#261 October 1, 2025

GKE 10 years and SIG Networking, With Antonio Ojea

Hosts: Abdel Sghiouar, Kaslin Fields

Today we talk to Antonio Ojea. Antonio is a software engineer at Google and one of the core maintainers of Kubernetes. He is one of the Tech Lead of SIG Networking and Testing and a member of the Steering Committee.

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News of the week

• GKE Autopilot Mode inside Standard clusters
• KCD H1 2026
• Metal Kubed joined the CNCF as an incubating project

Links from the interview

• Antonio Ojea on LinkedIn
• Antonio Ojea on X
• Virtual Networks
• Kubernetes Networking
• Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)
• Kubernetes Gateway API
• Calico
• Cilium
• Multi-Service CIDR
• DRANet