#160 August 26, 2021

KEDA, with Tom Kerkhove

KEDA, the Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaler, is a project that adds superpowers to the Kubernetes horizontal pod autoscaler, including zero-to-one scaling. Celebrate KEDA reaching Incubation in the CNCF by listening to an interview with maintainer Tom Kerkhove from Codit. But first, learn about Craig’s worst concert experience.

#159 August 19, 2021

Talos, with Andrew Rynhard

Kubernetes lets us manage our infrastructure declaratively, so why do we still manage the underlying OS with a myriad of different text files? And why allow shell and SSH access to a machine that should be immutable? So asked Andrew Rynhard before creating Talos, a Linux distribution built for Kubernetes. He’s now CTO of Talos Systems, a company founded to take it to market.

#158 August 13, 2021

Telekom (with a K), with Vuk Gojnic

What is a telecommunications provider, if not a very distributed system? Kubernetes is becoming an important engine for the world’s telcos, especially as they roll out 5G. Vuk Gojnic leads the team rolling out Kubernetes across Deutsche Telekom (the parent company of T-Mobile), and he tells us how the worlds of telco and cloud have converged.

#157 August 5, 2021

Kubernetes 1.22, with Savitha Raghunathan

It’s Kubernetes release day! The team that launched v1.22 of everyone’s favourite cluster management software was led by Savitha Raghunathan, Senior Platform Engineer at MathWorks. Savitha joins host Craig Box to talk contribution, containers and cricket.

#156 July 28, 2021

Opstrace, with Sebastien Pahl

Sebastien Pahl is a pioneer of container technology, building the predecessor to Docker as a co-founder of Dotcloud. After working at some big tech companies, he’s back to the startup life as co-founder of Opstrace, a fully open source observability distribution, built on top of the tools you know and love.

#155 July 23, 2021

Software Supply Chain Security, with Priya Wadhwa

The idea of software supply chain security rocketed into the public consciousness in the last year, with the news that US government agencies had been breached. Priya Wadhwa is a software engineer at Google working on open source security, including projects to secure and verify container deployments. She outlines what is being done to make sure this doesn’t happen to you.

#154 July 15, 2021

Gatekeeper and Policy Controller, with Max Smythe

Gatekeeper is an open source project which lets you enforce policy in a Kubernetes cluster. It’s also the basis for Policy Controller, a hosted and managed version now available for all GKE users. Max Smythe, a senior SWE at Google, is a maintainer of Gatekeeper and the TL of Policy Controller. He joins us to talk constraints, config and Cruise.

#153 July 9, 2021

Komodor, with Itiel Shwartz

Debugging Kubernetes often involves correlating what happened just before something went bad. Itiel Shwartz is a co-founder of Komodor, a startup who builds a platform to help with exactly that. We talk Hebrew names, Hungarian dogs and German car crashes.

#152 June 18, 2021

SRE for Everyone Else, with Steve McGhee

Steve McGhee worked as an SRE at Google for almost 10 years, then took a job outside the company. He was tasked with recreating “Google Production” and SRE practice from first principals, but with three books, modern cloud providers, and the entire Kubernetes ecosystem to help. How did he do? Learn about that which you can and can’t replace.

#151 June 11, 2021

Multi-Instance GPUs, with Kevin Klues and Pradeep Venkatachalam

NVIDIA and Google have teamed up to bring the new Multi-Instance GPU feature, launched with the NVIDIA A100, to GKE. We speak to Kevin Klues from NVIDIA and Pradeep Venkatachalam from Google Cloud on how and why people use GPUs, optimising instance shapes for machine learning, and why less is often more.