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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 at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani
Mar 25, 202500:42:02Summary readyAhmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani are software engineers at LinkedIn compute infrastructure team running the Kubernetes platform for LinkedIn and they joined us today to talk about how they run Kubernetes at scale and what they learned along the way. 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 CubeFS was moved to the CNCF Graduated Maturity Level. CNCF Maturity Levels Canonical announced 12 year Kubernetes Long Term Support. Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs) Links from the interview LinkedIn Engineering Blog- Stateful workload operator: stateful systems on Kubernetes at LinkedIn Kubernetes Blog: How we run Kubernetes in Kubernetes aka Kubeception Flannel: Flannel is a simple and easy way to configure a layer 3 network fabric designed for Kubernetes. Spanner: Google Cloud's globally-distributed database service. Kubernetes Architecture - learn more about the control plane from the Kubernetes docs! Kubernetes Resource Model Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) Ahmet Alp Balkan Blog: So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?
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Kubernetes Ingress & Gateway API Updates, with Lior Lieberman
Mar 11, 202500:45:15Summary readyLior Lieberman is a software engineer lead at Google Cloud focusing on GCE, Kubernetes, and Service Mesh. He is a leading contributor to Gateway API and the maintainer of Ingress2gateway. 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 NFTables mode for kube-proxy | Kubernetes Kubescape becomes a CNCF incubating project Announcing the Beta Release of OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation using eBPF | CNCF New Phippy Book Guidelines: Enhancing Community Access & Engagement | CNCF Links from the interview Lightning Talk: Why Service Is the Worst API in Kubernetes, & What We’re Doing About It - Tim Hockin GitHub - kubernetes-sigs/ingress2gateway: Convert Ingress resources to Gateway API resources Migrating from Ingress Gateway API Inference Extension 0.1.0 release README on GitHub kubernetes-sigs/ingate - an Ingress & Gateway API Controller GAMMA - https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/mesh/
SummaryKubernetes History Inspector, with Kakeru Ishii
Feb 13, 202500:18:09Summary readyKakeru is the initiator of the Kubernetes History Inspector or KHI. An open source tool that allows you to visualise Kubernetes Logs and troubleshoot issues. We discussed what the tool does, how it's built and what was the motivation behind Open sourcing 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 The Schedule for the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2025 Maintainers Summit is live The CNCF 2024 review of the top 30 projects The CNCF End User Case Study for KubeCon Contest Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator Blog Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator Github EKS Hybrid nodes CoreWeave Nvidia GB200 NLV-72 GA Links from the interview KHI: Kubernetes History Inspector DAG WebGL
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Linkerd, with William Morgan
Jan 29, 202500:53:06Summary readyWilliam Morgan is the CEO of Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd. You worked at Twitter before as a software engineer and engineering manager and you have a long experience in the field. 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 RedHat blog: Next generation multicluster application connectivity and traffic policy management KubeCon EU 2025 schedule CFP for KubeCon Japan (closes Feb 2, 2025) CFP for KubeCon China (closes Feb 2, 2025) CFP for KubeCon India (closes March 23, 2025) kubezonnet Links from the interview linkerd.io Linkerd on GitHub Linkerd architecture “Linkerd doesn’t use Envoy” Blog Post (2020) envoyproxy.io Sidecar containers in Kubernetes Linkerd2 on GitHub Rust programming language Dynamic Admission Control (Mutating Webhooks) Linkerd Multi-cluster Federated Services KubeCon NA 2024, “Open Source 2.0: The Maintainers' Perspective - Panel” Cloud Native Startup Fest, “Panel: Startups With Open Source Projects: Can They Be Successful in the CNCF? And Should They Be?”
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Device Management in Kubernetes, with John Belamaric
Jan 15, 202500:43:17Summary readyJohn Belamaric is a senior staff software engineer at Google who has been involved in Kubernetes since 2016, and is currently a co-chair of both SIG Architecture and WG Device Management. 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 KubeCon Japan CFP KubeCon India CFP Links from the interview Working Group Device Management on GitHub (meeting info here) CoreDNS Dynamic Resource Allocation in Kubernetes Control Topology Management Policies on a node NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPUs Links from the post-interview chat 2025 Kubernetes Community Day Events
SummaryKubernetes Podcast 2024 Recap
Dec 16, 202400:34:30Summary readyThis episode is a recap of 2024. Co-hosts Abdel and Kaslin and guest host Mofi got together to reflect on how 2024 has been in the Cloud Native and Kubernetes space. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod Links from the interview 2024 Wrapped: Top 5 episodes 10 years k8s anniversary episodes 226, 227, 228, 229 CNCF Kubernetes 10 years documentary Google Kubernetes 10 years documentary Gateway API with Rob Scrott episode LLM Gateway Emily Fox on the podcast Kubernetes Podcast on Bluesky Kubernetes Podcast on LinkedIn Kubernetes on Bluesky Kubernetes Podcast on Youtube Introduction to Distributed ML Workloads with Ray on Kubernetes
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Kubernetes v1.32: Penelope, with Frederico Muñoz
Dec 12, 202400:44:14Summary readyRelease Lead Frederico Muñoz walks us through the 1.32 release: new feature highlights, deprecations and removals, and the release theme: Penelope. 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 Gateway API v1.2: WebSockets, Timeouts, Retries, and More Streamline Kubernetes cluster management with new Amazon EKS Auto Mode Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024 Links from the interview Kubernetes v1.32: Penelope (Release Blog) SIG ContribEx Comms Kubernetes Contributor Awards 2023 (Frederico received an award last year) The Odyssey by Homer, Samuel Butler on Google Books Releases on Kubernetes.io Links from the post-interview chat Kubernetes 1.27: In-place Resource Resize for Kubernetes Pods (alpha)
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KubeCon NA 2024
Nov 26, 202400:31:14Summary readyKubeCon North America 2024 took place in Salt Lake City, Utah on Nov 12-15. We interviewed people on the show floor to gather their impressions of the event, what they learned and what they want to see in the future. 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 Cert-manager is a CNCF graduate project Dapr is a CNCF Graduated project Dapr episode on the Kubernetes Podcast Istio 1.24 release. Ambient Mesh GA Cloud Native Heroes Challenge CNCF Flagship events for 2025 New Cloud Native Certifications Kubernetes certifications prices increase in 2025 wasmCloud is a CNCF incubated project SpectroCloud $75 million Series C funding Solo.io donates Gloo API Gateway to the CNCF Links from the interview Guests: Rajas Kakodkar Jeremy Rickard Rey Lejano Jimmy Zelinskie Frederic Branczyk Lucy Sweet Sreekaran Srinath Joe Thompson Tag runtime SIG Security SIG Docs WG LTS The Maintainer Monologues - Sarah Christoff, Jason Hall, Scott Rigby, Karen Chu & Ryan Nowak Expanding the Capabilities of Kubernetes Access Control - Jimmy Zelinskie & Lucas Käldström
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65k nodes on GKE, with Maciej Rozacki and Wojciech Tyczyński
Nov 13, 202400:48:46Summary readyGuests are Maciej Rozacki, Product Manager on GKE for AI Training, and Wojciech Tyczyński, Software Engineer on the GKE team at Google. We explore what it means for GKE to support 65k nodes, and the open source contributions that made this possible 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 The Kubernetes Podcast is on Bluesky OpenTelemetry expanding into CI/CD observability Gitpod is moving away from Kubernetes OpenCost is a CNCF Incubated project Links from the interview Guests: Maciek Wojciech Kubernetes OSS Scalability thresholds PGS on the Kubernetes Podcast Batch Working Group Serving Working Group episode on the podcast Dynamic Resource Allocation Kueue Multitenancy and Fairness at Scale with Kueue SIG Scalability Links from the post-interview chat Consistent Reads from Cache Kubernetes Scalability: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis
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Working Group Serving, with Yuan Tang and Eduardo Arango
Oct 31, 202400:38:44Summary readyYuan is a principal software engineer at Red Hat, working on OpenShift AI. Previously, he has led AI infrastructure and platform teams at various companies. He holds leadership positions in open source projects, including Argo, Kubeflow, and Kubernetes WG Serving. Yuan authored three technical books and is a regular conference speaker, technical advisor, and leader at various organizations. Eduardo is an environmental engineer derailed into a software engineer. Eduardo has been working on making containerized environments the de facto solution for High Performance Computing(HPC) for over 8 years now. Began as a core contributor to the niche Singularity Containers, today known as Apptainer under the Linux foundation. In 2019 Eduardo moved up the ladder to work on making Kubernetes better for performance oriented applications. Nowadays Eduardo works at NVIDIA on the Core Cloud Native team working on enabling specialized accelerators into Kubernetes workloads. 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 Docker official terraform provider Tetrate and Bloomberg Envoy AI Gateway KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2024 laptop drive Remaining KCDs for 2024 Links from the interview Yuan Tang Eduardo ArangoWG Serving Kserve Kserve Serving models with OCI images LLM Gateway Dynamic Resources Allocation
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