#250 April 1, 2025

Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO), with Jesse Butler and Nic Slattery

Today we welcome Jesse Butler and Nic Slattery to talk about the Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator, or KRO. Jesse works as a principal product manager at AWS and Nic is a Product Manager at Google. The Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator is a new cloud agnostic tool meant to simplify Kubernetes resources for devs and platform admins.

#249 March 25, 2025

Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani

Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani are software engineers at LinkedIn compute infrastructure team running the Kubernetes platform for LinkedIn and they joined us today to talk about how they run Kubernetes at scale and what they learned along the way.

#248 March 11, 2025

Kubernetes Ingress & Gateway API Updates, with Lior Lieberman

Lior is a software engineer lead at Google Cloud focusing on GCE, Kubernetes, and Service Mesh. He is a leading contributor to Gateway API and the maintainer of Ingress2gateway.

#247 February 13, 2025

Kubernetes History Inspector, with Kakeru Ishii

Kakeru is the initiator of the Kubernetes History Inspector or KHI. An open source tool that allows you to visualise Kubernetes Logs and troubleshoot issues. We discussed what the tool does, how it’s built and what was the motivation behind Open sourcing it.

#246 January 29, 2025

Linkerd, with William Morgan

William Morgan is the CEO of Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd. You worked at Twitter before as a software engineer and engineering manager and you have a long experience in the field.

#245 January 15, 2025

Device Management in Kubernetes, with John Belamaric

John Belamaric is a senior staff software engineer at Google who has been involved in Kubernetes since 2016, and is currently a co-chair of both SIG Architecture and WG Device Management.

#244 December 16, 2024

2024 Recap, with Abdel Sghiouar, Kaslin Fields and Mofi Rahman

This episode is a recap of 2024. Co-hosts Abdel and Kaslin and guest host Mofi got together to reflect on how 2024 has been in the Cloud Native and Kubernetes space.

#243 December 12, 2024

Kubernetes v1.32 Penelope, with Frederico Muñoz

Release Lead Frederico Muñoz walks us through the 1.32 release: new feature highlights, deprecations and removals, and the release theme: Penelope.

#242 November 26, 2024

KubeCon NA 2024

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.

#241 November 13, 2024

65k node clusters on GKE, with Maciej Rozacki and Wojciech Tyczyński

In this episode, we speak with 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