Kubernetes Podcast from Google

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...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the week Jimmy MooreConan O’Brien Needs A FriendRevisionist HistoryLetterman reads out Johnny’s...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 64, with Sarah D’Angelo and...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the...

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...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 64 with Sarah D’Angelo and Patrick FlynnThree years ago todayJames StrachanJames RawlingsDan LorencJibreCAPTCHA...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 94,...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the week Moscone Center vaccination siteMonday morning weather in...

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...

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...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 19, with Liz RiceEpisode 133, with Thomas GrafCilium...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 11, with Vic IglesiashereherePokémon Go social distancing News of...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 23, with Andrew Philips and Lars WanderA...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 86, with Lin SunIstio boat meetup at KubeCon NA 2019IstioCon 2021Craig and Lin’s sessionJeff from CouplingSeparated at...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 41, with Tim HockinThe Machete OrderJohn Boyega on Star Wars News of the week Istio 1.9IstioCon 2021Mayadata spins...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 103, with Saad AliNew TOC membersEpisode 62, with Ricardo Rocha, Lukas Heinrch...

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: kubernetespodcast.comkubernetespodcast@google.com@kubernetespod Chatter of the week Episode 106, with John BelamaricProduction Readiness Review...