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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 Comments (KubeCon EU 2024) Kubernetes 1.33 release blog (Link to release announcement blog) Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs) Sidecar Containers Multiple Service CIDR support (KEP link) Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) DRA support for partitioned devices (KEP link) DRA device taints and tolerations (KEP link) DRA: Prioritized Alternatives in Device Requests (KEP link) Kubernetes 1.33 sneak peak (Link to pre-release highlights) EndpointSlices API Kubernetes Gateway API node.status.nodeInfo.kubeProxyVersion is a lie (issue) KEP-4004: Deprecate the kubeProxyVersion field of v1.Node #4005 (KEP link) Kubelet Removal: Host network support for Windows pods (KEP link) Containerd SIG Windows HostProcess Containers (Windows) Removal: KEP-5040: Disable git_repo volume driver (KEP link) User Namespaces (Beta, Enabled by Default) CRI-O Runc In-place Resource Resize for Pods (Link to the alpha announcement, but now beta) Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) KEP-5080: Ordered Namespace Deletion PyTorch Linkerd Terry Pratchett's Discworld series Tiffany Aching series Guards! Guards! Going Postal Kubernetes Slack New Contributor Orientation  

  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. kagent.dev Links from the interview Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) KRO Announcement Blogs Google Cloud Blog- Simplify the developer experience on Kubernetes with KRO AWS Open Source Blog - Introducing kro: Kube Resource Orchestrator AWS Open Source Blog - Kube Resource Orchestrator, From Experiment to Community Project Reddit thread - anyone tried kro for kubernetes resource management yet? The New Stack: Kubernetes Gets a New Resource Orchestrator in the Form of Kro InfoQ: Cloud Giants Collaborate on New Kubernetes Resource Management Tool CRD (Custom Resource Definition): Kubernetes CRDs - A mechanism within Kubernetes to extend the API. Knative: Knative.dev - A Kubernetes-based platform for building serverless applications. Terraform: Terraform.io - Infrastructure as code software. Helm: Helm.sh - A package manager for Kubernetes. KPT (Kubernetes Package Tool): KPT - A tool for packaging and managing Kubernetes configurations. Crossplane: cncf.io/projects/crossplane - An open-source project for managing cloud resources through Kubernetes. Common Expression Language (CEL): cel.dev - A powerful expression language. kubebuilder: kubebuilder on GitHub - A framework to build Kubernetes controllers, details available in Kubernetes documentation.

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. Kubernetes Architecture - learn more about the control plane from the Kubernetes docs! Kubernetes Resource Model Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) Ahmet Alp Balkan Blog: So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?  

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 & Gateway API Controller GAMMA - https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/mesh/  

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, “Open Source 2.0: The Maintainers' Perspective - Panel” Cloud Native Startup Fest, “​​Panel: Startups With Open Source Projects: Can They Be Successful in the CNCF? And Should They Be?”  

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 WG LTS The Maintainer Monologues - Sarah Christoff, Jason Hall, Scott Rigby, Karen Chu & Ryan Nowak Expanding the Capabilities of Kubernetes Access Control - Jimmy Zelinskie & Lucas Käldström