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Kubernetes Podcast from Google
Hosted by Abdel Sghiouar, Kaslin Fields · EN
A biweekly podcast focused on what's happening in the Kubernetes community hosted by Abdel Sghiouar and Kaslin Fields. We cover Kubernetes, cloud-native applications, and other developments in the ecosystem. Abdel and Kaslin on Twitter at @KubernetesPod or by email at kubernetespodcast@google.com.
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Kubernetes 1.34 Of Wind & Will, With Vyom Yadav
Aug 2700:30:51Summary readyVyom Yadav is a software engineer in the security team at Canonical and a member of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee. We talked about the new Release theme and what major updates, deprecations and removals to expect in this version. 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 GKE 10 years Hackathon Golden Kubestronauts 100 members Open Policy Agent (OPA) joined Apple DocumentDB joined the Linux Foundation Solo.io donated the agentgateway to the Linux Foundation Kubecrash.io: A platform Eng conference with a purpose Links from the interview Vyom Yadav Kubernetes 1.34 sneak peak
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LLM-D, with Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw
Aug 2000:52:30Summary readyGuests are Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw. Clayton is a Core contributor to Kubernetes, the containerized cluster manager, and founding architect for OpenShift, the open source platform as a service. Clayton helped launch the shift to cloud native applications and the platforms that enable them. At Google my mission is to make Kubernetes and GKE the best place to run workloads, especially accelerated AI/ML workloads, and especially especially very large model inference at scale with the inference gateway and llm-d. Rob Shaw is an Engineering Director at Redhat and is a contributor to the vLLM project. 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 1.34 is expected to release end of August Kubecrash.io: A platform Eng conference with a purpose CNCF top 30 project of 2025 Links from the interview LLM-D KubeCon EU 25 Keynote: LLM-Aware Load Balancing in Kubernetes WG Serving vLLM Disaggregated Prefilling LWS: LeaderWorkerSet
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Platform Engineering, with Ben Good
Aug 6, 202500:34:15Summary readyThis episode is a crossover with our friends at the SRE Prodcast. Kaslin joined Ben Good and Steve McGhee to talk about Kubernetes for Platform Engineering. 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 1.34 Sneak Peak Upcoming changes to the Bitnami catalog (effective August 28th, 2025) Amazon EKS enables ultra scale AI/ML workloads with support for 100K nodes per cluster CNCF Cloud Native Glossary Links from the interview Backstage DORA Metrics
SummaryPlatform Engineering, GitOps and AI with Pierre-Gilles Mialon and Glen Yu
Jul 25, 202500:21:10Summary readyGuests are Pierre-Gilles Mialon and Glen Yu. Pierre-Gilles and Glen are Google Developer Experts. We had an opportunity to catch up with them at Next 2025 and we spoke about Platform Engineering, GitOps, Policy as code and 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 Docker Desktop version 4.43 release Docker Compose support in Google Cloud Run KubeCon && CloudNativeCon Japan in 2026 Links from the interview Google Developer Experts Kubernetes Resource Model Blog Part-1 Kubernetes Resource Model Blog Part-2 KRO on the podcast Kyverno Nomad FluxCD
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HPC Workload Scheduling, with Ricardo Rocha
Jul 9, 202500:42:58Summary readyRicardo Rocha leads the Platform Infrastructure team at CERN with a strong focus on cloud native deployments and machine learning. He has led the internal effort to transition services and workloads to use cloud native technologies, as well as dissemination and training for several years. Ricardo got CERN to join the CNCF and is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), currently chairs the End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB), as well as leading the Research User Group (RUG). 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 Blog: Image Compatibility In Cloud Native Environments Gemini CLI on GitHub Cloud Native Glossary — The Vietnamese Version is Live! CNCF Blog: Joining CNCF as Executive Director: Let's Build What's Next OpenStack Foundation OpenInfra Foundation Links from the interview Ricardo Rocha on LinkedIn CERN Infiniband Kubernetes Jobs HTCondor Slurm Workload Manager Kueue Volcano Kube-batch (archived) Kubefed (archived) Yunikorn (Unicorn) KubeAdmiral (formerly Kubefed v2) CNCF End User Awards - CERN Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) CNCF TAG & WG Restructure (Reboot) Interlink Slinky (Slurm-Kubernetes integration) XPK: a container-native platform for HPC Gateway API KubeRay
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Kubernetes & Cloud Native Trends, with Alain Regnier and Camila Martins
Jun 24, 202500:31:21Summary readyThis week’s interview was recorded live at Google Cloud Next, and features Alain Regnier and Camila Martins talking about recent developments in Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. Including exploring highlights from KubeCon EU, and the value of community events. 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 Google Cloud Next KubeCon Europe Amazon Q for the Command Line Blog - Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP server KubeCon China, KubeCon Japan, and KubeCon India CNCF Maintainer Summit and Maintainer Track at KubeCon North America LLM-d project VLLM Kubernetes Inference Gateway Blog: Introducing the Inference Extension for Gateway API Interview Kubo Labs Google Developer Expert (GDE) Program DevOpsDays Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) KCD Rio de Janeiro 2025 KubeCon EU 2025 Schedule SecNumCloud OpenTelemetry Docker Community and Docker Captains Program Elastic Community HashiCorp Community GKE Dataplane V2 Kubernetes Network Policies GKE VPC-native clusters GKE Dashboards Docker's AI/ML Trends Report 2024 eBPF Liz Rice CNCF Landscape - Service Mesh Container Storage Interface (CSI) Agones McDonald's AI lightning talk at Google Cloud Next Target AI lightning talk at Google Cloud Next Target AI session at Google Cloud Next Google Cloud Next 2024 Developer Keynote
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Multi-Cluster Orchestrator, with Nick Eberts and Jon Li
May 28, 202500:21:31Summary readyGuests are Nick Eberts and Jon Li. Nick is a Product Manager at Google working on Fleets and Multi-Cluster and Jon is a Software Engineer at Google working on AI Inference on Kubernetes. We discussed the newly announced Multi Cluster Orchestrator (MCO) and the challenges of running multiple clusters. 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 has released version 3.6.0 Kubernetes 1.33 is now available in the Rapid channel in GKE Kyverno 1.14.0 was released Links from the interview Nick Eberts on LinkedIn Jon Li on LinkedIn MCO Blog MCO Repo Cluster Inventory API ClusterProfile API Gemma 3 vLLM Sample (deploy on Google Cloud using Terraform and Argo CD) Hello World Sample (deploy on Google Cloud using Terraform and Argo CD) Gateway API Inference Extension
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KubeCon EU 2025
May 15, 202500:52:02Summary readyIn this episode, we're bringing you a curated selection of conversations from the KubeCon EU 2025 showfloor. We'll be diving into the rise of platform engineering, exploring some cutting-edge technologies, getting updates on core Kubernetes components, and hearing some truly unique user stories, like using Kubernetes on a dairy farm! 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 Blog - Announcing the Automated Governance Maturity Model Kubernetes Blog CNCF Blog - Understanding Kubernetes Gateway API: A Modern Approach to Traffic Management Open Observability Summit Links from the interview NAIS at NAV, with Hans Kristian Flaatten and Audun Fauchald Strand Audun Fauchald Strand Hans Kristian Flaatten NAV (Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration) Kubernetes Podcast 216: NAIS, with Johnny Horvi and Frode Sundby NAIS KubeCon EU 2025 Keynote: Adventures of Building a Platform as a Service for the Government - Hans Kristian Flaatten, Lead Platform Engineer, NAV & Audun Fauchald Strand, Principal Software Engineer, NAV GKE release notes Platform Engineering, with Max Körbächer and Andreas (Andi) Grabner Max Körbächer Andreas (Andi) Grabner Book: “Platform Engineering for Architects: Crafting modern platforms as a product” by Max Körbächer, Andreas Grabner, and Hilliary Lipsig Cloud Native Summit Munich Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani Ahmet Alp Balkan Ronak Nathani Kubernetes Podcast 249: Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani Ahmet’s Blog Introducing Multi-Cluster Orchestrator: Scale your Kubernetes workloads across regions LLMs on Kubernetes, with Mofi and Abdel KubeCon EU 2025 talk: Yes You Can Run LLMs on Kubernetes - Abdel Sghiouar & Mofi Rahman, Google Cloud About the Gateway API Gateway API Inference Extension Deploy GKE Inference Gateway SIG etcd with Ivan Valdes Ivan Valdes etcd.io SIG etcd on GitHub Open Source Kubernetes, with Jago Macleod Jago Macleod Google Open Source: Kubernetes Schedmd Slurm Ray Run:ai from Nvidia Medium blog: “Deploy Slurm on GKE” by Abdel Sghiouar AI-Hypercomputer, xpk XPK (Accelerated Processing Kit, pronounced x-p-k) is a command line interface that simplifies cluster creation and workload execution on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). XPK generates preconfigured, training-optimized clusters and allows easy workload scheduling without any Kubernetes expertise. Cursor AI Editor Dairy Farm Automation & Banking with Kubernetes, with Clément Nussbaumer Clément Nussbaumer Talos Linux Cluster-api Cluster API is a Kubernetes subproject focused on providing declarative APIs and tooling to simplify provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters. KubeCon EU 2025 Talk: “Day-2’000 - Migration From Kubeadm+Ansible To ClusterAPI+Talos: A Swiss Bank’s Journey” - Clément Nussbaumer, PostFinance Kubeadm Kubeadm is a tool built to provide kubeadm init and kubeadm join as best-practice "fast paths" for creating Kubernetes clusters. Being a First-Time KubeCon Attendee, with Nick Taylor <li dir="ltr" aria...
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Kubernetes v1.33 Octarine, with Nina Polshakova
Apr 24, 202500:44:24Summary readyNina Polshakova is a software engineer at Solo.io, where she’s worked on Istio and API Gateway projects. She’s been part of the Kubernetes release team since v1.27 and is currently serving as the Release Lead for v1.33. 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 229 new things Google announced at Next 25 MCO: Multi-Cluster Orchestrator Golden Kubestronaut Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate The kube-scheduler-simulator K0s and k0smotron are now CNCF Sandbox projects Links from the interview Nina Polshakova Kubernetes Deprecation Policy Kubernetes Dev Google Group solo.io Istio API Gateway (General concept, linking to K8s Gateway API) Kubernetes Release Team GitHub Istio revisions Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal (Link to publisher's site about the book) Kubernetes Maintainers Read Mean Comments (KubeCon EU 2024) Kubernetes 1.33 release blog (Link to release announcement blog) Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs) Sidecar Containers Multiple Service CIDR support (KEP link) Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) DRA support for partitioned devices (KEP link) DRA device taints and tolerations (KEP link) DRA: Prioritized Alternatives in Device Requests (KEP link) Kubernetes 1.33 sneak peak (Link to pre-release highlights) EndpointSlices API Kubernetes Gateway API node.status.nodeInfo.kubeProxyVersion is a lie (issue) KEP-4004: Deprecate the kubeProxyVersion field of v1.Node #4005 (KEP link) Kubelet Removal: Host network support for Windows pods (KEP link) Containerd SIG Windows HostProcess Containers (Windows) Removal: KEP-5040: Disable git_repo volume driver (KEP link) User Namespaces (Beta, Enabled by Default) CRI-O Runc In-place Resource Resize for Pods (Link to the alpha announcement, but now beta) Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) KEP-5080: Ordered Namespace Deletion PyTorch Linkerd Terry Pratchett's Discworld series Tiffany Aching series Guards! Guards! Going Postal Kubernetes Slack New Contributor Orientation
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Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO), with Jesse Butler and Nic Slattery
Apr 1, 202500:44:14Summary readyToday we welcome Jesse Butler and Nic Slattery to talk about the Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator, or KRO. Jesse works as a principal product manager at AWS and Nic is a Product Manager at Google. The Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator is a new cloud agnostic tool meant to simplify Kubernetes resources for devs and platform admins. 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 JobSets: An open-source API for managing distributed jobs as a single unit. Integrates with Kueue for better resource utilization. Kubernetes Blog: Introducing JobSet Kueue Project Google Cloud Next '24: Happening in Las Vegas, April 9-11. The Kubernetes Podcast team will be there! Google Cloud Next Kagent: A new open-source AI agent framework built on Microsoft's Autogen, designed for automating operations and troubleshooting in Kubernetes. kagent.dev Links from the interview Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) KRO Announcement Blogs Google Cloud Blog- Simplify the developer experience on Kubernetes with KRO AWS Open Source Blog - Introducing kro: Kube Resource Orchestrator AWS Open Source Blog - Kube Resource Orchestrator, From Experiment to Community Project Reddit thread - anyone tried kro for kubernetes resource management yet? The New Stack: Kubernetes Gets a New Resource Orchestrator in the Form of Kro InfoQ: Cloud Giants Collaborate on New Kubernetes Resource Management Tool CRD (Custom Resource Definition): Kubernetes CRDs - A mechanism within Kubernetes to extend the API. Knative: Knative.dev - A Kubernetes-based platform for building serverless applications. Terraform: Terraform.io - Infrastructure as code software. Helm: Helm.sh - A package manager for Kubernetes. KPT (Kubernetes Package Tool): KPT - A tool for packaging and managing Kubernetes configurations. Crossplane: cncf.io/projects/crossplane - An open-source project for managing cloud resources through Kubernetes. Common Expression Language (CEL): cel.dev - A powerful expression language. kubebuilder: kubebuilder on GitHub - A framework to build Kubernetes controllers, details available in Kubernetes documentation.
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