Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Tim Hockin is a long term software engineer with Google Cloud and I would argue one of the fathers of Kubernetes. Brandon Royal is a product manager on GKE and has been behind the launch of multiple OSS projects like the Ray Operator for k8s, Agent Sandbox and our topic for today - Agent Substrate. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Kubernetes 1.37: Garhwal Kubernetes Podcast: Kubernetes 1.37 with Dipesh Rawat Kubernetes release & maintenance information: https://kubernetes.io/releases/ BOMHort Google Open Source Blog: Adapting open source practices to an AI-first world: A retrospective on 2025 Kubernetes-security-announce Google Group Kubernetes CVE RSS Feed Links from the interview Agent Substrate on GitHub Agent Sandbox Kubernetes Checkpoint & Restore Working Group spiffe.io HashiCorp Blog: SPIFFE: Securing the identity of agentic AI…

Dipesh Rawat is a Software Developer at IBM, CNCF Ambassador, CNCF Kubestronaut and SIG Docs Tech Lead. A contributor across multiple Kubernetes release cycles, he serves as the Release Lead for Kubernetes v1.37. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week CNCF Announces Kubeflow's Graduation, Solidifying a Standard for Cloud Native AI Operations CNCF Announces Graduation of Cloud Native Buildpacks, Advancing the Standard for Container Builds Gateway API v1.6: TCPRoute and UDPRoute Graduate to Standard KubeCon EU CFP Links from the interview Kubernetes v1.37: Garhwal Kubernetes 1.37 Sneak Peak Blog

Niki Manoledaki is a Staff Platform Engineer at Grafana Labs, A CNCF Ambassador and Green Software Foundation Champion, and a core maintainer of Project Kepler. We explore the recent rewrite of Project Kepler and the challenges of measuring sustainability in the era of AI. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Confidential Containers becomes a CNCF Incubating Project KEP-5972 Dynamic Pod Mutation: Optimistic Execution & Hierarchical Resource Delegation RedHat - Introducing asago: Open source AI safety and governance orchestration Asago on GitHub Asago website KubeCon NA 2026 Schedule CNCF Blog: Welcome CoHDI to the CNCF: Evolving Kubernetes into composable disaggregated infrastructures Links from the interview Project Kepler on GitHub CNCF Blog: Kepler, re-architected: Improved power accuracy and a community call to action! Green Software…

In this episode, Kat Cosgrove (SIG Docs Technical Lead, SIG Release Subproject Lead, and Steering Committee member) and Natali Vlatko (SIG Docs Co-Chair, Steering Committee member for the TODO Group, and Open Source Architect at Cisco) join hosts Kaslin Fields and Abdel Sghiouar to discuss the newly published Kubernetes AI usage policy. We dive into the legal and administrative reasoning behind the policy—including why AI tools cannot legally sign the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) or co-author PRs—and explore how maintainers manage the influx of "AI slop" PRs, spam comments, and restricted AI note-taker bots in community meetings. The discussion highlights the balance between human accountability and AI as an enhancer, while sharing actionable advice on how new contributors can sustainably get involved with SIG Docs, issue wrangling, and the Kubernetes Release Team. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter:…

In this episode we speak to Jonathan Grahl. Jonathan is the Team Lead of Infrastructure at Lovable where he oversees the platform stack the company runs on. We talked about Kubernetes, Sandboxes and Chocolate. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week OpenTelemetry is a CNCF Graduated Project CNCF TAG Elections KubeCon India Kubernetes Community Days global events Links from the interview Lovable Cilium Etcd Cloudflare Sandbox Agent Sandbox (Kubernetes) OpenClaw Claude OpenAI Bun toolkit for Javascript gVisor Firecracker Kata Containers Vitess

Ryota Sawada is software engineer at Numtide and the release lead of Kubernetes 1.36 code name Haru. He has over a decade of experience mainly in the finance industry including working on Cloud Native technologies, and outside of Cloud Native, he's been tinkering with Emacs and Nix. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Etcd version 3.7.0 is out Merge Forward Community Truepositive Links from the interview Kubernetes 1.35 codename Haru Release theme and logo Logo designer User Namespaces Workload API Workload Aware Scheduling (WAS) DRA features graduating to Stable GKE 10 years and SIG Networking, With Antonio Ojea

Guest is Lucy Sweet, a Staff Software engineer at Uber and the lead for the Kubernetes Node Lifecycle Working Group. Imagine trying to move millions of compute cores and thousands of microservices to a brand new platform. All without dropping a single user request, ride, or delivery. Sounds like an absolute logistical nightmare, right? Well, today we are sitting down with someone who actually lived to tell the tale Lucy. In this episode, we are diving deep into Uber's monumental infrastructure journey: moving away from their in-house system to Kubernetes. We'll be unpacking the reality of running at this scale, why it's always DNS and why building things for fun is worth it. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Broadcom announced donating Velero to the CNCF Sandbox Level KubeCon && CloudNativeCon Amsterdam 2026 Transparency report Call for…

Amie Wei is a Sr. Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp and was the winner of last year's GKE Turns 10 Hackathon. It was Amie's first time entering a hackathon and she ended up bringing the prize home with a Cart-To-Kitchen AI Assistant. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Kubernetes 1.36 codename Haru is here LLM-d is a CNCF Sandbox project CNCF Certification Advancement & Recertification Experience program (CARE) Agones is a CNCF Sandbox project Links from the interview Amie Wei on LinkedIn GKE turns 10 Hackathon Hackathon winner announcement Online boutique sample Bank of Anthos sample The Cart-to-Kitchen AI Assistant on GKE

Drew Hagen, the release lead for Kubernetes 1.35, discusses the theme of the release, Timbernetes, which symbolizes resilience and diversity in the Kubernetes community. He shares insights from his experience as a release lead, highlights key features and enhancements in the new version, and addresses the importance of coordination in release management. Drew also touches on the deprecations in the release and the future of Kubernetes, including its applications in edge computing. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com Links from the interview Kubernetes v1.35: Timbernetes (The World Tree Release)

Janet Kuo, Staff Software Engineer at Google, explains the new Kubernetes AI Conformance program. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com Intro KubeCon North America 2025 Kubernetes AI Conformance program News of the Week Kubernetes 1.35 release Sneak Peek Helm4 Google Cloud Achieves Massive Kubernetes Scale with 130,000-Node GKE Cluster Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) AI Conformance AKS Ingress Nginx Update AKS Automatic managed system node pools Amazon EKS Introduces New Managed Kubernetes Capabilities for Workload Orchestration KubeCon NA 2025 Retrospective: Closed- And Open-Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud CNCF Launches Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Established to Standardize Agent Collaboration KServe Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project OpenFGA accepted as CNCF Incubating Project Lima accepted as CNCF Incubation…

GKE turned 10 in 2025! In this episode, we talk with GKE PM Gari Singh about GKE's journey from early container orchestration to AI-driven ops. Discover Autopilot, IPPR, and a bold vision for the future of Kubernetes. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com X: @kubernetespod bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Knative's Graduation llm-d 0.3: Wider Well-Lit Paths for Scalable Inference vllm-project/semantic-router on github Announcing the Certified Meshery Contributor (CMC) Introducing Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter - Scaling and Visibility Links from the interview Kelsey Hightower's Kubernetes the Hard Way MiniKube Kind Docker Compose Docker Swarm GKE Autopilot Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) Google Cloud TPUs Node Auto Provisioning (GKE) Jax (Machine Learning Framework) Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) Serverless on Google Cloud Grafana Prometheus Kubectl-ai…

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 something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Dolores Park The Garden at Buckingham Palace The fire at Windsor Castle Most currencies featuring the same individual News of the week Docker updates subscription plan Google commits $10 billion to advance cybersecurity Detail blog from previous guests Eric Brewer and Dan Lorenc Episode 155, with Priya Wadhwa ingress-nginx 1.0.0 NGINX Inc. commits to open source OpenTelemetry moves to Incubation phase IBM open sources Tornjak Tornjak dog SUSE Rancher 2.6…

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: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Correction to Episode 158: Mike Richards is no longer host of Jeopardy! Troy meets LeVar Burton The Chase (USA) The Chase (UK) The Judds Charlie Watts: Rolling Stones drummer dies at 80 The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang tour Moving stage News of the week KEDA moves to CNCF Incubation Kubescape from ARMO Security GKE adds OIDC identity provider and gVNIC support Gloo Mesh 1.1 Istio security announcement Envoy security announcement Cron jobs and timezones in Kubernetes Links from the interview KEDA: Kubernetes…

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 cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week 40 years of the IBM PC 5150 emulator and docs What was it like to use? Twitter thread about the cost of add-ons 41 years ago: the story of the creation of the PC DONKEY.BAS Play it on the 5150 emulator Learn about it Play it on the iPhone or Apple Watch Commodore 64 Wheel of Fortune Little Computer People C64 vs IBM advertising 6502 and derivative CPUs: the C64 used a 6510 Bender News of the week Litmus 2.0.0 Episode 56, with Evan Powell SPIRE security audit Episode…

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? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week New Jeopardy! hosts The Price Is Right Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore Spay and neuter your pets News of the week eBPF Foundation announcement Episode 91, with Leonardo Di Donato Episode 133, with Thomas Graf Istio 1.11 NSA & CISA release Kubernetes hardening guidance PDF link Google Cloud Service Discovery adds GKE auto-discovery Troubleshoot GKE faster with monitoring data in your logs Sysdig announces new Prometheus integrations Nirmata takes $4m in funding CNCF Survey, part 2 Links from the interview…

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: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Life before smartphones Dark Sky, hyperlocal weather app Karl the Fog Universal Studios Kubeyland 2021 The Simpsons Ride News of the week Kubernetes 1.22 announcement Sign up for the 1.23 release team Linkerd graduates* in the CNCF Cosign 1.0 Episode 152, guest host Dan Lorenc Episode 155, with Priya Wadwha Cloud Native Rejekts CFP Episode 79, with Chris Kühl Introducing Koncrete by the Kalm team Nestybox adds Kubernetes support Curiefense adds NGINX support Replicated announces $50M Series C Episode 143, with Grant Miller Kubernetes platform updates: Deckhouse, by Flant, is GA Red Hat…

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.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Pictograms Korea on Italy Pita Taufatofua, the oily Tongan Olympic drones Inclement weather: Tokyo New York City London News of the week Kubernetes 1.22 release candidates is out Episode 146, with Nabarun Pal Cloud Foundry Foundation releases v5 Episode 105, with Chip Childers Connaisseur 2.0.0 Episode 155, with Priya Wadwha Chaos Mesh 2.0.0 Episode 121, with Ed Huang Spectro Cloud raises $20m Series A Nominate yourself for the 1.23 Release Team Links from the interview EPITECH Solomon Hykes Departure blog Dotcloud Y Combinator $10m…

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 cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Virgin Galactic launch NBC News BBC News Blue Origin launch NBC News BBC News Rocket scene from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me The memes News of the week Google Cloud Container Security webinar Register for Google Cloud Next 2021 Google Cloud IDS Windows Server support for Anthos on-prem Multi-Cluster Ingress for GKE CVE-2021-22555: Kernel code execution through Netfilter bug CVE-2021-25740: Endpoint & EndpointSlice permissions allow cross-Namespace forwarding…

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? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week England loses Euro 2020 final It's Coming Ohm: prediction on power usage Half time power spike Top 20 spikes The Thorn Birds The Superbowl Flush - debunked! Tokyo Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies Hedbanz News of the week APIs being removed in Kubernetes 1.22 ContainIQ launches Postgres Operator 5.0 NetworkServiceMesh 1.0.0 Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service GA and cert-manager integration Platform9 Managed KubeVirt InsightCloudSec from Rapid7 Sophos acquires Capsul8 Spring 2021 graduating…

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: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Jimmy Moore steps out from behind the scenes Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend Revisionist History Letterman reads out Johnny's jokes Mythic Quest News of the week Joint US/UK cybersecurity advisory saying Russia is using Kubernetes CNCF and FinOps Foundation survey Canonical Kubernetes usage survey CNCF End User Radar for multi-cluster tools runc 1.0.0 Buoyant Cloud Public Beta Sloth, by Xabier Larrakoetxea Links from the interview Komodor "Itiel" and "ETL" Rookout Forter Ben Ofiri Komodor team photo The Komondor (and image search) Man Who Looks Like His Dog Jack Tramiel, co-founder of…

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 us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Dan's recent work has come up in episodes 136, 142, and 151, to name but a few Episode 39, with Dan Lorenc Tekton CD Sigstore Dan's Peter Jackson look Sigstore Root Key Ceremony IANA Key Signing Ceremonies and changes in the time of COVID News of the week GKE news: New Tau VMs on Google Cloud and GKE Committed use discounts for GKE Autopilot Cloud Onboard training for GKE with Kaslin Fields, on June 22 Stackrox/Red Hat State of Kubernetes Security blog post and report etcd 3.5 SLSA: Supply chain Levels…

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 mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 64, with Sarah D'Angelo and Patrick Flynn Catching up with Patrick in Episode 148 Winthrop, Washington Blackdown Hills, Devon News of the week Azure App Services now available for Azure Arc Azure Arc and App Service blog posts Other new AKS capbilities Virtualization Review coverage ECS Anywhere made GA by press release AWS App Runner Integrating Google Cloud DNS with GKE Istio 1.10 Terraform 1.0 Grafana 8.0 and Tempo 1.0 Argo Rollouts 1.0 Kubesphere 3.1.0 Cilium 1.10 OpenSLO spec launched at SLOConf Episode 147, with Brian Singer…

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 know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 116, with Alex Ellis GrowLab Announcement blog Alex's talk at the GIFEE Day Monty Don OpenFaaS in the RISC-V keynote New Kubernetes on Edge training course News of the week eBPF for Windows GKE Dataplane V2 is GA Confluent for Kubernetes GA VMware Tanzu SQL, with MySQL, for Kubernetes, 1.0 VMware Modern Apps Connectivity Solution Do the State of DevOps survey! Links from the interview Pixie Labs What is Pixie overview slides presented to CNCF Public beta launch and announcement of Series A funding…

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 events. We also bring the round-up of the KubeCon news, including our famous Lightning Round. 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 Episode 29, with Janet Kuo Looking back at KubeCon Shanghai 2018 News of the week New Relic and Pixie Labs blogs on Pixie being open sourced New Relic joins CNCF as a Platinum Member Red Hat launches the Stackrox community at stackrox.io OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines Snyk's State of Cloud Native Application Security report announcement and…

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 Episode 64 with Sarah D'Angelo and Patrick Flynn Three years ago today James Strachan, James Rawlings and Dan Lorenc Jib reCAPTCHA News of the week Microsoft to acquire Kinvolk, Kinvolk to be acquired by Microsoft Episode 79 with Chris Kühl Red Hat Virtual Summit announcements Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus Rackspace and Platform9 announce partnership Episode 88, with Madhura Maskasky Lens 5 Beta HYCU joins the Kubernetes backup party Sysdig joins the cloud security unicorns Episode 91, with Leonardo Di Donato GKE adds multi-instance GPUs and a new Gateway controller Kubernetes moves to three releases per year Links…

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: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 94, with Richard Belleville The G in gRPC stands for: Gilded Guadalupe River Park Conservancy The Great British Bake Off? Not grey, just backlit! Much improved here News of the week Grafana relicensing to AGPLv3 Q&A on relicensing Google's public ban on AGPL Amazon introduces OpenSerarch Pulumi v3.0 Episode 76, with Joe Duffy k8ssandra v1.1 Cassandra Kubernetes SIG picks Cass Operator Docker Desktop for Apple Silicon Macs is GA Zerto for Kubernetes Three different multi-tenancy models Loft Labs open sources…

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@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Moscone Center vaccination site Monday morning weather in London Before and after haircut World record barbering News of the week Kubernetes 1.21 CronJobs are GA Local Storage features go Beta Suspended Jobs in Alpha kube-state-metrics v2.0 emissary-ingress joins the CNCF Shell Operator v1 for Kubernetes operators kubesploit, from CyberArk CVE-2021-25735: Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields on Node objects Kubegres Minio adds Kubernetes operator and console Scaling Kubernetes with assurance at Pinterest by Anson Qian SUSE sponsors 300…

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 something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Educational YouTubers: Film Riot Mental Floss Animator Island Infrastructure for Entertainment by Justin Garrison at KubeCon NA 2020 Episode 20, with Justin Garrison News of the week Kubernetes 1.21 PodSecurityPolicy deprecation KubeVela 1.0 Argo Workflows 3.0 and Argo CD 2.0 Cilium launches NetworkPolicy site IBM Cloud Code Engine is GA Tanzu Cloud Native Runtimes public beta New security offerings from Tanzu Cisco Intersight Kubernetes Service is GA Tetrate Service…

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, as well as their SaaS offerings, the founding of the CNCF, and whether Weave built the platform they set out to build when they started 7 years ago. 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 Evergiven Everywhere "Reply all" at the State Department Evergreen truck blocks Chineses highway Little ship stuck in Littlehampton harbour Vote for the name of the Seattle Tunnel Boring Machine Sir Mix-a-Lot News of the week Outdated; a new open source project from Replicated Episode 143, with Grant…

Grant Miller is the co-founder and CEO of Replicated, which helps operationalize and scale the delivery of Kubernetes-based apps into the enterprise. We look at what it means to be enterprise software in a SaaS world, and we also get some 2021 predictions from guest host Liz Rice. 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 Episode 19, with Liz Rice Episode 133, with Thomas Graf Cilium talk at DockerCon 2017 Liz's 2021 predictions from KubeCon NA (Virtual) 2020 Cheese exports are down Autonomous driving levels Prince Harry joins a startup Nick Clegg joins Facebook News of the week SoloCon announcements Mesh7 to be acquired by VMware GKE adds runtime configuration of pod subnets and larger Internal Load Balancer support Amazon reduces EKS cluster create time from "glacial" to "slow" NetApp launches Spot Wave CircleCI Server 3.0 Diamanti Spektra 3.2 Sonatype launches Nexus Container…

If you'd like something more tangible than a virtual cloud instance, there's always (still!) bare metal. Tinkerbell is a project from Equinix Metal to manage bare metal servers at scale, and Gianluca Arbezzano is one of its maintainers. We talk stacks, racks and MACs. 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 Episode 11, with Vic Iglesias Vic lives here, but not here Pokémon Go social distancing News of the week Flux moves to incubation in the CNCF NetApp Astra goes GA; more information Fairwinds introduces Saffire Cosign, by Dan Lorenc Episode 39 Komodor beta and swag offer Announcing Private Clusters on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) Linkerd 2.10 The Money Section, with thanks to David Pait, guest of Episode 127 Docker takes $23m in Series "B" funding to get ship done Aqua Security takes $135m in Series E at $1b valuation Snyk raises…

Crossplane lets you automate creation of infrastructure using Kubernetes APIs. Daniel Mangum is a Crossplane maintainer working at its creator Upbound, a TL of Kubernetes SIG Release, and a YouTube streaming star. He chats about tech with host Craig Box, who is helped this week by returning guest Ken Massada from GKE's Support team. 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 Episode 18, with Ken Massada Things We Don't Say podcast Glow in the dark sharks Earthquakes and tsunamis News of the week Microsoft Ignite news: Azure Arc for Kubernetes Azure Migrate app containerization service AKS release notes Microsoft Mesh Helm second security audit Meet Brigade v2 Harbor 2.2 and roadmap Google Summer of Code 2021 KubeCon EU 2021 schedule launched and the selection process explained Issue #100000 on kubernetes/kubernetes Links from the interview Visual Basic for Applications NYT article…

Kamil Potrec is a Senior Security Engineer at Snyk, working on security around Kubernetes and cloud platforms. He joins the show to discuss how to think about securing your infrastructure, the different arts (and colors) of offensive and defensive security, and what not to lose sleep over. 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 Episode 23, with Andrew Philips and Lars Wander A pile of mail and a bike News of the week Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 is GA Fairwinds Insights 3.0 Envoy zero-day patched Istio security bulletin Sysdig contributes Falco modules to the CNCF StorageOS raises $10m in Series B Platform9 raises $12.5m in Series D CNCF relaunches Kubernetes Community Day with KCD Africa and Bengaluru Links from the interview Offensive unit in American Football Hand-egg Red and blue teams Unreal Tournament Capture the flag Kubernetes secrets Design document Encrypting secrets at the…

Today Google Cloud introduced GKE Autopilot, a new mode of operation where you no longer manage or configure nodes, and you pay per-pod, per-second. Craig talks Autopilot with GKE product manager Yochay Kiriaty. 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 Episode 86, with Lin Sun Istio boat meetup at KubeCon NA 2019 IstioCon 2021 Craig and Lin's session Jeff from Coupling Separated at birth? News of the week Google Cloud launches GKE Autopilot Dapr 1.0 Calico Cloud Gloo Mesh Enterprise goes GA Distroless FIPS-compliant Istio Red Hat closes acquisition of Stackrox Real load-aware scheduling in Kubernetes with Trimaran Kubernetes overlay networks with IPv6 Links from the interview Last week's Star Wars show A selection of presentations wearing Darth Vader shirts Windows 7 Red Dog Google South Lake Union Seaplanes GKE Autopilot Launch blog Episode 49, wth Eric Brewer Virtual Kubelet…

This week we talk multi-cluster services with Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson, co-chair of the Kubernetes Multicluster SIG, and tech lead on the Google Kubernetes Engine platform team. Guest host Tim Hockin shows us the way. 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 Episode 41, with Tim Hockin The Machete Order John Boyega on Star Wars News of the week Istio 1.9 IstioCon 2021 - February 22-26 Mayadata spins out Chaos Native Cilium Network Policy editor Kubernetes network policy explained by Dominik Tornow Trend Micro write-up on container-escaping malware Dynatrace Cloud Automation and native log support Episode 119, with Alois Reitbauer Shipa 1.2 New GKE, EKS and AKS releases Tanzu Build Service 1.1 Kubernetes 101 Retrospective by Jeff Geerling CFP for the eight KubeCon EU pre-days Designing for SaaS on Kubernetes at Teleport by Virag Mody Comparing OPA/Gatekeeper and Kyverno by Chip…

Michael Gerstenhaber is a Director of Product Management at Datadog, and the curator of their annual Container Report. He joins Craig to discuss why they release it, some recent trends, and how it helps people validate their assumptions about technology. 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 Episode 103, with Saad Ali New TOC members Episode 62, with Ricardo Rocha, Lukas Heinrch and Clemens Lange Malaysian roti in London Elgin Marbles News of the week OPA graduates in the CNCF Episode 101, with Tim Hinrichs and Torin Sandall Docker Distribution donated to the CNCF Red Hat Quay 3.4 released CNCF proposal Hildegard malware writeup from Unit42 The original TeamTNT Attacking Kubernetes clusters using the Kubelet API by Eduardo Baitello Jetstack Secure Traefik Using Traefik as an ingress controller with Istio Kong Konnect is GA Kong raises $100M at a $1.4b valuation Get your…

Backstage is a platform for building developer portals, powered by a centralized service catalog. It was built at Spotify and both open sourced and donated to the CNCF in 2020. A Kubernetes plugin was recently added. We talk to maintainers Lee Mills and Matt Clarke from Spotify. 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 Episode 106, with John Belamaric Production Readiness Review News of the week Longhorn 1.1 Vitess 9 Sonobuoy adds reliability scanning Rapid7 acquires Alcide; Techcrunch reporting Armo comes out of stealth; VentureBeat reporting Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 nodes at OpenAI Announcing the Linkerd steering committee The State of Cloud Native Release Orchestration; a report from Vamp Hunting for malware with Falco Episode 39, with Dan Lorenc Upgrading from Kubernetes 1.11 to 1.18 in a month by Jeff Wolski at WeTransfer Debugging CrashLoopBackOff by David Giffin from…

Josh Bernstein has worked at a number of infrastructure roles before recently landing at Google. He talks about migrating Siri from AWS (pre-acqusition) to VMware to Mesos, and Dell EMC's work building what would become the Container Storage Interface. Guest host Jasmine Jaksic talks with Craig about snowcreatures. 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 Episode 15, with Dan Ciruli and Jasmine Jaksic Snowpeople and snowthings News of the week Multi-dimensional pod autoscaling in this week's GKE release Hitachi: vacuum cleaners in the 1990s and Kubernetes today Garnet.ai kind 0.10 New Google Cloud Run networking features Don't cross the streams Production Kubernetes from VMware Tanzu. Serverless for Everyone Else from Alex Ellis Episode 116 Chris Aniszczyk's 2021 predictions Episode 134 Priyanka Sharma's 2021 predictions Episode 107 14 LFX interns graduate Kubernetes honey tokens…

After building the Eclipse IDE and Twitter's Open Source office, Chris Aniszcyzk bootstrapped the CNCF, joining its parent the Linux Foundation in 2015. He's now a VP of DevRel there, as well as CTO at the CNCF and Executive Director of the Open Container Initiative. Chris joins us to share his technology journey and Cloud Native predictions for 2021. And all that is now And all that is gone And all that's to come And everything under the sun is in tune But the sun is eclipsed by the moon 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 Adam on LinkedIn News of the week Otomi from RedKubes Nutanix now supports Anthos Tanzu Advanced is GA Pivotal Labs is Tanzu Labs VMware needs a new CEO New CSI driver for Google Kubernetes Engine Slim.ai announces seed funding Grafana Cloud introduces free tier Sysdig container security usage report (PDF) 63 node Kubernetes cluster using Firecracker by…

Thomas Graf is the inventor of Cilium and the co-founder of Isovalent. Cilium is a container networking plugin built on top of eBPF, bringing modern SDN technologies to accelerate your pods. Adam and Craig also discuss the many uses of Christmas trees. 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 Christmas trees: Keep clear (mostly) Culinary uses Discussed in episodes 104 and 111 News of the week Google grants $3m to the CNCF to run the Kubernetes infrastructure AWS Managed Grafana and Prometheus In partnership with Grafana Labs Red Hat acquires Stackrox Windows Containers GA in OpenShift 4.6 CNCF Annual Report KubeCon NA 2020 Transparency Report Rancher announces Harvester I'll give you the key Kubernetes 1.20 feature deep-dives: Pod impersonation an short-lived volumes Third-party device metrics GA More granular control of storage permission Sonobuoy goes beyond conformance Project…

Akri is a recent open source project launched by Microsoft to manage edge devices. Kate Goldenring is a software engineer in Microsoft's Edge OS team and an Akri maintainer. She joins our final show of 2020 to talk about how to use Kubernetes to manage devices that can't run Kubernetes. 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 Reventure Kurstin X Grohl Puppy for Hanukkah (and story of) Adam Sandler's Hanukkah Song News of the week Pixie Labs acquired by New Relic; New Relic acquires Pixie Labs Docker Enterprise is now Mirantis Kubernetes Engine Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes Lens 4.0 released CVE-2020-8554: Man in the middle using LoadBalancer or ExternalIPs Volume Snapshot moves to GA in Kubernetes 1.20 Weaveworks takes $36.65M in Series C Trilio takes $15M Anthos for Telecom puts Google partners apps on the edge CircleCI Server 3.0 State of Software Delivery report New…

The final — and raddest — Kubernetes release of 2020 is 1.20. This week, Craig and Adam talk to its release team lead, Jeremy Rickard from VMware. Jeremy talks about migrating to newer Kubernetes versions, sooner or later; what was added, what was deprecated, and what that really means; and what happens when you Google your own nane. 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 Ready Player Two News of the week Kubernetes 1.20: Release Don't panic about Docker Dockershim deprecation FAQ Mirantis will support the Dockershim etcd graduates in the CNCF Episode 95, with Xiang Li CNCF launchese Cloud Native Security Whitepaper Istio 1.8 Kuma 1.0 Linkerd doesn't use Envoy AWS re:Invent: ECS Anywhere EKS Distro and EKS Anywhere EKS add-ons, console and spot instance support Lambda containers AWS Proton ECR Public Registry Anthos on bare metal is now GA IBM acquires Instana Opstrace public…

Join us for all the news from KubeCon NA 2020, and a conversation with conference co-chair Stephen Augustus. Stephen is a Senior Open Source Engineer on the VMware Tanzu team, a chair of Kubernetes' SIG Release, and a leader in many other parts of the project, past and present. 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 The kākāpō wins Bird of the Year We're off for 2 weeks. See you on December 8! News of the week Cisco acquires Banzai Cloud CNCF announces Cloud Native Survey 2020 results Red Hat: New edge features, industrial AI/ML blueprint and AWS launch CNCF End User Tech Radar for storage New End User benefits Envoy Mobile joins the CNCF New sandbox projects cert-manager cdk8s Kyverno OpenKruise Pravega SchemaHero Tinkerbell k8ssandra from Datastax Episode 98 with Sam Ramji k0s from Mirantis Solo.io announces Gloo Mesh Enterprise and rebrands products Episode 55, with Idit…

Thomas Rampelberg is a software engineer with Buoyant, creators of Linkerd, and a core maintainer of that project. He is also a co-author of the Service Mesh Interface and co-creator of DC/OS. He joins Craig and Adam to talk about the two former, and pour one out for the latter. 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 The BBC on Sean Connery Noreen Malone on Alex Trebek Celebrity Jeopardy! highlights from Saturday Night Live Doomscrolling Potion Explosion: analog, or digital (Steam, Android, iOS) KerPlunk!: analog only News of the week Linkerd 2.9 AWS's response to Dockerhub: a new service IBM adds Code Risk Analysis to Cloud CD Helm chart deprecation Episode 11, with Vic Iglesias CyberArk looks at threats to Kubernetes Links from the interview D2iQ retires DC/OS Kubernetes on Mesos in 2015 The monolith Buoyant Linkerd Finagle kube-proxy before iptables Conduit: a new mesh…

For pods to talk to each other in Kubernetes, you need a virtual network. Antonin Bas is a staff engineer at VMware and a maintainer of Project Antrea; a CNI plugin which provides such a network. He talks to Adam and Craig about encapsulation, virtualisation, and 10,000 year old Finnish artifacts. 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 Over the top Halloween light show Bird of the Year Click here to take the Audience Survey: thank you for helping us make a better show for you! News of the week An update on D2IQ's support of Mesos Docker's plan for Year 2 Google Cloud mitigates the impact of Docker's Year 1 changes Quay and Harbor also KubeLinter from StackRox GitHub Hashicorp Nomad 1.0 Beta Vitess 8 GA gRPC in the real world: Container Runtime Interface by Bob Reselman RIP Dan Kohn Links from the interview Visual Basic Professor Nick McKeown, co-founder of Nicira Barefoot…

David Pait was a touring musician in pop punk band Sparks The Rescue. Now, he's an SRE working on Kubernetes at an ad-tech company. How did he get there? And if you're looking to change careers, how might you? Craig and Adam dig 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 Steam Digital Tabletop Fest Microsoft Surface (since renamed PixelSense) Similo Guess Who? Click here to take the Audience Survey: thank you for helping us make a better show for you! News of the week Cloud Foundry Doubles Down on Kubernetes cf-for-k8s 1.0 Ecosystem updates Episode 105, with Chip Childers Akri, from Microsoft kube-secret-syncer from Contentful Grafana Tempo OpenTelemetry Tracing Spec RC by Morgan McLean AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry AWS Load Balancer Controller Nydus container image service Robin.io Express, free for life Verizon Business adds Kubernetes which is powered by Rafay Links from the…

Bob Killen is co-chair of Kubernetes' SIG Contributor Experience and was last week elected to the project's Steering Committee. He worked in academia for 15 years, latterly working on research projects using Kubernetes, with a focus on computer security. He's now made the leap to working on Cloud Native full time at Google. Bob joins us to explain why Kubernetes twitter is occasionally full of cartoon geese. 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 Relive New Zealand's General Election coverage - 57% of the electorate voted early! tl:dr; Jacinda won by a lot One NZ electorate had a 421 vote lead on the night Ballot box in Washington State Click here to take the Audience Survey: thank you for helping us make a better show for you! News of the week VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.2 is GA Red Hat integrates Ansible and OpenShift Changes to the KubeCon EU Episode 107, with Priyanka…

Ramiro Berrelleza is CEO and co-founder of Okteto, a company making developer tools which simplify development on Kubernetes. He joins Adam and Craig to discuss how the open source project and company came about, going through Y Combinator, and the best filling for a Mission burrito. 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 Hash browns Corn fritters Survey Click here to take the Audience Survey. Thank you for helping us make a better show for you! News of the week Rook graduates Episode 36 with Jared Watts Wasm is upstreamed in Envoy Helm moves to Artifact Hub DigitalOcean introduces DOAP and Apurva Joshi describes its stack IBM breaks itself in two Kubernetes Steering Committee election results OpenTelemetry Governance Committee election starting Introducing PipeCD by Le Van Nghia Anchore DevSecOps toolkit Rancher 2.5 Red Hat slashes OpenShift prices Kubernetes tested on U2…

When your infrastructure is effectively infinite, you may have to keep an eye on your credit card. Webb Brown started a project that does exactly that - Kubecost, which aims to reduce spend and prevent resource-based outages. He talks to Craig and Adam about the project and the company behind it. 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 Kiwis abroad: please meddle in the election Clarke Gayford tweet Killer Queen Black Killer Queen News of the week VMworld announcements Bryan Liles' promotion Episode 54, with Bryan Liles Pixie Labs TechCrunch coverage Cicada, by Jeremy Herzog Announcing Java support for cdk8s Good: Envoy on Windows Not so good: Envoy CVE-2020-25017 Kubenav 3.0.0 announced Cisco acquires Portshift Veeam acquires Kasten Solo.io acquires $23m Episode 55, with Idit Levine Links from the interview Kubecost Kubecost blog Cluster turndown Cost model Spot instances (AWS)…

Kubernetes makes it easy to run distributed workloads, but how do you make sure that replicas don't conflict with one another? You elect one as the leader. Mike Danese, chair and TL of Kubernetes SIG Auth, joins a vegan and a carnivore to explain how Kubernetes implements leader election. 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 What is a staycation? What is steak? Beefsteak, vegetarian/vegan restaurant Nachos News of the week Chaos Mesh 1.0 Azure news: AKS comes to Azure Stack HCI (Preview) AKS adds stopping/restarting clusters, Kubernetes 1.19, confidential compute nodes (Preview) Bridge to Kubernetes is GA Istio Steering Committee election results OpenServiceMesh joins the CNCF Sandbox Odo 2.0.0 GA Odo from Deep Space 9 Determined AI on Kubernetes Cloud Run for Anthos adds events KubeAcademy Pro from VMware KubeCon EU 2020 transparency report Scholarships for KubeCon NA 2020…