Kubernetes Podcast From Google

Guests are Pierre-Gilles Mialon and Glen Yu. Pierre-Gilles and Glen are Google Developer Experts. We had an opportunity to catch up with them at Next 2025 and we spoke about Platform Engineering, GitOps, Policy as code and AI. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Docker Desktop version 4.43 release Docker Compose support in Google Cloud Run KubeCon && CloudNativeCon Japan in 2026 Links from the interview Google Developer Experts Kubernetes Resource Model Blog Part-1 Kubernetes Resource Model Blog Part-2 KRO on the podcast Kyverno Nomad FluxCD

Ricardo Rocha leads the Platform Infrastructure team at CERN with a strong focus on cloud native deployments and machine learning. He has led the internal effort to transition services and workloads to use cloud native technologies, as well as dissemination and training for several years. Ricardo got CERN to join the CNCF and is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), currently chairs the End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB), as well as leading the Research User Group (RUG).   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com   News of the week Kubernetes Blog: Image Compatibility In Cloud Native Environments Gemini CLI on GitHub Cloud Native Glossary — The Vietnamese Version is Live! CNCF Blog: Joining CNCF as Executive Director: Let’s Build What’s Next OpenStack Foundation OpenInfra Foundation Links from the interview Ricardo Roch

This week’s interview was recorded live at Google Cloud Next, and features Alain Regnier and Camila Martins talking about recent developments in Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. Including exploring highlights from KubeCon EU, and the value of community events.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com   News Google Cloud Next KubeCon Europe Amazon Q for the Command Line Blog - Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP server KubeCon China, KubeCon Japan, and KubeCon India CNCF Maintainer Summit and Maintainer Track at KubeCon North America LLM-d project VLLM Kubernetes Inference Gateway Blog: Introducing the Inference Extension for Gateway API Interview Kubo Labs Google Developer Expert (GDE) Program DevOpsDays Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) KCD Rio de Janeiro 2025

Guests are Nick Eberts and Jon Li. Nick is a Product Manager at Google working on Fleets and Multi-Cluster and Jon is a Software Engineer at Google working on AI Inference on Kubernetes. We discussed the newly announced Multi Cluster Orchestrator (MCO) and the challenges of running multiple clusters.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com   News of the week Etcd has released version 3.6.0 Kubernetes 1.33 is now available in the Rapid channel in GKE Kyverno 1.14.0 was released Links from the interview Nick Eberts on LinkedIn Jon Li on LinkedIn MCO Blog MCO Repo Cluster Inventory API ClusterProfile API Gemma 3 vLLM Sample (deploy on Google Cloud using Terraform and Argo CD) Hello World Sample (deploy on Google Cloud using Terraform and Argo CD) Gateway API Inference Extension

In this episode, we're bringing you a curated selection of conversations from the KubeCon EU 2025 showfloor. We'll be diving into the rise of platform engineering, exploring some cutting-edge technologies, getting updates on core Kubernetes components, and hearing some truly unique user stories, like using Kubernetes on a dairy farm! Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com   News of the week CNCF Blog - Announcing the Automated Governance Maturity Model Kubernetes Blog CNCF Blog - Understanding Kubernetes Gateway API: A Modern Approach to Traffic Management Open Observability Summit Links from the interview NAIS at NAV, with Hans Kristian Flaatten and Audun Fauchald Strand Audun Fauchald Strand Hans Kristian Flaatten NAV (Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration) Kubernetes Podcast 216: NAIS, with Johnny Horvi and Frode Sundby NAIS K

Nina Polshakova is a software engineer at Solo.io, where she’s worked on Istio and API Gateway projects. She’s been part of the Kubernetes release team since v1.27 and is currently serving as the Release Lead for v1.33.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com   News of the week 229 new things Google announced at Next 25 MCO: Multi-Cluster Orchestrator Golden Kubestronaut Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate The kube-scheduler-simulator K0s and k0smotron are now CNCF Sandbox projects   Links from the interview Nina Polshakova Kubernetes Deprecation Policy Kubernetes Dev Google Group solo.io Istio API Gateway (General concept, linking to K8s Gateway API) Kubernetes Release Team GitHub Istio revisions Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal (Link to publisher's site about the book) Kubernetes Maintainers Read Mean

  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.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com   News of the week Kubernetes JobSets: An open-source API for managing distributed jobs as a single unit. Integrates with Kueue for better resource utilization. Kubernetes Blog: Introducing JobSet Kueue Project Google Cloud Next '24: Happening in Las Vegas, April 9-11. The Kubernetes Podcast team will be there! Google Cloud Next Kagent: A new open-source AI agent framework built on Microsoft's Autogen, designed for automating operations and troubleshooting in Kubernetes. k

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.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week CubeFS was moved to the CNCF Graduated Maturity Level. CNCF Maturity Levels Canonical announced 12 year Kubernetes Long Term Support. Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs) Links from the interview LinkedIn Engineering Blog- Stateful workload operator: stateful systems on Kubernetes at LinkedIn Kubernetes Blog: How we run Kubernetes in Kubernetes aka Kubeception Flannel: Flannel is a simple and easy way to configure a layer 3 network fabric designed for Kubernetes. Spanner: Google Cloud's globally-distributed database service. Kubernete

Lior Lieberman 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.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com   News of the week NFTables mode for kube-proxy | Kubernetes   Kubescape becomes a CNCF incubating project Announcing the Beta Release of OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation using eBPF | CNCF  New Phippy Book Guidelines: Enhancing Community Access & Engagement | CNCF Links from the interview Lightning Talk: Why Service Is the Worst API in Kubernetes, & What We’re Doing About It - Tim Hockin GitHub - kubernetes-sigs/ingress2gateway: Convert Ingress resources to Gateway API resources Migrating from Ingress Gateway API Inference Extension 0.1.0 release README on GitHub kubernetes-sigs/ingate - an Ingress

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.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com   News of the week The Schedule for the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2025 Maintainers Summit is live The CNCF 2024 review of the top 30 projects The CNCF End User Case Study for KubeCon Contest Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator Blog Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator Github EKS Hybrid nodes CoreWeave Nvidia GB200 NLV-72 GA   Links from the interview KHI: Kubernetes History Inspector DAG WebGL

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.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com   News of the week RedHat blog: Next generation multicluster application connectivity and traffic policy management KubeCon EU 2025 schedule CFP for KubeCon Japan (closes Feb 2, 2025) CFP for KubeCon China (closes Feb 2, 2025) CFP for KubeCon India (closes March 23, 2025) kubezonnet   Links from the interview linkerd.io Linkerd on GitHub Linkerd architecture “Linkerd doesn’t use Envoy” Blog Post (2020) envoyproxy.io Sidecar containers in Kubernetes Linkerd2 on GitHub Rust programming language Dynamic Admission Control (Mutating Webhooks) Linkerd Multi-cluster Federated Services KubeCon NA 2024

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.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com   News of the week KubeCon Japan CFP KubeCon India CFP Links from the interview Working Group Device Management on GitHub (meeting info here) CoreDNS Dynamic Resource Allocation in Kubernetes Control Topology Management Policies on a node NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPUs Links from the post-interview chat 2025 Kubernetes Community Day Events  

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. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod   Links from the interview 2024 Wrapped: Top 5 episodes 10 years k8s anniversary episodes 226, 227, 228, 229 CNCF Kubernetes 10 years documentary Google Kubernetes 10 years documentary Gateway API with Rob Scrott episode LLM Gateway Emily Fox on the podcast Kubernetes Podcast on Bluesky Kubernetes Podcast on LinkedIn Kubernetes on Bluesky Kubernetes Podcast on Youtube Introduction to Distributed ML Workloads with Ray on Kubernetes

Release Lead Frederico Muñoz walks us through the 1.32 release: new feature highlights, deprecations and removals, and the release theme: Penelope.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod   News of the week Gateway API v1.2: WebSockets, Timeouts, Retries, and More Streamline Kubernetes cluster management with new Amazon EKS Auto Mode Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024 Links from the interview Kubernetes v1.32: Penelope (Release Blog) SIG ContribEx Comms Kubernetes Contributor Awards 2023 (Frederico received an award last year) The Odyssey by Homer, Samuel Butler on Google Books Releases on Kubernetes.io Links from the post-interview chat Kubernetes 1.27: In-place Resource Resize for Kubernetes Pods (alpha)  

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.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod   News of the week Cert-manager is a CNCF graduate project Dapr is a CNCF Graduated project Dapr episode on the Kubernetes Podcast Istio 1.24 release. Ambient Mesh GA Cloud Native Heroes Challenge CNCF Flagship events for 2025 New Cloud Native Certifications Kubernetes certifications prices increase in 2025 wasmCloud is a CNCF incubated project SpectroCloud $75 million Series C funding Solo.io donates Gloo API Gateway to the CNCF   Links from the interview Guests: Rajas Kakodkar Jeremy Rickard Rey Lejano Jimmy Zelinskie Frederic Branczyk Lucy Sweet Sreekaran Srinath Joe Thompson Tag runtime SIG Security SIG Docs

Guests are 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   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod   News of the week The Kubernetes Podcast is on Bluesky OpenTelemetry expanding into CI/CD observability Gitpod is moving away from Kubernetes OpenCost is a CNCF Incubated project Links from the interview Guests: Maciek Wojciech Kubernetes OSS Scalability thresholds PGS on the Kubernetes Podcast Batch Working Group Serving Working Group episode on the podcast Dynamic Resource Allocation Kueue Multitenancy and Fairness at Scale with Kueue SIG Scalability Links from the post-interview chat Consistent Reads from Cache Kubernetes Scalability: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis  

Yuan is a principal software engineer at Red Hat, working on OpenShift AI. Previously, he has led AI infrastructure and platform teams at various companies. He holds leadership positions in open source projects, including Argo, Kubeflow, and Kubernetes WG Serving. Yuan authored three technical books and is a regular conference speaker, technical advisor, and leader at various organizations. Eduardo is an environmental engineer derailed into a software engineer. Eduardo has been working on making containerized environments the de facto solution for High Performance Computing(HPC) for over 8 years now. Began as a core contributor to the niche Singularity Containers, today known as Apptainer under the Linux foundation. In 2019 Eduardo moved up the ladder to work on making Kubernetes better for performance oriented applications. Nowadays Eduardo works at NVIDIA on the Core Cloud Native team working on enabling specialized accelerators into Kubernetes workloads. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions?

This episode is special. We collaborated with the folks behind the Cloud Security Podcast from Google, Anton Chuvakin(LinkedIn)and Tim Peacock, to bring you a joint episode. We had the pleasure to jointly interview Michelle Chubirka, a Cloud Security Developer Advocate. We talked about VM and Container security, debunked some myths about isolation, attack surfaces, immutability of containers, and more.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod News of the week Nvidia NIM on GKE Kubernetes Steering Committee Election Results for 2024 The schedule for KubeCon and CloudNativeCon India Diagrid Catalyst Beta Dapr on the Kubernetes Podcast with Salaboy Links from the interview Cloud Security Podcast Anton Chuvakin Tim Peacock Michelle Chubirka Dora report Container Security: It’s All About the Supply Chain - Michele Chubirka Software composition analysis (SCA) DevSec

Marvin Beckers is a Team Lead at Kubermatic and a contributor and maintainer of the CNCF Sandbox Project, KCP. KCP is an open source horizontally scalable control plane for Kubernetes-like APIs.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod News of the week [Docker Blog] Announcing Upgraded Docker Plans: Simpler, More Value, Better Development and Productivity  [LinuxFoundation Blog] Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form Developer Relations Foundation [Computer Weekly Article] NetApp Insight 2024 - Live show report: day zero Links from the interview KCP Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM) Crossplane Links from the post-interview chat Cloud Native Maturity Model  

Guests are Avin Regmi and David Xia from Spotify. We spoke to Avin and David about their work building Spotify’s Machine Learning Platform, Hendrix. They also specifically talk about how they use Ray to enable inference and batch workloads. Ray was featured on episode 235 of our show, so make sure you check out that episode too. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod News of the week IBM acquired Kubecost KubeCon Japan in 2025 Call for Proposals for KubeCon EU 2025 is now open Artifact Hub is a CNCF incubating project OpenMetrics is dead, long live OpenMetrics Kubecolor 0.4.0 Links from the interview Avin Regmi David Xia Hendrix ML Platform Ray on Kubernetes KubeRay Workbench instances Backstage PyTorch Ray Summit 2024 Kueue