Kubernetes Podcast from Google

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Looking Forward and Back, with Adam Glick Oct 13, 2022

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After four and a half years hosting this podcast (and almost 9 years at Google) Craig Box is moving on from the latter, which unfortunately means leaving the former. But the show must go on. In this episode Craig introduces new hosts Abdel Sghiouar and Kaslin Fields. We take a small look forward, and then a big look back.

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Adam's last episode
Abdelfettah Sghiouar
Kaslin Fields
First-gen stickers
Second-gen stickers
Episode 60, with Mark Shuttleworth
Episode 15, with Dan Ciruli and Jasmine Jaksic
- Dan on sticker duty
Episode 30, with Joe Zou
- A rare team photo
Music and musicians
Double guest trivia:
- Episodes 1 and 100 with Paris Pittman
- Episodes 62 and 180 with Ricardo Rocha (on a technicality)
The Adam face
- Corey Quinn: separated at birth?
One of many booth meetups
Follow Craig Box on Twitter
Follow Adam Glick on LinkedIn

Fresh Pivot, with Dan Stein Oct 05, 2022

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Dan Stein is an engineering manager at General Bioinformatics. Dan Stein is also DJ Fresh, a multi-million selling artist with two UK number one records. Learn about the surprising overlap between these two careers.

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DJ Fresh
Atari 800 and Atari ST
- Pong
- Atari BASIC
Commodore Amiga
- OctaMED
Fatboy Slim and the Atari ST
Dogs on Acid music forum
Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concerts
Abolishing the high tax rate in the UK, or not
Breakbeat Kaos
- Hold Your Colour by Pendulum
Kryptonite by DJ Fresh
Gold Dust
Subsequent hits:
- Louder
- Hot Right Now
Kyma (sound design language) and Max/MSP
We Got Coders
General Bioinformatics
- NGS gene sequencing
- Ensembl
Hasura
GraphQL Playground
NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information
Max Martin
How Music Works by John Powell
Learning:
- Treehouse
- Udemy
- 3Blue1Brown
- Codeacademy
DJ Fresh's new single, Higher
DJ Fresh on Facebook
Dan Stein on Twitter

VMware Tanzu, with Betty Junod Sep 28, 2022

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Betty Junod, VP of Product Marketing at VMware Tanzu, kindly took up Craig's challenge to explain the various parts of the Tanzu ecosystem, and how the traditional IT buyer and the modern cloud native really aren't that different.

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VMware
- History
Docker
Solo.io
VMware Tanzu introduction blog
- VMware acquires Heptio
- VMware acquires Pivotal
Tanzu Mission Control
Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations
Tanzu Application Platform
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
- Bring your own host to TKG
Project Pacific introduction
- TKG 2.0
VMware Aria Operations for Applications
Tanzu Application Service
- Cloud Foundry
Open source projects:
- Velero
- Antrea
- Carvel
- Cartographer
Michigan cider
Detroit-style pizza
Betty Junod on Twitter

Ambient Mesh, with Justin Pettit and Ethan Jackson Sep 20, 2022

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When you think of a service mesh, you probably think of "sidecar containers running with each pod". The Istio team has come up with a new approach, introduced recently as an experimental preview. Google Cloud software engineers Justin Pettit and Ethan Jackson join Craig to explore ambient mesh.

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Nicira
Open vSwitch
Introucing Ambient Mesh
- Service mesh
First mention of Ambient in 2018
No first class support for sidecars in Kubernetes
Istio working group meeting, August 2021
- Remote proxy proposal
HBONE: HTTP/2-based overlay network environment
mTLS
HTTP Connect
GIF
MASQUE and QUIC
Get started with Ambient Mesh
Ambient Mesh Security Deep Dive
Justin Pettit and Ethan Jackson on Twitter

Security, Access and War, with Kateryna Ivashchenko Sep 09, 2022

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Kateryna Ivashchenko is a Senior Demand Generation Manager at Teleport, an organizer of community events, and a supporter of the developer community in her home country of Ukraine.

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Introducing Ambient Mesh in Istio
Istio 1.15
Linkerd 2.12
- Linkerd and the Gateway API
Symbiosis
Cuber nay-tace
- Reddit discussion
VMware Tanzu announcments from VMware Explore
Isovalent raises $40m Series B
Kubernetes Blog:
Kubernetes was never designed for batch jobs by Kurt Schelfthout
7 years of GKE General Availability

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Kubernetes 1.25, with Cici Huang Aug 23, 2022

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It's release day! We discuss today's Kubernetes 1.25 with release team lead Cici Huang, Software Engineer at Google Cloud. What's in, what's out, and what is it like to lead a release you are also promoting a feature in?

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Kubernetes 1.25 release
Introducing Acorn
- Acorn Labs: Rancher Co-Founders' New Kubernetes Startup by Christine Hall
- Episode 57, with Darren Shepherd
GKE updates:
KubeCon schedule published
- Cloud Native Rejekts
Scaling Kubernetes to thousands of CRDs by Nic Cope

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IBM Watson
Kubernetes Community Awards
SIG API Machinery
- Chair & Cici's hiring manager: Fede Bongiovanni
Kubernetes 1.25 release team
Release blog
Highlights:
Kubernetes 1.24 delay
Theme and logo
Envelopes:
- 1.24 lead: Episode 178, with James Laverack
- 1.26 lead: Leonard Pahlke
Cici Huang on GitHub

Gateway API Beta, with Rob Scott Jul 21, 2022

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Three years after they were first proposed, the new Kubernetes Gateway APIs - the evolution of the Ingress API - are in Beta. Rob Scott is a software engineer at Google and a lead on the SIG Network Gateway API project.

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Argo security audit:
Kubernetes Cluster API integrates continuous fuzzing
- The report
- OSS Fuzz
Cilium 1.12
GKE Cluster Autoscaler location policy
The quest for neutrinos
- Ray traced Quake II

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Writing, Learning and Tech, with Ian Miell Jul 14, 2022

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Ian Miell is a partner at consultancy Container Solutions, and an author of books on Bash, Git, Terraform and Docker. He explains to Craig how writing - whether runbooks, blog posts, training courses, or "real" books, can help you learn and make your team more effective.

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Hot hot hot
Small pools and larger pools

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Zwischenzugs
Business Value, Soccer Canteens, Engineer Retention, and the Bricklayer Fallacy
Zwischenzug and zugzwang in chess
Ian's books:
Tcl
Why are enterprises so slow?
Erlang
Episode 164, with Daniel Walsh
'AWS vs K8s' is the new 'Windows vs Linux'
The Runbooks Project
ITIL
Consultancy:
Finance topologies:
- Team Topologies by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton
- If You Want To Transform IT, Start With Finance
- Conway's Law
Ian Miell on Twitter

Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation, with Sabine Wolz Jul 07, 2022

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Why does a car manufacturer own an IT company? How did that IT company end up running 900 Kubernetes clusters, starting at version 0.9? Craig asks these questions and more of Sabine Wolz, Product Manager at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation.

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Live UK political coverage on the day of recording. As predicted, news happened slightly faster than publication, and at the time of release, Boris Johnson is expected to resign as Conservative Party leader today.
Shibboleth
Lord of the Rings TV show moved to UK

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Consulting, with Steve Wade Jul 01, 2022

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Gone are the days of working at the same company for 50 years. Consultants and contractors bring specialised experience to many companies in short bursts. Steve Wade is an independent Kubernetes consultant and trainer, and he tells us how that became the life for him.

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