Kubernetes, Containers, Go (Go Time #20)

Kelsey Hightower joined the show to talk about the work he’s doing at Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud, Kubernetes cluster federation, Containers, and of course Go.

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Featuring:

• Kelsey Hightower – GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Kubernetes 1.4 — Making it easy to run on Kubernetes anywhere
• Kubernetes Certificate Manager — Manage Let’s Encrypt certificates for a Kubernetes cluster
• Get started with Kubernetes? Check out Kelsey’s Kubernetes The Hard Way tutorial
• From Luna Duclos — kube-cert-http - An adapter that lets Go’s net/http package fetch certificates from Kubernetes
• You should read this -> Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
• Hello Universe from Kelsey Hightower. What if applications could deploy themselves?
• Another awesome tutorial on Kubernetes from Kelsey Hightower — Kubernetes cluster federation tutorial
• Go Walkthrough from Ben Johnson - A series of walkthroughs to help you understand the Go standard library.
• Here’s an example of good k8s documentation
• This works pretty well for bootstrapping a cluster too with all the dashboards, metrics, etc
• Special Interest Groups (SIG) and Working Groups
• CoreOS rkt — a container engine for Linux designed to be composable, secure, and built on standards
• The Twelve-Factor App — a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps
• The Datacenter as a Computer by Urs Hölzle - An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines, Second Edition

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!