Kubernetes Podcast From Google

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 secur

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

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

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

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

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

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-fou

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: Sup

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

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

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 annou

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

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 mode

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

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 T

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, wi

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 Nexu

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

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 Application

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 Encrypt