Bare metal meets Kubernetes

In this episode, Gerhard talks to David and Marques from Equinix Metal about the importance of bare metal for steady workloads. Terraform, Kubernetes and Tinkerbell come up, as does Crossplane - this conversation is a partial follow-up to episode 15.

David Flanagan, a.k.a. Rawkode, needs no introduction. Some of you may remember Marques Johansson from The new changelog.com setup for 2019. Marques was behind the Linode Terraforming that we used at the time, and our infrastructure was simpler because of it!

This is not just a great conversation about bare metal and Kubernetes, there is also a Rawkode Live following up: Live Debugging Changelog’s Production Kubernetes 🙌🏻

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Featuring:

• David Flanagan – Website, GitHub, X
• Marques Johansson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• David’s tweet that made this episode happen
• This is how Gerhard met Marques
• Oops, We Forgot to Build a Managed Kubernetes Service!
• Tinkerbell - Provision and manage bare metal, anywhere
• Equinix Metal Crossplane provider and Terraform provider
• Kubernetes Cluster API
• Fly.io: The 5-hour CDN
• 🎬 Firecracker VMs on Metal, Oh My! - Kurt Mackey, March 2021
• 🎬 Klustered #11 - Kris Nova & Thomas Strömberg

#7 Why Kubernetes? was mentioned, as well as the follow-up YouTube stream with Lars Wikman.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!