Kubernetes Podcast from Google

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Grafana, with Torkel Ödegaard Sep 22, 2020

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Torkel Ödegaard is the creator and project lead of Grafana, and co-founder of Grafana Labs. Learn how Torkel went from modding video games to building a data visualization platform, and co-founding a company that is now offering a complete monitoring service built on Prometheus.

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The 2001 dot-com crash
Rocket Arena mod for Quake 3
Extreme ironing
Tradera
- IT contracting
- The Mythical Man Month
Graphite
Kibana
Grafana
- GitHub
- The history of Grafana UX
Grafana Labs
- Team
Kausal
Cortex
Loki
Crystal Reports
Interesting use cases:
A $50m Series B funding round
Grafana Metrics Enterprise
Recommended reading: Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
Torkel Ödegaard on Twitter

TiKV, TiDB and PingCAP, with Ed Huang Sep 15, 2020

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Ed Huang is co-founder and CTO of PingCAP, creators of the TiDB distributed database and the TiKV key value store. Ed worked on clustering Redis while at Wandou Labs, creating and open-sourcing a tool called Codis. Deciding to focus on this space, he created TiDB and then TiKV, and founded PingCAP. He shares the story behind the projects, bridging the gap between China and the West with open source, and his Desert Island Disc.

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Lens 3.6.0
Security groups for Pods on AWS EKS
CNCF End User Technology Radar for Observability
Kotary by CA-GIP
OnePanel and its docs
WebAssembly OCI spec
- Episode 55, with Idit Levine
Red Hat Marketplace by IBM
Stackrox lands $25m in funding
Introducing Nutanix Platform Services by Amit Jain
Confidential Computing on GCP and GKE
New Serverless training course by Alex Ellis
- Episode 116, with Alex Ellis
Jetstack CNI migration notes by Josh Van Leeuwen

Links from the interview

Wandou Labs
Codis clustering for Redis
- twemproxy
Spanner and F1 papers from Google Research
TiDB
TiKV
PingCAP
- CAP theorem
Local Persistent Volumes in Kubernetes and beta launch blog explaining it
TiKV's CNCF journey:
Chaos Mesh
Wasm and Wasmer
Dark Side of the Moon
Ed Huang on Twitter

Airbnb, with Melanie Cebula Sep 08, 2020

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Melanie Cebula is a staff engineer at Airbnb, where she has built a scalable modern architecture on top of cloud native technologies. She regularly shares her knowledge in presentations focusing on cloud efficiency and usability, and today shares the story of Airbnb's Kubernetes migration with hosts Adam and Craig.

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Five days of Kubernetes 1.19:
TiKV graduates from CNCF incubation
cert-manager 1.0
Episode 75, with James Munnelly
Tanzu Build Service is GA
State of Spring report
AWS Bottlerocket is GA on EKS
Kalm (keep Kalm and karry on)
- Developer thread on Reddit
CRAFT from Salesforce (and its GitHub repo)
Introducing Kubernetes CSI sidecar containers from HPE by long-time listener Michael "Data" Mattsson
KubeCon EU Virtual YouTube playlist
CNCF to provide another round of CommunityBridge mentorships
Faster services: no CPU limits by Eric Khun
- Hacker News thread
How GoJek upgrades Kubernetes on GKE by Tasdik Rahman

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Keptn, with Alois Reitbauer Sep 02, 2020

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Keptn, a control plane for continuous delivery, came out of the need to install Dynatrace's software at their customer's environments. Alois Reitbauer is Chief Technical Strategist at Dynatrace, reponsible for open source, and a co-chair of the CNCF App Delivery SIG. He talks to your hosts about Keptn, observability after deployment, and how owning a 40 year old sports car is more "curation" than "operation".

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Loved: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Unloved: a pile of Sex and the City

News of the week

Anthos Attached Clusters
New Anthos pricing
GKE on The Keyword
Cloudian introduces operator
Canonical introduces Kubernetes 1.19
Portainer CE 2.0
Kuberntes client comparison by Yolan Vloeberghs and Pieter Vincken
Distributed tracing overview by Jonathan Gold

Links from the interview

Dynatrace
OpenTelemetry
OpenMetrics
Keptn
- What it is, how it works, and how to get started
Blogs by Alois:
Micro operations — A new operations model for the micro services age
How your delivery pipeline will become your next big legacy-code challenge
Related CI/CD tools:
- Spinnaker
- Jenkins
- Argo
- Flux
- GitLab
CD Foundation SIG Interoperability
CNCF SIG App Delivery
Alois's car marque of choice
Alois Reitbauer on Twitter

Kubernetes 1.19, with Taylor Dolezal Aug 25, 2020

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Taylor Dolezal is a senior Developer Advocate at Hashicorp and the Kubernetes 1.19 release lead. His desire to give talks and join the CNCF Ambassadors led him to the release team and to his new job. He talks to Adam and Craig about how a TI-83 calculator started him on the path.

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Chatter of the week

News of the week

Kubernetes 1.19 release - deferred 24 hours
Istio 1.7 release!
New Istio Steering Committee charter
k3s to join the CNCF Sandbox
New networking features in GKE
Anthos announcements from Google Cloud Next
Google Cloud Code updates
Serverless Framework Knative component
VMware vRealize Operations 8.2
Moving forward from Beta in Kubernetes
Palinurus, from Mailchannels
What's new in Falco 0.25
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
- GCP Config Connector
Carvel
Operator SDK reaches 1.0
Thanos and Cortex are both incubating in the CNCF
The Kubernetes Handbook by Farhan Hasin Chowdhury

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Communication and KubeCon, with Constance Caramanolis Aug 18, 2020

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Constance Caramanolis is the co-chair of this week's virtual KubeCon EU, and a principal software engineer at Splunk. Her introduction to Cloud Native came as an Envoy maintainer working at Lyft; she talks to Craig and Adam about communication: techmical, programmatic, in-person and online. We also summarise all the news from KubeCon.

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Envoy
Omnition, acquired by Splunk
Splunk acquires Omnition
OpenTelemetry
- Collector
Constance's talks:
KubeCon NA 2018: Envoy Intro (with Matt Klein)
Velocity 2018: Leveraging Envoy when responding to high-severity incidents
SYN-ACK
Constance's KubeCon EU keynote
The Five Whys
KubeCon EU agenda
KubeCon NA 2019 puppies
Corgis
Invite a llama
Episode 80, with Vicki Cheung
Greek food:
- Galaktoboureko
- Loukoumades
Stroopwafels
Poutine
Constance Caramanolis on Twitter

Independent Open Source, with Alex Ellis Aug 11, 2020

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Alex Ellis created serverless framework OpenFaaS while working a day job. It's used by some big companies, but he's resisted the temptation to join one. Instead, he's offering consulting and seeking sponsorships, building a business from the ground up. He explains the pros and cons of independence to Craig and Adam.

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Minikube Redux, with Thomas Strömberg Aug 04, 2020

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Since we last spoke about Minikube 18 months ago, the project has gone 1.0, and made large performance and usability improvements. Thomas Strömberg is the manager of the Container DevEx team at Google and a maintainer of Minikube. He talks to Craig and Adam about why system administrators are the best code reviewers, the importance of surveying users, and building bikes made of bamboo.

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Chatter of the week

News of the week

OpenSSF launched
Nova from Fairwinds: monitor Helm charts for new releases
Lifebelt by Gustav Westling
Chaos Mesh joins the CNCF Sandbox
As does the Serverless Workflow spec
Announcing Vitess 7
Spinnaker Operator is GA
AKS 2020-07-27 release
GKE r25
Server side encryption for ECR
Project report: Jaeger
- Episode 97 with Yuri Shkuro
How Dropbox migrated from NGINX to Envoy by Alexey Ivanov and Oleg Guba

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Thomas Strömberg
Minikube
Episode 39, with Dan Lorenc
DiRT: Disaster Recovery Testing
- Wheel of Misfortune
Timex Sinclair ZX81
Bringing Minikube to the next Billion Users: Thomas's talk at KubeCon China 2019
The mini Minikube Survey
Other similar tools:
- Microk8s
- k3d
- kind
Knoppix
Pausing Minikube
Running multiple nodes
Triage Party
Slow Jam
- Space Jam
Bamboo bicycles
- A finished example
- A work in progress
Thomas Strömberg on Twitter

Scheduling, with David Oppenheimer Jul 28, 2020

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We finally scheduled some time to talk to David Oppenheimer. David, a software engininer at Google, has been working on scheduling there since 2007, including on both Borg and Omega. That experience naturally led to him working on the Kubernetes scheduler, as well as starting SIG Scheduling.

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Chatter of the week

Last week's discussion about ice cream pies
Vegemite ice cream, and a friendly reminder that New Zealand is not Australia
- Mutton ice cream is not a thing
A bear in the kiddie pool

News of the week

Google Traffic Director supports proxyless gRPC
New Relic open sources its agents
Lyft drops the Clutch
Conftest joins the Open Policy Agent project
Emissary, from GitHub
VS Code Docker extension can now run containers in Azure Container Instances
Debugging Incidents in Google's Distributed Systems by Beth Cooper and Charisma Chan
Hashicorp Consul Service on Azure is GA
Gloo Federation for gloo'ing your Gloos together with gloo
The AWS EKS CIS ben chm ark
Changes to Aqua Wave and Aqua Enterprise
Snyk's developer-first prioritization capabilities
Carbonetes launch PR
Prevasio launch PR
DOMA: domain-oriented microservices architecture at Uber by Adam Gluck

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Papers co-written by David:
- Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
- Borg, Omega and Kubernetes
SIG Scheduling
WG Multi-Tenancy
App Engine
Interviews with David's colleagues on Borg and Omega:
Omega features:
Scheduler features
Two level scheduling
- Mesos optimistic offers
Kubernetes scheduler in Bash
Firmament and integration in Kubernetes via Poseidon
Configuration tools
- kpt
- kustomize
David Oppenheimer on Twitter

Instrumentation and cAdvisor, with David Ashpole Jul 21, 2020

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Released on the same day as Kubernetes, cadvisor is a container monitoring daemon that collects metrics and serves them to monitoring tools. It's built into the Kubelet, and underpins many components in Kubernetes, such as eviction and autoscaling. David Ashpole of Google Cloud is TL of Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation, and the maintainer of cadvisor; he joins Adam and Craig this week to explain where instrumentation fits in the stack, and what you should do as a Kubernetes maintainer vs. a cluster administrator.

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