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Argo, with Jesse Suen Mar 17, 2022

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The Argo project is a set of four tools to help "get stuff done" with Kubernetes: Workflows, CD, Rollouts and Events. Jesse Suen is a creator of the Argo project and co-founder and CTO of Akuity, a company set up to provide commercial support for it.

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Chatter of the week

News of the week

Backstage and in-toto join the CNCF
- Episode 136, with Lee Mills and Matt Clark
- Episode 155, with Priya Wadhwa
Gloo Mesh 2.0 announced at SoloCon
- The New Stack coverage
Linkerd failover operator
cr8escape vulnerability in CRI-O
GKE Autopilot vulnerabilities disclosed by Palo Alto Networks
Updated Kubernetes hardening guide (PDF)
KubeCon EU 2022 schedule
- Inside the numbers
CNCF Observability micro-survey
run:AI raises $75m

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Argo Project
Argo (film)
Jason and the Argonauts
Applatix
- Pratik Wadher and Rahul Dhide
Argo Workflows
Applatix acquired by Intuit; Intuit acquired Applatix
- Marianna Tessel
Alex Matyushentsev
The archived Argo CI
Argo CD
Argo Rollouts
GitOps Engine:
- Flux CD
- Argo and Flux joining forces
- First release of the GitOps Engine
- FAQ about why this didn't work out
Remote vs Core
Argo Events
- Original BlackRock announcement
Argo in the CNCF
Akuity
- The many Aaron Court Motels
App of Apps
ApplicationSets
Join the CNCF Slack
Argo Workflows and CD community meetings
Jesse Suen on Twitter

Parca, with Frederic Branczyk Mar 09, 2022

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The fourth horseman of the apocalypse observability, according to Frederic Branczyk, is continuous profiling. Frederic is founder and CEO of Polar Signals and creator of the Parca open source project. He and Craig talk all things Cloud Native observability.

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Chatter of the week

Bad news from Australia:
- Shane Warne died
- National emergency called over flooding
Strange news
- Photoshopped fridge magnets
- Cookery books

News of the week

Links from the interview

Frederic Branczyk
Over-engineering coffee:
- Niche Zero grinder
- Decent Espresso
Prometheus
- Creation at SoundCloud
Observing the Kubernetes stack:
Google-Wide Profiling: A Continuous Profiling Infrastructure for Data Centers
Shades of blue are no joke when they make you $200m
KubeCon EU 2019 Keynote: …What Does the Future Hold for Observability? - Tom Wilkie & Frederic Branczyk
Polar Signals
Parca
- Introducing Parca and getting funded
- Parca on GitHub
Episode 163, with Thomas Dullien
Flame graphs and icicle graphs
PARCA: Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment
Pyrra by Matthias Loibl
Frederic Branczyk on Twitter

Kubernetes: The Documentary, with Josiah McGarvie Mar 02, 2022

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Six years after its creation, Kubernetes is the subject of its very own documentary film. Job platform Honeypot has released. Josiah McGarvie was Honeypot's head of video, and the lead filmmaker for Kubernetes: The Documentary. Join us for the director's commentary.

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Sysdig Cloud Native Security and Usage Report, with Anna Belak Feb 23, 2022

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Anna Belak learned about containers and security as a Gartner industry analyst. She is now the Director of Thought Leadership at Sysdig, who have just published their latest annual Cloud Native Security and Usage Report. Anna joins Craig to dicuss the report's findings.

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Rancher Desktop, with Matt Farina Feb 16, 2022

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We're back for 2022 with a look at Rancher Desktop, which recently hit 1.0. Its creator, Matt Farina, is today's guest. Matt is a Distinguished Engineer at SUSE, was a founding chair of Kubernetes SIG Apps, and was recently appointed to the CNCF TOC.

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News of the week

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Matt Farina
General Dynamics Land Systems
Drupal
Palintir (not that one)
HP donates patents to support Linux
HP acquires Stackato Cloud Foundry distribution
CNCF Landscape
- Or not
Helm
SIG Apps
Artifact Hub)
- What is the Artifact Hub?
Rancher Labs acquired by SUSE
Episode 57, with Darren Shepherd
Open source from SUSE/Rancher
- Rio
- Longhorn
- Epinio
- Kubewarden
Rancher Desktop
- Announcement
- 1.0 release
Slashes
kube-solo
nerdctl
k3s and k3d
Matt Farina joins the CNCF TOC
Cloud Native Podcast
- Episode 102, with Matt Butcher
Matt Farina on Twitter

Kubernetes 1.23, with Rey Lejano Dec 08, 2021

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Learn all about what's new in today's Kubernetes 1.23 with its release team lead, Rey Lejano. Rey is a Field Engineer at SUSE/Rancher Labs, and a contributor to the Docs, Release and Security SIGs. Long time listener Adam also drops by to ask Craig what's been happening with the hiatus.

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Knative 1.0, with Ville Aikas Nov 02, 2021

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We celebrate the launch of Knative 1.0 with Ville Aikas, who has been with the project since the beginning. He was also with the Kubernetes team at the beginning, and thus we cannot resist a Pete Best comparison. We also celebrate Jimmy's last show as our guest host with a rapid-fire Kubernetes quiz.

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Chatter of the week

Jimmy graduates!

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Important programmers from Finland
Paddington Bear
University of Washington
Google Voice
Google Cloud Storage
- Read-after-write consistency
The Fifth Beatle
Knative
- Serving
- Eventing
- Build, which became Tekton Pipelines
Did we market Knative wrong? by Ahmet Alp Balkan
Duck typing
- Rubber duck debugging
- Extending Knative for Fun and Profit, by Matt Moore & Ville Aikas
- Subresources
- Proposal for custom subresources for CRDs
Google Cloud Run
IBM Cloud Code Engine
Knative steering committee and technical oversight committee
Great artists steal
Chainguard
Ville to present at Knative community meetup on November 17
- Craig presented Knative at the Kubernetes Colorado meetup in July 2018
Seattle Kraken
Ville Aikas on Twitter

Engineering Effectiveness and KubeCon NA 2021, with Jasmine James Oct 21, 2021

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Jasmine James is an Engineering Manager within the Engineering Effectiveness organization at Twitter, focused on their internal developer experience. She is also the latest co-chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, starting with the North America event last week. Jasmine joins us to talk about being in the same room as other people - up to 3,000 of them - for the first time in a long while.

The cover art for this show is courtesy of the CNCF and licensed under CC-BY.

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Chatter of the last wee while

News of the recent past

Google Cloud Next:
VMworld
- VMware Tanzu Community Edition
- Cartographer for supply chain choreography
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
Kubernetes documentary trailer

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Atlanta
AT&T
Delta Air Lines
Avoiding the weeds in the Cloud Native Landscape at KubeCon NA 2018
Q&A with Jasmine James, newest KubeCon co-chair
The selection process for KubeCon NA 2021
Upcoming CNCF events
Co-co-chairs:
- Episode 117, with Constance Caramanolis
- Episode 130, with Stephen Augustus
Keynotes of note:
- Three Developer Experience keynotes from Constance, Jasmine, and Robert Duffy
- A Vulnerable Tale about Burnout by Julia Simon
- The Road to Multicluster by Kaslin Fields
Episode 62, with Ricardo Rocha, Lukas Heinrch and Clemens Lange
Interaction wristbands
Horseback riding and fishing
Jasmine James on Twitter

Podman, with Daniel Walsh and Brent Baude Sep 24, 2021

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Red Hat maintains a full set of container tools and libraries, bringing their pedigree in security and operating system engineering. The most notable of those tools, Podman, has had a surge in popularity this month, after Docker announced changes in their subscription model. Daniel Walsh leads the Red Hat containers team, and Brent Baude is the architect and primary maintainer of Podman.

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Chatter of the week

Ira Glass in the wardrobe

News of the week

Links from the interview

Dan Walsh
Brent Baude
SELinux
- Stop Disabling SELinux
- SELinux Sandbox
Project Atomic
Red Hat patches for container registry rejected by Docker
Docker client/server model
Red Hat's container suite:
Open Container Initiative (OCI)
Podman features:
Podman in Podman
Podman in Kubernetes
Builder in a Boston accent
containerd, CRI-O and Docker in Kubernetes
"Podman Desktop"
Daniel Walsh on Twitter
Brent Baude on Twitter

Prodfiler, with Thomas Dullien Sep 17, 2021

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Prodfiler is a new tool that provides fleet-wide full-system continuous profiling. It is in some ways the second act of its co-creator Thomas Dullien, who is an internationally-renowned reverse engineer and vulnerability researcher under the name Halvar Flake. Thomas joins us to discuss his career, what you should profile in a distributed system, and why you can't sell something with a negative cost.

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