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SRE for Everyone Else, with Steve McGhee Jun 18, 2021

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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.

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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: Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts
Ensemble, by Tesera
Harbor operator 1.0
Weave GitOps Core
- Episodes 144 and 145, with Alexis Richardson
WSO2 launches Choreo and acquires Platformer
KubeCon EU 2021 transparency report
COVID vaccine required to attend fall 2021 Linux Foundation events
Opinions on Knative positioning by Ahmet Alp Balkan
- Episode 66

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LG Chocolate Phone and the Crazy Frog
Good SRE is the inverse of the XKCD comic on Standards
"Breaking Prod: More than once, I personally made it impossible to use google search from a phone (for a little bit). Like, for everyone on the planet."
San Luis Obispo, California (SLO)
GIFEE, coined at CoreOS
Rebuilding SRE, from Memory
- Ben Treynor Sloss
Homer Simpson's Car
Postcards from the future and the crystal ball
- It is against the law to have a sleeping donkey in your bathtub after 7pm
- How To Avoid Huge Ships
Prometheus
Canary releases
- Canary deployments with Istio
SLO Math, by Steve McGhee (SLOconf 2021)
The SRE I Aspire To Be, by Yaniv Aknin (SREcon 2019)
- RAID. a Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Independent Disks
Deployment Archetypes for Cloud Applications, by Brad Calder and Anna Berenberg
Steve McGhee on Twitter

Multi-Instance GPUs, with Kevin Klues and Pradeep Venkatachalam Jun 11, 2021

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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.

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Episode 92, with Pramod Ramarao
Dogecoin
Training and inference
12 things that prove Doom will run on literally anything
"It runs Doom" subreddit
CUDA
vGPUs
Multi-Instance GPUs
GKE now supports multi-instance GPUs
7 core MacBook Air GPUs
A100 GPU
16 A100 GPUs on a Google Cloud VM
Running GPUs on GKE
- Node taints for scheduling
NVIDIA Container Toolkit
GCP NVIDIA GPU device plugin
Kubernetes NVIDIA device plugin
GTC 2021 talks:
- A Deep Dive on Supporting Multi-Instance GPUs in Containers and Kubernetes by Kevin and Pradeep
- Gain Competitive Advantage using ML Ops: Kubeflow and NVIDIA Merlin and Google Cloud by Andrew Stein and Maulin Patel (Google) and Davide Onofrio (NVIDIA)
Kevin's KubeCon talk and slides
Kevin Klues on Twitter

Pixie, with Zain Asgar and Ishan Mukherjee May 13, 2021

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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.

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Putting on a KubeCon, with Colleen Mickey May 06, 2021

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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.

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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 announcement and results
OCI Distribution Specification reaches 1.0
Prometheus to launch conformance program
New CNCF sandbox projects:
- Vineyard, an in-memory immutable data manager
- WasmEdge Runtime, a WebAssembly Virtual Machine for cloud, AI, and blockchain applications
- ChaosBlade, an open-source version of Alibaba's chaos tools
- Fluid, a data and storage abstraction for AI and cloud-native applications
- Submariner, a cross-cluster overlay of overlay networks
- Antrea, a Kubernetes CNI plugin
  - Episode 128, with Antonin Bas
CNCF Edge survey results and free Kubernetes on Edge Training
- Episode 116, with Alex Ellis
Inclusive Naming Initiative receives Honorable Mention at Fast Company's 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards
- 'Master,' 'Slave' and the Fight Over Offensive Terms in Computing by Kate Conger of the New York Times
- Episode 130, with Stephen Augustus
Spotify wins CNCF Top End User Award
- Episode 50, with David Xia
- Episode 136, with Lee Mills and Matt Clarke.

Lightning round

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Liqo, with Alex Palesandro Apr 30, 2021

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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.

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Alex Palesandro
Politecnico di Torino
Alex's thesis
Episode 141, with Daniel Mangum
Episode 142, with Gianluca Arbezzano
Fiat and Stellantis
DAUIN, Department of Control and Computer Engineering
- Netgroup
Crown Labs
- Blender
Liqo
Vint Cerf at 6UK launch in 2010
kubefed
Liqo roadmap
Liqo on GitHub
Alex Palesandro on Twitter

Service Level Objectives and Nobl9, with Brian Singer and Kit Merker Apr 23, 2021

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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.

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Episode 94, with Richard Belleville
The G in gRPC stands for:
Not grey, just backlit! Much improved here

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Kubernetes 1.21, with Nabarun Pal Apr 15, 2021

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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.

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Weaveworks (part 2), with Alexis Richardson Apr 08, 2021

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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!

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Educational YouTubers:
Infrastructure for Entertainment by Justin Garrison at KubeCon NA 2020
Episode 20, with Justin Garrison

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Weaveworks (part 1), with Alexis Richardson Mar 31, 2021

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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.

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Replicated, with Grant Miller Mar 24, 2021

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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.

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