kpt, with Morten Torkildsen

kpt (“kept”) is a new open-source tool for Kubernetes packaging built by Google Cloud. Morten Torkildsen is an engineer at Google, focusing on configuration management and the workloads APIs, and he worked on Kpt. He explains it to Adam, while Craig fills his mind with penguins.

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Chatter of the week

• The Easter Bunny is an Essential Worker in New Zealand
  • From the archives: Dragon research (discussed in Episode 53)
• Keepers are letting the penguins run loose at Oregon Zoo
  • Visiting the Beluga Whale at Shedd Aquarium

News of the week

• CNCF projects:
  • Volcano joins the Sandbox
  • Dragonfly moves to incubation
  • Argo moves to incubation
    • Argo CVEs by Matt Hamilton of Soluble
• Docker announces Compose specification
• Nautilus: a tool for visualising Docker Compose files
  • Show HN post
• Deis Labs introduces Krustlet:
  • Introduction
  • Why Rust?
  • The Microsoft take
• Tekton now in Beta
  • Episode 44, with Tracy Miranda
  • Episode 47, with Kim Lewandowski
• Microsoft publishes attack matrix for Kubernetes
  • Detecting a large-scale cryptocurrency mining attack
• Huawei announces Mindspore deep learning framework
• Service Mesh Hub from Solo
  • Technical overview
• Mixerless Telemetry in Istio by Zsolt Varga of Banzai Cloud
• Amazon launches Fargate platform v1.4.0
  • Version primer
  • Data plane, under the hood
  • Elastic File Server (NFS) support
• Rook 1.3
  • Write-up by Vanilla Kola
• Red Hat:
  • OpenShift Commons Gathering, April 27
  • Istio on OpenShift in 2020
  • Be careful when pulling images by short name
• Canonical launches managed apps
• When to use Helm and when to use Operators by Matt Butcher
• Controlling outbound traffic from Kubernetes by Jack Kleeman and Chongyang Shi at Monzo
• API Priority and Fairness Alpha by Min Kim, Mike Spreitzer and Daniel Smith
• Hubspot moves Zookeeper to Kubernetes
• Graceful shutdown in Kubernetes is not always trivial by Ilya Andreev from Flant
• Open Container Initiative icons
• Kubernetes Workshop in a Box by Pascal Widdershoven

Links from the interview

• kpt
  • Announcement
  • What does it stand for?
• Kubernetes Resource Model
• helm template command
• kpt apply vs kubectl apply
• Configuration as Code
  • Brian Grant Twitter thread on kpt
• kpt Setters
• Domain-specific languages
• Examples and Kubernetes examples you can use with kpt
• kpt functions
• Installing kpt
• kpt on GitHub
• Morten Torkildsen on Twitter