PodCTL - Enterprise Kubernetes

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Looking Forwards and Backwards at 3yrs of Kubernetes Aug 02, 2018

Show notes

Show: 44
Show Overview: Brian and Tyler talk about how Kubernetes has evolved over the last three years, from the community to the technology to new things coming down the road.
Show Notes:

Kubernetes 3rd Anniversary

Topic 1 - Let’s start with people and community. How have you seen the Kubernetes community evolve over the past 3 years? What’s working well, and where have there been struggles?
Topic 2 - Technology-wise, where would you place the highlights for Kubernetes? This could be the technology itself, or how it’s been adopted, or maybe just the overall architecture.
Topic 3 - Technology-wise, where would you place the challenges for Kubernetes? This could be the technology itself, or how it’s been adopted, or maybe just the overall architecture.
Topic 4 - There seems to be a new chorus of pushback on Kubernetes, around the complexity of managing complex environments (e.g. DR for Stateful apps) and the serverless fans. Do you see this as a problem, a distraction, or valid criticisms?
Topic 5 - What do you see making a lot of headlines vs. being the important things for end-users to focus on for the next year?

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Istio, Knative and GoogleNEXT Jul 27, 2018

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Show: 43
Show Overview: Brian and Tyler talk about Kubernetes 3rd Anniversary, Istio, Knative, and the Kubernetes-related announcements from GoogleNEXT2018.
Show Notes:

Kubernetes 3rd Anniversary

Google Cloud Services Platform (GCSP) - Hybrid and Multi-cloud application development stack, built on Kubernetes and Istio - custom-configured, enterprise-hardened, and delivered by Google.

GKE On-Prem - A core component of CSP, with GKE On-Prem, customers get the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) experience in their data center. The first private cloud option for deployment is vSphere 6.5 in alpha release this fall and Google will continue to look at the hardware and other virtualization environments. In a parallel statement, Cisco Hybrid Cloud for Google Cloud will be the first GKE-certified hybrid cloud platform, although any direct relationship to GKE On-prem is unclear.

Project Knative - (Knative on Github) it provides fundamental building blocks for serverless workloads in Kubernetes, empowering the creation of modern, container-based and cloud-native applications which can be deployed anywhere on Kubernetes. OpenShift + Knative (blog).

Istio 1.0 - Istio service mesh is now version 1.0, and available as a managed add-on to GKE, as well as being integrated into Google Stackdriver. PodCTL #23 - Microservices with Istio

Google Cloud Platform Marketplace (pre-announced) - Marketplace of packaged applications to run on GCP and Google Cloud services (e.g. Kubernetes)

GKE Serverless Containers Add-On - Similar to AWS Fargate, Google announced an early-trial serverless infrastructure option to GKE , simplifying infrastructure operations management.

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Kubernetes 1.11 Released Jul 16, 2018

Show notes

Show: 41
Show Overview: Brian and Tyler talk about the new Kubernetes 1.11 release, the new features and capabilities.
Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Let’s review for anybody that’s a new listener how the Kubernetes community identifies the maturity level of features and how they should consider interpreting those classifications.

Topic 2 - Kubernetes release usually have a few new GA features, and then lots of Beta or Tech Preview features. What were the highlights of this release for you, or some of the core areas you suggest people focus on?

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through some of the most mentioned capabilities:

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Dissecting Kubernetes Survey Data Jul 10, 2018

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Show: 41
Show Overview: Brian and Tyler talk about a number of data surveys that have recently been published about container usage, Kubernetes usage, and several other cloud trends.
Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Lots of differences between these surveys, both in methodology and results:

Does the data come from surveys or actual monitoring?
How do they classify various technologies (by project, by vendor, by cloud service, by both)?
Do they include usage-based details?

Topic 2 - Would you prefer to see more vendor-usage data in these reports, or is it OK to just have generic usage data? Right now it’s sort of a mixed bag

Topic 3 - It’s (usually) never clear who is running these container environments. We see some survey data targeting developers, but not all of them explain (or know) which groups are running the container environments vs. consuming services.

Topic 4 - It’s interesting that none of these surveys highlight the location of companies/customers/users, since we know that certain geographic pockets of the world have very different usage behaviors than others.

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Scaling OpenShift Roadshows Jun 25, 2018

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Show: 40
Show Overview: Brian and Tyler talk with Erik Jacobs (@ErikonOpen, Principal Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat OpenShift) about designing, deploying and teaching the OpenShift/Kubernetes roadshows for Developers and Operators.
Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, as well as some of your focus areas at Red Hat.

Topic 2 - You work on lots of different things, but today we wanted to talk about the technical roadshows. They are hands-on environments, which cater to both Developers and Operators. Give us some of the background of how these get pulled together.

Topic 3 - Are there ways that people could replicate these environments, or the labs/trainings on their own?

Topic 4 - What types of things can you teach developers in a day?

Topic 5 - What types of things can you teach operators in a day?
Topic 6 - What other resources do you suggest people use outside of these events?

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CI/CD and Kubernetes Jun 18, 2018

Show notes

Show: 39
Show Overview: Brian and Tyler talk about the latest news from the Kubernetes community, the difference between CI and CD, and various considerations for integrating CI/CD environments with Kubernetes.
Show Notes:

Topic 1 - One of our listeners asked if we would CI / CD in the content of Kubernetes, so we thought we’d go through some of the basics and some of the options. First of all, we always say ‘CI/CD’ but what is Continuous Integration, what is Continuous Delivery and what’s the difference?

Topic 2 - What do all these different tools do?

Topic 3 - Is there an approved Kubernetes CI/CD tool, or model?

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A Beginners Guide to Kubernetes Jun 04, 2018

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Show: 38
Show Overview: Brian and Tyler talk some of the basics, lessons learned and other things people could use to “fast-track” what they need to be successful with Kubernetes.
Show Notes:

Show Premise:
Kubernetes community now has 10 releases (2.5yrs) of software and experience. We just finished KubeCon and Red Hat Summit and we heard lots of companies talk about their deployments and journeys. But many of them took a while (12-18) months to get to where they are today. This feels like the “early adopters” and we’re beginning to get to the “crossing the chasm” part of the market. So thought we’d discuss some of the basics, lessons learned and other things people could use to “fast-track” what they need to be successful with Kubernetes.
Topic 1 - What are the core skills needed for a team that manages/runs/interacts with a Kubernetes environment?

Ops Skills
Dev Skills
Compliance Skills / Security Skills

Topic 2 - What has significantly changed in the Kubernetes world since 2015/16 to today that people should consider taking advantage of?

Persistence
Immutability
Operators
Native tools vs. Config Mgmt tools
Storage

Topic 3 - What do you consider “still hard” and should probably justify more early effort?

Security?
Storage?
Monitoring?
Being overly precise about capacity planning?

Topic 4 - What patterns have you seen from successful deployments and customer behaviors?
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How to Deploy Applications to Kubernetes May 28, 2018

Show notes

Show: 37
Show Overview: Brian and Tyler talk about the many ways to deploy an application onto a Kubernetes cluster, from the perspective of Devs and Ops.
Listener Question (Matthew):
"I was interested to know if you guys could talk a little more about the relationship between":

OpenShift templates
Helm templates
CoreOS Operators

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Let’s start with the basics. Can you please briefly tell the audience how to deploy an application to Kubernetes?
Topic 2 - Let’s discuss that complexity in the context of this specific question, as I believe it’ll help us frame out the rest of the conversation.

Topic 3 - Why do we have so many different ways to deploy things to Kubernetes, and also from Kubernetes?

Developer Requirements
Operations Requirements
On-Platform Requirements
Off-Platform Requirements

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about where the Developer experience should exist and why that’s likely not one specific place.

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VMs for Infrastructure or Isolation? May 22, 2018

Show notes

Show: 36
Show Overview: Brian and Tyler talk about the role (pros & cons) of VMs in isolation and security, as well as the broader context of security for containerized applications.
Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Let’s start with the basics. Can you please tell the audience the one command to run to make all containers secure?

Topic 2 - This past week (or 2 weeks) has been a good reminder that there are certain patterns that repeat themselves in emerging technologies and open source: hype (cool demo), binary claims of market dominance and destruction of previous technology (containers vs. VMs), buzzwords of simplicity which go against decades of experience, and then the realities of production environments.

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about where VMs provide value in a container environment, and realities of VMs that people should be aware of in production and in multi-cloud environments.

Topic 4 - Let’s talk briefly about a few of the recent announcements in this space (e.g. gVisor, CNV, etc.)

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Kubernetes News & Events May 14, 2018

Show notes

Show: 35
Show Overview: Brian and Tyler review the Kubernetes news coming out of Cloud Foundry Summit, KubeCon and Red Hat Summit. Lots of things to talk about.
Cloud Foundry Summit

Attendance: 1500
Fragmentation of the Container Orchestrator within the Cloud Foundry community - SUSE, IBM and SAP endorse Kubernetes, Pivotal still supporting Diego

KubeCon / CloudNativeCon (all videos)