#262 October 29, 2025

GKE 10 Year Anniversary, with Gari Singh

Hosts: Abdel Sghiouar, Kaslin Fields

GKE turned 10 in 2025! In this episode, we talk with GKE PM Gari Singh about GKE’s journey from early container orchestration to AI-driven ops. Discover Autopilot, IPPR, and a bold vision for the future of Kubernetes.

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News of the week

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Knative’s Graduation
• llm-d 0.3: Wider Well-Lit Paths for Scalable Inference
• vllm-project/semantic-router on github
• Announcing the Certified Meshery Contributor (CMC)
• Introducing Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter - Scaling and Visibility

Links from the interview

• Kelsey Hightower’s Kubernetes the Hard Way
• MiniKube
• Kind
• Docker Compose
• Docker Swarm
• GKE Autopilot
• Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)
• Google Cloud TPUs
• Node Auto Provisioning (GKE)
• Jax (Machine Learning Framework)
• Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)
• Serverless on Google Cloud
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• kubectl-ai
• Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA)
• Kubernetes v1.33: In-Place Pod Resize Graduated to Beta
• In-place Vertical Scaling of Pods - Resize CPU and Memory Resources assigned to Containers
• GKE under the hood: Container-optimized compute delivers fast autoscaling for Autopilot