Kubernetes Bytes

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Torsten Steinbach - VP, Chief Architect for Analytics & AI at EDB about all things Vector Databases, Postgres, and why Data is important for building AI platforms. The discussion dives into how vector databases are different than relational databases and why using Postgres extensions helps organizations use their existing data for AI applications. Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/ Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) in New York City on May 22nd, use the promo code “KUBERNETESBYTES” to get a 10% discount on your registration fees! Episode Sponsor: Nethopper Cloud Native News: Show Links: Timestamps:

Join Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner for a recap of announcments and news from KubeCon Paris 2024. Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) in New York City on May 22nd, use the promo code “KUBERNETESBYTES” to get a 10% discount on your registration fees! Nethopper News

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Charlie Egan, Sr. Developer Advocate at Styra about all things Open Policy Agent or OPA. This episode is meant to be a 101 level episode, where we will learn what OPA is and how it can help improve the security posture for your applications running on Kubernetes. The discussion dives into some of the use cases for OPA and how it helps with Kubernetes admission control, auditing, etc. Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/ Episode Sponsor: Elotl Links: Timestamps: Show Links:

Join hosts Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah of Kubernetes Bytes as they explore the complexities of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) with Chris Munford, CEO, and Dan Donahue, Solution Architect of Nethopper. In this episode, the team discusses the challenges of constructing IDPs, achieving the optimal balance of flexibility and prescriptive golden paths. The episode dives into the unique operations perspective required for effective implementation. Gain valuable insights and practical advice from industry leaders on navigating the evolving landscape of IDPs. Don't miss this insightful conversation on unlocking the full potential of IDPs for your organization. Timestamps Episode Links What Happened to Platform Engineering? (ebook/pdf)LinkedIn Audio RecordingWebsite resourcesLinkedIn Newsletter

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Janakiram MSV - an advisor, analyst and architect to talk about how users can run Generative AI models on Kubernetes. The discussion revolves around Jani's home lab and his experimentation with different LLM models and how to get them running on NVIDIA GPUs. Jani has spent the past year becoming a subject matter expert in GenAI, and this discussion highlights all the different challenges he faced and what lessons he learnt from them. Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/ Episode Sponsor: Elotl Timestamps: Cloud Native News: Show Links:

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes. Hosts Bhavin and Ryan dive into what makes up a Internal Development Platform (IDP). Bhavin and Ryan help to define what an IDP is, how it relates to the overarching topic of platform engineering as well as the pros and cons of implementing an IDP. Discount for KCD New York! https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-new-york-presents-kcd-new-york-2024/ Please make sure to use the voucher code “KUBERNETESBYTES” to get a 10% discount News: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2024/02/08/strimzi-joins-the-cncf-incubator/https://github.com/Ume0344/mongokubehttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240207876324/en/ZEDEDA-Secures-72M-in-Growth-Capital-to-Meet-the-Skyrocketing-Demand-for-Edge-AI-and-Computinghttps://fintech.global/2024/02/15/ktrust-secures-5-3m-in-seed-funding-to-revolutionise-kubernetes-securityhttps://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-predictions-were-wrong/https://cloudnativenow.com/features/crossplane-maintainers-add-python-support-to-control-plane/https://blog.crossplane.io/crossplane-v1-15/Links: https://youtu.be/y-X1ZcPxRnI?si=q9UoglFrZycIcZ_lIDP Companies and Projects

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Jason Dobies - Director of Edge Engineering at SUSE to talk about all things K3s. They discuss why Kubernetes is best suited for Edge deployments, and why K3s was built and how it helps users architect their edge solutions. The discussion goes into topics like Security, Storage, High Availability at the Edge. Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/ Episode Sponsor: Elotl Timestamps: Cloud Native News: Show links:

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Lukas Gentele, Co-founder and CEO of Loft Labs to talk about the vCluster project. They discuss how vCluster helps organizations run multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters, where each tenant gets access to a CNCF-conformant Kubernetes cluster, while still being able to deploy everything they need to build and run their applications on Kubernetes. The discussion goes into topics like how Security, Storage, CICD and GitOps work for virtual clusters running on the host clusters. Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/ Episode Sponsor: Elotl https://elotl.co/lunahttps://www.elotl.co/luna-free-trial Timestamps: 00:59 Cloud Native News06:51 Interview with Lukas55:09 Key takeaways Cloud Native News: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/krknchaos-joining-cncf-sandboxhttps://cloudnativenow.com/features/red-hat-makes-idp-based-on-backstage-generally-available/https://trilio.io/resources/trilio-announces-backup-and-recovery-for-red-hat-openshift-on-ibm-power-systems/https://snyk.io/news/snyk-acquires-runtime-data-pioneer-helios/ Show links: https://loft.sh/blog/how-codefresh-uses-vcluster-to-provide-hosted-argo-cd/https://www.coreweave.com/blog/coreweave-and-loft-labs-leverage-vcluster-in-kubernetes-at-scalehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/gentele/https://www.vcluster.com/https://loft.sh/https://slack.loft.sh/

In the first episode of Season 4 for the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Ahmed Bebars, Staff Software Engineer at NYTimes to talk about how the times uses Kubernetes and Platform Engineering to accelerate their developer productivity and improve developer experience. They talk about what the technology stack at NYTimes looks like, how the platform team has built a resilient platform on Amazon EKS and share some best practices for anyone starting their journey with Platform Engineering. Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/ Timestamps: 01:20 Cloud Native News09:55 Interview with Ahmed50:04 Key takeawaysCloud Native News: https://www.aquasec.com/news/60m-additional-funding/https://devclass.com/2023/12/12/docker-buys-atomicjar-to-integrate-container-based-test-automation/https://www.businessinsider.com/armory-acquired-startup-harness-7-million-2023-12https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/scaleops-looks-to-cut-cloud-bills-by-automating-kubernetes-configurationshttps://wraltechwire.com/2023/12/21/ciscos-latest-cloud-play-exec-explains-the-deal-for-tech-startup-isovalent/https://www.kubernetes.dev/resources/release/Show links: https://open.nytimes.com/https://tickets.kcdnewyork.com/https://github.com/abebarshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmedbebars/https://github.com/nytimes

Learn along side Bhavin and Ryan as they dig into some of basics of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. They explore what terms mean, what the basic differences are and take an introductory look at how companies approaches to building and using models for various use cases. News https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-pod-identity-simplifies-iam-permissions-for-applications-on-amazon-eks-clusters/https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/use-aws-fault-injection-service-to-demonstrate-multi-region-and-multi-az-application-resilience/Show Links Vector DB Talk DoK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxoqMgFKAlMhttps://www.kubeflow.org/docs/components/pipelines/v1/introduction/https://weaviate.io/blog/what-is-a-vector-databasehttps://huggingface.co/https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-overview/getting-started.htmlhttps://kueue.sigs.k8s.io/docs/overview/https://www.datastax.com/guides/what-is-a-vector-indexhttps://www.datastax.com/guides/what-is-vector-searchhttps://medium.com/building-the-open-data-stack/whats-a-vector-database-c3e8b6bb0436https://www.pinecone.io/blog/aws-reference-architecture/

Learn along side Bhavin and Ryan as they dig into some of basics of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. They explore what terms mean, what the basic differences are and take an introductory look at how companies approaches to building and using models for various use cases. News https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-pod-identity-simplifies-iam-permissions-for-applications-on-amazon-eks-clusters/https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/use-aws-fault-injection-service-to-demonstrate-multi-region-and-multi-az-application-resilience/Show Links Vector DB Talk DoK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxoqMgFKAlMhttps://www.kubeflow.org/docs/components/pipelines/v1/introduction/https://weaviate.io/blog/what-is-a-vector-databasehttps://huggingface.co/https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-overview/getting-started.htmlhttps://kueue.sigs.k8s.io/docs/overview/https://www.datastax.com/guides/what-is-a-vector-indexhttps://www.datastax.com/guides/what-is-vector-searchhttps://medium.com/building-the-open-data-stack/whats-a-vector-database-c3e8b6bb0436https://www.pinecone.io/blog/aws-reference-architecture/

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin talk about Kubecon + Cloud Native Con North America 2023 in Chicago, and discuss all the vendor announcements from the past couple of weeks. Kubecon North America was in Chicago and had more than 13500 attendees and shows a continuous increase in adoption of Kubernetes as the platform to run containers, virtual machines, AI workloads, etc. Check out the KubernetesBytes website: https://www.kubernetesbytes.com/ Ads: Find all the links to the things we discussed during the episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/169mrZGi7oYptuT1nXrmuy-uwIlrAYZ8jJR3p5vRZ5Vo/edit?usp=sharing

In this episode of KubernetesBytes, Bhavin and Ryan interview Viktor Farcic, a Developer Advocate from Upbound, the company behind Crossplane. Crossplane extends Kubernetes into becoming a universal control plane for more than what runs in Kubernetes, however, you get to manage everything in a Kubernetes-native way. Hear what Viktor has to say about Crossplane and what hes been up to. Cloud Native News Links

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Michael o'leary and Ibett A to talk about how developers can build multi-cloud secure architectures using Kubernetes and the principles of Shift Left and DevSecOps. Check out the KubernetesBytes website: https://www.kubernetesbytes.com/ Join the Kubernetes Bytes slack using: https://bit.ly/k8sbytes Ads: Ready to shop better hydration, use "kubernetesbytes" to save 20% off anything you order.Timestamps: Show links: Boston Kubernetes Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/boston-kubernetes-meetup/

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Alexandre Pauwels and Kevin Scheunemann at DevOps Days Boston to talk all about IDPs and Platform Engineering. The discussion focuses on how organizations can build IDPs from open source tools and the how DevOps, SRE and Platform Engineering teams work together. Ads: Ready to shop better hydration, use "kubernetesbytes" to save 20% off anything you order.Timestamps: Show links:

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Paul Bruce and Don Luchini - the organizers of DevOpsdays Boston and talk about the value of community, what DevOps means to them and how the event has evolved over the years. Listen in to learn more about what to expect when you attend one of these events or meetups in the future, and the guests also share their perspective around DevOps, Kubernetes and Platform Engineering Ads: Ready to shop better hydration, use "kubernetesbytes" to save 20% off anything you order.Try Nom Nom today, go to https://trynom.com/kubernetesbytes and get 50% off your first order plus free shipping.Timestamps: Join the DevOpsDays Boston slack - https://bostondevops.github.io/

In this Episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin and Ryan discuss Edge Computing and how Kubernetes and other platforms and distributions can help build better solutions for the edge. Join the Kubernetes Bytes slack using: https://bit.ly/k8sbytes Check out the KubernetesBytes website: https://www.kubernetesbytes.com/ Ads: Ready to shop better hydration, use "kubernetesbytes" to save 20% off anything you order.Try Nom Nom today, go to https://trynom.com/kubernetesbytes and get 50% off your first order plus free shipping.Timestamps: Cloud Native News: Show Notes:

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner interview Brian Chambers, Chief Architect at Chick-fil-A. Brian walks through some of the design decisions, challenges and architecture of how Chick-fil-A uses Kubernetes at the edge in their restaurants. Join the Kubernetes Bytes slack using: https://bit.ly/k8sbytes Ready to shop better hydration, use "kubernetesbytes" to save 20% off anything you order. Try Nom Nom today, go to https://trynom.com/kubernetesbytes and get 50% off your first order plus free shipping. Interested in attending Boston DevOps Days? https://bit.ly/dodb2023 (Main Website, Program, Registration, etc.)https://www.linkedin.com/company/devopsdaysbos/(Real-time updates)Timestamps 01:05 Introduction06:22 Cloud Native News19:13 Interview with Madhuri01:13:20 TakeawaysCloud Native News: K8s 1.28 https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/08/15/kubernetes-v1-28-release/SC assignment stable- https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/08/15/kubernetes-v1-28-release/#automatic-retroactive-assignment-of-a-default-storageclass-graduates-to-stableNon graceful shutdown stable - https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/08/15/kubernetes-v1-28-release/#generally-available-recovery-from-non-graceful-node-shutdownCeph RBD and FS in tree deprecatedControl plan and node supported version go from n-2 to n-3Redhat Openstack services on OpenShift - https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openstack-services-openshift-next-generation-red-hat-openstack-platformAlcion 21 Million funding round: https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/19/alcion-which-provides-backup-and-security-services-to-enterprises-raises-21m/Veeam was major funder: https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatabackup/news/366552363/Veeam-leads-funding-round-for-SaaS-backup-provider-AlcionKubescape 3.0 - https://kubescape.io/blog/2023/09/19/introducing-kubescape-3/GPU sharing on Amazon EKS with NVIDIA time-slicing and accelerated EC2 instances or MIG based sharinghttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/gpu-sharing-on-amazon-eks-with-nvidia-time-slicing-and-accelerated-ec2-instanceshttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/maximizing-gpu-utilization-with-nvidias-multi-instance-gpu-mig-on-amazon-eks-running-more-pods-per-gpu-for-enhanced-performance/Akuity launches Kargo - New Open Source project to automate declarative promotion of changes across multiple app environments - https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230918552920/en/Akuity-Launches-Kargo---a-New-Open-Source-Project-to-Automate-the-Declarative-Promotion-of-Changes-Across-Multiple-Application-EnvironmentsOpenTofu - Linux Foundations alternative to Terraform - loads of community supporthttps://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/announcing-opentofu?hss_channel=lcp-208777CFP already open for Paris!!!! https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/program/cfp/

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Madhuri Yechuri and talk about all things Nodeless Kubernetes and how users can leverage the concept of Just in Time compute provisioning to prevent wasted spend on their cloud bills. Madhuri talks about LUNA and NOVA - a couple of Elotl products that help users run a nodeless Kubernetes multicluster platform for their containerized applications. Join the Kubernetes Bytes slack using: https://bit.ly/k8sbytes Ready to shop better hydration, use code "kubernetesbytes" at this special link https://zen.ai/apaSnaIFOuee5jScqZ28a03tKKvQiqkyz8mtm9wipoE to save 20% off anything you order. Interested in attending Boston DevOps Days? https://bit.ly/dodb2023 (Main Website, Program, Registration, etc.)https://www.linkedin.com/company/devopsdaysbos/(Real-time updates)Timestamps Cloud Native News: Show links:

In this episode of KubernetesBytes, Bhavin and Ryan interview Rob Croteau of Avesha. Avesha is behind the open source project KubeSlice which aims to enable admins to seamlessly connect multiple Kubernetes clusters no matter where they are located with a few command or clicks. Learn about the challenges teams face today with networking and how Kubeslice and avesha are trying to make connectivity for clusters simple. Join the Kubernetes Bytes slack using: https://bit.ly/k8sbytes Try Nom Nom today, go to https://trynom.com/kubernetesbytes and get 50% off your first order plus free shipping. Ready to shop better hydration, use code "kubernetesbytes" at this special link https://zen.ai/apaSnaIFOuee5jScqZ28a03tKKvQiqkyz8mtm9wipoE to save 20% off anything you order. Time Stamps Show Links Show Notes: