Optiva and Arctiq, with Dan Dyer and Kyle Bassett

Dan Dyer is Senior Vice President of Technical Product Management at Optiva, a provider of business support services to the telecommunications industry. Optiva have been moving services to Kubernetes, and with the help of Kyle Bassett and team from Arctiq, a cloud-native consultancy, kicking the tyres of Anthos and GKE On-Prem. Adam and Craig learn about this journey from Dan and Kyle, and discuss dragons and foxes.

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Chatter of the week

• Baby foxes
• Aaron Crickenberger interview on the Kubernetes blog
• Dragon research

News of the week

• Red Hat:
  • RHEL 8 and the Universal Base Image
  • OpenShift 4
  • Operators all the way down
  • Microsoft Azure OpenHat
  • US DoJ approves IBM’s acqusition of Red Hat
• F5 closes its acquisition of NGINX
• Docker CEO Steve Singh steps down
• Alpine Linux root escalation: CVE-2019-5021
  • Go Distroless!
• Introducing GitHub Package Registry
• VS Code extension for Kubernetes goes 1.0 (changelog)
• WSL 2 brings Linux to Windows
• Gravitational: AWS vs Colo? and Hacker News debate
• k8s.af with Kubernetes failure stories
• Google Cloud launches GKE in Osaka, Tokyo
• KubeCon US 2019 CFP opens
• Railyard: Training ML models on Kubernetes at Stripe
• KubeOne from Loodse
• Kubedex: Kubernetes operating systems
• Akrobateo, a general-purpose load balancer for Kubernetes from Kontena
• Optimization of etcd at web-scale by Xingyu Chen

Links from the interview

• Optiva
• Arctiq
• Kyle Bassett on Twitter