Kubernetes Podcast from Google

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KubeCon NA 2024 Nov 26, 2024

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KubeCon North America 2024 took place in Salt Lake City, Utah on Nov 12-15. We interviewed people on the show floor to gather their impressions of the event, what they learned and what they want to see in the future.

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News of the week

Cert-manager is a CNCF graduate project

Dapr is a CNCF Graduated project

Dapr episode on the Kubernetes Podcast

Istio 1.24 release. Ambient Mesh GA

Cloud Native Heroes Challenge

CNCF Flagship events for 2025

New Cloud Native Certifications

Kubernetes certifications prices increase in 2025

wasmCloud is a CNCF incubated project

SpectroCloud $75 million Series C funding

Solo.io donates Gloo API Gateway to the CNCF

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Guests:

The Maintainer Monologues - Sarah Christoff, Jason Hall, Scott Rigby, Karen Chu & Ryan Nowak

Expanding the Capabilities of Kubernetes Access Control - Jimmy Zelinskie & Lucas Käldström

65k nodes on GKE, with Maciej Rozacki and Wojciech Tyczyński Nov 13, 2024

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Guests are Maciej Rozacki, Product Manager on GKE for AI Training, and Wojciech Tyczyński, Software Engineer on the GKE team at Google. We explore what it means for GKE to support 65k nodes, and the open source contributions that made this possible

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News of the week

The Kubernetes Podcast is on Bluesky

OpenTelemetry expanding into CI/CD observability

Gitpod is moving away from Kubernetes

OpenCost is a CNCF Incubated project

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Guests:

Kubernetes OSS Scalability thresholds

PGS on the Kubernetes Podcast

Batch Working Group

Serving Working Group episode on the podcast

Dynamic Resource Allocation

Kueue

Multitenancy and Fairness at Scale with Kueue

SIG Scalability

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Consistent Reads from Cache

Kubernetes Scalability: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis

Working Group Serving, with Yuan Tang and Eduardo Arango Oct 31, 2024

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Yuan is a principal software engineer at Red Hat, working on OpenShift AI. Previously, he has led AI infrastructure and platform teams at various companies. He holds leadership positions in open source projects, including Argo, Kubeflow, and Kubernetes WG Serving. Yuan authored three technical books and is a regular conference speaker, technical advisor, and leader at various organizations.

Eduardo is an environmental engineer derailed into a software engineer. Eduardo has been working on making containerized environments the de facto solution for High Performance Computing(HPC) for over 8 years now. Began as a core contributor to the niche Singularity Containers, today known as Apptainer under the Linux foundation. In 2019 Eduardo moved up the ladder to work on making Kubernetes better for performance oriented applications. Nowadays Eduardo works at NVIDIA on the Core Cloud Native team working on enabling specialized accelerators into Kubernetes workloads.

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News of the week

Docker official terraform provider

Tetrate and Bloomberg Envoy AI Gateway

KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2024 laptop drive

Remaining KCDs for 2024

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Yuan Tang

Eduardo Arango WG Serving

Kserve

Kserve Serving models with OCI images

LLM Gateway

Dynamic Resources Allocation

Container Security, with Michele Chubrika Oct 15, 2024

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This episode is special. We collaborated with the folks behind the Cloud Security Podcast from Google, Anton Chuvakin(LinkedIn)and Tim Peacock, to bring you a joint episode. We had the pleasure to jointly interview Michelle Chubirka, a Cloud Security Developer Advocate. We talked about VM and Container security, debunked some myths about isolation, attack surfaces, immutability of containers, and more.

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KCP, with Marvin Beckers Oct 01, 2024

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Marvin Beckers is a Team Lead at Kubermatic and a contributor and maintainer of the CNCF Sandbox Project, KCP. KCP is an open source horizontally scalable control plane for Kubernetes-like APIs.

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Cloud Native Maturity Model

Spotify AI Platform, with Avin Regmi and David Xia Sep 24, 2024

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Guests are Avin Regmi and David Xia from Spotify. We spoke to Avin and David about their work building Spotify's Machine Learning Platform, Hendrix. They also specifically talk about how they use Ray to enable inference and batch workloads. Ray was featured on episode 235 of our show, so make sure you check out that episode too.

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News of the week

IBM acquired Kubecost

KubeCon Japan in 2025

Call for Proposals for KubeCon EU 2025 is now open

Artifact Hub is a CNCF incubating project

OpenMetrics is dead, long live OpenMetrics

Kubecolor 0.4.0

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Dagger, with Solomon Hykes Sep 17, 2024

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Solomon Hykes is the co-founder of Dagger. He is probably best known as the creator of Docker. The tool that changed how developers package, run and distribute software in the last 11 years. His impact on our industry is undeniable. Today, we discuss his new venture, Dagger. Dagger is a new approach to how we do CI/CD.

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Ray & KubeRay, with Richard Liaw and Kai-Hsun Chen Sep 03, 2024

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In this episode, guest host and AI correspondent Mofi Rahman interviews Richard Liaw and Kai-Hsun Chen from Anyscale about Ray and KubeRay. Ray is an open-source unified compute framework that makes it easy to scale AI and Python workloads, while KubeRay integrates Ray's capabilities into Kubernetes clusters.

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Kai-Hsun Chen on LinkedIn
Richard Liaw on LinkedIn
Ray from the RISE Lab at UC Berkeley
Ray: A Distributed System for AI by Robert Nishihara and Philipp Moritz - Jan 9, 2018
KubeRay Docs
KubeRay on GitHub
PyTorch
Apache Airflow
Apache Spark
Kubeflow
Apache Submarine (retired)
Jupyter Notebooks
VS Code
Examples of schedulers for Batch/AI workloads in Kubernetes

Examples of observability tools for Batch/AI workloads in Kubernetes

Examples of loadbalancers

Nginx
Istio

Ray Data: Scalable Datasets for ML
Dask Python - Parallel Python
Ray Serve: Scalable and Programmable Serving
HPA - Horizontal Pod Autoscaling in Kubernetes
Karpenter - "Just-in-time nodes for any Kubernetes cluster"
Lazy Computation Graphs with the Ray DAG API
Types of hardware accelerators

Pandas
Numpy
KubeCon EU 2024 - Accelerators(FPGA/GPU) Chaining to Efficiently Handle Large AI/ML Workloads in K8s - Sampath Priyankara, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation & Masataka Sonoda, Fujitsu Limited
NVidia Megatron

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LitmusChaos, with Karthik Satchitanand Aug 20, 2024

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In this episode, we spoke to Karthik Satchitanand. Karthik is a principal software engineer at Harness and co-founder and maintainer of LitmusChaos, a CNCF incubated project. We talked about Chaos engineering , the Litmus project and more.

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Kubernetes v1.31: "Elli", with Angelos Kolaitis Aug 13, 2024

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Guest is Angelos Kolaitis, Angelos is a senior Software Engineer at Canonical working on Kubernetes. He has multiple contributions to open source projects, a highlight of which is his involvement in the Kubernetes Release Team since Kubernetes v1.26.

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