Using AI to operate Kubernetes (AI-driven ops)

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