficult problem for users of Kubernetes, especially at scale. This talk spotlights Kubecost, a project offering real-time cost visibility and insights for teams using Kubernetes.

In episode 26 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot speak with Tim Hockin, principle software engineer at Google and an originator of Kubernetes. This talk contains invaluable lessons from Tim’s storied career, the early days of Kubernetes, and insights on building and maintaining trust throughout the K8s community.

In episode 25 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie speak with Nick Santos of Tilt, a toolkit for microservice development. They discuss developer productivity, the difference between build systems and dev environments, and the evolution of Tilt.

In episode 24 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot speak with Jake Moshenko and Jimmy Zelinskie, Co-Founders of Authzed. They discuss the Google Zanzibar white-paper, the open source project SpiceDB, and the challenges faced when implementing authorization in modern applications.

In episode 23 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot speak with Michelle Nguyen and Natalie Serrino about Pixie, a CNCF sandbox project that provides Kubernetes observability for developers.

In episode 22 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc talks with Chandler Hoisington of AWS about EKS Anywhere. They explore the decisions made by the AWS team in building a Kubernetes distribution and how the project is helping make Kubernetes more ubiquitous.

In episode 21 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot are joined by Taylor Thomas and Matt Butcher. Together they explore the WebAssembly ecosystem, the CNCF Sandbox project Krustlet, and how they’re pushing the limits of container runtime.

In episode 20 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie are joined by Dan Lorenc of Google. They discuss supply chain security and the Sigstore project, a new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software.

In episode 19 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell speaks with Rick Spencer about InfluxData, developer of InfluxDB. Rick unpacks his career journey and explains how InfluxData uses Kubernetes and other CNCF projects from an end-user perspective.

In episode 18 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie speak with Miguel Ángel Ajo and Stephen Kitt of Red Hat. They discuss the CNCF sandbox project Submariner and how it’s solving multi-cluster networking.

In episode 17 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot are joined by Keith Basil of SUSE. They explore K3s, the certified Kubernetes distribution built for IoT & Edge computing, and how it removes the cognitive overload of standing up Kubernetes.

In episode 16 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc speaks with Josh Dolitsky of Blood Orange about Open Container Initiative. They also discuss working with containers, Josh’s introduction to Kubernetes, and the importance of nurturing a diverse community.

In episode 15 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc speaks with Evan Cordell of Red Hat. They discuss the inception and roadmap of the CNCF incubating project Operator Framework, as well as insights on deploying and managing Operators in your cluster.

In episode 14 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc speaks with Jim Bugwadia and Ritesh Patel of Nirmata. They discuss the history and community behind Kyverno, a policy engine designed for Kubernetes and a recent CNCF Sandbox project.

In episode 13 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc is joined by Tzury Bar Yochay and Justin Dorfman of Reblaze. They discuss the latest CNCF Sandbox project Curiefense, its community and product architecture.

In episode 12 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc speaks with Craig Box of Google Cloud. They discuss Istio’s features and community, the purpose of service meshes, and solving big problems at the platform level.

In episode 11 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc speaks with Lee Mills and Matt Clarke of Spotify. They discuss the origins and the roadmap of the CNCF project Backstage, and unpack the complexities of building developer portals.

In episode 10 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc is joined by Daniel Mangum of Upbound. They discuss the CNCF Sandbox project Crossplane, deploying Postgres databases, and The Linux Foundation’s Mentorship Programs.

In episode 9 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell speaks with Dan “Pop” Papandrea of Sysdig. They discuss Pop’s experience as a CNCF ambassador, the incubating project Falco, and the importance of runtime monitoring for security.

In episode 8 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell speaks with Richard Li of Ambassador Labs about the development and testing tool Telepresence, as well as the problems developers encounter when adopting Kubernetes.

In episode 7 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc joins Andreas Grabner of Dynatrace to discuss the continuous delivery control plane Keptn, performance-driven engineering, and the problem with monolithic pipelines.

In episode 6 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc speaks with William Morgan of Buoyant. They discuss the complex service mesh ecosystem, as well as the origin and roadmap of Linkerd.

In episode 5 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell is joined by Michael Bridgen of Weaveworks. They unpack Flux, the GitOps operator for Kubernetes, as well as GitOps adoption and progressive delivery.

In episode 4 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc speaks with Sunil James of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. They discuss the SPIFFE and SPIRE projects, focusing on identity control for distributed systems.