Research, Steering and Honking, with Bob Killen

Bob Killen is co-chair of Kubernetes’ SIG Contributor Experience and was last week elected to the project’s Steering Committee. He worked in academia for 15 years, latterly working on research projects using Kubernetes, with a focus on computer security. He’s now made the leap to working on Cloud Native full time at Google. Bob joins us to explain why Kubernetes twitter is occasionally full of cartoon geese.

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Chatter of the week

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  • tl:dr; Jacinda won by a lot
  • One NZ electorate had a 421 vote lead on the night
• Ballot box in Washington State
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News of the week

• VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.2 is GA
• Red Hat integrates Ansible and OpenShift
• Changes to the KubeCon EU
  • Episode 107, with Priyanka Sharma
• Cloud Native in China survey results
• Introducing HA MicroK8s
  • Episode 60, with Mark Shuttleworth
• Helm turns 5
  • Episode 102, with Mark Butcher
• Google Cloud Code adds support for 400+ CRDs
• A holiday gift from AKS

Links from the interview

• University of Michigan
• Little Bobby Tables
  • Another Bobby Tables!
• 2600
  • Beige boxes
  • Red boxes
  • Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and the Blue Box
• Jeff Sica
• ARC-TS: Advanced Research Computing — Technology Services
  • Great Lakes, the UMich HPC cluster
  • Kubernetes the New Research Platform - Lindsey Tulloch, Brock University & Bob Killen, University of Michigan
• kube-batch
• Volcano
• Orchestructure meet-up and Mario Loria
• SIG Contributor Experience
  • Episode 74, with Jorge Castro
  • Episode 100 with Paris Pittman
• Kubernetes Steering Committee
  • 2020 Election
  • Election results
  • Travel support program
• HONK
  • Untitled Goose Game
  • /honk
  • Ian Coldwater’s goose-themed talk from KubeCon NA 2019
  • honk.ci
    • Announcement
    • GitHub repo
    • Challenges
    • Walkthrough
  • KubeCon NA events:
    • SIG Honk AMA: Ian Coldwater, Duffie Cooley, Brad Geesaman, Rory McCune
    • Having Cloud Native Fun with HonkCTL: Jeff Sica
  • SIG Beard: see episode 46, with Aaron Crickenberger
• Bob Killen on Twitter