Kubernetes Podcast from Google

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Akri, with Kate Goldenring Dec 16, 2020

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Akri is a recent open source project launched by Microsoft to manage edge devices. Kate Goldenring is a software engineer in Microsoft's Edge OS team and an Akri maintainer. She joins our final show of 2020 to talk about how to use Kubernetes to manage devices that can't run Kubernetes.

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Professor Kris Jordan
Edge Computing
- Edge, computing
Internet of Things
Akri
Announcement blog post
MCU (Microcontroller unit)
Discovery protocols
- ONVIF (Open Network Video Interface Forum)
- udev
- Zeroconf
- OPC UA
TEE (Trusted Execution Environment)
DevicePlugin API and deallocate
#akri on Slack
Akri on GitHub
- Proposals
Moose Protocol
Kate Goldrenring on Twitter

Kubernetes 1.20, with Jeremy Rickard Dec 08, 2020

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The final — and raddest — Kubernetes release of 2020 is 1.20. This week, Craig and Adam talk to its release team lead, Jeremy Rickard from VMware. Jeremy talks about migrating to newer Kubernetes versions, sooner or later; what was added, what was deprecated, and what that really means; and what happens when you Google your own nane.

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Ready Player Two

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KubeCon NA 2020, with Stephen Augustus Nov 18, 2020

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Join us for all the news from KubeCon NA 2020, and a conversation with conference co-chair Stephen Augustus. Stephen is a Senior Open Source Engineer on the VMware Tanzu team, a chair of Kubernetes' SIG Release, and a leader in many other parts of the project, past and present.

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The kākāpō wins Bird of the Year
We're off for 2 weeks. See you on December 8!

News of the week

Cisco acquires Banzai Cloud
CNCF announces Cloud Native Survey 2020 results
Red Hat: New edge features, industrial AI/ML blueprint and AWS launch
CNCF End User Tech Radar for storage
New End User benefits
Envoy Mobile joins the CNCF
New sandbox projects
- cert-manager
- cdk8s
- Kyverno
- OpenKruise
- Pravega
- SchemaHero
- Tinkerbell
k8ssandra from Datastax
- Episode 98 with Sam Ramji
k0s from Mirantis
Solo.io announces Gloo Mesh Enterprise and rebrands products
- Episode 55, with Idit Levine
Pinniped
Shipa launches Ketch
Kinvolk launches Headlamp
The SPIFFE book "Solving The Bottom Turtle"
- Episode 45, with Andrew Jessup
Anthos Developer Sandbox
GKE ingress features
Ambassador Labs takes in $18m and launches v1.9
Tanzu SQL: Postgres on Kubernetes
Lightning round:
- Accurics extends Terrascan
- AWS adds containers to Lightsail
- Arrikto takes $10m in funding
- Brobridge releases Gravity
- CircleCI runner is GA
- Cloud66 for agencies and multiple database support
- Cloudflare Origin CA cert-manager plugin
- Cloudical Vanillastack
- Cloudify version 5.1
- Codefresh launches GitOps 2.0 features
- Commvault backup-as-a-service
- Diamanti Spektra 3.1 and customer portal
- Dynatrace PurePath 4
- Elastisys Compliant Kubernetes
- The Fairwinds Kubernetes Maturity Model
- Garden takes "seed" funding
- Gremlin adds soundproofing
- Humio Operator
- Instana adds observability tools on Kubernetes
- Intuit runs TurboTax on Kubernetes
- Kioxia announces a new storage offering
- Kubecost adds features for monitoring outside a cluster
- KubeMQ adds automatic network creation
- Kubermatic updates KubeOne to v1.1
- Kubernative SINA
- Kublr 1.19
- Lablup announced Backend.ai 20.09 RC
- Magalix launches KubeAdvisor 2.0
- Mayadata launches Kubera Propel and Kubera Chaos
- Mirantis adds extensions to Lens
- Puppet Labs adds Relay to Puppet Enterprise
- Reblaze announces Curiefense to add WAF to Envoy
- Replicates wants to help you Troubleshoot
- Styra adds new editions to DAS
- Sysdig introduces Kubernetes-native network security (ZTNSK) and partners with IBM Cloud
- TrilioVault for Kubernetes v2.0
- Zerto for Kubernetes
Google Open Source Live Kubernetes

Links from the interview

KubeCon NA 2020
- Episode 117, with Constance Caramanolis
- CNCF Twitch
- SIG Friday: ping Stephen for the current link
Slack
CoreOS
SIG Release
SIG PM (retired)
Kubernetes Enhancement Process
- Receipts process KEP
- Sidecar containers - KEP closed!
- Production readiness review
- Episode 10, with Josh Berkus and Tim Pepper
Release managers
Black Lives Matter announcement banner
- Better announcements
Kubernetes Naming working group
Inclusive Naming project
Dan Kohn memorial
Stephen Augustus on Twitter and on the web

Linkerd, with Thomas Rampelberg Nov 10, 2020

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Thomas Rampelberg is a software engineer with Buoyant, creators of Linkerd, and a core maintainer of that project. He is also a co-author of the Service Mesh Interface and co-creator of DC/OS. He joins Craig and Adam to talk about the two former, and pour one out for the latter.

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The BBC on Sean Connery
Noreen Malone on Alex Trebek
Celebrity Jeopardy! highlights from Saturday Night Live
Doomscrolling
Potion Explosion: analog, or digital (Steam, Android, iOS)
KerPlunk!: analog only

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D2iQ retires DC/OS
- Kubernetes on Mesos in 2015
The monolith
Buoyant
Linkerd
Finagle
kube-proxy before iptables
Conduit: a new mesh without the JVM, which became Linkerd 2
Linkerd 2-proxy:
- Under the hood of the Linkerd proxy
- Rust
- tokio runtnime and hyper HTTP libraries
- Heartbleed
- CNCF audit
Architecting for Multicluster Kubernetes blog post
Linkerd 2.9
- Service Topology
- Gas station bathrooms
Service Mesh Interface (SMI)
- NGINX Service Mesh
- Flagger
- Kiali
- Spec
Istio WebAssembly support
Kubernetes is a domain-specific database
Tilt and Okteto
Burning Man
Thomas Rampelberg on Twitter

Antrea, with Antonin Bas Nov 03, 2020

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For pods to talk to each other in Kubernetes, you need a virtual network. Antonin Bas is a staff engineer at VMware and a maintainer of Project Antrea; a CNI plugin which provides such a network. He talks to Adam and Craig about encapsulation, virtualisation, and 10,000 year old Finnish artifacts.

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Over the top Halloween light show
Bird of the Year
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Visual Basic
Professor Nick McKeown, co-founder of Nicira
Barefoot Networks
P4, in the Open Networking Foundation
Software-defined networking
Virtual networking
- VLAN
- VXLAN
The Kubernetes network model
Network plugins:
- Flannel
- Weave Net
- Calico
- Cilium
- kubenet
Antrea
- The Antrea Net
- Antrea, Finland; now Kamennogorsk, Russia
Container Network Interface (CNI)
veth pairs
Open vSwitch (OVS)
NodeIPAM Controller
CNI plugin chaining
Installing Antrea with other CNI plugins
Antrea features:
- Network policy
- IPSEC between nodes
Antrea on GitHub
Antonin Bas on Twitter and GitHub

Pop Punk to Pods, with David Pait Oct 27, 2020

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David Pait was a touring musician in pop punk band Sparks The Rescue. Now, he's an SRE working on Kubernetes at an ad-tech company. How did he get there? And if you're looking to change careers, how might you? Craig and Adam dig in.

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Steam Digital Tabletop Fest
Microsoft Surface (since renamed PixelSense)
Similo
Guess Who?
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News of the week

Cloud Foundry Doubles Down on Kubernetes
Akri, from Microsoft
kube-secret-syncer from Contentful
Grafana Tempo
OpenTelemetry Tracing Spec RC by Morgan McLean
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
AWS Load Balancer Controller
Nydus container image service
Robin.io Express, free for life
Verizon Business adds Kubernetes which is powered by Rafay

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Netsertive
Sparks the Rescue
- Vans Warped tour
- David on stage
Munki for Mac software deployment
A considered purchase
Google's SRE books
eksctl
Velero, fka Heptio Ark
Fixing reuse-values in Helm
Go listen to Hot Mulligan
- Or Taylor Swift, totally up to you
David Pait on Twitter

Research, Steering and Honking, with Bob Killen Oct 20, 2020

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Bob Killen is co-chair of Kubernetes' SIG Contributor Experience and was last week elected to the project's Steering Committee. He worked in academia for 15 years, latterly working on research projects using Kubernetes, with a focus on computer security. He's now made the leap to working on Cloud Native full time at Google. Bob joins us to explain why Kubernetes twitter is occasionally full of cartoon geese.

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Relive New Zealand's General Election coverage - 57% of the electorate voted early!
- tl:dr; Jacinda won by a lot
- One NZ electorate had a 421 vote lead on the night
Ballot box in Washington State
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University of Michigan
Little Bobby Tables
- Another Bobby Tables!
2600
Jeff Sica
ARC-TS: Advanced Research Computing — Technology Services
- Great Lakes, the UMich HPC cluster
- Kubernetes the New Research Platform - Lindsey Tulloch, Brock University & Bob Killen, University of Michigan
kube-batch
Volcano
Orchestructure meet-up and Mario Loria
SIG Contributor Experience
- Episode 74, with Jorge Castro
- Episode 100 with Paris Pittman
Kubernetes Steering Committee
HONK
- Untitled Goose Game
- /honk
- Ian Coldwater's goose-themed talk from KubeCon NA 2019
- honk.ci
- KubeCon NA events:
  - SIG Honk AMA: Ian Coldwater, Duffie Cooley, Brad Geesaman, Rory McCune
  - Having Cloud Native Fun with HonkCTL: Jeff Sica
- SIG Beard: see episode 46, with Aaron Crickenberger
Bob Killen on Twitter

Okteto, with Ramiro Berrelleza Oct 13, 2020

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Ramiro Berrelleza is CEO and co-founder of Okteto, a company making developer tools which simplify development on Kubernetes. He joins Adam and Craig to discuss how the open source project and company came about, going through Y Combinator, and the best filling for a Mission burrito.

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Okteto
Excitebike
Elasticbox, acquired by CenturyLink
Y Combinator
- Okteto at YC
- W19 demo day
Okteto on GitHub
The name:
El Farolito: cow tongue and Carne Asada
Ramiro Berrelleza on Twitter
Okteto on Twitter

Kubecost, with Webb Brown Oct 06, 2020

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When your infrastructure is effectively infinite, you may have to keep an eye on your credit card. Webb Brown started a project that does exactly that - Kubecost, which aims to reduce spend and prevent resource-based outages. He talks to Craig and Adam about the project and the company behind it.

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Kubecost
Spot instances (AWS) and preemptible VMs (Google Cloud)
DeepMind AI Reduces Google Data Centre Cooling Bill by 40%
Managing your costs on Kubernetes by Karl Stoney at Autotrader
- Episode 52, with Russell Warman and Karl Stoney
FinOps and the FinOps Foundation
Shifting left
Stackwatch
Glacier National Park and Going-to-the-Sun Road
Webb Brown on Twitter

Leader Election, with Mike Danese Sep 29, 2020

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Kubernetes makes it easy to run distributed workloads, but how do you make sure that replicas don't conflict with one another? You elect one as the leader. Mike Danese, chair and TL of Kubernetes SIG Auth, joins a vegan and a carnivore to explain how Kubernetes implements leader election.

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